Ugandan journalist Charles Onyango-Obbo, also in attendance at FIFA, shared an Igbo proverb popularised by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe which says: 
Mwandishi wa habari kutoka nchini Uganda Charles Onyango-Obbo, alikua miongoni mwa waliohudhuria mhadhara huo wa FIFA, akiwaambia wengine methali maarufu inayojulikana kwa asili ya Igbo iliyokuzwa umaarufu na mwandishi mmoja wa Nigeria Chinua Achebe isemayo: