The clock continues to tick down toward the opening game of the World Cup, which will pit hosts Bafana Bafana against a Mexican team that has to wonder about its bad luck in drawing the hosts for what will be an emotion-laden first game. There are fewer than a hundred days remaining before the world arrives in African for the globe’s premier team sporting competition.
FIFA has indicated that South Africa is ready for the event. And the country’s elite players are excited, even as the team roster is somewhat in flux. But all of the excitement may not matter if the team cannot do better than it did in squeaking out a draw against Namibia, a minnow by African standards, never mind globally, as it did on Wednesday night.
