SAFA vows to block work permit for new Chippa coach Luc Eymael

The club appointed Eymael as head coach on Wednesday after parting ways with Lehlohonolo Seema.  

The Belgian-born coach was fired in July after referring to Young Africans FC supporters in Tanzania as monkeys and dogs.  

In a statement, the South African football body slammed the Chili Boys for appointing Eymael.  

“We find it deeply offensive that as the global football community is united in solidarity around the Black Lives Matter campaign, Chippa United FC would see it fit to hire such a character to work in the city named after the founding father of the nation, Tata Nelson Mandela, the champion of a world free of racism and other forms of discrimination.” 

The association says it does not want Eymael to be part of the South African football fraternity.  

“SAFA will immediately be writing to the Minister of Home Affairs (Aaron Motsoaledi) to express its objection to the granting of a work permit for him.  

“We will also request the Ethics Committees of FIFA and SAFA to charge Mr Eymael, as his despicable conduct is a violation of the codes of both bodies.”