South Africa in international football - Feature
Johannesburg - History is supposed to be the study of facts, but as in so many things in South Africa, even the history of international football in the country is not as straight forward as it should be. A number of questions immediately arise when ...
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BACKGROUND: From Jozi to the Mother: nine host cities in brief
Johannesburg -The nine cities hosting the 2010 World Cup offer a bewildering spectrum of of backdrops, from beach to bush, and mountains to mine dumps and maize fields. -- JOHANNESBURG: Over a century after the city was founded at the site of a gold ...
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BACKGROUNDER: African themes for new World Cup stadiums
Johannesburg - South Africa has pulled out all the stops in building five new stadiums and upgrading five others for the World Cup. Initial fears that the new stadiums would not be completed on time for the tournament because of a late start to const...
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TEAM PROFILE: Uruguay seek to raise their level in South Africa 2010
Buenos Aires - Uruguay were the last team to make it to the 2010 World Cup, but their players are looking forward to their chance of reviving the South American country's long-gone football greatness. Uruguay have won two editions of the prestigious ...
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TEAM PROFILE: Just getting to the finals is victory
Wellington - Winning the right to go to South Africa for the 2010 finals has put football in the spotlight in New Zealand - where rugby is the national sport - for the first time in a generation. It has been a long time coming. The All Whites have ma...
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TEAM PROFILE: Stop-start France looking to ignite in South Africa
Paris - After an eventful and controversial qualifying campaign, France head to South Africa in 2010 hoping to put the disappointment of losing in the final to Italy last time around in Germany behind them. Against all the odds, Raymond Domenech is s...
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TEAM PROFILE: King Otto reigns
Athens - German coach Otto Rehhagel is enjoying proving his sceptics wrong after Greece's national team scored their 1-0 win in the Ukraine on November 18, sending them through to next year's World Cup finals. Some observers had begun to question the...
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TEAM PROFILE: Queiroz struggling to repeat Scolari glory years
Lisbon - Portugal's qualification for the World Cup finals has been greeted with more relief than euphoria in Lisbon, which is a sign that expectations have lowered in this football-crazy country. Carlos Queiroz's team booked their ticket for South A...
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TEAM PROFILE: Slovenia, who are you?
Ljubljana - Who are Robert Koren, Samir Handanovic, Bojan Jokic, Marko Suler or Miso Brecko? They are footballers, overshadowed to virtual anonymity by bright stars such as Andrei Arshavin or Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Yet, unlike Arshavin and Ibrahimovic, ...
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TEAM PROFILE: Experienced campaigners feel weight of history
Nairobi/Yaounde - When Cameroon take to the field in South Africa, of all the African teams they will be the one most burdened by history. South Africa will mark the Indomitable Lion's sixth appearance at the World Cup finals since 1982, making them ...
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