Senzo Meyiwa, South Africa football captain, shot dead on Sunday near Johannesburg

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[Perdogg]

SOUTH Africa captain and goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was shot dead late Sunday near Johannesburg, a police spokesman told AFP.

Lieutenant-General Solomon Makgale said Meyiwa was shot at a house in Vosloorus, a township about 20 kilometres south of the city, and declared dead on admission to hospital.

Meyiwa played for the Orlando Pirates club Saturday and has been in outstanding form for the national team in 2015 Africa Cup qualifiers.

[blackdog]

T.I.A., man............T.I.A.

One really effed up continent.

[Terry L Smith]

Anything other the Great American sport of FOOTBALL, is nothing more than soccer, a nutless game of running a lot, wearing shorts and knee high socks, and no physicalcontacft, as part of the regimen.

[PAR35]

Someone must have bet against them, and he was playing too well.

[dfwgator]

Anyone rich in the “New” South Africa is going to be a target.

[Gay State Conservative]

One thing that constantly occurred to me during the Pistorius trial (which I followed a bit but not religiously) was that South Africa is an *incredibly* violent country and assuming that break ins are a legitimate concern for prosperous South Africans then you could at least begin to understand if he had,in fact,believed that a break in was occurring and that he had to defend himself and/or his girlfriend.

Add to that the fact that he has no legs and,therefore,is at a huge disadvantage when he's in bed (presumably without his prosthetic legs on) he could feel doubly vulnerable.

[bramps]

We have a winner........
.....for most grossly ignorant freeper 2014.

I know 2014 isn’t over but the committee is quite confident that you won’t be outdone.

[Terry L Smith]

dear bramps,

I attended high school when ‘soccer/futball’ was considered ‘new’.

I will take your label og ‘ignorant’ proudly, because that game is still nothing but a bunch of queers, to me.

[867V309]

because that game is still nothing but a bunch of queers, to me.

You left out the hooligan riots and stampedes in the stands. Most interesting part.

[bramps]

I told you that you won. You don’t have to continue trying to impress the judges.

[Dagnabitt]

Wave to the thread clown everyone.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Try rugby. NFL pales in comparison.

[Terry L Smith]

lefty said:
“Try rugby. NFL pales in comparison.”

Rugby is a Britizh invention, is it not?

[Terry L Smith]

867 wrote: <> "You left out the hooligan riots and stampedes in the stands. Most interesting part. " I guess that those folks feel threatened by the more popular game of hockey!!!!

[lefty-lie-spy]

It is certainly better than anything else available among modern spectator sports. Are you expecting lions, or something. At least we get great blood and real concussions in rigny, and nobody whinges on about it.

Give it a look if you have a local team in your town. The rules and game play are extremely hard to follow for the newbies, but then it becomes amazing once you get it - kind of like sumo.

[Terry L Smith]

Lefty wrote:
“It is certainly better than anything else available among modern spectator sports. Are you expecting lions, or something. At least we get great blood and real concussions in rigny, and nobody whinges on about it.

Give it a look if you have a local team in your town. The rules and game play are extremely hard to follow for the newbies, but then it becomes amazing once you get it - kind of like sumo.”

Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Let’s define a slice of ‘modern spectator sports’, shall we?? Top Fuel ‘slingshot’ drag racing, all the noise, the smell of the fuel, and the occasional mechanical failures, resulting in fantastic photographs. International Motor Sports Association road races, in various places around this great nation, including Lime Rock, CT, or Watkins Glen, NY. Yes, there is American FOOTBALL, (not ahem rigby). There are the Camp Perry Marksmanship Competition, the Cowboy Action Shooting Competitions, the other 3-Gun competitions.

A local rigby team in Louisiana??? I doubt it. Sumo? Oh! You mean two extra fat almost naked Japanese MEN trying to move each other an inch, like in that wwhatsitname James bond movie? Sounds queer to me, BOY!