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In a country where the only stadium (September 28) until 2020 dates from 1964 (more than half a century) where the nearby fields abounding everywhere in Conakry and in the interior of the country no longer have any traces , where nobody remembers sport and school and university competitions as well as in neighborhoods and municipalities (nurseries and breeding grounds for talent for all countries), where you have to hope, count, always and often run in vain behind children sportsmen of Guinean nationals living in Europe (these children who do not know the country and do not necessarily have the patriotic feelings of their parents), where it is even necessary to naturalize those who are considered unfit to defend the colors, the flags of their real country, which suffers from many other weaknesses, it is obvious and even logical that the results are much more negative vis-à-vis the teams of countries where the reiterated political will makes it possible to maintain the general practice of sport, the co Instruction of more or less adapted infrastructures, in particular sports centers where children of all sporting ages are trained, the regular organization of competitions and at different levels.
The first title of Hafia, triple African Club champion, was recorded in December 1972 and the following ones in 1975 and 1977 as well as the 1976 and 1978 finals of the Club de Conakry 2, the greatest performance and the only final from the Syli National to a final phase of the CAN in March 1976 in Addis Ababa, the participation of Guinean volleyball players in the Olympic Games in Mexico in 1968, the brilliant African results in the 70s-80s of Guinean basketball players who won the formidable Lionesses of Senegal (of the time) in the final of the Zone 2 Tournament in 1978, the African competitiveness of Guinean volleyball, Guinean handball, Guinean basketball, Guinean athletics, Guinean judo, Guinean swimming in the years 70-80 as well as Guinean boxing with Sadio Bella and other good results result from a certain vision, from a real policy initiated and implemented since the beginning of the 1960s.
Today, like all the Nati ons who want to be big in sports, Guinea especially in Football (the only surviving discipline) should first count on the development of its local potential through its children who waste themselves to get lost more often than not.
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On the other hand, I think that these draws are rather good results if not performances for the team of a country which is sorely lacking in Sports Policy in the truest sense of the word, and has been for decades.
If in all these disciplines, the Guinean anthem was respected throughout Africa, it is because its children devoted to sport, in the context of the time, benefited from an environment that allowed them to develop and promote their talent.
While the indignation and even the anger of a well-rounded public is understandable, it is not fair that specialists and experts confuse the effect and the cause of this outcry..
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