 Welcome back to the breakfast on plus TV Africa final conversation this morning goes to sports our sports Correspondent presenter and superstar Wale Scott is with us in the studio this morning now We're gonna be talking about Afghan pretty embass in moments Everyone must have seen in the last few days where a referee ended the game at 85th minute Kept it going and then called it off at the 89th minute And of course that has shed very very poor standards across the world with people criticizing Officiating in afghan and criticizing the whole tournament saying that it is poorly rated Well, it's got to born once again. Thanks for joining us. Thank you So the people have a right and for everybody who analysts across the world in different parts of the world Do they have a right to? Describe afghan in the in the light that day in the way that they have in the last few days Well, Liverpool coach club was miscoasted at the point saying them afghan was a small competition He's come out to say that's not what I said, or I didn't mean it that way, you know and They're beginning to give them give people the impression that it is a small competition First off you take the afghan to Cameroon where there's a major major conflict there the Anglophone people in Cameroon wants a young republic called ambazonia and they are fighting in some parts of the hand You actually take a match to limbae limbae is the thick of the ambazonian war and Group F or E is there when playing there and we heard they were shooting Around the place yesterday, but nobody was injured. The training was not been disrupted. Tunisia was training then It wasn't disrupted and let's look at the officiating again now. How can you stop a match twice? Before 90 minutes in the middle of when you stop to the first time and it's a quantum Give a player a red card and the calf guy say listen. We've looked into the case. He's done nothing wrong It's all right. He made a mistake. His watch was wrong. How do you give excuses like this? Nigeria against Egypt one of the biggest Matchups in that tournament the whole world was watching them at because of most seller and the stars that we have in the super egos There were three major stars in the Egyptian team El Nene of Arsenal I'm treasure gay and of course most seller and in our team. We've got fantastic stars to list as it is In a chore will Fred in DD or line or open English Premier League everybody was watching a match the ball leaked three times in that game We changed the ball three times. It was leaking. It was the fourth ball. We used to the end of the game It was leaking Was leaking Nigeria against Egypt much. I'm sure everybody watched the match. We want to say what I'm saying the ball was replaced three times New ball that was brought into the pitch So if you guys want to narrow it down to poor officiating, let's look at the organization in general at this point It's been a shame on Africa. This is the worst Afghan I have witnessed in my life Let me also jump in and and and you know say people would also argue that these things happen across the world You know in different leagues across the world different competitions They have similar challenges here and there and so these ones, you know that have been pointed out in Africa Should we necessarily describe, you know, the picture of African football and an African continent of If you are in front of if you are in front of an arrogance violence East German or arrogant man, you would have slapped just not already really because you only bring diplomatic How many thankfully a match side when I say fan, how many man you matches have you watched in your entire life that the ball leaked How many matches have you watched in major tournaments like the Afghan that the ball leaked or that they Not one, not two. Now three balls leaked Now a referee wakes up from whatever and then he wakes up and says okay good I want to end this match at the 83rd minutes instead of 90 minutes plus some minutes and then he Restarts the match again. That's ended before and it's a referee's decision is final Yeah, he restarts the match all over again and then gives a player a red card for telling him is not time yet He gets a record for that and then he stops the match again at the 87th minute for 90 minutes And then we take the matter to cut the the team takes the matter to cut for anything and our calf organization Proudly Tell the world that listen. He had heat stroke. He had some stroke. This is the man who lives in Africa He doesn't live abroad. He had heat stroke. And that's why I was making wrong decisions That's their reason He had heat stroke Sun stroke. That's why he was making wrong decisions. So but what's the rule of engagement because in all of this We know that you have cav as the governing body, you know, but what what are the rules of engagement? Does there any provision to address all of these issues? What are the expectations? What should we expect now and what's comparing that with the standard? What's the way forward what you would have expected at this point was this guy should have been suspended by now Yes suspended for a while and then get a hearing done He will come for the hearing and explain what went wrong So if it was heat stroke, he would tell them and then he would tell him that's not an excuse You're a professional. How can you tell me you were heat stroke? You live in Africa Your weather or your country and Cameroon is not too different. What kind of heat stroke is that? You don't live abroad even the players who live abroad who actually ply their trades abroad the most sellers of this world and all that I'm not complaining of history but he also didn't even seem like he was having challenges with his health exactly during the game Exactly all the time that they used, you know, while the Coach the coaches and you know, the other team members got on the pitch all that argument took another bit He wasn't listening to them. I'm saying he took another 10 15 minutes and he was still standing there. He still looked very fit the while he was being guarded by Security personnel on the pitch and so it that doesn't even make it We know a lot of sense, but the guys in charge say well, they are convinced they did have heat stroke I mean, but even the argument concerning his watch, you know, couldn't some of all those things be something out? Those are just excuses The whole thing that's why I said that narrowing it down to just poor Officiating does not do justice to this discussion. Let's go. Let's look at the whole Organization it's all it was wrong from the beginning I knew things were going to go wrong when Nigeria's match against Egypt And then if first ball leaked they changed it second one leaked the change and something was going to go wrong here And it's I go wrong from Nigeria Egypt match Something is always wrong somewhere and then the ice on the cake is the violence yesterday No, so what does the you know calf say about violence and then no laws and then rules of engagement Well, well this violence has always been there in Cameroon all this while but the Amazonian So they knew about it for the actually took the the Afghan itself to Cameroon So what can you do about it calf can only order you to okay good You can organize this event will come a few days to the event or a few months with events and look at the Facilities you have and all that they can only check facilities. They cannot Forsee that the ball will leak. They can't see all those things No, you can only just check facilities that you have do you have your balls in Chartert? All right, yes, you know security at the stadia school for the competition as all calf can do Can't forsee balls licking can't forsee referees Bad officiating. We'll see all that but I did not supposed to have like, you know, you where you have a dress rehearsal You're supposed to have like a pre, you know Final checks and show that all of these things actually happen not necessarily that particular And this is on one hand now I'm talking about, you know the behavior the action where a game will stop at a particular time and All of those excesses When you say dress rehearsal that confuses me because really the referee should know his job Can't forsee this referee doing this in this match. No can't forsee balls licking Because they're supposed to be I'm talking about a case where, you know, referee adds out of hand I'm saying what does the governing? This referee didn't act out of hand is insane He stopped the match twice before they did but that's a regulatory time World's regulatory time of football is 90 minutes and that's okay four minutes three minutes five minutes extra He stopped the match twice before 90 minutes. It's insane. I don't know if anybody's in CAFU is actually watching and saying What is this guy doing? It's not normal. I think these things are abnormal. It's like a player on the field of play stripping naked Everybody's like, what is he doing? That's how everybody feels like when this guy was what is this guy doing? Can't forsee this abnormality is not normal. Is there any way that you know the the image of afghan can be salvaged Before the end of this tournament, you know, are we gonna hope that you know, it runs smoothly until the end And so these two You know incidents do not paint a picture of what afghan is already. It's already printed already. Unfortunately People have always Coaches abroad who have their players here Complained about afghan And then coaches like patrick veera Club himself all came out and say we can't stop these guys from going to play for their countries If the afghan is what they're not saying praising the competition, but they're all Related but i'm sure they are all in their rooms down there with a glass of champagne Laughing at oh, I told this guy not to go, you know, because the truth is First of all, there was violence in that country. You still risked it and did it Violence erupted yesterday. This referee matter. Nigeria's ball issues too many things going wrong already in the competition and don't forget The violent thing before the competition the guys who want ambazonia the Terrorists or whatever you want to call it the gunmen have said we will attack So the question is why they still risk the game there in the first place. So the officiating is not even It's not even it's taking back. It's taking back seats right now Now we are scared of the lives of the players who are there whether it's in group a group b group Whether you're in limbae, you're in garua, you're in duwala Wherever you are there. We announce your own day. We're not scared because these guys actually Threatened to actually cause violence and it started yesterday and that's scary That's scary for our players and other african players who are there And we know some clubs who have come out of this morning to say listen We fear for the safety of our players who are in kameru right now. We might call them back So today tomorrow we might be seeing some clubs insisting Or taking private jets to kameru to bring their players back home. All right quickly before we go I find a question you can just quickly share your thoughts on the superheroes Um, how far, you know, because uh, you of course had a lot of praise for austin de guavoine So i'm guessing you're still very excited about his capabilities and You know, do we still have a strong chance of winning afghan? Yes, first of all, he said that he was going to go back to wink play Which is what we know that new nigeria team for usa 94 one of the best ever And I can boastfully say that this is one of the best ever Super egos squad that we've had in a long time I've not seen the super egos play that well against egypt in a long time And of course it was up to wink play was his simon and the rest of them from the wings And it didn't really happen. And if there's any super egos who have the capabilities of actually winning the nation's cup In the nearest future, it will be this team. They are playing very well. And like I said on the show yesterday I said, um, um, who needs persero when we have cerezo, which is a gavons nickname You know, I didn't know why they bought the persero because i'm gonna rob us with us for he's been the He's stayed longest with super egos 47 months precisely. He didn't win the nation's cup So i'm i'm steven keshi was brought in miso rest in peace And rest than a month to the competition. He won the nation's cup Now we've got adeguavoin who was giving us it seemed that that that is playing like the super egos that we used to know These egos are really super under him with the first match that we watched And there were actually pitching them for the for the afghan nation's cup trophy now So I think we just stay with the guavoin. These egos can make it happen. Yeah, and yes All right. Well, let's go. 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