what is happening to the standard of african football

The African cup of nations is usually a time of pride for us Africans, a time when we get to watch our heroes the best players in Europe come back home to show their skills against other African opposition. A time when the best teams in Africa face each other to see who is the king of Africa. Well all I can say is that the 2012 African cup of nations is a disappointment for me. Many of Africa's most popular and skillful teams did not qualify and so this African cup of nations was doomed from the beginning. This meant that a lot of people were not going to watch the African cup of nations, because many of the continents biggest teams also happen to come from some of the biggest counties in terms of size. This means that the African nations cup is going to receive or should I say is receiving a potentially decreased viewing.

The top African nations who did not qualify are Egypt, South Africa, Cameroon, Nigeria, I feel like this has left a big gap in the African spectacle. These are countries people want to see playing at the nations cup, countries who have qualified for the world cup before and have conquered the African continent before. Yes, top African teams like Ivory Coast, Ghana, Tunisia, Senegal, Mali, and Morocco are there but That is not enough. I have watched some of the matches and I have to say that I am not impressed.  I am especially disappointed that Senegal, one of the teams with one of the best striking forces in Africa lost their matches and are now gone back home, they had a terrible showing, its like they did not show up. I know that the teams who qualified deserve to be there but i would also think that if you qualify using great footballing skill, even after you qualify you should keep the same standard of play or improve. I hope the next African cup of nations is better and that the big teams qualify, you only need a few small nations not a lot of them to make the tournament exciting.

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what is up with bafana bafana

You know I used to be a real supporter of local football, but now I do not watch it that much anymore. I only watch kaizer chiefs games now, but even then its when they play a serious opposition. I know that South African football has improved and that our league is in the top 7 most endorsed leagues in the world and that our premier Soweto derby is one of the most watched and supported derbies in the world. What I fail to understand is why are the results of our improved league and standard of football not showing in the performance and rank of our national team bafana bafana.

Our team plays such attractive football but they just cant convert all that flare and ball possession into actual goals and wins. Its like we are in the league of draws even with seemingly weaker opposition. I said i do not support soccer all that much but I am very patriotic and I always support our boys even when they are sometimes more worried about bonuses when they should be worried about winning games first. I hope that we turn the corner and go back to our winning ways of the late 90's and early 2000's, this decade has been disappointing for us South Africans.

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Chasing skirts

I used to be a shy kid, never talked much, did not have too many friends and I never used to eat when I was not at my own house. In my early teens when girls used to show me or tell me they liked me, that ended with me ignoring or avoiding them. I never used to like forward girls, not that its forward nowadays in the 21st century. I always liked chasing the chicks that was hard to get, the one who was a hidden beauty, the one no one realised was pretty until you started courting her. It always killed me how guys would totally ignore a girl until one guy was trying to hook up with her then the other guys would notice her and would soon be competing for her attention. I would often hear guys say they will go for the not so hot chick because she would be an easy target and the other guys would not notice her because she was not aesthetically pleasing, meanwhile other guys were thinking the same way and the not so pretty girl would end up being more active than the pretty girl everyone thought was going around the block.

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I have always wondered if the ugly girl got so much attention then maybe in the end she would think she was pretty and end up developing a pretty girl attitude. And what about the pretty girls, I wonder if they like all the attention, a friend of mine once told me that beautiful girls are the loneliest girls in the world because other girls hate on them and guys just want to bed them.  He said it was hard for them to have genuine relationships hence most of them end up being superficial and misunderstood.

Have you noticed how most of the time in most girl groups there is one genuinely hot or beautiful and and she has not so pretty friends or average looking mates who the in turn make her seem even more beautiful, I have been noticing this phenomenon quite regularly in girl groups. Every once in a while you find hot girls who chill by themselves and discriminate against those who are not hot. And you find ugly or fat chicks chilling together which is just a sad sight.

Anyways going on about skirts I find that now in my early 20's, unlike in my early teens I like bad girls, chicks who come on to me especially when they are hot, I don't always have to be the one chasing. Its a real confidence boost which in turn not work that hard to get chicks when I do chase, I guess no one has ever been worth me sweating and stressing over getting them. Then again I am still very young and have lots of time in the game.

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