South Africa

South Africa

South AfricaGegründet: 1991Stadion: FNB Stadium (Soccer City), Johannesburg, GA (94.736 Plätze)Trainer: Pitso Mosimane

Geschichte

Sport has a significant role in South African culture. The three most popular mainstream sports in the country—cricket, football and rugby union—reflect the country's early British colonial influence. Approximately 70% of South Africans are interested in football, making it the most popular sport in the country, followed by rugby union and cricket.

South Africa was absent from international sport for much of the apartheid era due to sanctions, but started competing globally after the end of apartheid. South Africa is among a very few countries that have participated in world cups of all three major sports—cricket, football and rugby union. England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, New Zealand and Australia are among other such nations. South Africa has hosted the 1995 Rugby World Cup, 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup and 2007 ICC World Twenty20, and 2010 FIFA World Cup.

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South Africa was banned from the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo due to the apartheid policies. This ban effectively lasted until 1992. During this period, some athletes (such as Zola Budd and Kepler Wessels) left for other countries to compete internationally. Some athletes continued their sports careers in South Africa in isolation, with stars such as women's 400 metres runner Myrtle Bothma setting a world record at the South African championships.

Some sports teams toured South Africa as "Rebel Tours" and played the Springbok rugby union and cricket teams during the isolation period.

In 1977, Commonwealth Presidents and Prime Ministers agreed, as part of their support for the international campaign against apartheid, to discourage contact and competition between their athletes and sporting organisations, teams, or individuals from South Africa.

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