IS IT TOO EARLY TO COUNT OUR CHICKENS



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With just three months remaining before we host one of the biggest tournament in African football here in South Africa. Due to the complications at Libya it was decided that we host the African Cup of Nations edition of 2013 while Libya will host the one we were suppose to host of 2018. A lot is expected from Bafana Bafana and their new coach by the public as we are the host of the tournament. South Africa failed to qualify for the 2012 edition which was held at Equatorial Genuine and Gabon early this year.

Early this week Bafana coach Gordon Igesund boldly said that " with little more support from the nation Bafana can conquer Africa." i think at the moment there is a great vibe in the country regarding out national team" said that on SAFA website, and went on to say that : if the boys continue with the positive attitude, we really can go places and do very well in major tournaments" When looking at the huge number of supporters we have I think that  our boys will do good if we are behind them, I mean with 60 00 people blowing their vuvuselas for the boys i don't see them disappointing us.

In the preparations for AFCON 2013 the new coach will try to give all the players that shows great performance for their teams a chance to represent their national team as he is trying to build a machine that will be able to compete against the best in the world. The coach went on to say that " he is going to give oversea players a  chance but he think that a bulk of his players should come from the domestic league.

The coach also gave praise to two his two assistants coaches Thomas Madigage and Serame Letsoka for the great contribution they have made so far in the national team so far and he also gave praises to SAFA and PSL as they have been working hand in hand with the coach to help him make a fordable team. Has the coach put his head on the table with his comments about Bafana winning the next year tournament, I mean with a demanding nation like South Africa and the poor run of Bafana in big tournament will they make it happen for the fans and the nation as a whole?

WILL BAFANA BAFANA MAKE IT TO BRAZIL

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With less than 2 years remaining before on of the biggest soccer tournament which will be held at Brazil, our National soccer team Bafana Bafana is standing a chance of not qualifying for the tournament. Since Bafana Bafana was given the clearance of playing in soccer tournaments after the apartheid era Bafana went on to win the African Cup of Nations in 1996 and managed to participate in 3 world cups as they missed out on the 2006 world cup at Germany after falling to qualify. Will we see that repeat again as they have failed to win 2 of their opening games of the first qualification stage against Ethiopia at home and Botswana away. We have recorded 2 draws and we have 2 points on position 3 in the group.

This poor performance saw the termination of Bafana coach Pisto Mosimane who succeed Carlos Alberto Pererira after the 2010 World Cup that was held here in South Africa Mzanzi were by we failed to make it past the first stage. Pitso Mosimane had a poor run with Bafana and things got worse after the world cup qualifying games then he was released from his contract. This saw the appointment of a new coach Gordon Igusend with four games remaining in the preliminary group stage will he manage to lead the boys to a number one position in the group. Should Bafana fail to top the group then they will kiss Brazil goodbye, ad they first have to make it through the preliminary group stage to play in the final group stage with other group leaders which will see five African National teams go to represent Africa in this prestigious tournament.

We have played 2 friendly games under the new coach with a narrowly loss to Brazil on the official World Cup hand out game and a 2-0 win against Mozambique. The new coach's reaction was that we are on a right tract as he is looking to build a machine out of the current crop of players he got, a machine that will manage to compete with the best. Bafana have a busy schedule ahead of the with a friendly against Poland next month and a possible friendly against United Arab Emirates four days after the Poland game with another fixture against the current African champions in November as they prepare for the next year AFCON which will be held on our home soil. This a great performance by Bafana Bafana will give them hope in making it to Brazil.

SACKED AFTER 2 GAMES

 

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Newly promoted outfits Chippa United who rocked up into the PSL with a rush just after 3 years in the professional soccer, sacked their coach after 2 games. Manqoba Mngqithi who was appointed head coach during the preseason was sacked last night after his second loss at the hand of Free State Stars, as they were beaten 2-0 after losing their first game to Sundowns as they brushed them off 1-0. Manqoba Mngqithi made his mark in South African football during his spell at Golden Arrows even winning his first major cup when they beat Ajax 6-0 in the MTN final back in 2009. He then moved form Arrows to another Durban team Amazulu where he did not have a great season as a coach until he decided to part away with the team.

Following the arrival of the new boys in the block Chippa United in PSL they decided to part away with their coach as they wanted to bring in a coach with experience PSL they wanted a coach who knew what is expected of him when playing in PSL and the name that came on the owner's lips was Manqoba Mngqithi. The management was very confident that they got the right man for the job instead they fired him after just 2 difficult games. Was he really the man for the job or the management lost hope in him too soon? and when is the right time to fire a coach? as for me it was too quick to sack a coach just after 2 games. Playing in PSL is very tough a lot is at stake is Chippa really cut up for the job? only time will tell

TODAY FOOTBALL IS ALL ABOUT MONEY



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It was not long when football was all about the passion of playing the beautiful game. Recently money has taking the centre stage in the world of football with wealthy clubs taking advantage of the resources they have at their disposal. More investments has gone into soccer with wealthy people in the world investing in teams and also willing to do anything to benefit from their investments. We have teams like your Real Madrid, Manchester City, Chelsea, Paris Santi Germain which are willing to pay out any price to get the players on their wish lists. One would not forget the spending spree all this teams above have spend in the past since the takeover of their new owners with them speeding a larger amount of money between them like:

• Real Madrid has spend over £180million on the acquisition of their current players the likes of Christiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Karim Benzima
• Manchester City have been the busiest team recently as they have spend over £9330,4million on the current crop of players they have in their disposal since the takeover of the wealthy Abu Dhabi  royal family
• With teams like Chelsea having spend a whooping  £2billion since the takeover of the Russian businessman Roman Abromovich back in 2003
• While teams like Paris Saint Germain have already spend over  €200million on players from last year since the takeover of new owners

This goes to show that money has taken over the world of football as teams spend heavily on players to win silverware. But we also have teams like your Manchester United, Arsenal, Barcelona and others which do not spend such amount of money but they have been doing good, yes some would argue that a team like Arsenal have not been winning silverware because of their tight budget but it has been the case even when they were winning they did not spend such amount. The question is that are this teams buying glory? or a team wins because it has passionate players who are willing to play their heart out for the team under any circumstances? Even back here home teams are starting to spend on players what about teams that cant afford such players. Yes every team is on its own but this big name players when they fail at the top teams go back to the so-called small teams which cannot afford their salary demands. Does spending a lot of money guarantee you success?

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Michel Platini addressing the European clubs of the new
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This type of spending has sparked a lot of concerns from the UEFA Presidnet Michel Platini to introduce the new rule of "Financial fair play" that will require team to spend less than what they are spending so far. This is because of the record loss of the 2009-2010 season whereby European Football clubs recorded a net loss of €1,6billion (£1,3bn) and total debt of  €8,4bn. Some of the teams affected were Man U as one of their owners lost a whooping £121m. The introduction of this new rule does not mean that teams must not but quality players even though they have wealthy owners, just that the teams must balance their books as they intent  to depend more on their owners in the later stage because of their heavy spending in the past.

ARE WE GOING TO SEE MORE MEDALS FOR TEAM SA?

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Team South Africa left for London Olympics with huge expectation form the nation and the Government as they set the standards high for them asking for 12 medals maximum , yes it might be out of reach now but hey have pulled out  a great performance, almost matching their best performance of 4 Gold medals and 2 silvers in the Stockhom Games a century ago in 1912. And we stand a chance of jumping our own record should we pick up more medals as the is five days to go on this prestigious tournament.

The competition is nearing its end and  team South Africa still have a chance to  add few medals to the four that we already have with possible medals from the likes of :

• Caster Semenya who will be making her debut in the Olympics today in the 800 meters women race after the saga of her gender issues at Berlin 2009 world champions
• Sunette Viljoen needed one throw to qualify for the finals of javelin throw with a distance of 65,92m for her to qualify automatically
• Bridgette Hartley qualified for the semi-finals in he women's kayak single(k1) 500m after finishing second behind Hungary's Danuta Kozak
• Lehann Fourie recorded his best ever time in the men's 110m hurdles of 13,49 seconds which has guaranteed him spot in the semi-finals
• Oscar Pistorious will have another shot for a medal when he will b running the 4x4 400m relay
• Anaso Jobodwa finished second in the 200m race behind Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre, they will both b participating in the semi-finals with the 100m champion Usain bolt
• Andre oliver missed out in the semi-finals after finishing fifth in the 800m race
• Men's hockey team was thrashed 5-3 by Argentina their next game is on Saturday against India in the hopes of securing the eleventh place in the playoff
• Richard Murray finished 17 in the triathlon as the gold medal went to Britain triathlete Alistair Brownlee.

As things stand South Africa stand a chance of getting more medals should things go their way but we must not shy away to the fact that they face a stiff competition ahead, it wont be a walk on the park for them. What we should do we should keep on supporting our fellow countrymen through out this competition as we have been doing. Today our swimming heroes will be lading in Mzanzi after pulling a great performance in the swimming competition with 3 medals 2 gold and 1 silver. Can we see more medals? will they manage to set a new record for South Africa? all will be revealed soon let us be the voice behind Mzanzi

WILL PSL CONCLUDE SPONSORSHIP DEALS IN TIME?



    Irvin "Duke" Khoza during PSL press conference at PSL office July 27 2012
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South African Premier Soccer League (PSL) is facing sponsorship crises as all four major sponsors of the football organisations are coming to an end. The question that everyone is asking is why did PSL leave the sponsorship negotiations so late? The PSL bosses said the is no use in pressing a panic button yet as they have everything under control regarding new contracts with the four official sponsorships.

PSL has four major sponsorships which they have been in a relationship for a while now and they include:

• Absa sponsoring the premier soccer league tittle
• MTN sponsoring the premier soccer league top 8 tournament
• Telkom sponsoring Telkom knockout tournament between all PSL clubs
• Nedbank sponsoring the Nedbank cup which include all PSL clubs and teams from  the national division

 From all this our sponsors only MTN has reached an agreement to continue with their relationship with PSL as it was announced on 30 Monday that the two have agreed on a 3 year deal with an optional of 2 years extension. The main issue is the league sponsor Absa whom signed a 5 year deal in 2007 of R500m spending R90m every season of football. A deal between this two is likely to happen as the is a crises in the world economy whereas PSL asking price looks to high for Absa.

Should the two organisations not come to an agreement who will sponsor the league tittle, as their is no company willing to pay such a huge amount of money like Absa have been doing. Should PSL reconsider their asking price or should they have started with the negotiation early. PSL chairman DR Irvin "Duke" Khoza said "PSL is likely to retain all of the main sponsors before the beginning of the league's games which start on 12 August 2012 an announcement will be made soon regarding this issue. hopefully an agreement Will be reached in time.

DRUG ABUSE (DOPING) IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

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The use of drugs in the sport world it is long documented history. the use of drugs in sports which is termed "Doping". Doping is the use of stimulants with the aim to increase the player's performance, this has  always been a huge problem as players use drugs in the believe that they enhance their chances of performing better that other players competing with them. The IAAF was the first International Sporting Federation in to prohibit doping back in 1928 by including it in their Handbook:

"doping is the use of any stimulant normally employed to increase the poser of action in athletic competition above the average. Any person knowingly acting or assisting as explained above shall be excluded form any place where this rules are in place or if he or she is a competitor be suspended for a time or otherwise from further participation in armature athletics under jurisdiction of its federation".

TYPES OF DRUGS USED IN SPORTS

There are so many types of drugs used in sports Peptide, Hormones analogue, Anabolic Epoietin alfa, Nandrolone and Tetrahydrogestinone are few and most of the drugs used in sports. And this drugs mostly help with increasing the size and muscles of the players, helps with growth, play a role in stimulating speed in the parts of the body including the brain making you less tired and the increase of red blood cells in the body. Most of this drugs are addictive and they could be of huge danger to a player when they are used on a regular base.

HOW DO THEY GET CAUGHT?

All over the world in any sporting code there is a random test taken on a regular base to check the health condition of players and check is they are involved in any doping. This is taken by the sample of a player's urine but this system is not effective in most cases as it is difficult for it to detect other types of drugs as some are naturally found in a human body, so this result in taking a blood sample of a player to detect if there are drugs consumed by the player. If the sportsperson is found guilty for doping he or she will face a harsh penalty.

PUNISHMENT SERVED FOR DOPING

Players found guilty for doping face a harsh penalty which was agreed by all sporting code, whereby 91 sporting codes signed The World Anti - Doping Agency code which came to action on the 1 of January 2012. If a player is caught doping intentionally he or she face a ban of four (4) years in participation of any sports and if it was by mistake from common medication the sportsperson will face the usual ban of two (2) years. The is a case whereby a sportsperson is found guilty for heavy doping like Maron Jones and her five medals at Sydney Olympics in this case the sportsperson face a double ban from any participation in sports.

Hopefully this will bring an end to doping as this brings shame to the name of sports. Sports is a fair game of entertainment and it has a lot on stake so cheating is not the best option to go with lets all say no to the use of drugs.