Ex-Kaizer Chiefs shot-stopper Daniel Akpeyi, who was the only PSL player at the previous World Cup in Russia in 2018, has weighed in on the absence of SA-based players at this year's global showpiece in Qatar.
The PSL was represented at the past two World Cups in Brazil and Russia in 2014 and 2018 respectively, hence the unavailability of SA-based players in Qatar has set tongues wagging. In Brazil, former Mamelodi Sundowns defender Rashid Sumaila and goalkeeper Fatau Dauda, then with Pirates, made the final World Cup squad for their nation Ghana. In Russia, Nigerian international Akpeyi was the sole PSL representative.
"I really don't think PSL is a weak league because there's no player in Qatar. Ofori was surely going to be there if he was fit. This [the absence of PSL players in Qatar] isn't a true reflection of the PSL. It's just an unfortunate situation that Nigeria and Bafana Bafana didn't qualify,'' Akpeyi told Sowetan yesterday.
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