This is probably a bit of a facetious post but one of the discussions that came up in one of our office debates earlier in the week is whether or not football was actually a mainstream sport in South Africa.
There is no question that it is one of the more popular sports in South Africa, but does that make it a mainstream sport?
My definition of mainstream is a sport where we are:
A) Competitive internationally (EG cricket, rugby, wheelchair basketball, swimming etc)
B) We have amateur administrative structures in place to see the sport flourish
Despite all the money that has been thrown at football we have rarely been classified as internationally competitive. We have had a couple of players go on to do good things in English premiership and a couple of the major international leagues but they are few and far between.
The standard of the local football league (in my humble opinion) seems to be relatively low and the attendances at a lot of these games are poor considering the size of the supposed soccer base.
Many local fans would go out of their way to spend on supporting international (premiership) teams but don't rush to buy their Jomo Cosmos or Mamelodi Sundowns shirt.
Dunno?
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