Orlando Pirates could win CAF Champions League 2012

Of all South African teams to participate in CAF champions league in the past 10 years, Pirates has got the easiest path in the draw that was made few days ago for next year’s Champions league tournament. Here’s their path:Preliminary round: They are will fight it out with Clube Recreativo Desportivo do Libolo from AngolaFirst qualifying round: They will play with a Sunshine Stars of NigeriaSecond qualifying round: They will play a winner between...

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FIFA Rankings for COSAFA region - November 2011

As it is still early days of this blog, we will be introducing new features which will add more value and make this site more informative as we progresses. Therefore we now introduces the latest feature on the blog which is RANKINGS which will be keeping you up to date of how our countries are placed in the latest FIFA rankings, we also will be focussing on how well our countries are doing on ranked on CAF rankings as well. As soon as FIFA releases the latest rankings we will publish them here. Here are current rankings as released in November...

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Orlando Pirates' 75th anniversary kit launched

The players will come out in their new kit when they take on Bidvest Wits during the Telkom Knockout Final at Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium next Saturday. "Orlando Pirates gave us a brief to develop an anniversary jersey that celebrated the rich history of the club as well as the bright and exciting future. The design inspiration came from the strip used by the all-conquering 1973 team that won all cups that were on offer in that season," says...

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COSAFA Under 20 Youth Championship 2011 Fixtures

The COSAFA Youth Championship will be hosted in Gaborone, Botswana from December 1-10, 2011. The tournament will be staged at University Stadium in the capital and the Molepole Artificial turf. GROUP A                  GROUP B                  GROUP C                         ...

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I refuse to accept Pitso's apology

I wish I could say good day to millions of the soccer loving community. Unfortunately this can never be a good day for me and it is all thanks to Bafana coach’s letter of apology. I read Pitso Mosimane’s apology letter over and over again with the hope of finding something that can heal this deep wound that he left in my heart. Maybe I was looking for the words ‘good bye’ from his letter, only to find salt to my wound.What I picked up from the...

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A disturbing reality about the man called Julio Cesar Leal

Julio Leal won 2008/2009 Nedbank Cup with Moroka Swallows but swallows was the fourth lowest scorer in the league with 32 goals. Julio Leal played good exciting carpet football at Swallows but his tactics and techniques produced least number of goals and was fired despite good football. Amazulu under Julio Leal was the lowest scorer in the PSL with 22 goals in 2006/2007 season whilst finished second from the bottom. However, Amazulu escaped the PSL’s...

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New Bafana Bafana Puma kit

Puma today unveiled the new Bafana Bafana jersey that they will be wearing from now on wards to 2012, this is the second Bafana Bafana kit by Puma this year and this is really mush better that the first kit that Puma did for Bafana which many people in South Africa critised it's design and which happened to be as expensive as the FIFA world cup kits that were sold last year during the prestigeous event. This kit has got my vote of confidance,...

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First things first

Hello everyone Welcome to SA Soccer Blog, this blog will be focussing mainly on football activities happening on the entire Southern Africa region(COSAFA region if you like) COSAFA region has 15 countries which includes the following countries: - Angola - Botswana - Comoros - Lesotho - Madagascar - Malawi - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Seychelles - South Africa - Swaziland - Zambia - Zimbabwe So once in a while we will have bloggers from all these countries mentioned wrighting for us and telling us about what is happening in their countries...

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