Hugo Broos announces his preferred successor as Bafana Bafana coach!

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·23 October 2025

Hugo Broos announces his preferred successor as Bafana Bafana coach!

The Belgian shares his thoughts very frankly.

Hugo Broos announces his preferred successor as Bafana Bafana coach!

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Hugo Broos will not complete his coaching career and is expected to retire after the 2026 World Cup, the Belgian announced. Speaking about the matter, the Belgian coach indicated that he believes one person will succeed him as Bafana Bafana coach.

The Belgian is 74 years old, and it's only natural that he's thinking about his life after football, so it seems he's looking for a suitable successor from within his circle. Indeed, the Belgian has already nominated a name from among the coaches he knows well to succeed him.

Everyone knows I stop after the World Cup because of my age, not because I don’t like it anymore here, f I was 10 years younger, you can be sure I would want to stay here for another two years, and it would be seven years. I’m very happy here… I’ll be 74. I read that I’ll be the oldest coach.

Broos said.

I think the best thing to do is for Helman Mkhalele to become the coach after me, because then you have a follow-up on the same thing, When Helman takes the team, the way of work and the philosophy will be the same, with a little bit more African thing because I’m European. Helman 95% he thinks the same thing as me. It should be very good.