Carlos Alberto Parreira was reappointed coach of South Africa 18 months after leaving the job to be with his ill wife. Parreira agreed Friday to a second stint to the end of the next year's World Cup in South Africa, but he'll take over a host team in disarray just over eight months before the world's best teams arrive. After loud calls by hometown media and fans for a local coach after a string of foreigners, South African Football Association president Kirsten Nematandani told a media conference it would have “loved” to have heeded their wishes but was hampered by time constraints. “It was our wish to have a local person coach the national team, but we have only eight months to go to the World Cup and there is no time for experimenting, so we went for experience,” he said. However, Nematandani said the SAFA executive decided the next national coach after the World Cup will be South African.
