This is the elephant in the room . This is something that should happen ... this is what ice hockey on the continent of Africa desperately needs . Why isn't it happening ? Not sure .... what i do know is that this was a dream that only a player could obviously want to see happen . This was the proposed African Nations Cup of Ice Hockey which i heard of years back and was always waiting to see it happen ... obviously without an IIHF channel (which i spoke of months ago) there is probably little to no chance of me watching these games live . Actually if it were held in South Africa i probably would be able to find a feed to watch it online as they are pretty good at airing their national team games when games are held in South Africa .
Now that i have been to South Africa and met national team member and i have been a guest in Morocco meeting national team members ... for me it would be pretty cool to see them play each other ! No offense to anyone but i think South Africa would be the dominant team but with a world ranking of 40th it would probably be an advantage for them to be playing more international games . It would be unbelievably amazing for Morocco , Egypt , Algeria , Tunisia , Kenya and any other nations i have missed out .... yeah Namibia will be there too as they have IIHF ties there . This would be amazing !
The other big thing i would love to see happening in Africa is some recreational tournaments for adults . Yes i would go for sure then :) the big thing would be getting Europeans over for a nice trip to play hockey and party a bit ... yeah just a bit LOL ! I know for a fact that if my friends in Morocco would hold an adult rec tournament in the summer that they would get teams for sure ... most cities in Europe close their rinks , your rink is open .... lets use it :) Its a 3 on 3 rink so teams would only need a goalie and 6 skaters to be able to have a good time . If good teams start showing up in Morocco it will help improve your overall play by playing better and different competition .
I wanna do some more travelling through Africa and would love to have an excuse to visit South Africa and Morocco again . Please give me a reason to come back soon :P Travelling with teams playing tournaments meeting new friends , and helping make the game more global would be amazing wouldn't it ? I wanna see that African Cup of Nations Tournament happen and i really want to see some adult recreational tournaments starting .... it will generate money for your hockey programs if you advertise it properly . Look people need hotels , flights , food and some tourist things to do . With the proper connections you can make packages and get some sponsorship by pushing for people to use certain airlines or hotels . Its a win win ... in a perfect world obviously :(
Just wanted to put this out there before i turn my attention back to packing my bags for Texas . I will try to write about my adventures there as most of you that read my blog have read about other Aston Villa relates adventures like when i lost Rainer :P HAHAHAHA !!!! yup that was an Aston Villa trip .... it is always an adventure when the Kidderminster Lions are involved . so stay tuned :)
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