Posts tagged: Tanzania

Tanzania hammered on the pitch. And off it.

Brazil thumped Tanzania 5-1 on Monday night. The result was expected. A team ranked 108th in the world is always going to struggle against Brazil. But the friendly in Dar es Salaam could do enormous damage to the game in Tanzania. As I wrote a couple of weeks ago the Tanzanian Football Federation (TFF) paid [...]

Tuesday June 8th, 2010 in , , | No Comments »

A waste of money

Imagine you run a football association. Your country has qualified for the African Nations once, and that was way back in 1980. You have a smart, ambitious coach who has built a good team which has a decent chance of doing well in the next round of African Nations qualifiers but the local league remains [...]

Friday May 28th, 2010 in , , | 4 Comments »