This Just Seems Cruel

By: Trent | September 11th, 2007

If you’ve played football at all during your life, you’ve probably been cut from a team. In fact, I’m still getting rejection letters from select clubs that I tried out for 20 years ago. Just to make sure I don’t show up again, I guess.

But it could have been worse. My humiliation could have been on national television.

In Ghana, a soccer academy is hosting 14 youths in a house, training them in hopes that it may spur development of Ghana’s youth programs. As a bonus, the players have been visited by such national luminaries as Black Stars coach Claude Le Roy and the Gahana-born former French captain Marcel Desailly. And it’s even show on local TV.

But as is always the case with reality television, you know where we’re headed: ritual humiliation.

Although the last remaining player will get a car, a chance to train with the national team and hopefully discuss possibilities with several European clubs…those voted off, um, won’t.This past Sunday, the first two players were ‘evicted’ out of the house.

At least the players who were given the boot on Sunday took it well:

“The two sobbed and wept uncontrollably as though they were possessed infecting the other mates with their sordid state. Their sad state worsened when their compatriots bid them farewell in front of a packed to capacity park at their Ridge academy house.”

Well, at least the show isn’t being staged at Cristiano Ronaldo’s house.