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	South Korea national football team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The South Korea national football team has been Asia's most successful national team since they made their debut at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
		The Korean professional football league was launched in South Korea in 1983 as the first ever professional football league in Asia.
		During Japan's colonial rule, football contributed to alleviating the frustrations of the subjugated Koreans and fostering the hope of liberation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Korea_national_football_team (457 words)

	1947 in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		5 July - The South Africa national football team beats the New Zealand national football team 6-0 at the Carisbrook Stadium, Dunedin, New Zealand, in the South African tour of Australia and New Zealand
		28 June - The South Africa national football team beats the New Zealand national football team 6-5 at the Lancester Park, Christchurch, New Zealand, in the South African tour of Australia and New Zealand
		19 July - The South Africa national football team beats the New Zealand national football team 4-1 at the Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand, in the South African tour of Australia and New Zealand
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1947_in_South_Africa (457 words)

	may29
		Only four countries represented Africa in the 1998 World Cup in France but their outstanding performances in previous competitions was suffice to convince FIFA, the world football organising body,to allocate one more place to Africa to make up the 32 teams for Korea/ Japan.
		Africa was conspicuously absent in the 1930 tourney.
		South Africa are billed to take on Spain, Slovenia and Paraguay in group B. In group H,Tunisia will lock horns with co-host Japan, Belgium and Russia.
	www.expotimes.net /backissuesmay/may2002/may29.htm (886 words)

	ARTS & CULTURE - Football
		Male-dominated football teams, contests, and organizations enabled those who were denied basic human rights to adapt to industrial conditions, to cope with urban migration, and to build alternative institutions and networks on a local, regional, and national scale.
		The socio-historical significance of the game in South Africa is not a recent phenomenon, as the impressive growth of football over time clearly demonstrates.
		The formation of popular teams such as Orlando Pirates (1937) and Moroka Swallows (1947) and rising attendance at Black soccer matches in Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town in the late 1930s and 1940s stemmed primarily from the dramatic increase in the number of Africans migrating to cities to find work in the war-driven manufacturing expansion.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/artsmediaculture/pages/sport/football-history.htm (1206 words)

	Soccer: Jomo Sono - SouthAfrica.info
		South Africa’s national football team may not have progressed beyond the first round in Korea and Japan, but five goals, one win, one draw and a 3-2 thriller against tournament favourites Spain did more than erase the disappointment of Mali — it confirmed South Africa’s arrival as a force in world football.
		Sono said the team could return home with their heads held high: “This is maybe the best South African team ever, certainly better than four years ago.
		The SA Football Association threw their weight behind Sono and, in a decision similar to the one made in 1998, he was appointed caretaker coach for the 2002 World Cup.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/sports/sono.htm (770 words)

	IOL: Madagascar double-book their national team
		South Africa's friendly international against Madagascar at the end of the month is in jeopardy after the Indian Ocean islanders double-booked their national football team for the same weekend.
		South African Football Association general secretary Albert Mokoena said on Tuesday he would seek an explanation from the Malagasy Football Federation, as the marketability of the international would be affected.
		Madagascar are to send their national side, including Swiss-born coach Hans Heiniger and their foreign-based players to Tunisia, and a B side to South Africa, coached by Auguste Raux, coach of the champion club AS Adema.
	www.int.iol.co.za /?click_id=19&art_id=qw1047990780854S163&set_id=6 (443 words)

	160904
		Last year anniversary of the event featured a friendly between South Africa's Bafana Bafana and the England National Football team.
		The NFA scribe talked on the South African based Super Sports television station that he had spoken to key players of the team who had promised to honour the match.
		We Nigerians recognise the importance of South Africa in the continent.
	www.ngrguardiannews.com /sports/article02/160904 (259 words)

	Welcome to the Daily Dispatch
		BATTERED INTO SUBMISSION: South Africa's Vuyo Mere being carried off by an unidentified member of the team staff, characterises the beating the South African national team is suffering at the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations soccer competition in Egypt.
		By LEW ELIAS THE next few years in South Africa should be good ones for the bus and coach industry, Harry Teifel, marketing manager of the Mercedes-Benz bus and coach division, said yesterday.
		Nations require Palestinian victor Hamas to reject violence and recognise state of Israel ARMS UP: Palestinian supporters of the Hamas celebrate their victory in parliamentary elections in the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday.
	www.dispatch.co.za (611 words)

	South African History South Africa History
		A team from the U.S., Botswana, and South Africa hunt for fossils in Botswana, Sept.-Oct. 1998.
		Robben Island was established as a National Monument and a National Museum by the Cabinet of the South African Government September 1996.
		From the Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre, at the University of Durban-Westville, South Africa.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/southafrica/rsahistory.html (7761 words)

	Malawi
		Kenya Broadcasting Corp Kenya's national football team coach Jacob Ghost Mulee is expected to meet with the KFF stakeholders...
		South Africa's electoral process still faced some challenges, a report compiled by the Election Observer Mission (EOM) said.
		All Africa Petro de Luanda is facing Nigeriaoes Enyimba, the African Champion, in the 8th of finals of the Afri...
	archive.wn.com /2004/04/29/1400/malawi (563 words)

	ESPNsoccernet.com World Cup 2002: South Africa
		In 10 years of international soccer since the end of apartheid-enforced isolation, South Africa have had eight coaches take charge of their national team.
		South African coach Jomo Sono is his country's footballing icons but, unlike the players in his squad now, never got the chance to play in the World Cup.
		South Africa's newly-returned World Cup squad were congratulated by President Thabo Mbeki and given a standing ovation in the country's parliament on Wednesday.
	worldcup.espnsoccernet.com /team?id=southafrica&lang=en (241 words)

	Home - AFL South Africa
		The International School of South Africa was a perfect venue as all the fields were back to back which helped with the atmosphere on the day.
		Australian Football has been played in South Africa since 1997, and it is now an officially recognised sport of the North West Academy of Sport.
		The Vryburg junior league had four teams who competing very hard, it showed they were well prepared but unfortunately only one team had to take the trophy home.
	www.aflsouthafrica.org (649 words)

	Africa - Coins of South Africa
		The present sizes and compositions of the South African circulation coins came about in 1990 with change to plated blanks for circulation coinage and the relocation of minting operations to the new mint at Gateway, Centurion.
		South Africa has a new completely new coat of arms, so being as the circulation coins all show the coat of arms, they too have had to be updated.
		The 2002 dated coins have the words for "South Africa" written in words with just the first letter of each word in upper case, all other letters in lower case - previously all letters of all words were in upper case text.
	www.wbcc.fsnet.co.uk /af-sou.htm (1205 words)

	Soccer, Football: African Cup Of Nations - Mali 2002: team preview South Africa
		After his career had become stuck between National team obligations and practise struggle for a team place in European squads he had refused to play for South Africa and after moving from club to club, seems to have lost much of his form.
		Class teams from all over the world agreed to play in the friendly conditions of South Africa when they never would have made a trip to Accra or Abidjan, but they also came for the symbolic meaning of the matches.
		the national team with a very solid and steady performance is among the top teams of Africa but has not exactly the same individual talent as Cameroon or Nigeria who are more inconsistent instead
	www.the-shot.com /africa/african-nations-cup-2002/preview/south_africa.html (646 words)

	T&T & Concacaf Football.
		National Football Team Leo Beenhakker has included Scottish-based strike duo Collin Samuel and Jason Scotland in a 23-man squad to travel to Ft Lauderdale for a one-week training camp ahead of the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup which kicks off in Miami on July 6.
		National Team head coach Leo Beenhakker announced during a team meeting after lunch today that Coventry City striker Stern John will captain the Trinidad and Tobago for the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup campaign.
		Jamaica and South Africa played to a 3:3 draw in a Group C encounter at the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup™ at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Sunday afternoon.
	www.socawarriors.net /Caribbean_football.htm (791 words)

	UNICEF Special Representative George Weah
		Weah is President of The Junior Professionals, a football team he founded in Monrovia in 1994, whose aim is to give young people the opportunity to practise sports.
		He was also named African Footballer of the Year in 1996 and World Player of the Year in 1995 by international football's ruling body, FIFA.
		He has also joined in the alliance of UNICEF, the National AIDS Control Programme in Liberia, the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Liberian Football Association, which is using sports as a vehicle to highlight the dangers of HIV/AIDS.
	www.unicef.org /football/players/weah.html (856 words)

	BBC SPORT AFRICA SA team in mid-air drama
		The South African football team have spoken about their horror flight to Liberia for Sunday's African Nations Cup qualifier.
		"I was thinking of the Zambian team that perished in a plane crash and feared that a generation of South African players was about to perish," goalkeeper Rowen Fernandez told the Independent newspaper.
		I was thinking of the Zambian team that perished in a plane crash and feared that a generation of South African players was about to perish
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/africa/1367358.stm (326 words)

	SaRugby
		National coach Jake White's quest to have all the SA Super 14 teams work towards making the Springbok side strong may be undermined this season by the relegation threat which hangs over the local franchises.
		The national selectors have named a large group of promising players to attend the SA under-21 fitness, strength and conditioning assessment sessions, to be held in various regions.
		Defeat in the final match of the end of year tour did not allow Bok coach Jake White to end on the high that he had hoped for, but it also did not ruin what he saw as a highly successful season for his team.
	www.sarfu.org.za (374 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly Sports No cream and no crop
		Twelve years and 69 caps after he first took to the field with South Africa's national football team in 1992, Radebe survives today as one of the symbols of African sportsmanship.
		South Africa's delegation, on the other hand, comprised its current president, Thabo Mbeki, two former presidents, Nelson Mandela and Frederik W de Klerk, Archbishop Desmund Tutu, footballer Lucas Radebe and Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron.
		Mbeki is a veteran African National Congress politician, twice directly elected president of a republic whose political process is amongst the world's most vibrant, dynamic and open, in elections universally acknowledged to have been free and fair.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/693/sp1.htm (1717 words)

	Mail & Guardian Online:
		Mbulelo Mabizela: The youngest player to captain South Africa’s national football team.
		Benjamin Mophatlane: Was voted the Computer Society of South Africa’s 2002 IT Personality of the Year in recognition of his achievements.
		Graeme Smith: The youngest captain of South African cricket side yet.
	www.mg.co.za /articledirect.aspx?area=/insight/insight__national&articleid=39435 (2243 words)

	ESPNsoccernet.com: South Africa Team Page
		South African striker Shaun Bartlett is to retire from international football after the weekend's World Cup qualifier against the Democratic Republic of Congo in Durban.
		South Africa, virtually out of the 2006 World Cup finals, are also struggling to reach next year's African Nations Cup finals after all but two places in the 16-team field were settled at the weekend.
		South Africa plan to soon appoint a full-time coach to take charge for the 2010 World Cup finals but only after the African Nations Cup in Egypt has finished.
	soccernet.espn.go.com /team?tag=RSA&cc=3888 (271 words)

	CNNSI.com - CNNSI.com's complete coverage of the FIFA World Cup - World Cup Spotlight on Cameroon - Monday June 03, 2002 04:52 AM
		The year 2000 was formidable for the national squad, as it won the African Cup of Nations and the Sydney Olympic gold.
		African nations are tired of dropping out early, and I believe that Cameroon has the best chance of surprising the world's top teams.
		They are strong physically and have most of their players enjoying their football in the world's top leagues.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/world/2002/world_cup/teams/cameroon (663 words)

	Exploring Africa -> Teachers -> Current Events
		From Cairo in Egypt in the north, to Cape Town, South Africa in the south; and from Dakar, Senegal in West Africa to Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania on the Indian Ocean, people were rooting for their team, Africa's team-Senegal.
		32 teams from every continent met in Korea and Japan to compete for the title of world's greatest national football team.
		Joining more than three billion football fans from around the world, tens of millions of Africans spent much of the month of June with their eyes glued to their TV screens or their ears focused on their radio receivers.
	exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu /teachers/current/worldcup.html (456 words)

	Architecture for Humanity: Siyathemba
		Ng traveled to South Africa and collaborated with the young women from the newly formed Siyathemba football club, community members, health care providers, teachers and others to further refine and develop his scheme.
		Football, already the nation’s most popular sport, will only gain in popularity and interest when the World Cup comes to South Africa in 2010.
		Launched in 2004, the “Siyathemba” competition challenged the world’s designers to create the “perfect pitch,” for the youth of Somkhele, South Africa, who are three times more likely to become HIV positive than youth in other parts of the world.
	www.architectureforhumanity.org /programs/Siyathemba (825 words)

	Biz-community - Advertising and Marketing in South Africa
		Media analysis software provider Interactive Market Systems (IMS) has announced significant expansion plans in South Africa and is on the lookout for a team to staff the new offices.
		Household cash expenditure in South Africa for 2005 is estimated at R873 billion, with just more than one fifth (21%) of this amount spent on food, while housing and electricity took up a further 15% and income tax payments 11%.
		It is hardly surprising that the print media industry in South Africa has slammed new Gauteng government regulations that will dispense with newspaper notices about land use and township planning - they stand to lose a substantial revenue source.
	www.biz-community.com (599 words)

	BBC SPORT Football Africa Safa suffers legal blow
		'Bafana Bafana', the nickname of South Africa's national football team, is not the exclusive property of South Africa's FA, a court has ruled.
		The South African FA had wanted to register 'Bafana Bafana' as a brand for themselves, and had an ambitious plan to use the name to promote a range of products, including cosmetics and fertiliser.
		Safa moved to force South Africa's trademark body to cancel the registration.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/football/africa/2523485.stm (232 words)

	STATE BANQUET FOR SA NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM
		These medals are intended to serve as tokens of South African's appreciation of our national soccer team and Pirates Football Club's commitment and perseverance in reaching the unthinkable by lifting the African Cup of Nations and Africa Champions Cup Trophies from under the noses of some of the toughest national teams on the continent.
		At the initiative of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Nelson Mandela, a State Banquet in honour of the South African National Football team, and Pirates Football Club is to take place at the Presidential Guest-House in Pretoria on Friday, 1 March 1996.
		The banquet is in honour of the national team's victory in the 1996 African Cup of Nations Tournament and Orlando Pirates Football Club's victory in the 1995 Africa Champions Cup.
	www.info.gov.za /speeches/1996/m040x573.htm (309 words)

	Stanford GSB History: A League of Their Own
		A native of Denmark, Leschly was selected to the Danish Davis Cup team and was captain of the U.S. Prentice Cup team.
		After graduation, she went to South Africa to teach physical education to primary school students.
		Eric Bergeson, a starting cornerback and free safety for Brigham Young University's football team, took a year off from school to work as a volunteer missionary for the Church of Latter Day Saints in Hong Kong and China, where he became fluent in Cantonese.
	www.gsb.stanford.edu /history/timeline/95athletes.html (692 words)

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