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In City Press Sport: Why Banyana and their opponents are poles apart; SA’s relationship with the Cricket World Cup needs Jesus

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City Press Sport front page: June 16 2019
City Press Sport front page: June 16 2019

Here are some of the headlines in your City Press Sport section today:

Why Banyana and their opponents are poles apart:

The imminent launch of a local women’s football professional league could in many ways help Banyana Banyana close the gap on their foes on the international stage.

The difference in the leagues the players represent – and not individual talent – is what separates South Africa from their group opponents at the ongoing World Cup in France.

COPA AMÉRICA: History favours Brazil:

History would suggest that the 11 teams competing with hosts Brazil for this year’s Copa América crown don’t need to turn up – unless they are satisfied with playing for second place.

Brazil has hosted the tournament, which kicked off on Friday, four times and every time they have welcomed their rivals, they have managed to lift the crown. The hosts started with a 3-0 win over Bolivia on Friday.

How F1 created its penalty predicament:

In typical Formula One fashion, the sport has managed to embroil itself in yet another controversy.

Within the space of one corner, last weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, a race that had been building up to a tantalising crescendo and promised a spectacular battle for victory, had been reduced to a farce, prompting disbelief and anger from its drivers, commentators and fans alike.

Stymied by parachute payment system:

The Oxford dictionary describes a parachute thus: “A cloth canopy which fills with air and allows a person or heavy object attached to it to descend slowly.”

It would appear that the Premier League has rewritten that definition to mean that a parachute is something that is used to ascend rapidly.

Clubs relegated from the Premier League face a great loss in their broadcasting revenue.

Furthermore, they often have lower attendances and their marketability to potential sponsors decreases.

Yet their wage bills often remain quite high, which forces them to sell players, which, in turn, results in a weaker team, making promotion back into the elite league more difficult.

SA’s relationship with the Cricket World Cup needs Jesus:

Maybe the time has come for us to realise that South Africa’s relationship with the Cricket World Cup, like the kids say, needs Jesus.

One can never be sure, but about the only thing the Proteas haven’t tried in their desperate quest to win the World Cup is see a sangoma.

It's now Dr Nomvethe as Bhele becomes latest soccer personality to gets an honorary doctorate: 

Siyabonga “Bhele” Nomvethe, who recently retired from professional football, yesterday became the latest soccer star to be conferred with an honorary doctorate.

The 41-year-old, who hung up his boots at AmaZulu after the recent Absa Premiership campaign, received his honoris causa from the St Paul Bible Institute in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal.

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