₦airaland Forum

This year’s World Cup is just a few days away and Africa just like every other continent (apart from Antarctica) will have its representatives at the Mondial flying it’s flag high.


The World Cup is the biggest sporting showpiece in the world watched by over 2 billion viewers from all over the world. Football’s biggest tournament has been played ever four years since it’s inception in 1930. (I don’t know how many of you reading this watch the first ever World Cup if you didn’t let me tell you it was epic I remember watching the final in my living room with my grandson on my 4k HD Hisense android TV ).

Hence this year’s edition makes it the 22nd of successful World Cups ( excluding 1942 and 1946 editions that were cancelled ). Host Qatar will be the 19th Country to host the World Cup and also this will be only the second time the World Cup will be staged in Asia/Middle East- first been 2002 when Japan and Korea co-hosted.

Hosting the World Cup is one thing but winning the World Cup is a different game entirely, the World Cup is so elusive that only 8 countries have ever lifted the trophy (as at 2018 World Cup in Russia a total of 79 teams have participated in the tournament) and just in case you don’t already know the 8 countries to have won the World Cup are from Europe and South America.(which means for the past 92 years, countries from other continents have just been going to make up numbers and display colorful jerseys - one African country comes to mind ��<
)

Africa countries Senegal, Cameroon and Ghana have endured painful quarter final exits the most recent one being the painful exit at the hand of Luis Suarez at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Diego Maradona called his hand ball goal against England in 1986 “the hand of God”, I wonder what Suarez would haves called his. Because his hand broke the heart of so many Africans (not me I was never rooting for Ghana ).

Suarez had kept out the goal bound effort in the closing stages of that encountage Of course he was shown a red card and a penalty was duly awarded but Asamoah Gyan blazed the resulting spot kick over the bar. (with many Ghanians gasping in disbelief, I’m sure kenke even hang for some mouth). Uruguay would eventually win the match and dump Ghana and indeed Africa out of the World Cup on home soil.(another World Cup another Quarter final exit).

The last two editions of the World Cup have witnessed well under par outing by African nations, Second round exist in 2014 and all round group stage ousting at the 2018 World Cup. But this year will be different this is 2022 this one will be special. This year’s World Cup is so so special for one it’s a Winter World Cup, secondly it’s the first major FIFA tournament after the pandemic of 2020 threaten to end the entire human existence and our way of life. Even amidst the Ukrainian war and countless other weird things happening around the World- example we have a BAT contesting for the highest political position in a certain African country. Football promises to serve us joy excitement and drama like it always does.

So like previous editions, Africa once again is sending out her best five nations to fly the continents flag. There is a sense of optimism from African going into this years tournament and rightly so, amongst the five countries representing the great continent of Africa are three previous quarter finalists and given the experience and form of these countries it gives enough confidence to believe that this could be our time to cross that quarter final hurdle. So who are our representatives and what are their chances.

SENEGAL

The Teranga Lions; the reigning African champions- the team of novices that surprised everyone by beating then defending champions France at the 2002 tournament in Korea/Japan. They haven’t always qualified for the Mondial but when they do they always give a good account of themselves, this year they have a very promising team and I believe they can do the continent proud in Qatar.

VERDICT: Second round exit�…Mane seems to be out injured, might probably be missing the World Cup. Loosing your talisman this close to the World Cup is never a good sign plus Mendy hasn’t been the same since he started playing one-two with opposing strikers in the EPL and Koulibably hasn’t really found his feet in Chelsea (I don’t think anyone apart from Thiago Silva has found their feet in Chelsea this season)

Read full Post Here: https://www.alexbanter.com/2022/11/qatar-2022-which-country-will-break-92.html?m=1

Only BIAFRAN NATIONAL TEAM COULD DO THAT OKAY.

Landlord97:
Only BIAFRAN NATIONAL TEAM COULD DO THAT OKAY.

I don’t know what you talking about