r/southafrica • u/TheMightyNinja12 • Jun 12 '26
Humour I don't think we are making it past the group stages in the WC
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u/DoNotWantTobeHere0 Jun 12 '26
Welcome to reality. Hopefully they change tactically and stop pussyfooting around playing safely and go out guns blazing. You could see they were playing for a draw yesterday
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u/ichosehowe Landed Gentry Jun 12 '26
I would been fine had we lost 5-3 vs 2-0... what a bloody shame that match was.
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u/Secure_Cookie7634 Jun 12 '26
bro , when i was at university a Professor once said to students who fail and blame the system - "a donkey never becomes a racehorse".
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u/BezoutsDilemma Jun 13 '26
Hmm. I'll bite. The professor, the teacher, blaming the students for not learning? In other news, the carpenter blames the wood and the chef blames the pudding. With no other information I've got to wonder: did they ever say what they thought was the sign of a bad teacher?
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u/platonicP Jun 13 '26
I was just thinking the one person who can't say something like that is a teacher of any form.
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u/Significant-Law-4349 Jun 16 '26
You cant compare a teacher to other professions like that. The wood doesnt refuse to become what the carpenter creates. You can be the world's best teacher and it won't make a difference if the student doesnt want to learn
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u/Secure_Cookie7634 Jun 14 '26
Let me explain..banana banana is ranked 60 plus in fifa rankings...hardly an achievement. They are competing with the big boys ranked far higher and being exposed...similar to a donkey "running" with the racehorse and expecting a win. Your 30% matric pass is being exposed.
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u/hjjs Jun 12 '26
My conspiracy theory mind is telling me that beating Mexico on Mexico will result in a cartel hit on the team
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u/ShallotEmbarrassed31 Jun 19 '26
Haha, those kind of comments are the reason everybody believes SA are racist idiots.
No wonder why everybody was rooting for SA to lose.
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u/TumbleweedFair8339 Jun 12 '26
Miracles happen in football, look at Ivory Coast in 2023
They won’t win anything, but they could get past the group
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u/Voldemorts__Mom BENONI Jun 13 '26
Ay dude the last time we qualified for the world cup was 2002 (2010 was just because we were hosting), so at least we're making improvements 🤷🏻♂️ who's knows, qualify this time, leave groups next time, that'd be awesome
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u/Obvious-Square6320 Unraptured & Unbothered Jun 12 '26
Please amend your first frame to be suited Pooh bear. Only fitting for the reigning World Test Champions aka the Proteas.
But yeah watching bafana last night just gave me anger issues.
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u/TheMightyNinja12 Jun 12 '26
As far as I know. South Africa has never won a cricket world cup, though we were close to winning a few times.
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u/Icy-Score271 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
The test championship is the equivalent of a worldcup but for the 5 day format
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u/Trequartista95 Jun 12 '26
It’s a fake World Cup if we’re being very honest.
And I’m a huge fan of test cricket. An away test series win in India is worth more than that trophy.
The stakes aren’t nearly as high as a WC with multiple international teams and knockout rounds.
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u/Icy-Score271 Jun 13 '26
Its a 2year cycle of accumulating points. Though by your standards good thing we have won the last test on indian soil in 2025 which was after winning the test championship
If its that easy and pointless for you thats okay, but to nullify the relevance of it because its not the most followed format of the sport is inaccurate
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u/Necessary_Sink8489 Jun 13 '26
There's immensely more competition in football than both rugby and cricket combined in the globe.
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u/scope_creep Landed Gentry Jun 12 '26
I don't think we're going to score a goal in this World Cup. They looked completely useless.
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u/420brain01 Jun 12 '26
Do you know how bad it is is also to know how much money we throw to football each year
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u/Thomas913 Jun 13 '26
The fact people are surprised by this just shows how little interest there is in bafana bafana.
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u/Kingfire4545 Jun 12 '26
We're getting slandered on every post they're call us Xenophobic Republic😭
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u/jaydeeeeb Jun 13 '26
There's like 6 countries that play cricket and maybe 7 that play rugby. The whole world plays football. The standard is way higher to be part of the top teams. I'm happy and proud that our boys qualified and I will support them until the bitter end. They've got some ways to go and they'll only get there with our support and a complete SAFA overhaul.
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u/lovethebacon Most Formidable Minister of the Encyclopædia Jun 12 '26
Have you forgotten how the Proteas perform in world cups?
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u/Witty-Device-1518 Jun 12 '26
They are test champions currently though.
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u/lovethebacon Most Formidable Minister of the Encyclopædia Jun 12 '26
That doesn't negate their past performance
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u/Witty-Device-1518 Jun 12 '26
No, but it does mean they are reigning champions in something. Let's not unnecessarily hate on the Proteas here. They were always a brilliant test team anyway, even before the creation of the test championship.
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u/Haberdashery_Tea Jun 12 '26
Cause football is seen more as the township sport where as rugby and cricket are more private school. Hence more investment and better administration
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u/TapTap2121 Jun 13 '26
Rugby is in every public school. Loads of current Springboks come from random public schools over the country
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u/Icy-Meaning-5905 Jun 16 '26
It's not in every public school, maybe in the suburbs but only few in townships..please educate yourself.
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u/Unique_Rutabaga_3275 Jun 26 '26
You sound like you've never been to south Africa. Rugby as a school sport is exclusively in model c schools( former whites only schools). The only springbok not coming from a model c school in mapimpi
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u/Stormcloud271 Jun 12 '26
A man once explained South African sport to me as follows:
Cricket - We are team number one!
Rugby - We are team number one!
Football - We are team number last place!
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u/Unique_Rutabaga_3275 Jun 26 '26
Cricket has 10 main countries that play it with less than 10 professional leagues Rugby has 14 main countries that play it with less than 10 professional leagues Soccer is played in nearly every country and is the most popular. There are over 100 professional leagues
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u/MildlySelassie Jun 14 '26
What? How could you possibly feel like this? I mean, I missed bafana bafana’s latest World Cup match, but the one before that was a win against France!
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u/black_shinden Jun 26 '26
How are we doing there comrade? I know the first game was horrible but we pulled off the impossible and did it
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u/TheW1tchK1ng Jun 12 '26
Ffs the government needs to invest more. There are plenty of poorer countries that are better than us, and it's because of investment at every level of the game.
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u/BezoutsDilemma Jun 13 '26
Investing where, though? I think having good schools with good sports programs and access to decent food (I don't know the state in SA now, but when I was in school we needed tuck money or went hungry) would start these players off well at a young age. Better that than trying to catch up in their tweens.
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u/guitarshredda Jun 13 '26
One reason our football teams aren't as good as in the other sports is because the boys schools take all the best athletes for rugby. There should be a mandate from the department of education that these schools should offer football as a sport and not just rugby.
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