Super football agent, Rob Moore, who represents Njabulo Blom amongst other plays, says South Africa is no longer producing gee whiz (highly skilled) footballers anymore.
"Where are those 'Gee Whiz' players, they aren't around anymore, they haven't recruited them," Moore told This Is Football Africa's Peter Du Toit. https://youtu.be/S6L67C51Sws
"If I look particularly close at Chiefs in the first six months of the season, because obviously I was following them with Njabulo Blom playing there, I looked at their recruitment and what they had brought in, there wasn't one gee whiz out of those guys that had come in.
"I just think that's been lost a little bit. But looking at a bigger picture, how many of South African players are gee whiz nowadays?
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Moore says South Africa's failure to produce top players, and not qualifying for international tournaments like the world cup, has rendered the country irrelevant in the eyes of Europe.
"We have fallen a little bit off an edge, off a cliff in the eyes of Europe. We are not a factor in Europe anymore, and that's because we don't qualify for the world cup, we have rarely qualified for AFCON, though we have done now," he said.
"And if you are not relevant at these international tournaments, you are not relevant in world football anymore, it is as simple as that.
"That's a pity because Pirates and Chiefs are not able to recruit gee whiz, because there are not many gee whiz out there anymore."
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