If Ghardimaou football club’s players had been there to take to the pitch last week, the Tunisian town’s stadium would have been packed with fans, many of them children, waving the teams’s blue and white colours. The club, which plays in the fourth division of the national league, was due to face the third-placed El Battan. It would not have been an easy game but Ghardimaou FC’s president, Jamil Meftahi, believes his players could have won.
The match did not take place. The club has all but ceased to exist after more than 30 of its players left the country, trying, like thousands of their compatriots, to reach Europe.
