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Speaker 1: Right, let's go down to Cape Town football match tonight,

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Speaker 1: but fin and by final playing in South Africa for

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Speaker 1: the last time, I think, unless there's something in the

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Speaker 1: schedule I've missed, but certainly looking to tune up and

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Speaker 1: fill up their tank without too much of a fuel

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Speaker 1: levy in advance of actually filling up that tank. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: really leave their last engagement in front of their South

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Speaker 1: African fans, feeling that the country really is behind them,

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Speaker 1: So Panama the opponents? What's the atmosphere the like down

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Speaker 1: in Cape Town? Toler kelm Ganga, our ew and sports

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Speaker 1: reporter and our regular sports updata here on seven oh

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Speaker 1: two Drive is in the south of the country and

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Speaker 1: eagerly looking forward to the match. Cape Town buzzing in

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Speaker 1: advance of the game. What have ticket sales been like?

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Speaker 1: What are people saying?

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Speaker 2: Well, John, even though the gates open at Hospit four,

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Speaker 2: I can tell you that the lines have already started

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Speaker 2: Great Stadium. We coose know that safore confirmed on Monday

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Speaker 2: that this game is a sellout. It is possibly Bafana

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Speaker 2: Bafana's last game on home soil. We still don't have

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Speaker 2: official confirmation if they'll play one more friendly before they

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Speaker 2: head to the World Cup in Mexico. But for coach

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Speaker 2: Hugo Bruce yesterday was speaking about the fact that after

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Speaker 2: roughly three and a half years of success, the Baffan

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Speaker 2: Alahana team really did have people believing again and then

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Speaker 2: when they got to AFCON unfortunately they were disappointing. But

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Speaker 2: he was so surprised by the fact that both here

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Speaker 2: in Cape Town and in Durban, the fans really turned

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Speaker 2: out in their numbers, whether it was meeting them at

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Speaker 2: the airport, being around the team hotel and even now

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Speaker 2: for these games, people are really showing that the three

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Speaker 2: years that Bahana Bahana have really worked towards getting them

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Speaker 2: back on side wasn't all lost after that disappointing last

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Speaker 2: sixteen exit at AFCN, and this time around as they

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Speaker 2: prepare for a first World Clubs and hosting it in

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Speaker 2: twenty ten, they want to make sure that the team

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Speaker 2: knows that the fans are fully behind them.

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Speaker 1: So just give us a sense of if it's clear

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Speaker 1: from the coach Toler Keller, what is looking to get

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Speaker 1: out of tonight's game. Presumably it's not just the result.

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Speaker 1: He would want to see the team playing with a

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Speaker 1: bit of zip and swagger. Is he experimenting with new combinations.

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Speaker 1: Is he putting out what might be close to the

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Speaker 1: lineup he sends out to face Mexico on the eleventh

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Speaker 1: of June.

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Speaker 2: There's definitely no experimentation. John, you were speaking yesterday about

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Speaker 2: saying he's seventy percent certain who will be going to

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Speaker 2: the World Cup. So he's using these games through what

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Speaker 2: kind of fine tune which players you will be putting

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Speaker 2: in what positions? He was speaking about the kind of

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Speaker 2: football that they want to be playing. They don't want

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Speaker 2: to play as most people would call it, like a

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Speaker 2: Scop and Donna sort of football. Well, just kick the

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Speaker 2: ball along and then you expect your striker to be

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Speaker 2: the one that's converting the chances. They want to play

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Speaker 2: the ball on the ground. That's why the life of

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Speaker 2: Tembazwani al so pivotals is this philosophy that he has

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Speaker 2: and that's why really again is kind of being molded

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Speaker 2: to be Tempazwana successor because he wants to play the

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Speaker 2: kind of a truckter football that fans can enjoy. So

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Speaker 2: about making sure that the wingers in Oushoanapalis and Tabaremi

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Speaker 2: in the Friday game are coming into the encounter and

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Speaker 2: making sure that they're delivering in terms of the process

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Speaker 2: into the box and making sure that the strikers have

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Speaker 2: multiple opportunities. I think the one area of concerned will

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Speaker 2: definitely be the bull scoring, but that's been a long

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Speaker 2: South African footballing story where we unfortunately don't have enough

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Speaker 2: strikers that do take opportunities when they are presented to them.

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Speaker 2: We know that loud Foster, he unfortunately was the recipient

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Speaker 2: of much cheering and booing in that game against Panama

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Speaker 2: on Friday, where every time he missed the chance, the

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Speaker 2: fans were calling for him to be substituted. Captain Ronald

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Speaker 2: Williams saying in the press conference that at the end

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Speaker 2: of the day, this is Baffana Bafana's number one striker.

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Speaker 2: If you don't support him, who are you going to support?

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Speaker 2: Colled Hugo Brush. I know that the phrase about him

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Speaker 2: labeling loud Foster as lazy has been the one that's

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Speaker 2: been trending on social media, but people have to read

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Speaker 2: that full quote in context, where he was saying that

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Speaker 2: he noticed that he'd have the ability to be lazy,

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Speaker 2: but the areas of his game that he can focus on.

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Speaker 2: So those are the parts of the fans need to

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Speaker 2: really work towards, towards motivating loud faster. Already at club level,

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Speaker 2: he's dealing with a difficult situation where his team burn

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Speaker 2: You are on the verge of getting relegated, so he'd

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Speaker 2: be coming to the national team hoping from for some

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Speaker 2: reprieve and support. So when the fans are doing exactly

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Speaker 2: what he's dealing with at club level, it's not helping

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Speaker 2: the national team. And also his teammates themselves will also

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Speaker 2: struggle to lift themselves up for the crowd if you're

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Speaker 2: only supporting ten of the eleven players on the field.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you so much. Toler Kello making a way

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Speaker 1: into the DHL Stadium in Greenpoint in Cape Town. It's

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Speaker 1: not a match with anything specific on the line. I

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Speaker 1: is not a qualifier or anything like that, but the

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Speaker 1: fun and Bafana will be looking to put on a

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Speaker 1: really really excellent show tonight and Cape Town getting right

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Speaker 1: behind them the way Durbin did on Friday night. So

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Speaker 1: great stuff. And by the way, we'll be keeping an

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Speaker 1: eye on one of the European qualifiers, Denmark facing check

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Speaker 1: your that's happening tonight Denmark. The game's in Prague. Actually

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Speaker 1: I was about to say Denmark at home, but it's

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Speaker 1: exactly the other way around. And the winner of that

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Speaker 1: goes into our group at the World Cup. So if

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Speaker 1: you're wondering why I'm saying you ought to keep an

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Speaker 1: eye on Denmark versus check your well that's why we

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Speaker 1: get to play the winner sometime later in North America.

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Speaker 1: Twenty eight minutes pass four