Namesakes, Heroes and Soccer on the Cape Flats
Samantha Reiners of the
Twenty Ten project met and photographed
young people in Cape Town's Cape Flats area
named after football legends.
First photo: Despite being named after one of the most famous soccer players of all time, nine-year-old Diego Mano from Mannenburg regards his favourite player as Steven Gerrard, Liverpool and English National Team player. His parents named him after Diego Maradona - the Argentinian player widely regarded as the best football player of all time and one of the sport's most controversial and newsworthy figures.
