Hugo Broos: Bafana Bafana are in a very tough group for the World Cup tournament

Bafana Bafana’s group at next year’s World Cup is a very tough one.

The South African national side must focus on qualifying for the knockout stages through being the best second or third place finishers in the group stages.

Bafana are in Group A with Mexico, South Korea and a nation to qualify via a European qualifier to be determined early next year.

This is the view of national team coach Hugo Broos.

“It’s not an easy one,” Broos told SAFA after the draw in the United States, where the global spectacle will be co-hosted by Mexico and Canada.

“First of all, you have to play the first game of the tournament against Mexico in a stadium, home game for Mexico, so it will be very tough for us that game.

“Secondly, we have South Korea. So from that point, I was happy with Mexico and South Korea, and I hope the last one, it should be something else than what we have now. So now probably we will have also Denmark in our group.

“So we have with Mexico and Denmark, two very big teams. So it will be difficult for us to be in second or first, but at the other side now, with the new the new World Cup, the first eight of third places can go through.

“So we have to focus on that, and maybe we can be one of the best first and third places.”