We love soccer. We support and defend our national team more than we do anything else. Before a critical game, the country is caught in a frenzy for weeks in advance. If you are reading this, there is an 80 percent chance you are Egyptian, so i won't explain further. Anyway it is something you feel, almost inexplainable.
This short post is inspired by a friend's bbm status, "it's just soccer." NO it's not. Soccer is Egyptian pride and passion. So this is Egyptian pride and passion.
The game against Algeria tomorrow is uniting Egyptians again in the way that only soccer can unite Egyptians. Without soccer, we all are strangers to one another. Groups and classes keep to themselves. We only mingle with a game. We more than mingle. We embrace each other, become one voice, identify with one another as supporters of the team, as the backbone of the stadium. It shames yet, yet somehow i am proud to say it, the only time i feel 100% Egyptian and 200% committed to Egypt is at a time of a game like tomorrow's. This is when i truly feel like singing to this blessed country and forever holding its name that is so deeply imprinted in soccer passion and pride.
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