Roger Milla and the pygmies

[TheHitman]

Sadly no photos but this is the first time I have heard this story apparently it is true.

 

In 1992 Cameroon legend Roger Milla kidnapped 150 jungle pygmies as he bid to set up a charity football tournament. Claiming that it would raise money for their education and health within the African state, matters soon turned pear-shaped when only 50 spectators turned up at the 50,000 all-seater Omnisports stadium to watch teams such as Bee-Sting of Lomie and Ants of Salapoumbe play. Of those who turned up, 25 were ejected after hurling abuse at the pygmies.

 

A few weeks later, Milla was arrested after the police received complaints that the pygmies had been imprisoned in a single locked room underneath the stadium by an armed guard in a Saddam Hussein T-shirt. A stadium official countered by saying. You dont know the pygmies. They are extremely difficult to control.

 

A pygmy delegation also complained that they received just one meal in three days. They play better if they dont eat too much, argued the spokesman."

[JagSquared]

Sadly no photos but this is the first time I have heard this story apparently it is true.

 

In 1992 Cameroon legend Roger Milla kidnapped 150 jungle pygmies as he bid to set up a charity football tournament. Claiming that it would raise money for their education and health within the African state, matters soon turned pear-shaped when only 50 spectators turned up at the 50,000 all-seater Omnisports stadium to watch teams such as Bee-Sting of Lomie and Ants of Salapoumbe play. Of those who turned up, 25 were ejected after hurling abuse at the pygmies.

 

A few weeks later, Milla was arrested after the police received complaints that the pygmies had been imprisoned in a single locked room underneath the stadium by an armed guard in a Saddam Hussein T-shirt. A stadium official countered by saying. You dont know the pygmies. They are extremely difficult to control.

 

A pygmy delegation also complained that they received just one meal in three days. They play better if they dont eat too much, argued the spokesman."

 

Got to be fake...

[Scott_M]

When I was in SA this summer, me and my mate took a wrong turn in a shopping centre in Sandton and ended up walking through a hotel lobby, where Roger Milla was standing and getting his photo taken with some Argie fans.

 

Anyway, we go over and get our photo with him. Very pleasent man.

 

I ask him to do his dance and show him my inturpretation of it, to which he replies "Huh, huh.........(soul drains from his eye)..........(exaperated sigh)..........Yes"

 

I don't think he saw the funny side of it.

 

Anyway, I was still excited to shake his hand. It probably more exciting than having my photo with Gerrard.

[TheHitman]

It seems to be true, well at least the whole tournament being arranged, not so sure about the comments. It is apparently in Simon Kupers book first published in 1994. It is a shame it never took off.

[Jim MM]

I can't believe 150 starving pygmies wouldn't sell out a stadium but I don't care if it's true or not, it's fuckin' brilliant.

[Alan Sex]

Pygmies vs. Dwarves followed by a full on sex party. I'm in!

 

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Fuckin love it!

[Alan Sex]

How could he stoop so low?

[Mel Wood]

Jamaica also has a team of players who're all three-foot tall. They're known as the Yardies.

[VladimirIlyich]

Even Brazilian pygmies are class.

 

Defo no long balls to the big man up front!

[Fugitive]

Roger Milla and the pygmies

 

That could be the greatest band name ever.