Monday’s World Cup soccer pages
I was surprised by the little yellow blurb at the upper right of today’s Times of South Africa:
The first game of the World Cup begins Friday — 4 p.m. in Johannesburg, in fact, which is 10 a.m. here on the East Coast of the U.S. For this morning’s readers, it would have been four days until the Cup begins, not three.
Find the Times‘ World Cup home page here.
Next up is Kleine Zeitung of Graz, Austria, circulation about 800,000:
Not many of my readers speak or read German, so I doubt you’ll need the link to Kleine Zeitung’s World Cup home page. But, for the record, here it is.
A.M. New York — circulation 266,852 — went with sex today: “The hottest studs to watch on the field.”
They don’t appear to have posted their story, so no link yet. Sorry.
Another free commuter tabloid — Express, published in D.C. by the Washington Post — led with cute kids blowing their vuvuzelas:
I love that the first description of a vuvuzela mentions “its joyful trumpeting sound.” I suspect anyone not from South Africa would call it something less than joyful.
It looks like an interesting story, but I can’t get it to come up properly in my browser — and that’s even after the Express web site insisted on resizing my browser window larger than my screen.
Perhaps you’ll have better luck than I. Find the inside page here.
A vuvuzela also makes an appearance in the visual for today’s USA Today cover story:
The story itself is a nicely comprehensive overview of the Cup and its significance to South Africa. Find the story here. Find USA Today’s soccer news home page here.
Average daily circulation for USA Today is 1.8 million.
I’ll close today with this amusing video, a German TV commercial for an online sports gambling operation. Those are illegal here in the U.S., but I presume they’re OK there.
Anyway, enjoy…