Grandma Scores

From Africa is a Country Wed Mar 24 2010, 12:00:52

I love these football-playing grandmas from Mafarana in South Africa's Limpopo Province, bordering Mozambique and Zimbabwe.  About 55 women take part in the games with the youngest 4 years old.    Good for the grandmas. But it looks like every journalist or photographer is heading up there before the 2010 World Cup. Periodosmohurmano [...]

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