Africa

The World Cup, So Far, So So

by Stuart Webb on June 16, 2010 · 0 comments

When Siphiwe Tsha­bal­ala glo­ri­ously fired home the first goal of the World Cup it looked like we had a tour­na­ment on our hands. Unfor­tu­nately, France and Uruguay took to the pitch straight after­wards and in a heart­beat the pre­vi­ous match was a dis­tant mem­ory, I can’t remem­ber the last time I watched a game that […]

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  As the first week­end of World Cup action draws to a close, the tour­na­ment has proven itself to be thor­oughly cap­ti­vat­ing.  While the South African, USA and Ghana teams may have cre­ated the most unfore­seen results with the ball at their feet, there have been some tremen­dously pos­i­tive sur­prises apart from the play­ers and […]

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It’s Not Africa’s Cup Anymore…

by Rob McCluskey on June 4, 2010 · 2 comments

The 2010 World Cup cre­ated quite a lot of excite­ment, mainly due to the fact it was the first World Cup to be hosted in the con­ti­nent of Africa, and the most suit­able venue was South Africa, due to it hav­ing a rather strong econ­omy. There are always hic­cups in the process, and the odd […]

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The home con­ti­nent of the 2010 World Cup is close to hav­ing its 5 qual­i­fy­ing sides defined for The Great Tour­na­ment. The 1st team to offi­cially qual­ify is Ghana. The Black Stars defeated Sudan 2–0 at home to secure top spot in Group D. Goals by Inter mid­fielder Sul­ley Muntari & Chelsea mid­fielder Michael Essien […]

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African World Cup qual­i­fy­ing is halfway to its con­clu­sion as the Moth­er­land con­tin­ues to give the foot­balling world more to talk about as this round of matches ranged from the hardly inter­est­ing 0–0 draws like Morocco v Togo to 5 goal thril­ers like Burk­ina Faso v Côte d’Ivoire. Inter­est­ingly, the vis­it­ing team took at least […]

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This edi­tion of the World Cup Buzz Top 5 will break­down the Top 5 Things Observed From The June World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing Matches. Let’s begin with CONCACAF’s best team. COSTA RICA IS THE BEST IN CONCACAF Los Ticos have estab­lished them­selves as the best team in CONCACAF after their impres­sive dis­plays against the United States and […]

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The African con­ti­nent is still in the early stages of World Cup qual­i­fy­ing and its look­ing like Africa will con­tinue to sur­prise the foot­balling world. Gabon con­tin­ued its per­fect start to qual­i­fy­ing with their 3–0 home win over Togo. Turk­ish based striker Roguy Meye scored his 2nd goal in as many games in the final […]

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