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8月8日 Edgar Davids - August 8th 2006Six friendly matches in a row, all won. That ain’t too bad for preseason starters now is it? Of course the last match against Inter Milan was extra special. Now with two more games before the new Premiership season is about to begin, I’m as ready as can be.
We have three new players already full on in our squad: Dimitar Berbatov, Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Didier Zokora. In the meantime Michael Carrick has finalized his transfer to Man U. That’s already like 4 major changes. However, even though because of this our team is not yet 100% in balance we all can feel that there’s plenty of potential to do even better than last season and you know what that means….
Borussia Dortmund away and Real Sociedad home at White Hart Lane will make up for the final test before we dive head first into one of the most exciting leagues in the world: The Premiership. Can you already feel the heat? Edgar Davids - August 8th 2006Wow!!! Just woke up from a beautiful dream, all set and ready for the new season. I feel great. I’m healthy and 100% in shape. Don’t you just love it when something new is about to begin? For us pro’s the preseason is a very important part of the entire professional football entourage. You get to know new team mates, study new opponents and tactics and above all: set new goals, never a dull moment.
By now you know my standards: always better than the last accomplishment,
no matter what... Last year we missed out on Champions League Football by one point. Best believe that the entire squad is well aware of the fact that such shouldn’t happen again, ever.
One thing luckily remained be the same. It’s something that I’ve been looking forward to ever since our last Premiership game: The Tottenham Hotspurs fan base. It’s been a warm reunion, I can assure you. Just like I’ve experienced throughout the previous season: as loyal as they are, it hardly gets any better. 8月3日 Edgar Davids - August 3rd 2006As I explained earlier. the names and personalities of the players representing Surinam basically represent the whole world in one single national team.
Seemingly out of nowhere the Surinamese National anthem is being played, causing grown men to weep from pride and joy without shame. All the while coach Aboikoni’s (literally meaning: this boy is smart) heart beats like drum.
In the seats as well as in the stands the Surinamese fans attending the game make sure that so many different tunes from all over the world are heard in and around the Stadium. A whole spectrum of instruments, rituals, garments and sweet and spicy treats stemming from no less then 4 different continents, will fill up the Maracanã with sound, movement, odor and ..eeeh tupperware?
Can you imagine a more beautiful sight? A sweeter smell? A more thrilling experience? And the best part is: The Game has yet to begin.
Finally, the referee is about to blow his whistle for the kick off.
A mind boggling amount of people is holding their breath because Surinam is playing against Brazil in the Maracanã at the 2022 World Cup final.
Back home the streets are deserted. Houses have been abandoned by those who were lucky enough to get hold of a ticket.
A little more than two hours from now the world will have witnessed a miracle. Edgar Davids - August 3rd 2006So how does the Surinamese national squad looks like? A first glance when walking around in the streets, what you’ll see is a stunning mix of mostly Indian (as in originally from India as well as the original Amazon Indians), African, Afro-American, Indonesian, Chinese, Jewish, Lebanese, Dutch Anglo-Saxon people and a even more stunning mix of all these races together, called Moksi (mixed) or sometimes Dogla.
So now lets get back to where we were. Surinam facing Brazil in the 2022 World Cup Final. The Surinamese national squad reflects this racial and religious mix in great detail. The starting eleven is now being introduced to the world by the stadium speaker at the Maracanã. I bet it’s the greatest of all time –Pele himself- that is gracing the mic.
Simultaneously names like Djojodikromo (originally from the Indonesian region), Ragoebiersing (with ancestors from India), Wijntuin (from Afro-American background), Hewitt (Moksi), Meerzorg (Dogla), Chang Pan Ho (5th generation Chinese descent), De Vries (Dutch colonial roots), Moussi Issa (Lebanese background), Sabajo (straight off one of the Amazon Indian tribes), Polak (Jewish family line), and Misiedjan (descendents of 19th century runaway slaves) light up high up on the scoreboard for billions of spectators to see.
Finally, a huge, huge dream from a small and beautiful country has come true. 8月2日 Edgar Davids - August 2nd 2006Whoever thinks Maracanã, thinks, Brazil, Rio, Flamengo, Fluminense, the spectacular Fla-Flu match up, Botafogo, loads and loads of football crazy fans
As well as one hell of a clean-up job after each game. As far as exceptional talents, names come to mind like Pele who scored his 1000th goal in the Maracanã, Didi the first one to score there and Zico, the legendary Flamengo topscorer with a breathtaking record breaking 333 goals in 435 matches, a cool 75+ % ratio.
So if, Surinam would ever make it to the World Cup (hey, didn’t Jamaica also made it to the Olympic Winter Games?), how would the team look like?
To answer this question you need to know a couple of things about the population. Maybe its easiest to have a in mind a picture of a Benetton ad. OK, now take away the ad and there you have it: a cross example of the Surinamese population.
How all these different people all got there is a story in itself. For now let’s stick to the fact that they all love The Game passionately.
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