It was winter and it started snowing before Giorgis knew it. “It was my first time to see snow in my life. I jumped up to the back of the car deciding to stay the night there but I couldn’t bear the cold. I mean I had experienced cold weather before but this was quite something else. And on top of it, I had taken off and threw away my boots to help me run faster so I was on bare feet, which made it even worse for me.”
The opportunity given to South Africa to host the 2010 world soccer event has given each and every African country the opportunity to land the World Cup trophy on every African soil for a short period of time tuning the attention of soccer-crazed people..
Giorgis was devastated by what happened to him and his friend. “I thought they would throw us to the sea, but I was surprised to find the captain of the ship ordering his staff to take good care of us and feed us until they take us back to where we came from”. The ship crossed the Suez Canal and finally threw its anchor at port Seid for a ten-day stay in Egypt.
Giorgis didn’t leave any choice for the Somali authorities because he did not have any paperwork. Accordingly, it was decided for Giorgis to be deported to where he came from. “That was out of the question”, Giorgis said to himself and cut a deal with the Somali authorities to allow him to work for a couple of months and make some money for his way back. Giorgis was not at all planning to go back home; In fact by then he had already developed the idea of going overseas.
Talking about international soccer competitions, whether at international club level, youth national team or the senior national team itself, Eritrea has never gone beyond first pre-qualifying stages except on very rare occasions. At least that was how it was until about the end of 2006 when the wind of change breezed over Eritrean football.
October 2009 Eritrea’s future in the soccer world rests upon its young talented players who play here and there in the streets, school pitches and mini-soccer fields. Very young students, with an average age of 13, who polished their eye-capturing skills and techniques in such pitches, were picked up from a tournament held in Asmara and represented Eritrea, under a team name Warsay, in the 37th Norway Cup in mid June 2009. They came back holding a big trophy that attests to their excellence.
Giorgis’s travels: The incredible adventure… When he first arrived in Gonder, he was fortunate enough to find a job to maintain his living and later met an Eritrean man who owned a bakery in the town. He was employed there and stayed in the town for a little more than a year. Giorgis was fast at studying languages. He could communicate in English from his bible studies at the missionary school he was attending in Mendefera and managed to speak and understand Amharic from his stay in Gonder. “Somehow, I was not satisfied with how I was doing in Gonder”, Giorgis said, “So I decided to move on towards the west and so I took off once more.”
It was winter and it started snowing before Giorgis knew it. “It was my first time to see snow in my life. I jumped up to the back of the car deciding to stay the night there but I couldn’t bear the cold. I mean I had experienced cold weather before but this was quite something else. And on top of it, I had taken off and threw away my boots to help me run faster so I was on bare feet, which made it even worse for me.”
The opportunity given to South Africa to host the 2010 world soccer event has given each and every African country the opportunity to land the World Cup trophy on every African soil for a short period of time tuning the attention of soccer-crazed people..
Eritrea’s future in the soccer world rests upon its young talented players who play here and there in the streets, school pitches and mini-soccer fields. Very young students, with an average age of 13, who polished their eye-capturing skills and techniques in such pitches, were picked up from a tournament held in Asmara and represented Eritrea, under a team name Warsay, in the 37th Norway Cup in mid June 2009. They came back holding a big trophy that attests to their excellence.