SA Under-23 men’s national team coach David Notoane has named the final 23-man squad to face Congo in two back-to-back CAF U23 Olympic Qualifiers this month.

South Africa will face the Congolese in the first match at Dobsonville Stadium on Thursday, 23 March at 15:00. They will then travel to Brazzaville to play the second leg at Massamba-Debat Stadium on 26/27 March.

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Notoane says he is very excited by the quality of the players he has selected to represent the country.

“It’s a very, very exciting squad and a very competitive squad,” he said. 

“This squad is a culmination of the work done from January to March in monitoring a lot of these players at their respective clubs in terms of the performances they’ve been dishing out week in and week out.

“There are those that were getting minutes in between and it has been very exciting to watch them. So congratulations to all the players that have made the final squad. We look forward to the game against Congo.”

Notoane says their goal is to secure qualification to the 2023 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations in Morocco in June.

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