1. Nothing is ever certain until the final whistle blows.
2. You might think you know where the game is headed, but that can all change in the 90th minute.
3. Underdogs can become finalists.
4. You can’t only defend; you can’t only attack.
5. South African fans are the most colourful, the most enthusiastic and, yes, the loudest.
6. No matter what country you’re from, when the camera focuses on you, you will jump up and down like a crazy thing.
7. Bafana Bafana know how to play soccer.
8. Our players might be small, but they’re tough. (Not like some other players, who fall over if you look at them funny.)
9. Soccer really is the beautiful game.
10. South Africa is ready for the World Cup in 2010. Not quite 100% ready, but it won’t be the disaster many predicted. It might just be one of the most exciting months of our lives.
re number 10
More exciting than, say, the opening of ten new hospitals?
Nice taught of ten things the Bafana should be looking @ cause they forget that the game is still on when they’ve scored a goal or Khune has made a save, they get excitedand thats where their opponents take them down.
I couldn’t agree with you more, Bridget! Well summarized.
I’ve got my tickets and I CAN’T WAIT! Bring it ONNNNNNNNN!!!
Joel Santana’s Bafana Confed Cup report card: played 5, won 1, drew 1, lost 3. Scored 4 goals conceded 6 goals. Playing with homeground advantage, this is celebrating mediocrity !
What’s next ? Santana for President ? Puleez !
Bafana Bafana did us proud!!!
South Africa is ready in all respects but for our soccer team. They play good soccer, but the problem is that scoring goals seems a hard act to follow. What’s the point of playing good soccer when you cannot score goals.
I agree 101% with MKT – there’s nothing to celebrate about Ba-fun ba-fun’s mediocre performance. If we were in group B with the likes of Brazil, US and Egypt, we would have washed the jerseys last week!!
Thanks Bridget. At least you can see the positives out of all the negativity that has been going on. Make’s me proud to be a South African. I believe “The Boys”, will be ready for next year. And so is the country and myself. I only learned how to blow the VUVU on the last day of the tournament and I will be practicing for next year definitely.
Nice ten good and totally SA things. I am totally happy for the way in which our soccer team has come, we are good enough, and I never thought I would say that in my lifetime, but I was gonna leave a note for my child to say it if it happened after me. @ Tsuai, yes you my friend, I never thought you loved the game, or is it just patriotism? You never know. I love your concern over the problem of not netting them in, and I think we shall overcome that problem, with time, and good players with good guidance. Our country needn’t be 100% ready, it has never happened before anywhere in the world, didn’t the stadiums leak in Germany 2006? but that was not the saddest thing ever as other aspects of their perparations were super, fantastic. We had, or have a problem with our security, and we shall overcome that because atleast we know, especially at hotels, and especially when Egypt is playing we may have to beef up our security so that it doesn’t end up looking like it’s a dodgy ‘ladies’ world cup, but again, we shall overcome. We just need to reknew our relationship with the Egyptian male soccer team, for they are our brothers, no matter what.