Defeat Manifests Great Character

Defeat becomes failure only when it is learned as inability to win and as a testimony to lacking the guts to win.

Go the Waliyas, pick the next game with your heads upright and don’t worry to face us back home, we will receive you with smiles. Walk tall guys, walk tall. We are very much proud about you. We are here to applaud you in your defeats.

Overcoming defeat is part of becoming victories and great. We have got opportunity to learn this in such a bitter defeat. No failure at all.

The football last night was an opportunity for us to celebrate defeat as we celebrate victory. Supporting any one, including a football team is easy when things are going well. The Great in any field are great because they know how to smilingly take defeat and turn it into enduring lesson and sustainable gain.

When I met many of my friends in the morning after our football team lost to Burkina Faso last night, they were trying to find blame goat to the defeat. The major culprit for the defeat, they said, was Sewinet, the Coach. Last time we appreciated him for the kind of team he built; just in defeat we try and blame him for what went wrong.   

In deed to be defeated by ten men Burkina Faso 4 to null was bitter. Yet it is the maturity to wisely take such defeats and make them lessons that matter.

Take any club like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United, Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Bayer Munich or any great club in Europe, they are not great for they are not defeated.

 They went through bitter defeats and they are not immune to bitter defeats even now; but they know how to go through it without further bruise and very much know how to inspire their players even from the bitter defeats they experience in the games.

Our football team is not immune to so called humiliating defeat. Like it happened yesterday we can be beaten by our opponents. But then, we the people, the ones who support this national team, should know how to respond to such defeats.

We should accommodate defeat to fuel it for further victory. If defeat perceived as inability, it is disastrous; when defeat is taken as a spring board to fill in the gaps, it is a resource.