Confederations Cup 2009 Results – 17 June 2009

Spain 1 - 0 Iraq After putting 5 past New Zealand on Sunday, one expected Spain to continue where they left off against the Iraqi team, but in fact even after making 4 changes to their starting line up, the Spanish side looked rather fatigued and couldn’t easily penetrate the Iraqi defense. It took Spain 52 minutes [...]

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Exactly why is the PSL top goal scorer not included in the Bafana team?

Morning all Ever since South Africa was awarded the rights to host the 2010 World Cup showpiece and the Confederations Cup as a result, one of the biggest challenges the national team had to face was putting together a team that would compete in the tournament. When I say ‘compete’ I don’t just mean participating in [...]

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Bafana Confederations Cup squad announced - What do you make of it?

So, Joel Santana, Bafana Bafana coach has finally announced his squad that will participate in the Confederations Cup in a couple of week’s time. Of course the biggest talking point is that of the exclusion of Benni McCarthy, I know Benni has had his moments with the call ups, but do you think the South [...]

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Looks like this year’s top goal scorer will have more than 15 goals and finally South African

Morning folks, hope you had a good weekend, I know I had a good one hence the ability to get up this early on Monday morning to write this piece, it’s about 4:30am to be precise. There are two things that have been very big worrying factors as far development or growth in South African football [...]

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