Township amateur soccer would have been so much poorer without “Prezza”. To the uninitiated, “Prezza” is a colloquial for Club President. Hierarchically, a Club President slots (in) high up in an administrative model found in Europe, mainly Spain. This model was copied and pasted locally. But unlike his counterparts at teams like Real Madrid and […]
Mangaliso Sibanyoni
Mangaliso Sibanyoni was born and still lives in Soweto. He usually tells people that he was born at the terraces because his father was a sports fanatic – chairman of the Moroka Swallows FC Supporters Club and a member of the defunct Khazamula Boxing Promotions. Great soccer and boxing battles are still perched in his mind! His late farther was devastated when he crossed floors to support Bucs. He has been published a couple of times when Abdul Milazi was still editor of Sunday World in the contributors’ column he called Headspace
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2010: Lower your expectations!
Watching Bafana Bafana lose to Nigeria for the umpteenth time over the weekend was debilitating. In all fairness, any team in the world can lose to Nigeria in Abuja. But the meek surrender by our boys is treasonous. Who can argue with Nigerians now that the only reason we won in 1996 was because they […]