Bafana Bafana!

I feel like this is one of those blogs that no matter what I write or how vivid my descriptions are I just cant give last nights futbol match enough justice.

The basic set up is this, right in the middle of this park that TLF has taken over for the World Cup, is this kiosk that sells food and drinks that's ran by TLF. Its two stories and provides the perfect vantage point to see the whole park pretty much. This is where my view of the Bafana Bafana game took place.

My day was started at 4 o'clock in the morning to the sound after many vuvuzelas right out my window and it only continued for the next 24 hours. With several hours before kickoff the park was packed with South Africans all decked out in their yellow and green. All over the park there were large groups of people marching/dancing together singing different songs and chants in adoration of the Bafana Bafana. As the match kicked off you couldn't help but get chills looking around. It was decided among the people all over South African and probably the world, except Mexico, that there was no way Bafana Bafana could lose. For surely even God wanting them to win!

The first half was extremely joyous, just being able to hear over 10,000 South Africans sing their national anthem with pride was an amazing sight. When that first goal struck the back of the net, I tell you there was no sight like that. The vuvuzelas all came together in one thunderous roar! And from that point on it was chaos. The noise, the jubilation, the feeling that at that one moment that South Africa was the most powerful nation in the world, it was incredible. If I close my eyes I can still see the celebrations going on and the noise comes rushing back to my ears. As a man that has see many amazing sights in my short life, this I can confidently say was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen or experienced. To see the pride on everyday people for their country and their boys was so cool. I truly believe that at that moment no South African had a care in the world. And for everyone that says futbol is just a game, I respectfully disagree cause its much much more than that. There's no way that you could have told someone last night at that park that it was just a game, because to them, that futbol match, it was everything. And nothing can bring a country together like the Beautiful Game, nothing!

So once again we raise a pint to the Bafana Bafana and hope that the US boys can bring America together tonite just like Bafana Bafana has already done.

Cheers!