South Africa will play France in a high-profile international friendly in Lille next week. Bafana Bafana will take on French side with coach Didier Deschamps to unleash superstars like Hugo Lloris, N’Golo Kanté, Paul Pogba, Antoine Griezmann, Kylian Mbappé and Karim Benzema.

Broos announced his 25-man preliminary squad on Tuesday morning for their European tour which includes another friendly against Guinea in Belgium on March 25.

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However, Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos believes victory is not a priority against world champions France.

“Results in those games against France and Guinea are not important. We don’t have to think about victory against France. We are playing the world champions. But we have to produce a good performance. And this is important.” He said.

“Guinea is maybe another story. And there we can look a bit more to the results, but even if we lose  ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in June.

“In a way, this is more training to see some of the new guys and how are they doing. And that has there been an improvement for us. For the next two games it is to see which new players we can use in June and which players will improve the quality.” Continued the coach.

The most important for Broos is to prepare for the Nations Cup (Afcon) qualifiers as Bafana have to qualify for the tournament in the Ivory Coast next year.

“I would like to go to the Africa Cup of Nations in the Ivory Coast. We have to be there. SA has to be at Afcon every tournament. There is no excuse.

“SA has to be there every tournament like Cameroon, Senegal, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, these top countries are always there and SA will have to be like them also.” Added the Belgian tactician.