Category archives for: World Cup 2010

2010 World Cup fever continues

Visitors to the Kruger National Park nature reserve in the Republic of South Africa were surprised to see how the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup fever seems to have been adopted by the natural wildlife there. Guests near a rest camp reportedly saw a young male elephant playing soccer with a flattened beer can that [...]

North Korea punishes 2010 World Cup coach

The 2010 South African World Cup’s North Korean national coach Kim Jong-Hun (53) has reportedly been reprimanded, abused and brain-washed by the communist leadership of North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-Il . After having been forced to listen to hours of demoralizing blah-blah speeches of some 400 senior cadres of the dictator, Jong-Hun was sentenced to [...]

2010 South African World Cup stadiums won’t be white elephants

The South African Government and sports bodies are reportedly working on new initiatives to prevent the country’s 2010 World Cup state-of-the-arts stadiums from turning into white elephants. The premier league (PSL) has welcomed and strongly supports the initiative of staging soccer matches more for excitement than for profit. In the first step four soccer teams [...]

FIFA’s takes late penalty shot

The two finalists in the 2010 South African World Cup have reportedly received a belated penalty from the international football governing body, FIFA. Reports said that FIFA has decided to carry out the penalty and book Holland (actually the Netherlands, as Holland is merely a county in The Netherlands) and Spain for abusing the fair [...]

British reporter behind 2010 FIFA security breach, police say

The South African Police Service (SAPS) claim that a British journalist Simon Wright (44) was allegedly arrested for being the master-mind behind the recent attempt to portray blemished World Cup stadium security in South Africa after the England-Algeria match at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, during their group stage match of the 2010 FIFA [...]

FIFA will introduce goal-line technology from July 2010

The world of professional and international rugby has already embraced television-refereeing as a standard when there is a disputed try. The governing body of the international football federation, FIFA, has announced that it would be “Nonsense not to reopen the file on goal-line technologies” as an increasing number of fans are disgusted by the fact [...]

Former Northern Hungarian provinces defeat defending champions

It’s the end of the Italian dream and the start of a Slovakian fairytale. Slovakia was not even a nation some 20 years ago, and now every country in the world knows their name as they have felled the reigning world cup champions – Italy. Paraguay and New Zealand could not stop Italy, but Slovakia [...]

Slovenia ousted by USA goal in stoppage-time

The national football squad of the tiny Central European nation of Slovenia was able to defy the big bad bear (Russia) to qualify for the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup and became one of the most celebrated participants in the host nation, South Africa. However their goal-less loss against England (which scored the only goal [...]

French President furious about bad French team diplomacy in 2010 World Cup

French President Nicholas Sarkozy (of Hungarian descent) has expressed his fury over the imcompetence of his national team, slagging French squad coach Raymond Domenech for his unorthodox conduct and slacking to be a deserving ambassador to France when he declined to shake hands with South African coach Carlos Alberto Parreira, after the host nation of [...]

Lewinsky to blow Clinton’s Vuvuzela as USA play Algeria at 2010 FIFA World Cup

Ex-US president Bill Clinton will be among the spectators of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Group C football match between the United States and Algeria on Wednesday (23 June, 2010) at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa. It can not be confirmed yet, but FIFA has also invited Monika Lewinsky alongside the other [...]

Sour grapes for France’s Raymond Domenech at 2010 FIFA World Cup

Bad sport disgraced France coach Raymond Domenech (58, pictured right) declined to shake hands (it’s tradition) with South Africa’s celebrated coach from Brazil, Carlos Alberto Parreira (67, pictured left) after the host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup beat France 2-1 (2-0) in their Group A challenge. But still both national teams said [...]

Blonde babes off the hook in 2010 FIFA ambush marketing

Two gorgeous Dutch models, accused of ambush marketing at a recent FIFA football event were released on Tuesday (June 22, 2010) after FIFA allegedly received millions of Euros in an out of court settlement, reports suggested. Two blond bombshells arrested for so-called ‘ambush marketing’ during a 2010 FIFA Football World Cup match have now been [...]

Goodbye Bafana

The host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup has said an early goodbye after they were unable to gain a 4-goal difference in their group to advance into the next round. Bafana, Bafana as the South African team is commonly known, was unable to take advantage of the one-man advantage after France had [...]

Portugal walks over communist Korea in 2010 FIFA World Cup

Vegetable shops were closed in Cape Town as local Portuguese shopkeepers were among the 64, 644 spectators watching the match between Portugal and North Korea at Greenpoint Stadium in the mothor city of the host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup. We can’t wait for the next game against Brazil after the Portugal [...]

Kaita red card brings mass death threats

Nigerian midfielder Sani Kaita (24), was given the red card in the 33rd minute of match in which Greece defeated Nigeria 2-1 in Group B on Thursday (June 17, 2010). Because of this he has received multiple e-mails with the death threat “This man must die.” The Nigerian Government and football federation have taken the [...]

France sends home Chelsea’s Anelka prematurely

Chelsea’s French striker Nicholas Anelka (31) has been banished from the French national squad by his coach Raymond Domanech, for foul language and calling his mother a “whore.” Domanech had allegedly heavily criticized Anelka’s competence as a striker in their team’s recently discouraging 2-0 defeat by Mexico. The French Football Federation made the announcement in [...]

South Africa white-washed by Uruguay

It was a freezing cold quiet night in Pretoria, the capital of the host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup as Bafana, Bafana, the national squad of the Republic of South Africa, was white-washed in a 3-0 victory by Uruguay. It was a crying game as hundreds of home fans left the stadium [...]

Ke Nako, end is here for South Africa in 2010 World Cup?

Millions of football fans worldwide could hear a pin drop as thousands of South African die-hard fans at Pretoria’s Loftus Versveld Stadium on Wednesday (June 16, 2010) failed to blow their noisy plastic instruments known as the vuvuzelas. The so-called 12th man of the South African squad was silenced by the spectacular 15 yard shot [...]

Hungarian match officials in top 2010 FIFA World Cup game

On June 15, 2010 Brazil played perhaps one of its toughest matches as the top ranked against Communist Korea as the lowest ranked (105th position), experts said. During the match Brazil shot 26 tries at goal of which 10 were on target compared to Korea’s 11 shot attempts on goal of which only three were [...]

Strikes overshadow 2010 World Cup

The strike acts of thousands of striking exploited security employees have overshadowed South Africa’s 2010 World Cup venues. Security employees of two host city stadiums have been immediately dismissed despite the fact that their claims were valid, experts said. Over the past few days security workers at the Durban and Cape Town football stadiums engaged [...]

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