Togo Players will be Sent Home from World Cup if they talk to Asians

May 22nd, 2006 | by: WC Bob | View Comments

Togo coach Otto Pfister has ushered in the latest round of World Cup paranoia. According to Sparrowhawks midfielder Junior Senaya, the coach has told the team that if they talk to reporters from their group rivals South Korea they will be dropped from the World Cup. “The head coach said he would not let us play in the games if we answer your questions. I want to play in the match and the head coach said there are no exceptions,” Senaya told a Korean paper.

Senaya also said the coach told his players not to talk to Japanese or Chinsese people just in case they were part of the Korean media. No word on whether a similar communication ban extends to Laotians, Vietnamese, Burmese, North Koreans, Thais or people who traveled to South Korea in 2002.

I’m not exactly sure what Pfister is trying to hide from the Korean media. Togo is one of the least known teams in the tournament. The coach himself has said that he hardly knows a lot of his players. You would think that reading his players’ quotes in the Korean papers would help him get to know his players a bit more.

Any why has he selected the Korean media as a target for censorship? Everyone knows those Swiss journalists are the true spies….