Cameroon have named 63-year-old Belgian Hugo Broos as their new coach to replace Volker Finke, whose contract was not renewed last year.
Broos’ first assignment will be home and away matches against South Africa in African Cup of Nations qualifiers that Bafana must win to have any chance of reaching next year’s finals in Gabon.
Broos has taken both Club Brugge and Anderlecht to Belgian League titles and has been named Belgium’s Coach of the Year on four separate occasions.
He has also coached in Greece, Qatar and Turkey and last worked in Algeria.
Broos will bring with him Sven Vandenbroek from Belgium as his assistant and also have Alexandre Belinga on the bench, the Cameroon Football Federation announced.
Belinga was caretaker coach in November when Cameroon beat Niger 3-0 on aggregate in a two-legged World Cup qualifier.
Cameroon host Bafana on March 26, with the second leg at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on March 29.