Several facilities have stepped forward and offered to assist the Premier Soccer League (PSL) if a proposed plan to accommodate all the topflight and lower tier clubs in a massive camp as a precursor to the restart of the season is given the green light by government.
Royal Bafokeng Sports consultant Emile Smith: “Royal Bafokeng Sport would welcome the opportunity to explore and assist South African sports‚ including football and rugby‚ as a potential venue that can play host to games‚ and as a preparation venue for the resumption of sports leagues in a controlled and secured environment. We have the sports infrastructure at our facilities‚ we have the high performance centre gymnasium‚ medical suites‚ playing and practice grounds supported by two hotels. We also have several more isolated and independent hotel facilities within a 20km radius that can be scaled and managed for this purpose once national and provincial regulations allows for the safe return of sport with limited impact on resources required against the COVID-19 fight.”
University of Pretoria’s High Performance Centre chief executive officer, Toby Sutcliffe: “We will be keen to help but we are bound by what the minister of higher education (Blade Nzimande) said‚ that we can’t open up our facility because we are on a university property. If they say that we can open up the facility‚ we will do that and obviously we will follow all the necessary health and safety guidelines that we are supposed to adhere to. We have 40 twin rooms and six single rooms available and of the 40 twin rooms‚ 20 have 4 beds and 20 have two beds. When it comes to gyms‚ we have two and there are two swimming pools. Field wise‚ we haveeight playing fields that we can use. However‚ if the minister opens up some codes like swimming‚ I am going to then lose a swimming pool.”
Director at the High Performance Institute of Sport at the University of North West‚ Jean Verster: “We do have the facilities but the university is closed at the moment because of the lockdown. We will be keen to help out but everything is going to depend on the directives from government and approval by the university’s top management. We have the sports village where the Spanish national team stayed when they won the World Cup in 2010. It is situated right next to the football fields and we also have the High performance centre‚” said Verster.
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