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Football: Defeated Dutch honoured at home

Thousands of fans turned the canals of Amsterdam into a sea of orange Tuesday, honking vuvuzelas and throwing confetti at the Dutch football team after its nailbiting World Cup defeat to Spain.

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Back to school for South Africa’s football coaches

South Africa has just successfully hosted the World Cup but footballing infrastructure in the country is still woefully inadequate. Grounds are dilapidated, there’s not enough kit and balls and coaches are under-qualified

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Back to school for South Africa’s football coaches

Back to school for South Africa’s football coaches

South Africa has just successfully hosted the World Cup but footballing infrastructure in the country is still woefully inadequate. Grounds are dilapidated, there’s not enough kit and balls and coaches are under-qualified.

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Football fans ‘targeted’ in Uganda bomb attacks

Bomb blasts have ripped through two separate bars in Uganda’s capital Kampala, killing at least 23 people. .

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Raw Video: Singer Shakira Attends FIFA Briefing

Colombian pop star Shakira said in a news briefing on Saturday that she had become a football ‘fanatic’ during the course of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, a day before she headlines the closing ceremony of the event. (July 10)

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S.African football fanatic sets new World Cup match record

He could be called the world’s biggest football fan. By the end of the World Cup, Thulani Ngcobo will have attended 38 of the 64 World Cup fixtures — a 17000-kilometre match marathon that has earned the 29-year-old a spot in the Guinness book of world records. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report.

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Afghan women throw off prejudice to play football

Afghan women are proving they can bend it like the best by throwing aside prejudice and taking to the football pitch. The national team’s field lies attached to the NATO headquarters which offers some protection but means some unusual interruptions are inevitable.

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