Hockey

Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/emmajaynedavidson/20090714HockeyTournament#

I think I mentioned awhile ago that Ghana was in the middle of constructing a new hockey stadium, well tonight I went to see some of the games in the African Cup of Nations tournament and it was very impressive.

Apparently the stadium holds 1200 and it would have been more people than that as there were people around the ground as well. Mostly packed because the huge majority of the seats were taken up with these massive fan club type things, I think they must have stolen them from soccer or something, as they were singing dancing and drumming the whole time, I got a bit of this on the video but impossible to get it all properly, and I couldn't get a photo from the right angle to show the big grandstand where they all were but they definitely made the atmosphere.

The two games on were the mens teams, South Africa beat Nigeria 8-0, was a pretty rough match, SA easily in control and were playing not so well I don't think.

Then Ghana came on to play Egypt, and Egypt definitely looked the better team but Ghana were the first to get the goal.

I went before the end so not sure if they managed to come away with a win, but I'm guessing Egypt would have come back to win...in theory they should play South Africa in the final.



Take note of the dnacing guy in front, I think hes from a school, and then shaky camera work I switch away to the play...