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Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Latest World Cup News — the last eight

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David Villa

David Villa

Lethal Villa puts Spain into last eight
A 63rd minute strike by striker David Villa (pic­tured) was suf­fi­cient to earn Spain a 1–0 vic­tory over neigh­bours Portugal and a World Cup quarter-final berth after an intriguing match at the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town yes­ter­day. Villa scored the win­ner when he stabbed the ball into the net after his first shot was blocked by Portugal ‘keeper Eduardo.

“We felt com­fort­able but you have to be care­ful because things can change quickly,” said Spanish coach Vicente del Bosque. “We know we’re work­ing well, we want to cre­ate a bit of his­tory,” he added. Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz remarked: “Spain were much more effect­ive mov­ing the ball around. We were look­ing for chances on the counter-attack. We had our chances – we just didn’t score. We’ll have to come back stronger.” Continued

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Monday, 28 June 2010

Latest Results from the World Cup

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Carlos Tevez

Carlos Tevez

Argentina cruise into quarter-finals
Carlos Tevez (pic­tured) scored two goals for Diego Maradonna’s Argentina as the South Americans defeated Mexico 3–1 in their World Cup second round match at Soccer City yes­ter­day. Argentina’s win set up a rematch of their 1986 and 1990 World Cup finals with Germany who out­classed England earlier in the day.

However, although Argentina argu­ably deserved their vic­tory, the match was not without con­tro­versy. Tevez’s 26th minute opener should not have coun­ted as tele­vi­sion replays showed he was well off­side. Continued

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Friday, 25 June 2010

Latest World Cup news and results

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Shinji Okazaki

Shinji Okazaki

Japan too good for sub par Denmark
Japan booked their place in the knock­out stages of the World Cup when they defeated an out of sorts Denmark 3–1 in their final Group E fix­ture at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg last night. Two well-struck goals from free kicks by Keisuke Honda, after 17 minutes, and Yasuhito Endo on 30 minutes, gave the Asians a 2–0 half­time lead.

The Danes pulled a goal back nine minutes from time when Japanese ‘keeper Eiji Kawashima blocked a Jon Dahl Tomasson pen­alty only for the Danish for­ward to score from the rebound. Shinji Okazaki (pic­tured) net­ted a third goal three minutes from time to give Japan their hand­some vic­tory. They are now the second Asian team after South Korea to qual­ify for the last 16 and will meet Paraguay in Pretoria on Tuesday. Continued

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Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Bafana win the battle but lose the war

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Bongani Khumalo

Bongani Khumalo

Bafana Bafana took advant­age of a depleted and dis­pir­ited France team to run out deserved 2–1 win­ners in their final World Cup Group A match at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein yes­ter­day after­noon. It was a much-improved per­form­ance from the South Africans, who were soundly beaten by Uruguay in their pre­vi­ous fix­ture in Pretoria last Wednesday.

Carlos Alberto Parreira’s men, under pres­sure to record a win to restore national pride, pro­duced the goods against their highly-ranked oppon­ents with defender Bongani Khumalo (pic­tured) and striker Katlego Mphela banging in goals in the 20th and 37th minutes respect­ively. In reply, Raymond Domenech’s out­fit could only muster a 70th minute effort from Florent Malouda. Continued

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Monday, 21 June 2010

Monday Morning 2010 World Cup News

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Vincenzo Iaquinta

Vincenzo Iaquinta

Draw leaves Italy in danger of early exit
New Zealand pro­duced a spir­ited and determ­ined per­form­ance when they held defend­ing cham­pi­ons Italy to a 1–1 draw in an enthralling World Cup Group F encounter at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit on Sunday. The res­ult leaves the fifth ranked Azzurri with a lot to do to make it through to the knock­out stages after they drew their open­ing match (also 1–1) with Paraguay a week ago.

Shane Smeltz stunned Italy early on when he found the back of the net in the sev­enth minute. His goal ori­gin­ated from New Zealand’s first attack of the match after Simon Elliot lof­ted a long free kick in from the left towards the back post. The ball floated over the heads of the Azzurri defend­ers and bounced off Fabio Cannavaro’s knee, leav­ing Smeltz free to stab the ball home from inside the six-yard box. Continued

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Friday, 18 June 2010

Lastest World Cup Results and News ...

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Javier Hernandez

Javier Hernandez

France face early exit after loss to Mexico
France suffered an embarasss­ing 2–0 World Cup defeat to Mexico at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane last night and now face an early exit from the tour­na­ment after draw­ing with Uruguay in their open­ing Group A match last Friday.

Substitute for­ward Javier Hernandez (pic­tured) put Mexico ahead after 64 minutes when he made his way into the box unchal­lenged and out­foxed France goal­keeper Hugo Lloris to put Mexico ahead on 64 minutes. Worse was to fol­low for the Europeans 15 minutes later, when vet­eran for­ward Cuauhtemoc Blanco made no mis­take with a pen­alty after Pablo Barrera was brought down by Eric Abidal ... Continued

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Thursday, 17 June 2010

Fabulous Forlan floors Bafana

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Diego Forlan

Diego Forlan

Atletico Madrid striker Diego Forlan (pic­tured) was in scin­til­lat­ing form for Uruguay at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria last night when he scored twice to help his coun­try to a com­fort­able 3–0 win over hosts South Africa. Bafana Bafana simply had no answer to the attack­ing prowess of the blonde haired, blue eyed Forlan who had a per­fect match with vir­tu­ally everything he touched turn­ing to gold.

The defeat means South Africa have to win their remain­ing Group A match against France on Tuesday to have any chance of mak­ing it through to the second round of the com­pet­i­tion. A 24th minute strike and then a con­tro­ver­sial 80th minute pen­alty from Forlan, which saw Bafana goal­keeper Itumeleng Khune sent off after he was adjudged to have brought down Luis Suarez, sealed the win for the two time World Cup cham­pi­ons. Continued

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Wednesday, 16 June 2010

Maicon saves the day for Brazil and other World Cup News

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Maicon

Maicon

Maicon saves the day for Brazil
Brazil full­back Maicon (pic­tured) scored a superb goal from a seem­ingly impossible angle to guide the World Cup favour­ites to a 2–1 win over a gritty North Korea in their Group G encounter at Ellis Park in Johannesburg on Tuesday evening.

Maicon some­how man­aged to fire a shot into the net from the most acute of angles in the 55th minute, before Elano added a second goal 17 minutes later to put the South American giants in com­mand. Ji Yun-nam pulled one back for North Korea on 89 minutes, speed­ing past two play­ers and smash­ing home a left-foot drive, but it was a case of too little, too late as the ‘Golden Squad’ held on for the win. Continued

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Monday, 14 June 2010

Superb Siphiwe earns Bafana a draw

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Siphiwe Tshabalala

Siphiwe Tshabalala

Superb Siphiwe earns Bafana a draw
Bafana Bafana pro­duced a dis­cip­lined and com­mit­ted per­form­ance to earn a 1–1 draw with Mexico in the open­ing match of the 2010 Fifa World Cup at a packed Soccer City Stadium in Soweto, Johannesburg, on Friday after­noon. A late goal from Rafael Marques deprived the hosts of vic­tory in front of more than 84 000 vuvuzela blow­ing fans after a bril­liant 55th minute strike from Siphiwe Tshabalala (pic­tured) had put Bafana 1–0 ahead.

Despite not being able to secure a win how­ever, Bafana can be well pleased with their efforts against the 17th ranked Mexicans who went into the match as favour­ites. The hosts played with a lot of pas­sion and determ­in­a­tion for the dur­a­tion of the 90 minutes and all the hard work they have put into their pre­par­a­tion for the global spec­tacle has cleary paid off ... Continued

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Wednesday, 9 June 2010

Bafana players praise Parreira ahead of 2010 kick-off and other South African Sports News – 9 June

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Matthew Booth

Matthew Booth

Bafana play­ers praise Parreira ahead of 2010 kick-off
Two days before they take on Mexico in the open­ing game of the World Cup at Soccer City, and eight months after return­ing for his second stint with the national side, the Bafana Bafana play­ers have praised coach Carlos Alberto Parreira. The 67-year-old Brazilian cut short his first con­tract with Bafana in April 2008 for per­sonal reas­ons, but after a rather unsuc­cess­ful 18-month stint by his replace­ment, fel­low coun­try­men Joel Santana, he returned to the post in October last year.

Santana steered South Africa to the semi-finals of last year’s Confederations Cup, but was sacked by the South African Football Association (SAFA) after Bafana lost eight out of their last nine games under his care. On his return, Parreira has trans­formed the team, with Bafana enter­ing the World Cup off a 12-match unbeaten run, includ­ing a 1–0 vic­tory over Denmark in their final warm-up game in Atteridgeville on Saturday. Continued

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Wednesday, 2 June 2010

No place for Benni in final Bafana squad and other South African Sports News – 2 June

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Benni McCarthy

Benni McCarthy

No place for Benni in final Bafana squad
All-time lead­ing Bafana Bafana goalscorer Benni McCarthy (pic­tured) has pre­dict­ably been left out of the final 23-man Bafana World Cup squad by coach Carlos Alberto Parreira. The 67-year-old Parreira, who named the final squad yes­ter­day, decided not to gamble on West Ham striker McCarthy whose fit­ness has been ques­tion­able since recov­er­ing from a recent knee injury.

The 32-year-old McCarthy, who has rep­res­en­ted South Africa on 79 occa­sions with 32 goals to his credit, was one of five play­ers who failed to sur­vive Parreira’s final cut. McCarthy was recalled to national duty des­pite linger­ing con­cerns over his fit­ness and Parreira had hoped the player would improve given his inter­na­tional exper­i­ence and goal-scoring abil­it­ies. Continued

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Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Determined Bafana continue to impress and other South African Sports News – 26 May

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Siyabonga Sangweni

Siyabonga Sangweni

Determined Bafana con­tinue to impress
Bafana Bafana pro­duced a determ­ined and sprited per­form­ance to draw 1–1 against highly rated Bulgaria in an excit­ing friendly inter­na­tional played at a near capa­city Orlando Stadium on Monday even­ing. It was an excel­lent effort from the South Africans against their 39th world-ranked oppon­ents and bodes well for their ambi­tions at next month’s Fifa World Cup, which kicks off on June 11.

Bafana are now unbeaten in nine matches since head coach Carlos Alberto Parreira took over the helm in November last year and if the South African’s can con­tinue to play with the same level of pride, pas­sion and com­mit­ment they demon­strated against Bulgaria, they stand an excel­lent chance of mak­ing it through to the second round of next month’s global showpiece. Continued

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Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Bafana go on a goal spree — and other SA Sports News – 19 May

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Katlego Mphela

Katlego Mphela

Bafana go on a goal spree
Bafana Bafana gave their fans and the coun­try plenty to shout about on Sunday when they thumped Thailand 4–0 to cel­eb­rate the offi­cial open­ing of the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit. Bafana, on the whole, weren’t shy to pull the trig­ger as they mowed down their oppon­ents in an impress­ive dis­play which saw Katlego Mphela (pic­tured) bang in two goals to go with one apiece from Siphiwe Tshabalala and Bernard Parker.

The Bafana team man­age­ment and their fans must have been delighted with their teams’ effort, which equalled their best win at home – a 4–0 wal­lop­ing of Chad three years ago in Durban. Bafana wrapped up the match inside the open­ing 45 minutes with three superb goals, which brought cheers of delight from the 30 000 strong crowd not to men­tion the deaf­en­ing roar of what could have pos­sibly been an equal num­ber of vuvuzelas ... Continued

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Wednesday, 12 May 2010

South African Sports News – 12 May

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Teko Modise

Teko Modise

Thailand up next for Bafana
Bafana Bafana will be play­ing for their places in head coach Carlos Alberto Parreira’s final World Cup squad when the national team host Thailand in a friendly at the new Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit on Sunday after­noon. That was the mes­sage from Bafana cap­tain Teko Modise (pic­tured) yes­ter­day as the team begin the final stages of their pre­par­a­tions for the inter­na­tional showpiece, which starts in Johannesburg next month.

“We know little about Thailand and will be watch­ing DVD’s of their recent games, but the fact is we are fight­ing for our places in the squad. We all know what is at stake,” said Modise. “The coach has to cut the squad from 30 to 23 on June 1. That is sad but a fact. So with time run­ning out we have to per­form against Thailand,” he added. Continued

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Wednesday, 5 May 2010

South African Sports News — 5 May

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Morgan Gould

Morgan Gould

Parreira names 29-man squad as 2010 count­down looms
Bafana Bafana head coach Carlos Alberto Parreira named a 29-man pro­vi­sional squad on Friday as the national team began to final­ise their pre­par­a­tions for the 2010 World Cup, which starts on June 11 when Bafana face Mexico at Soccer City in Johannesburg.

There were hardly any sur­prises at the announce­ment of the squad with the 67-year-old coach retain­ing most of his tried and tested play­ers – includ­ing European-based play­ers such as Everton mid­fielder Steven Pienaar, cap­tain Aaron Mokoena of Portsmouth, Benni McCarthy, who plays for West Ham United, and mid­field anchor­man Kagisho Dikgacoi of Fulham. The only real eye­brow raiser was the omis­sion of Spanish-based defender Nasief Morris ... Continued

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