Forget that our ‘A basimane Ba Kgwathe’ cohort in 1997 seemed to view the white and black spherical thing as incidental and continued to embarrass the locals by losing all 3 of their games, conceding 10 goals in the process and scoring only 1, in our book the tournament was a ‘success’. So our sports leaders have decided that 30 years is enough time to heal from the embarrassment, see professional counsellors and forget it ever happened.
I think they also wanted to ensure there are no remnants of the 1997 team who are likely to make it into the 2027 team and perpetuate the 1997 embarrassment. But the CAF inspection team ruptured our excitement by declaring our stadia unfit to host such a tournament and gave a myriad of reasons. BNSC chief executive officer was quoted as saying “They have failed inspection but the things that have caused the failure are minor at Obed Itani stadium. We have to install a light so that the brightness meets the set standards,”. Now this turned out to be the most deflating statement we heard from the whole stadium fiasco.
