The time for planning and permutations is over.

Bafana Bafana’s final group game of the FIFA World Cup is here, and in the sporting religion of football, the purest form of devotion is belief.

We need to believe in Bafana. In Hugo Broos. And in South Africa.

We need to believe that this team is good enough to reach the knockout rounds of the World Cup for the first time in our history.

Bafana qualified on merit; they deserve to be here. Even after being docked three points during qualifying due to an administrative error, they still finished top of their group and booked their place at the World Cup.