May 30 2008
Soccer: the tool to unify Africans
(Source: My Mobile World)
If you’re African you most likely have either played soccer or know someone who does … and for the most part, you appreciate the sport. This is the fact a group in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex has harnessed to unify the area’s large African immigrant population.
The final day of the DFW International Alliance’s African Unity Cup soccer tournament is tomorrow. Thirteen teams have been battling it out all week long and though they may have been competitors on the soccer field, they have shared and fellowshiped as brothers off the field.
The goal of the tournament, which is held at the University of Texas at Dallas, is to transcend the past, enjoy the present and meet fellow Africans. Apparently DFW International’s board realized that the simplest way to unite the area’s African immigrants (a number equaled to about 85,000) would be through our most cherished sport — SOCCER!!!
The Africa Unity Cup finals will be a face off for third place between Sudan and Morocco and later the championship between Sierra Leone and Liberia.
I like this, it reminds me of a book that came out awhile ago, called (I think) How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization. You might be interested in it!
Brilliant! Until the idea was proposed I never would have thought of it. But when Senegal beat France Kenyans danced and cheered and celebrated in the streets.
When Ivory Coast and Ghana played, I, a Kenyan, cheered them on in a Zimbabwean’s house….every time Nigeria and Cameroon have been in the World Cup, Africa has been in the World Cup.
Yeah, when you stop to think about it, they took advantage of some rapport and commonalities we as Africans have shared for a long time.
Why are all the best African teams from the West……it’s an outrage…a mutiny I say
I want to know where and when someone can sign up for the Ghana Soccer team here in the Dallas area?