Sunday, November 15, 2009

the winners are in ecstasy

yesterday Egypt won the match and our hearts were jumping with happiness. Many people cried including my self. Although this victory is one of the few things we have going for us as egyptians it meant the world to us. i was so grateful that we won and that the cheers of the millions filled the streets. i was so glad our flag was once again proud. children chanting masr! which is what the word Egypt sounds like in arabic. I was in ecstasy last night and so were the 80 million Egyptians.

God stood by the poor people who have little to celebrate and made them dance with joy. Soccer is all they have now so the generous God of ours gave them that. Our Egyptian players fought like warriors knowing how much the game means to the Egyptians. It is not just a game for us, it is a matter of life or death. I was worried about the old men in the old coffee shops, that they would suffer from heart attacks. Thank God they survived, not just that but they went to bed smiling too.

If we had the same passion that we had for soccer, for work, for achievement, in political ambition we would have been the leaders of the world. Our over population yesterday was not a con it was inspiring. The sight of the millions marching and jumping in read wearing flags, wearing their hearts on their sleeves hugging and singing, was inspiring. Our over population is power, we can do anything together, if we unite like we did last night miracles could happen.

We are not weak as a nation we are strong we are even dangerous if you think about it. The beautiful thing about last night was that it was a carnival of love and joy it was divine and legendary. The cheers, the children singing, the flags everything was amazing. Everything about last night was proof that we can be a happy powerful, united, successful people.

Under the right guide we can be a force for the world. With help and right use of our power which is our passion and population the whole world can be our audience.

I wonder if soccer can be the next leading force for Egypt. If the people love it so much lets turn this country into the mecca of soccer. Let all the children be trained soccer professionally and in the name of soccer let children be enthusiastic to learn, let teachers teach with passion, let doctors cure with passion, let companies work for soccer, let the whole country be a soccer nation if it is the only thing that gets them going.
Let the government rule like a soccer coach, let us score, let us pass the ball to each other, let us focus on team work and let the people cheer for our big players.
Let the flag have a soccer ball on it, let us be the best soccer players in the world and let the people of the world buy plane tickets to witness our games.
Let us sell our players with millions, let us all be the soccer players of the world and let this land be known for that.
This is no joke or analogy, if we perfect one thing, and if soccer is the one thing we care about, let soccer inspire us and free us and let it be the reason we are humans again. Let the world come to play on our beautiful land and our perfect weather. Let the pyramids witness the most amazing games ever played. Let all the ugly buildings transform into dorms for players and their families and let the other jobs that we suck at blur in the background.

That high that we all felt last night may we feel it again, may we find other reasons to be proud that we are Egyptians, other than the pyramids, there must be something we can be good at, there must be talent on this land.

Right now we are good at loving soccer! cheering for soccer! and our team is great! and we are good at making more of us but the question is for what do we bring more people? There must be something for the new generation to be proud of other than the pyramids the nile, the soccer, and our classic movies.

last night we were happy we all prayed God that the millions sleep with smiles and that hearts do not break or stop, and God was kind and we did win. The nation danced to dawn last night, it was not just a game for us it was our only hope!!

Last night the Egyptians were in ecstasy, they were again proud, let there be more reasons for these people who lost their smiles and energy to smile and hold their flag again and remember who they used to be not many years ago.

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