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Wafu Cup Retrospective: Character, connectivity and chaos part two

Ed Dove reveals the second part of his ‘behind the scenes’ experience of the 2019 Wafu Cup in Thies, Senegal

While the lights going out was one of the Wafu Cup’s low points that was seen by the watching world, many other near misses weren’t.

By this point, things had become trickier for coach Lartey, even though he had found a way of maintaining a line of communication with me.

“I’m now using the phone of my player Theo Nimely,” Robert reassured me, although quite how Theo was coping without being able to communicate home or even inform his family of his fortunes in Senegal was never addressed.