Apology! Hugo Broos makes a 360 degrees turn on his utterances on Chicago Fire and Bafana Bafana defender Mbekezeli Mbokazi ahead of Afcon

Hugo Broos has apologised for his utterances on Mbekezeli Mbokazi.

The Bafana Bafana coach delivered his message of forgiveness on Monday in a press briefing ahead of the national team’s friendly against Ghana tomorrow.

Broos tore into Mbokazi’s character last week after the defender arrived in camp late to a point that the former Orlando Pirates player will be a ‘white guy’ after their meeting.

But all that now is in the past as the Belgian coach admitted he was wrong.

“I let my [anger] get the better of me in my response cause I saw that things could go wrong. It would be a waste if Mbokazi didn’t pursue the career he was destined for due to a lack of proper guidance, a guidance you need as an unexperienced young, humble talent player.

“I agree that my choice of words was not right and I want to apologise for that. But I never, I repeat I never wanted to make a racist or sexist comment.

“I’m neither a racist nor sexist. I thank you.”

Broos said those words left him and his family under a lot of pressure, which he feels was unwarranted.

”I’m deeply hurt by what happened in recent days and the worse part of that is that my family, my wife, my children and my grandchildren have also suffered,” he said.

Bafana face Ghana tomorrow at the Dobsonville Stadium in their last game before their Afcon start a week from now against Angola.