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Entering Professional Soccer

Entering Professional Soccer

MLS is the leading soccer league in North America and it is played 16 teams from America and 3 from Canada. Top players and teams in the continent compete in this league and have become popular in the area. Soccer is probably the most famous sport in the world although it more commonly known by [...]

Kobe Joins World Cup Fever

Kobe Joins World Cup Fever

On his first trip to Africa, basketball star Kobe Bryant looked very much at home, bantering with teen athletes in Soweto, using his trilingual skills with the World Cup press corps, and displaying a keen knowledge of international football. Bryant, fresh off an NBA championship with the LA Lakers, grew up playing football as a [...]

Controversial World Cup Ref

Controversial World Cup Ref

Coulibaly, the referee who disallowed a potential game-winning goal for for the U.S against Slovenia was given a poor rating following an expedited review of his performance. FIFA’s referee committee reviewed the video of Team USA’s 2-2 draw with Slovenia in which Mali referee Koman Coulibaly denied Maurice Edu’s 85th-minute strike. Coulibaly appeared to rule [...]

So Why Does The 2010 World Cup Sound Like A Bee Hive

Ever watch the World Cup at South Africa and wonder what that background noise that sounds like a raging bee hive is about? Wonder no more. Enter the Vuvuzela, South Africa’s own version of a blowing horn. The Vuvuzela requires some lip and lung strength to produce a loud B flat tone that emits all [...]

World Cup: South Africa Tied With Mexico

As sport’s biggest spectacle opens in South Africa, Team Mexico stuns the home crowd as they deliver a 1-1 draw against the home team. Hundreds of millions watched as South Africa’s own Siphiwe Tshabalala scored the first ever goal of the 2010 World Cup early into the second half that erupted into a celebration for [...]

Mandela’s Granddaughter Killed After World Cup Concert

Mandela’s Granddaughter Killed After World Cup Concert

Nelson Mandela cancelled plans to attend the opening game of the World Cup after his granddaughter was reported dead in a car crash after the World Cup kick-off concert at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto, near Johannesburg. The foundation later confirmed that the former South-African President would not attend the opening ceremony and first game [...]

South Africa World Cup 2010 Opens Today!

At 4 p.m. today(10 a.m. ET), South Africa becomes the center of global attention, as the world’s most popular sport and sport’s most followed competition  finally opens it’s doors. Thousands of football fans from around the world are expected to fill up the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg for the opening ceremony of the world [...]


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