Football (Soccer)
- 22 January - The South African national football team (Bafana Bafana) loses 0-2 to Guinea at the 25th African Cup of Nations, held in Egypt
- 26 January - Bafana Bafana loses 0-2 to Tunisia and is knocked out of the running at the 25th African Cup of Nations
- 30 January - Bafana Bafana loses 0-1 to Zambia in their final match, exiting the 25th African Cup of Nations without earning a single point or a single goal.
Read more about this topic: 2006 In South African Sport
Famous quotes containing the word football:
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)