Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos believes local players have to realise what happens on the field is just as important as what happens off the field.

The Belgian, who is in his fifth year with Bafana, says he has observed certain attitudes that local players have to get rid of to take their game up a notch.

“Look, football is more than playing with the ball on a green surface. What happens after the game, is even more important,” said Broos, as he announced the team to face Panama in two friendlies this month.

“What is the guy doing when there is no training? What is the guy eating? Is he going to sleep? At the moment he has to go to sleep. And all those things. So it’s more than playing football.

“It’s an attitude. And sometimes when I see players here, not in my (Bafana) team, but when I see when I go and see games, I see players, I see that they are not what they have to be as a football player, as a professional player. And this is the big difference between here, South Africa, Africa in general, maybe the North, but the rest of Africa and Europe,” he said.

“Europe, it’s not only your training and the matches. No, no. They’re also watching what are you doing after the match.

“How are you living? What are you eating? And so on, and so on, and so on. And that makes you better. So I think, I think, and it’s not easy and it’s not up to me to do that, but I think there is a lot of work to do in South Africa on that level,” added Broos.