Should African Nations Refuse To Play Libya

[Shownoja]

Until they sort out this issue of a new slave trade in sub-Saharan Africans? Sports has been used before to gain great political mileage and I believe the time is now for the AU & CAF to show leadership and suspend Libya from all contact with African sports till they return to civility.

[Eaglezbeak]

Africans won’t do a thing!

[Tobi17]

I was thinking about the exact thing just yesterday, the time to act is now.

[jette1]

the facts have to be legally substantiated by the recognized human right agencies either through the UN, ECOWAS, the Hague, before FIFA or CAF can act on it. Mind you even if some rogue groups are doing this and the central government of Libya are helplessly not able to combat such acts it still doesn't rise to Libya being a slave state or whatever term used.

[bret- hart]

They need to be banned from CAF and the African union indefinitely.

[Kabalega]

Until they sort out this issue of a new slave trade in sub-Saharan Africans? Sports has been used before to gain great political mileage and I believe the time is now for the AU & CAF to show leadership and suspend Libya from all contact with African sports till they return to civility.

The root of ignorance is lack of exposure.

Bans limit exposure, which sports tries to fix.

[bret- hart]

Until they sort out this issue of a new slave trade in sub-Saharan Africans? Sports has been used before to gain great political mileage and I believe the time is now for the AU & CAF to show leadership and suspend Libya from all contact with African sports till they return to civility.

The root of ignorance is lack of exposure.

Bans limit exposure, which sports tries to fix.

Will you stop being silly. We have been competing with North African countries for over 60years in organised sports. But that has not stopped them from being racist towards blacks. I guess Apartied South Africa should have being allowed to compete in the 60s 70scand 80s based on your faulty logic.

[kajifu]

Until they sort out this issue of a new slave trade in sub-Saharan Africans? Sports has been used before to gain great political mileage and I believe the time is now for the AU & CAF to show leadership and suspend Libya from all contact with African sports till they return to civility.

The root of ignorance is lack of exposure.

Bans limit exposure, which sports tries to fix.

Will you stop being silly. We have been competing with North African countries for over 60years in organised sports. But that has not stopped them from being racist towards blacks. I guess Apartied South Africa should have being allowed to compete in the 60s 70scand 80s based on your faulty logic.

KPOM well said.

[The YeyeMan]

Nigeria's game with Libya should be played on a neutral ground.

[jette1]

Nigeria's game with Libya should be played on a neutral ground.

why: are we afraid of Libya. Seriously its about time all our so called military might gets thrown around a little bit. I wouldn't mind picking a fight with Libya if it comes down to it. Especially knowing we would be fully backed by most Nations if our players we to be hurt. It would be a reason to go and police up that place just a little bit. We know the North Africans would not do it because it is simply too close for comfort to them

[mastermind]

Nigeria's game with Libya should be played on a neutral ground.

Those motherfuckers should be banned forever! We should send ecomog soldier there to deal with those fuckers

[The YeyeMan]

Nigeria's game with Libya should be played on a neutral ground.

why: are we afraid of Libya. Seriously its about time all our so called military might gets thrown around a little bit. I wouldn't mind picking a fight with Libya if it comes down to it. Especially knowing we would be fully backed by most Nations if our players we to be hurt. It would be a reason to go and police up that place just a little bit. We know the North Africans would not do it because it is simply too close for comfort to them

I'm talking about a football game. You're talking military.

The country is not safe and the football game should not be held on that territory. Remember we're taking footballers (civilians) to Tripoli, not army men. The game should be held elsewhere.

[joao]

Nigeria's game with Libya should be played on a neutral ground.

why: are we afraid of Libya. Seriously its about time all our so called military might gets thrown around a little bit. I wouldn't mind picking a fight with Libya if it comes down to it. Especially knowing we would be fully backed by most Nations if our players we to be hurt. It would be a reason to go and police up that place just a little bit. We know the North Africans would not do it because it is simply too close for comfort to them

I'm talking about a football game. You're talking military.

The country is not safe and the football game should not be held on that territory. Remember we're taking footballers (civilians) to Tripoli, not army men. The game should be held elsewhere.

Why bother responding to such thoughtless ranting. We have not finished clearing out BH on
our own territory and this 'genius' is proposing a military action in foreign soil and across several
national boundaries.
What Nigeria can do is join with other the international countries to bring the plight
of blacks in Libya to the fore and maybe bring about sanctions and declaring the country a
failed state, since those in charge do not have control of the country. But then, we should
not forget that Nigeria (under GEJ,) was a part to the agreement to get rid of Gadaffi. How
much leverage do we have now?

[Gotti]

My own personal (and perhaps unpopular) opinion is that we should put in even more effort into doing those frankly basic things that would cause Africans to stop desperately trying to transit through Libya to Europe Of course that's not mutually-exclusive with sanctioning Libya in the interim - albeit there is hardly a functional state to sanction.

[Tbite]

Meanwhile Mauritania is forgotten?

[Ayo Akinfe]

As long as it is not official government policy, Libya cannot be touched. In the case of South Africa, apartheid was government policy.

All of Libya’s games are currently being played on neutral territory, so nothing new there. At the moment, the central government has very little control over the country.

[Bell]

My own personal (and perhaps unpopular) opinion is that we should put in even more effort into doing those frankly basic things that would cause Africans to stop desperately trying to transit through Libya to Europe Of course that's not mutually-exclusive with sanctioning Libya in the interim - albeit there is hardly a functional state to sanction.

MY THOUGHT EXACTLY

While sanctions are an interesting idea, what about doing something about conditions that make people make this tragic odyssey? What about educating the nation about the grave risks involved. And finally, individuals need to take responsibility for these stupid decisions.
Bell

[osita]

Please, don't blame african nations we should blame the leaders that refused to stop the invasio of libya.

Also libya is a failed state, the government is not in control of all the areas within Libya