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| Diego Maradona in South Africa |
17 JUNE 2010
New Vision (Kampala)
By Louis Jadwong (Sports Editor)
Pretoria, South Africa — The true football fan in Kampala must be reading the fan-meet-the-star or the journalist-meet-the-star stories with a lot of envy. Everyone and anyone you would like to meet in the world of football are down here either with business on the pitch, or off it as a television panelist or commentator.
Add to that, the world's best known journalists, those you see feature on Skysports, BBC or even our own SuperSport rub shoulders daily with us in search of new news for you the readers.
You scramble with others either for world cup tickets or press conference tickets as with thouands of journalists here, demand has outstripped supply
Everton's David Moyes nearly fell victim of the star cast here when he came to wish Steve Pienaar success against Uruguay on Wednesday evening. After much debate, two journalists finally agreed that Moyes was worth including in their album and went to get the shot.
Want to meet Diego Maradona? Just book yourself a seat at one of his pre-match press conferences and you could get to shake hands with the Argentine god of football.
Van Persie. Easy. The Dutch camp is unlike the North Koreans and you are even able to join them in training! Arsene Wenger? Ah..lets leave that one for now.
If you are the lazy type, you can even just wait for crumbs that fall off the table as say Mark Gleeson interviews someone on phone about a breaking story on the Ivory Coast minutes before they take to the pitch, or narrates to a foreign journalist why Benni McCarthy was dropped.
Getting Vision Group's team started here is a reason yours truly is yet to feature on those pages, but relax, this is a marathon not a sprint. It is just one week since the month-long World Cup kicked off. Anyone met Zuma The Man or held the "World Cup" trophy yet?
