BFA should go back to the drawing board!

Friday, January 22, 2010

As a Motswana, I am really disappointed, sad and at the same time not surprised that of the 32 teams coming to FIFA 2010 World Cup to be held in South Africa, the first in Africa for that matter, not even one team has shown interest in camping in Botswana so far.

World cup is not a joke, contrary to the mentality of those people responsible for running football in Botswana.

Growing up, I thought by now we would be far, if not in the same standard with such countries as Zimbabwe, Angola and even entertaining ideas of hosting AFCON, not scrapping to host a world cup team. But NO, we are far from reaching those standards, the lesser said about hosting Africa's showpiece the better.

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BFA should go back to the drawing board!

As a Motswana, I am really disappointed, sad and at the same time not surprised that of the 32 teams coming to FIFA 2010 World Cup to be held in South Africa, the first in Africa for that matter, not even one team has shown interest in camping in Botswana so far.

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Inspect the voters' roll!