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Platinum Stars have adopted the local is lekker policy by announcing that former Bafana Bafana captain and ex- SA national under 23 team coach Steve Komphela has been given the task of building a new-look Platinum Stars team that will herald the start of a new, exciting era in the history of the Royal Bafokeng [...]

The close season is already delivering spectacularly news worldwide. There’s the very welcome news that FIFA expects the 2010 World Cup in South Africa to gross US3.4 Billion, proof that you can make money in Africa. Then who could ignore the election of Florentino Perez as  with his spectacular football project that has kicked off [...]

Orlando Pirates is one an icon of South African, and I dare say, African soccer being a past winner of the CAF African Club Champions Cup. I would venture to estimate the club to be valued in the hundreds of millions and definitely supported by millions of people. My question is who did Irvin “The [...]

Derek Carstens, the Head of Marketing for the Local Organizing Committee of the 2010 World Cup and The Fifa Confederations Cup in South Africa, is demonstrating a brand of marketing that I have never seen before. I call it voodoo marketing because it seems that our 2010 marketers are expecting their marketing plans – that [...]

Kaizer Motaung has not yet communicated his rationale behind the appointment of his club’s new Head Coach to the press

The business of soccer, like life in general, is dynamic with continuous improvement required to face new challenges.

I have covered the issue of our soccer needing to employ a higher calibre of managers and leaders

Moçambola is a term describing the first division league. It’s been derived from the words; Moçambique and Bola

Jomo Sono was an iconic player in his day, but he has failed as a soccer business leader. To put it bluntly he doesn’t have the nous to turn Jomo Cosmos FC into a viable and cutting-edge soccer brand in the long-term.

Without players there is no soccer. They are probably the most valuable assets that any top soccer team has at any one time.

Soccer is without doubt the most popular sport in South Africa, Africa and the whole world. The question is: how much do