Next Football World Cup

It was a day of conflicting reports and uncertainty in the wake of the deadly attack, which occurred yesterday on the team bus to Togo.

With players and other staff of the Togo national team officials said the Football Association in Togo, the government and officials of the Angolan Football Federation and the Government, CAF, FIFA, Sepp Blatter, and a number of European clubs to release all the information and snippets of sometimes contradictory information, it is difficult to give definitive picture of the current situation.

What seems to have been sure of this sad news that the Angolan bus driver, died in the panel, said a spokesman Stanislas Ocloo and assistant coach Amalete Abalo in the shooting.

Nine other people were injured – two players, assistant director, doctor, goalkeeping coach and another coach.

Serge Akakpo defender, who plays for Romanian club Vaslui, and was hit by two bullets, and lost a lot of blood (…) The club said his condition is stable and he underwent successful surgery. Reserve goalkeeper Obilale, who plays for French club GSI Pontivy, was also seriously wounded and taken to a hospital in South Africa, while many of the other players in need of treatment.

Responsibility for this attack was claimed by the rebels of the Liberation Front of Cabinda (FLEC). FLEC has been fighting for the independence of the oil-rich region, and threatened to launch further attacks.

More than a day and it was reported that Togo would withdraw from the tournament, after the Government announced that the Togolese team to return home, coinciding with the news that Emmanuel Adebayor has left the country, Moustapha Salifou stating that “We all want to go home toTogo.”

This decision is ultimately reversed after a meeting of the Group, and Togo, Thomas Dossevi told AFP.

“In memory of the dead, and the national team has decided to play in the African Nations Cup finals. We are all grief, and it is no longer a party, but we want to show the national colors, and values, and that we are men. Resolution was adopted almost unanimously by the Panel, which met during the night after he assured the Angolan authorities. [The team is] a little bitter, we are a little disappointed with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) … and that can not be arranged to postpone the first game so we could bury our dead. Kef places his First, and not from those countries. They do not support us enough. ”

Confederation of African Football (CAF) in the meantime it was announced that the second set of games scheduled to be played in Cabinda will go ahead as planned.

In short: the tournament will not be postponed or even canceled. Group B matches will be held in Cabinda. Togo will take part in the tournament.

I for one will leave you with this update rough and full of the recent tragic events. This may be a blog a blog and strive in the consensus, but I can not offer you anything except for my contempt for the violence and deaths on the rebels. I also wish to accept the decision by theTogo team to play for a team of members of the dead. But anything beyond that would only lead to end like this:

Regardless of the situation in Angola, and there was also some reactions and not anywhere else that can predict, for example, with Hull City Phil Brown expressed his fears of the World Cup in South Africa. Fortunately, Hull also recruit Jimmy Bullard, who can give his manager an update on Africa is a country or continent with a question aimed at the next celebration. Phil Brown for all other in this world in spite of South Africa in the World Cup organizer Danny Jordaan, issued a statement to the press.