Archive for February 1, 2008

No Smoking In Africa

Strict rules in Baba Yara

Crazy name, crazy guy. Otto Pfister has come under fire in Ghana for smoking on the touchline during Cameroon’s 5-1 victory against Zambia on Saturday. The 70-year-old Cameroon coach has been warned that he was breaking the law at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi by a local health organisation who have urged him to stop setting a bad example.

“This negative behaviour must not be allowed to continue in Ghana,” the Abibimman Foundation said in a statement. “We are therefore calling on the local organising committee to draw the attention of coach Otto Pfister to his actions.”

The silver-haired German is so revered in Cameroon that his penchant for wearing trousers and shorts low around the waist started a new trend known as the “Otto Pfister”

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