DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 16 -- THERE are a lot of lessons that can be drawn from the ongoing Brazil U-17 Fifa World Cup which this time actually started in Tanzania, for the first time in the country's history, it hosted the continent's U-17 soccer tournament.

In Africa's African Youth Championship (AYC) which was held early this year, Tanzania's Serengeti Boys could have qualified for the Brazil Fifa World Cup had they won not less than three matches.

But as usual we did what we know best failed through own making when we decided to sack the very man who had produced the team that had done so well in the regional soccer tournament, the Danish tactician, Poulsen and replaced him with people who in the end showed Tanzania how not to win a tourn...