And this is what's happening in Africa, no wonder alot of players want to play for a European NT rather than their own. Get civilzed people :fero:
Trouble Mars Three African World Cup Games
3/29/2005 11:58:00 AM
A riot caused the abandonment of Mali's home World Cup qualifier with Togo in Bamako on Sunday. And there was also crowd trouble in Cairo before and after the game between Egypt and Libya, while in Cameroon, Sudan players angrily confronted the referee at the end of the match.
The riot in Bamako was sparked by a 90th minute goal from Togo’s Souleymane Cherif Maman. Mali, playing their first match under new French coach Pierre Lechantre, had been leading 1-0 through Soumaila Coulibaly’s 16th-minute goal until the 83rd minute when Mustapha Salifou equalised for Togo.
Maman’s last-minute goal would have left Mali stuck at the bottom of Group One with only two points. It was the cue for thousands of Mali fans to invade the pitch, prompting police to fire tear gas at the angry fans as state television cut its live transmission of events inside the 70,000-seater 26 March stadium. Gunshots were subsequently fired in chaotic scenes as thousands tried to get out of the ground.
Outside the stadium, cars were attacked amid reports of several injuries as rioting continued into the city, with thousands descending on the capital’s main African Unity Avenue and yelling:
"Give us Frederic Kanoute and Mamadou Bakayoko! We’re going to kill them!" Kanoute and Bakayoko are two of Mali’s top players.
Protestors blocked a main road with burning tyres, cutting off western Bamako from the eastern half of the city.
On Monday, Mali Prime Minister Ousmane Issoufi Maiga went on national radio to congratulate Togo for their victory, and said his government would work to repair the damage caused by his nation’s ’unsporting behaviour’.
This is not the first time trouble has marred a match between Mali and Togo. In October, four people died in a stampede when the floodlights failed shortly after Togo’s 1-0 win in an earlier World Cup qualifier in Lome.
Fifa have received the match commissioner’s report on Sunday’s events, and this will be examined by their disciplinary committee in the near future before a final decision is made on what happens next.
In Cairo, visiting Libya fans ripped up plastic seats and hurled them at police before the Group Three game, which Egypt won 4-1.
In Yaounde, where Cameroon beat Sudan 2-1 with a late goal, the problems were on the pitch. The beaten Sudanese players angrily confronted Senegalese referee Badara Diatta, who they felt had added too much injury time, during which the Indomitable Lions scored their match-winner
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