The Premier Soccer League season kicked off with a Durban derby on Wednesday, while this weekend the big guns will be on show. The title may well go to whichever of the 16 teams can stand the test of time.
There is no tournament quite like the SAA Super Eight Cup, which awards the winning club a cool R1,2-million after just three games. This weekend will see the top eight clubs in the Premier Soccer League (PSL) battle it out to walk away with the cheque.
The past few weeks have been an emotional rollercoaster for the 16 Premier Soccer League (PSL) teams being voted to play in the Telkom Charity Cup. Voting ended on Monday, with league champions Orlando Pirates absent from the final four teams.
The South African men’s hockey team needs to win against log leaders Spain in the BDO Champions’ Challenge this Friday.
Last weekend South African teams were given a lesson on how to play the various sporting codes. First Bafana Bafana played their first match as Council of Southern African Football Association (Cosafa) Cup champions and left the field as losers to Zimbabwe, then the Springboks were thrashed 16-52 by the All Blacks.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) soccer clubs St Lupopo and TP Mazembe came, saw, but could not conquer last week when the Kudu Horn trophy returned to Kaizer Chiefs in the Vodacom Challenge.
Bafana Bafana hasn’t been under this sort of pressure since 1997. On a hot summer afternoon Phil Masinga hit a rocket from midfield past the Congolese goalkeeper to propel South Africa to its first World Cup and send a capacity crowd of 60 000 at FNB stadium (and 40-million at home) into raptures.
South Africa hopes to boost its bid to host the 2010 World Cup by promoting the country at Saturday’s exhibition match between Bafana Bafana and Trinidad and Tobago in Port Elizabeth.
The 2004 Olympic Games, to be held in Athens, Greece, are uppermost in the minds of the South African under-23 soccer squad as they begin their preliminary qualification round this weekend.
There has never been a better time to be an Orlando Pirates supporter. This season the team celebrated their 65th anniversary and topped it with a championship trophy, while two of its players walked away with prestigious soccer awards on Wednesday night.