The Vuvuzela
Kick the Vuvu Out
The most idiotic instrument ever invented.
South Africa is currently hosting the biggest sporting event ever but unfortunately a small plastic device is ruining it all for spectators.
I find it extremely hard to watch a game with all these vuvucraps making a dreadful noise.
Unfortunately somebody started to spread the word that the “Vuvuzela is part of the South African tradition”
It might be the tradition of a handful of football fans but it is not a tradition of all South Africans.
On one Football forum a guy from the USA said
I feel bad for fans like you. I was so looking forward to an African cup and seeing more African traditions yet all I get is stupid plastic horns and that is what South Africa will be remembered for.
I hope that they will soon ban the Vuvuzelas from the 2010 World Cup. If international visitors read this post, please remember that the Vuvuzela is not part of our tradition and that all South Africans do not go about blowing these crappy instruments all the time.
There are currently many petition web sites up and running which are trying to get the Vuvuzela banned. I doubt that they will get anywhere. I just hope that at some stage the Vuvu blowers will wake up and stop making a noise and rather enjoy the games. Go to http://www.banvuvuzela.com to cast your vote.
If I were one of the teams playing I would refuse to play unless they ban these stupid idiotic Vuvuzelas.
I hope that FIFA would some time or other come to their senses and ban the instrument that is ruining the games. The ongoing noise of the Vuvuzela are influencing the games because players cannot hear each other and I do not know how they can concentrate with such a noise.
I see on many forums and blogs the South African World Cup is being branded as “The Worst World Cup Ever” because of the Vuvuzelas. Something that has been a dream for South Africa is turned into a nightmare because of a simple R5.00 worth plastic piece of crap.
I also read on many blogs that many people argue that the Vuvuzela is part of the South African Culture, well if your culture annoy your visitors it is plain rude to push your “culture” down your visitors’ ears. I am also a South African and the Vuvuzela most certainly has nothing to do with my culture at all. So I wish they would rather call it a “South African Soccer fan culture” but for heaven’s sake do not insult the rest of South Africa and stop calling it a South African tradition.
To borrow a comment from someone on Youtube:
All countries have a “vuvuzela” culture. The difference is the blowers are 3-5 years old, and when they blow that shit for more than a few seconds, it gets taken away and they get sent to their room for annoying the shit out of their parents. We’re sorry we didn’t pick up on the subtle difference SA…
I see there are people now making more money by selling tools to filter the annoying sound of the Vuvuzela. Have a look at http://www.antivuvuzelafilter.com/ , the filter only cost €2.95
I would also like to quote John Leicester who is an international sports columnist for The Associated Press:
Vuvuzela apologists – a few more weeks of this brainless white noise will perhaps change, or melt, their minds – defend the din as simply part of the South African experience.
Please, South Africa, make the trumpets stop. Give us a song, instead.
The same cannot be said of vuvuzelas. They are simply mindless. Their pitch doesn’t change, only the intensity. Blow hard. Blow soft. The only range is from horrifically loud to just annoyingly so.
Please, South Africa, make them stop. Give us a song, instead.
The stands look fantastic, sure. But they sound like garbage. Every game, from the opening game to the Final, is going to sound absolutely identical. How can anyone say that these plastic horns are giving voice to fans excitement, when you can’t even tell who’s winning? There’s no difference between cheering and booing in this tournament. It’s all exactly the same. Every stadium, every team, every fan base, every game.
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The Video clip below is an illustration of how we experience the world cup at the moment.
This one is also excellent:
Got the strip below from http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/
Vuvuzela
I recently watched a short piece that espn ran about some ANC tournament in the 1990′s. The story goes that it was comparing South Africa’s win there to when the rugby team won, made famous by the movie Invictus. They made comparisons to both events of how the whites and blacks came together to cheer on a united South Africa. So they are showing highlights of the action and and of the mixed crowd in the stands. Guess what? NO VUVUZELAS could be seen or heard in those highlights. It was only 15 years ago. It never was a part of South Africa’s soccer “culture”. The whole world has been lied to by South Africa and we have been subjected to this incredible irritating noise. And that’s all it is. NOISE!!!
A good soccer player will be able to adapt to the ball, the pitch, the environment and the atmosphere, which includes the sound of the vuvuzela. Different countries have different ways of supporting. It isn’t uncommon to hear drums, whistles, bells, and other sound emmitting instruments at games in other countries.
For those who don’t like the culture of the people in this country, I have a simple solution for you. . . LEAVE!!!!!
Blowing a stupid plastic horn is not part of the South African tradition but being noisy, arrogant and inconsiderate is the tradition of a large part of the African culture. They just use the stupid plastic horn to be noisy
This is the WORST World Cup EVER. I hope FIFA learned their lesson. Let this be the first and the LAST World Cup on African soil.
If the Vuvuzela is an African tradition please limit your noisy tradition to your own games and stop spoiling it for the rest of the world.
If you watch the matches so far you would see countless problem within the players. One of the player today still play after offside whistle, when referee ran up, he pointed at the crowd and gestured that he could not hear anything.
In another match, 2 forwards had problem communicate because of the noise, as a result he passed to wrong place.
Many other players from other teams complaint about it, not just French players. However we could see that they did not want to make a controversy, but we could tell that they really don’t like it, they just chose the words carefully.
The harms are not just for fans who want to enjoy the game, now virtually no player can communicate in the match. The coach used to be able to yell from far distance in previous WC, say good bye to that this time.
Bottom line, we have excessive noise that damages ears, players can’t communicate, fans are not able to celebrate, fans are not able to enjoy via TV etc. all for the same old song “culture” over and over again. I won’t be surprise this WC will be the last one we see on SA, the PR is taking heavy hit here.
True, so has Leo Messi complained, just to mention some of the big names.
I read that the Spanish team has banned the vuvuzelas from their practice sessions.
Its a shame that a large portion of the Rainbow Nation has, in the last 7-8 years, fallen in love with a crappy noisy piece of plastic. They already have enough problems in massive proportions do deal with like poverty, AIDS, Rape, violent crime etc.
They can keep their vuvuzelas for their own soccer championships, but this is an international event, so don’t force it on the rest of the world and if their Federation were smart enough they would ban them because they aren’t going to get much sympathy after this World Cup.
This is nothing more than Political correctness from FIFA towards the S African Federation/Government, because you can bet that if the games were held anywhere else in the world instead of S Africa, FIFA would never allow vuvuzelas inside stadiums and would ban them in a fraction of a second.
Zero tolerance to the vuvuzelas.
There are a couple of petitions online to ban the vuvuzela from the World Cup. Here’s one:
http://www.petitiononline.com/2010WC/petition.html