Watch your team go for glory on the Sunshine Coast! The 2010 FIFA World Cup Round of 16 (1) match between teams 1A & 2B kicks off in Port Elizabeth's Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium at 16:00 on Saturday 26 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.