Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has a bone to pick with South African football journalists.

The Belgian was speaking in Polokwane, Limpopo, where Bafana Bafana will play two friendlies against Tanzania and Mozambique at the Peter Mokaba Stadium on 6 and 10 June, respectively.

Broos, who has previously spoken out against club officials and coaches, has maintained his stance that he should be left alone to guide Bafana Bafana without suggestions of who should be in the team. This time, the message is directed to the media.

“It’s a question of choice, for my side. Sometimes it’s tactics, and sometimes it’s because this guy is number three or four on the rankings in that position. For people outside, they are always linking players from clubs. So when I drop a player from Pirates, (they say), “Ah, a player from Pirates,” said Broos.

“When I don’t take players from Chiefs, it’s like I killed someone. It has nothing to do with clubs when I make choices. I don’t make choices because he’s from Pirates and this one is from Chiefs. ‘Oh, I have to see as much players from Chiefs and Pirates’. No, I make a choice without thinking this player is from Chiefs or Chippa.

“I just take a player, and if you have to drop players from big teams, what is the problem? The goal of making choices is that you try to make the national team as strong as possible to play your games because you want to win, and it doesn’t matter if you play with players from Chiefs or Pirates, players [from abroad], or whatever. The only thing you have to do is to win,” he stated.

“I know… I feel that some journalists are linked with clubs. They are supporters of that club, and you know for a supporter, it’s very difficult to accept that you don’t take a player from his team. So it’s not really the fact that you choose; it’s because he’s a player of that team, and they [journalists] are a supporter. That is what happens sometimes here, but I don’t look at it.”