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Monday, 14 June 2010

Superb Siphiwe earns Bafana a draw

posted to: Weekly Sports Wrap, World Cup 2010 News
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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Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Give a Soccer Ball ...

posted to: Eastern Cape, Explore South Africa Cycle Tour, Miscellaneous
Give a Soccer Ball ...

Give a Soccer Ball ...

Now before you skim right past this, we’re not ask­ing for a lot … just a soc­cer ball or two for the young­sters in the Transkei. That’s a R45 dona­tion to put a smile onto the face of a young soccer-wannabe ...

We’ve been fol­low­ing Ruan’s epic jour­ney across South Africa and this week he’s in the Transkei on the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape. Yesterday he came across a group of boys play­ing soc­cer in the vil­lage of Lusikisiki and star­ted talk­ing with one of the boys who told him about his dreams of being a soc­cer player. These kids don't have real balls to play with, so ... they make their own soc­cer balls from melted plastic. These "balls" are obvi­ously not really round, you can’t fill them with air or even really kick them because they are filled with plastic. Nonetheless, they play enthu­si­ast­ic­ally with these balls and con­tinue to dream ... dreams of grow­ing up to play the beau­ti­ful game for their beau­ti­ful Country! Continued

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Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Street Soccer Safari

posted to: Activities and Things To Do, Western Cape
Street Soccer Safari

Street Soccer Safari

'The beau­ti­ful game' played by the beau­ti­ful people of South Africa in the beau­ti­ful sur­round­ings of Cape Town can be enjoyed by all vis­it­ors – beau­ti­ful or not. Celebrate the game of foot­ball and the uni­fy­ing spirit it gen­er­ates with a Street Soccer Safari, offered by Andulela Tours (sim­ilar tours can be arranged by other Cape Town Tour Operators).

Tour open air 'sta­di­ums' of dusty town­ship earth as well as state of the art amphi­theatres of FIFA World Cup sport­ing centres. Travel through a vari­ety of eco­nomic envir­on­ments where a soc­cer ball is kicked and dreams are chased. Salute local soc­cer celebrity teams at the Hartleyvale Stadium where foot­ball pro's accept show­downs and spec­tat­ors pick sides. War cry the tra­di­tional 'Laduma' (isiZulu word for 'it thun­ders') expres­sion with a pas­sion­ate crowd over the bass sound of an uncon­duc­ted mass orches­tra com­prised only of trumpet-like vuvuzela's (tra­di­tional South African soc­cer noise makers) ... Continued

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