What I dont get is... they were travelling by bus from Togo to Angola? That's like.... driving from Denmark to Greece. And I don't imagine they have motorways all the way there.

kroko

Finland2136 Posts

January 09 2010 02:43 GMT

#1442

Souleymane Habuba (CAF's communications director) went on to question why Togo, in contrast to the other 15 teams making their way to Angola for the tournament, had elected to travel by road rather than flying.

"CAF's regulations are quite clear, teams are required to travel by air, not road," he continued.

"We had a meeting of all the teams this morning, or at least almost all of them - Togo didn't show up, and it was only later on Friday afternoon that we heard via information from the media that they had been the victims of an attack.

"But at no point were we told they were travelling by road." [

Only reason I could think of is lack of money T_T

TanGeng

Sanya12364 Posts

January 09 2010 02:59 GMT

#1443

Sounds like wilderness and warlord violence to me. Where were they attacked/ambushed? Can anyone give a more detailed news report?

Well at least Adebayor was uninjured. Looks like it was north west Angola, and they were training in neighboring Congo. So it was pretty close by.

Anyhoo, a lot of Africa is politically fucked up. This might be an Angola security problem or it might not.

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

January 09 2010 03:12 GMT

#1444

adebayor has enough money to pay for all their airfare, if he doesn't want to he can just ask man city.

warding

Portugal2397 Posts

January 09 2010 14:06 GMT

#1445

It happened in Cabinda, an exclave of Angola. They have had some separatist rebels, but they had been mostly inactive for a while.

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

January 09 2010 18:27 GMT

#1446

Now they've pulled out of the tournament, can't remember the last time when football news became this political.

nitram

Canada5412 Posts

January 09 2010 19:26 GMT

#1447

Has any1 ever seen 6 min added time?

Mascherano

Argentina1726 Posts

January 09 2010 19:54 GMT

#1448

Isn't Fergie time usually 5 minutes?
Fergie really needs to speak with these reffs so they understand when he wants and when he doesnt want the 5+ of added time. Shocking.

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

January 09 2010 20:10 GMT

#1449

I think the ref gave 6 minutes to spite Ferguson, United was down to 10 men and playing away.

horang3

United States261 Posts

January 09 2010 21:55 GMT

#1450

On January 09 2010 12:12 zulu_nation8 wrote:
adebayor has enough money to pay for all their airfare, if he doesn't want to he can just ask man city.

Yeah because City should pay for having one of their players taken away. Adebayor is great but he's no George Weah.

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

January 10 2010 00:10 GMT

#1451

they should pay so adebayor doesn't get shot

horang3

United States261 Posts

January 10 2010 04:09 GMT

#1452

On January 10 2010 09:10 zulu_nation8 wrote:
they should pay so adebayor doesn't get shot

your logic makes no sense. Why should the club have to finance the expenses of one of their player's national team?

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

January 10 2010 04:35 GMT

#1453

this is all completely hypothetical, but if togo really did not have the money to pay for airfare, wouldn't it make sense for man city who has one of their first team players traveling with the team, to make sure Adebayor, and the togo team stay out of the areas where they might and did get attacked?

They can't prevent Adebayor from playing for his country, it's in his contract, they might as well make sure he doesn't get injured while he's in Africa? I don't understand how this logic doesn't make sense.

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

January 10 2010 04:37 GMT

#1454

of course this is all in hindsight, but I'm sure they knew the dangers of traveling across the border by bus.

horang3

United States261 Posts

January 10 2010 04:53 GMT

#1455

I understand what you're saying, but it's ridiculous to suggest that a club should keep track of all the places he's going and make every effort to protect him, especially in a tournament which hurts them.

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

January 10 2010 04:59 GMT

#1456

This is surely an exception. It's a situation, probably the only one City has ever had to face, where one of their players may be put in mortal danger because of a lack of funds. Again all hypothetical, but I can't imagine Togo traveling by bus for any other reason, unless maybe there are no airports or something. It's different than if Adebayor was going on vacation to Africa during the off season. I understand that clubs hate releasing their players for international fixtures but not like City can do anything about it in this case.

horang3

United States261 Posts

January 10 2010 05:19 GMT

#1457

Of course they would have paid to fly the team if they had known that they would have been shot at if they drove, but they didn't.