Stefan Seidel

Devoted fans of Ghana will wear this soccer jersey, designed by Puma, when they cheer on their team this month during 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

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Fans of Cameroon, meanwhile, will don their team’s green World Cup jersey.

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Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast

Algeria

Algeria

Puma also sells replicas of the World Cup jerseys for Algeria and the Ivory Coast.

What all these shirts have in common is that they are manufactured  by Impahla Clothing, a supplier to Puma based in South Africa that was started a few years ago by a man named William Hughes.

Surely there will be drama when play begins in the World Cup, but it will have to be exciting to compare with  the drama in the life of William Hughes. He has known first-hand the joy of victory and the agony of the defeat.

Born in Kenya, Hughes, who is now 47, moved at a young age with his family to Zimbabwe. [click to continue…]

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