The first one was Pepe from Portugal. Pepe got a red card because he head-butted Thomas Müller after he made a foul on him in the World Cup game with German team.'Dracula', Luis Suarez from Uruguay bited Giorgio Chiellini's shoulder during a tussle in first round with Italy.
Ghanaian player Kevin-Pince Boateng was suspended indefinitely from the national team for hurling abuse at coach while he was training. Alex Song was sent off for striking Mario Mandzukic with his elbow and he gained a nickname like crazy elbow.
Unlike these immature players there is a player who ended civil war of his country. It’s Didier Drogba from the Ivory Coast. In the live interview just after The Ivory Coast national team qualified for the World Cup 2006, he made an impassioned plea kneeling infront of camera with his teammates.
“Men and women of Ivory Coast, from the North, South, Centre and West, we proved today that all Ivorians can co-exist and play together with a shared aim: to qualify for the World Cup. We promised you that the celebration would unite the people. Today, we beg you, on our kness. Forgive. Forgive. Forgive. The one country in Africa with so many riches must not descend into war. Please lay down your weapons. Hold elections. All will be better. We want to have fun, so stop firing your guns…. (singing) We don’t want this fire, we don’t want this again.”
Like magic, combatants halted the war for a week, and a year after the German World cup over, the civil war of 5 years was ceased. Drogba used half of his annual income to build a hospital for Ivorian people suffering from diseases.
He said, “I have won many trophies in my time, but nothing will vever top helping win the battle for peace in my country.” The story of Drogba was used in advertisement saying that the World Cup makes us understand each other, and it make us to remind the eaning of World Cup to the world.
I realized a true sportsmanship through him making efforts to bring about peace as well as trying his best in his own field. Hope this moving story of Drogba would touch us all deeply, so that there comes the second and third Drogbas who love peace, cry out for peace and achieve peace!
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