Togo anthem mishap

June 16th, 2006 | By: Nick O'Neill | 5 Comments »

FIFA officials expained that the playing of the Korean national anthem for Togo, was human error. Togo’s ambassador to Germany wrote a letter to FIFA complaining. These things happen and there is no need for the high-brows to get involved.

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By Roland | June 17th, 2006 at 2:03 am

The fans watching from Togo must have been aghast.

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By FIFAworldcup.com - Passionate Fan on Fifa World Cup 2006 | June 18th, 2006 at 9:23 pm

Togo Destroys African Nation

Togo will be the first team in 76-year-history who qualified for the World Cup Finals to widraw from a match.

Togo is reported to be on a bus going to catch a flight from Friedrichshafen airport to go home. Reports are flying that Togo is fighting …

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By Bobbio | June 18th, 2006 at 10:59 pm

What the heck is going on with Togo? Are they really going to abandon the tournament at this stage??? SHEESH

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By Trish | June 19th, 2006 at 5:17 am

Unbelieveable. Absolutely unbelievable. That is SO irresponsible, so unfair to the country, to the team, to any future players from Togo…

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By Calvin | June 19th, 2006 at 5:50 am

Hopefully, Togo’s departure have been greatly overstated…

FIFA persuades Togo players not to boycott Switzerland match

Jun 18, 2006
DORTMUND, Germany (AP) - FIFA ensured Togo’s team would not become the first to boycott a World Cup match Sunday in the latest twist in the African nation’s pay dispute with its players.

FIFA spokesman Andreas Herren said soccer’s world governing body was forced to act after reports the players did not want to board a plane from their training base in southern Germany to the central city of Dortmund ahead of Monday’s Group G match against Switzerland.

“There were rumors that they did not want to travel and play tomorrow,” Herren said. “This prompted us to open all contact channels to them to appeal to them to think of their responsibility to football and themselves and their country.

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