The boys at Mama Laadis had asked for a football
match between them and another school from Bolga… any school. Helen and I thought it was something we could
do so we did. It probably cost us all in
all about £80. So what did we do? Helen
was the main instigator of this; She rallied her boyfriend Mark, to get his
school team to take part. He being the
football coach was more than happy and competitive enough to agree. I asked a favour of the Zamestec Headmaster
to borrow his bus, we fuelled it and gave some cedi to the driver who happens
to be a friend of ours. We provided the water for half time and the food for
post game celebrations back at Mama Laadis.
Some of the girls who stayed back prepared it for us while the boys
played the game. Jollof rice with fish,
it was very good! It was a great game
despite the referee (Mark) getting a puncture on the way there). As always in Ghana there was someone else to
step in… a random boy/man from the community who was already playing around on
the pitch before we arrived offered his services and Eric (the driver) and
Louis (a VSO friend) who had come to see the game became the linesman. Emma,
Crispin, Damien and Tina also came to support.
It was a fab day made even better for the Mama Laadi win 2:1 (2:0 at
half time ; ))… Mark was gutted… he was convinced his team would win!!!
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| Team Adabase |
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| The warm up instigated by my good self when the panic button was pushed and the ref didn't arrive, with a jogging demonstration (am I mad? In the African sun with no sports bra???) ... Note the picture does not include my good self, I lasted seconds.... |
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| More warming up |
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| the generous bus donation (for a few hours anyway) |
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| watching the footie from the sidelines dreaming of being a rich football player one day.. or is that his mama.... |
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| And Action! |
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| more action |
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| Instruction from Eric the driver/linesman due to a lack of an actual coach |
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| A random polictical rally... election is on Dec 7th... things are hotting up |
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| and more action... |
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| randon african music played on the sideline dispite being drowned out by the hideous noise from the political rally |
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| Half time and Mark has just arrived and he's 2:0 down! Whoops!! He's not happy... poor boys! |
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| The Adebase team and coach |
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| The Mama Laadi Team and one off coach for the day |
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| Second half action... the dust is flying |
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| more action |
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| Elation from both teams on the bus ride back to Mama Laadis for chop of jollof rice... |
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| boyz will be boyz.... |
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| All the children; girls and boys, winning team and runners up enjoying chop and chatting |
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