While other sporting codes bring medals and glory to the country, putting Botswana on the World map, football only brings misery, pain and embarrassment. Despite its popularity, the attention it gets, the resources it has, the exposure it gets, football in Botswana fails to get any glory for the country. Football gets the bulk of attention and resources but is one of those codes that does not bring any marked results.
Over the years, we have dismally failed at all levels. Notwithstanding that, football remains the major attraction and hogs most of the headlines. Once in a while we do get some good results, but that is more of a flash in the pan occurrence. While football miserably fails us; other less talked about, less popular, less publicised sport codes continue to do wonders for the country and bring glory. The less financed codes are the ones that have their houses in order and do get positive results. They are the ones that have their development programmes in place and running like well-oiled machines, with the meagre resources at their disposal.
