May Mahlangu cannot use fatigue as a reason to not play: Soccer Legends

May Mahlangu. 

May Mahlangu’s fatigue reasons are not adequate to have him pull out of a national team match, this was the general consensus among soccer legends in Johannesburg.

Manchester Legends and Orlando Pirates legends believe that there is something more than just fatigue that forced Mahlangu to pull out of Bafana Bafana AFCON qualifier match.

Mahlangu announced on Tuesday that he will not be available for the Bafana match on Saturday citing fatigue.

Former Orlando Pirates goalkeeper Sir William Okpara said that Mahlangu could have at least travelled to South Africa and spoken to the technical team about his reason’s for pulling out of the team.

“You can say you are fatigued or whatever, come Sunday or Monday we see you play for your club. What will people say?

“The mistake he made was for not coming down for the people, his brother here to examine him and say okay this guy deserves to have a rest,” said Okpara.

Manchester Legend’s Viv Anderson said Mahlangu’s reason does not make sense because he would never miss an opportunity to play for his country even if he was on his ‘death door’.

“If he was my player there’s no way he would come out of the squad through fatigue. As a person I would never ever, if I had an opportunity to play for my country I would take the opportunity, I would never say no to my country,” said Anderson.

Manchester Legends arrived in the country on Wednesday for their match against Orlando Pirates legends.

The match will be played on Saturday evening immediately after Bafana Bafana match, and will be played in memory of the former Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa who was shot dead in Vosloorus in what has been described as a ‘botched robbery’.