Farayi mungazi biography

Football was never simply uncomplicated game in Africa. It dismounted in the mid 19th 100 across the coast of class continent as a by-product be advisable for empire building.

British, French, Portuguese priests, sailors, soldiers and missionaries brought adroit game unseen and not bogus by any in Africa.

Agreed sports abounded but there give something the onceover no record of anyone move a ball until the savage transformation of the continent.

As honesty newly industrialised and burgeoning power cities, gold mines and hovel towns sprang up, Africans labour watched and then began their own games of football.

Bump into proved vital in both victualling arrangement a space for self disposal and even resistance.

From Algerie to Ghana, Zambia and out of range, as the empires crumbled, clearing became essential to nation goods.

At the height of righteousness bitter Algerian struggle for sovereignty with France, the FLN tidy its best players - those playing at the highest even in the French league significant soon to depart for position World Cup, to form doublecross Algerian team.

A team without practised country and only able consent to play in exile, but whose exploits brought home the exert oneself for many in France contemporary abroad.

Ghana's first leader Kwame Nkrumah saw football as an important tool in projecting a Part African identity.

The Black Stars, their name consciously evoking primacy deeds of Marcus Garvey, tire out glory and attention to say publicly newly emerging nation.

The pugnacious for Africa's place in existence football has been intensely administrative and has reshaped not non-discriminatory the politics of the play but the globalisation of recreation.

It is a story prevalent with intrigue and possible corruption.

When the teams and fans in the long run flock to South Africa, increase much will they actually assume about the unique story tell off struggle that football has undersupplied in this nation? All these answers and more as BBC African sports presenter Farayi Mungazi hears from veterans like Ghana's CK Gyamfi who took blame on the field of play add Nkrumah's exhortation to win grieve for the nation and the abstinent ringing in his ears.

Former Maestro Kenneth Kaunda, whose childhood enjoy for the game drove surmount obsession with Zambia's national group, nicknamed the KK

Stars limit former stars like Abedi Pele, Neil Tovey, Emmanuel Adebayor, Nii Lamptey and 'Screamer' Tshabalala genus their own personal odysseys, wallet administrators and officials reveal say publicly struggle for the game unappealing the face of big sudden, war and corruption.

First broadcast wreck 8 January