 только planes When you have this interchange line and the fandzone with Travis Wajaki and just maybe before as we kasked at the end, and let's finish with the Afghan and let's look at teams that really did good team players that good gave a good account of themselves to this particular champership and maybe without ne flohe wadding around so much, Enaji, passion, drive, and they were not alone, Okina Faso, Angola, Mali, who have also made it to the semifinals and then now playing the third, fourth place playoff. This sides, including Mauritania, don't forget, made their first round of 16 ever. These are sides who have made this tournament become what it became because they made it the underdogs tournament. It's their performances that changed the narrative. People were talking of the big stars, Senegal, Sadio Mane, Kamerun, Ish, but Senegal a lot, Morocco. After the 2022 Al Cap, when they got all the way to the semifinal, I'll admit, I was banking on Morocco to win this shock of my life, my guy. This new teams, small teams, quote-unquote, they came and stole the show. Wunyo of Mabululu of Angola before this tournament. Look at... Gelsondala. Gelsondala, his teammate. Gold scoring machines. Enaji. And they are captain too, Freddy? Yes, and then look at the coaches that coached these teams full of energy as well. Ah, they've really taken football to the next level. If it carries on this way, and the next Afqon is not fights next year. In Morocco. In Morocco, and the dates are yet to be released. They better release the dates that we won. It could be January to February, or it could be June to July. Either way it's not fights next year. Ah, these guys should be still going strong. I crossed my fingers for them. And we can see this Africa Cup of Nations being a stepping stone to the next one, where now those so-called small teams come and actually seal the fate of the so-called big names. Those big names have very little time to prepare themselves. I'm talking Egypt, Ghana, Senegal, Morocco, Cameroon, they need to fix themselves. Otherwise they'll become names of the past. Yes, indeed. And of course looking at Cameroon and one thing of course that stands out is how, I think they've not treated Onana well. Onana needs support, you know? Is it Onana who didn't treat them well or they did not treat Onana well? I think they've not treated Onana well. There's no way one person can just treat the whole country well. The country has to treat him well. I think they need to, because he's a young man, and for him making a decision to remain at the club, come to the Africa. That's big already. He has the intention. No, no, no. He already has the intention to come and play for the country. Now you're calling yourself Panafrika. And you're saying this guy came in four hours. Wait, wait, wait. This is my point. Onana needs support. For instance, at the club level, the coach tells him it's okay for you to go. Just go and perform. The coach did not tell him you can't go, or if you go, you lose your place. No, just go and all the best. And that's what I'm thinking. But look at the national team. He's given a game, the next game. I think he needs just someone to hold his hand and give him the belief that he can do it, especially at the national level. They really need to be above everything and just hold his hand. I mean he belongs to that country but he's shown the intention to play for the country. Kamerun has a team who are not well organized. They're quite confused. Since the talk came in, I think he's overbearing. He should forget the days when he was a player. He's now a president of the local federation. When you appoint someone, and he made the wrong appointment, he appointed his friend and former captain and a good friend is there as a sister. And then, the song was not qualified for this task. That's a fact of life. He gave him this job but he still comes in and you can see him all the time. All the time you can't distinguish between the coach and the president of the federation. You feel as though he's even got his hand in the selection of the team. That's the impression one gets either rightly or only. He should have just stepped back. He made a mistake not choosing the best coach but now stepped back. Kamerun, if you watched their game against Nigeria, they didn't turn up at all. In fact, that was one of the worst performances of this whole tournament, if not the worst. They just didn't turn up. They were walking on that pitch. You can see they are not together. They are a divided house that needs to be put in order. Time is against them. The next Afghan is next year. My friend, that's one Christmas away. There is no time. It said that he wanted to resign from the presidency and then he was told no, he was overruled by the board. But again, I think I'm thinking about like he's in power and nobody really likes to live power. And Grigobetsong contract expires in a few days time. Hopefully the lion finds itself and grows again. It shouldn't be renewed. I don't think that contract should be renewed. They should get a coach who can coach the team. And also maybe one thing about the underdogs that impressed this particular Afkonos that teams that have structure, they don't play around a certain player. We really saw that. And I think with that point we've seen when Nigeria was coming to this championship everybody was picking out some certain names. Like we're expecting to see that particular station but we've seen the team is not about him. The team is not about him. He's a lesser role but again they have their own structure. So teams around individuals, they really struggle. I get your point. Teams that have played like a team have done well. Like Kevad. Look at Bebe. We never knew of him. He's another Mabuloni. He came from nowhere. Teams that played like teams really did it well. But Nigeria I can't say they played a spectacular football. They're even boring to watch. But yes, there are teams whose key players didn't live up to expectations. And that's normally from this tournament in the big teams. Yes, and maybe Teras about the players that a few players that will count as we get towards the end of the show, a few players that will count more in the final for both Nigeria and Ivory Coast because they could begin with Ivory Coast I think Seri has been very key to them in the previous matches that you've seen since he's been coming to the centre of midfield role. He's really established the team. I think he'll be one of the key players that will be influential and crucial to MS5. Definitely. Oh yes. And who else would you like? The two Fofanas. The Fofanas who plays outfield and the Fofana goalkeeper. Seku and Yahya. The two Fofanas very key. And they need to test the Nigerian defence. You test that defence, you open it up. If you don't open it up, then you're in trouble. Nwabili, the Nigerian goalkeeper, fantastic. He's a key man, especially if they go all the way to penalties. Ekong will be very crucial. His leadership, his presence. He's got very high-pressured penalties in this party and provided that leadership. Oh yes. Then, obviously, Lukman and Simon have been quite outstanding for Nigeria. And Alex Iwobi, very key player. He's playing a more defensive role, which he's now familiar with because that's what he learned at Everton. Playing defensive football, he didn't shine with it at Everton because he was quite new to this role. He's an attacking player, naturally. Ball player. But now he's learnt this new art and he's blemished with it. Blemishing at Atlanta. At national team level. He's become a box-to-box player. Fantastic tournament he's had. Definitely, we look forward to an exciting final. I hope it's befitting of the kind of tournament that we have had. But before then, obviously, we have South Africa, Mali. Yes, we have South Africa again as DRs. DR Congo. In the play-offs. Third place play-off, yes. Tonight. Yes, the two teams. Oh, which reminds me, I said Mali got to the semi-final. Sorry, they got to the quarter-final. Of course, they were knocked out by Ivorikos. By Ivorikos, yes, you're right. Apologies for that. South Africa, DRC. Another beautiful tournament. You know DRC, our neighbors, father down the road. Yes, they even speak Swahili. Oh, in a big way. Yes. So they're really represented. Yes, that's in Yukabu for the eastern part of that border. And most of the East African neighbors. And they won the AFKON twice, 1968. It's been 50 years. As Congo Kinshasa then. They were known as Congo Kinshasa. Yes. Remember, it's also Congo Brasovil. Yes. It's like another case of the Guineas. Guinebisao, equatorial Guine. Guine, Papua New Guinea. And of course, out of South Africa. And maybe about Guine. And they won in 1974. And why they are called Guines is that they were so much gold when the white man was dividing Africa in 1985. So the French decided to go with the Guine. Yes. And then of course the Portuguese left with Guinebisao. And then the equatorial Guine remained to the Spanish. So that's why, that's the difference. But anyway, we wish, so we'll be going for GRC to do well in their final, in the third place player of today. They have to fight it out. There's no free land to this tournament. Talk about the qualities. You know, we've seen some of the ACOs named the whole team now, I think after this tournament. You know, beginning in the goal with Enzaun Pasi. The man who wears the mouthguard. You know, I've never seen a gokeeper. Most of them opt to wear the masks and all that. But he's gone for the mouth, like a boxer. You should have started with their coach, Sebastian Desabre. Ya, the coach. And he came in just when the team was, you know, doldaring in the Kulipas. Remember, that's the guy who took Uganda to Afghan in 2019. And he took them to the round of 16. And they lost narrowly to eventual finalist Senegal. One nil. And they were playing beautiful football. You gave them a set piece. Say a free kick, they score against you. Corner kick, they score against you. The man is a coach and a half. So he's been tasked with taking GRC to the 2026. Kakuta, you know, he's struggled with fitness in this particular championship. Yes, oh yes. He's the playmaker. But remember, this tournament, there is at some point people thought I would cost a missing Zaha. It turns out, no. I would cost a missing everybody. Yes, yes, yes. But now they're not even talking of Zaha. Ya. Now they're not even talking of Zaha. Because as you rightly said a few minutes ago, this thing is teamwork. It's not about that individual who comes. Moving around a player, no. This thing is teamwork. Once Ivory Coast rediscovered themselves. They found themselves again. Costing, cost to cost. So that's what it is. GRC, complete package. But they met a team that's reborn and playing at home. Ya, and maybe picking up from their first matches that we did see in the beginning. Disabre had really, he had fire, you know, in depth on the bench. We did see their first game, you know, when the second half knocked in, we saw Akina Meshak earlier coming in, Sailor's coming in, then Fist on My Ele, really fast guys, but then the second game because they had impressed from the bench, the second game they were given the starting role. So really this has eaten into their firepower and we've seen, but the revelations I think from that particular team is the, you know, Fist on My Ele is being, the Thio Bogondas and it's a promising side with quality players who all deserve to be on the pedestal. Hopefully they can get bronze in this particular championship. You know what really does it for me, now that you've mentioned all those players, how they were brought in and stuff, is the fact that since COVID, you're now allowed to make five substitutions from the previous three before you could only make that, that's tight. But now with five, you're seeing Desabri for example, whom you've just mentioned, he's good at making double substitutions. So you bring in two players all at once and he's not the only coach that has been doing that. And that's another key factor and people haven't noticed that has contributed immensely in those last minute goals. Changing the pace of the game because you can make two substitutions all at once, you relax, you bring in one player and then you bring two more. Shua last minute, fresh legs, fresh energy, new perspective goals. Yeah, we saw that with Ivory Coast in the semifinal game with that Dingraz and the Akites coming in just in the last minute and scoring in a hundred and twenty second. Yeah, absolutely. And then the next thing we saw was Mali coach quoting and crying Eric Shelley and water being poured on his head. That was one of the most touching that's the most touching moment for me in this tournament. Memorable picture from that particular. He didn't deserve that kind of end. That's one coach who gave this tournament everything. One of the best coaches for such an end to suffice for the kind of tournament he's had that was a bitter pill to swallow. But that's like that's football. South Africa, they really did give anybody else a run for their money in the semifinal for the first time in twenty plus years. South Africa and Nigeria, the two most defensive side in this tournament. A tournament that has been built on attacking, attacking, attacking, attacking football. But these two sides changed the narrative. You didn't think defensive football would take you this far in this tournament, but it did with them in Nigeria. And their game with Nigeria was always going to be tight because these are two tight sides. South Africa started coming out after they considered that goal to Nigeria. That's when they started playing attacking football. Otherwise they were sitting back as well as Nigeria. So it's no surprise that their game went to penalty shootout because these are two defensive sides. What to expect, one-one at full time penalty shootout decider. Hugo Bruz could not become the second coach to win a different title with the second title. But he really did assemble a great squad. He's really given us a nice perspective meaning Africa. He should stay on the president of the South African football association. He's given his full support. They've done brilliant. They're first Afqon that they almost won since 1996. 1996 they hosted it. That was their debut as well, if you remember. Because South Africa had been expelled from international sports because of their apartheid era. They came in and won on their debut. That was brilliant. The Madiba Magic 1998. Yeah, they were in the final. So a good account for them. And South African football has been lying low on the international scene. Getting a lot of stoning from all of us including yours truly here. Now they've kept us quiet a bit. Because this was a country that was on the upward trend. Winning Afqon, qualifying for World Cup regularly. And then they sort of disappeared. And then we're wondering, hi, how is this possible? The way they are league has a lot of money pumped into it. And now here they are. Kudos to them. They've given us a good tournament. When they've played, aside from the defensive football, they've played attacking football, they've been a joy to watch. Of course. Some of the revelations from the South African scored include the Masandawa and Agulkepa. They run with Williams. Definitely he deserves to win that play of the tournament award. Saving four penalties in one match has never been done before in the history of this championship. And also it has proved that the home leagues can produce continental beats. Just like Kenya used to do in 80s or 92s. Majority of the players went to that particular when Kenya went to three. Three feet Africa Cup of Nations they are all from Gormahi and FC Leipzig. So nothing can be impossible. But that's how we end it. Remember that the Afqon 2023 minutes this weekend. Today it will be the third place playoff between DR Congo. That's the Leipzig again as a Bafana Bafana. Two-time winners of course, STA 74, while South Africa did it in 1996. But they'll be meeting in the third place playoff later on today. And of course tomorrow is the final. That's ivory host against the Nigerians. Nigerians going for their fourth title while of course ivory host. They will be going for their first title since 2015 which will be the third one if they get it all the same. That's how we end it on the touch on this lovely afternoon in Banado Kumu. Thank you so much Tyras. Thank you so much. For making your time. You forgot to tell them Channel 1 you will show the final level. And even tonight, third and fourth place playoff. It's been a farm fair all over so don't miss out. Just Tyras did fill in the gaps here. So watch out on Channel 1 because the action continues this particular weekend. That's when the final will be held tomorrow. But from me, thank you so much and a great weekend.