| Nigeria invited to football for hope festival - 20/12/2009 |
FIFA and streetfootballworld have announced Nigeria and 31 other delegations that will take part in the ’Football for Hope Festival 2010’, holding from June 28 – July 10, 2010 in South Africa. Search and Groom youth for development centre (an official part of the Football for Hope movement) will be selecting the Nigerian team to South Africa. Other countries that will be in attendance includes Host South Africa, Brazil, England, Germany, Argentina, Senegal, Ghana, Colombia, Australia, United States, an Israeli/Palestine joint team, France etc.
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Full Vanguard report
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| Radebe and Bailey’s plan to save SA soccer – 06/12/2009 |
South Africa needs to build four world-class youth soccer academies in the major centres if Bafana Bafana are to become a force in soccer again, notes a Mail & Guardian report. Even if the academies were started tomorrow, it would take 10 to 15 years to produce world-class players for the country, according to former Bafana and Leeds United captain Lucas Radebe, and former England and Manchester United goalkeeper Gary Bailey. Radebe and Bailey are concerned about the decline of the team and their prospects for the 2010 World Cup.
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Full Mail & Guardian report
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| 2010 will help Africa’s fight against Aids – 05/12/2009 |
The Football for Hope centre is out to teach kids about more than just the ’beautiful game’. The first of 20 such centers across Africa was opened Saturday, a day after the draw for next year’s World Cup, and 12-year-old Lihle Bonkolo was one of the children that learned about both football and how to combat AIDS. Playing a game known as ’Risk Field’, teams dribbled a football around a series of obstacles marked with AIDS-related signs. If they hit a cone, they got a red card and had to do sit-ups. The project is part of FIFA’s ’20 Centers for 2010’ campaign to build facilities to help young people in Africa. The next five centers will be built in Kenya, Namibia, Mali, Rwanda and Ghana.
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Full report on the IOL site
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| Beckham talks 2010 WC – 04/12/2009 |
David Beckham will not contrive to help England avoid anyone when he assists in the final draw of the 2010 World Cup at the International Convention Centre in Cape Town tonight, notes a report on the IoL site. &squo;No, there&squo;s no one we have to avoid,&squo; said the English football icon. &squo;At this point when you go into the World Cup, you don&squo;t worry about who you play.&squo; Beckham, who will be among the celebrities assisting in the draw, was in Khayelitsha - along with South African football legend Lucas Radebe - for a &squo;Coaching for Hope&squo; session with kids and their coaches.
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Full report on the IoL site
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| Local soccer team gets a boost – 13/11/2009 |
A team of young, soccer stars have received a helping hand to get them fighting fit for the field. Bush Radio reports that the Lucky Stars from Gugulethu, Cape Town, have been sponsored by Mywage, the Southern African organisation dedicated to salary transparency, decent work for decent wages and career advice. Each of the 15 boys was given a full soccer kit, while coach Johannes Makiti received a special manager’s jacket. In addition, the team was provided with 20 footballs, soccer cones, bibs and a keeper’s kit. The sponsorship comes amidst the build-up to the 2010 World Cup.
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Full Bush Radio report
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| 20 Centres for 2010 nets R1m in bids - 02/11/2009 |
Tuesday October 13 proved that 13 is, in fact, a lucky number. In aid of 20 Centres for 2010, FIFA’s social responsibility project, a VIP benefit dinner was hosted at the Benguela Cove Manor House near Hermanus, Western Cape. A star-studded guest list of 2010 World Cup official partners, sponsors and commercial affiliates ensured that no corner went unnoticed in the magnificent marquee. Business Day reports that the evening gave a taste of what the world could expect in terms of hospitality and entertainment from South Africans during the 2010 World Cup. An unthinkable R1,05m was raised in less than an hour, a solid kickoff to the much needed funds for the 20 centres.
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Full Business Day report
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| SAGDB already benefiting from 2010 – 01/11/2009 |
The South African Golf Development Board (SAGDB) is already benefiting from the 2010 World Cup. Sunday World reports that the board received a R28 500 financial windfall from the LOC of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan area recently. The donated funds are to be used to buy golf clothing for youngsters in the Eastern Cape who have progressed past the beginner level in the sport’s development programme. Nelson Mandela Bay 2010 World Cup programme manager Sisa Tabata, said the programme should create benefits for local people beyond the World Cup and spread World Cup fever.
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Full Sunday World report
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| Football For Hope targets SA townships – 28/10/2009 |
South Africa has been seized by football fever ahead of the 2010 World Cup, and FIFA is making the most of a sport loved by children to attract them into the ’Football for Hope’ programme in the country’s poorest townships. SuperSport reports that every Monday after school, children in the heart of Johannesburg’s oldest shantytown Alexandra, take part in the unconventional training where the message includes boys being encouraged to respect their female partners. This is a crucial message in South Africa where a quarter of men admit to having raped at least once in their lifetime, according to a study done in August. Coach Catherine Khosana, an 18-year old who is herself still in high school, said the goal was to keep children off the street while teaching them to respect each other and take care of themselves.
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Full SuperSport report
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| FNB eyes another 2010 WC legacy project - 11/10/2009 |
Hardly a month after launching another artificial football pitch, backers First National Bank (FNB) are eyeing their fourth and final 2010 World Cup legacy project, notes a Sunday World report. The promise of what South Africa can expect from the event became a reality for Thohoyandou residents after FNB recently handed over the third completed artificial pitch in Makwarela township. An air of hope filled the tiny township as youngsters kicked about a worn-out ball as curtain-raisers in the friendly between Majimbos and Zimbabwe. The next pitch on the list is in George, the Western Cape tourist town, scheduled for early next year.
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Full Sunday World report
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| Zuma backs education drive - 06/10/2009 |
President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday pledged South Africa’s support to a global campaign to ensure education for all the world’s children. ’We are determined that the 2010 Fifa World Cup should leave a legacy for education on this continent,’ he said joining other world leaders’ messages of support for the campaign via satellite.
The 1Goal: Education for All campaign was aimed at ensuring the 75 million children not in school were provided with primary education. Half of these 75 million children lived in Africa. He was speaking at Johannesburg’s Ellis Park stadium where world leaders sent messages of support that were broadcast across the globe via satellite link. Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan, co-founder and co-chairperson of the campaign, said more support was needed to ensure children grew up to fulfil their potential. FIFA president Sepp Blatter, speaking from Zurich, said the 2010 World Cup represented a unique opportunity to mobilise support around the globe to provide education for all children in Africa.
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Full report on the News24 site
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| Brown backs 2010 WC education drive - 06/10/2009 |
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will urge world leaders to sign up to a campaign to use the 2010 World Cup in South Africa to promote an education for every child, notes a Cape Argus report. He will appear at a FIFA-backed 1GOAL event at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium in London, alongside international football greats to highlight the education drive. ’The World Cup focuses global attention unlike any other tournament and next year’s - the first ever held on African soil - provides an unprecedented opportunity to leave a lasting legacy,’ said Brown. 1GOAL will press governments for an extra $7 billion to achieve a place for the 75 million children globally who are out of school.
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Full Cape Argus report
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| Investing in SA’s future - 29/09/2009 |
Investing in young soccer players is a key aspect to South Africa’s football future, says the newly elected SAFAPresident Kirsten Nematandani. ’Without developing players from the regional structures you cannot get talented players that you need in the national team. You need to invest at grass roots level in order to produce a pool of talented players,’ he said. According to Nematandani, this should be done with a development programme and coaches who understand the development of young players.
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Full BuaNews report
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| Local soccer ball ministry makes its way to East Africa – 28/09/2009 |
A ministry that sends soccer balls carrying a spiritual message throughout the world has gleaned some feedback from residents of Zimbabwe, East Africa, in a recent visit by Tatenda and Lucia Gunguwo of Zimbabwe, to Kansas City, where Moundville’s Mike Morris heard stories of their experiences with the soccer balls. Morris founded the ministry a few years ago, and in 2006 told the Daily Mail he had already distributed 5,000 of the balls himself and another 15,000 through the help of a friend. He said they are praying for 5 000 new balls to use to minister to their part of Africa during the World Cup in South Africa.
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Full Daily Mail report
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| LOC praises embassies for support – 17/09/2009 |
The 2010 LOC has commended the embassies of Latin American and Caribbean countries for helping develop soccer in South Africa. The Sowetan reports that LOC CE Danny Jordaan said the yearly Group of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (Grulac) Football Tournament had also created awareness of the World Cup. The LOC has once more linked up with 16 Grulac embassies to stage this year’s tournament at the Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria on Saturday. Sixteen local schools have been teamed up with the embassies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. They will represent their adopted countries in the tournament.
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Full report in The Sowetan
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| Crisis won’t deter 2010 visitors - 16/09/2009 |
Current global conditions are an impediment but not a barrier to foreign tourists wishing to attend the 2010 World Cup, notes a FIN24 report. Interest in South Africa as a destination is on the increase as the tournament approaches. This is evident from a survey Visa conducted among 5 539 adults between 11 December 2008 and 8 January 2009 in eleven of South Africa’s most important tourist markets.
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Full FN24 report
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| SA yet to see real development - 14/09/2009 |
South Africa has yet to see real football development five years after the country won the rights to host the 2010 World Cup, notes a report on the IoL site. This is because SAFA hasn’t started implementing its development projects. ’South Africa deserves to be in the top 20 and we have a long-term developmental programme to improve the standards. Once it gets off the ground, we will see proper development,’ said SAFA spokesman Morio Sanyane. Sanyane was participating in a panel discussion on the 2010 World Cup legacy at Orlando Stadium in Soweto.
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Full report on the IoL site
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| Celebs back malaria campaign - 09/09/2009 |
Footballers, celebrities and philanthropists have pledged their support for a new campaign to tackle malaria. U2 star Bono, actress Ashley Judd, Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates’s wife Melinda, David Beckham’s football team LA Galaxy and Spanish club FC Barcelona are backing the United Against Malaria initiative, formed by charities Comic Relief, One and Malaria No More UK. The Coventry Telegraph reports that the campaign will support the United Nations’ goal of universal access to mosquito nets and malaria medicine in Africa by the end of 2010. The initiative will launch in the UK on November 12, ahead of next year’s 2010 World Cup and will run until the end of the tournament.
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Full Coventry Telegraph report
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| Perlman’s dreams becoming a reality - 27/08/2009 |
Many will remember John Perlman as the erstwhile English soccer commentator on the public broadcaster, the SABC; others for his hard-hitting interviews on SAFM and his insightful column in the Saturday Star. According to a News24 report, with the World Cup coming to South Africa next June, Perlman dreamt of a way to contribute to the development of the beautiful game in the country. And this is how the Dreamfields Soccer Project came about. ’Back in 2007 I felt that I did not want to be directly involved with the World Cup (2010) as a journalist or as a participant. I wanted to do something different,’ he recalls. ’That was when I came up with the idea to start the project.’ Into its second year, Perlman and his team already have something to brag about.
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Full News24 report
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| 2010 malaria campaign launched – 27/08/2009 |
’Today marks another milestone as “United Against Malaria, “ a campaign to kick out malaria by 2010 is launched.’ These were the words of Ugandan Health Minister, Dr Steven Mallinga, during the official launch of the anti-malaria campaign this week. The campaign is a partnership of footballers, non-governmental organisations, foundations, governments and corporations who have joined forces ahead of the 2010 World Cup to unite in the fight against malaria through football. The Daily Monitor reports that youth groups and Fufa will hold matches around the country between October and November to show solidarity with the campaign.
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Full Daily Monitor report
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| Streetkids set for soccer glory - 22/08/2009 |
Collen Davids’s past is one of hard streets, glue-sniffing and begging for hand-outs from strangers. But his future is brighter - starting with his participation in the 2009 Homeless Soccer World Cup in Italy in two weeks’ time. The 18-year-old former street child was introduced to soccer at a homeless shelter. The seventh Homeless Soccer World Cup - featuring 48 teams - kicks off in Milan on September 6. The tournament uses football to ’energise homeless people to change their own lives’.
South Africa first took part in the tournament in 2004, when it was held in Austria, and hosted the tournament in 2006, when its team came 18th.
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Full Sunday Times report
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| Queen of Jordan joins 2010 campaign - 21/08/2009 |
The Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, FIFA, Gary Lineker and footballers from across the globe launched 1GOAL: Education for All, a FIFA World Cup 2010 initiative focused on ensuring that all children receive an education. 1GOAL has one purpose: to ensure that the 75 million children out of school in Africa and the world’s poorest countries get access to classrooms, teachers and the future that education provides. 1GOAL calls on football fans to sign their names at join1goal.org and tell world leaders that education beats poverty.
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Full Global Network report
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| Charlize Theron backs SA soccer - 15/08/2009
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South Africa’s Oscar Award winning actress Charlize Theron has linked her Africa Outreach Project to a Los Angeles soccer club, Chelsea, and plans to build community soccer programmes for underprivileged children in South Africa.
In addition to soccer fields, uniforms and equipment, kids involved in the programme will receive health education and services. The project will serve schools in South Africa’s Umkhanyakude District in northern KwaZulu\Natal, an area plagued by a high rate of HIV infection. Theron says she is hoping to have the first fields built by the time the 2010 World Cup kicks off.
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Full Kick Off report
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| Soccer tournament for inmates - 12/08/2009 |
Prisoners from Kutama-Sinthumule Correctional Service Centre in Makhado, Limpopo, will be part of the 2010 World Cup Legacy Projects through a soccer tournament to be held on Saturday. The Sowetan reports that the four-team tournament is the brainchild of one of the inmates, Stambo Mokoatedi, and is sponsored by the provincial department of sports, arts and culture. Departmental senior manager for sports development, Junior Ramusi, said the tournament would feature a team from the department and three teams from the prison. ’We believe that offenders have the right to benefit from the 2010 project as the project is about everybody and further that inmates can be easily rehabilitated through sport activities,’ Ramusi said.
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Full report in The Sowetan
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| United 4 Bafana Bafana campaign launched – 28/07/2009 |
The Official Bafana Bafana Social Project, the United 4 Bafana Bafana, ’Buy a Band, Donate a Rand Campaign’ was recently launched by SAFA together with SLAM, SAFA Master Licensee. According to a Moroka Swallows report, the Bafana Bafana Social Project is part of the national football team’s legacy programme for 2010 – their way of making a difference through a credible social programme, and at the same time leaving a positive mark in the community from now leading up to the World Cup. By purchasing a band, we as South Africans are not only showing our support for the team, we are also contributing to the success of World Cup 2010 and to social upliftment.
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Full Moroka Swallows report
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| Alex to host Football for Hope Festival – 22/07/2009 |
The sprawling township of Alexandra will come alive in about a year from now when it hosts the Football for Hope Festival. Set to run from 3 to 10 July 2010 at Number 3 Square, the festival will be organised by the City and FIFA. Some 32 teams will be playing not only for the trophy, but for social and human development as well. The two-week festival will include a programme of cultural celebration between participants - a move that the City hopes will go a long way towards writing a new chapter for the township, which experienced some of the worst violence during the xenophobic attacks in 2008.
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Full press release
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| Hope Festival 2010 - 11/0709 |
One year from today, as South Africa prepares for the 2010 World Cup final, a very different celebration will be taking place in the township of Alexandra in Johannesburg. While the orld Cup will bring together the greatest football teams on the planet, the Football for Hope Festival 2010 will assemble 32 teams that represent the power of the game for social change. This week, the final line-up was announced, and among the delegations will be organisations that use football to address ethnic violence in Israel and Palestine, environmental pollution in the slums of Kenya, HIV and Aids education in South Africa, landmine education in Cambodia and gang culture in Ecuador.
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Full report on the FIFA.com site
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| Mayoral Cup soccer gets R1m boost |
The uThukela district municipality in northern KwaZulu-Natal will spend R1million on a mayoral cup tournament to showcase its readiness for the 2010 orld Cup.
The Mayoral Cup, to be played on July 26, has been staged since 2003 with only only one big team taking part. This year Premier Soccer Soccer league side – AmaZulu, Maritzburg United, Jomo Cosmos – and a squad from the district will be featured. “Though no game is going to be played in our district [in 2010], we are positioning ourselves to benefit from this event,” said mayor Mqapheli Sithole
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Full report in The Sowetan
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| Soccer for the people - 07/07/09 |
Craig Hepburn’s vision is simple. Take the beautiful game to the ugliest places – and then some. Street children. Refugees. convicts. And then add middle class suburbanites, police officers, rich tourists - even kids age five. In Craig’s opinion soccer is everyone’s game. But to use the word game is almost an insult to his vision. Soccer as development, soccer as employment, and most importantly - judging by the piercing hope in his eyes when he speaks of it - soccer as the great unifier. Hepburn’s journey is a snapshot of a country of contradictions and immense change. A white man playing a black sport in the 80s, his short stint with the township league Orlando Pirates was doomed by the compulsory conscription demanded by the apartheid government.
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Full report on the News24 site
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| African game on verge of a boom - 07/07/09 |
The marketability of the African Cup of Nations, the prime property of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), has never been higher. Its next edition, in Angola next year, might well turn out to be a logistical nightmare -- but for pure footballing fantasy, it is likely to be the best-watched yet as there are more and more genuine world stars now coming from the continent, plus the fact that the Cup of Nations is being hosted just six months prior the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Sports Illustrated reports that the potential jackpot for African football is valued at $115 million -- revenue that has the potential to give the continent’s game a massive, and much-needed, shot in the arm. But it is a price tag that has yet to find any suitors.
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Full Sports Illustrated report
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| Radebe FIFA’s Football for Hope ambassador - 24/06/2009 |
Lucas Radebe, former Bafana Bafana and Leeds United captain, has been appointed FIFA’s Football for Hope ambassador. The announcement was made at the Football for Hope Forum workshop by FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who also congratulated Radebe for his huge role in the development of the game. The Sowetan reports that Football for Hope is a movement using the power of the beautiful game for social development. It was established in 2005 and supports more than 70 projects in 45 countries. ’I appreciate this appointment by FIFA to serve on this project. As a youngster from Soweto, our hope has always been football,’ said Radebe.
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Full report in The Sowetam
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