So you’ve manged to score an overpriced ticket for the game. You’ve found your way to the stadium, bought your ridiculously overpriced beer and found your seat far back at the top of the stands. The game begins, and within minutes, even from a point as far away from him as you can possibly get, you see a guy who is paid more than you’ll ever earn in your entire life plainly and deliberately acting up a foul instead of just playing soccer? That’s not cool. Ever.
I say harden the fuck up, pussy boys. TIA, Africa is not for sissies. It’s time to remove the mistaken decisions, introduce some TV-refereeing and penalize those players who try to cheat.
If a team filled with prima donnas get through to the final I will be well upset.
Apart from the old Street View being launched in SA, Google has also introduced a few other treats in anticipation of the soccer World Cup.
For instance, if you search for “World Cup” on Google, you get a summary schedule of upcoming matches, as well as a list of teams and pools. If you then scroll further down the page, you’ll see this beauty:
Barely scraping it in by the skin of their teeth, Google has managed to get its Street View imagery operational for South Africa just in time for the World Cup. Yay! No more lost tourists.
They’ve also done a huge amount of work in the Google Earth platform to create 3D imagery of all the stadiums which looks quite beautiful:
Over and above the 27 towns and cities photographed, the cars and trikes also made over 40 ‘special collects’ of imagery at special locations. Amongst others, these include:
For sports lovers:
Soccer City
Loftus
Moses Mabhida
Peter Mokaba
ABSA Durban
Mbombela
Wanderers
St Georges
Supersport Park
For outdoors lovers:
Cape peninsula
Natal Midlands
Kruger
Addo
Tsitsikamma
Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens
Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Midlands
Tsitsikamma
Wilderness
Harkerville Forest
Kagga Kamma Nature Reserve
Blyde River Canyon
For city lovers:
Nelson Mandela Bridge
Vilakazi Street
Gandhi Square
Walter Sisulu Square
Newtown and Africa Museum
Adderley St and St George’s Cathedral
Beach Road, Cape Town
Company Gardens
Apartheid Museum
Turffontein Race Course
Settlers Park
For wine lovers:
Meerlust
Jordan Wines
Rustenberg
Klein Constantia
Bouchard Finlayson
Morgenster
De Wetshof
De Rust Estate
Warwick Wine Estate
Vilafonte Vineyards
Hamilton Russell
Fairview
Usually being African makes life a little less digital, but this time, thanks to Google, it’s good to feel like a 21st century citizen.
More at: Google Street View South Africa.
According to news site MyBroadband, Google has now announced that it will launch Street View Imagery in South Africa on Tuesday, 8th of June 2010, in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
A quick glance at maps.google.com show’s they’ve already uploaded some higher-res imagery of parts of SA. Presumably we can expect views of the World Cup stadiums, possibly inside and out, as well as a trip through the Kruger National Park and perhaps one or two other exciting highlights.
More details about the service will be revealed at a media event on 8 June.
In a show of support for the South African national soccer squad, Bafana Bafana, it’s time for South Africans to rise up with speculation on what will happen when Bafana wins matches at the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
