that togo incident - Togo hope for return
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i thought this is like big news in the soccer world, the togo national team attacked and the goalkeeper and staffs died...
How come no one posted anything about it in the forum?
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got already. check them out.
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http://www.sgforums.com/forums/2497/topics/387484
http://www.sgforums.com/forums/2497/topics/387554
it's just that not much people around here bother.
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If it was Adebayor who was shot, then I think more will be interested...
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Originally posted by zocoss:
If it was Adebayor who was shot, then I think more will be interested...
...very true.
you will arsenal celebration all around, even happier than the undefeatable season
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But they decide to stay and play anyway..... hopefully no one else dies.
But there is good news... the match won't be postponed...
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I dun think anyone will be happy over this whether its Adebayor or not. I know its just all jokes but 4 people has died because of a sports event which is a tragedy. I do not think it is a laughing matter though I understand the manner of the postings.
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now the world cup situation will be put in a spot.
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Apart from Adebayor who else can you name in the Togo Team???
A sad fact is If Adebayor was shot there would be more interest...
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YES!!!
If the news was something like Emmanuel Adebayor was shot in his right knee and the injury was so serious that th doctors had no choice but to amputate his leg...
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Originally posted by skythewood:
But they decide to stay and play anyway..... hopefully no one else dies.
But there is good news... the match won't be postponed...
huh?
they pulled out of the cup already
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Its a big mystery... One moment they are in then the next they are out, then in again... Now out again... Only with Adebayor you get this kind of on off on off... lol.
AFRICAN NATIONS CUP
Adebayor announces second U-turn as Togo exit
Togo captain Emmanuel Adebayor has told French radio his team will head home from the African Nations Cup on Sunday afternoon on the advice of the Togolese government.
A number of players had been quoted in the French media saying they were keen to play on as a mark of respect to those killed and injured in Friday's gun attack in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda, b ut Togolese Prime Minister Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo ordered the team must return on Sunday.
The players have now agreed and Togolese president Faure Gnassingbe has dispatched his presidential plane to collect them.
Adebayor told French radio station RMC: "The head of state (Gnassingbe) has decided we will return. "There was a meeting between players yesterday (Saturday) and we said we were still footballers.
"We all decided to do something good for the country and play to honour those who died. Unfortunately, the head of state and the country's authorities have decided otherwise. We will pack up and go home."
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crazy, if me also go home lar.
DUH?!
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Gotta respect their guts after that ordeal
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Togo hope for return to Africa Cup after flying out to mourn
• Players ordered home after terrorist atrocity
• Sports minister asks if team can catch up later
Togo's captain, Emmanuel Adebayor, front, is helped by a team-mate after the gun attack on Friday.
After a day of fraught negotiation Togo tonight flew home from the Africa Cup of Nations following Friday's deadly gun attack but left the door open for a return later in the tournament.
As Angola and Mali kicked off in the opening game, which was drawn 4-4, Togo headed for the airport in the northern province of Cabinda after being ordered to return by their prime minister, who sent the presidential plane to pick the players up. "Anybody that is involved in security matters will tell you that it would be irresponsible to just pretend that nothing has happened and just let the show go on," Togo's prime minister, Gilbert Houngbo, told the BBC World Service. "Security is non-negotiable."
The Togo striker and captain, Emmanuel Adebayor, told reporters at Cabinda airport: "We have to mourn our dead, we're going back to do so. We're very sad."
But even as the Togolese plane prepared to leave, a spokesman for the squad said a final decision on whether the team would quit the competition altogether had not been made. "We're still talking with the players, no decision has been made yet. Everything is possible," he said.
The Togolese sports minister, Christophe Tchao, added to the uncertainty by saying Togo had asked the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to find a way for the team to rejoin the competition later. "We have ordered a three-day mourning," Tchao said. "The players are leaving with the bodies of their fallen brothers and we've asked the CAF to find an arrangement so we can catch up with the competition later."
Adebayor had earlier claimed his team were willing to stay but the decision appears to have been taken at the prompting of Houngbo, who maintained the side could not play while the goalkeeper Dodji Obilale remains in intensive care after the team bus was ambushed in Cabinda, killing three people. "If some people present themselves under the Togolese flag, it will be a false representation," he said.
"The head of state [Faure Gnassingbé] has decided we will return," Adebayor told a French radio station. "There was a meeting between players yesterday and we said we were still footballers. We all decided to do something good for the country and play to honour those who died. Unfortunately the head of state and the country's authorities have decided otherwise.