Kids play soccer in a rural area outside of Rustenburg, South Africa.
It’s early Monday in Joburg on a bitterly wintry morning-after and it is back to reality in South Africa: Kids head back to school and workers to work, after a month off for some, as the visitors fly home to different corners of the globe. The competing soccer teams, and even the naysayers, are long gone.
It's all over.
South Africa is still backslapping itself for having put on a tremendous performance hosting the 2010 World Cup, despite rough play during the final between the victorious Spanish and the Dutch spoilers (my opinion).
But back to my point: In the past few days there’s been much negative psychological talk here about post-tournament blues, depression and a long World Cup hangover in South Africa.
Analysts and specialists have been consulted and confirm this is inevitable and that the World Cup high remains for only so long, before the low sets in.
Take heart South Africa!
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