Yes, Bafana Bafana is out of the Fifa 2010 World Cup. Yes we are the only host nation in the history of the World Cup to not make it through to the 2nd round of the tournament but it just isn’t that simple now is it? Bafana blew out of the tournament bit did not crash and burn as they did this, they climbed the ranks of football in a rising fireball.
My friend Prudence sums it up perfectly:
Yes, let’s just run through that again shall we; Bafana did not qualify for this World Cup and competed on the basis that we were the hosts. We are ranked 83rd in the World right now. We drew with Mexico, ranked 17th. We lost to Uruguay who are ranked 16th and we beat, yes that is correct, we beat the French who are World Cup winners and currently ranked 9th in the world.
I am extremely proud of Bafana Bafana and must say that they played world class football yesterday against the French. The deserved a win and proved that they can compete with the best in the world and come out on top. I also believe that Frances internal politics cannot be an excuse for the French. They are a world class team with world class players and should be able to rise above their own rubbish and win. Their fans must be bitterly dissapointed and they owe their fans an apology.
I’ll still be pulling for the African teams along the way and hope that a few of them manage to make it through and give us Africans something to cheer for.
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June 24th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Thanks for this. I needed this to help get things back into perspective. I was feeling very saddened by the racist ferocity of some of the youtube comments regarding the world cup.
June 25th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
It is as simple as that: never before was a host nation so ill prepared, so in debt to pay for 10 days of soccer of the host team, splashed out so much money it doesn’t have, made such a brief appearence in the tournament and left with so little success. The ‘win’ over France is not a result of Team SA brilliance but the onstensible revolt of the French players against their coach.
The WC2010 will also be remembered for the utter failure of Africa as a continent: just one team scraped through to the last 16.
June 26th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
The way Bafana Bafana exited from the WC reminded me much more of a tyre losing air than a fireball. Pfft…
July 5th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Ye, beating France (ranked #9 in the world) was definitely not anything to be proud of. You make a great point, yet again!
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