The ultimate in football

Soccer often becomes more than a mere symbol of a game. To the Latin Americans it is almost like a religion; to the Europeans it is a fight for preserving national pride and supremacy, while to the Africans it is a vehicle for vertical ascension, and for the Asians it is still an uphill struggle for gaining a respectable position in the mainstream.

Already the fanfare and the frenzy surrounding the game have reached its peak all over the globe. In our country, you see flags of different participating countries flying high atop private residential buildings and apartments indicating as to who supports which team. Internationalism is here.

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There is but a few events in the lives of our people which offer any real, clean entertainment, the World Cup Soccer Championship being the high point of such an entertainment feast in an otherwise drab and daily routine in our lives. We earnestly hope that those in charge of electric supply would do their utmost to keep the power outage at its minimum and preferably none during the specified times of each important game throughout the entire duration of the event. We believe it should be quite possible given well-thought-out strategic planning followed by strict compliance with instructions by all concerned at the field level.

We wish the game all success and let the best team win the coveted cup.