Picture from Click-Sports
Here’s an excerpt from an interview with Army Chief Jean Kahwaji’s son and Champville’s president Jad Kahwaji after Champville clinched their first Lebanese Basketball title:
وعن التسييس الذي Ø£ØµØ¨Ø Ù„Ø§Ø¹Ø¨Ø§Ù‹ أساسيّاً ÙÙŠ رياضة كرة السلة، قال قهوجي: “للأس٠التسييس جزء أساس من Øياتنا اليوميّة، وشاءت الظرو٠أن يكون هناك وضع خاص، إنّما Ù†ØÙ† من جانبنا نعمل على إبعاد السياسة عن هذه اللعبة التي Ù†Øب، وهذا يتطلّب من الÙرق كلّها العمل مع جمهورها للÙصل بين السياسة واللعبة”. [Link]
English translation: Kahwaji said in regards to mixing sports with politics that despite politics being an essential part of our everyday life, they tried hard as a Champville administration to keep politics away from the game and that it requires a lot of efforts specially when dealing with the fans.
It doesn’t look like they tried so hard in the picture above. In fact, I believe it is relatively easy for any Lebanese Basketball team to ask its fans to stay away from political slogans and enjoy the game, but it seems to me they are exploiting politics to attract fans instead of keeping politics away from basketball. Shame.
you relied on 4 persons in this picture making FPM sign to say that Kahwaji is not telling the truth??!?!!
there are what, 10 basketball players on a team? This means 40% of them displayed political loyalty in the picture above which I would consider to be a large chunk of the team.
count them well they are 3 (not 4!!) fans and not players. the players are making number 1 with their fingers and victory signs!
Elie,
I don’t care how many people are in the picture and I did not say Kahwaji is lying but is not doing enough effort like he said he is because it’s VERY easy NOT to release pictures of the team indicating political allegiances specially when it’s a group picture.
PS: You missed 2 on the right side of the picture and I counted at least 5.
if you don’t care how many people are in the picture why you are still insisting to count them “PS: You missed 2 on the right side of the picture and I counted at least 5”.
Furthermore, this picture was not released by Champville it was taken by photographs and published on newspapers and websites. Champville has no authority to ban pictures taken by photographs.
Champville has the authority to ban photographers or ask for a certain picture to be removed or so if not through the team, through the federation.
I am not insisting on counting but you seem to be lousy at it 🙂
Champville has the right but it is not so shamful in order to ban it.
Hence you are admitting a political allegiance while your president says you have none 🙂
Choukran Qatar.
look najib habibi I am proud of being FPM and every one shall be proud of being so. not like you, you are a kataeb guy (I have evidence and pretty sure) and you always deny this fact…
Ya Elie,
I don’t care what you are nor am saying you shouldn’t be proud. All that I am saying is that sports should NOT be mixed with sports whether it’s Kataeb, Ouwet or FPM or Hezbollah or Mustaqbal or ballout …
Why don’t you get my point from this post and tons of other posts instead of turning them into political debates??
If you are going to keep on doing this, the best thing will be to ignore your responses.
And Lol @ your proof. Toz bil Kataeb wou bi kel el parties.
Najib, please don’t threaten of ignoring my posts cause we can me and my friends ignore your blog anyway.
It seems you have a phobia from politics. Please be opened to other opinions, for now I will close this subject because I don’t see any result from this discussion.
P.S. fik t2oul toz bel Kataeb add ma baddak, bas ma bi ghayyerle ra2ye enno enta 14 March and specifically Kataeb min heik maz3ouj min el Champville w Kahwaji.
Dude, If all you get from my posts is that I am bothered by Champville because they are this and that, then please by all means ignore my blog.
I didn’t threaten you. I told you this is a non-political blog and I don’t wanna talk politics on it.
This is about sports and NOT including politics in them, not whether if we should like a team because a political party supports it.
I’ve supported Champville Basketball team ever since it was created before anyone would go to cheer them because they were a good team and I hated Sagesse because of Ghassan Sarkis and his coaching. You want to talk sports ahla wou sahla, you don’t lets cut this here.
Look at how the basketball league ended this year because of politics and look at how your dear Khatib left Champville for an extra couple of bucks.
Lol @ Elie
“you are a kataeb guy (I have evidence and pretty sure)”
And Lello habibi, no need to show us any evidence that u are a FPM supporter, ur comment just proved it 😉
and ur comment proved that you are a naive person. thank you.
@ Michele
loooooooooolllll…you are one spunky cookie! 😀
Ok I will talk sports…
First I am a Champville student, and I support them since they are in the third division!! I remember watching their very first game in the first division in the court.
second, Khatib dear is a professional player and he goes where the best offer is, this what every player should do if you want to have a professional basketball league.
Third, Ghassan Sarkis is an excellent coach, he made the golden era of the basketball in Lebanon with Sagesse.
Fourth, this year’s league ended up like this because of Riyadi’s behavior and refusal to respect the federation of Basketball. Riyadi should learn how to loose (I guess you have watched Bayern Munich this saturday, it was a dramatic match for them, eventhough they knew how to lose).
P.S. I will ignore your blog, but believe me you will not be satisfied of how things will go after that in your blog…
Elie,
Glad we are talking in a more constructive manner now. No one’s attacking you or any side here. Again my whole point was about separating sports from politics and you know how much this damaged big teams like Sagesse before and Riyadi now and maybe Champville later.
1- I may not be a Champville student but I was a regular there every summer and my cousins were there and I had some great time playing and supporting their team. I trained with Coach Abu Cha2ra for a while too. You should know as a Mariste that sports is a discipline and that we put discipline above all at Champville true?
2- I know that and that’s why I am telling you politics r pointless in sports. Khatib was defending Champville and blasting Riyadi and now he joins them. Its pure sports and fans and management should behave the same.
3- I never liked Sarkis. He is a good coach I just didnt like him and didnt care what Sagesse’s fans were politically affiliated to 🙂
4- I blamed Riyadi for everything if you follow my posts but said all teams should stop bringing politics into sports.
ok Najib got your point, but please be more open to open to our opinions.