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Frozen but happy! Local fans supporting Spain, you can't tell the difference! To get to the Soccer City stadium is not easy even when it is not hosting World Cup final. Yesterday the biggest fans started to arrive at dawn. Many of them clutched cardboard signs, indicating what they are ready to trade for a [...] 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
This morning South Africans woke up with a big hangover. Most of them were celebrating victory against France the day before, only to realize that despite the win Bafana Bafana was eliminated from World Cup. This means South Africa becomes the first host nation in the history of the World Cup to crash out in [...] Fans
I was watching South Africa – France game in one of the Johannesburg’s shebeen. It was full of people: both black and white. After South Africa scored 2 goals all fans started to hug each other and celebrate a huge party. Even France goal that end up South African chances to continue in World Cup [...] Africa
Here great story about African superstitions, written by my colleague from Metro International, Elisabeth Braw. You don't want to mess with these guys.
African soccer teams use magic spells to win Africa’s soccer players are busy honing their skills for the World Cup. But many of them will be relying on a secret [...] Fans
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Who's you daddy Gonzo? That was really good game. Argentina played very good from start – the pre-match talk of Maradona must be very good – they always start good. Africa
Where are they now? Remember Argentina coach Diego Maradona? His Argentina play today with South Korea. The last time Divine Diego met his South Korean colleague was during… World Cup 1986. Both masterminds were players back then. Huh Jung-moo task was to was run after Maradona and kicks him. He was good enough – [...] Africa
Life of the football fan could be nice, especially in the morning. I go downstairs for breakfast in my small Jo’burg hotel and smiling cook lady asks me where am I from. When I say Poland she starts to speak Russian to me. Well, Poland, Russia one devil – it is cold there. I started [...] Debate
Serbs show how many goals they will score against Germans. In PE I met happy Serbians. Sasha, Ogi and Nenad . Well they weren’t happy in the beginning but become after a few gin&tonics. “It is not slivovica” they said “but drinkable”. They all are from… Australia and all three hates Serbia’s [...] |
 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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