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Welcome World!! The trickle is starting to become a flood…. first it was South Africa – Bafana Bafana coming back home after training camps in Brazil and Germany. Then Australia – the Socceroos, Brazil and then Argentina and Denmark! I rode past an escorted tour bus on the highway on Saturday – I concluded that it Read more…Welcome World!! While Europe is gearing up for the UEFA Champs League final and transfer season is running at full tilt I suspect that Bradley is sure to be spending the time quietly but surely preparing his team. They will expect to comfortably get into the second round together with England since they have been drawn in Makarapa It’s a long time since August 1996 when South Africa was at the top of it’s game but I guess there’s been a lot of water under the bridge since then. The most significant is, I think, the sheer number of coaches since the brillaint Clive Barker that took Bafana Bafana (The Boys) to Giovanni Christiaan van Bronckhorst has been round the block and then some. This charismatic 35 year old Dutch Captain has played club football in Scotland (Rangers), England (Arsenal), Spain (Barcalona) and of course his homeland the Netherlands (RKC Waalwijk and Feyenoord). His international career is impressive. He debuted against Brazil in August ’96 and has since earned 93 Read more…VAN BRONCKHORST – Veteran Dutch Captain Bielsa has had a colorful career. Having come from a family of Argentinean politicians and lawyers he chose to devote his life to soccer. He played little football at senior level before qualifying as a physical education and went on to coaching, where he had some success with his old First Division Team, Newell’s Old |
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