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According to this http://redcoates.net/63Beds/?p=529 a story about a great lao boy football team coach, Mr. Manophet

Other news about his football team after Gothia Cup 2010:
http://www.euroinvestor.fr/news/story.aspx?id=11193755
http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/tag/gothia/ 

In Memoriam – Manophet

Photo ©2010/Jerry Redfern

Manophet, helping me test a light setup three weeks ago in Xieng Khouang, Laos.

We have just arrived in our usual hotel in Bangkok, only to find that the neighborhood around where we stay is closed off due to the continuing unrest. It seems a soon-to-be-former Thai general of dubious merit got picked off just around the corner last night, re-igniting all manner of unhappiness.

While the world focuses on this violent Thai soap opera, a person of actual merit and decency died, across the Mekong in Laos. Manophet died suddenly and unexpectedly of an apparent blood clot in the brain a few days ago. We just received word from a mutual friend. Manophet was the key to much of our UXO reporting and interviews in and around Phonsavanh and the Plain of Jars over the last five years. He knew everyone, he knew all the history, and he knew every nook and cranny of Xieng Khouang. Just three weeks ago he took us to meet a Lao guy who claims (plausibly, if however unlikely) to have defused 10,000 bombs by hand. The photo above shows Manophet lounging among the bomb defuser’s personal front-yard collection.

Manophet also taught English to hundreds of kids in Phonsavanh over the years, giving over his house to the enterprise.

Photo ©2010/Jerry Redfern

Manophet in front of his most recent evening class, in his home's living room.

And regularly through the years, he also worked for the various UXO removal groups that had (or still have) projects in Xieng Khouang.

But if you were to ask him what he was most proud of, he would have said his football (soccer) teams. For years he has trained and fielded boys soccer teams that have been the best in the country. He learned all of his coaching technique from watching European league matches on satellite TV in the middle of the night. And this July he was to lead his U-18 team to Sweden on an all-expenses-paid trip to an international youth soccer tournament. He was giddy about this when we last saw him. This trip also meant he finally got a passport from the Lao government, something they had denied him for years.

Goodbye, Manophet. You will be sorely, sorely missed by so many.



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I believe each Lao citizen has the right to travel.

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In memory of Manophet for his outstanding effort and contribution.

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May God compensates what you've done to lao communities and to laos as a whole, Manophet, and peace to your soul !
Sayonara !

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 that's too abvious , as you know communist doesn't like educated people , (they) like all Lao people be dumb , so..., easy for them to brainwash . 



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Anonymous wrote:

 that's too abvious , as you know communist doesn't like educated people , (they) like all Lao people be dumb , so..., easy for them to brainwash . 




if Laos gov not like people get educarion why we send student to go study abroad thousands a year? wake up my friend

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rest in peace

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Kate wrote:

rest in peace



why did he die?  this article was uncleardisbelief anyway. Rest in peace..



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Anonymous wrote:
the dumb people is you, may be you are blind  or deaf. or just    say from  your anger

 

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that's too abvious , as you know communist doesn't like educated people , (they) like all Lao people be dumb , so..., easy for them to brainwash .



 


if Laos gov not like people get educarion why we send student to go study abroad thousands a year? wake up my friend

 



 



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There's got to be more stories than that. It's hard to criticize people or government without knowing the truth. We all have our own little problems.
May peace be with him. The world needs more people like that.

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KAONIAW wrote:

There's got to be more stories than that. It's hard to criticize people or government without knowing the truth. We all have our own little problems.
May peace be with him. The world needs more people like that.



糯米！



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“Sometimes I feel I should leave this country. I don’t want to see any more problem. I want to be quiet. I want to be free like the other people it would be easier. In the other end, when I mention it to my students I stop teaching from tomorrow, many in the back row start to cry. ‘Teacher if you stop where will we study?’ Well, anywhere you can find, you know for you. ‘No, we can’t without you, we can’t. Please don’t.’ It’s very difficult.”
http://www.b-vong.com/journal/?p=3917
If Mr. Manophet said that, that's a reason that Laos government not allow him to get passport. If it's true, Laos will not be the Land of Freedom no more.

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When I was a little boy, I had many problems with my poor family, with my schoolmates, with my study and my teachers, I thought and imagined : I wanted to be an eagle, I would fly high to leave those problems there and fleeing far away, have a freedom to do any thing I'd liked to do and fly to where ever I need with no boundary ...making a net on the top of mountain where no one can reach and far away from all troubles and all the complicated homeworks ...and horrible cursing words from my teachers...fancy idea ...in my schoolday teachers sometimes were rude and very strict, only few students can achieve their study but those who were successful were simply good and very smart.

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may be he step out of bound from gov's policies  ?  cuba and north korea those country not allow it's people go out .

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may be he step out of bound from gov's policies  ?  cuba and north korea those country not allow it's people go out .




I disagree if Laos government will follow Kim Jong Il 's foot step.

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Oh my friends, we just are not in position to dictate to lao government to do this or not do that, its leaders are sightseeing, don't forget that !

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chiip wrote:

Oh my friends, we just are not in position to dictate to lao government to do this or not do that, its leaders are sightseeing, don't forget that !




If people voted for leader, leader should listen to people and work for people.

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KAONIAW wrote:

There's got to be more stories than that. It's hard to criticize people or government without knowing the truth. We all have our own little problems.
May peace be with him. The world needs more people like that.



糯米！


是的，这就是我出生和成长。我不能让我的糯米不够.

 



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Anonymous wrote:

 

Anonymous wrote:

 

KAONIAW wrote:

There's got to be more stories than that. It's hard to criticize people or government without knowing the truth. We all have our own little problems.
May peace be with him. The world needs more people like that.



糯米！


是的，这就是我出生和成长。我不能让我的糯米不够.

 

兄弟，看你的中文那么好，应该在中国多年了吧？有空喝茶。


 



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