FIFA World Cup Soccer 2010 First Goal on African Soil By A Bafana from Soweto!
Posted: Friday, June 11, 2010
by Michael Gaffley
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FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 FIRST GOAL ON AFRICAN SOIL BY A BAFANA FROM SOWETO
How splendidly fitting that the first ever FIFA World Cup Soccer goal is scored by a Bafana from Soweto. What a gem. What a textbook goal. What a perfect pass. What superb timing and what a spectacular shot. Not even all the goalkeepers in the All State advertisement would have saved that shoy from being laduma, goal!
MY fellow South Africans I salute you. Keep the hospitality beyond compare. Keep our guests safe and happy. Let no one leave South Africa with a sour taste. Even the 31 losing teams should leave our shores, happy because they were treated and they enjoyed our real South African magic.
I feel for the Mandela family.
Some people came in yachts, some on planes, some by train, some by bike and some just walked over to that stadium. Irrespective of how we came here, let us enjoy each other's spirit and presence.
South Africa's Bafana Bafana Soccer team will play their next game against Uruguay on June 16 Youth Day. This day commemorates the youth uprising in June 1976. Young people said enough. This World Cup is te adults time to say enough. WE had enough blodd shed in our world. We had enough poverty, abuse and crime. Let the human chain reach across the world to say to countries at war and in conlict, STOP, THINK and pursue PEACE.
Not every country playing in the world cup is at perfect peace with each other but they can put their differences aside from June 11 to July 11. Why can we not do it from July 11 and beyond?
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Perhaps everybody will have been affected in some way by the peace of this event - hopefully they'll carry it away with them when the World Cup is over.Thanks Jennifer. I concur
Very good, Michael. I'm South African and I've been following the soccer and how our country performed as hosts of such a great concept. Proud to be South African. I also feel for the Mandela family and, more specifically, Nelson Mandela himself. Keep writing.desiree thank you for sharing
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