Togo football in critical period

April 3rd, 2006 | By: Nick O'Neill | No Comments »

LeTogolais.com newspaper reckons Togo football is in a critical period. With a not so good African Nations Cup, here what the folks at home are saying.

A national selection with the barks, without true leader, of the clubs eliminated as of the first turns out of African cuts, Togolese football crosses a quite bad master key, not really the ideal to prepare the World cup, in three months in Germany.

Togo, with three defeats in as much of matches, had left the Cut of Africa of the nations 2006, at the end of January in Egypt, by the small door, the sad last of their group B With only two goals marked against seven boxed, beaten at the same time by Cameroun, the RD Congo and even Angola.

At the following day of the CAN-2006, the most total confusion reigns around the national technical framing, after the appointment of a new selector, the German Otto Pfister.

Pfister, which signed its contract in Lome on February 18 following the dismissal of the Nigerian Stephen Keshi for “bad results” (with the EDGE), yet officially did not take its function because of the dissatisfaction publicly expressed by several international which wishes the return of their former trainer “not to disturb” the preparation of World-2006 (June-9 9 July).

No regrouping envisaged, no program available, the “Sparrowhawks”, which will evolve/move in the group G with France, Switzerland and South Korea with the first turn of the World one, seem to be to the absent subscriberes.

Worse, the clubs engaged in African competitions them also made the expenses of “the unhealthy environment” which prevails in this moment.

The ACE Customs and Togolese Dynamic of Lome were eliminated this weekend respectively with the first tower of the League from the champions of Africa by the Port authority of Senegal and with the preliminary turn of the Cut of the African Confederation (CIF) by the ACE Bamako of Mali.

“I followed well these two clubs and I regret the conditions under which the players approached these various competitions. We gently transfer all on a slipping track and it is our football which is likely to receive a fatal blow “, informed the person in charge for one of these club, under cover of anonymity.

For its part, the sporting press of the country, which had predicted the failure of the clubs in the continental competitions, invited the persons in charge for Togolese football “to take their responsabilities.”

“We must be caught with the serious one, because I have the impression that we improvise too much”, a person in charge for a club of the elite entrusted.