"It will be war," declares the Brazilian. "We respect Mexico but we are not afraid. We want to deliver and we gonna give hell to any team that will play against us on the ground, including today's match," he says. The 67-year-old, a veteran of five World Cups as coach, envisages some nerves from the two teams as most opening World Cup matches he's watched previously are usually "a lot of pressure". "I have seen many World Cups as coach and working for Fifa and the opening game from my experience is a lot of pressure. The opening game is always the tough game and it is intimidating for both teams, because the whole world is watching you. The whole country is involved so we want the boys to win as much as the pressure will be big. "We want to enjoy the game and I know it is not easy to enjoy the game playing against a team so good as Mexico. But the good thing about Bafana now is that we have a face, we have an identity," he says. Parreira also revealed the players are probably relaxed heading into this encounter against the 'El Tri' as he's been allowing them some free time with their respective families. "We are not in a prison. We are not in a military. The families, the wives, the kids or whatever it is they have been coming to the hotel. Every now and then we also give them free time to go to their homes to see their families. It is important that they refresh their minds and this is not an army. But now that we are starting the chances of seeing their families will be small," Parreira adds.
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I just hope there're not going to point finger at Naija like they usually do.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100610/twl-uk-soccer-world-robbery-672dc0e.html.
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It was like we where waiting for Jesus to return with our ancestors, I could see Shaka,Tambo,Biko,Mashele,Martin Luther King,Kaunda,Hani and many more also blowing their Vuvuzela
To see children aged 12 and less blowing those Vuvuzela, is very touching.
Bafana Bafana cannot dissapoint 55million people plus Mandela and Children
Shapa Schilo, Shapa Shaba,Shapa Navigator Modise, Shapa YEYE,
BABULAYE KILLER,
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It was like we where waiting for Jesus to return with our ancestors, I could see Shaka,Tambo,Biko,Mashele,Martin Luther King,Kaunda,Hani and many more also blowing their Vuvuzela
To see children aged 12 and less blowing those Vuvuzela, is very touching.
Bafana Bafana cannot dissapoint 55million people plus Mandela and Children
Shapa Schilo, Shapa Shaba,Shapa Navigator Modise, Shapa YEYE,
BABULAYE KILLER,
My brother, you sound like you already lost hope and that's not what we need here in S.Africa at this point in time. Maybe in Botswana your country of origin. You are a coward and you know what they say about them, they die million time before the actual death.
I'm convinced that you are totaly clueless about soccer because even today you still think that to be in the BB team one has to play in Europe. Well let the brother educate you starting with your Bennie, he has been on the sideline for more than a year now and sometimes not even making the bench. Nasief is a good defender but does not possess any quality that the selected defenders do not have. Erasmus, Moon and Pattison were given a chance and since me and you were not in those camps we are obviously not aware of their performance in those camps so what we can do is to shut the hell up and support the selected players.
Lastly, we can only have a certain number of players in the team which is 23.