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LETTERS to the editor

Quality of our league

Once upon a time we had 18 teams in our top league. Orlando Pirates went on to win what is today known as the CAF Champions league in 1995 after FIFA readmitted South Africa to international football.

Bafana Bafana went on to lift the Africa Cup of Nations the following year. Our teams were producing top quality players in abundance. We had players in all the major leagues in Europe – Italy, Greece, Germany,

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