Comments on: South Africa on centre stage in 2009 http://www.sportsleader.co.za/craigurquhart/2009/01/08/south-africa-on-centre-stage-in-2009/ Thu, 17 May 2012 12:35:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: andrew http://www.sportsleader.co.za/craigurquhart/2009/01/08/south-africa-on-centre-stage-in-2009/#comment-5586 andrew Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:18:47 +0000 http://www.sportsleader.co.za/craigurquhart/2009/01/08/south-africa-on-centre-stage-in-2009/#comment-5586 South Africa's other major sports are doing well at world level( rugby and cricket) . It is surely time for soccer to come to the party .Soccer has major sponsorship , big gates and highly paid coaches and yet it battles to compete with countries with none of those advantages . We constantly hear we are " building a young team " . At current rates of progress members of the young team will be grandfathers and we still will have avhieved nothing . what is the reason....? South Africa’s other major sports are doing well at world level( rugby and cricket) . It is surely time for soccer to come to the party .Soccer has major sponsorship , big gates and highly paid coaches and yet it battles to compete with countries with none of those advantages . We constantly hear we are ” building a young team ” . At current rates of progress members of the young team will be grandfathers and we still will have avhieved nothing . what is the reason….?

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