{"id":1404,"date":"2014-05-23T17:24:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T16:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2020-05-21T19:22:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T18:22:30","slug":"bafana-bafana-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/bafana-bafana-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Bafana Bafana Squad’s Most Amazing Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa is a nation of sports-loving people especially with soccer which is one of the most popular of all sports. The sport has found a place in the hearts of citizens – \u00a0even with its rocky start of segregation in the apartheid regime, it\u00a0became one of the first sports that unified the nation in 1991. The national team, Bafana Bafana, has scores of followers and has qualified for the World Cup thrice although they did not represent the Rainbow Nation in the 2014 World Cup which was held in Brazil.<\/p>\n
The top 10 of\u00a0<\/strong>Bafana Bafana squad’s most amazing moments starts with their first appearance on the world stage after an almost twenty-years ban from FIFA as a result of apartheid. The first game they played was against Cameroon who they beat 1-0. It was held in Durban at Kings Park on 7 July 1992 and two years later they participated in both the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers and the FIFA World Cup qualifiers finishing third and second respectively in the groups that they were placed in although they did not qualify for either.<\/p>\n2) Bafana Bafana Played Host and Won the Africa Cup<\/h3>\n