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World Cup Done and Dusted - where were we?

World Cup 2010 is now a thing of the past and we haven’t made any comments!

Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Uruguay – the last four – no real surprises there! As Ric says a couple of the high profile teams stumbled in the starting blocks and thier “star” players were more like damp squibs.

As South Africa held

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Greece falters on the starting blocks!

The first World Cup upset! Greece goes down 2:0 to the Korea Republic. Greece looked ordinary against the Koreans in the friendly city. The Koreans were organised and clinical. Greece now have a mountain to climb to get to the next round. Park Ji Sung showed us why he is so respected and wears the

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Deja vu?

One day to go to World Cup 2010, I guess all the teams are here. Feel it – it is here! If part of the feeling is one of deja vu this is probably the reason why! In 1966 England hosted and won the World Cup and they drew the same group as South Africa

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Bafana Bafana - the Final Cut

Heart-break and jubilation this morning when Carlos Alberto Parreira announced his 2010 23 man squad. As was expected by many Benni MacCarthy was not included but to my relief Matthew Booth made it. Mokoena and Parreira can now concentrate on the last warm-up against Denmark and then the first World Cup game against Mexico

Goalkeepers
Itumeleng Khune
Moeneeb

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Welcome World!!

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

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