Despite the recent hysteria, there was much to admire about Joel Santana who took the plunge by taking the reins of a national team (for the first time) which had the added responsibility of hosting the 2010 World Cup.
Despite a shaky start to hi...
There were so many magnificent moments during the 2009 Confederations Cup -- Mohamed Homos's 40th minute header which handed Egypt a famous victory over Italy, the injury-time heroics from Kiwi keeper Glen Moss against Iraq that secured Bafana a semi...
And so a week that started so well -- with hype, hope and a fair sprinkling of glamour -- ended rather limply, with Bafana showing all the attacking promise of a newborn gazelle charging a pride of lions.
I mean, really, what was Santana thinking...
Five years have passed since that extraordinary moment in Zurich when Fifa President Sepp Blatter declared that South Africa had earned the rights to host the biggest party on the planet.
And with exactly one year remaining before the kick-off of...
African football is entering a critical period -- one that will determine whether the decision to host the World Cup on African soil for the first time was the correct one.
Firstly, final preparations are now under way for the Confederations Cup,...
The 2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC) is back on the ropes -- this time over its failure to promote the 2009 Confederations Cup which will be staged in just three months. Visiting Fifa secretary-general Jerome Valcke lashed out at the lack of sig...
Remember the outpouring of emotion the moment when Fifa President Sepp Blatter confirmed the World Cup would finally be hosted by South Africa? Scenes of millions of people celebrating the dawn of the 2010 era were flashed around the world. But now, ...
In aeronautical terms, the point of no return is known as the "radius of action formula". Either way, it refers to the moment beyond which a current course of action must continue because turning back is physically impossible, prohibitively expensive...
Former Dutch Sport Minister Erica Terpstra is rarely short of words, but when she led a delegation representing 37 Dutch companies on a 2010 World Cup Trade Mission to South Africa late last year, she was left speechless by Durban’s Moses Mabhida s...
It’s safe to say that 2009 will be the most important year in this country’s sporting history.
In just six months, some of the giants of international football (including Brazil and Italy) will compete in the Confederations Cup. With a $17-mi...
