Sanday Chongo Kabange, AfricaNews reporter in Lusaka, Zambia
2010 FIFA World Cup hosts South Africa's Bafana Bafana have arrived in Germany for a two-week training camp as they step up their preparations for the 2010 football showpiece. Head coach Carlos Alberto Parreira named a 25-man squad for the camp, which will run until April 30.
None of the Bafana Bafana foreign-based players are with the team except for Ajax youngster Daylon Claassen.
"The Germany camp is getting closer to the World Cup, so we have to show some improvements as a team, we can't afford any regression, and as a result we have to improve further from our previous gains," Parreira said at a press conference in Johannesburg prior to departing for Germany.
"The team has shape and we are now competitive tactically and physically."
The South Africans arrived in Germany just a week after finishing a month-long training camp in Brazil, the highpoint of which was a 1-1 draw against World Cup qualifiers Paraguay on March 31, according to an AFP report.
