Banyana Banyana captain Refiloe Jane has made an honest admission about their Women's Africa Cup of Nations Wafcon after they failed to defend their title.
Banyana finished fourth after losing to Ghana in the third-place playoff match on Friday on penalties. SA went to the tournament as defending champions, but failed to defend their title and finished in a disappointing fourth place.
Jane admitted that they let the nation down. 'We are disappointed to be going home empty-handed. Throughout the tournament, it wasn't an easy one for the players and there were a lot of challenges on and off the pitch,' Jane told Safa media.
'But we tried to put in a great performance, we tried to do our level best and we tried to retain the trophy as the main objective. But going home now, there's a lot of work still to be done and we are hoping that in the next Wafcon, we can do well, starting with the qualifiers.'
Jane feels the team is in transition and that they took a lot of positives going forward as they start to prepare for next year's edition of Wafcon, also in Morocco, where they will be hoping to do better.