The ECHO’s Chris Beesley continues his daily series of articles on Everton and the World Cup running throughout the tournament in Qatar.
Everton’s Steven Pienaar made history when he participated in the first-ever World Cup finals match on the African continent and it took place in his home city of Johannesburg. But such achievements would have seemed a long way off when he was growing up under apartheid.
By the time Pienaar was born on March 17, 1982, his homeland of South Africa was already a pariah among the international sporting community because of the system of institutionalised racial segregation that had existed in the country since 1948.
