Tonight I return to Mabhida Stadium for what might become one of the greatest World Cup matches of all time: Spain v Germany. The winner to face The Netherlands in the final on Sunday at The Ukhamba (calabash in isiZulu). Today’s rematch of the Euro 2008 final (hence the photo) is the biggest thing to […]
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Top Ten: Uruguay v Netherlands
Top 10 Reasons to Support Uruguay: 10. The population of Uruguay is 3.3 million people, about the size of Greater Cape Town. 9. The first black international in either the World Cup or the Olympics was Uruguay’s José Leandro Andrade. 8. Uruguay claims four world titles — two World Cups (1930, 1950) and two Olympic […]
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Quarterfinals at the Beach
The ‘real’ World Cup at the beach in Durban, where we watched the quarterfinals. Mabhida stadium made by local sand sculptors, kids playing beach football, and the game on the big screen. How most South Africans and a few visitors experienced South Africa 2010. I’m still in disbelief that BaGhana BaGhana came within a PK […]
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz . . . Robben! zzzzzzzzzzzzzz . . . Sneijder! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz . . . That’s my match report from Durban’s Mabhida Stadium where the Dutch easily dispatched the Slovaks 2-1. The best of the rest of our experience is captured in the short video above.
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Futebol tedioso
Brazil and Portugal delivered the letdown of the tournament at Mabhida Stadium in Durban. This was the ticket everyone wanted. What we (62,000+) got instead was a dull, uninspired yet utterly practical 0-0 draw. Players dished off lazy passes sideways and backwards under the stern gaze of ultra-defensive coaches Dunga and Queiroz. Instead of magical […]
June 20, 2010 Nelspruit, Mpumalanga Father’s Day with family on the road to Italy-New Zealand. It doesn’t get any better than this! There are six of us in the van, including Ignazio and Marco just in from Rome. We are all rigorously decked out in Italy jerseys. With Igna at the wheel, we leave Joburg […]
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Sandton + Hillbrow = Ellis Park
Spain’s gift to the world is fútbol romantico. We got that tonight, as Spain got back on track with a 2-0 win over Honduras at Ellis Park. 54,000 came to enjoy Xavi’s midfield orchestration, David Villa’s glossy finishing, and the choral play of the Spanish side. It could have been 4- or 5- nil but […]