Bring it On, Theron..

  By bngr | December 4, 2009 - 1:46 am | The Culch

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Surely we have a new contender for Culch’s girl crush with Charleze Theron after her sending up of FIFA by pulling Ireland instead of France out of the hat during the World Cup practice draw.

In case you missed the news earlier today, Charleze - a native South African with Irish connections through her long-term not-getting-married-til-gay-people-can-partner Stuart Townsend - is one of the people who will formally announce the World Cup draw tomorrow of the 33, I mean 32 finalists. In the practice session today when drawing the ‘France’ Ball she called out ‘Ireland’, and the story shot round the world and FIFA stated it was only a joke. But you’d have to wonder are they a bit worried that she might do the same thing tomorrow at the real thing?

You’d hope that among the many odd rules of FIFA there is one that says the team that’s drawn out of the hat has to play, even if it was in error. How sweet would that be.

So c’mon Charleze, do it for Ireland.

She’s one of us now.

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By Jason O’Brien

Thursday December 03 2009

AT THIS stage we all accept that it is the nearest Ireland will get to the World Cup draw.

Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron (34) yesterday pulled an ‘Ireland’ ball out of the bowl during a rehearsal for the much-anticipated draw, which will take place in Cape Town tomorrow. Ms Theron, whose long-term partner is Irish actor Stuart Townsend, pulled out the ‘Ireland’ ball instead of a ‘France‘ ball. But, unlike much of the rest of the world, Ms Theron was not laughing at us.

Instead, she was having a laugh at FIFA‘s expense after Ireland’s failed bid to become the 33rd team at the event.

“Yes, she did, but it was only a joke,” FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke said.

Ms Theron will co-host the draw with Mr Valcke tomorrow.

4 Responses to Bring it On, Theron..

  1. Efa says:
    December 4, 2009 at 10:59 am

    Brilliant! Fair play to her!

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  3. Darren Byrne says:
    December 7, 2009 at 11:21 am

    You got to love her.

  4. Keleher says:
    December 7, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    That was cool what she did that in the trial run :) Pulling for Mexico, Uraguay and South Africa in group A :) and for the Ivory Coast [Irish flag colors in reverse) ;)