Baxter Clears The Air On Dolly’s Inclusion In Both Bafana Squads

Keagan Larenzo Dolly is a South African footballer who plays as a midfielder for Montpellier in the Ligue 1 and the South Africa national team.

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He won the Premier Soccer League Young Player of the Season award for the 2013–14 season after showing great performances and becoming a key player for the club.

Bafana manager Stuart Baxter has clarified Keagan Dolly’s consideration in both the Africa Cup of Nations and COSAFA Cup squads.

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The Montpellier star who had a troublesome season with an unforeseen injury has been deemed 100 per cent fit by Baxter, however the previous Mamelodi Sundowns and Ajax Cape Town player solicited to be part of the COSAFA Cup team, so he can be fit for the AFCON campaign set to be played in Egypt one month from now.

Dolly has played a couple of reserve games for his club and is currently searching for focused activity, so he gets up to speed with the remainder of the players will be going to AFCON.

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The COSAFA Cup commences this end of the week in Durban, however Bafana will just play their first match of the challenge against Botswana in the quarterfinals at Princess Magogo Stadium on June 2.

“Keagan Dolly really inquired as to whether he could get more game time. He’s played four reserve games for the squad, his mentor says he is a 100 per cent fit.

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So we are not taking a risk with it, we are simply permitting him the chance to get that game time to raise his sharpness and, to be reasonable, to enable David to have a progressively senior player as a genuine guide to a portion of the more youthful players,” Baxter clarified.

“We are trusting that in that manner we make an important occasion of COSAFA and I believe it’s an energizing squad. We are investing international game time to the correct sort of players.