More Than Just a Game Page #3

He ook he line, come on Lizo.

As a person who came from

he Easern Cape, i was foreign o me,

because l played rugby and cricke.

And when his soccer

was inroduced on he island,

hose who inroduced i

were willing o each us.

Righ, ke madoda, here we go,

i's on he ches, i goes down.

-Conrol i and kick.

-For sure.

Good. Tony.

All righ, all righ, gens, Alfred, you ready?

Anthony Suze was one of

those soccer fanatics.

He Ioved soccer, he was a hard kicker

and we even nicknamed him...

Which means, ''Move, l'm going o kick!''

Here we go. There! Almos here!

Nice ry, Alfred, nice ry.

-Marcus, you ready?

-For sure.

All righ, le's do his.

Okay, we'll work on ha.

We'll have o work on ha.

-We'll have o work on ha. Lizo?

-Dharp.

-All righ.

-Okay. Le's go.

Hey, i's rugby, Tony.

Hey, gens, l hink we found our goalkeeper.

-Hey!

-Goalkeeper!

There was selflessness in he eaching,

of course,

but it was not aIways about being seIfIess.

Those guys that I taught about soccer,

I taught because I wanted the best pIayers

on my team.

I wanted to win.

Lizo, here.

-Dorry. Dorry.

-Pro.

Alfred, Alfred!

-Come guys, le's keep i moving.

-Uneachable!

l couldn' believe i.

You know Dedick is a scienis?

And l asked him, l said,

''You, a physicis, you know all abou

''forces and veIocity and stuff Iike that.

And so why can't you just kick that baII?''

This is...no, no, no, Gick...Pro, he ball.

Lisen o me

l wan you o go and sand over here.

-Over here, okay.

-Lizo.

Okay. Lizo...

Now Lizo, he was different,

even though he was a rugby pIayer.

Okay, now when Lizo passes me he ball,

you are going o run.

Firs ouch you ge on he ball,

you srike i ino he ne.

No, l don' hink l can do ha, hey.

Gick, don' hink. Jus lisen o me.

Firs srike you ge on he ball,

you hi i ino he ne. Okay?

Head down, weigh going forward,

-kick under he ball.

-Ready?

Dorry, sorry, sorry. Dorry.

-l'll ry i again. Okay, okay.

-Yeah.

-l'll ry i again.

-Eye on he ball.

Eye on he ball. Okay, ready, ready.

Jus give he ohers a chance raher, man,

l'll jus si over here.

No, no, no, no,

you're doing very nicely here.

Lizo, don' lie o he man.

He's no doing nicely a all,

he's he wors fooball player in he world.

Tony, i's difficul when you don' come

from a spors background.

Hey, hey, l come from a spors background.

-Wha spors?

-Dwimming is big in our family.

Dwimming, Gick, swimming!

Tha's one spor ha's no going o ge

encouraged here, wena,

he five-mile freesyle o Cape Town, huh?

No, no, Gick, come on, again.

He was helpless.

You know, thank God for soccer.

When I first arrived

and saw my dear friend, Bennie NtweIe,

Iooking Iike skin and bones

in just a few weeks on the isIand,

I thought I wouId die here,

but soccer was our saIvation.

And it was driven by peopIe Iike Pro MaIepe.

Pro was a diamond. He was fas.

He was srong, he was fi.

He was known as Pro because

he was already a professional player

from Pretoria and he was aIIocated

the task of training the rugby pIayers

and the non-soccer pIayers to prepare them

with basic skiIIs.

He didn't know when to stop.

When Pro trains, he just goes

on and on and on

and it's up, up, up,

if it's down, it's down, down, down,

but he never knows when to stop.

l need you o be saving goals,

no creaing hem.

Keep your fee on he ground.

Come on, le's go.

Come, l'm couning.

One! Two! Three!

Genlemen, his is he man

you should be looking up o.

Freddie Dimons is a specimen

of my good work.

l's passion, i's commimen, i's power.

l love i.

You're going o kill yourselves.

You're going o go down.

Morning, Dir.

Gon' you bloody

''Good Morning'' me, Malepe.

l's a shi morning.

Why is ha?

Promoions...

...all of hem.

Every damned one of hem.

And no you, Mr Gelpor?

And no bloody me.

The English call i ''passed over.''

Pass over.

Go l look like a bloody Jew, ha l

migh enjoy Passover?

Tha is no righ.

No, i's no righ.

You're a good guard.

Mr Gelpor, an excellen officer,

you're always here in he rain wih us.

Very duiful.

Yes, always.

Bu ha is he problem, Mr Gelpor.

How's ha?

Why is i you ha is sanding in he rain

and hey all ge promoions and you don'?

l's...

l's because hey're using you.

They do no respec you.

Even hough you work hard

and you're an excellen officer.

They rea you like us.

Like a...like sor of...

Like less han a human being.

You mus figh your case.

You mus wrie a leer.

l don' know how o wrie such a leer.

Maybe we can help you.

DeIport, who was so vioIent and so mean,

eventuaIIy became our aIIy.

He joined our cIasses

and we heIped him with his studies.

And sIowIy DeIport become more human

and DeIport became a different person,

and finaIIy, he passed his subjects

and he was promoted.

''Things change...''

Many of he warders loved o wach us play

because we creaed

grea specaor spor for hem.

Come, come, come, you men mus work...

Look lively wih ha wheelbarrow...

l wan o build!

Move i, sackers!

Hey, hey! You see ha aeroplane?

Tha's a whie man flying here,

flying in he sky.

And you can' even

push a wheelbarrow sraigh.

Hey, don' urn your back on me, boetie.

When l'm alking o you,

you pay aenion, okay?

Hey, Jaco.

The Old Man's looking for you...

...sounds urgen.

You'd beer move i.

Do, who's in he saring 1 1 on Daurday?

We're playing agains he Bucs, aren' we?

We're going o crush hem.

Ja, Dhinners beer have his boos

on his weekend.

Malan, leave ha prisoner alone.

Ge away here, he has work o do.

Bes hurry...

There were warders

who were very fond of us,

there were warders

who actuaIIy were our fans.

There was his warder,

''Maxolo'' Dmih we called him,

who could come and open up every ime

l waned o go and play.

Bu here was always a degree of ension

because i ook us years

to break down the barriers,

but most importantIy of course,

it took years to improve the situation

on the isIand.

You had those who were among them

who were very IoneIy.

They had cases where warders

committed suicide,

where young men just put that rifIe

on the chest and puIIed the trigger.

We decided to organise soccer

in a much more conscious way.

We wanted to pIay

competitive soccer so that,

if there are cIubs, the one cIub can pIan

and the other cIub can then try and defend.

We wan o se up

a FlFA ype of associaion.

We waned compeiion,

and in ha compeiion

we are going o creae ineres,

and ha is why soccer for us

had to be introduced

very, very systematicaIIy and carefuIIy.

l undersand, Tony,

bu wha l am rying o say is ha

he chaps can be quie regimened.

You know l can play wih anybody,

bu oher men are saying ''uh-huh''.

They say a lo of hings, Mark,

and ha's he problem.

Everybody is saying somehing,

bu who's doing? Who is engaging?

Carefully, discussion, negoiaion,

i's no jus alk.

Yes, bu you see hem, l mean, you see

hese chaps who always alk abou

a unied fron or hese games serving

fooball insead of poliics,

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