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camwyn ([personal profile] camwyn) wrote2009-12-07 10:03 am
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Good heavens, it's the Silver Horde.

Vakhegula Vakhegula in South Africa's Limpopo Province is not your average soccer team - with the oldest member of the team aged 83, this team of grannies says soccer has given them their lives back. With the 2010 World Cup drawing closer, excitement about the event is building in South Africa. They had hoped to play a curtain-raiser during the competition, but the South African Football Association explained that only teams that had officially qualified were allowed to play...

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[identity profile] e-mily.livejournal.com 2009-12-07 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Ms Ntsanwisi has set up seven other teams in Limpopo, which also hold regular training sessions.

She has formed a league called the Top Eight, in which teams of grannies compete twice a year.


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