Asked questions about whether his mandate was to win the African Nations Championship and whether being knocked out in the group stages by Nigeria (3-1 in Cape Town) was his lowest moment so far as coach Igesund said: "I am at peace where I am with regards to my job at the moment.
“I had no mandate for this tournament. We did what we could with what was available in terms of players.
“I can list the likes of Andile Jali, Tsepo Masilela, Oupa Manyisa, Yeye Letsholonyane, Bongani Zungu – there are about seven players not here who would have been part of my starting line-up.
"But we have a target to qualify for the Nations Cup in 2015 and that is is the main objective.
"We will have a chance along the line to play Nigeria again. Hopefully we will get our win over them.
"Let me congratulate coach Stephen Keshi and his team. They capitalised on our mistakes and physically they were better than us. We were beaten by a team that was better than us.
"Nigeria deserved it. We will regroup and start over again.”
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