We had to dig deep for this one. It turns out the legendary South African human rights and
anti-apartheid activist was able to meet Liverpool when the club was on tour in South Africa in the
summer of 1994. Serving as the President of South Africa in ‘94, Mandela was proudly presented
with a Reds shirt by John Barnes, the club's captain.
The South Africa Rugby Sevens team is hosting the latest stop on the HSBC Sevens World Series in
the form of the inaugural Nelson Mandela Bay South Africa Sevens in Port Elizabeth on Friday and
Saturday. Currently tied for third place in the HSBC Sevens World Series standings after two stops
in the annual circuit, [.
Over the weekend the eagerly awaited Yellow-Purple colourway of PUMA's v1.11 soccer boots made
their debut as Steven Pienaar captained South Africa in the annual Nelson Mandela Challenge.
Continuing with the PUMA Speed theme, the v1.11 boot incorporates premium lightweight technologies
that enable all kinds of movements while supporting the player's speed to the maximum.
Over the weekend the eagerly awaited Yellow-Purple colourway of PUMA's v1.11 soccer boots made
their debut as Steven Pienaar captained South Africa in the annual Nelson Mandela Challenge.
Continuing with the PUMA Speed theme, the v1.11 boot incorporates premium lightweight technologies
that enable all kinds of movements while supporting the player's speed to the maximum.
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U.S. defender Eric Lichaj has been loaned by Aston Villa to League Championship contenders Leeds
United for one month.
Leeds United, having earned promotion last year from League One, are currently sixth in the League
Championship table and are just six points behind in the race for one of two automatic promotion
spots to the English Premier League.
African Activist Archive, Michigan State University
When Chris De Broglio told me the sad news of Isiah Stein's passing I knew very little about
this brave Cape Town-born activist. All I could remember was that he was an exiled South African,
a former executive committee member of SANROC, the heart and soul of the anti-apartheid sport
boycott, and that his sons had played professional football in Britain.
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African football supporter waves a flag at Durban's 70000 seater Moses Mabhida FIFA World Cup
soccer stadium South Africa and Morocco went head to head seven years ago for the right to stage
the first World Cup in Africa and the .
U.S. goalkeper Brad Guzan is heading south for a month-long loan spell at Hull in the English
League Championship. Guzan, who recently captained the U.S. in their 1-0 victory against South
Africa in the 2010 Nelson Mandela Challenge, has been serving as deputy to former U.S.
international Brad Friedel at Aston Villa.
The year is nearing its end, and while most United States national teams are eagerly awaiting to
see what the future holds, SBI is looking back at the memorable year that was for the
Americans.
From a pair of drama-filled, late goals in the World Cup to a couple of finishes off of assists
from players making their U.
Gale Agbossoumonde capped off an impressive year with the national teams by winning one of the
highest honors in the sport. Yesterday, the Syracuse native was named U.S. Soccer's Young Male
Athlete of the Year.
The big centerback is in his second cycle with the U.S. U-20 MNT and, after starting all three
games at the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt, has emerged as a leader on the 2010-11 team.
Agudelo scores: USA 1, SA 0 (Photo by Sophie Alegi)
17-year-old Juan Agudelo six days shy of his 18th birthday scored the only goal of the game in the
84th minute and spoiled a massive party in the heart of Cape Town.
51,000 of us were on hand at Green Point stadium for this glossy friendly on a warm and breezy late
spring evening.
The Nelson Mandela Challenge Cup has been decided, and the Yanks will be taking home the
silverware (yes, there was silverware to be taken home from the match) thanks to a late goal from
Nationa Team debutant Juan Agudelo. Of course, this only being a friendly cup, it is mostly a moral
victory- though what a moral victory it was!
As usual, though a bit late, here are three quick thoughts and player ratings from Wednesday's 1-0
United States Men's National Team victory over South Africa in the Nelson Mandela Cup. I promise to
litter a bit of optimism in my piece without discounting Dr. Crowley's egg-nog sized glass of
pessimism.
My night "day job" came into collision Wednesday, so it was logistically impossible to post
immediately following the USMNT's nice, spirit-building 1-0 win over South Africa in Cape Town at
the Nelson Mandela Challenge.The reason? My "day job" as a sportswriter entailed me covering a
state playoff soccer game, which ended in penalty kicks, 8-6, with the losing keeper employing an
Edwin van der
Your USMNT.The U.S. Men's National Soccer Team defeated South Africa, 1-0, in the Nelson Mandela
Challenge in Cape Town today. Juan Agudelo, making his national team debut, at the age of 17,
scored the game's loan goal. Brad Guzan was forced into several huge saves earlier on, but the
USMNT imposed themselves throughout the later stages of the first half and much of the second half.
My hero was Denis Law; as a player I loved Denis Law even though he is only a couple of years
older than me. He epitomised to me everything about a Scotsman. He could start a row in an empty
house, fight his own shadow, unbelievable courage, electric pace, exciting and dynamic to watch –
I always loved Denis as a player.
It's a tough call trying to pin down the highlight of Sir Alex Ferguson's time as United
manager, but I think everything revolves around the title win in 1992-93.
But for that, would United have gone on to be successful for so long? I just think that was the
platform for everything because it lifted the weight of expectation and it was perfectly timed,
with the biggest club suddenly becoming the best team at precisely the moment that Sky came in to
inject money and global appeal into English football.
PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA JUNE 15: Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal looks on during the 2010 FIFA
World Cup South Africa Group G match between Ivory Coast and Portugal at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium
on June 15, 2010 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. (Photo by Alex Livesey FIFA/FIFA via Getty
Images) *** Local Caption *** Cristiano Ronaldo
El Real Madrid remonto al Malaga que parecia le sacaria minmo el empate a los merengues.
Por lo regular los jugadores son los que hacen teatro simulando una falta o exagerando una
agresión, lo que le sucede a este arbitro es que ver tanto drama en la cancha es contagioso. Su
actuacion es digna de una tarjeta roja, fútbol brasileño tercera division.
PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA JUNE 15: Referee Jorge Larrionda checks the nets ahead of the 2010
FIFA World Cup South Africa Group G match between Ivory Coast and Portugal at Nelson Mandela Bay
Stadium on June 15, 2010 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
This blog will be a running record of facts, stats and notes from Ford Field in Detroit.
U.S. Starters: 1-Tim Howard; 6-Steve Cherundolo, 21-Clarence Goodson, 15-Tim Ream, 3-Carlos
Bocanegra (capt.); 8-Clint Dempsey, 4-Michael Bradley, 13-Jermaine Jones, 10-Landon Donovan;
17-Jozy Altidore, 9-Juan Agudelo
U.
IN EIGHT GAMES SINCE THE WORLD CUP: Quickly after the conclusion of the 2010 FIFA
World Cup, preparations were already underway for the U.S. to build toward this summer's Gold Cup.
In the eight games since the Round of 16 in South Africa, the U.S. has played six teams that were
part of the 2010 World Cup and three of the top four ranked teams in the world (Spain , 1;
Argentina, 4; Brazil, 3).
The USMNT posed for a picture today with former South African President Nelson Mandela in
the wake of their 1-0 victory over South Africa Wednesday and the caption to the picture helpfully
tells us that one of the world's most recognizable people is in the "second row fourth from right."
Wouldn't want to get Mandela confused with the likes of Rolling Hills Estates' Robbie Rogers (the
young white guy fourth from top left) now would we?
Teal Bunbury was having a terrific off-season. After his first year with
Sporting KC where he scored 7-goals for his club, he was called up to the U.S. Men's National Team.
He flew to South Africa where he received playing time in the second half of a game in the Nelson
Mandela Cup.
Bob Bradley trotted out a number of new young players and a few older fringe players for the
national team this past Wednesday. Bradley took the Nelson Mandela Challenge Cup as a chance to
test out all of the players he called except for the Celtic reserve goalie, Dominic Cervi. Without
recapping the game, the 1-0 win was fairly significant.
A stalwart of the anti-apartheid sport boycott movement, Isiah Stein, has passed away in the UK.
After serving time in prison with Nelson Mandela in the mid-1960s, Stein left South Africa for
Britain where he worked tirelessly with the exiled South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee
(SANROC).
USA vs. Bofana Bofana has always proved to be a fun spectacle. In Cape Town for the 2010 Nelson
Mandela Challenge, yesterday's game was a big day for the young American team, especially for
seventeen year old forward, Juan Agudelo. The first product of the U.S. Soccer Development
Academy to make an appearance for the [.
Seven players earned their national team debut, four as starters: Sean Franklin, Jeff
Larentowicz, Zach Loyd, Chris Wondolowski; and three substitutes: Sean Johnson, Anthony Wallace and
Eric Alexander.
On Thursday, FIFA will vote for who will host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. (FSC will cover the
event live 9:30am ET. ESPN, ESPN Deportes, Univision and CNN International will also provide live
coverage of the announcement, which is expected to take place around 10am. Tir Na Nog is hosting a
viewing party that will include Union players, Mayor Nutter and representatives of the city's Bid
Committee.
All of the heavy hitters, minus Vladimir Putin apparently, are in Zurich ahead of Thursday's World
Cup bid vote. This is the final push, the last minute glad-handing that is supposed to put a bid
over the top; for Qatar, football great Zinedine Zidane is the marquee name. For England, it's
David Beckham, Prime Minister David Cameron, and Prince William.
We've been talking so much about the African Cup Of Nations since the beginning of the year, and we'll tell you why it's all about the fans! Which other tournament has more colour, vibrancy, drama and pitch streakers (or maybe not, they are often wearing clothes) than the African Nations Cup?
Lifelong City fan Celia Hodkin has been given an almighty birthday present from the folks in the
Blue half of Manchester... Celia, set to turn 88, has been given the opportunity to lead out the
team she has supported since the age of 9 vs Fulham this weekend. Her daughter wrote to the men in
charge about [.
I know the Conservatives are a pretty paltry ever-dwindling bunch in Scotland but was this attempt
to gain some cheap publicity or a way of finishing themselves off permanently?
Obama effigy burnt by St Andrews Conservative students
"An effigy of US President Barack Obama was burned over the weekend by members of the Conservative
student association at St Andrews University.
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Mais um jogo das eliminatórias da Copa Africana de Nações de 2012, foi realizada no dia
04/06/2011, na cidade de Kampala-UGA, no Namboole Nelson Mandela Stadium, onde jogaram as
seleções de Uganda (84º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção de Guiné-Bissau (136º no ranking da
FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
Bissau 26/03/2011 GNB0:1 (0:1)UGA Group matches
Footballers from both sides of Stanley Park forgot rivalry for one night on Sunday for Liverpool
goalkeeper Brad Jones and his son Luca.
Luca was diagnosed with leukaemia last year. A donor was found but sadly the five-year-old's cancer
came back in February and once again he is facing an incredibly difficult fight.
Graham Sankey, who is from Anfield, admitted he tried to kill a Bulgarian man with a stone
whilst celebrating Liverpool FC's European Cup win in 2005. He was arrested with Michael Shields
for the attack but later denied his involvement. The victim didn't die but suffered significant
brain damage.
Clueless? Is Ruud Gullit, who once had a clue about human rights and admired Nelson Mandela,
now ignoring similar issues in Eastern Europe all in pursuit of big rubles? (AP Photo)
The second column today isn't by me, it's by Associated Press columnist John Leicester. But it
certainly holds plenty of interest for Galaxy fans still simmering at the coaching record of Ruud
Gullit who was fired after a club-record 12-game winless streak in 2008, a season that ended with
the Galaxy's worst-ever record of 8-13-9.
