South Africa 2 - 3 Spain Spain ousted South Africa with a goal from Xabi Alonso in extra time to claim third place in this year’s Confederations Cup. The game was tightly contested in the 90 minutes and Katlego Mphela proved all his critics wrong when he scored a brace for Bafana Bafana to take the match [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 25, 2009
South Africa came within two minutes of taking South American powerhouse Brazil to extra time in the second semi-finals of the Confederations Cup. It wasn’t to be though for Joel Santana’s men as Barcelona’s rampaging right-back Dani Alves scored the winning goal in the 88th minute from a free-kick on the edge of the box. Image: [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Whoever thought USA would beat Spain to advance to the finals of the Confederations Cup? Well, the Americans downed another giant in world football, bringing to an end Spain’s long unbeaten run of the 35 games. Indeed no team is unbeatable and the Americans have proven that. Here are the video highlights: Now Bafana Bafana has a job [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 24, 2009
In exactly a day’s time, South Africa take on the Confederations Cup defending champions Brazil in the semi final of this year’s tournament. Brazil have won many championships and are undoubtedly one of the best teams in the world. They have a whooping 5 FIFA World Cup titles under their belts and are ranked 5th [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 22, 2009
Greetings from South Africa, where all the action is taking place as far as football is concerned, the Confederations Cup is currently underway and has not disappointed at all. We’ve seen plenty of goals accompanied by plenty of surprises, the most prominent surprise of course being the early exit of the world champions, Italy, after [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 21, 2009
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
Luis Fabiano goals
Continue reading...Saturday, June 20, 2009
Goal Scorers: David Villa Llorente
Continue reading...Friday, June 19, 2009
Well it was a contest of two champions, the Champions of Africa and the Champions of the world. However it was the African Champions that pulled out a surprise win against the world champs Italy on Thursday evening. Egypt had a brilliant first game against Brazil and was unfortunate to have lost the game in the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 19, 2009
The Samba Kings continued their dominance over Group B when they emphatically trounced USA in their second game of the 2009 Confederations Cup tournament. This is also USA’s second consecutive loss which means they are as good as out of the competition. The scorers on the day for Brazil were Robihno and Maicon Here are the goals, [...]
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
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