In a little over a few month, I shall reach the impressive age, an excellent age for any young sports fan to attain, I’m sure you’ll agree. Let’s face it; had I been watching Primus Guma Guma contest instead of Amavubi in the early 19th Century most especially Jay Polly and Young Grace rapping, I’d most likely have been dead; if not still, it would be a fine excuse for me to go to bed. ‘Only football can stop me from blinking since it’s a truly global event at the greens, and as big as that at best’ So here we go, the sport is unequivocally loved, with its players watched and treated like small gods! I bet half of this country’s population knows what Arsenal or who David Beckham or Cristiano Ronaldo is! If football was a religion, then the round sphere object pumped with air would be the holy book. It’s like a religion for more than a billion of its followers, making it fun and the most prominently watched sports not only in Rwanda but across the world.The World Cup is my most favorite event, second only to my birth day and Christmas in the things I look forward to with enthusiasm. Am saying Christmas because I don’t know what Santa’s favorite pizza is? In soccer, teams and players have all sorts of drama you can’t avoid to miss, they fight, cheat, dive, elbowing folk in the chops and the shouting goes, oh my word that’s a top drawer save, you simply cannot ask for more than that. There’s a lot to see and enjoy from how each team does it. Players get booked for time wasting most especially goalkeepers, others for dissenting against the referee, some are fined because of poor conduct, but all that said, athletes continue to be a special breed, honing their skills against the backdrop of riches as well as the nonstop attention of the media. Eccentric as it might seem, perhaps rule bending is the primary part of the game. Well excuse me for that! You may call it a game of colonizers, but consider the fun fact about it.The game is fun to fellow much as its colonizers (players), who are treated as celebrities throughout their lives. They are fortunate enough to receive tremendous love and affection from their numerous fans. To cash in on this immense popularity, ‘professional soccer’ came into existence. Pay much and get better results. Man-City, APR and Real Madrid attested it by lifting the league trophies last season.It is one place, where a billion-dollar transfer of payers takes place regardless of their country and color. Players earn this extreme popularity by their superior personal skills. Modern professional players like Mario Balotelli, Messi, Drogba and Pele are extremely popular in the soccer loving world. Mull over the recent widow transfers in Europe, Ibrahim Abromovich’s leg is valued at a cost more than $50 million in estimates; I can’t wait to see how he performs.
