FIFA suspend Ethiopian FA

They had no other option. Ethiopia are in a football mess.

Honestly didn't know they compete at international level. With the ordeal they've been through recently.

I think it was the right decission that Ethopia has been suspendet. As DaJohnner said, more than one country has to be stabilized but that`s unfortunately very difficult for such countries. You also see some of these problems in South Africa! Think about it.

Sorry for bad english

skoppe, welcome aboard. Important thing is to speak your mind. Oh, I was going to forget it: be very kind to the italian players and teams. LOL. Our doyen here, Tonto, is quite permissive, but still to a certain degree.

I don't think a subject on Ethiopia is one where Italians should be moralizing on the American Indian. I'll leave it at that. Soccerway should start deleting offtopic posts.

Horn of Africa has seen it's problems in football, not long ago, Kenya was suspended for a time. With all due respect, in general, the greatest cross country and marathoners come from Ethiopia and Kenya along with some other fine runners from Somalia and Eritrea, all in the Horn of Africa, but for African football power, it is in the west, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Senegal, Togo, DR Congo and to the South, obviously, Angola and South Africa have played some good ball. The horn does compete but it is often far and few in between. Ethiopia went to a World Cup a long time ago because they were one of the few developed African countries that could.

I believe even the Sudan FA had some trouble in their standing. Sudan is situated in the middle of a lot of those countries and is rather big. Heck, as far as I'm concerned, if there are international sanctions because of things going on, they don't belong in these tournaments or qualifications either.

RGPII1, was it you who suggested that Soccerway should delete off-topics? I only posted one, but you posted 4 or 5. BTW, your lack of knowledge of history was evident when you failed to take advantage of the fact that Ethiopia was exploited by Italy. That should have been your smart reply, but in posting my first comment, I was banking on your ignorance of world events!

"Exploited by Italy" : Ok, let's get on topic for Tontadoni's sake, Italy used poisonous gas in Ethiopia, Italy committed war crimes in Ethiopia, before that Ethiopia was never colonized by any European power.

Sorry, Tontadoni, my topics were on-topic, Horn of Africa- check, Quality of play in the Horn of Africa (Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea and some of Sudan)- Check, Ethiopia and Kenya being better at long distance running than soccer-Check. If being ignorant is not putting other countries down in unrelated statements, so be it. I don't think anyone missed anything at all displaying ignorance, when the said quote "I don't think an article on Ethiopia is one where Italians should be moralizing" recognizes past Italian occupation; because I know for a matter of fact, that Eritrea were somewhat allied with Italy in that invasion, that in Eritrea, one still finds many landmarks of when Italy was there. I guess if not putting down other people equates to ignorance, count me in.