An end to end action Soweto derby

The much supported soccer teams in S.A-Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates

Some hearts were broken and some hearts were filled joy, this is after a thrilling soccer match which took place on the 17th of March 2012 in front of a whooping 87 171 fans at the FNB stadium. The teams that took part in the game were the glamour boys from Naturena Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates. A match between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates is famously known as the Soweto derby, its considered one of the most fiercely contested matches in Africa football. The very first match played by these two big teams was on the 24th of January 1970.

FNB stadium

Matches between these two rivals seem to attract a large fanbase seeing that the tickets had been sold out earlier in the week prior to the big match. A public relations practitioner from Metrorial issued out a press release on the 16th of March 2012 just a day before the Soweto derby, to inform the fans who were going to the stadium that a train service was going to be available for the fans travelling from Vereeniging, Leralla, Pretoria and Johannesburg directly to Nasrec station, which is a five minute walk from the stadium. A total of six trains was made available and fans were suppose to purchase the tickets for the train at Metrorail stations from as little as R20 for a return trip. As a public relations student i would say that the Metrorail did a good to issue a press release, this was a good way to communicate with the fans who were going to the stadium. Motorists were also advised to use alternative routes because the Soweto highway was closed between the N1 and Mentz road and the Nasrec road was closed between Rand Show road. The roads were closed from 10:00am and were re-opened at 19:00pm. These road closure usually happen when there are huge events taking place at the stadium.

Chiefs and Pirates fans joined together to watch their teams play

This soccer event was supported by alot of soccer lovers and die-hard fans of Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates. Fans walked in the stadium with their different funny outfits. From men sporting grofesque masks, miniskirts, bras and church robes and women in odd wigs and kitted in full soccer gear.This is truly one event that does bring people together.