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Article: Pampered Bafana can’t get cold feet in hot Chad.(Sports)
- Article from:
- The Saturday Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- March 24, 2007
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If living conditions are any sort of meter by which football teams can be separated, then Bafana Bafana ought to hammer Chad in today’s Group 11 African Nations Cup qualifier (Stade Omnisport, kick off 5pm SA time).
Around 15 minutes down the dusty N’Djamena streets from Bafana Bafana’s luxury, five-star Hotel Kempinski lies the Hotel Du Golf, where the Chad national football team are staying.
The Hotel Kempinski is a testament to Libyan opulence, probably the most modern structure in the Chadian capital, standing tall opposite the country’s National Assembly.
The Hotel Du Golf, on the other hand, is a defining example of self-irony. There ...