“It’s an anti-Africa prejudice. There is still in the so-called ‘old world’ a feeling that why the hell should Africa organize a World Cup. … Colonialists over the past 100 years have gone toAfrica and taken out all the best things, and now they are taking all the best footballers. There’s no respect.”

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