Nahtino
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GHANA vs BrazilAwsome, if Essein was still on ... eish but He's out ...
But this is gonna ROCK !! AFRICA ALL THE WAY !!!
COME ON BOYS !!!!
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VHAMBLIDINHO
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I would love to see Ghana in the quaterfinals but it will be very tough for them. Brazil are now getting into their top gear now and the absence of Essien will work against them.  . I wish them all the BEST!!
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DGT
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I tip Ghana to cause a major upset.... watch this space . 
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Two Birds
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| DGT wrote: | | I tip Ghana to cause a major upset.... watch this space . |
your wish is mine brother,but it is not the same with John qwelane.The following is his wish!!!
Hooray! Africa's almost out
26/06/2006 09:44 - (SA)
I have a very strong feeling that I will earn the wrath and cursing of many people today, and my African credentials will be questioned.
But I am mightily pleased that the rubbish from Africa will soon be wiped off the list of contenders at the World Cup, and the sooner the last also-ran is sent packing the better for some of us who enjoy seeing genuine soccer players doing what they do best, rather than a collection of lumbering hulks clearly out of their depth.
And by that I am not exhibiting a "slave mentality", neither am I somehow regretting that colonialism and apartheid have ended.
Rather, I am happy that the wheat will finally be separated from the chaff at the World Cup. I am not "Eurocentric" or "Afro-pessimist"; I am darn irritated by incompetence, and have no good word for it.
First to bite the dust, and thankfully so, was that shameful crook Ismail Bhamjee of the Botswana Soccer Association.
Shady characters
How such a slimy character could have been allowed to worm his way up the sporting ladder to end up in the executive of Fifa is beyond me.
I mean, were the soccer "authorities" in Botswana and other parts of the continent unaware of this man's dubious character before elevating him to the continental body, which then proposed him for Fifa?
Before you say that I am being too hard on Bhamjee, let me remind you that he is widely suspected of having voted against South Africa back in 2000 and so, helped by New Zealander octogenarian Charles Dempsey's infamous abstention, ensured that we did not get to host the spectacle taking place in Germany. Perhaps he made himself a mint on the side out of it, who knows?
This time he was a top-ranked Fifa match commissioner in Frankfurt for this tournament and like other executive members, he had about 12 complimentary tickets courtesy of the world body.
The bum was so stupidly greedy that he was caught red-handed just before an England-Costa Rica game selling the tickets for three times their face value.
Fifa viewed the aberration so seriously that it immediately convened an emergency executive meeting, at which Bhamjee the bum was shown the evidence against him. He had no case to defend, and instead gave a mealy-mouthed crocodile lament which convinced no one. He was kicked out of Germany and thrown out of Fifa.
Lesson in the bum's saga
There is a very good lesson in the bum's saga for our electorate; maybe once the lesson has been learnt, we may stop entrusting incompetents and charlatans with high office, whose only desire for being in the driving seats is corruption and an eye for filthy lucre.
The second load of rubbish from our continent to be thrown out of the World Cup are the teams from Africa and the Caribbean. One team is still offering some token resistance, but I have no doubt that it, too, will soon join the rest on an early flight back home.
The Togo squad proved the stereotype that greed and little else is this continent's biggest product; like Bafana Bafana at this year's Africa Cup of Nations, the Togolese players wanted huge chunks of money before playing. Togo never made it beyond the first round; Bafana Bafana failed to win a single point and never scored a single goal.
The damned sickness of putting money before everything else cost them plenty, not least their own self-respect. Now I am not infected with the stupid "patriotic" fever which gripped the woolly-brained SABC commentators to prophesy, as they so stupidly did at the beginning of this World Cup, that Africa would show the rest of the world a thing or two.
Mind you, I ooze with patriotism but I believe, at the same time, that I can tell if I am being asked to back a dead horse.
As it is, the exciting soccer players in the world right now come mainly from Europe and Latin America, and those are the people I want to watch playing the beautiful game.
I want to watch Wayne Rooney, Juan Roman Riquelme, Frank Lampard, Pauleta, Xavi, Djibril Cisse, Rio Ferdinand, Raul, Luis Figo, Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, Kaka, Patrick Vieira, Robinho and Cesc Fabregas.
I do not want to watch the likes of Pimpong, Yapi Yapo or Doji Obilale.
And I have no time either for rubbish passed off as "commentary", which is why I now switch off the volume during interval to avoid listening to Auckland Park-based loudmouths waffling their nonsense of useless "expertise" which few people, I would argue, find riveting and illuminating.
With Bhamjee and the bums sullying the image of our soccer, I truly find it worrying that in a little under four years we must stage the best World Cup yet, given that every edition has been better than the preceding one.
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Lebo
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this match cuts one right in the middle: what with Brazil being the neutrals favourites and your patriotism to Mother Africa on one side. but i am interested in a great game. can rhonaldinhi do his thing against Africans, okes who are also skilfull and not just logs of wood? can Ronaldo turn the big log Mensah? intriguing match indeed.
on JQ, well he made his name as a hard hitting journo, and so he is kust trying hard to live up to that.
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Two Birds
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Ghana coach to resign
29/06/2006 13:26 - (SA)
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Belgrade - Ghana coach Ratomir Dujkovic said he will resign following his team's exit from the World Cup, a Serbian newspaper reported on Thursday.
"I'll return to Ghana," the Serbian coach was quoted as saying by the Vecernje Novosti newspaper. "But I think it was enough. I should move on, there are new challenges awaiting."
Ghana, unseeded and ranked 48th by Fifa, upset the Czech Republic 2-0 and beat the United States 2-1 to make the second round in their World Cup debut.
But without suspended midfielder Michael Essien, the Black Stars lost 3-0 to Brazil on Tuesday.
Dujkovic said he was thrown out of the game at half-time for complaining to the referee as they walked into the tunnel.
He said he told the referee "that it would be better for us if he put a yellow jersey on."
Dujkovic said most upsetting was that Brazil's second goal - scored by Adriano in first-half injury time - was offside.
"It hurts a little that the referees put themselves on the side of the stronger team, not giving us the opportunity for a surprise," Dujkovic said. "An offside goal, quick yellow cards... but it's stupid to talk about it now when it's all over. It was a great tournament, I'll remember it my whole life."
Dujkovic took over Ghana in 2004, bringing some consistency to a team that had averaged a new coach every six months.
The former Red Star Belgrade goalkeeper, who made his name in Germany, had earlier coaching stints in Burma, Venezuela and Rwanda. He had only just kept his job after Ghana's early exit at the African Cup of Nations in late January.
Asked in an earlier interview whether he would take over as Serbia coach, Dujkovic said "with pleasure" - but added that he doubted he would be asked.
Serbia-Montenegro - the final vestige of old unified Yugoslavia - were knocked out of the World Cup after losing its three first-round matches: 1-0 against the Netherlands, 6-0 against Argentina and 3-2 against Ivory Coast.
COURTESY NEWS 24
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