Title: Adebayor Returns Home
Description: BBC Radio 4 Monday 23rd June 8pm
TheCrazy58 - June 20, 2008 05:15 AM (GMT)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/.../wk26/mon.shtmlAdebayor Returns Home
Monday 23 June
8.00-8.30pm BBC RADIO 4
Earlier this year, footballer Emmanuel Adebayor was voted African Player of the Year by the listeners of BBC World Service. Now, as he returns home to Togo to collect his award from the President, he shares his hopes and dreams for African football with reporter Farayi Mungazi.
Now a star of European football, the giant Arsenal striker is hot property, eagerly sought after by Europe's biggest clubs, but he counts himself a "true son of Africa". His new-found status and prestige has given Adebayor a determination to use his fame and the power of football to change the lives of young Africans.
Adebayor is a controversial footballing figure in his home country of Togo. Fierce rows with the national coach and the Togolese football authorities have led to several walkouts from the national team. Mungazi follows Adebayor from his participation in a World Cup qualifying game, held in Ghana due to crowd violence in Togo, to a meeting with the King of Kumasi and finally on to a triumphant return to Togo to receive his award.
Presenter/Farayi Mungazi, Producer/Mark Burman
The Emirates Gallastico - June 20, 2008 07:31 AM (GMT)
Synergetic - June 20, 2008 09:15 AM (GMT)
I'll have to listen to that.
Why did he fall out with the national coach?
Coney - June 20, 2008 09:18 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Synergetic @ Jun 20 2008, 10:15 AM) |
| Why did he fall out of the National coach? |
I think the door flew open on a bend. :getcoat:
Synergetic - June 20, 2008 09:21 AM (GMT)
Coney - June 20, 2008 09:30 AM (GMT)
TheCrazy58 - June 23, 2008 08:04 PM (GMT)
Damn I missed it. Did anyone catch it?
McNamara That Ghost... - June 23, 2008 09:55 PM (GMT)
Nah I forgot about it too.
Mr Brighterside - June 23, 2008 09:59 PM (GMT)
Coca Kolo - June 23, 2008 10:20 PM (GMT)
Synergetic - June 23, 2008 11:09 PM (GMT)
fffffffuuuuucccccckkkkk! forgot about this. Checked on BBC site, there's nothing there at the moment. Hopefully it'll be available to stream in a couple of days.
Cripps - June 23, 2008 11:12 PM (GMT)
Was watching Eastenders :ilt:
TheCrazy58 - June 24, 2008 05:17 AM (GMT)
Hopefully we should be able to download it from the BBC site.
Coney - June 24, 2008 01:00 PM (GMT)
Marc Overmars - June 24, 2008 01:27 PM (GMT)
Listening to it now, nice to see how well thought of he is in Africa
Coney - June 24, 2008 01:31 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Marc Overmars @ Jun 24 2008, 02:27 PM) |
| Listening to it now, nice to see how well thought of he is in Africa |
He might even be more popular than Mugabe. ;)
Marc Overmars - June 24, 2008 01:41 PM (GMT)
18:20
"I'm so shit at Maths"
:haha:
Synergetic - June 24, 2008 01:51 PM (GMT)
KaiserKolo - August 23, 2008 03:28 PM (GMT)
There is a big feature on this in the new Arsenal mag (with Nasri on the cover). Whatever he may have done or not done in the summer, this 'tour of hope' through Nigeria, Togo and Ghana really does show Adebayor is trying to help his homeland.
That or a finely timed piece of PR from the club to get him back into our good books...;)