30 seconds with 2010 World Cup mascot Zakumi

30 seconds with 2010 World Cup mascot Zakumi

You’re a leopard, right?	Published:Sep 28, 2008
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