Stellenbosch

The Monmouth University men’s soccer team took on Hope Academy, a team from Drakenstein Prison, which is the same prison that Nelson Mendela was released. The team then went to have have an African meal at Stellenbosch. Day six of the South African tour is all right here!

We had an interview with 2 students of Stellenbosch University to hear their thoughts on the annual jool/rag and the Fifa 2010 Soccer World Cup.

Whether it’s a handball, header or a hat trick, the language of soccer is characterised by interesting and sometimes confusing terms, usually known only to the players themselves. To spread the lingo of South African football, Stellenbosch University, in collaboration with a number of coaches and researchers, has released a new soccer terminology booklet, just in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The booklet is the result of months of research into football culture, formal soccer terms and the current colloquial lingo used by players and their fans. Published in English, isiXhosa and Afrikaans and compiled by the University’s Language Centre, it aims to provide a definitive list of all the soccer terminology you might need when watching your favourite team in action. “We often speak of the remarkable spirit that characterises this country,” comments Professor Julian Smith, Vice-Rector: Community Interaction and Personnel, who is also responsible for sport at Stellenbosch University. “We see the booklet as an extension of this — enabling supporters, players and our international visitors the opportunity to speak a shared language. It also forms part of our joint Stellenbosch 2010 initiative with the local Municipality, which seeks to promote soccer within the Stellenbosch community at large. The soccer terminology booklet promotes multilingualism, one of the University’s strategic objectives, and we see it as part of a lasting legacy linked to the Soccer World Cup …