About This Match
🎺 The vuvuzelas are BACK and they want BLOOD this time! Mexico arrives carrying the weight of SEVEN consecutive Round of 16 heartbreaks, El Quinto Partido haunting every silky pass and lightning wing run they unleash — while Bafana Bafana, the team that made the entire planet SING in 2010, returns hungry for the result that eluded them on home soil. It's El Tri's technical artistry and creative flair versus South Africa's raw physical power and counter-punching pace down the flanks! History is screaming on one side, redemption is screaming on the other — and only NINETY MINUTES will decide whose story gets rewritten!
South Africa
Human Rights & Country Data
Mexico
Freedom House
Political rights and civil liberties score (higher = more free)
Reporters Without Borders
Press Freedom Index ranking (lower = more free, out of 180 countries)
UN Human Development Index
Human Development Index score (higher = more developed, 0–1 scale)
Transparency International
Perceived public sector corruption — higher is cleaner
ILGA World
Legal status of same-sex relationships
South Africa
Freedom House
Political rights and civil liberties score (higher = more free)
Reporters Without Borders
Press Freedom Index ranking (lower = more free, out of 180 countries)
UN Human Development Index
Human Development Index score (higher = more developed, 0–1 scale)
Transparency International
Perceived public sector corruption — higher is cleaner
ILGA World
Legal status of same-sex relationships