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the stadium isn't even full...
No offense to South African's here, but damn that has to be one of the most half ass world cup inaugurations in history...
the stadium isn't even full...
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck start the game.
Man, you've got to love South African's. The enter the field singingI really hope they go far.
Wooohooooo
The Algerian flag in the background all the time
lol I didn't sleep... I'm drunk!
so just one poster predicted a Uruguayan win?
What a goal!!!!!!!!! Get in there South Africa!!
I was wrong on the Mexico one so I'll probably be wrong (I hope) on that one. Go Uruguay.so just one poster predicted a Uruguayan win?
Those vuvuzuelas suck... feels like you're swarmed with mosquitoes while watching the game
Ok, I'm already annoyed by the horns in the crowd.
I thought these matches on ESPN were suppose to be in 3-D?
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Hehe honestly I think France will win, but I am wearing my Uruguay jersey today thoughso just one poster predicted a Uruguayan win?
Germany is as usual best in this.
We always have a secret tournament button, its allready scary
Sorry, but this "article" by your guy is such a bad written piece of paper.
The only thing this guy is really trying is to create a "anti germany" atmosphere trying to point out that whole germany thinks that Australia are scrubs etc.
The well informed german soccer fans now that Australia is a hard to play physical team and that Italia advanced in 2006 just with a penalty in almost overtime. BUT of course Germany will be the favorit and need to win this game. Nothing more nothing less.
Its sad that your guy got even paid for writing such .
I dont know if it has been posted already, but pretty funny
Forget getting past England. The U.S. team had to get past the elephants first.
The Americans were delayed twice Friday when elephants blocked the road, the second back-up coming as the squad was travelling to its training session at Royal Bafokeng Stadium. The elephant was munching on a tree as the Americans left the Bakubung Bush Lodge, and it moved to the side of the road after about four minutes.
“Everybody had their cellphones out, pictures were being taken,” coach Bob Bradley said. “It was all part of the experience.”
Earlier in the afternoon, a bus carrying 10 players on their way to an open-air market at the entrance to the team hotel got stuck behind an elephant, spokesman Michael Kammarman said. Players had timed the trip to get back to the hotel in time for the start of the World Cup opener between South Africa and Mexico.
Signs outside the U.S. hotel warn: “ELEPHANTS COME CLOSE TO OUR FENCE KEEP A DISTANCE OF 30 Metres AND PLEASE BE QUIET” and “BABOONS ARE DANGEROUS — PLEASE KEEP CLEAR OF THEM AND DO NOT FEED THEM.” Another one reads, “THIS IS BIG 5 TERRITORY TREAT THE ANIMALS WITH RESPECT AND THEY WILL RETURN THE COMPLIMENT.”
“It was cool,” U.S. captain Carlos Bocanegra said of the up-close encounter with the animal kingdom. “A big elephant, just eating on the path out of our hotel.”
It wasn't clear if the same elephant caused both delays.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/c...ling-vuvuzelas
Nothing kills the joy of soccer like a bunch of wailing vuvuzelas
May 30, 2010 12:00 AM | By Mondli Makhanya
Mondli Makhanya: In my teenage years we always looked forward to the big teams from Johannesburg coming down to the sovereign kingdom by the coast to play the local teams.
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What the vuvuzela has done to our football is to take away the spontaneity of song
Whenever Orlando Pirates, Moroka Swallows and Kaizer Chiefs (yes, they are all in order of importance) came down to play the likes of AmaZulu, Bush Bucks and African Wanderers, we would pile onto the trains and buses and head for King's Park stadium.
We would sing all the way.
The music would continue through the game and on the train all the way back to the township.
And that's the point: there was singing. Lots and lots of it.
Music was as much a trademark of South African football as the tsamaya and the scissor kick.
Right up until the mid-2000s one would hear traditional songs that were the trademark of teams and others that were composed on the spur of the moment.
Some were composed to celebrate specific achievements and landmark events. One such was the Siyoshis' istadium song, which marked Orlando Pirates fans becoming the first to set fire to a stadium back in the mid-1990s in protest against bad refereeing.
There was lots of singing, too, when we hosted the African Cup of Nations in 1996. Who will forget the strains of Shosholoza and Shebeleza Congo as Bafana sprinted to glory?
In two weeks' time, when Bafana Bafana take on Mexico at Soccer City, there will sadly be very little singing in the stands.
We South Africans, a mighty musical nation if ever there was one, will have replaced hearty renditions with the noise of something called the vuvuzela.
This instrument, which emits a sound akin to that of a goat on the way to slaughter, is now at the centre of a growing row in international football.
There is a clamour from coaches, players and broadcasters for Fifa to ban the instrument.
The argument is that it makes it difficult for coaches to bark instructions to players during play. This, the vuvuzela's critics argue, has a direct negative impact on the game.
The broadcasters aver that the vuvuzela's intrusive noise interferes with the sound quality of their transmission.
The onslaught on the vuvuzela was started by Spanish midfielder Xabi Alonso, who had to endure it during last year's Confederations Cup.
"That trumpet? It's not nice ... I think Fifa should ban it. It's not really distracting, but it's not a nice sound to hear," he moaned.
His view was echoed by several other players during the course of the tournament.
Last week, football legend and Thailand coach Bryan Robson blamed the vuvuzela for his team's disjointed performance in their friendly against Bafana Bafana at Peter Mokaba stadium. He warned that it would make life difficult for coaches at the World Cup.
"The coaches at the World Cup are definitely going to have to inform their players beforehand that they will have to communicate effectively with each other on the field," the former England and manchester United midfield dynamo said.
"It's very difficult to get any message to the players from the bench. Coaches are going to have to make that known to their players"
Word on the street is that several coaches have voiced their disquiet to their national associations, who have in turn conveyed the message to Fifa.
Predictably, South Africans have been very defensive. A lot of noise has been made about the vuvuzela being part of South African tradition and it being the proverbial 12th man in the Bafana squad.
Even Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Parreira has been waxing lyrical about its role in the nation's game plan.
"We have to reinforce that advantage... We want it louder and louder," he was quoted as saying.
Defending the vuvuzela has now become a patriotic must.
It is as if our nationhood is being challenged by pesky foreigners who want to dictate our behaviour on home soil.
On this one I beg to be unpatriotic and for permission to side with the enemies of the vuvuzela.
What the vuvuzela has done to our football is to take away the spontaneity of song. Soccer fans do not compose new songs any more. The tribal chants that you hear at great soccer cathedrals such as White Hart Lane and the Santiago Bernabeu are rarely heard in our soccer grounds these days. Except for the Bloemfontein Celtic support base, the music in South African stadiums has been drowned by the dreadful instrument.
The vuvuzela issue is likely to be a major off-field controversy during next month's tournament. There will be inflamed passions among its defenders and detractors.
South Africans will argue, just like our foursome big chief argues in favour of polygamy, that it has been part of our tradition.
What we as South Africans should be careful about, is to strike a nationalistic pose and accuse the instrument's opponents of a superiority complex.
Let us let the vuvuzela go and get that singing spirit back. That is what memories are made of.
Not the sound of a goat in distress.
Argentina 3 Nigeria 2
The Ronaldinho part of Nike's write the future commercial has to be the funniest I've seen in a while...
Sounds like bees.Ok, I'm already annoyed by the horns in the crowd.
I thought these matches on ESPN were suppose to be in 3-D?
Good Lord, please destroy all of those Vuvuzuelas, they are annoying as f*ck!Those vuvuzuelas suck... feels like you're swarmed with mosquitoes while watching the game
Coaches are complaining, players are complaining, the press is complaining, people watching at home are complaining, people who live there are complaining.
Come on fifa!!! Isnt it time to ban these? Some teams will now even hold their trainings private, because they cant stand the sound anymore.
And the worst thing is, it is ruined for the future too. We will now see these vuvuzelas at every other tournament in the future, no matter where the tournament will be organised
What's Tirico doing there? What's next? Mark Jackson calling games?
You're better than that!
Tirico is one of the best there is at other sports, will be interesting to see if he can handle soccer
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