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/ 19 February 2007
The much-publicised decision to play a home Premier Soccer League game against Kaizer Chiefs at the compact Bidvest Stadium before a tickets-only 5Â 000 crowd on Sunday afternoon proved a success for Wits University — the only problem was losing 1-0 in the process.
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/ 15 February 2007
While not displaying the sublime form that accounted for the other Soweto glamour club, Kaizer Chiefs, 10 days ago, defending champions Mamelodi Sundowns moved to the top of the Premier Soccer League (PSL) log with a 2-1 win over Orlando Pirates at a vibrant Loftus on Wednesday night.
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/ 13 February 2007
It was very much a case of being ”in the zone” when the Premier Soccer League (PSL) held a media conference on Monday to boost the feature game between Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates at Loftus on Wednesday night. PSL CEO Trevor Phillips announced that seating at the Pretoria stadium will be divided into newly allocated zones.
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/ 12 February 2007
A 22nd-minute goal of some considerable ingenuity gave Orlando Pirates a morale-boosting, if dour, 1-0 Premier Soccer League victory at Loftus on Sunday afternoon — although it was a winner that emerged as the product of a calamitous goalkeeping blunder by SuperSport United goalkeeper Dennis Onyongo.
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/ 11 February 2007
Leading 1-0 in the 85th minute with their opponents seemingly dead and buried under the strain of a 40-degree-Celsius Premier Soccer League scorcher, Black Leopards still went down 2-1 to Jomo Cosmos at Thohoyandou Stadium on Saturday afternoon. It was a familiar story of costly lapses in the Leopards defence.
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/ 10 February 2007
”What’s all the fuss about?” said South African Football Association CEO Raymond Hack on Friday while commenting on reports that the work-permit application for new Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Parreira had still to be ratified by the Department of Home Affairs.
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/ 7 February 2007
The local organising committee has cleared its first hurdle in the race to have amenities in place for the Soccer World Cup by balancing a stadium budget R3,4-billion over the original R8,7-billion. This was done by trimming costs and obtaining additional finance from the municipalities where games would be played.
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/ 7 February 2007
The stature of a World Cup-winning coach in harness or not, it was the same old story for Bafana Bafana on Tuesday when it became evident that overseas-based players Sibusiso Zuma and Elrio van Heerden would not be arriving in South Africa for Carlos Alberto Parreira’s first training camp at the FNB Stadium.
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/ 6 February 2007
Great Soweto rivals Moroka Swallows and Orlando Pirates have been paired together for the first round of South Africa’s Absa Cup soccer competition. One official called it ”the million to one shot”. The draw on Monday evening uncannily paired a good number of teams from the Premier League against each other.
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/ 4 February 2007
Cassius ”The Hitman” Baloyi made South African boxing history by securing a fifth world title while demolishing Argentina’s Nazareno Ruiz in three rounds for the vacant IBO junior lightweight crown at a glittering Emperors Palace on Saturday night.