An African World Cup indeed

Posted by Edward Karani , Saturday, June 19, 2010 3:46 AM

I don’t think I have enjoyed a world cup as I am enjoying the African world cup. It’s been amazing. So far I haven’t missed a match. During the 2006 world cup, as I was watching the matches, I thought they were great and well played out. As usual I was supporting all the African teams plus Portugal. Now I am only supporting the African teams only, and one after the other they are breaking my heart. Exams should scare me and that feeling of when the lecturer or teacher walks in with the exam and your stomach is filled with water, you are shaking like a leaf on a cold winter morning, like the winter the players in South Africa find themselves in, and your heart misses a bit. As the lecturer places that paper back side first, your heart beats faster, you want to turn it and see what the teacher has set for that paper. That’s how I have been feeling whenever I watch a match where an African team is playing, More so, a black team. I want them to win so badly. I can hardly wait for the game to start. And when it starts, I am shaking like a leaf, especially when the opposing team makes an attack towards our goal. If they score like Nigeria did I want the time to move so first so that we can celebrate together, when they start to loose as Nigeria and South Africa did, it makes my heart begin to race. I am still optimistic that they can still do it. When they play as badly as Cameroon do, it breaks my heart.

I want Africa to win the World cup badly, and by Africa I mean sub-Saharan Africa. I want South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameron, and Algeria to win and to get somehow ahead in this world cup. But one by one they are breaking my heart.

I wonder do the Africa players in South Africa know how much I am sacrificing to watch these games. I don’t think I have ever given much attention to anything in my life as I am doing to the South African world cup. That should change. Yet I am a final year student, in Kenyan public University. Do they know that I have exams in two weeks times, my final exams in campus but my heart will not let me think about that? I have to watch the world cup. Usually the excitement grips me one hour prior to kick. Right now my heart skips a bit and I am anxious, because the next will determine whether South Africa makes it to the next round or nor. France and Mexico, may God hear the hearts of the Africa people who are hopeful and are not asking for much. A quarter finals appearance will do for me, for others a semi-final will do.

Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Nigeria should know that Africa is not asking that they win they world cup. We only want them to play their hearts out for Africa. We want to see them play the beautiful African game where the ball is made of several paper bags and strings, the grounds is the road next door, or the dusty road outside your house, at times barefooted with your whole heart in it.

Anyway in 2006 I enjoyed watching the world cup in Germany, but I kept on telling myself 2010 is coming. Africa’s time is coming and I am going to enjoy every minute of it. For four years, I have been waiting for this world cup that is why I watching every match I can, watching the sports news, so I can see the highlights of the matches I have already watched, and hating on Uruguay and Greece in the meantime.

Go Africa and long live the vuvuzela!

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Of the World Cup: -

Posted by Edward Karani 3:44 AM

Poor Cristiano Ronaldo, he thinks that every other player is out to hurt him. Someone should tell him, he might be the most expensive player in the world but that does not give him the right to brag. Its very annoying, a man who brags. How do all the women who he has dated stand him?

Two African teams down, four to go. Who is next on the football slaughter house? Go Africa.
For Fabio Capello and all the other players who are complaining about the ball, nicely named ‘Jabulani,’ here’s some tips. ‘Jabulani’ means ‘rejoice’ I know that from the song. ‘Jabulani Jabulani Africa*8’
So this ball must have been designed to be a happy, jumpy ball in the excess. A nice loving ball, like the African people, the only teams that can handle it must be equally happy and loving. Cristiano Ronaldo no matter how many times you dive and scream and get angry, you won’t score. The spirit of the Jabulani ball will not let you, the players must be happy and have no ill or negative vibe if they want the ball to respond in a good way. Like the Germans or Argentina they must let go of all the anger in their heart and embrace good thoughts then maybe they might succeed with Jabulani. Alaternatively Jabulani like the rest of Africa is rejoicing.

Go Africa! Or whatever is left! Go vuvuzela go!

I have seen a couple of boring matches but Paraguay and Italy top the list. I was sleeping.

Marcelo Lippi thinks that he can win the world cup using the same team he used in 2006, does that mean that England will loose too after all the have stuck to majority of the players who like missed all their penalties in 2006, like Jamie Carragher… but I am not naming names.
Besides Marcelo, hope you don’t mind if I call you that, a lot has changed since 2006, for instance your players are four years older, they can’t run that fast.
The venue has changed too, how have the fans that prefer to use the delightful vuvuzela that sing in endless boring chants that are common in Europe. African fans very creative, may the vuvuzela live for a 1001 world cups.

Maybe the reason Europe and America are complaining about the vuvuzela is because they did not invent it themselves. That must really disturbing for them they are so used to inventing everything. Sorry!

Sir just because they won in 2006 doesn’t mean they will win in the African world cup. That’s like saying England will loose.

Three teams I would love to see out of the world cup soonest: -
• England
• Uruguay
• Greece
The sooner the leave Africa the better.

I have an idea of why African teams are doing poorly in the world cup, they use foreign coaches. I hope by the time you are reading this Coach Perreira is on his way to Brazil, and Sven Goran Erickson is on his way back to Europe. 2014 lets invest in our own coach, and discipline among our players.

African teams may not win the world cup, but they definitely win the award ‘for nice to look at stuff award.’ Especially Ivory Coast and Nigeria, it’s had not to look behind. Their assets speak for themselves. They make the other players look like a letter 11. They win that 8-0.

Hottest team: Ghana: Go-o!

Hottest Player: Asamoah Gyan, you go! The African women are behind you a hundred percent.

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