The fact that eight of the 21-member Under-20 team that did duty at the this year’s Under-20 World Cup in South Korea are graduates of the Under-17 World Cup is cause for celebration.
Their graduation is in line with the lauded plan by the SA Football Association (Safa) called Vision 2022.
In a nutshell, this is a plan formulated in 2014 with a view that it would culminate in South Africa being a world force in football by 2022.