Crazy what happened today. Togo likely to pull out now.
Plan on backing Ivory Coast/Cameroon as the finalists @ 8/1
Crazy what happened today. Togo likely to pull out now.
Plan on backing Ivory Coast/Cameroon as the finalists @ 8/1
I've no idea why the AFC would choose a country in a region of instability to host African Cup Of Nations. It could have been avoided....
I havn't the name of the driver yet but the two players injured are reported by ESPN to be "GSI Pontivy [France] goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilalé and Vaslui FC [Romania] defender Serge Akakpo.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...cernet&cc=5739
BBC update: a quote from CAN organisers as saying "Competition officials said they had not known that the Togolose team had decided to drive directly to Cabinda.
They said they had expected the squad first to fly to the Angolan capital, Luanda, and from there to Cabinda. "
The team had police escort so some local organisations knew they were making this trip. National teams reluctance to use reliable aircraft jepardises more individual players. (I'm thinking of the Zambia teams air crash in the 1990's and previous of Nat. Teams uses military aircraft that were not vetted by the destination country.)
Cabinda area was always going to be a sensitive place as it's an Angolan enclave between Dem. Rep. Congo (Kinshasa) and Rep. of Congo (Brazzaville) the country where the team had being training as preparation and had just exited. There has been a long-running armed separist movement there (FLEC), peace broke out only recently (2006) and agreements since then have kept alot of oil-money within Cabinda.
All the reports I've read so far mentioned Emmanuel Adebayor no quotes from him, but some mention the Manchester City website.
" I'll go right up to here,
it can't possibly hurt.
All they will find is my
beer and my shirt."
I would have my doubts the competition will go ahead after this.
Last edited by Ceirtlis; 08/01/2010 at 7:53 PM.
hadn't realised the extent of what happened, taken down on my part, could you edit yours as well?
I wonder has Delaney asked can we replace Togo if they pull out ?
"Football is a game you play with your brain".
The latest this morning is that the competition is likely to go ahead, but with the Cabinda matches re-arranged for other venues. Strangely, no-one expects Togo to pull out, which would have been understandable after yesterday.
Togo have pulled out of the competition now.
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Yeah Cabina is a very unsafe part of Angola, geographically it's isolated from the rest of the country and all of the websites (foreign office, us state dept, etc) warn of travelling there.
It's tragic news and the senseless nature of the violence (it's basically youths just shooting at anything) is one of the most depressing aspect of it.
"You have to be fair in football - you have to be honest and well done to you if you've won, but you have to win in a good way." T. Henry, Stade de France, Arsenal 1 - 2 Barcelona, 16-05-2006.
Hadn't realised there was a seperatist movement in part of Angola.
hopefully there will be no matches played in that region.
Saw a rumour on Aertel that the Togo reserve keeper had died after the attack.
I'm what? I'm ants at a picnic?
Think he's been flown to Joburg for surgery and is in a serious condition - that's the case with one of the keepers anyway. Sadly there are a lot of guns and mines in the country. People forget the scale of the conflict in the late 80s, with thousands of Cuban and South African troops involved, most of the equipment was just left there in the hands of UNITA and MPLA.
"You have to be fair in football - you have to be honest and well done to you if you've won, but you have to win in a good way." T. Henry, Stade de France, Arsenal 1 - 2 Barcelona, 16-05-2006.
Anyone know if the games are being streamed online?
There's plenty up on Myp2p already.
On the coverage, saw this bit on the BBC:
Venue and dates: Angola, 10-31 January Coverage: Final and semi-finals live on BBC TV, BBC World Service and commentaries on BBC Sport website. Live commentary on opening match on BBC World Service and BBC Sport website
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Just watching the opening match on Eurosport at the minute. Two nil to the hosts against Mali. The Malian goalkeeper may as well be watching the match in my living room. He's awful.
Yeah he's dodgy alright - looks quite small as well, no real presence about him.
Mali as a team are all over the place though, no real game-plan and lots of individual errors. Angola are keeping it simple and doing that well.
The Angola defence doesn't look so great now either! Nice finish from Kanoute.
Champions.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
What a comeback!!!!
Unbelievable 4-4.
Champions.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
I can't believe what I just watched.
What a game.
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