"""the boys, the boys"". Its actual meaning in Zulu is, ""Go boys! Go boys!"", though others take the double use of ""Bafana"" to mean ""all of the boys""---the team and management, as well as the spectators; togetherness, as in the African concept of ubuntu. In July 1992, at Kings Park stadium in Durban, fans shouted ""Bafana bafana"" [GO BOYS GO BOYS] when South Africa was on the verge of beating Cameroon and after the game. A group of three journalists, from South Africa newspaper ""The Sowetan"", then began to use the name in print when referring to the team. The"
"to secure Nigeria's qualification as Congo beat Sudan 1–0 to book their place at the tournament. Under Mashaba, South Africa failed to qualify for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. This, in addition to the various controversies, disparaging remarks that Mashaba allegedly made about SAFA top officials, his supposedly arrogant nature and his ill treatment of overseas based stars, led to his suspension after leading South Africa to a 2−1 victory over Senegal in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier. ""Bafana Bafana"" is a nickname given to the national side by its fans. It is Zulu and translates literally as"
"of the name in all classes. The court held that an intention to use a mark does not create a preference to registration, and that the proprietor of a trade mark need not be its originator. In 2011 SAFA paid R5 million to Standton Woodrush Ltd for rights to the name ""Bafana Bafana"", in class 25 and all other classes. The South Africa national football team does not use a single stadium as its home stadium for matches. Instead, they use a variety of stadiums throughout South Africa to host matches at. The largest venue used is the 94,700-seater Soccer"
"later by the announcement from Puma, that they too would step down as technical sponsors of Bafana Bafana. Since March 2014, the official kit provider is American sporting apparel company Nike from the international friendly match against Brazil. The team now has one main sponsor, Castle Lager, a brand owned by South African Breweries. Smaller sponsors and suppliers include Energade and Tsogo Sun Hotels. The following players were named in the squad for the match against Nigeria scheduled on 17 November 2018. <br>""Caps and goals as of 21 November 2018 after the game against Paraguay South Africa national football team"
"Bafana"" rack up 6 successive draws to start the year. The run of draws included 1–1, 0–0 and 1–1 draws at home to African champions Zambia, Ghana and Senegal respectively in International Friendlies. Following a 1–1 draw at home to Ethiopia in a 2014 World Cup qualifier, head coach Pitso Mosimane was fired. The draw increased South Africa's streak to 7 games without a win. Mosimane was replaced as head coach by Steve Komphela on an interim basis while SAFA interviewed potential candidates to fill the post on a permanent basis. In his first game in-charge as interim head coach,"
"historically been particularly popular amongst persons of African descent and is South Africa's most popular sport. The South Africa national football team, ""Bafana Bafana"", has not enjoyed considerable success since the early 20th Century. South Africa is one among the only four countries which have played world cups of all three major games - Cricket, football, and rugby. England, New Zealand, and Australia are the other three such nations. ""England"" plays all three games in the elite level, but along with ""Australia"" and ""New Zealand"", ""South Africa"" is dominant power in ""cricket"" and ""rugby union"" only. Other popular sports include:"
"Cup. Following the 1998 World Cup, the kits for all South African national football teams were supplied by German sports apparel company Adidas. The sponsorship deal is believed to be worth R14 million per year. Their contract with the South African Football Association ran until the end of 2010. On 7 June 2011, SAFA announced Puma as its new technical sponsor and unveiled Bafana Bafana's new kit. In October 2013, ABSA announced its resignation as a sponsor of SAFA and the South African national team as of the end of their contract in December 2013. This was followed a week"
"one group game and the final. The games were: FNB stadium has been used by the South African national football team for both friendlies and qualification matches. It was seen as the de facto national stadium for Bafana Bafana after re-admission in 1992, who played their third ever international match there on 11 July 1992 where they drew 2-2 with Cameroon courtesy of goals from Phil and Bennett Masinga for South Africa in front of 65,000 supporters. The ""old"" FNB Stadium also housed the then South African Football Association (SAFA) headquarters as well as the offices of the semi-professional National"
"Soccer League (which later traded as the professional Premier Soccer League). The stadium has also hosted large continental club fixtures. It is largely remembered as the venue where Bafana Bafana lifted the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations when they beat Tunisia 2-0 in front of a full capacity in a match witnessed by then South African president, Nelson Mandela, his then deputy president and former South African State President, FW de Klerk, as well as Zulu monarch, King Zwelithini. The South African national football team also won their first ever trophy here when they lifted the Simba Four Nations Cup"
"for a win, and 1 point for a draw. Teams are separated first on points, and then on goal difference. The women's tournament starts at the semi-final stage. All matches are played on Monday evenings. Notes: Players who have since represented Bafana Bafana. The tournament is sponsored by: Varsity Football (South Africa) Varsity Football is a South African university association football competition. It is one of seven sports in the Varsity Sports series. The annual tournament involves the top football playing universities in the country, which belong to the University Sports Company. The tournament is run by Varsity Sports South"
"South Africa national football team The South Africa men's national football team represents South Africa in association football and is controlled by the South African Football Association, the governing body for football in South Africa. South Africa's home ground is FNB Stadium, so named due to a naming rights deal, in Johannesburg. The team is currently under the charge of Stuart Baxter, who was appointed as coach on 5 April 2017. The team's greatest achievement was winning the Africa Cup of Nations at home in 1996. Having played their first match in 1924, they returned to the world stage in"
"ambitious football youth, who is faced with poverty, AIDS and violence, but eventually makes his way on to the South African national team. The film is based on a novel by Lutz van Dijk and premiered at the Berlinale 2010. Doctor Khumalo Theophilus “Doctor” Khumalo (born 26 June 1967 in Soweto), also known as ""16 valve"", is a retired South African soccer player. He is best known for being a star midfielder for Kaizer Chiefs as well as the South African national team, ""Bafana Bafana"". Having started playing soccer in 1984 with Swallows Reserves, Khumalo then went to Kaizer Chiefs,"
"and 2000 where South Africa failed to win a fixture after being seeded in tough groups at both tournaments where they had to play world champions Australia along with England, Fiji, France, Papua New Guinea and Tonga. South Africa traditionally play in a predominately green uniform with black shorts, they have commonly been referred to as ""The Rhinos"" since the early 1990s. The South African emblem is a red and yellow King Protea plant which is the national flower of South Africa. South African internationals are played at a variety of venues throughout the country with no singular home ground"
"call-up, not retired players. ! colspan=""9"" bgcolor=""#B0D3FB"" align=""left"" | ! colspan=""9"" bgcolor=""#B0D3FB"" align=""left"" | South Africa national development football team The South Africa national development football team, is a development football (soccer) team, which represents South Africa and is controlled by the South African Football Association, the governing body for football in South Africa. The team's main objective is to give international exposure to fringe home-based players, by allowing them to play 'B-level' internationals. Since the advent of the African Nations Championship, the team now attempts to qualify for and play at the event. Since 2008 SAFA have sent the"
"against Mexico, which ended 1–1. Next, the ""Bafana Bafana"" played against Uruguay, but they lost the game 3–0. In their final group game, he scored the 2nd goal in a 2–1 win against France as South Africa exited the competition. Mphela opened the scoring in South Africa's first international match following the 2010 World Cup putting South Africa up 1–0 against Ghana. Mphela scored the winner for South Africa against Egypt in the 93rd minute with a perfect finish that saw the North Africans beaten by South Africa for the first time in competitive football between the two countries and"
"defeat of Mozambique on 11 September 2012. Furman was selected for the final squad of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations tournament hosted by his home country. In the second group match of the tournament, the Bafana Bafana convincingly defeated Angola 2–0 and Furman was named as Man of the Match. Furman played the full 90 in South Africa's final group game, a 2–2 draw with Morocco, that secured Bafana Bafana top spot in the group and ensured their first passage to the quarter-finals of the competition since 2002. The quarter-final game against Mali on 2 February ended 1–1 after"
"– and thereby gaining an automatic qualifying ticket on head to head record with the South Africans erroneously thinking goal difference would be the primary tie-breaker. The SABC also announced that the team had qualified and the SAFA president Kirsten Nematandani then congratulated the team on TV before realisation dawned. SAFA said they would appeal to CAF but the appeal was later withdrawn. South Africa continued to disappoint into 2012, opening the year with a lacklustre 0–0 draw away to 2012 Africa Cup of Nations co-hosts Equatorial Guinea. This would be the start of a run that would see ""Bafana"
"league. The league is believed to have been discontinued as no more seasons have been played since the early 2000s. In 2012, then Minister of Sports and recreation, Fikile Mbalula, called for the creation of a women's football league after the national women's football team, Banyana Banyana, returned from the 2012 Olympic Games defeated. South Africa women's national football team, nicknamed ""Banyana Banyana"" has been participating in international soccer since 1993, when they beat Swaziland 14-0 on 30 May of that year. This is their biggest win to date. The team is controlled by the South African Football Association. ,"
"South Africa national cricket team The South African national cricket team, nicknamed the Proteas (after South Africa's national flower, ""Protea cynaroides"", commonly known as the ""king protea""), is administered by Cricket South Africa. South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status. South Africa entered first-class and international cricket at the same time when they hosted an England cricket team in the 1888–89 season. At first, the team was no match for Australia or England but, having gained in experience and expertise, they were able to"
"Road was the most popular in that period. While it is always associated with legendary Soweto side, Moroka Swallows, who have the club's memorabilia and history inside the venue - Dobsie Stadium has hosted a number of international class events that include the 2009 African Youth (Under-20) Championship football tournament, the 2010 Gauteng Future Champs as well as a number of South African national football fixtures that include Banyana Banyana (the SA National Women's Football Team) and the SA National Men's Football Team's (Bafana Bafana) international fixture against Mauritius in their 2016 African Nations Championship qualifier in July 2015. Dobsonville"
"team's head coach Clive Barker during the tournament. In 1998, Sono was appointed as caretaker coach of the ""Bafana Bafana"" just before the African Nations Cup tournament in Burkina Faso in the place of Clive Barker, who had been sacked just before the event. Under Sono, the team reached the final of the tournament, where they lost to Egypt. Taking the short time that he had to prepare with the team into account, it was considered a remarkable feat. After a disappointing performance by the South African national squad during the 2002 African Nations Cup in Mali, Sono was again"
"issues and low attendance rates prompted them to move to the FNB Stadium.It is currently the training venue for arch-rivals Orlando Pirates. After it was temporarily closed down for renovations and revamped, Rand Stadium hosted the 2009 Nedbank Cup final between Moroka Swallows and the University of Pretoria. The South Africa national football team (""Bafana Bafana"") use Rand Stadium as a training ground. The stadium has hosted two international fixtures. an African Cup of Nations qualifier against Mauritius in April 1993 which finished in a goalless draw. The ground hosted the second ever Bafana match when they hosted Angola in"
"Bafana"" on 20 June 2004 in a 3–0 defeat to Ghana. The high point of his international career was playing at the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan where he made a substitute appearance in all three of South Africa's group matches. In total, he accumulated 13 caps scoring one goal. George Koumantarakis Georgios ""George"" Koumantarakis (; born 27 March 1974 in Athens, Greece) is a retired South African football player of Greek descent. He was born in Athens, Greece but grew up in Durban, South Africa. Was top goals scorer in the PSL in 1997.He is mostly"
"of AFL Auskick, footyWILD High for high schools, footyWILD Extreme for open age competition & footyWILD Roar Talent for talent scouting. South African National team is South African Lions taking its name from the King of the African jungles. The South African National Team participated in all the previous AFL International Cup Events in 2002 as (South African Buffaloes), 2005, 2008, 2011 and 2014 (as South African Lions). The South African Teams were coached by Dale Alsford (2002), Steven Harrison (2005), Jason McCartney (2008), Steward Edge (2011) and Wayne Miller (2014). Benjamin Motuba, one of the longest serving football player"
"of their matches and subsequently firing coach Paulo Duarte. Belgian coach Paul Put was announced as new coach in March 2012. Burkina Faso finished first of their group, but lost to Nigeria in the final of 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. The team is nicknamed ""Les Etalons"", which means ""The Stallions"". It is in reference to the legendary horse of Princess Yennenga. The following players have been selected for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier match against Angola on 18 November 2018. <br>""Caps and goals updated as of 18 November 2018 after the game against Angola."" The following players"
"tribe and their totem is a crocodile, and they refer to each as ""kwena"" or ""mokwena"" meaning crocodile in Tswana language. The Royal Bafokeng Stadium, a venue for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2010 FIFA World Cup, is located in Phokeng. The England national football team was based in Phokeng during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Phokeng Phokeng is a town in the North West province of South Africa. It is the capital of the Royal Bafokeng Nation and lies near Rustenburg. Historically, it was known as ""Magatostad"" among white South Africans. Phokeng gained its name from the"
"South Africa national development football team The South Africa national development football team, is a development football (soccer) team, which represents South Africa and is controlled by the South African Football Association, the governing body for football in South Africa. The team's main objective is to give international exposure to fringe home-based players, by allowing them to play 'B-level' internationals. Since the advent of the African Nations Championship, the team now attempts to qualify for and play at the event. Since 2008 SAFA have sent the team to the COSAFA Cup, instead of the senior team. The team has played"
"On 14 June 2017, fellow Eredivisie club Vitesse announced the signing of Serero on a three-year deal. Serero has played for the South Africa U-20 team. He earned his first cap for South Africa on 9 February 2011. He came on as a second-half substitute in a friendly against Kenya. He scored his first ""Bafana Bafana"" goal against Swaziland in a non-friendly match ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He was released from the national team squad due to disciplinary reasons the day before their 2014 World Cup qualification group match against Botswana on 7 September 2013. According to"
"hosted the England football team during the World Cup. The Bafokeng tribe (Bafokeng meaning 'People of the dew', or 'People of the grass') own a piece of land in South Africa's bushveld on which 150,000 people, not all ethnic Bafokeng, live. Oral tradition suggests that when they settled in the Rustenburg valley, it captured heavy overnight dew, holding the promise that the land would be fertile and hence that the community would prosper. The Bafokeng struggled to buy the land, repelling invaders and imperialists as they did so. About 100-150,000 ethnic Bafokeng live in an area some 150 km north-west"
"Komphela oversaw yet another uninspired performance in South Africa's second World Cup qualifier against Botswana as they drew yet again, extending their winless run to 8 games. ""Bafana Bafana"" finally tasted victory when they defeated Gabon 3–0 at home in a friendly, ending their winless streak. Komphela, along with Gordon Igesund, Gavin Hunt, Neil Tovey and Ephraim ""Shakes"" Mashaba had been shortlisted as one of the candidates to be the next head coach of South Africa, with Komphela and Igesund emerging as the front-runners. On 30 June 2012, Gordon Igesund was appointed as the new head coach. Following the crisis"
"FNB Stadium First National Bank Stadium or simply FNB Stadium, also known as Soccer City and The Calabash, is a stadium located in Nasrec, bordering the Soweto area of Johannesburg, South Africa. The venue is managed by Stadium Management South Africa (SMSA) and is a home ground of Kaizer Chiefs F.C. in the South African Premier Soccer League as well as key fixtures for the South African national football team (Bafana Bafana). It is located next to the South African Football Association headquarters (""SAFA House"") where both the FIFA offices and the Local Organising Committee for the 2010 FIFA World"
"South Africa national Australian rules football team The South African national Australian rules football team (nicknamed the Lions) represent South Africa in the sport of Australian rules football. The senior side represents the best South African born players as selected from clubs and leagues of AFL South Africa. South Africa had its international debut at the 2002 Australian Football International Cup but the inexperienced team went through the tournament winless. It registered its first international win in the 2005 Australian Football International Cup against Japan. Since 2007, through significant development funding and reciprocal tours, South Africa has regularly competed against"
"and 400 metres; and swimmer Natalie du Toit, who became the first amputee to compete in swimming at the (able-bodied) Olympics in 2008. South Africa's national sporting colours are green, gold and white. The protea is the national emblem worn by South Africans representing their country in sport. The national men's rugby union team is nicknamed the ""Springboks"", while the national men's cricket team is known as the ""Proteas"". Sport in South Africa South Africans have a passionate following, although they remain divided along ethnic lines. Football, cricket and rugby are the most popular sports. Rugby union has traditionally been"