A 39-year old Serbian soccer fan started trekking to South Africa on Tuesday and plans to reach the country in time for his nation’s opening World Cup Group D match against Ghana in Pretoria on June 13. This is Serbia’s first major soccer tournament as an independent nation.
Sasa Jovic set off on foot from the Balkan country’s central city of Cacak with just a back-pack and a world map in his bid to cover 16,000 kilometres by road and sea via Bulgaria, Turkey, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Botswana.