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World Cup 2010 – Africa’s date with destiny
Posted 7th July 2008 at 12:39 AM by NamibiaSport
MEDIA STATEMENT ISSUED BY KAYELE MCBRIDE KAMBOMBO, CURRENT CHAIRMAN OF THE BRAVE WARRIORS SUPPORTERS CLUB (BWSC) AND THE NEWLY APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF THE COALITION OF SUPPORTERS UNION OF AFRICA (COSUA) IN NAMIBIA, ISSUED ON 2 JULY 2008, WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA.
NB: Kayele M. Kambombo and two of the BWSC members ABC Cooper and Carlos ‘CK’ Kambaekua are invited to attend an Indaba and the inauguration of COSUA operational headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa from 7-16 July, 2008.
Kayele Kambombo, chairman of the Brave Warriors Supporters Club (left) and Advocate Sarfo Abebrese president of the Coalition of Supporters Union of Africa (COSUA)
Advocate Sarfo Abebrese is the pioneer of the Coalition of Supporters Union of Africa (COSUA) that was launched in Ghana in 2006.
El-Salvador is the name of a country. It means the savior. Sarfo Abebrese is the savior. He initiated a seeming revolution in African football. On the job, he excelled to traveling to all parts of the world to make sure COSUA has all the support it deserves to make the African initiative a great success.
If South Africa fails the world by not bringing together thousands of fans in the stadia to support the six African competing teams at the 2010 World Cup, Africa will fail to host another World Cup in our lifetime.
The sponsors of the world football event would prefer tens of thousands of fans to watch the semifinal clashes rather than to having just a few hundreds or thousands. The referees know this and they have to help the side with more fans to win. Football is a number game.
African countries were clearly robbed of victories against European powerhouses in 1990 and 1994. When the indomitable Lions of Cameroon were on the verge of ousting England from the 1990 World Cup in Italy, but Africa was given a slap in the face when the English were awarded two dubious penalties that clinched the match in their favour. It all happened again at the 1994 World Cup in the United States when Italy were also awarded a highly disputed penalty against Nigeria eight minutes before the final whistle.
This degradation should come to its end, NOW! COSUA is Africa’s liberator towards that end.
Africa and its people have learnt a good lesson from the past experience in all previous tournaments of great magnitudes. Now is the time for African and its citizens to put the experiences and knowledge gained through those processes.
COSUA, through Abebrese its founding president, negotiations with potential sponsors to ensure their supporters to get to the World Cup at the cheapest rates possible have become conscious.
COSUA members may not even have to pay to get to the World Cup., to promote unity on the continent. People wishing to be members of COSUA can only join through the Brave Warriors Supporters’ Club (BWSC). Membership of the BWSC costs N$150 per person while COSUA membership costs at U$20, which about N$150.
The objective is to mobilize all Africans across the continent and in the Diaspora to provide unified support for the six African nations who will represent the continent at the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa. It will primarily serve as African unit project through sports.
COSUA delegation under the able leadership of Abebrese embarked on the arduous task of touring all 53 African countries including the Diaspora with the message of hope and unity for the continent. Strategically, COSUA started with Southern Africa and have already visited Zambia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.
The reception was overwhelming. COSUA achieved its aim in all these countries. COSUA linked up with the various football associations, local supporters unions and the mass media. Press conferences were held in every country, with extensive coverage on national TV, newspapers, radios, online media, etc. COSUA also met with most major players in soccer administration. We were received with great enthusiasm.
All the countries that Abebrese has covered so far had readily jumped onto the Cosua bandwagon as affiliates. Our current membership is about 100,000. With more countries to be covered, we are officially looking at over two million organized African supporters roaring Africa on to victory at the 2010 world cup. We plan to get at least 40,000 African supporters into the stadium when African teams are in designated Cosua T-shirts and memorabilia.
Beyond the continent COSUA is embracing Africans in the Diaspora, to this end Abebrese lead a delegation to London to set up the European bureau of COSUA, to be headed by the editor of OBE TV sports, Kwaku Ofsu Asare. In the US, the Cosua bureau for North America is being set up in Albany, New York, under the leadership of the US attorney Timothy Taylor. He is also working hard to establish a working relationship between the Barrack Oboma campaign and COSUA.
The South American bureau will be set up in the Caribbean, based in Jamaica. A Jamaican attorney, Patrick Foster, will run it. Africa needs to connect with its kith and kin. We trust sports will do the trick. 2010 will be the turning point. It will be Africa’s year of laughter the year when the African family will dance together at our own festival.
COSUA has been in contact various official bodies. A series of meetings with the UN Directorate of Sports for Peace, headed by Dr Djibril Diallo were held. Abebrese has officially filed COSUA with his office. COSUA will be expecting him as a special guest of honour at the official inauguration of our operational headquarters in Johannesburg on 11th July this year.
We have also strengthened our relationship with the African Union. COSUA had meetings with the AU commissioner from sports and social affairs, Biennes Gawanas. She is highly enthusiastic about the idea. As at now our request for official AU affiliation as a civil society group has been approved in principle. It applies to the UN. Gawanas will also grace our inauguration in July together with the former Prime Minister, now Minister of Trade and Industry Dr Hage Geingob.
Abebrese has appeared on all the major TV networks. COSUA is now working with Local Organizing Committee (LOC), especially with the 2010 World Cup African Legacy Project, headed by Ms Tumi Dlamini. Leaving Africa a lasting legacy is a common objective we share. After all, what is television without an audience? What is football without spectators?
With regard to funding, COSUA has tremendous backing from Katota Holdings Company of Johannesburg. Its subsidiary property company, Psimmeco, owners of the 23- story Queens Garden Hotel, has already 50,000 rooms to Cosua members during the 2010 World Cup. Our official sponsorship drive will begin after the inauguration on July 11. We are inviting all interested corporate bodies on the continent to participate.
Corporations will benefit a lot. They will write their names into the history books as sponsors of a grate African legacy. Apart from that, imagine two million members of Cosua all subscribing to a cell phone company before and during 2010, or subscribing to New African magazine (one of our world partners). We are getting our members to start saving towards the World Cup for their own benefit. They will all be opening bank accounts across the continent and in the Diaspora with our sponsoring financial institutions. The depth and spread is huge.
COSUA members will first register with their national organizations in their own countries. As affiliates of Cosua, they will be entitled to free Cosua T-shirt, an identity card and memorabilia. On the strength of our numbers, we will be able to negotiate all kinds of discounts and benefits with corporations. Ultimately, we plan to provide free attendance at all social and sporting events organized by Cosua.
Even before that (2010), there is the Fifa Confederation Cup to be held in South Africa in 2009. Egypt and South Africa will be representing the whole continent. As proof of our ability to deliver 2010, members to cheer the African teams to victory. They will be drawn from our membership across the continent and in the Diaspora.
We will be mobilizing 20,000 members to cheer the African teams to victory. They will be drawn from our membership across the continent and in the Diaspora. We hope to provide an all-expenses-paid package depending on our sponsorship.
Sponsors in turn, apart from the benefits mentioned earlier, will receive unprecedented advertisement from our members, inside and outside the stadium, and everywhere. All forms of advertising, including the time-tested word of mouth.
Expect an extravaganza. Apart from several dignitaries and a media fest, we will also officially launch our website, www.cosua.org, and invite registration from sponsors. All interested parties will get an update and forms from our website.
The greatest of all is to unite all people of African descent, their children, and children’s children. We are confident that it will be achieved through sports. We care confident that it will be achieved through sports. 2010 provides a unique opportunity and platform. 2010 will indeed be Africa’s date with destiny.
NB: Kayele M. Kambombo and two of the BWSC members ABC Cooper and Carlos ‘CK’ Kambaekua are invited to attend an Indaba and the inauguration of COSUA operational headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa from 7-16 July, 2008.
Kayele Kambombo, chairman of the Brave Warriors Supporters Club (left) and Advocate Sarfo Abebrese president of the Coalition of Supporters Union of Africa (COSUA)
Advocate Sarfo Abebrese is the pioneer of the Coalition of Supporters Union of Africa (COSUA) that was launched in Ghana in 2006.
El-Salvador is the name of a country. It means the savior. Sarfo Abebrese is the savior. He initiated a seeming revolution in African football. On the job, he excelled to traveling to all parts of the world to make sure COSUA has all the support it deserves to make the African initiative a great success.
If South Africa fails the world by not bringing together thousands of fans in the stadia to support the six African competing teams at the 2010 World Cup, Africa will fail to host another World Cup in our lifetime.
The sponsors of the world football event would prefer tens of thousands of fans to watch the semifinal clashes rather than to having just a few hundreds or thousands. The referees know this and they have to help the side with more fans to win. Football is a number game.
African countries were clearly robbed of victories against European powerhouses in 1990 and 1994. When the indomitable Lions of Cameroon were on the verge of ousting England from the 1990 World Cup in Italy, but Africa was given a slap in the face when the English were awarded two dubious penalties that clinched the match in their favour. It all happened again at the 1994 World Cup in the United States when Italy were also awarded a highly disputed penalty against Nigeria eight minutes before the final whistle.
This degradation should come to its end, NOW! COSUA is Africa’s liberator towards that end.
Africa and its people have learnt a good lesson from the past experience in all previous tournaments of great magnitudes. Now is the time for African and its citizens to put the experiences and knowledge gained through those processes.
COSUA, through Abebrese its founding president, negotiations with potential sponsors to ensure their supporters to get to the World Cup at the cheapest rates possible have become conscious.
COSUA members may not even have to pay to get to the World Cup., to promote unity on the continent. People wishing to be members of COSUA can only join through the Brave Warriors Supporters’ Club (BWSC). Membership of the BWSC costs N$150 per person while COSUA membership costs at U$20, which about N$150.
The objective is to mobilize all Africans across the continent and in the Diaspora to provide unified support for the six African nations who will represent the continent at the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa. It will primarily serve as African unit project through sports.
COSUA delegation under the able leadership of Abebrese embarked on the arduous task of touring all 53 African countries including the Diaspora with the message of hope and unity for the continent. Strategically, COSUA started with Southern Africa and have already visited Zambia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.
The reception was overwhelming. COSUA achieved its aim in all these countries. COSUA linked up with the various football associations, local supporters unions and the mass media. Press conferences were held in every country, with extensive coverage on national TV, newspapers, radios, online media, etc. COSUA also met with most major players in soccer administration. We were received with great enthusiasm.
All the countries that Abebrese has covered so far had readily jumped onto the Cosua bandwagon as affiliates. Our current membership is about 100,000. With more countries to be covered, we are officially looking at over two million organized African supporters roaring Africa on to victory at the 2010 world cup. We plan to get at least 40,000 African supporters into the stadium when African teams are in designated Cosua T-shirts and memorabilia.
Beyond the continent COSUA is embracing Africans in the Diaspora, to this end Abebrese lead a delegation to London to set up the European bureau of COSUA, to be headed by the editor of OBE TV sports, Kwaku Ofsu Asare. In the US, the Cosua bureau for North America is being set up in Albany, New York, under the leadership of the US attorney Timothy Taylor. He is also working hard to establish a working relationship between the Barrack Oboma campaign and COSUA.
The South American bureau will be set up in the Caribbean, based in Jamaica. A Jamaican attorney, Patrick Foster, will run it. Africa needs to connect with its kith and kin. We trust sports will do the trick. 2010 will be the turning point. It will be Africa’s year of laughter the year when the African family will dance together at our own festival.
COSUA has been in contact various official bodies. A series of meetings with the UN Directorate of Sports for Peace, headed by Dr Djibril Diallo were held. Abebrese has officially filed COSUA with his office. COSUA will be expecting him as a special guest of honour at the official inauguration of our operational headquarters in Johannesburg on 11th July this year.
We have also strengthened our relationship with the African Union. COSUA had meetings with the AU commissioner from sports and social affairs, Biennes Gawanas. She is highly enthusiastic about the idea. As at now our request for official AU affiliation as a civil society group has been approved in principle. It applies to the UN. Gawanas will also grace our inauguration in July together with the former Prime Minister, now Minister of Trade and Industry Dr Hage Geingob.
Abebrese has appeared on all the major TV networks. COSUA is now working with Local Organizing Committee (LOC), especially with the 2010 World Cup African Legacy Project, headed by Ms Tumi Dlamini. Leaving Africa a lasting legacy is a common objective we share. After all, what is television without an audience? What is football without spectators?
With regard to funding, COSUA has tremendous backing from Katota Holdings Company of Johannesburg. Its subsidiary property company, Psimmeco, owners of the 23- story Queens Garden Hotel, has already 50,000 rooms to Cosua members during the 2010 World Cup. Our official sponsorship drive will begin after the inauguration on July 11. We are inviting all interested corporate bodies on the continent to participate.
Corporations will benefit a lot. They will write their names into the history books as sponsors of a grate African legacy. Apart from that, imagine two million members of Cosua all subscribing to a cell phone company before and during 2010, or subscribing to New African magazine (one of our world partners). We are getting our members to start saving towards the World Cup for their own benefit. They will all be opening bank accounts across the continent and in the Diaspora with our sponsoring financial institutions. The depth and spread is huge.
COSUA members will first register with their national organizations in their own countries. As affiliates of Cosua, they will be entitled to free Cosua T-shirt, an identity card and memorabilia. On the strength of our numbers, we will be able to negotiate all kinds of discounts and benefits with corporations. Ultimately, we plan to provide free attendance at all social and sporting events organized by Cosua.
Even before that (2010), there is the Fifa Confederation Cup to be held in South Africa in 2009. Egypt and South Africa will be representing the whole continent. As proof of our ability to deliver 2010, members to cheer the African teams to victory. They will be drawn from our membership across the continent and in the Diaspora.
We will be mobilizing 20,000 members to cheer the African teams to victory. They will be drawn from our membership across the continent and in the Diaspora. We hope to provide an all-expenses-paid package depending on our sponsorship.
Sponsors in turn, apart from the benefits mentioned earlier, will receive unprecedented advertisement from our members, inside and outside the stadium, and everywhere. All forms of advertising, including the time-tested word of mouth.
Expect an extravaganza. Apart from several dignitaries and a media fest, we will also officially launch our website, www.cosua.org, and invite registration from sponsors. All interested parties will get an update and forms from our website.
The greatest of all is to unite all people of African descent, their children, and children’s children. We are confident that it will be achieved through sports. We care confident that it will be achieved through sports. 2010 provides a unique opportunity and platform. 2010 will indeed be Africa’s date with destiny.
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