South Africa reaches World Cup knockout round for 1st time with 1-0 win over South Korea
- On Wednesday night, South Africa advanced to the World Cup knockout phase for the first time, defeating South Korea 1-0 in a decisive group-stage victory.
- Bafana Bafana failed to advance from the group stage in 1998, 2002, and as host in 2010, making this knockout qualification a significant breakthrough for the South African team.
- Thapelo Maseko scored in the 63rd minute off a precise cross from Tshepang Moremi following a fast break, providing the winning goal that secured South Africa's advancement.
- Following South Africa's second-place finish in Group A, Canada—the Group B runner-up—will face the team in a knockout match on Sunday at Inglewood, California.
- The Taegeuk Warriors reached the round of 16 in 2022 and 2010 and could still advance this tournament pending results of other matches this week.
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Bafana Bafana fans came out in the middle of the night from Wednesday to Thursday in Soweto, just after theirs won against South Korea (1-0), a success that allowed them to dream of qualifying in the 16th World Cup final.
South Africa make first World Cup knockouts with Korea win
Guadalupe (Mexico): South Africa advanced to the knockout phase of the World Cup for the first time with a 1-0 victory over South Korea on Wednesday night, June 24. Thapelo Maseko scored in the 63rd minute off a precise cross from Tshepang Moremi and South Africa finished in second place in Group A behind Mexico, which won all three of its group-stage games. South Africa will take on Canada, the second-place finisher in Group B, in a knockout ga…
South Africa sings again as Bafana secure World Cup knockout ‘visa’ to LA
The country burst into song in the pre-dawn hours of a winter Thursday morning as South Africans took to the streets to celebrate Bafana Bafana’s unprecedented passage to the Word Cup knockouts after beating South Korea 1-0 at the Monterrey Stadium in Mexico.
Unlike four years ago, the third round of the World Cup group phase did not take the dream away from Mexican fans. In restaurants, shopping malls and light train stations, who carried the national team’s shirt ignored what was going on about 700 kilometers away. In the stadium of Monterrey, South Africa defeated 1-0 South Korea and stayed with the second ticket of Group A, but in Mexico City there was no urgency of goals or desperate sums in a r…
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