Wednesday August 17, 2011

I've Been Thinking:

Egypt cancelled their friendly soccer match against Brazil.

The match was schedule to take place on Tuesday, September 6 but because of security reasons that match will not happen.
Brazil is a five-time world champion and when the two teams last met, Brazil won 4-3 in a nail biting match.

Things have changed. It used to be that soccer was more important than just about anything in Egypt ... including politics.

But now, if something were to go wrong during a match with Brazil - if there were to be a security snafu while the Brazilian team was in

Egypt ... then Egypt would suffer an embarrassment at a level beyond which any Westerner can possibility imagine.

So the authorities, correctly, cancelled the game.

And besides, the Egyptian soccer team does not even have a coach right now.

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