What's plastic, a metre long, brightly coloured and sounds like an elephant? It's the vuvuzela, the noise-making trumpet of South African football fans, and it's come to symbolise the sport in the country.
It's an instrument, but not always a musical one. Describing the atmosphere in a stadium packed with thousands of fans blowing their vuvuzelas is difficult. Up close it's an elephant, sure, but en masse the sound is more like a massive swarm of very angry bees.
source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200906180211.html
The vuvuzelas blown incessantly by fans during Confederations Cup matches should not be allowed in the stadiums, says Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk.
"At home watching TV it really was annoying, but in the stadiums you get used to it. But it is still unpleasant," said Van Marwijk, who is on a fact-finding tour before the 2010 World Cup finals.
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Fifa president Sepp Blatter said last week the world governing body had no plans to ban the instrument from Confederations Cup matches.
He said Fifa and the local organising committee would meet after the Confederations Cup to discuss whether it should be banned next year.
Blatter is against the idea of a ban, saying that "we should not try to Europeanise an African World Cup", but thousands of fans around the world have e-mailed Fifa over the past week urging them to ban the instrument.
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I really don't see the issue here. These are SA traditional horns and the games are being played in SA. I dont remember any African teams complaining about the English soccer songs when we play over there. All I can say is "Man up and play SOCCER like a man".
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