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Algeria “and” Egypt..again

You might be blaming me on the post’s title, but I don’t like using the word “versus“, especially when it comes to this. Sob7an Allah, our Egyptian national football team will be meeting Algeria’s national football team next Thursday in CAF 2010 after what had happened in Sudan two months ago or so. I have heard a lot and I have been reading some strange posts about this; to prepare the army and send our tough men this time. Come On! It’s a match guys, it’s a match! and if we did what most people are saying this won’t be good, and it might end for Algerians in the end.

One really strange thing I found, is that there are preparations to transfer “extra supporters” from Algeria and Egypt for this match. LOL, and where were those in the previous matches? I remember Angolians cheering for us in our matches, this is fun. Ok, send them but please, keep it peaceful! And this is for both “governments”. I heard about this guys saying to Boutaflika to send the guys who were in Sudan for Algeria again. Come on, chill out! It’s football, not a war. I heard this on a radio station recently, when we started to give up war with anyone, we moved to football to battle.

And let’s look at it from another point of view; Algeria won, so they will say, “We have just proven it, and we are better, we deserve being in World Cup, so Egypt, shut your mouth.” And then, all Egyptian press and aggressive supporters will have to shut their mouthes, or they will start looking for some funny reasons for our loss then which the team itself doesn’t do.

Or, Egypt won, now this would be said “Haha, Algerians lost, we could have been nominated to WC2010, but we still have a match to go to win CAF 2010.” And, all Algerian voices I see on digital newpapers would say, “Egypt did it, but we went to WC2010″, and will start looking for some other funny reasons why did their national team lost the match.

Didn’t any of you think that we don’t even complete to the 2nd stage in world cups? I mean by “we” as Arabs? We just play two matches, and then, “See you, in your next war thing.” Yeah, yeah, yeah, some guys are going to tell me “It ain’t about World Cup, they just hate us, and what happened in Sudan..bla bla bla.” Even so, accept it, and put rules for your brothers, friends and enemies. Categorize them, and always know you enemy, your real one.

Check these articles, and read the comments, and please don’t be irritated of what you read, just take it in a simple way.

Article 1 | Article 2 | Article 3 | Article 4

For those who will ask about and how can we get our pay back for what happened in Sudan, I don’t have an answer, you should ask your government really, not me and they won’t reply you as they didn’t reply on our embassy in Sudan when it warned them – actually as they don’t reply us on anything -. Thanks for reading, I really wish we – Egyptians – win, normally, I’m Egyptian, and I love to see this country happy, and it seems that only football that makes it so. I love the smile on Egyptian faces :), but if we didn’t play well and they won, so hard luck for us, and if we played well and they won, it’s simply football.

Update: I just loved this part in Egypt’s last match with Cameron, so I thought of sharing it with you

..or you may would like to check other posts that can be useful..

1. What if?!
2. November 14, 2009: Egyptian Crowd Celebrations
3. I’m in Egypt
4. AloMasr covering WordCamp Egypt
5. Egypt?