23 Nov 2006

Sport in Africa (Football)

Passionate Fans

Football in Africa

Football in Africa can be describe as lively hood to many passionate supporters of the sport . The passion is shared from Tunisia in the north to Nigeria in the West.You'll know when an important football match is being played in Africa the nation you are in will literally come to a standstill. Everywhere you go in Africa you'll see young boys kicking around a football. Sometimes the balls will be made of plastic bags with string wrapped around it, sometimes it will be made of crumpled up paper. As long as it can be kicked, there will be a game. Nigeria the game is the number one sport and its reaches to over boundaries of religion , culture and tribes. It's the one thing that unites the nation at a given time ,and this is so across Africa.

African football is developing with the majority of the national players have European clubs sides player such Didier Drogba, Obafemi Martins, Micheal Essien ,Samuel Eto Geremi " and some countries have taken up well established coaches like "Henri Micheal For Tunisia" . It not surprising the success they gain in the World Biggest Footballing competition "World Cup" , but also gained the prestige of Hosting the Competition in 2010.BBC

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