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Haitian soccer team visits interim prime minister
Friday, April 14, 2006
by Vario Sérant
Caribbean Net News Haiti Correspondent
Email: vario@caribbeannetnews.com
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: The Haitian Olympic soccer team, which qualified for the final phase of the Central American games to be held this July in Cartagena, Colombia, on Monday paid a visit to the Interim Prime Minister.
"It is a moment for joy, to celebrate these young people who carried very high the torch of the nation and succeeded in asserting themselves in this Caribbean (region) which had wanted to be unaware of us, thinking that we were able of nothing," said Prime Minister Gerard Latortue.
The current head of the Haitian government was almost certainly referring to the time period following the exile of president Jean Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004, when. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) refused to recognize the provisional authorities following the event.
Gerard Latortue declared his satisfaction about the fact that Trinidad and Haiti have developed the best teams of the region.
"If there is a field in which Haiti could excel and derive extremely important incomes, then it is sport. We have a gold mine: our soccer players and our artists,” said Latortue.
The president of the Haitian soccer Federation (HSF) was also pleased with the performance of the Haitian soccer team of less than twenty years old.
"In Trinidad, this team of young people had to cost eighteen million dollars," stressed Yves Jean Bart. The Haitian Olympic team’s limited financial support can’t even compare, as gathering funds to finance the Haitian team’s trip to Cartagena overcame many obstacles.
According to Jean Bart, Haiti’s good attitude results from, "we worked a lot, through the (soccer) clubs, the coaches, the referees, to try to carry out this rejuvenation." Based on a long history of losses for Haitian soccer, the HSF president said that "we are obliged to constantly sow new seeds."
However, he was comforted with the idea that the Haitian ground remains, in terms of soccer, "fertile and prosperous."
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