“We almost shed tears because we expected Africa to stand with us.”- South African goalkeeper Ronwen Williams

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”We almost shed tears because we expected Africa to stand with us.”

South African goalkeeper Ronwen Williams opens up about feeling disappointed by the lack of African support after the world cup opening match against Mexico:


️”Africans have always supported other African countries in every World Cup tournament, but I can’t figure out why our own case was different.


Many Africans supported Mexico instead of us, the South Africans. We almost shed tears, but truly this is sad.
As Africans, let’s stand for each other. Let’s stand together.”



Williams believes African unity has always been one of the continent’s greatest strengths at major tournaments and was saddened to see South Africa not receive the same level of backing.


Whether it’s Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa, or any other nation, many fans believe African teams achieve more when the continent rallies behind them as one.

6 COMMENTS

  1. No African country will now support South Africa in any tournament lest they accuse us of taking away their jobs as supporters.

  2. The reason why nations reacted against apartheid is the same with xenophobia.Things like discrimination or killing of innocent people in a country because they are foreigners is extremely unfortunate.That conduct attracts reaction from other nations of the world.The other people of the world are merely sending a signal of dislike on the behavior of molesting, attacking and killing of foreign nationals in your country.This calls for change of behavior otherwise you will continuously experience repulsive reaction from many nations.Peace is just the best for all.You must apologize and stop it forever.

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