For as long as there have been sports, there have been procreating sports fans willing to lend the names of coaches, players or even teams to their brood. Of course, this too would be the case with the 2010 World Cup, being that it’s the first ever hosted by an African nation. It’s a watershed moment for the continent’s sports culture.
Soccer City Now Exists In Human Form
That there has been a Bafana and maybe even a Fifa brought into the world is to be expected. Those are prominent figures on the World Cup stage in South Africa. Barring the lifetime of scorn that is to come from a vuvuzela-related moniker, where else is a parent to turn?
At Johannesburg General Hospital, the Tebogo family from Soweto also welcomed the birth of twins on the day of the opening match, whom they named “Soccer City” and “Ke Nako,” a Zulu-language refrain in local advertisements that means “It’s time.”
The stadium? Uh, okay, sure. I mean, I guess we’ve seen that before with the likes of Fenway, but that seems more passable than something that incorporates the name of a sport itself. Soccer City also isn’t the most mellifluous of names, but he or she will be loved just the same, I’m sure. No word on the gender of young Soccer City Tebogo, but if pressed I would guess it’s a masculine child. A female would likely get something like Soccercitta.
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