My name is Odwa Magewebeba and I am South African. I am proud of my country. As a South African citizen, I was very happy to hear that my country would host the biggest football tournament in the world — the FIFA World Cup 2010. Once the games started, I was feeling it – with high expectations for my team, Bafana Bafana. The nation was fully behind them and all they needed was to show us that they could make it to the finals. But they have failed to go to the next stage of the tournament and we were very disappointed, and so was I because we are the hosts and it was their job to make us proud by qualifying to the 2nd stage of the tournament. But all of that is history to me because now I am left with only one team that I can support – which is Spain, and I believe in them because they are playing a quality of football that I want to see and they are really making me proud because they made it to the quarter finals of the tournament when they won the match against Portugal, 1 goal to zero. They are playing quality football because they are a strong team of players and have a very good coach, which also makes the team very strong. There is still plenty of work to be done and they must make sure they make it to the top. But to get to the top, Spain must focus in every match they play, in order to come out with a positive result that will place them to the next stage of the FIFA World Cup. I hope they win their last match and take the trophy home because they deserve it. I say so because they showed me that they can do it and I am very proud of them. I hope Bafana Bafana will do much better the next time because we will continue to show our support each and every time they play.
[This was written prior to Spain beating Paraguay to make it to the semi-finals of the World Cup]
By Odwa Magewebeba for Yenza
Copyright Yenza 2010
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