Our soccer golden boy — Samatta — has proved hard work and sweat opens doors
Tanzania's forward Mbwana Samatta celebrates scoring his team's second goal during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) football match between Kenya and Tanzania at the Stadium in Cairo on June 27, 2019. PHOTO | AFP
The suspicion that there is madness among football fans may be justifiable, but it becomes even madder when it is mixed with a sense of exaggerated nationalism.
In one instance in 1969, El Salvador and Honduras even fought a brief border war over a disputed football match.