FOOTBALL IS COMING HOME » apartheid http://www.footballiscominghome.info Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:59:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Why Stan Mini Walked Away From the Game http://www.footballiscominghome.info/video/why-stan-mini-walked-away-from-the-game/ http://www.footballiscominghome.info/video/why-stan-mini-walked-away-from-the-game/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:46:55 +0000 David Patrick Lane http://www.footballiscominghome.info/?p=2236 It’s a scene every schoolboy remembers.  A game of football is about to begin.  Who plays against who?  Who picks the sides?  We all wanted to be on the side as our mates.  We waved to impress the nominated Captains, though we were never quite sure how they became Captains.  And why did some fool suggest the teams be divided by shirt colour on the very day you choose to wear a black shirt and the Maradona of your neighbourhood is decked out in white!

Stan Mini, a former Cape Town Spurs player, shares the moment when Apartheid and the social engineering of team selection forced him to walk away from the game.  (We also hear how his team mate, the legendary Frank Adams, a defender by trade, was placed into an attacking role when the Cape Town Spurs took the bus to away games.  Frank was a white man and always sure to get good service.)

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FIFA’s suspension of South Africa from world football in September 1961 was one of the first international indictments of apartheid. Click here to read a recent piece on this major event in The Financial Times of London. It is a powerful example of how Africans accelerated the democratization of football and made the game more fully global.

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