HOW WILL THE TRANSFORMATIN BRING CHANGES?



 CAMPAIGNING :PSL CEO Stanley Matthews  
Picture taken form : http://www.iol.co.za/          



Newly chief executive Stannely Matthews who was appointed shortly after the depature of Zola Majavu, from the PSL CEO position have raised eyebrows in South African football news with the proposal of changing the timing of the league season form August to May back to February to November. The timing of the league season was changed in 2000 because the National team could not obtain players from their respective Eroupean clubs as our football calendar was not the same as that of European clubs which resulted in them refusing the release players.

South African clubs have a poor record in the Confederation of African Football since Pirates last won  the African Champions league in 1996. Since then the competion have been dominated by North African clubs like Esperance and Al Ahly which their season also runs from August to May. Speculations have surfaced the football news that South African clubs perform poor in the competion because of the prize money as they play for more than what the Champions league offer here in South Africa. What happened about playing for the pride of South Africa?

The rules of the Confederation of African Football is that teams performing in the competion must register 25 players before the kick-off of the tournament while five more players will be added midyear before the competion reach the league stage. Which means that South African teams must register their players six month before the competion, the same strategy teams like Al Ahly and Esperance have been using and they have been doing well in the tournament. South African teams have failed to make use of this system as they sign new players during the last minutes of the January transfer window, so they can not register enough players. Is the blame of South African teams on the timing of the league and how will this new implitation affect the relationship of the National team with European teams as it is also not doing well?