It is quite a sad day for South African supporters, to be watching your favourite team performing in a way that leaves you without the faintest hope of success even in the near future. Or even if the players themselves still play the game with passion and pride.
South African sport has not been rosy for almost every sporting code; there has just been drama and a lot of mismanagement with how we develop and run the sporting arena. It surely has been a dark and cloudy year. This past weekend we had a feast of sporting games with the Protease taking on the English side and “Amajita” taking on United Arab Emirates. Sporting fans were glued to their screens to see whether football has not completely lost its touch as our national team, and seeing as they will be in the same position in a few months time for the 2010 FIFA world cup.
The U20s ran into a tough and very competitive clash against the United Arab Emirates which saw them given a world class performance and drawing at the end 2-2 was the final score. The group which they are in is said to be one of the easiest group and we accept the boys to come out at the end victorious in this group.
Well our mighty proteases were not so mighty following what they call a premature exit out of the ICC champion’s trophy. The captain Graeme smith pulled all the stops but in the end the team came short and lost by a small margin to the young English team. Nowadays if a team performs badly somebody is always hinted as to be getting the boot. It is not so with the South African cricket team both the captain and coach still have their positions well intact even after their poor performance.
Umdlalo ngempela phela lo kudlalwa ngamehlo ethu…
S.P Gasa