Sport in South African townships
The Cape Town United are not a football club, is a black club. They call themselves Africans and differ from mestizos and whites. That is their sense, that of welcoming those who do not welcome the other. Xolile Mateza, its president, I said: "If you're black you have to be a star to get a chance on the professional staff of Cape Town". (the same complaint, conversely, Whites and mestizos have in other regions and other areas). His coach, Monwabisi Allen, went further and explained that "Africans do not want to improve and become rich". The phrase, and heard, looks like it could be delivered by a team of African migrants who plays football in Berlin, not the last country in Africa. Even harder to understand when they report that "yes fichan Africans from elsewhere". Does it last divided reality of South African society or victimhood profitable?
Langa is one of those neighborhoods where the salads seasoned with car oil, but which also hang plasmas brick walls and clay.
The team trains on a decent field, municipal, that costs six euros per session. "We have no money to pay for it", tell me. Only a few used condoms with the band, in the grass, remember that we are in territory fucked. The rest is an installation of the first set in a third zone. Langa is one of those neighborhoods where the salads seasoned with car oil, but which also hang plasmas brick walls and clay. The field that the team / school rightful does reflect more the environment. Fenced, wiring and even a bush in the middle of a terrain that hardly walk; running it must be a miracle.
Ask, asked to maintain the generous support of the project team and senior school. Each project that is visiting this country has a long list of needs that almost begins with the role in which we aim. No lie, is a fact that means visible eye, but there is also some productive complaint who has become accustomed to that are other solutions which put.
He spent a surprising thing I found on my visit to Cape Town United. During the interview I see next to football field a fully equipped neighborhood kids playing cricket aristocratic. Anyone would have thought that instead of Langa were in Camps Bay (rich white area). "That is what we need, comes another John Pasmorre and equip us ", I says coach. Pasmorre is a Brit who appeared eight years ago around the neighborhood with a truck of donated material for kids to play a sport teapot and nines. What will happen when the gear is broken by the use in the coming years? That probably will go to hell team and will be expected to spend another Pasmorre.
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I really liked this article, difficult dichotomy of football in different countries…….Here is gained both………..and there costs so little and yet there is nothing to…
Such items should abound on the net, to become aware of what is essentially football (like any other sport) and which is (able as a sport) for any society.
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Javier
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Football is in this case a reflection of South African society: but not bonded together; means but means; dreams and reality…
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