Do you think it was fair for africa to be out of World cup??

Question

Do you think Africans should have been given more chances? for example some of the africans team didnt really have a practice place in their home countries. and i also think that some of the teams were facing money problems, for instance the Togo coach refused to continue any more because of anypaiment.

Answer 1

I think facilities should be put into consideration. I can imagine Togo a poor country in Africa being put to compete under same circumstances as US which has all the money and resources in the world. Its simply unfair. I guess everyone else can see this!

Answer 2

No added chances! Many of the African nation players play on some of the best teams in Italy, France, Germany, England and other countries. They are, in a word, wealthy individuals.
Consider also that every World Cup team has 4 years to qualify in their region and to select their squad and that only 32 teams out of the hundreds playing this great game qualify for the big show. After all this time, the players don't want to practice, they want to play! Ghana, for example, made it through the "group of death" along with Italy while two top ten teams, the USA and Czech Republic, were eliminated. In 2002, France, the Cup winner in '98, was a heavy favorite to win it all. But fell in the opening round with no wins and no goals.

Answer 3

You're right, in a perfect world every team would have equal access to players/training/sponsorship etc. You could apply this same criticism to the Olympics or any large scale sporting contest. However, I don't think there is a fair and accurate way to compensate for these differences in support levels. Playing with the cards you're dealt is just part of life.

If you find a route to that perfect world, let me know! :P

Answer 4

I grew up playing soccer in a nasty dusty grounds and others full of long grass. I used to score and dribble many players. Infact this is typical of most of African players. What I am trying to say, we can not complain about fields and money anymore, what we need is passion or desire from the players to be like soldiers who are prepared to die for their country. World Cup is something of great important, of which only players that are prepared to sacrifies and become good ambassodors for their country, must don national colours. We do not even have to lament a lot about refereeres. African teams must make sure that they play their own natural style of play and score many many goals to offset unfair treatment from refeeres. Look what Cameron did, they ended up winning against Italy whilst they were down to 9 players on the field. For Ghana, they have to blame themselves because they could have avoided a match against Brazil by converting chances they created when they played against Czeck. Togo and Tunisia, they actually did not deserve to be in a tournament. Well done Ghana, Angola and Ivory Coast you represented us very well. But next time bring good strikers, of Antony Yeboah, Kalusha Baylwa's calibre, to score goals as game is worn by goals scored. It is only in case of a 0-0 draw that you can just get one point. Score goals and forget about complaining because the issue of refeeres will be only adressed by introduction of a technology which will probably takes about 100 years before FIFA can be convinced that we really need it.

Answer 5

I think that no matter what country ...it should all be on an equal bases . NO favouritism ! the money problems were with being paid ...not because of their skill . You don't need more than an area of play to play futball/soccer...many brasiliam players actually game from the poorest part of brasil (poverty ) but used the game to improve their lives and get out of it

Answer 6

Anyone coming from the other side or outside Africa will say it is fair.But I personally think it was obvious how the refree tried in everyway to dampen the sprit of the Black Stars of Ghana.How unfair whites are to the Blacks. Where is the Fair Play FIFA go preaching.Ghanaians are proud of their Stars and are glade they fought against injustice of the whites.Africans are proud of everybody especially the BLACK STARS OF GHANA.GOOD BOYS KEEP IT UP

Answer 7

It might be a bit unfair but as usual it came down to the refereeing ...
the african teams might not have the best training facilities but look at the teams that did & they lost out too ..

Answer 8

If African players learned how to shoot more precisely then there would still be teams playing in this tournament. In general their shooting performance was a disaster. In all other areas they have been playing very well.

Answer 9

Football is very very simle:you score more than your opponents
and win.Of course simplicity is the most difficult thing,great is the one who can be and think simple.Also we must consider that when the going gets tough,toughs get going,but in the future who knows.............

Answer 10

Life isn't fair.

What's "anypaiment"?