Sunday, 5 February 2017

Our football rhetoric.... GMB

When our football technicians meet to discuss the way to go: "Let's go back to the drawing board." "Let's start from the grassroots." Now these two lines have become so clichéd for my liking. If they ask me, I say make the game ATTRACTIVE and everything will fall into place. When Senegal wanted to get all those hypermasculine and potential ganstas off the streets. The federation revolutionised the game. They raised money to pay money, got the media to hype the game and make the athletes befitting of being stars, and to attract sponsors and investors. Now every kid in Senegal wants to be a wrestler because it's gainful.

Cameroon, prior to their first world cup appearance, one Swedish journalist visited to see their style of football, and eventually did a documentary. Shockingly, it was observed that the FA President's team was paying better and more equipped than even the National team. I'm not if that motivated the revamp and shift of attention, but there was one thereafter and now it's paying.

Here too, don't be surprised to see an average staff of the FA earning more than the average league player, despite the short career span of the latter, and prolly the reason why we are losing most of our boys to the Senegalese league. I'll give myself as example. I used to play ball, and was dunk champion for a few successive years, but guess what I could show for it: D500 and D250, that's D750, plus one ashtray looking trophy, and one poorly calligraphed certificate. Now I go out and hear kids mumur to one another: "koto bi mo munon basket" (this bruh used to be a fine ball player), and it makes me want to cry. Who do you think I could inspire to take up basketball? I am just glad that I had a Plan B.

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