The Horn Times Sport, 21 January 2013
by Getahune Bekele, at Mbombela stadium- South Africa
ETHIOPIA 1-1 Zambia
“Who said Africa cannot play like Barcelona? This Ethiopian team is Africa’s Barcelona.”
Sunday Olisey, Nigerian foot ball legend.
“Today Ethiopians have showed the world that African foot ball is on the rise”
Mark Fish, South African foot ball legend.
“Today I witnessed minnows turning giant killers”
President of Nigerian football association.
Today I realize why an Irish Historian Deborah Murphy once described my beloved Ethiopia as the land of beautiful
women and handsome men. Not just the sheer artistry on the field of
play that mesmerized Africa and the world, it was the beauty of the
girls and the glamour that followed Ethiopians wherever they go that
bewilderd humanity on this historic day.
Am as astounded as
everybody else by the tactical and technical discipline of the black
lions that attacked the mighty Zambians like angry swarm of bees.