I know. I know. The state of football is not that great in Mauritius. And, to be frank, I don’t even know the names of the teams in the 1st division.
I’m writing this blog entry because I got a mail from someone called Piotr Chmielewski (he is from Poland) who writes about football on a website called Afryka. He is currently writing about Mauritian football and would like to have the following information:
- What is the best Mauritian team?
- Which team has the largest number of supporters?
- Who are the stars of Mauritian football?
- Who is the biggest star?
- What is the current Mauritian national team?
- Who are the national team players playing abroad?
- Who are those playing locally?
- What do you think of our chance to qualify for the 2010 African Cup of Nations?
- Can Mauritius beat Cameroon?
- Can Mauritius beat Cape Verde?
- Can Mauritius beat Tanzania?
- Anything else interesting about Mauritian football.
Please feel free to comment. I will consolidate the information I get and send it to Piotr.
My personal opinion
I don’t know anything about current teams and players. The biggest star might (still) be Jean-Sébastien Bax. I think we have a chance to qualify for the second round of the ACN 2010 qualifications as one of the second best. We will get beaten by Cameroon (naturally) and beat both Cape Verde and Tanzania at home. We will also be beaten by Cameroon away and we will draw with both Cape Verde and Tanzania on their home soils.
As for the “anything else” part, my feeling is that it’s a pity that football is in such a bad shape here. Football is (by far) the largest religion on the planet and I find it sad that most of us know more about Barnsley than the Mauritian National Team…
About the photo above
May I introduce to the world the next Liverpool striker, my son Kyan 
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March 11th, 2008 at 07:49
lol, am completely null in topics concerning football…
now talking abt mauritian football, lol, does it exist? kidding, i dont even know the name of any football player n its corresponding team name or anything else…
sorry!
March 11th, 2008 at 09:26
He looks like a Man Utd striker to me.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:40
I think the all-time best Mauritian player is Tony François!!
March 12th, 2008 at 03:58
Best all time players: Jean Marc Hitier (ex-Santos FC S.Africa)
Jean Sebastien Bax (Santos FC S.Africa)
Desiree Periatembee (ex-Le Mans French L1 and Auxerre)
March 12th, 2008 at 04:34
qques infos pour aider (mais ceux ne sont pas des sources sures)
Sewram gobin (mohun bagan India)
Desiree Periatembee (Fc Niort France L2)
Sebastien Bax (Santos FC S.Africa D1)
Jean-Christophe Lourdes (ex-RC Strasbourg now???)
Yohan khodabaccus (en france)
L’ancien stagiaire de Man UTD qui est toujours au Royaume Uni
L’ancien Reserviste de Crystal Palace qui est toujours au Royaume Uni
et aussi Orwin Castel a evolue en D1 Sud Afs.
Sinon ds le championnat local il y a Jonathan Ernest qui etait suivi par Bastia et Kris Etowar par le FC Nantes.
C’est le Curepipe Starlight qui compte le plus grand nombre de supporteurs.
Les autres equipes qui comptent un nombre consequent de supporteurs sont petites riviere noire et Savanne SC
March 12th, 2008 at 07:23
Thanks Baba for those info.
I’ll wait for some additional comments and then forward everything to Piotr Chmielewski.
March 12th, 2008 at 21:24
we have a football federation in Mauritius?
Maybe it might just have website where you can get all the informaiton you are looking for?
League updates, top scorers, national team info, next fixtures?
A teamtalk version Mauritian!!
March 12th, 2008 at 22:28
Kalam Mooniaruck is today playing for cambridge city (conference south = 6eme division anglaise)
+ infos sur wikipedia
March 13th, 2008 at 00:19
Gavin heeroo l’ex de crystal palace est aujourd’hui en 7eme division britannique a Chelmsford City F.C.
Comme quoi leurs carrieres n’ont pas eu une superbe tournure…:(
March 30th, 2008 at 10:39
Arasen Ragaven playing for Sénart-Moissy in France CFA…he was recruited i think in this season. Im a GREAT FOOTBALL FAN AND MAN UTD FAN…but i wuld still love to see my country or any club in mauritius to perform well in african competitions…i think Mauritoan football needs international expertise. they need to advance their level of football. i thk its a must to have a “DTN” from abroad. Morever there is a young maurtian..Toshan gunness playing for Toronto Croatian in Canada. Still 17yrs old. WE NEED OUR MAURITIAN PLAYER S T PLAY IN HIGHER LEVEL…ABROAD IN ORDER TO LEVEL UP OUR NATIONAL TEEM FOOTBALL…z local players will do z same….
March 30th, 2008 at 11:15
Thanks for your input, Poborsky-Mauricien.
April 28th, 2008 at 09:39
Dear Baba and Poborsky-Mauricien,
A journalist from South Africa has come across this blog entry and would like to write an article on Mauritians having previously played in that country.
As you two seem very knowledgeable about football in Mauritius, he would like to exchange some emails with you.
Can you please contact me at avinash AT noulakaz DOT net and I’ll forward your respective emails to him (if you are keen of course…)
May 17th, 2008 at 13:44
I there!
I have just come across about this blog couse I was surching for mauritians football league, but sorry AVINASH! we Tanzanian we are planning to be the number one in group as we are expecting to beat cameroon here in Dar es Salaam(a city with 4 million people) in our national stadium with capacity of 60,000 definately we’ll beat both Mauritians and Cape verde home and away.
‘am a Tanzaniional by a citizen and am expecting to come in your country letter this year for my MSc in ICT thats why am so interested in mauritians football course am number one fun in this game.
May 18th, 2008 at 08:42
Hi Kenneth,
May the best team win
May 26th, 2008 at 12:47
I just wanna updet you abt a Tanzanian national team “TAIFA STARS”, yeasterday we draw with Malawi 1-1, and abt two weeks a go we won from Kenya and Uganda both by 3-1 so we only left Sudan team before we move on to the new African competition “CHAN” in Ivory Cost, hope next weekend we gonna win against ya’r Country its a matter ov time, I promis ‘am going to update u soon
May 27th, 2008 at 13:36
hey guys..wats up…. hey Mlelwa Kenneth……….i know tanzanian are gona be tough opponent for Mauritius…Club M has really young players..i must say..very fragile players…but i have seen dat zey got a bit of talent….though zey may nt be good physically against z big tanzanians. I have seen in their recent matches dat mauritian side is developing good passing movement, a good teamwork in z midfield but z defence and attack is wat lacks to them. if we could get a clinical striker up front supported by a rooney-type player….zen maybe we can beat tanzania by a minimum of……..3 zero….hehe
June 1st, 2008 at 13:37
congratulations! nice game with Tanzania, victory was very close but still draw on their ground is very good result!
this is article that I wrote with your help, thanks again!
http://www.afryka.org/?showNewsPlus=2683
cheers!
June 1st, 2008 at 16:48
Thanks for the link Piotr. Unfortunately I couldn’t understand a word
The next match against Cameroon will be something else altogether.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:32
Kabir Jeetoo is currently playing for Protec Footabll academy. He also featured in Skysports Soccer AM Skool Skills.
June 4th, 2008 at 21:30
hey khaleed…hmm…a mauritian….how u knw him man? he is playing in which postion? Is he good? a talent? maybe u can get a video for him…? wat say?
June 6th, 2008 at 16:11
Hi there
The only thing I can say to, is Congratulation & Mauritian has a verry good goalkeper the ball possesion was 84 to Tanzanian with not less than 15 corners
June 20th, 2008 at 14:32
fao Poborsky-Mauricien. He is my cousin. I really do have high hope for him. here is the link for when he was on skysports. His parents are Mauritian. here is the link: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1126121770?bctid=1390018930