South Africa opened their 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games with a defeat. The Bafana Bafana Lost to host Japan 1-0. Takefusa Kubo scored the winning goal in the 71st for the Japanese.
And David Notoane threw all his players forward. But they cannot find the equaliser. In truth, they were comfortably outplayed over the 90 minutes.
In the first two game in which African teams featured, Egypt shared the spoils with Spain with goalless draw while Ivory Coast gave hope to the black continent beating Saudi Arabia 2-1
SA have fixtures remaining against France and Mexico. And they now have a hill to climb if they are going to make the knockouts.