The Academy Award winner’s Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project is teaming up with LAFC Chelsea Soccer Club in Los Angeles to build community soccer programs for underprivileged children in South Africa.
Police provide security, right, as construction workers stand outside the Green Point Soccer stadium during a protest at Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, July 9, 2009. World Cup organizers in South Africa say a strike by construction workers entered its second day as negotiators meet to try and resolve the standoff. (more…)
from ESPN:
JOHANNESBURG — South African construction workers went on an indefinite strike Wednesday at stadiums being built for the 2010 World Cup — a move that could derail Africa’s historic first World Cup tournament. Thousands of workers at stadiums across the country put down their tools after wage negotiations deadlocked earlier this week.
See what they are working for and what they want after the jump
Can we ask for mandatory Vuvuzela blowing every time Sepp Blatter steps up to the microphone?
Brazil:
Julio Cesar (GK), Maicon, Lucio, Felipe Melo, Gilberto Silva, Luis Fabiano, Kaka, Robinho, Luisao, Andre Santos, Ramires.
South Africa:
Itumeleng Khune(GK), Siboniso Gaxa, Tsepo Masilela, Aaron Mokoena, Benson Mhlongo, Siphiwe Tshabalala, Steven Pienaar, Teko Modise, Kagisho Dikagoi, Matthew Booth, Bernard Parker
Some amazing pictures from South Africa…you need to click here to check them out.
For Carlos Bocanegra and the crew down in South Africa, there’s nothing quite like waking up, grabbing a coffee and watching the wildlife roll up to the 5 foot “Electric Fence” only yards away at the Bakabung Lodge in the Pilansberg National Park.
More Pics after the Jump…..
