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Highlights: Togo 2 AmaGlug-glug 2


Shakes Mashaba

In June 1999, South Africa's Under-23 team started their journey to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney with a tough qualifier away to Togo.


Shakes Mashaba's AmaGlug-glug eventually defied the odds to reach the Games, famously beating a Ronaldinho-led Brazil in the group stages, but it almost came unstuck before it even began in Lome, where the visitors twice trailed.


However, a deflected Daniel Matsau strike and comical own-goal ensured a share of the spoils, and the Class of 2000 party was underway ...


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