South Africans embrace football kulcha - Feature
Soweto, Johannesburg - Orlando Stadium, Soweto, on a Saturday afternoon in October. The foghorn of hundreds of plastic trumpets, called vuvuzelas, wafts up out of the stands across the sprawling township as if calling Sowetans to prayer. Men and wome...
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Stars that won't be shining - Feature
Hamburg - Andrei Arshavin, Zlatan Ibrahomovic and Andriy Shevchenko are just three of the world's most prominent footballers who will be missing the World Cup. Arshavin, 28, and his Russian teammates dazzled at Euro 2008 for a place in the semi-final...
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On high alert: World Cup security concerns - Feature
Johannesburg - The author of an article in Britain's Guardian newspaper on the subject of why going to South Africa for the World Cup terrifies me must have been thinking last week she spoke too soon. In the July 7 article, which caused outrage in ...
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BACKGROUND: World Cup history - Germany's 'miracle' and Pele
The 1954 tournament turned out to be an even more surprising World Cup than 1950, because hot favourites Hungary were beaten 3-2 in the Berne final - since dubbed the miracle of Berne in Germany - by a West German side t...
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BACKGROUND: It's all in the balls
Hamburg - The draw for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, consisting of the 32 teams that qualify, will be held in Cape Town's International Convention Centre (CTICC) on December 4. Although the exact procedure for the draw has yet to be clarified b...
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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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