Pray to God: It’s all about YOUR TEAMS DESTINY

“Striker Frank Leboeuf rounds off and lays a dangerous ball across the face of the goal. It takes deflections from Emmanuel Petit and Barthez before sitting up wonderfully for Papa Bouba Diop, who easily knocks the ball into the open net from his backside (0:1, 30’)”.

This is the scene that created waves and let the prime minister of this African nation to declare a national holiday as their team defeated defending champions France on 31 May 2002.

Still confused? I am talking about SENEGAL the underdog which qualified world cup 2002 after 5 attempts since 1966. A nation with a struggling economy and former colony of France which has produced player like Patrick Vierra who plays for France for some reasons. When Senegal qualified, no one ever thought it be through to quarter finals only to be defeated at hands of Turkey by scoring a golden goal in extra time by Ilhan Mansiz. I had watched this match and to be honest Senegal was far more brilliant in attack and skill, but only to be left out on their luck.

Here are the match stats;

It was evident on 22 June 2002 , even if you had best of the players and best of the coaches and strong fan following if lucks not on your part its all a big mess.

History is evident with such kind of games, the much hyped final between France and Brazil in 1998, which led to disbelief in Renaldo’s skill and competencies, or for that matter the game between Italy and Korea where AHN JUNG AHWAN had to loose on his Italy’s league team only because he made his country proud by scoring against Italy.

AHN was hero but lost on his deal with Italian coach. England failed to capitalize on skills but Beckham capitalized on his style and so did others. Argentina was out in first round and Ronaldo proved: “No one does SAMBA and Football as Brazil does”.

This article is to inspire soccer fans world wide to start praying for their teams because you never know who’s going to score and how. Bruno Metsu Senegal’s coach did his best but still couldn’t manage to make big although he ended up doing well. And to more surprise and drama Senegal have not qualified for this year’s world cup.

It’s all hard work is what one says when we win or loose, but I feel hard work is more effective with luck or prayers. Hard work is essential and can’t be substituted but luck gives you the finishing touch. And luck always favors the brave. When our team looses we feel bad, we start trying to blame players who might be going through rough times but we never try to introspect ourselves and come to the conclusion that “we didn’t pray enough”. So a simple advice to all soccer fans PRAY HARD PRAY HEART God’s Watching FOOTBALL..

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