One Town Down

It seems like I’m waiting forever for something good to happen to this Islands Soccer. The loss of KOSSA club in 5-0 game to Waitekere only prolongs the waiting. To make it worse I think those NZers were pulling our legs when they was here last time. Well so there was a lot of disappointment in Honiara last  Sunday, especially KOSSA fans, watching the match live on television ( a very rare event indeed for the town to get live feeds) you could feel the energy being drained out from the players and infected the supporters too as time ticked on after the first Waitakere goal, then the second. Everybody was praying now for KOSSA -its now or never, get one goal…then nothing. As one friend wrote:

 

Bara,

I have watched the game between Waitakere and KOSSA yesterday.

Firstly, the weather hem barava killim ol boys ia nao.

Secondly, they (seems to) have lost the attitude of winning; even though Totori who is at the other end did not.

Thirdly, they lost possession of the ball too much because they stand at places convenient for the attack by the opposing team.

Fourthly, they wore the wrong boots for the weather ( as a result oketa fall daun olowe nomoa)

Fifthly, on ‘game over’ they still (seems) want to play- putting the passion of the game in sight again. However, the TIME essence of the game counters the passion of playing.

 Looking at the above observations little did I realize that it reflects more on the governmentality of Solomon islands as a nation and people rather than as a game – or “plei” in the SI context.

History shows us that we have in many occasions places ourselves in the ‘dilemna’ rather than in the ‘develop/ing/er’ circumstance. In the government bisnis:

Most of the discussions were done with solomons sitting at the wrong end of the table.

Most international involvements are that solomons is at the lesser end of the view.

Most of the ‘bad’ examples are sought from our viewpoints.

However, strikingly, most effective Solomon Islands point of view are used strategically by the ‘others’; Totori is no exception.

 Our placing in the regional and international arena, tells a lot for the type of bisnis that the outside world will and can offer discussion with us. Taiwan with all its capabilities can only talk rice with Solomon islands because that is what we are like to them!  We have lost possession – and most difficult of all is the capacity for the possible re- positioning of our country.

I think timelines and time frames must be re-looked at from our cultural point of views in provisions of the cooperate culture we are in today. Some ’bisnises’ Must be done on TIME!

 Karamui W. Bugotu

Well  he probably mentally wrote this view right after the raw minutes of the humilating defeat. But often when something as expected as a KOSSA win did not materialised the cosmos and stars that balance this fragile universe fall out of place for a second and then came back with some rationalisation that this countrys soccier game is a reflection of the whole pscyhology of political and economical struggle that plagued this country after the constitutional independence from the Britain in 1978.  I dully blamed it on the weather. For if I give it other approaches there is the tendency to loose all hope in the nations favorite sport. Bilkiki beach soccer team is going to France for the Beach soccer world cup…i just hope its warmer there.