Booze is Bad, Kids. Remember That.

By: Martha | January 22nd, 2008

Mmm … beer. Last week, five members of Fiji’s Olympic football team enjoyed a crazy night night out — did a little drinking, blew off some steam, you know how boys are. Hey, they got back in time for training the next day, surely there wouldn’t be a problem, right? Wrong. The players left camp without authorization, and without a minder, and they’re being punished. Harshly.

According to Muhammad Shamsu Dean Sahu Khan, president of the Fijian FA,

Eight players jumped the fence at 10.30 p.m. and went away. They went and had drinks the whole night and came back to the academy 4.45 on Sunday morning. They will not be considered for any national commitments for the next five years.”

Wait, wait. What? forget the five year ban, they had to jump a fence to get out? Not only that, but a fence, the existence of which is such common knowledge that it can simply be referred to as “the fence,” which no further explanation? Holy crap. That is seriously hardcore training right there.

There’s no information available on the names and ages of the five escapees, and it’s safe to assume we won’t be hearing from them for a long, long time, if ever again. If the FA’s punishment stands, these guys are seriously screwed — oh, and in addition to the end of their collective international careers, all five are also out between $6400 and $11,500, which is probably a whole lot of money for your typical, small-nation Olympian.

[via The Beautiful Game]

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Micah

So is this blog. Pure recycled, unoriginal trash.
Shazback

It could also have been a proverbial "fence"... I mean, it might have been a little wall.
Martha

Romanista, that does sound much better than what I was picturing, thank you. I was imagining fencing to keep them in and COMMITTED TO TRAINING, but doing it to protect them is far more reasonable.
Romanista SA

Martha.

What's the big deal with fences? (I'm from South Africa, so bare with me - we fence everything)

BUT

The fences were / are probably to keep the visitors safe from press / intruders / criminals or whatever - Not to keep them in.

I'm assuming there's a guard station where you can go in or out as you please, but the boys obviously wanted to escape detection and so that wasn't an option.

Scaling the fence was.

As it turns out, it was a bad option, but you get my point.