Entertainment@Large's Obinna Anyanwu believes that TP Mazembe can shock the globe and lift the 2010 Club World Cup.
African representatives at the ongoing FIFA Club World Cup TP Mazembe have brought not only smiles to faces across the continent, but also a big surprise, for reaching the final after edging past two top-flights: Mexican club Pachuca and 2006 finalists Brazil’s Internacional Porto Alegre.
Fans of the Congolese club are living the sweet dream they never though they'd see. The Crows are about to clinch a world title, becoming the world’s best club. After dominating Africa for the past two seasons, the world stage is set for them to enter and conquer. Many still cant believe it, but it’s happening, Mazembe are going and may get it, wake up!
Can an African team win the FIFA Club World Cup at this time? To me, it’s an obsolete question. Recent events have put that curiosity behind us, and the doubting Thomases are beginning to cease their noises and rub their eyes to see clearly. Africa is here, and can win, as much as the adversary can loose.
If Mazembe could crush all scepticisms to land themselves at the final of the world’s premier club competition, they have as much vim to eke out an honour from the last game, that’s capable of assuaging our remaining anxieties, and making our joy complete.
You and I would agree that the Lubumbashi club didn’t beat Pachuca 1-0 by chance, nor did they trounce the dreaded South American flag bearers Porto Alegre 2-0 by hazard. The Africans merit these consecutive victories, which are a continuation of the segmented successes cascading from their 2010 continental campaigns.
Mazembe is a solid and consolidated bloc, made up of sharp, flexible and hearty talents, whose experience is wild enough to soldier on in the terrains of Abu Dhabi, as they’ve done so far in their first two fixtures, so expect any thing to happen. The final meeting maybe hard for the Crows, but might not be easy as well for their eventual opponent.
Getting here this far, Mazembe have raked two worthwhile achievements. Firstly, they reconciled with themselves by effacing the two-defeat debacle collected from their previous participation. Secondly, they have broken the continent’s record formerly held by Al-Ahly and Etoile du Sahel, and so why do you think they wouldn’t dream wild, of lifting the trophy?
I’ve started dreaming wild too, because my faith in this club is beginning to swell and pushing my frail chest out to stamp my pride as an African and a fan of Mazembe, come with me!
Do we attribute these exploits to the players, the emblematic coach, the wonderful, generous and fearless president, or the omnipresent supporters? Mazembe is a dream team of the new generation; a giver of lessons clubs and football academies across the continent must settle down to learn.
Amid talent, experience and coaching, determination seats atop of the Crows’ awesome values, which have propelled them through rough tides and coasted them to safe victories. They are yet to ebb, so expect sweet surprise come Dec.18 when they will do us proud or do us no evil.
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