What is it about the World Cup that attracts such anxiety and sometimes near squabbles before, during and after? Your guess is as good as mine – the global event is famous for bringing the entire mortal world together at least over a period of a month.
The World Cup is unique. It exudes excitement and unity but can leave lasting sorrow in the hearts and minds of losers. Win or lose, it pays to be part of the biggest football showpiece.
FIFA's greatest event berths on the shores of Africa for the first time since its inception some eight decades back. For Africa, hosting the World Cup is like a barren woman now blessed with a child after so many years of struggling for a child.
Finally the World Cup has arrived and in under two months Africa will dictate the headlines once more, and this time it will not be about hunger, corruption, war, human trafficking and illicit drugs among other vices – tools that the influential media networks have used to punch craters in our international image.
Already, some European countries want to spoil the fun and have fought tooth and nail just to move the World Cup from Africa. It is not possible and they know it would never happen but they become excited when Africa falls rather than progressing. Their ploy and subversive acts have fallen on FIFA’s deaf ears.
It’s a shame that the colonial masters saw good in our forefathers as slaves to develop their land to enrich themselves. The whole world watched as Africa was totally robbed of her natural and human resources to develop Europe, America and other parts of the world.
Shamefully, the same people who deceived Africa see no good in us today. South Africa, on behalf of the entire continent, will prove them wrong. After many years of hue and cry for the World Cup to be staged in Africa, the Sepp Blatter-led administration made one of the wisest decisions to “give it a try”. Something they will never live to regret, and a milestone that will follow Blatter to his grave.
Besides the enormous benefit to the host nation and surrounding countries, the event conveys a message to the rest of the world that we have come of age and must be counted among the world. It serves as a marketing strategy for the participating African countries to sell themselves to the rest of the world.
Ghana – the only African country to scale beyond the group stages at the last World Cup – became much more popular during Germany 2006. People who had not heard of the country before had the opportunity to know more about the west African nation just because of football. That is likely to repeat itself again this summer for any of the African countries if they do better.
The World Cup is a tool to entice tourists to Africa. When more tourists come to witness the hospitality and the rich culture of Africans they then become ambassadors to champion a trouble-free Africa through their blogs, teachings, conversations and daily exchanges with others. They will tell their peers that the wars and hunger they hear of are isolated cases and that Africa as a whole is beautiful and full of potential.
South Africa 2010 is the greatest thing ever to happen to the southern African country and the rest of the continent since the release of their godfather, Nelson Mandela.
As I keep my fingers crossed and watch the clock tick, some positive feeling runs through me that South Africa 2010 will be one of the most spectacular World Cups, if not the best, ever staged under the skies and the entire continent of Africa will live happily ever after. I pray and hope that I live to one day tell my children and children’s children that "once upon a time South Africa staged the first ever World Cup in Africa 2010 and the whole world bowed their heads in admiration."
The World Cup is unique. It exudes excitement and unity but can leave lasting sorrow in the hearts and minds of losers. Win or lose, it pays to be part of the biggest football showpiece.
FIFA's greatest event berths on the shores of Africa for the first time since its inception some eight decades back. For Africa, hosting the World Cup is like a barren woman now blessed with a child after so many years of struggling for a child.
Finally the World Cup has arrived and in under two months Africa will dictate the headlines once more, and this time it will not be about hunger, corruption, war, human trafficking and illicit drugs among other vices – tools that the influential media networks have used to punch craters in our international image.
Already, some European countries want to spoil the fun and have fought tooth and nail just to move the World Cup from Africa. It is not possible and they know it would never happen but they become excited when Africa falls rather than progressing. Their ploy and subversive acts have fallen on FIFA’s deaf ears.
It’s a shame that the colonial masters saw good in our forefathers as slaves to develop their land to enrich themselves. The whole world watched as Africa was totally robbed of her natural and human resources to develop Europe, America and other parts of the world.
Shamefully, the same people who deceived Africa see no good in us today. South Africa, on behalf of the entire continent, will prove them wrong. After many years of hue and cry for the World Cup to be staged in Africa, the Sepp Blatter-led administration made one of the wisest decisions to “give it a try”. Something they will never live to regret, and a milestone that will follow Blatter to his grave.
Besides the enormous benefit to the host nation and surrounding countries, the event conveys a message to the rest of the world that we have come of age and must be counted among the world. It serves as a marketing strategy for the participating African countries to sell themselves to the rest of the world.
Ghana – the only African country to scale beyond the group stages at the last World Cup – became much more popular during Germany 2006. People who had not heard of the country before had the opportunity to know more about the west African nation just because of football. That is likely to repeat itself again this summer for any of the African countries if they do better.
The World Cup is a tool to entice tourists to Africa. When more tourists come to witness the hospitality and the rich culture of Africans they then become ambassadors to champion a trouble-free Africa through their blogs, teachings, conversations and daily exchanges with others. They will tell their peers that the wars and hunger they hear of are isolated cases and that Africa as a whole is beautiful and full of potential.
South Africa 2010 is the greatest thing ever to happen to the southern African country and the rest of the continent since the release of their godfather, Nelson Mandela.
As I keep my fingers crossed and watch the clock tick, some positive feeling runs through me that South Africa 2010 will be one of the most spectacular World Cups, if not the best, ever staged under the skies and the entire continent of Africa will live happily ever after. I pray and hope that I live to one day tell my children and children’s children that "once upon a time South Africa staged the first ever World Cup in Africa 2010 and the whole world bowed their heads in admiration."
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