Another Angola collapse and crowds could plummet
January 14, 2010
African Nations Cup organisers will be bundle of nerves over the next 24 hours, contemplating the fate of host nation in the tournament.
Angola blew a phenomenal four goal lead in Sunday’s opening match against Mali and now look vulnerable to the prospect of early elimination if they fail to beat Malawi on Thursday (1830 GMT).
The 50,000 spectators at the new November 11 Stadium were stunned by the capitulation of their team, seemingly coasting home to the most positive of starts with just over 10 minutes to go before collapsing like a deck of cards and handing Mali an improbable point in a 4-4 draw.
Classic watching for the neutrals but heartbreak for the locals, and real concern for the organisers.
Angola are not given much chance of winning this Nations Cup but it was hoped that they would certainly be competitive, thereby energising a real fervour around the event.
Poor host teams seem plentiful these days. Little is expected of South Africa in six months’ time at the World Cup and both Austria and Switzerland departed Euro 2008 early.
That had little bearing on the tournament as crowds still flocked to the squares in Berne, Basel, Vienna and Zurich. For example, proximity made it possible to have an estimated 100,000 Dutchmen, all clad in Orange, invading the Swiss serenity.
But that is unheard of in Africa where distance and economic reality make travelling fans a rarity. There are a handful in Angola for the Nations Cup but barely visible or vocal and so it is up to the home team to ratchet up the intensity.
Angola drew a full house on Sunday but will they be able to fill the stadium on Thursday when they play their second Group A game? If they fail, will this be yet another Nations Cup characterised by empty seats and stadiums that echo with the shouts of the players?
There are certainly many examples from previous editions but only Tunisia in 1994 attempted a solution. After Tunisia’s side prematurely exited the competition, the organisers filled the stadiums with army recruits. The only problem was they were all dressed in the same brown fatigues and sat inanimate in the stands.
Hopefully Angola’s army will stay in their barracks a little bit longer.
PHOTO: Mali fans try to catch the jersey of El Hadj Mahamane Traore after the opening match against Angola at the African Nations Cup soccer tournament in Luanda Jan. 10, 2010. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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SAfrica to use World Cup to build football legacy
September 14, 2009
The 2010 World Cup will leave a football legacy through various development programmes, while organisers on Monday promised tourists “a truly African festival” during the event.
“The hosting of the World Cup will leave a lasting legacy for football in this country,” Danny Jordaan, head of the local organising committee, told journalists.
“One of the worst legacies of sport under apartheid is the dearth of football facilities in disadvantaged areas and the complete lack of recognition and support by the apartheid government of the sport.”
He said a project called ‘win in Africa with Africa’ would equip the host continent with the ability to continue its football development and will include construction of 52 football pitches.
Forty-four of these are already complete and 15 have already been used for 2010 qualifier matches.
As part of the tournament’s legacy Minister of Arts and Culture Lulu Xingwana promised tourists “a truly African festival”.
She said her department has met with other African ministers and the African Union commission responsible for arts and culture to provide artists and musicians.
She said this was “to ensure when we have festivals and carnivals they participate to make this an African tournament.”
Xingwana said there would be various cultural precincts around training venues to showcase, art, song and dance from all over the continent.
JOHANNESBURG (AFP)
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Robots face off on football pitch, in kitchen at RoboCup 2009
July 2, 2009
VIENNA (AFP) – RoboCup 2009, the world’s largest robotics event, kicked off Wednesday in the southern Austrian city of Graz, with some 400 teams and 2,000 robots ready to compete in sports and rescue operations.
On two or four legs, with wheels or virtually on a screen, robots of all sizes will battle it out on the football pitch — the most popular event — but also face off in a dance competition and domestic chores.
Participants from 44 countries are split into two categories, juniors and seniors, with the former dedicated to robots programmed by young people aged between 10 and 19.
Suitably for the occasion, robots performed the ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, marking the opening of the five-day event, which is organised by the Graz University of Technology.
Local officials were taken to the event in a driver-less bus using a sophisticated electronic system of lasers to scan the surrounding area and choose the appropriate route, organisers said.
More than just an entertainment event, RoboCup is also a scientific project, said the president of the 2009 edition, Manuela Veloso.
Besides the robot competitions, experts and electronic engineers can also attend conferences as part of the RoboCup symposium.
Among the participants, Iran sent the most teams with 50 in the running, followed by Germany and Japan, according to the organisers.
The event, which runs until July 5, was first organised in 1997 in Nagoya, Japan, and has since been held in Stockholm, Melbourne and Suzhou, China.
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Confederations Cup defies pessimists but is World Cup on course?
July 1, 2009
So, the Confederations Cup is over and much of the pessimistic handringing beforehand proved unfounded.
Despite some real logistical problems, the general verdict seems to be that the tournament was a success with enthusiastic and colourful crowds and some classy and unpredictable football, not least the United States’ shock semi-final defeat of Spain and a thrilling final where Brazil went 2-0 down to the Americans before storming back to win 3-2 and ensure the football world was not thrown off its axis.
Crucially, South Africa’s own team, Bafana Bafana, did a lot better than many of their own fans had expected. The side suffered a lot of bad press from their terrible pre-competition form — they did not even qualify for next year’s African Nations Cup finals — and Brazilian coach Joel Santana had been treated with scepticism by football writers and fans alike. Even Danny Jordaan, chief executive of the organising committee for next year’s World Cup, expressed concern over their form.
After a slow start, however, South Africa turned in a creditable, if not outstanding performance. They reached the semi-final and held eventual champions Brazil until the 88th minute when they went down to a scorching free kick by Daniel Alves. And in the third place final they pushed European champions Spain into extra time before finally losing 3-2, again to a freekick.
They badly need more strike power and it looks like Santana must make peace with English-based striker Benni McCarthy who was dropped from the team for his apparent lack of commitment. But their performance gave grounds for some optimism.
Bafana Bafana’s Confederations Cup performance was key to the 2010 World Cup because it will encourage local fan participation — a constant worry for the organisers, who expressed concern before this tournament about lack of home enthusiasm.
Nevertheless, there are continuing worries that even the cheapest World Cup tickets are still too expensive for working class South Africans and that they will be unwilling to pay in advance for entrance in a year’s time, something which goes directly against the entrenched local custom of buying tickets on match days.
World Cup matches attended predominantly by foreign fans and restrained, middle class South Africans would be a huge disappointment for the first World Cup held in Africa, where the unique local atmosphere was a major selling point.
That isn’t the only worry in considering what the Confederations Cup tells us about the likely success of next year’s much bigger global competition.
FIFA boss Sepp Blatter gave organisers 7.5 points out of 10 for the Confederations Cup but World Cup veterans said this was nothing to be complacent about, given his likely tendency to talk up the tournament. Even Blatter said South Africa had to do “a little bit more” and FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke was more direct, acknowledging problems with transport, security and accommodation capacity, which is still significantly below what will be required next year.
Security is a particularly sensitive issue, given South Africa’s frightening reputation for violent crime, so it was unfortunate that the Confederations Cup saw alleged thefts from both Egyptian and Brazilian teams, although some of the circumstances remain mirky.
More serious were security lapses in access to stadiums and other areas. Such failures must be cleared up in the time that remains if fans are to follow their teams without constantly looking over their shoulders.
So the Confederations Cup provided both encouragement and warnings. Okay so far, but much more to be done. The next 12 months may be both nerve racking and frenetic for the organisers but we are all still hoping for a reasonably trouble-free football extravaganza with the special atmosphere that only Africa can give it–including those pesky vuvuzela trumpets…
PHOTO: A South African fan at the June 28 Confederations Cup final REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
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FIFA working to fill Confed Cup stadiums
June 16, 2009
OHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) – South Africa’s football organisers are being put under pressure to generate more public enthusiasm for the Confederations Cup tournament, a spokesman for FIFA said here on Tuesday.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Monday criticised organisers of the Confed Cup for not doing enough to fill stadiums.
His comments came after the second match of the tournament of continental champions, featuring the world’s number one team Spain against New Zealand, which was played in front of a half-empty stadium in Rustenburg.
“We are really focused on working with our colleagues in the LOC (local organising committee) to invite people to go out and buy tickets and follow this tournament, which is a major competition in the footballing calendar,” FIFA spokesman Nicolas Maingot told AFP.
“For the first time in the history of the Confederations Cup, you have three teams participating which are in the top five of the FIFA rankings (Brazil, Italy and Spain): we can only urge people to go and buy tickets and support this tournament,” he added.
However, Maingot refused to confirm reports that free tickets might be distributed to fill the grounds. “Concrete measures will not be communicated at this stage,” he said.
Blatter held a meeting with organisers Monday to address the issue. FIFA had previously said it was confident it would witness sell-out stadiums at an event that is the traditional dress rehearsal for the World Cup.
There has been criticism of the lack of advertising of the Confederations Cup within the country, as well as dissatisfaction with the ticketing policy which is not suited to the pockets of South African soccer fans. The average match ticket costs 70 Rand (six euros, nine dollars) in a country where 43 percent of the population lives on two dollars a day.
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Confed Cup organisers pin hopes on marketing blitz
May 26, 2009
JOHANNESBURG, May 26, 2009 (AFP) – With only three weeks until the kick-off of the FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa, organisers are stepping up a marketing blitz to popularise the event, which remains little known here.
The publicity drive started at the beginning of the year, after the world football governing FIFA scolded the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for not adequately marketing the event, a dress rehearsal for the 2010 World Cup.
The LOC responded by saying they had a limited budget, arguing that such major events are self-promoting.
Nonetheless, marketing for the Confeds Cup has slowly picked up, with private companies and government agencies joining various football-themed campaigns.
Giant billboards bearing national flags of the eight countries taking part in the two-week football spectacle are cropping up in the four host cities.
Energy-charged radio and television adverts are flooding the airwaves, to boost ticket sales and bring excitement to the games.
The LOC is confident that the games will be played in fully packed stadiums, despite the late start of the promotion of the games, which run June 14 to 28.
“The billboards were left until later due to the national election campaign billboards and the Indian Premier League. We wanted to achieve the greatest impact,” said LOC spokeswoman Janet Sebastian.
Sebastian said advertising campaigns had cost the LOC 20 million rand (2.3 million dollars, 1.7 million euros ) over the past eight months.
Ticket sales have picked up since FIFA relaxed its online-only sales system, which locals deemed as too complicated in a country where Internet access remains a privilege.
Aiming to cater to South African fans used to buying tickets at the stadium on the day of the match, FIFA last month introduced kiosks where fans can buy tickets directly.
Over 25,000 tickets have been sold over the counter since the opening of the ticketing centres, according to FIFA. In April, a local bank purchased a bulk 50,000 tickets to lift flagging ticket sales.
FIFA said Thursday that nearly 400,000 tickets, 63 percent of those available, have been sold for the Confeds Cup, with three weeks still to go. For the last Confed Cup in Germany in 2005, about 85 percent of the tickets were sold.
One marketing expert warned that the late start to the promotions could hurt the chances of filling the stadiums.
“You cannot guarantee that people will just flock to the stadiums, simply because South Africans are football fanatics,” said Michael Blosch, of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth.
“To say that they did not want their campaigns to coincide with other public events is a bit of a red herring,” he added.
But fans say enthusiasm is building. Mzion Mofokeng is a national icon for his elaborate costumes worn at nearly every match of South Africa’s biggest club, Orlando Pirates. He believes South Africans are finally gearing up for the tournament.
“I think South Africans are now getting in the mood for the Confed, they are excited to see stars like Kaka and Ronaldino in action,” said Mofokeng, referring to the Brazilian stars.
“People were frustrated about the initial ticketing process, they were not comfortable with having money debited from their accounts. The new process has made things a lot easier for them,” he added.
The state-funded International Marketing Council (IMC), which is tasked with marketing the country abroad, has also pitched in to help put a spark on the games.
The company is running vibrant dance promotions on television, which it hopes will become a macarena-style global phenomenon.
“The aim is to drive excitement for a football championship that is going to be colourful, vibrant, intoxicating and alive with a fusion of cultures, dance, song and music,” IMC acting chief Paul Bannister said.
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South Africa ready for Confed Cup, says FIFA
May 15, 2009
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – With one month until the kick-off of the FIFA Confederations Cup, organisers said Thursday that South Africa was ready to host the event, seen as a dress rehearsal for the World Cup next year.
“We approach the tournament with confidence,” said Danny Jordaan, the head of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee.
Despite worries about South Africa’s alarming crime rate, with an average of 50 murders a day, and a public transportation system that is still being built, Jordaan said the country was ready to host the Confed Cup.
“Our stadiums are ready, our transport and security plans have been fine-tuned and more than 4,000 volunteers have been trained in preparation for the first major FIFA tournament on African soil,” he said
“We know we still have much to do, but I can assure you we will not disappoint.”
Derick Blanckensee of the FIFA competitions division said all four stadiums to be used for the Confed Cup matches were ready, although some of the pitches were still being prepared.
“Some for the stadiums need a little bit more work as there had been a lot of activities especially rugby matches,” he said, adding that experts were monitoring the pitches.
Organisers also announced that they had hired Grammy-winning artist Lebo M, best known for creating the music to Disney’s “Lion King”, to stage the opening and closing ceremonies.
South Africa’s deputy police chief Andre Pruis said law enforcement was receiving weekly intelligence updates from around the world to help monitor any potential criminal activity.
Interpol will also send a team to help local police during the games, he added.
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Malaysia to push beach football: report
March 6, 2009
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Malaysia’s football association says it plans to promote beach football across the country, with a slew of events aimed at gauging how Malaysians respond to the game, according to reports.
Chairman of the body’s football and beach soccer committee Hamidin Mohamed Amin told the Star daily three beach soccer carnivals would be held in 2009.
"The game is still in the infant stages here and we are testing waters before we take it to the district, state and national levels," he was quoted as saying by the paper.
He said the first beach soccer event would be the inaugural Tower Beach Soccer Langkawi Carnival on northern Kedah state’s Langkawi island March 20-22 with the two others planned in the resort island of Penang and the east coast state of Pahang.
Organisers of the Langkawi carnival told the paper they expect 64 teams to take part in the three-day competition.
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Kruger plays in SAfrica World Cup plans
February 19, 2009
KRUGER PARK, South Africa (AFP) – Lounging peacefully on the terrace, watching the elephants, leopards and antelopes gather at the watering hole.
That’s how hundreds of football fans will relax in South Africa’s Kruger National Park on "soccer safaris", after taking in World Cup matches in the nearby city of Nelspruit.
With 100,000 people, Nelspruit is among the smaller of the host cities and doesn’t have enough accommodation for the fans expected to arrive here in June 2010.
So organisers are tapping resources in the tourist magnet of Kruger game park, just a two-hour drive away.
"Any person who comes so close to Kruger would definitely come to see the game. You cannot miss it if you’re that close to it, especially coming from Europe or Asia," said Stephen Nel, a manager at the Berg-en-Dal rest camp.
About 1.3 million tourists each year visit the park, which is about half the size of the Netherlands and has a highly developed network to accommodate guests.
During the World Cup, the camps of Skukuza, Berg-en-Dal and Pretoriuskop will host nearly 2,000 fans in search of South Africa’s "Big Five" – elephants, buffalo, leopard, lions and rhinos.
FIFA partner responsible for accommodation, Match, is offering packages that include lodging, transport and safaris, which could mean pre-dawn drives to catch the animals at sun-up, twilight hikes, or dinner in the bush.
To allow the guests to see the football matches, Kruger is reworking its rules. The park currently closes at 6:00 pm, and some games at Nelspruit’s Mbombela stadium will only kick off two hours later.
Armed rangers will escort the fans back to their lodges and tents, "to protect them from lions, elephants and other dangerous animals," according to South African National Parks.
"They’ll probably change the opening times of the restaurants as most of our guests would be for the World Cup," Nel added.
He said that the camp had welcomed guests from the rugby World Cup in 1995, but that was on a smaller scale that what organisers expect in 2010.
The World Cup will be the biggest event ever held in this rural province, with Nelspuit building a 46,000-seat stadium for the occasion.
"Initially, there was a shortage of accomodation," said FS Siboza, operations manager for the city.
But he said the new guesthouses have opened in the city, and two other towns are helping to ensure enough beds are available during the tournament, he said.
The city expects new hotels will be built, while some homeowners plan to leave on vacation and to rent out their homes to the tourists.
Organisers are even considering creating tented campsites for visitors, spread around a 200-kilometre (125-mile) radius, including in neighbouring Swaziland and Mozambique.
FIFA wants to ensure that 55,000 rooms are available across the country during the World Cup. Right now there are 34,000, making Kruger’s model an appealing option that could be expanded to other national parks.
The only requirement for the "soccer safaris" is that guests can actually see the matches. At Berg-en-Dal, they will be housed in simple cottages built in 1985, without televisions.
The camp is thinking about setting up a TV in a conference room so the fans can watch games in other towns… if they find generators to keep the electricity running.
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Angola pours millions into African Nations Cup
January 20, 2009
LUANDA (AFP) – Oil-rich Angola is pouring millions of dollars into new stadiums, hotels and airports to get ready for the 2010 African Nations Cup, which officials say will kick off on schedule in less than 12 months.
The decision to award Nations Cup – known as CAN – to Angola surprised some who did not believe the former Portuguese colony could get itself ready in time, having only ended a 27-year civil war in 2002.
But according to the organising committee, stadium construction is running to schedule and preparations are well underway.
"In relation to the construction of stadiums, the schedule will be met," CAN’s marketing director Manuel Mariano told journalists after a meeting with top government officials last week.
Four new stadiums in Benguela, Lubango, Cabinda and the capital Luanda, where the final will be held, are being built by Chinese construction companies.
While no figures have been released about the costs of organising the three-week tournament or building the stadiums, the national airport company says it’s spending more than 270 million dollars refitting and rebuilding airports in Luanda, Benguela and Lubango.
A major priority for organisers after the stadiums is making sure there is enough accommodation. Currently hotel rooms in Angola are few and far between, costing as much as 300 dollars a night and booked up months in advance.
According to the organising committee, 30 hotels are being built, 16 of them in Luanda, and ordinary Angolans will rent rooms to visitors.
Another key concern is the potential cost to visitors because Luanda, according to London-based human resources consultant ECA International, is the most expensive city in the world with a litre of milk costing three dollars and a pizza and beer as much as 50 dollars.
The committee has also pledged to make sure the notoriously difficult visa application process would be looked at to prevent delays for spectators coming to Angola.
But, perhaps used to the daily challenges of bad roads, high prices and lack of services, most Angolans are confident the competition will be a success.
Silvio Capuepue, an Angolan sports journalist, believes the Nations Cup is a catalyst for development.
"Hosting the 2010 Nations Cup is without a doubt speeding up the reconstruction of the country after the war, especially in the host cities," he said.
"Angolans are happy and are conscious of the magnitude of the event. People are starting to see an impact in their normal lives, those that had no jobs for such a long time are now having jobs and are being able to bring money home.
"And in terms of the football, hosting the tournament motivates and grooms the growing talents that are coming up in the country."
He said he was confident the stadiums would be ready on time and that the organisation would run smoothly.
"We have hosted three African basketball tournaments and two handball tournaments so I believe we have the experience. In 2007 people did not think we would be ready in time for Afrobasket, but we were. With the same strength, the same capacity and the same willing, we will make sure we are ready."
Angola’s national team – known as Palancas Negras after the country’s extremely rare sable antelope – have had a tough time on the pitch and failed to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
A coaching reshuffle saw Mabi de Almeida take over from Luis Oliveira Goncalves and he has pledged to do his best for the home crowd during the 2010 tournament.
Angola’s Prime Minister Paulo Kassoma said last week that hosting the tournament would boost the country’s self esteem and appealed to Angolans to support their national team.
"It’s our responsibility to win the 2010 Nations Cup and prove we are Angolan. We want to show the capacity of Angolans to organise high-level competitions."
The tournament is played every two years and was won by Egypt for a record sixth time in Ghana last year.
This will be the first Nations Cup hosted by a Portuguese-speaking country.
Written by: AFP
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