Lokacin da Haiti suka fara yakin neman tikitin shiga Kofin Duniya 2026, kusan mutum 100 ne kawai suka kasance a filin. An buga wasan "gida" da St Lucia a Barbados, kusan kilomita 1,600 daga Port-au-Prince, a gaban masu kallo 88 kawai. Haiti suka juya hasara su lashe da 2-1, ba tare da wani alamar abin da ke jiran su ba.

Wannan lokacin rani, Grenadiers za su shiga tarihi a matsayin kasa ta farko a Karibiyan da ta bayyana a Kofin Duniya a karo na biyu. Za su yi wasa da Scotland a marhalar rukuni, kuma har masu kallo 65,000 na iya kasancewa — bambanci mai ban mamaki idan aka kwatanta da mutum 88 a Barbados.

Al'umma da bala'i ya ta tsara

Haiti, da yawan jama'a miliyan 11.4, ita ce kasa mafi yawan mutane a Karibiyan kuma tsohuwar yankin Faransa. Sun kai Kofin Duniya karo na farko a 1974, inda suka ci gaba da bude maki a kan Italy — suna kawo karshen jerin rikodin mintuna 1,142 na Dino Zoff ba tare da ci ba — kafin su sha kashi 3-1, sannan aka doke su 7-0 da Poland da 4-1 da Argentina.

Shekarun da suka biyo baya sun kasance masu tsanani. Haiti, kasa da aka san ta da talauci tun da dadewa, ta sha wahalar yunƙurin juyin mulki guda bakwai — hudu daga cikinsu sun yi nasara — da girgizar kasa mai barna a shekara ta 2010 wadda ta kashe mutane har 300,000 tare da barin fiye da miliyan 1.5 ba gida. An mayar da Stade Sylvio Cator, fagen wasan tawagar kasa, zuwa wurin agaji, inda mutanen da suka rasa muhallinsu suka zauna a cikin tanti a fagen wasan. Lionel Messi ya ziyarci don bayyana haɗin kai a matsayinsa na jakadan UNICEF.

An kore su daga filinsu

Haiti ta kai zagaye na karshe kafin na karshe na kwalifikeshin Kofin Duniya 2022, amma nasarar Canada a Port-au-Prince a watan Yunin 2021 ta zama wasan karshe na kasa da kasa da aka buga a kan ƙasar Haiti. Makonni kadan bayan haka, kisankilar shugaban ƙasa Jovenel Moïse ta dawo da ƙasar cikin rudani.

Tun daga lokacin, Haiti ba ta da shugaban ƙasa na dindindin. Ƙungiyoyin ta'addanci suna sarrafa kimanin kashi 85 cikin ɗari na babban birnin ƙasar, ciki har da Stade Sylvio Cator. Aƙalla miliyan 1.3 na mutane an raba su da muhallinsu, kuma Amurka ta hana duk jirgin sama zuwa ƙasar bayan jiragen sama sun sha harbe-harbe.

Da Dominican Republic ta hana ƙwararrun Haiti shiga ƙasar bayan haka, kuma Amurka ta dakatar da biza ga ƴan ƙasar Haiti, sai tawagar ƙasa ta kasa wani zabin sai ta yawo. Sun bude kwalifikeshin 2026 a Barbados, suka sha kashi 5-1 da Curacao a wasan "gida" da aka buga a Aruba, sannan suka buga wasannin ƙarshe a Willemstad, babban birnin Curacao. Da suka shiga ƙungiya ɗaya da ƙasashe da suka saba Kofin Duniya kamar Costa Rica da Honduras, Haiti sun zarce tsammani — suka yi nasara a jere akan Costa Rica da Nicaragua a gaban masu kallo 1,500 kawai don tabbatar da matsayinsu a gasar.

Kocin da bai taɓa ziyarci ƙasar ba

Kocin Faransa Sebastien Migne, wanda ya karɓi ragamar mulki a 2024, bai taɓa ziyarci Haiti ba. "Ba zai yiwu ba — yana da haɗari sosai," ya ce. A lokacin ƙuruciyarsa, Migne ya yi zamani tare da Boreham Wood da Leyton Orient a Ingila. A yau, yana dogara da bayanan da ƙungiyar kwallon ƙafa ta bayar don bin diddigin 'yan wasa da ke cikin ƙasar.

Tawagar tana nuna zauraron Haiti. Rabin 'yan wasan sun girma a Haiti amma suna wasa a waje, yayin da wasu an haife su a Faransa, Amurka, da Canada. Cikinsu akwai Don Deedson Louicius, wanda kambunsa ya bude hanyar nasara a kan Nicaragua. Louicius yana da shekaru 8 kawai lokacin da girgizar kasa ta 2010 ta rutsa da Port-au-Prince, yana tsira daga ɗaya daga cikin mafi muni na bala'o'in halitta a yammacin duniya.

Daga masu kallo 88 a Barbados zuwa mataki na Kofin Duniya — tafarkin Haiti zuwa gasar 2026 shaida ce ta al'ummar da ta sha wahala marar misaltuwa kuma ta ki daina yin mafarki.