Death Meets TOGO Team in Angola

January 8th, 2010 | by: Omar |

1 dead, two or more people injured (provisional estimate). The Angola African Cup of Nations could not have started worse than that. The Togo bus carrying the Togolese selection to Cabinda has been fired on with machine guns. After the savage attack of the Algerian team bus by stone throwing Egyptians fans we now have machine gun attacks by rebel groups. Cabinda is an Angolan province enclaved between Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It produces 70% of Angola’s oil which total output is comparable to Kuwait’s. Cabinda armed militia are fighting for their independence. Angola has been stuck in civil war for more than 30 years. The past few years had given hope for peace and the CAN was a way to mark Angola’s return to some kind of normality. But reality caught back with the country and the innocent Togolese delegation paid the price for it. Should the African FA have allowed the CAN to take place in those conditions? Are politics and business more important than the lives of the players? Officials have questions to answer. The most urgent one being: Must the competition go on after the blood bath? Should it be delayed? Moved to another location?
I wish well to the injured players and my condolences to the murdered driver’s family.

Togo was supposed to begin their Nations Cup campaign against Ghana on 11 January before games against Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.

Togo squad:

Goalkeepers: Kossi Agassa (Istres, France), Baba Tchagouni (Dijon, France), Kodjovi Obilale (Pontivy, France)
Defenders: Assimiou Toure (Bayer Leverkusen, Germany), Gafar Mamah (Sheriff, Moldova), Eric Akoto (Maccabi Ahi, Israel), Boussari Akinsola (Enugu Rangers, Nigeria), Pereira Hamilton (Sport Recife, Brazil), Kakla Eninful (US Monastir, Tunisia), Richmond Forson (Thouars FC, France), Emmanuel Mathias (Hapoel Pekta, Israel), Serge Akakpo (Vaslui FC, Romania)
Midfielders: Floyd Ayite (Nancy, France), Alaixys Romao (Grenoble, France), Komlan Améwou (Stromgodset, Norway), Guillaume Brenner (Alki FC, Cyprus), Moustapha Salifou (Aston Villa, England), Serge Gakpe (Monaco, France), Razak Boukari (Lens, France), Sapool Mani (Al Ittihad, Libya), Thomas Dossevi (Nantes, France), Junior Yao Seneya (Dibaa Al Hisn, UAE)
Forwards: Jonathan Ayite (Nimes, France), Emmanuel Adebayor (Manchester City, England), Serge Nyuiadzi (Nice, France)

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Perplexed,Baffled,Confused…

How can Algeria win the World Cup, if they cannot beat Malawi! I am talking about Malawi, a team that has never qualified for the world cup and was lucky to make it to the African Cup of Nations. Malawi is beating the hell out of Algeria by a 2:0 score at haltime.
Baffling! If Algeria loses this game(and later eliminated from the 1st round of the ACN) not only I will be disappointed but Algeria might as well forfeit their world cup spot to Russia.
Nazim Guendil

What I find extremely confusing and baffling is your inaptitude to read the title actually. Are you mentally challenged or just slow by nature? This isn’t the match thread you genius!

Or maybe your cr@ppy country should have not been defeated by Slovenia in such a shocking manner (They owned you in both legs). I understand the pain must be huge. Maybe (just maybe) if you took are of your own business, you won’t have to make a fool out of yourself with such idiotic comments LOL