From: michael seium (michael.seium@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 01 2009 - 17:08:48 EST
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Soccer, Soccer & more Soccer Eritrean
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The Red Sea Boys not the young under 17 Red Sea boys who just got done
playing in the CECAFA Youth Cup championships a couple of months ago, but
the big boys the Eritrean National Soccer team is participating in the
CECAFA Senior Challenge cup taking place in Kenya. They have shown that they
are capable of playing well as indicated in their first game of the event.
They held a strong Zimbabwe team to tie in their first game of this year's
version of the senior challenge cup played at Nairobi Stadium.
Eritrea and Zimbabwe drew 0-0 in their Group “B” standing. Zimbabwe is no
joking matter as they are the champions of their version of regional event
(COSAFA) for Southern African countries which includes Zambia, South Africa
and other strong teams. Both Zambia and Zimbabwe were invited as guests for
this year’s Central and East African Challenge cup (CECAFA)
Zimbabwe beat Zambia 3-1 last month to
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Cosafa Senior Challenge Cup a tournament similar to CECAFA for the Southern
African regional teams. The second guest side Zambia also from the southern
region has qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations 2010 in Angola after
earning a 0-0 draw against Rwanda on Saturday. Zambia is no walk over either
as they just defeated Asian world cup participant North Korea by the score
of 4-1 in a friendly game this past weekend.
This marks the 33rd of the Council for East Africa and Central Africa
Football Association tournament taking place at the National Stadium in
Nairobi, Kenya. Eritrea is joined by Somalia, Rwanda and Zimbabwe in Group B
and will face Rwanda in the next match on Thursday; December 3rd.
Eri-International sports will keep you updated with results from the CECAFA
challenge cup.
In other news Eritrea will be playing their next game opponent Rwanda in
March 2010 at home and away in the first round qualifying match of the 2010
African nations cup that will be held in Angola. Meanwhile Eritrean-Swede
Henok Goitom has made his come back as he played his first game of the
season for La Liga side Almeria in a loss to atletico Bilbao this past
weekend. We will have more on Henok as new developments happen.
In other news from the land down under, we leave you with a nice short video
highlight of another Eritrean born soccer player with a very fitting name
Gol Gol Mebrahtu, who is playing in the Australian first division for Gold
Coast United. His skills can be seen as he set up a Penalty kick by taking
on two players and passing to his teammate that was fouled in the Penalty
box.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axbP7Vz1Liw&feature=player_embedded#
In other local news members of Eritrean community soccer teams Baltimore,
Team DC & Team Alexandria joined in hands to play in an indoor soccer
tournament at PGCC (Prince Georges Community College) a national
championship contender in Junior college soccer. Playing against other
strong teams the Eritrean team made it to the semifinals showing some
beautiful display of soccer. All of the 8 players of which 7 are available
to attend college have left big impressions on the coaches.
Eri-International sports has also reported on another young
Eritrean-American who had a great season at College of Southern Maryland.
Please read previous article on this blog titled "Meet Mulugheta Asihel: Up
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Members of
Eritrean teams from the DC metro area who participated at the PGCC
international tourney.
Good luck to the Red Sea boys as they have a huge challenge ahead of them
but they seem to have started off very well.
For now this is Mike Seium for Eri-international sports blog.
http://eri-internationalsports.blogspot.com/
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