| US to honour SA soccer boss 10/12/2010honour |
Orlando Pirates boss Irvin Khoza was honoured in the US on Friday for his contribution to the success of the 2010 World Cup, notes a Sport24 report. Khoza, who is the Premier Soccer League chairperson and SAFA deputy president, will receive an award from the African American Institute.
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| Was the WC worth it? 09/12/2010 |
After billions spent on stadiums now lying empty and fewer tourists than hoped South Africa marks six months from the kick-off of the 2010 World Cup on Saturday, asking whether it was worth it. The tournament, Africa’s first World Cup, delivered an undoubted boost to national pride, but many are ruing the fact that it fell in the midst of the worst global economic recession in generations, which made the return on the country’s investment fall short of its potential.
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| Jordaan pulls out of CAF race 08/12/2010 |
Following media reports that Danny Jordaan is targeting votes from the CECAFA region ahead of the CAF elections, to challenge reigning CAF president Issa Hayatou for his position, the Siya crew can now reveal that Jordaan has withdrawn himself from the CAF executive member contest, notes a Sport24 report. A Soccer-Laduma source close to Jordaan said the football administrator felt that he has enough on his plate and that he wants to give other people a chance. Now Jordaan is set to be appointed as a FIFA executive committee member sometime next year after the Port Elizabethborn administrator did a sterling job during the 2010 World Cup.
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| Game fights piracy with vuvuzelas 08/12/2010 |
Pirates are in for a shock if they attempt to illegally download the new Michael Jackson: The Experience video game for the Nintendo DS. The game’s publisher, Ubisoft, has turned to the vuvuzela, the ear-splitting instrument made famous at the South Africa football World Cup, as part of thei anti-piracy strategy. Users who attempt to play versions of the game by downloading a ROM version will find that the game’s soundtrack has been replaced by a chorus of vuvuzelas blasts. The on-screen prompts are also removed from pirated copies of the game, rendering it completely unplayable.
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| Aussie WC bid too ’clean’ 07/12/2010WC |
A consultant employed in Australia’s bid for the 2022 Soccer World Cup believes it failed because it ’played it clean.’ Sport24 reports that Australia spent $45m on its bid but won only one of 22 votes from FIFA’s executive committee before the 2022 tournament was awarded to Qatar. Peter Hargitay, a former aide to FIFA president Sepp Blatter, said in an interview with SBS television that ’the fundamental mistake we made ... is that we played it clean.’
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| SA 11th in Homeless WC 07/10/2010 |
South Africa has risen four places to 11th in the Homeless World Cup soccer rankings. The annual international soccer tournament aims to ’beat homelessness through football’ with projects in more than 70 countries, involving more than 50 000 homeless people. The South African team has played in all eight editions of the annual tournament.
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| Beckham eyed for top job 06/12/2010 |
David Beckham is being considered as a future chairperson of the English Football Association (FA) in the aftermath of his country’s failed attempt to win the right to host the 2018 World Cup. According to a report in the News of the World on Sunday, the FA is desperate to use Beckham to restore their reputation after losing out to Russia in Thursday’s Fifa vote to pick the World Cup hosts.
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| China says still interested in World Cup bid 06/12/2010 |
The head of the governing body of Chinese soccer says his country remains interested in hosting the World Cup. Chinese Football Association chief Wei Di was quoted in the country’s leading sports newspaper Friday saying that Qatar’s winning bid for the 2022 World Cup had not shaken his determination to see China host the event.
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| Qatar has lots to prove to the world 06/12/2010 |
Qatar won over Fifa with a promise that a World Cup in the Middle East would be good for football. Now they face what could be an even harder task: Convincing skeptical fans who fear the desert nation will hold a sweltering, boring and alcohol-free tournament. Many fans wrongly believe Qatar has the same draconian social restrictions of Saudi Arabia, or the violence that plagues Afghanistan and Iraq.
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| Qatar World Cup could be held in January 06/12/2010 |
The 2022 soccer World Cup in Qatar could take place in January or February to avoid the scorching temperatures of the summer months in the desert state, Fifa Executive Committee member Franz Beckenbauer said on Saturday, notes a Mail & Guardiuan report. Beckenbauer, who won the 1974 World Cup as West Germany captain and also coached his nation to the 1990 title, said hosting the tournament during the winter would be an alternative.
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| England humiliated in vote 03/12/2010 |
Despite boasting a potent campaign of princely and football royalty, England’s run for the 2018 Soccer World Cup ended in humiliating failure on Thursday, notes a Sport24 report. On the eve of the Zurich vote, Prince William and David Beckham worked late into the night with Prime Minister David Cameron lobbying for support. Still, the English only managed to receive two votes and were eliminated in the opening round.
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| Beckham stung by 2018 snub 03/12/2010 |
England football icon David Beckham expressed his disappointment on Thursday after his country’s bid for the 2018 World Cup ended in a crushing defeat.
According to a Sport24 report, England missed out on the 2018 tournament as FIFA members voted to take the tournament to Russia for the first time, a devastating snub to the English who had lobbied relentlessly for the tournament.
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| Hayatou rejects bribe claim 01/12/2010 |
African soccer president Issa Hayatou said his conscience was clear on Tuesday after a British TV programme made bribery claims as he and the rest of FIFA’s executive committee prepared to choose the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts, notes a Sport24 report. The BBC’s Panorama said that a payment Hayatou received from FIFA’s former marketing partner ISL was a bribe, an allegation he batted away in a television interview given two days before the vote.
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| England, US WCs ’best’ for FIFA 01/12/2010 |
World Cups held in England and the United States would meet all of FIFA’s projected revenue targets and deliver bigger profits to world soccer’s governing body than any of their competitors, according to a confidential report. Sport24 reports that both England, who are bidding for the 2018 finals, and the US, bidding for 2022, were given an unbeatable overall 100 percent rating by management consultants McKinsey.
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| England’s WC bid under the spotlight 30/11/2010 |
English football’s bid to return the World Cup to these shores since 1966 already looks sunk, if the leaks of who is voting for who are to be believed. Even before the BBC broadcast their Panorama special on the corruption that they believe so riddles football’s governing body FIFA, England’s 2018 bid was heading for failure.
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| PM: England will host 2018 29/11/2010 |
British Prime Minister David Cameron insisted on Saturday that England is the best candidate to host the 2018 Soccer World Cup. Cameron will be part of England’s delegation in Zurich this week before the final decision on hosting is made on Thursday. ’I think it’s a very easy sell, because if you think about it we’ve got the stadia, we’ve got the fans, we’ve got a country that’s mad about football, it would be such a great World Cup if we had it here,’ he told the BBC.
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| Chile approaches ex-Bafana coach Parreira 25/11/2010 |
Former Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira says the Chilean football federation has contacted him to discuss the possibility of having him as its national team coach South Africa’s coach Carlos Alberto Parreira of Brazil shouts to his players during their 2010 World Cup Group A soccer match against Uruguay at Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria June 16, 2010. South Africa’s coach Carlos Alberto Parreira of Brazil shouts to his players during their 2010 World Cup Group A soccer match against Uruguay at Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria June 16, 2010
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| Galadima ready to replace Adamu 25/11/2010 |
Former NFA chairman Ibrahim Galadima says he is pleased to have been nominated by the Nigeria Football Federation to contest for Amos Adamu’s position at the CAF elections. Kick Off reports that Galadima, who was removed in a bitter war of attrition four years ago by the Sani Lulu faction with the backing of Adamu, described the nomination as destiny.
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| SA refs appointed for Confed Cup 23/11/2010 |
South African referees will fly the country’s flag in the second leg of the Confederations Cup finals next month. Caf have appointed Jerome Damon, Andrew Rezeers, Enock Molefe and Daniel Volgraaf to officiate, the SA Football Association (Safa) said in a statement on Monday. The first leg of the final between FUS (Morocco) and CSS (Tunisia) will be held on Sunday, with the second leg at the Taieb Mhiri Stadium in Tunisia on December 4.
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| 2012 bid saga continues 22/11/2010 |
Lord Coe, who delivered the 2012 Olympic Games to London, fears that if England fail to win the right to host the World Cup in 2018 he will be an old man before the country gets another chance. The Daily Mail reports that as England’s bid team prepared for the FIFA executive committee’s crucial vote in Zurich on December 2, Coe, 54 and a Chelsea fan, said: ’If we don’t win, my kids will be helping me in and out of my seat at Stamford Bridge before we get close again.
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| Tshabalala makes Fifa&rsquo&rsquos best goal shortlist 17/11/2010 |
Bafana Bafana midfielder Siphiwe Tshabalala has received a major boost ahead of the friendly against the USA IN Cape Town tonight. Kick Off reports that Tshabalala’s spectacular goal against Mexico in the opening match of the Fifa 2010 World Cup has been nominated for Fifa’s goal of the year, described by Fifa as one of the ’ten superb goals’ of this year. The award is called the Fifa Puskas award, created in honour of Ferenc Puskas, captain and star of the Hungarian national team during the 1950s.
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| New uses for the vuvuzela 11/11/2010 |
After the World Cup, South Africa’s top political cartoonist depicted his proposals to reinvent the vuvuzela: as a pipe for heiress Paris Hilton, as dunce caps for the disgraced French team, or as a torch for South Africa’s Olympic bid, notes a Mail & Guardian report. While none of Jonathan Shapiro’s ideas came to fruition, two South Africans decided to hold an international competition to revive the controversial vuvuzela, the plastic horn that became known worldwide during the 2010 World Cup for its drowning buzz.
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| Clinton hopes last pitch nets US 2022 WC 10/11/2010 |
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will make his final pitch to help his home country secure hosting duties for the 2022 World Cup when soccer’s governing body meets next month in Switzerland. The Toronto Sun reports that Clinton, honorary chairman of the USA Bid Committee, will lobby the FIFA Executive Committee on Dec. 1 in Zurich to bring the event to the United States for the first time since 1994.
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| Obilale scores funds from Fifa 09/11/2010 |
Togo goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale will receive a donation of $100 000 from Fifa after being seriously injured during an armed attack on his team’s bus before the start of the African Nations Cup in January, notes a report on the IoL site. Fifa said in a statement on its website on Monday that president Sepp Blatter had told Obilale in September that a payment of $25 000 would be made from the governing body’s humanitarian fund but it had now decided to raise that sum.
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| World Cup hero robbed 08/11/2010 |
Bafana Bafana and Kaizer Chiefs star Siphiwe Tshabalala narrowly escaped death after two masked gunmen attacked and robbed him at his Roodepoort home last week. The Sunday World reported that Tshabalala was accosted by a masked man as he opened his garage door to allow someone in. He and his friend were ordered to lie on the floor as his home was ransacked, notes a report on the iafrica.com site. It is believed that a total of nine cellphones and his wallet were stolen.
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| Journalists challenged to capitalize on WC gains 08/11/2010 |
African journalists have been challenged to capitalize on the gains made by the continent after hosting the 2010 World Cup to re-brand and reposition the continent for positive gains, notes a Ghana News report. Panelists at the 5th Africa International Media Summit (AIMS) in Durban South Africa were of the consensus that positive and image enhancing stories that emanated from the World Cup must be sustained as part of efforts to develop Africa.
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| Argentine boss denies hooligan connection 05/11/2010 |
Julio Grondona, the president of the Argentine Football Association, denied before members of congress that he was responsible for hooligan groups being on a flight to South Africa with Argentina’s 2010 World Cup team, notes an MSN report. Grondona said the commercial flight four months ago on South African Airways was open to anyone. He told member of Argentina’s lower house that he had nothing to do with dozens of hooligans who caught the flight.
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| SA ’colluded’ with WC rivals - 04/11/2010 |
Senior FIFA official Danny Jordaan has admitted to clandestine collusion with competitors when he led South Africa’s Soccer World Cup bid team, unsuccessfully persuading England to withdraw from the 2006 race by offering Nelson Mandela’s support for 2010. Sport24 report, while South Africa did persuade Brazil to pull out of the vote in 2000, England stayed in the contest with South Africa and the 2006 tournament went to Germany.
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| ’We have lost our identity’ 04/11/2010 |
Former Kaizer Chiefs’ assistant coach and now head of Stars of Africa Football Academy, Farouk Khan, believes that the country has lost its footballing identity. Khan suggests that the reason South African PSL games do not draw the masses to the stadiums is because of the football been played. He says that our player’s are not playing the game as South Africans know it.
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| WC ’like going to a dentist’ - 02/11/2010 |
Alex Ferguson has launched a stinging attack on the 2010 World Cup. Sport24 reports that the Manchester United boss rates it alongside a trip to the dentist for enjoyment. Ferguson, who managed Scotland as they made a first-round exit in the 1986 tournament, now believes the Champions League is No 1 for entertainment and worldwide appeal. There has been criticism that the first Champions League group stage can be flat.
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