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/ 14 December 2005
The players comprising the squads of the African and European Legends who come face-to-face on a historic date at Ellis Park on Saturday January 7 are a who’s who of top players from the two continents over the past two decades. Some old stalwarts who were at their peak further back have managed to sneak in.
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/ 13 December 2005
Squirming and defiant to the end, controversial Bafana Bafana general manager Stanley ”Screamer” Tshabalala has been removed from his position with the national team for the forthcoming African Nations Cup tournament in Egypt. The decision was confirmed on Monday by South African Football Association CEO Raymond Hack.
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/ 10 December 2005
A record late rush, precipitated perhaps by defending champions Kaizer Chiefs raising their waning stocks with a 5-2 midweek win over Free State Stars, on Friday sent ticket sales sky-high and ensured an 80 000-strong sell-out crowd for the big Premier Soccer League (PSL) derby against Orlando Pirates.
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/ 1 December 2005
Stuart Baxter’s blues that surrounded his resignation as Bafana Bafana coach have been eased by a R6,5-million offer to join a team in Japan — and he says this is only half the amount on tap from an oil-rich country in the Middle East. ”But at this stage,” he said on Wednesday, ”it looks as though I’ll either end up in Japan or Spain.”
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/ 30 November 2005
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary committee have ruled he is no angel and fined Mamelodi Sundowns’ Argentinian coach, Angel Cappa, a whopping R50 000 for his role in a fracas with Supersport United coach Pitso Mosimane during the red-hot recent Pretoria PSL derby at Loftus Versfeld.
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/ 29 November 2005
Jomo Sono might have been expected to hit the ceiling when the Premier Soccer League on Monday announced the rain-postponed league game between his Jomo Cosmos team and Golden Arrows had been rescheduled for Tuesday — a mere 96 hours before the Coca-Cola Cup final against Supersport United in Polokwane on Saturday.
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/ 29 November 2005
On Tuesday, South African Football Association CEO Raymond Hack announced that Bafana Bafana caretaker coach Ted Dumitru will put his cards on the table and disclose preliminary details of his plans for the African Nations Cup finals in Egypt at a press conference on Friday.
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/ 27 November 2005
Playing like a bunch of languid, over-fed fat cats, the expensively assembled Sundowns team were given a runaround by Orlando Pirates in the top-of-the-log Premier Soccer League game at Ellis Park on Saturday afternoon. Pirates squandered more than six gilt-edged scoring opportunities.
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/ 26 November 2005
The ceremonial changing of the Bafana Bafana guard was enacted on Friday with canny former Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns coach Ted Dumitru predictably entrenched for the African Nations Cup — and Stanley ”Screamer” Tshabalala not so predictably clinging to the position of team general manager.
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/ 26 November 2005
The image of soccer genius and legend George Best as a compulsive extrovert and womaniser was refuted by two South Africans who knew the soccer genius and legend better than most. Best died on Friday at the age of 59 of a lung infection to his alcoholic-ravaged body.