Sasha
4th April 2011, 23:39
between all the horific news about libya sometimes you find an article that is just plainly bizar. in a dutch newspaper today there was an lenghty article about football in libya.
its in dutch but here are some bizarre experts:
as probably people know current champion Al-Ittihad (the mayor tripoli team) is the personal toy of its most famous former player al-saadi gadaffi, one of the sons of gadaffi, who dominates the competition by both bribing and threathing the opposing players and by just simply buying any decent player in the country.
what i didnt know was;
- footbal players are only allowed to be named on state media by their number not their name.
- during matches only the Al-Ittihad fans are allowed to be filmed by the camera's
- in 1999 the seccond team of benghazi, Alahly, won an suprise victory in an crucial match against Al-Ittihad. Al-Saadi Gadaffi simply had the footbal union declare the Alahly victory declared illegal and the match victory given to his team. When the Benghazi fans reacted with some protests they where not only met by brutal police oppression but the regime on a morning suddenly showed up and simply levelled their entire stadium :scared:
i'm not going to translate the whole article but its an bizarre look inside libya, especialy as its through the eyes of footbal, an game they take very serious there (like in the whole of the magreb)
its in dutch but here are some bizarre experts:
as probably people know current champion Al-Ittihad (the mayor tripoli team) is the personal toy of its most famous former player al-saadi gadaffi, one of the sons of gadaffi, who dominates the competition by both bribing and threathing the opposing players and by just simply buying any decent player in the country.
what i didnt know was;
- footbal players are only allowed to be named on state media by their number not their name.
- during matches only the Al-Ittihad fans are allowed to be filmed by the camera's
- in 1999 the seccond team of benghazi, Alahly, won an suprise victory in an crucial match against Al-Ittihad. Al-Saadi Gadaffi simply had the footbal union declare the Alahly victory declared illegal and the match victory given to his team. When the Benghazi fans reacted with some protests they where not only met by brutal police oppression but the regime on a morning suddenly showed up and simply levelled their entire stadium :scared:
i'm not going to translate the whole article but its an bizarre look inside libya, especialy as its through the eyes of footbal, an game they take very serious there (like in the whole of the magreb)