The Brazilian club Flamengo said late yesterday that their 59-year-old coach Joel Santana had accepted an offer to step in for Carlos Alberto Parreira and coach Bafana Bafana. "Joel is transferring to the South African national team after the final of the Carioca championship," Flamengo's football vice-president Kleber Leite said on the club's website (http://www.flamengo.com.br/).Once again, it appears that we are in the unusual position of hearing news concerning a new coach from a source far removed from our own official governing body.
