With the 2010 Soccer World Cup coming, the first South African soccer name you have to know is Bafana Bafana, the name of the South African National Soccer Team.

Bafana Bafana simply means ‘the boys the boys.’ The female South African Soccer Team is known as Bayana Bayana, appropriately enough it means ‘the girls the girls.’

South African soccer fans have their own passionate way of talking about the beautiful game.

The under 23 South African football team are known as the Amagluglug (sound of guzzling) which is a  joke reference to the South African Petrol company, Sasol, that sponsors the team and gives it the drive to succeed.

The first thing you will notice at any South African soccer game is the sound of the Vuvezela: a long plastic trumpet that you will come to know as the sound of 2010.

If a goal is scored you are likely to hear soccer commentators and soccer fans shouting ‘Laduuuuuuuma’! (la-doo-mah) as soon as the ball hits the back of the net.

An ‘eShibobo’ is when a clever striker sticks the ball through the middle of the opponent’s legs, in Europe it is called a nutmeg. A ‘bazooka’ is style of shot which is pretty self evident.

Laduma what we scream in South Africa when goals are scored in our advantage..it is Zulu and stands for ‘it thunders’, or ‘thunder coming through’..(now that’s eloquence for you ne?). Another reason why we call 2010 an ‘African World Cup’, it is going to be full of character!