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Iyineda:
Echiejile - piss poor
Kanu - burden
Yobo - shaky and unreliable
Obasi - out of position
Ayila - down with a cramp XD

Only Anichebe and Haruna (to some extent) were good. Kaita was ok.

My goodness! I need to see a serious improvement in the Colombia encounter.

tEsLim:
Yeah the hotels are on the high right now its their season I searched the internet a lot. But I got a lady's hook up so I'm gonna rent a studio apartment for a month. I don't know how to get my match tickets yet. I've only been able to find England match. I need the naija match ticket. Btw I'm scared too I heard a lot of SA men/thiefs are aggressive. In Lagos a tout can ask for your wallet he doesn't even need to slap you , but I hear SA they can shoot you to rob you of 1 rand. I'm sorry if I sound ignorant though. I'll make sure i stay in upscale neighborhood only

binhozie:
Gareth Bale Looks like a monkey

Goddess82:
Thank you to everyone so far who has given advice. I only have two weeks to go before I fly into Lagos and spend some time with my friend. I am very much looking forward to learning about another culture and hopefully making some new friends.

Just a few things I have noticed on this forum, not just my topic but many others, it seems the responses start off well and then some people get a little sensitive and before you know it the topic has become a slinging match between bloggers.

I think we all need to remember this forum is out here to help people and whilst I believe in freedom of speech and opinion, somethings are better left unsaid. So lets all just smile

tEsLim:
I would like to meet other Nigerian travelling for the world cup. We could exchange emails. I'm booked to leave Naija for 5th. How did you get your own match TICKETs

RSA:
^^Mo when are you landing bro?

smile4kenn:
that is what we hear everyday

RSA:
I am dissapointed by your comments,but then there is a saying that says 'people who generalise,they are generallly liars'.Shakira is horrible as a singer,she sings as if she's got something on her throat.What we are saying is we have talented musicians who are capable of doing this song.We have world renown groups like Black Mambaso and Soweto Gospel Choir that have won the grammys and other very talented musicians.


Believe me when I say this is our world cup,I am sure in the past it use to be FIFA but in South Africa it is ours,it is African world cup.And I think it is OK to believe in yourself as an African,Shakira did a bad job and we believe one of our own can do a better job,what is wrong with that?

Kaanan song is very popular in South Africa and people thought it was a FIFA official song and where OK with it,so please don't make us more xenophobic than we're already are.Personally I would have loved a song that have Femi Kuti,Vusi Matlhasela,Oliver Mtukizi,Yousou Ndour,Angelidjo Kidjo,Yvonne Chakachaka,Baaba Maal,Isamel lo and Tuface,Lira

Ndipe:
Wasnt ok in the first place. And Davidylan claiming that primates look like blacks,is just shocking. Doesnt he know that God created man in His Image? And these same ignorant comparisons always given evolutionists fuel to insist that their theiries of evolution are sacrosanct.

JeSoul:
Hmm . . . if this is the case, that historically it hasn't always been a native of the host country doing the official anthem, then I don't think south africans can complain too much. Although the significance of this being the first WC on african soil is certainly not lost on me. America/europe hosting is not the same as Africa hosting.

JeSoul:
Absolutely. If enough people complain maybe Fifa will reconsider.
Lol, probably, but maybe not as strongly. It's hard to imagine all the brains at Fifa would not have imagined how this wouldn't be a problem. And it makes it even worse the song is not original, but infact a biting off an old song from another country being sung by someone from another continent. How them no go vex? lol

JeSoul:
Although another angle. Do you know the history of fifa anthems and who sung them? ie was it always an American when it was held in America? or sung by a german when it was held in Germany etc?

JeSoul:
Na wa oh  . . . everyday some controversy about the world cup lol.

Anyways, both sides have good points . . .
-a SAcan should be singing it - first worldcup in africa = monumnetal moment for the continent etc
-it's okay to have a foreigner collaborating, it shows its a global event

Personally, I think FIFA shoulda asked a SAcan to do it, just to avoid drama and to allow Southafricans to showcase their talent. Shakira doesn't need the publicity, it would've been better served giving it to a local artist.

And going by the two videos you posted Morpheus, Shakira's song is very nice and well done (including the accent and pronounciation of the local tongue), however, Knaan's/Bisbal's song is simply riveting, fantastic! definitely more deserving to be the official anthem.

invalidcha:
We must not be ignorant , the Almighty God created everything and made man not monkey in his own Image.If you compare monkeys with man that means you are one of them that are possessed to go the laboratory and waste time experimenting jargon.Grow up young sci fiction lovers.

ghettochyk:
"resemblance" also depends on how YOU wanna look at it. The association between blacks and monkeys, or other colored people and monkeys is probably subconsciously because of the obvious similarities in color. If most African monkeys didn't have dark fur, would people be quick to jump on the idea that black people came from monkeys? Or to make jokes or insults of calling a black person "monkey"?
Has anyone thought about what color monkeys would be if they were hairless or had minimal hair?
Now, between black Africans and white Europeans, who's actually more hairy like monkeys? The way I see it, white folks are more similar to monkeys. Unless you wanna compare their resemblance with bears.
Funny, a white man said the same thing. lol!