Watch your team go for glory in Jozi! Johannesburg, Joburg, Jozi, eGoli, City of Gold - this vibrant city is widely accepted to be the economic powerhouse of Africa. Soccer City is where the 2010 FIFA World Cup kicks off and where the final whistle will blow! Also in Jozi, Ellis Park Stadium is the venue for the match between Group G teams 1 & 2 at 20:30 on Tuesday 15 June 2010. Start blowing your vuvuzela when your team makes a killer pass. Eish!
Gauteng is the spirit and core of South African football and all the big clubs share the same grounds, which has created quite a different fan culture to that of devotees in Europe. The big teams from Soweto are Kaiser Chiefs and Orlando Pirates whose spirited games can be hot-blooded and usually have the nation gripped. Soweto football crowds are good-humoured and festive so joining them is quite conceivable and fun.
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.