I hardly watch football due to my demanding schedule, or any other sport for that matter… but I do read… a lot. I have been thinking of what would motivate me to support something like football but all that lingers in my mind now is Côte d’Ivoires ‘Black Sunday’(even if they went ahead and won 5-0 (which left a really bad taste in my mouth by the way!))
19 innocent lives lost. Sudden and fast.
The match between Côte d’Ivoire and Malawi was probably one of the most well attended… but in the hype to cheer their teams, a stampede…teargas…the rest is history…
FIFA and the Ivorian government say they are investigating who’s responsible… what will that help I wonder??? The dead are DEAD and the injured are injured… what compensation can they get… if any and what will be done to the persons/organization deemed responsible?
A look at some other matches in the history of African football.
2008: 8 people died in Monrovia (Liberia vs. Gambia)
2001: 126 football supporters died in Accra as well as 43 people at Ellis park, Johannesburg.
2010 ???
Stay safe all you football supporters!
Not a soccer fan either…but I think that the biggest issue is the fact that many official institutions (read governments) don’t place much value on human life in Africa…nothing is ever done to deliberately protect it
Kunakitabu nilikuwa nakisoma mara kwa mara jina limenitoka.
Kitabu kile kinazungumzia mizimu ya babu zetu punde wanapokasirika nini kinachotokea.
Hapa hakuna wa kulaumiwa,hakuna anayeweza kushindana NA MIZIMU YA BABU ZETU SISI WAAFRIKA hata kama fifa waunde tume 87 kuchunguza.
tume pekee ambayo inaweza kuratibu haya yasitokee ni TUME YA KUTAMBIKA,KUKAA NA KUZUNGUMA NA BABU ZETU,KUKAA NA KUZUNGUMZA NA MIZIMU YA BABU ZETU.
Haya ndio mavuno ya utandawazi.WAafrika tukae na kutafakari,tukumbuke MILA NA DESTURI ZETU,TUJITAMBUE SISI NA WAO.
2010 TUSITUMIE TEKINOLOJIA BALI TUKIMBIE NA KUSUJUDI MBELE YA MIZIMU YA BABU ZETU.
Amani Serina
Another non-soccer fan. Still, we are practising all safety we can for 2010.
More of a cricket fan, though in Africa we are quite willing to cut corners on health and safety issues for the sake of money. Even that same weekend in Kenyan officials once again allowed a match to be played on a ground they knew that was barely big enough to contain the mountains of fans who would want to watch, proceeded to allow all manner of non-genuine ticket holders to access the ground and then pretended that they do not know the stadium’s capacity.
http://www.nation.co.ke/sports/football/-/1102/558270/-/yxsijh/-/index.html
serina habari
kimya kimezidi,vipi mzima/wazima?
amani.
Ms. S,
Though I know you’re well, it would be very nice to come here and read a new poem
Luihamu na Kaasa, asanteni kwa kupitia … naomba muwe na subira…