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South Africans woke up with huge hangover today. The party was huge, lasted for a month and hundreds of thousands people came form all over the world. Everyone had good time but now it is time for South Africans to farewell guests and start to clean the house. Africans proved to all [...] Africa
Queen Sofia of Spain were among many celebrities who caused chaos ob Durban airport.
Here we go: Spain and Netherlands will play in the World Cup final. For nerds like me, this is like a football catfight: Angelina vs. Charlize. Two teams I have always adored, the players I like, playing with a [...] Africa
World Cup experiences can often surprisingly turn your world up side down. I decided to walk to see the Netherlands vs. Uruguay game at the Cape Town Green Point stadium. I wore my hoodie and took to the street with thousands of fans heading to the stadium. But I was the only one feeling odd [...] Africa
Karen Sipho Peter After Bafana Bafana were kicked out of the World Cup, South Africans were very disappointed. Most of them were still interested in the tournament, but adopted other teams to support. Most of them went for Brazil because of the country’s legendary status; many supported Argentina for the same reason and because they [...] Africa
Cape Town, Signal Hill “Can you believe it? Only four games left!” said Jasper, the driver taking me to the airport. Jasper has red eyes because he hasn’t slept more than three hours this month, is not sure if his girlfriend is still his, and simply doesn’t have time to call her back. In his [...] Africa
Heads It is the second day without any football. Africa
Every place have its own security guard. “Just one thing, be careful!” my boss told me when I was leaving office for South Africa. “You too,” I joked knowing that she was leaving for Toronto. Funnily enough I ended up in laid-back central while she ended-up lockdown in the middle of the G20 riot. So is [...] Africa
Ticket touts attempt to sell tickets to fans. Famous English family humour. An America fans tries to sell a ticket outside the Royal Bafokeng Stadium If you still want to come to South Africa and see the game but afraid that don’t have game ticket – don’t worry get to the plane. But if [...] Africa
I am telling story about the wall that fallen in restaurant on the TV set to my new driver Bongani while we are heading to Rustenburg to see Denmark – Japan game. He smiles politely and says: “you know what is real dangerous? What world cup tourists do on safaris”. And [...] Africa
Even if you watch it in fancy restaurant. I took this photo in shopping mall fancy restaurant, because young boy’s fascination of game in tv and contrast between him and two ladies having dinner and didn’t pay attention. The wall nicely divided two world’s – football vs. normal life. |
 Aleksander Korab works as content director at Metro, the world's biggest daily newspaper. He decided to fulfill his childhood dream of running with the football journalists at the 2010 World Cup. Much to the dismay of his wife, and as part of a premature midlife crisis, Alek plans to shave his hair, grow a beard and spend a month in South Africa watching games, drinking beer with local fans, generally hanging around and of course sharing the resulting insights into life, death and, much more importantly, football!  |
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