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2018 Russia & 2022 Qatar World Cup Stadium Design Videos

2018 Russia & 2022 Qatar World Cup Stadium Design Videos

Two video clips showing some of the bid proposal imagery put together by the winning host nations for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup tournaments. Russia will host in 2018: With Qatar in line for the 2022 tournament: (I hear suggestions...

 

Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022

Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022

Today #FIFA announced the host countries for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA WORLD CUP touranments. Many people asked questions about awarding the next two World Cups at the same time.  Some say it’s to line the “outgoing regimes”...

 

Liverpool FC to be Sold to NESV

Liverpool FC to be Sold to NESV

News just in suggests that the iconic yet troubled English Premier League side Liverpool Football Club (LFC) is to be sold to American sports management concern New England Sports Ventures (NESV) In an announcement made earlier today, the...

 

Watching the World Cup on TV Can Kill You

Watching the World Cup on TV Can Kill You

JoBra’s Soccer Shorts Police say a South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup match instead of a religious program was beaten to death by his family. David Makoeya, a 61-year-old man from the village of Makweya, Limpopo province, fought...

 

Diski Dance Music Download

A couple of months back, to celebrate the 100 Days to Kick-off Flay the Flag celebrations, we posted a bunch of ideas and suggestions to help get the vibe going. One of those suggestions was to learn the Diski Dance and we linked to the music...

 

An Open Letter: Dear World Cup Visitors

An Open Letter: Dear World Cup Visitors

Edit: have just found that the original of this letter came from Peter Davies, the sports journalist, over on his blog page at SuperSport.com – As Eric notes, he was not the originator of the letter. The Boston Globes’ Big Picture has...

 

Free Download: 2010 World Cup Match Tracker

Free Download: 2010 World Cup Match Tracker

With the first round of Group Matches at the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa almost completed, The BlaBla Blog has put together this handy Match Tracker for free downloading, printing and use offline. Because we know how difficult it is...

 

The Opening Goals of the 2010 World Cup Lego Style

Awesome stop-motion video of the two opening goals of the 2010 World Cup using Lego players (and German commentary!) Legofussball! Yeah baby, yeah! The Opening Match played between host-nation South Africa and Mexico at Soccer City in Johannesburg,...

 

The Only Cin Finally Feels the FIFA Love

Our men and children were guests of Mahindra at the England / America football game. We were alone and at leisure to eat, drink and be quite merry. And we did. I left Linda sitting at our table. We’d feasted; she on a seafood platter and me...

 

Television, the Drug of the Nation – Breeding Ignorance and Feeding Radiation

Television, the Drug of the Nation – Breeding Ignorance and Feeding Radiation

Television, the drug of the nation of the United States of America, breeds ignorance and feeds radiation. And here’s the proof. Found on TwitPic where it was posted by @lookitskris, it shows a screen grab of the morning news broadcast of...

 

This is Where World Cup Pariahs Live

This is Where World Cup Pariahs Live

JoBra’s Soccer Shorts Woodbridge Island Cape Town. Home to multi-million Rand homes in Milnerton, Cape Town. A high-security complex accessible only via a dedicated bridge onto the island. Lots of facilities. No World Cup spirit. It’s where...

 

What a Day! What a Night!

What a Day! What a Night!

JoBra’s Soccer Shorts Oh my dear head! What a day it was yesterday. And what a night as well! 85,000 passionate fans in place inside the greatest football stadium the World Cup has ever had the privilege of starting at. I was in the nearby...

 

Advertising During the World Cup

On my blog on news24.co.za I mentioned that I’m currently freelancing at the ad agency who has Wimpy as a client. And this agency (MetropolitanRepublic) recently did an ad for Wimpy where they took the famous Impi song by Johnny Clegg...

 

Uniquely South African Pick Up Lines to Use on World Cup Visitors

Uniquely South African Pick Up Lines to Use on World Cup Visitors

The clubs, pubs, bars, shebeens, malls, fan parks and fan fests, hotels and lodges of South Africa are going to be teeming with delicious foreign delicacies visiting our shores for the first time. Surely it is the responsibility of the South...

 

24 Hours to Go

24 Hours to Go

With 24 hours to go till the opening ceremony of the FIFA™ 2010 SOUTH AFRICA WORLD CUP the excitement in our country has reached an all time high. I can honestly not remember when last our country was so alive. The waving flags on the cars,...