Ugandan journalist Charles Onyango-Obbo, also in attendance at FIFA, shared an Igbo proverb popularised by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe which says:
Oníròyìn ọmọ Uganda Charles Onyango-Obbo, tí òun náà wà ní FIFA, mẹ́nu ba òwe Igbo tí gbajúgbajà òǹkọ̀wée nì Chinua Achebe mú di mímọ́ tí ó sọ wípé: