Football, the Beautiful Game can facilitate social change and progress by
breaking downs religion, ethnicity, gender inequalities. European UEFA
Champions League Last weekend a group of friends and I sat in a local bar
eagerly awaiting the finals of the annual UEFA Champions League. The sports
bar was packed with a Dior Sunglasses standing crowd who were engaged in various discourses
as they awaited for the game to begin. My friends were discussing the
popularity of European football and how some of the players were influencing
young boys and girls to join the game.Indeed, across Africa and the rest of
the world, people Armani Sunglasses watched as Barcelona won the most coveted Football trophy
in Europe. From the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa to North in Cairo,
Egypt and across the Sahara to extreme west in Morocco, Africans are
annually equally glued to their TV sets as two football teams battle to be
crowned the Best Football Team in Europe. Transmitted through local free TV
channels, most Coach Sunglasses 2011 Africans were able to watch as Manchester United was defeated
at one of the largest Football Stadium - The Wembley. Despite a brilliant
display of football skills by Barcelona players, most Africans, at least
those living in sub-Saharan Africa were disappointed as their favorite team
lost at home. It is estimated that over 300 million people worldwide watched
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