18 February 2025 – Banyana Banyana arrived at a wet and cold UJ Auckland Park Campus sports facility, in Johannesburg, on Tuesday morning where they had their first full training session ahead of the first international friendly match against Lesotho on Saturday.
The Sasol-sponsored South African senior women’s national team will play Lesotho on Saturday, and on Tuesday, 25 February 2025 in matches that are part of coach Dr Desiree Ellis’ preparations for the 2025 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, which will take place in Morocco between 5 – 26 July 2025.
The camp began this past weekend with a goalkeeper training camp that brought together a talented group of keepers from various national team levels. This camp offered invaluable exposure for youth keepers, allowing them to train alongside some of the country’s top players under the guidance of goalkeeper coach Cameron Cox.
The Sasol-sponsored Banyana Banyana now have 26 players in camp after four goalkeepers from the initial list were retained. Dineo Magagula (TS Galaxy), Kebotseng Moletsane (The University of the Western Cape), Casey Gordon (JVW FC) and Kgomotso Mussimango (Mamelodi Sundowns) are the four goalminders that have been retained for the international friendly matches against Lesotho at UJ Soweto Campus on Saturday, and at the same venue on Tuesday, 25 February 2025.
The miserable weather and the pouring rains that have swept over Johannesburg in the last few days did very little to dampen the enthusiastic group of players who are in camp.
They went about their business and were not deterred by the conditions, leaving a smile on Dr Ellis on her first day with her full complement of players.
