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30 seconds with 2010 World Cup mascot Zakumi
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(thetimes.co.za)
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- You're a leopard, right?
- I am, although I have green hair. They tell me it makes me more attractive.
I'm not sure I don't look like a domestic cat with green fizzer bar caught
in its hair.
- Do leopards play football?
- We do. We're tricky wingers in the Luis Figo and Japhet Zwane mould.
Lions are industrious midfielders; elephants are central defenders, although
they can be a little flat-footed. Giraffes tower over all of us, thinking
they're animal versions of Peter Crouch. They're crackers. They don't
like carpet football and can be clumsy. Rhinos are uncontrollable and
dangerous. There are many of them in local soccer - that's when they aren't
doctors. They have also been known to fall asleep.
- You were spotted with your arm around Danny Jordaan - sorry, Dr Danny
Jordaan - this week.
- Yes, there I was in my spots, while he was wearing a striped tie! Talk
about not co- ordinating your wardrobe! And that fluff on his chin. At
least I'm clean-shaven. I don't even have any whiskers.
- Aren't you a bit young for that?
- I'm a born free, which means I was born in 1994. I'll be 16 on the opening
day of the 2010 World Cup. I have 16 spots and 16 curls and Jordaan is
going to be asked 16 million times what plan B is. Fortunately, I only
have one tail.
- Your age means you're still battling with spots?
- What can I say? I'm a spotty beast. - Luke Alfred
thetimes.co.za,
Sep 28, 2008
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