Talk:South Africa national football team
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http://www.egypt2006.com.eg/English/Qualified+Teams/South+Africa/squad.htm , its good too see they have included the token white players.
And they say they destroyed the apartheid.
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[edit] Soccer?
Since South Africans call soccer soccer, shouldn't the title be the South African national soccer team? Joziboy 27 Feb 2006, 18:54 UTC
- The governing body is the South African Football Association, so I think football should remain. Perhaps there should be a divert from South Africa national socccer team. Dancarney 22:22, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Clarification about World Cup record
The opening paragraph says that they tried to take all white, and all black teams to the 1966 and 1970 World Cups, and were then suspended in 1974. The World Cup record lower down suggests that they were banned from 1966 onwards. Could someone familiar with the situation please clarify it? Thanks. KeithD 11:10, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- I was coming here to talk about the same thing. Some research indicates that they were suspended from FIFA in 1962 re-admitted in 1963. Then in 1964 (not 1974) they were suspended again after they announced that they would send a white side to the 66 qualifiers and a black side to the 1970 qualifiers. - See - http://www.news24.com/News24/Sport/SA_2010_bid/0,,2-9-1606_1523624,00.html Jooler 10:17, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- Further research indicates that what happened was the the 1964 Conference of FIFA was in Tokyo and that the larger than normal African and Asian contingent overcame European resistance and voted to suspend them. Jooler 12:15, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bafana bafana?
Why are they called Bafana Bafana? What does that mean? --Awiseman 21:06, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Coach
Somewhen before 1994, Dieter Widmann was Choach of the national football team. (he is now teacher in germany). Don't know, when he was there, i'll add him without date —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.228.24.78 (talk) 18:34, 20 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] New Coach
Confirmed by both international press and himself, Joel Santana is the new coach. [1] [2] --201.79.218.204 (talk) 20:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
