South Africa is supposed to host next year’s World Cup, and without getting too deep into metaphors, it’s gonna be the Africa of World Cups.
Recently missed deadlines underscore the tight schedule the country faces in getting 10 venues prepared for the start of the tournament on June 11, 2010. [Ed. note: Four of the unfinished stadiums were supposed to be done last month, and the other six have "unrealistic" deadlines of next December.]…
When South Africa first bid for the World Cup finals, it was estimated the tournament would attract about 900,000 visitors to the country. Now the predicted number is less than half that number…
Oh, and the price tag for South Africa to build everything is six times what they predicted. And anyone who blows the whistle on corruption gets murdered. Wait, where are you going? I haven’t gotten to the AIDS pandemic yet!!!
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20 years later, Little Steven STILL ain’t gonna play Sun City.
Whelp looks like those government officials better get started on whoring themselves out if they’re gonna raise the money
People are starvin over there and that just ain’t balla to me.
LIKE I NEEDED ANOTHER FUCKING REASON TO BE COMPLETELY APATHETIC TO SOCCER! HOW MANY STADIUMS DO YOU NEED TO FUCKING PLAY ‘CHASE THE MONKEY’ OR ‘KICK THE DEAD BLOATED KID’???
They still got that Apartheid thing too.
THEN AGAIN, THEY ARE WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS AT ‘HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BINGO’! FUCKING TAKE THAT, CHINA!
“Where should we take our vacation this year?”
“Well, we can go to Paris in the springtime, or maybe watch the leaves turn in New England, or even a Caribbean cruise! No wait…I got it…WATCHING SOCCER IN AFRICA!!!”
I guess I could always give back the $23 million I got from the prince of Nigeria, if it would help.
I will not stand idly by and let any of you trash a country where you can go to a major sporting event and a beer costs you $1. That’s right, a fucking dollar. Do you know how drunk you can get at those games? So drunk you can successfully hallucinate that you’re watching something other than soccer.
You can also get drunk enough that you think it’s a good idea to assault the referee after he blows a call.
I would be lion if I said that I cared about this.
This should be africa-tastic…by which I mean a steaming pile of shit.
Do they know it’s Christmastime at all?
Ill pass. Its too hard to clutch my purse in a Haz-mat suit.
Of course this is all Munsoned. It’s Africa. It’ll be fun going from the most efficient country (Germany) to the quagmire that is Africa.
that whole USA for Africa thing really worked out well
More like African’t!! Am I right?? Fellas?
Hilarious pic 289. Reminds me of Bedknobs and Broomsticks where they play soccer against the animals. Please tell me I didn’t just say that.
Okay, i’ve been staring at this picture for 5 minutes. What the hell is that grey thing in between the giraffe and the yawning hippo? I’m gonna go with one of those rock monster things from Galaxy Quest.
Some friends and I were too lazy to make it to the Germany World Cup. We vowed to make the next one, saw it was in South Africa, saw the next one was in Brazil, and penciled in plans for 2014.
True story.
I echo Otto. Let me not imply that it was intentional, but I lived in Korea in 2002 and Germany in 2006. I actually attended the US upset of Portugal in 02. I watched the US tie Italy in a bar in Schweinfurt with a bunch of drunk…I don’t know…fans of a red and white flag country. I was drunk myself. But SA? Fuck no. I’ll sit that one out and hope for Brasilia. I don’t need double AIDS. You probably die double quick if you get it twice.