Indomitable Lions Attacked in Yaounde
What a shameful reaction from an ungrateful public. Stephane Mbia was attacked in Yaounde on June 26 as soon as they returned from the world cup. Someone recognised him and within seconds at the central town, street hawkers and idlers surrounded his car and trapped him inside for more than 30 minutes, hurling insults and threats at him before the forces of law and order could intervene.
I am tempted to say, "No, not Mbia because he happened to be our best player at the world cup" but this too is very foolish reasoning. No player, even the worst, should be attacked back in country, they made their best efforts given the conditions they found themselves in. Then, some of them were nursing minor injuries and the coach could not dare unselect them because their replacements were not nearly good enough.
We refuse to see that this time was weak from the onset, could not qualify on the pitch and worst of all, had very strong opponents. Yes, sometimes you can prepare well, do your best and simply get unlucky in terms of your opponents. Let us also remember, for those who play even sunday sharp, you can confirm, that performance also depends on the strength of the opponent. If you meet a weak opponent, you shine, but if the opponent is stronger, your play to the uninitiated will be as if you have "sold" the match.
Calm down dear people, let us see what Pa Yang will find out. Great grand pa ordered him to investigate. We know commissions of enquiry are a way to kill an affair. What happened to the dead homosexual thrown out of a Hilton window? Lets hope these two oldmen love football enough to really care and find out what is the problem.
I am sure they will find out that the problem is the political leadership of Cameroon. It goes beyond our failure to invest in football pitches. It passes through the No 1 sportsman's failure to establish a calendar for the Cameroon cup, plunges down the Atlantic Ocean into which our millions fell on their way to the Lions who lacked drinking water in USA 1994, is lost in the confusion of multitudes of premature talent emigrating to be abused and killed in Europe because of fraud, then takes a nail on the head from the economic crisis, our failure to go watch football, the poverty of players that discourages people who cannot go to Europe to simply quit, etc. The list is long.
But anyone can tell you they know someone who was a great talent but had to quit because there was no support. We are not sure that all our talent ultimately gets to the national team. Though we play football everyday and love it as much as Brazil, we cut our football in the leg everyday by our corrupt practices that block good players and force them to change their trade into sellers of okrika, bendskinneurs and toilet diggers.
But will Yang have the perspicacity to see this? Will he have the courage to tell his boss? Will his boss have the humility to admit his failures, and his negative example of being more of a Swiss patriot than a Cameroonian? Will he see some of the money he spends there cound build stadia all over the country and make football worthwile? I am afraid not likely. Cameroon may still have a long dark period before the end of the tunnel.
I am tempted to say, "No, not Mbia because he happened to be our best player at the world cup" but this too is very foolish reasoning. No player, even the worst, should be attacked back in country, they made their best efforts given the conditions they found themselves in. Then, some of them were nursing minor injuries and the coach could not dare unselect them because their replacements were not nearly good enough.
We refuse to see that this time was weak from the onset, could not qualify on the pitch and worst of all, had very strong opponents. Yes, sometimes you can prepare well, do your best and simply get unlucky in terms of your opponents. Let us also remember, for those who play even sunday sharp, you can confirm, that performance also depends on the strength of the opponent. If you meet a weak opponent, you shine, but if the opponent is stronger, your play to the uninitiated will be as if you have "sold" the match.
Calm down dear people, let us see what Pa Yang will find out. Great grand pa ordered him to investigate. We know commissions of enquiry are a way to kill an affair. What happened to the dead homosexual thrown out of a Hilton window? Lets hope these two oldmen love football enough to really care and find out what is the problem.
I am sure they will find out that the problem is the political leadership of Cameroon. It goes beyond our failure to invest in football pitches. It passes through the No 1 sportsman's failure to establish a calendar for the Cameroon cup, plunges down the Atlantic Ocean into which our millions fell on their way to the Lions who lacked drinking water in USA 1994, is lost in the confusion of multitudes of premature talent emigrating to be abused and killed in Europe because of fraud, then takes a nail on the head from the economic crisis, our failure to go watch football, the poverty of players that discourages people who cannot go to Europe to simply quit, etc. The list is long.
But anyone can tell you they know someone who was a great talent but had to quit because there was no support. We are not sure that all our talent ultimately gets to the national team. Though we play football everyday and love it as much as Brazil, we cut our football in the leg everyday by our corrupt practices that block good players and force them to change their trade into sellers of okrika, bendskinneurs and toilet diggers.
But will Yang have the perspicacity to see this? Will he have the courage to tell his boss? Will his boss have the humility to admit his failures, and his negative example of being more of a Swiss patriot than a Cameroonian? Will he see some of the money he spends there cound build stadia all over the country and make football worthwile? I am afraid not likely. Cameroon may still have a long dark period before the end of the tunnel.
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