Will you be there to watch your team go for glory in Surf City? The 2010 FIFA World Cup match between teams H1 & H2 kicks off in Durban Stadium at 16:00 on Wednesday 16 June 2010. Start blowing your vuvuzela when your team makes a killer pass. Eish!
The professional season in South Africa is between August and May with teams participating in the Premier Soccer League and a few other competitions. The Chiefs and the Pirates have a nationwide following and their contests are a colourful climax of the Premier Soccer League’s matches. South Africa’s national squad, affectionately nicknamed Bafana Bafana qualified for the 1998 and 2002 World Cup Finals and will have the privilege of competing in the 2010 World Cup on home soil.
Vuvuzela? Contributing to the jovial atmosphere of South Africa's football games are the unique sounds of the vuvuzela, a plastic horn, along with singing and countless other homemade instruments.
'The Chief', Lucas Radebe grew up as one of 11 children in Diepkloof, a tough part of Soweto during one of the most violent times under apartheid. That he went on to became one of the English Premier League's most respected players as well as South Africa's most-capped footballer is in many ways a miracle.