The Blizzard: South Africa 2-0 Tunisia, 1996
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 18 July 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of Greatest Games in association with The Blizzard, we look back to a pivotal point in African football history. Mark Gleeson, journalist and FIFA's African Football Archivist, joins us to remember the final of the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations!
Amidst wider racial turmoil across the country, South Africa replaced Kenya as hosts in the run-up to the tournament. Mark joins us to highlight football's progressive position in South African society and we recall how the nation watched as Bafana Bafana triumphed at their first ever AFCON tournament!
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| 1:02.0 | Hello ladies and gentlemen welcome to Greatest Games on Football Rumble daily in a |
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| 1:48.2 | Congratulations May! |
| 1:51.0 | Thank you for inviting me. |
| 1:52.6 | It's a pleasure to have you with us now. |
| 1:54.1 | We go back to 1996 to the Africa Cup of Nations final that finished South Africa to |
| 2:00.2 | Tunisia, NIL Mark. |
| 2:02.5 | Why have you chosen this game? |
| 2:04.5 | Well as a South African of course it's arguably the biggest footballing triumph |
| 2:09.9 | that this country has conjured up. |
| 2:12.1 | Unfortunately because we should have had a lot more than that given our size, our potential, |
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