“When you are a 19-year-old guy who received a call-up for the national team to play AFCON and to play the World Cup next year, and the coach gave you a few days more off, if you are somebody with a good attitude, you don’t even want those two days, and you are here on Monday like the other players.
“So, I will have a chat with him after training, and I can assure you he’s a black guy, but he will get out of my room as a white guy because which I can’t accept.
“I will tell you what I think. What is he going to do in Chicago? It’s not even a top team in America, and if my info is right, I don’t know, because they told me that he will play in MLS 2, on the second team of Chicago.
“I don’t know if it’s the truth, they told me. So, I will ask him when I see him, that is even worse,” added the 73-year-old tactician.
Broos comes under fire for Mbokazi’s comments, retracts statements
The comments made by the Belgian manager saw him come under intense scrutiny, largely about the change of skin colour.
The 73-year-old has now clarified the statement, claiming he didn’t intend for his speech to convey any racist connotations.
“When Mbokazi arrived late in the Bafana Bafana camp in preparation for the most important tournament on the continent, AFCON, I was incredibly angry,” the former Cameroon coach said in quotes revealed by iDiski Times.
“I saw that things could go wrong. It would be a waste if Mbokazi didn’t pursue the career he was blessed with due to a lack of proper guidance.
“I agree that my choice of words was not right and I want to apologise for that. But I never, I repeat.
“I’m neither a racist nor sexist. I thank you,” Hugo Broos concluded.
“When Mbokazi arrived late in the Bafana Bafana camp in preparation for the most important tournament of the continent, AFCON, I was incredibly angry.
“I saw that things could go wrong. It would be a waste if Mbokazi didn’t pursue the career he… pic.twitter.com/kcxsxisNoN
— iDiski Times (@iDiskiTimes) December 15, 2025
Bafana Bafana will play their first AFCON 2025 fixture against Angola at Stade de Marrakech on Monday, December 22.