Togo Nations Cup Team Attacked
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Africa: Let Us Mourn, Then Play - Adebayor
Leadership, 11 January 2010
Togo skipper and Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor has sensationally called for Togo to return to the Africa Cup of Nations after they have mourned the three dead victims ... read more »
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Togo: Cabinda Gunmen Attack Togolese Soccer Team
This Day, 9 January 2010
Gunmen yesterday opened fire with machine guns at a bus carrying Togo's national football team players and officials to the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, wounding many of them. read more »
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Angola/Togo: Attack on Togolese Footballers in Cabinda (press release)
Human Rights Watch, 9 January 2010
On January 8, 2010, an ambush claimed by Angolan separatist rebels against Togo’s national football team killed one person and injured at least nine others. The attack ... read more »
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Togo/Angola: CAF Condemns Attack On Togolese Convoy (press release)
Confederation of African Football, 9 January 2010
The Confederation of African Football condemned the attack against the Togolese delegation convoy heading to Cabinda from Congo. Immediately after the news, CAF held an emergency ... read more »
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This is so embarassing. I want to tell you that World Cup 2010 will be the first and last time Africa will be allowed to host due to such primitive behaviour !
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I think its double tragedy for Togo not to have participated in the on-going Africa Cup of Nations (ACN) due to CAF's inability to make contingency arrangement to accommodate unforeseen circumstances of this nature. In sports management, there is what we call match opportunities. This is calculated prior to the commencement of a competition to enable the organisers know the number of matches that can be played within a specified period taking into consideration, play-offs or postponments because of unforeseen circumstances like bad weather, fracas e.t.c. If this had been done, Togo shoul not have been denied the opportunity to play in this all important competition. I can imagine the pains the players who had prepared to showcase their talents in this competition will be going through. A worse incident once happened to Zambian national team some years back. All the first eleven perished in a plane crash and another team was raised which made an impresive impact in that year's Africa Cup of Nations. Togo only lost a few of their players. I think the best consolation they can get from CAF would have been a contingency arrangement for them to play in 2010 ACN What a double tragedy in deed. Dr. O. A. Olajide
This is bad. Very bad. The sad thing is that, South Africa 2010 is being linked to this incident. Tragedy beyond belief.
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