Check this great Puma promotional video featuring the Elephants of the Ivory Coast. It’s got Drogba, Touré 1, Touré 2, Kalou, and Gervinho clowning their teammates. Guess who gets it the worst.
Damn there’s been a whole lot of Arsenal shade thrown the past two days. I’ll go back to mocking Liverpool next week.
The African Cup of Nations is one of the most slept-on soccer tournaments in the world. 2010 saw Togo’s team get shot up in their bus and Nigeria’s president try to ban the Super Eagles from international competition after they flamed out in the group stages. Zambia won the final after 15 penalty shots.
This year’s has been less eventful so far through the opening round besides this flying kick from Jemal Tassew that saw him get a red card while being carried off on a stretcher after faking an injury. Note the ref laughing as he signals for the medics to get Tassew off the field.
The tournament was moved to South Africa from Libya due to somewhat extenuating circumstances. Unfortunately this heralded the return of the vuvuzela. If no one is there to blow a vuvuzela, does Cape Verde still suck? Not as much as Bafana Bafana.
H/T to The Guardian
The African Cup of Nations is off to a flying start with some great goals and all the drama one would expect from the continent’s major soccer tournament. For those not in the know, the ACN is the equivalent of the Euro which is being played this summer in Austria and Switzerland.
Check out my boy Glendon over at Football Roundtable for highlights and updates from Ghana including this wonder strike from Ghana’s Sulley Muntari. Click on the second link in the post. You can also check it here.
Sorry to all non-NYC readers but this is need to know time. For those of you in New York, a friend of the Deuce has arranged for all the matches to be shown at Fiona’s on the Upper East Side. Here’s the info from the flier:
CAN 2008 EDITION, BEING HOSTED BY THE GATEWAY TO AFRICA – GHANA – CAN BE SEEN CONVENIENTLY AND INEXPENSIVELY! (TELL THE BOSS YOU HAVE AN ERRAND TO RUN, A PRESCRIPTION TO PICK-UP, JURY DUTY…ANY THING)! ESCAPE FROM THE DRUDGERY OF YOUR PROFESSIONAL – AND UNFORTUNATELY FOR SOME, PERSONAL – LIVES! LIKE CINQUE SAID: “GIVE US FREE” TO WATCH THESE GAMES!!!JUST DON’T BE THE GUY – AND LASSIE OF COURSE – WHO HAS TO HEAR OTHERS DESCRIBE GAMES TO YOU AFTER THE FACT!!!!
ALL GAMES LIVE!!!AT THE WORLD FAMOUS FIONA’S (THEY OF THE SMASHING IRISH BREAKFASTS – BLOOD SAUSAGE, BANGERS, BEANS, BACON YUMMY)
GATHERING POINT FOR ESCAPEES: 1ST AVENUE BETWEEN 86TH AND 87TH STREETS
ESCAPE ROUTE: TAKE….the 4,5,6 trains at 86th & Lex to any MTA destinations
INFORMATION: 212-347-3783
FREEDOM TRAIN BOARDING: DOORS OPEN 30 MINUTES BEFORE KICK-OFF
GIFT TO MANAGEMENT: $10/head, and $5 Guinness drafts.
LIBATIONS TO GODS: GUINNESS, HEINEKEN, ALL DOMESTICS AND LOADS OF CURVACEOUS IMPORTS(BEERS THAT IS), SPIRITS, GUINNESS, GUINNESS AND….YEP, MORE GUINNESS!! BRILLIANT!
Mustafa will be rotating between Fiona’s and Nevada’s for the next month as American football is dead to him thanks to Brett Favre. A little known fact. The rates of domestic violence go up in Wisconsin on the days when the Packers lose. Last night was not a good night to be a child or woman in Wisconsin. I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’.
