"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
On January 10 next year FIFA will announce its World XI 2011. The result, they remind us, will be based on voting by over 50,000 professional soccer players from around the world. “Every voting player selects one goalkeeper, four defenders, three midfielders and three strikers.”
PRETORIA — Cameroon’s exit from the World Cup could be the start of a run of calamities for the continent over the next days as the African challenge at the 2010 World Cup fast fades.
BRUSSELS - It has almost made the country fall into despair. The recent defeat of the Lions (1-0) against Japan has left Cameroonians deeply disappointed. Disappointed because of the match, but mostly because of their captain Eto’o and his performance. From Yaoundé, Jean-François Delibi, political editor at the first Cameroonian independent newspaper, Mutations, confirms the general mood of all the football fans in the country.
He has the enthusiast spirit of a citizen from the African country which has finally realized its post Apartheid dream: Hosting the FIFA World Cup. This event will sign a definitive step to get farer from the sports isolation, which lasted until 1994. Matthew Choate, South Africa Good News editor and among Afronline.org partners, has his say with an optimistic mood. But criticism also is behind the corner.
Africa will have a record six representatives at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, but just how will they fare amongst a field that is the strongest ever put together for the global showpiece?
The kids of New-Bell, the Douala neighbourhood where Samuel Eto’o (in the picture) grew up, dream of one day becoming professional football players like their idol. Their parents don’t want this passion to distract them from their studies.
Ory Okolloh, the Executive Director of Ushahidi , is from Kenya but currently lives in Johannesburg. Her blog is "outlet for her opinions. While it is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants."
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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