South Africa are back at the FIFA World Cup for the first time since 2010. Can they do something they have never done before and make it out of their group?
11 June 2010. South Africa open the World Cup on home soil against Mexico.
11 June 2026, exactly 16 years on, South Africa make their return to the world stage to open this summer’s tournament against, you guessed it, Mexico.
It is a neat curiosity of the draw for the first-ever 48-team World Cup that this tournament has produced a rematch of the 2010 opener. And it’s not just any match; it’s one that brings back waves of nostalgia for South Africa as they prepare to make their first appearance at the World Cup since that tournament.
South Africans look back on that night in Johannesburg with incredible fondness. They still talk about the noise that met Siphiwe Tshabalala’s famous goal that put them in front. Current Bafana Bafana and Burnley centre-forward Oswin Appollis in particular. Nobody recorded more goal- or assist-ending ball carries (moving at least 5m with the ball) in the South African Premiership last season than him (six), while only one player carried the ball before having a shot or creating a chance more than him (50).
That one player was teammate at club and international level,
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