OK, so if you've peeked at my other blogs, I'm going to be taking a trip to the North African country of Guinnea-Bissau in June. Realization: I'm going to be in Africa during the World Cup!!! Just in the exact opposite part of Africa...
Anyway, I decided to do some research on the state of sports in the little country. Frankly, there's not much there. Soccer, of course, is popular, as well as basketball. Their national team is ranked 3nd to last in the world, according to the FIFA rankings (right in front of Tahiti and British Virgin Islands!).
However, they do have one international star. His name is Bocundji Ca, and he plays his club soccer at AS Nancy in French Ligue 1. He's the center player in that photo up there.
GB does have a domestic league: Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau, but there is not much info on these teams besides little wikipedia articles. It seems many of theses clubs have affiliations with the big Portuguese clubs (the country did gain independance from Portugal in 1874), with names like Sporting Clube de Bissau and Sport Bissau e Benfica.
So hey! There's that. Maybe I'll get lucky and find a cool jersey to buy while I'm over there. It'll go great with my Sri Lankan national cricket jersey!
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