Having a balanced diet is the basic thing
one must consider, as scientists do say that, for anyone to be successful in
whatever he/she is talented in doing, he/she must always eat a well balanced
diet.
In the world of football, we have seen many
circumstances whereby a player becomes too fat to successfully keep a moving
ball in position. Who are we to blame for the excessive weight gain, is it the
player or the coach?
Arsenal manager, Prof. Arsene Wenger once
said that, “food is like kerosene, if you put the wrong one in your car, it is
not as quick as it should be”.
Analyzing the best diet a footballer should
consume instilled some fear in me. A report, detailed by thefa.com on the best diet for a
footballer, containing simple carbohydrates, i.e. cakes, complex carbohydrates,
i.e. pasta, saturated fats found in butter and cheese just to name a few.
For the European clubs, yes it can work but
for the African clubs? Did I hear that GorMahia, atop ranked club in Kenya is
bankrupt and are asking their fans to “panda
mbegu!” This almost killed me with
laughter. If a club can ask fans to contribute for the salary of the coach and
players, then what about the players eating cheese before a match? That’s out
of logics.
A Kenyan child learnt how to eat ugali the
very day he/she was born! So why should a Kenyan footballer eat cheese, cake,
sunflower oil and all those expensive stuff while his precious high energy
giving food is ugali and not only that, githeri and porridge can comfortably
substitute cheese?
Football was made in Europe, scientists do
say that. But why do they also say that Africa is the cradle of mankind? If
only science spoke the same language as the bible, then Africa was absolutely
the garden of Eden and Adam could be basically, physically and psychologically
an African. But who knows…
Our stadiums are no better than the grazing
fields, try celebrating with passion and tell me whether you won’t spend the
last moments of your life on a wheel chair.
Football comes with celebrity in it, talk
of Wayne Rooney, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and even ask the old men
about Ronaldo, they will tell you about him. They are all whites and we
celebrate them. What of Otieno? Even me I can’t remember his first name!
Decency is one of the factors associated
with celebrity, and fashion is like its twin brother. Spot a Kenyan footballer
on the streets of Kenyan towns and you’ll not be able to differentiate between
a celebrity and a commoner. The regalia may even be worse and display the
outfit similar to that worn by my grandfather moments before the independence.
I myself I’m a football fanatic, a I’m a
patriot but when you talk of us celebrating our footballers, the query I often
ask myself is that are our footballers doing enough to be appreciated, from
their diet, their regalia, their lifestyle to everything they engage in?
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