In spite of a dismal looking record in the Confederation Cup (One win in the whole tournament), Bafana Bafana under the leadership of Joel Santana proved that they have what it takes to stand up to the top football nations in the world and give them stick.
And stick is exactly what Spain and Brazil received (Spain twice).
Sadly Bafana was not rewarded with a victory in the final stages of the tournament and managed to finish 4th in the tournament behind Brazil, USA and Spain.
However I am still proud to say that it took 3 miracle goals to beat bafana in the 3rd/4th play-off and one of the best freekicks I’ve seen by Brazil to take us out of the semi-final.
Mphela played a magical game in the 3rd/4th play-off and put through one of the best freekicks under pressure in the final movement of a football match to take the game in to extra time (which we then lost).
Bafana has a good platform to start working from for the 2010 world cup coming our way next year. We are in a great position to look at how we played against 2 of the top 5 teams in the world of football. Joel Santana deserved a win, but let’s be honest he’s finally made South Africa look like a team, play like a team and become supported like a national team by a nation.
Well done to them all.
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June 30th, 2009 at 10:08 am
The ceremony in Ellis Park ended a tournament with great contrasts, befitting the first-ever African venue in the history of football. The team of South Africa showed moments of brilliance and perseverance, but also some great naivity and jittery when putting themselves in a goal-scoring position. The amateurish character added, however, to the over-all charm, and seemed to have been in tune with the monotonous waling of the many vuvuzelas in the stands that invoked the desperate cries of elephants on a stampede.
The tournament, however, underscored markedly the jitters and anxiety over the organisational ability of SA to stage WC2010.
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