Down here in South Africa, I've heard more than a few whine-fests about the soccer team turn into whine-fests about the entire country. Bafana Bafana is twenty-three guys. It isn't the soul of the nation.Yesterday, Ghana took on Uruguay in a quarterfinal match in Johannesburg. As the last team from Africa in the running, they had a not-so-secret mission: to prove the whole continent is on the upswing. Most South Africans I knowwhite and blackrooted for Cheap Fifa 16 Coins Ghana now, and not because they particularly revere Asamoah Gyan's footwork.
When I watched the team beat the U.S. last weekend with a South African friend in a Cape Town bar, I suggested it was a little ridiculous to cheer for America's loss in my face when he couldn't even find Accra on a map. I have to root for my people, he huffed. How about supporting Germany, then: one of Ghana's top players, the Ghanaian-German defender Jerome Boateng, plays for the German national team.
If you need to assign this World Cup a metaphor, it would the breakdown of international borders altogether. But I like the attitude of my one South African friend who is rooting for Germany. Is it because of Boateng's story? Does he enjoy Berlin? Admire something about the German spirit? No, he told me, laughing. He likes how Fifa 16 Coins Germany attacks down the middle when it plays soccer.
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