 Wregote 2-5-4 na wregote 3-5-4 taputi kawani wgatawe kwa круai byfaladoko wwe naniwe kwa uwa pajentamon naniwe, uwa azzute ya na wregote kwa wengo, wregote hakua kwa wengu, kyu na kabhi managed pema. Kwa guzutia kila wajama kwa wengu, upadisha kwa uwagatia ni 100. Kwa use wwaku mkha iwa iwagate hana. If you appreciate the game, you will understand the situation we are in. But enjoy the beautiful game. Wow, big one there. La Liga is also resuming after three months. It will actually be on our screens from today in Syria. We have started with Coppa Italia, which you have mentioned earlier, the Juventas making on to the final. They are waiting today between Napoli and Inter Milan. That game will actually be a 10 today. We are going to pass that one. The EPL will be back next, starting the 17th, and all through to that weekend, the English Premier League will be back. The Bundesliga, their fourth weekend since the resumption, and they are still happening with it. But before we go deep into discussing everything that is happening in the world of sports at the moment, we have got to discuss something that even the sports people now come out to support. And that is Black Lives Matter. One of the biggest sports stars of this generation, British and World Boxing Federation champion Anthony Joshua actually came out and said that racism is a virus and it shall be declared a pandemic. Big statement from Anthony Joshua there. Yes, it is. I mean, we have been under this cloud of racism and injustices against different races for a while now, not only in the political satire, but also in the sports satire. And now it's high time that sports men and women talk about it. I remember a better part of last season and also the beginning of this season, Rahim Stalin was really attacked on speaking up his mind. We had also the likes of Daniel Starridge speaking up their mind, especially with the racism that has been happening to him outside England. So is it a pandemic? Yes. Is it something that can be controlled? Yes. Is it that ignorance prevails? I believe so. But if we undertake the necessary measures and make sure that racism, whether it's against African-Americans, whether it's against Caucasians, whether it's against the Asians, whether it's against the Arabs, all that put together there should not be discrimination of race. Actually, this one started with the apparent death of George Floyd who was killed in Minneapolis by a police officer who was kneeling on his neck and it came out to say that he chocked actually to death because he could not breathe and demonstrations were happening all over the world talking about police brutality. But Markson, one of the things that have now come out of this is how people are reacting to it, how organizations are reacting to it. The English Premier League has come out to support the National Football League in the United States saying that we are not going to discriminate players, we are going to kneel down during the national anthems due to the protests of police brutality. The NFL also came out and said that we are going to support the players, we are going to kneel down. Waking up this morning, the EPL also said that now all the jersey numbers and names will be printed in black and with black ambands to show that racism is not wanted. Those are some of the measures that are coming out of this organization. In due time, do you think it will work out? Definitely it will work out and I like the fact that sportsmen overseas are standing up and declaring their stand on injustices happening like racism and that controversial killing of George Floyd. I think it is the same thing that Kenyan athletes also are supposed to follow suit and emulate on what sportsmen are doing at the international scene because we understand sportsmen are public figures, they are celebrity personalities, they draw huge following, fanatical following and they enjoy a lot of support. So when they declare a stand, I think definitely it will be replicated at the lower level. We have seen the likes of Marcus Rashford even condemning the incident that happened and Michael Jordan even saying that he would start supporting an initiative that it will be a crusader for racism, for injustices, for yields and vices that are happening to try to suppress humanity. So I think it's a good move, fantastic initiative that's the way forward and how I wish that the local sportsmen, the likes of Victor Wanyama captain for the national team, the likes of Eluit Kipchoge, World Marathon Record Holder, Aman Wuren under two hours in the Indian challenge in Austria are supposed to declare their stand even locally. When something is happening and it's not going well with humanity, with Kenyan population, they should declare their stand and condemn it. And Joe, another one that came out now that will come out to talk about competency best and how you are supposed to perform was the England national team called Southgate and Rahim Starling came out and said that even the EPL should follow suit with having clubs should take an initiative of hiring black managers, something that we have not seen for a very long time. I think it was, I think Wulvampton who had a black manager after their coach had been fired and then we saw a black manager coming on to the fray. But we have not seen the EPL taking that concrete decision of hiring black managers. And performance aside, if the EPL or some clubs in the EPL do that will that make that major difference? Even that now, that person who is racist will realize that now this thing is going to be done and I like it, I don't. Yes, first of all it creates that equality that a black manager with his competence can still manage top tier teams in the premier league, in the EFL, in the league one, in league two across all platforms and all leagues in England. That's one, it creates that equality. Secondly, it creates diversity in terms of tactic, in terms of awareness of the game, in terms of how this manager is going to manage differently from another manager. And we have seen that across the board. In a season whereby it was Alex Fargason, it was Wang. Then K. Mourinho, Benitez. Then again now came Pochettino and Yogan Klopp. So I don't see anything wrong with having a black manager if they've gone through the right UFA badges, caught in their coaching skills right and getting a chance to actually coach. Now the risk factor that some of these teams will think will be on the commercial side but it's on the commercial side. Komashili, they would believe, they would articulate in their mind that black manager is not good for the team. It's good as an assistant manager, it's good as a first team coach, but they're not seeing it there. Look at the likes of Vieira, Clarence Fidofu managed AC Milan. Vieira in the United States. Look at now, Cloud McKellele has gone back to Chelsea but now under coaching, yet he has credentials to be a manager in terms of these badges. So it's giving these personalities a bigger platform to show that you know what, not only are we competent, we can be equal to our peers. And that's something that Rahim Staling has been pushing for. Big conversations there when it comes to sports and racism and where we stand as sportsmen and say that this is enough and this is what we are going to do. So some of those changes are a Black Lives Matter badge will be featuring in all the playing shots of the EPL for the rest of the season and also there will be a badge also thanking the National Hospital staff in the UK who have been working tirelessly during this COVID-19 pandemic. It is the touch line here on Y254 and you are just joining us. It is a fund zone right now for the Y254. Joe Sayena is here with us today and my co-host Mark Zolozike is also here in the studio with us. So as we are going ahead to discuss everything that is happening in the world of sports, let's throw in the spanner because now FIFA is going to allow a transfer window to open in the current season considering that during... this is the time when we should be having some of the transfers, mid-transfer window but it's not happening because of the pandemic and everything but they are saying that because of the delayed season they will be going to be a lengthy transfer window. Good riddance for clubs? Yeah, if you look at it from those two points it's good riddance because first of all you get your players early enough into early season training get them into shape because again that break has been long. That's one, two. The readiness of the coming season dependant because here we have League resuming, Serie A, Bundesliga resuming. We still don't have something concrete about the other competitions Kopa Italia is going on the FA, for example the FA Cup we have the St. Justin's Cup which is happening in the lower leagues which still are not confirmed yet. And then we have the bigger ones the Europa Leagues, the Champions League. At some point we should have had Euro 2020 so imagine if you could have squeezed all those matches between now and theoretically before the end of August so that you can start a new season in September. So I think for managers right now it's important to get your key players early enough, get them into the training cup. And considering that if the transfer window is going to be opened what are some of the transfer interests out there that have really got your eye mark sir? Of course plenty of players teams are chasing after them. Teams seeking to bolster their scouts ahead of no resumption of normal sporting activities elite european leagues. I think one prominent man we have to mention is Jadon Sancho. A lot of teams are chasing after his acquisition he's currently at Dortmund but unsatisfied we've seen even the practitioner for the Borussia Dortmund not giving him a prominent role except that one he scored a heart trick but in previous three matches since Bundesliga resumed he was getting on the bench Like a destination for Sancho? Like a destination of course most likely man united. We've seen I mean the purchase power is there. The purchase power is there. We've seen because the interest in Jack Grilish, Biola Gunasolsa has diminished drastically and considering they play same position at 10 which means Sancho would be the main option is an English man is proved in another foreign league so I think he can really replicate the same at United in English Premier League. So Naim Maul so talking point with regards to is return to Barcelona but I think the likelihood the chances are also scanty. Osman Dembele has been on and off on the sidelines in Jack Grilish and is not very consistent so think plenty of players making the talking point Namda being thrown outside they are also unsufatu. The Barcelona Wanda kid being thrown into being linked to Manchester United Sancho also being linked to Manchester United. Upan Bikano from Leipzig the defender highly rated it. Do those transfers really look like they can materialize for Manchester United? I mean in the last two weeks we've been seeing this battle between Liverpool and Chelsea to Sainte Vawana and Chelsea got the latter bit of it and disclosed figure between 56 million to about 65 million pounds depending on the closers. So again if such a deal can be made and can be finalized I don't see why other major deals can be made. The likes of Sancho he not only links to Manchester United but also surprisingly Manchester City because there's an uncertainty with the Riyad Mahrez so they are looking And Sanya also looking for Bayern Sanya going to Bayern Munich so you're looking at sell one player replace them immediately if you look again at Liverpool they are looking to strengthen the defense something that people are really surprised with but they're having an aging defense lower end his legs are still not there you're looking at Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez if one of them gets hurt who's going to come in so Umpombano from Leipzig is also someone they are scouting so yes this deals can come through and like I said earlier if we can make sure that those players get into the camps early enough it can be better for these teams and the management. But you see the likes of Mino Raiola and George Mendes top football agents in the world they know very well how using the name Manchester United can spice up the link between the name and the transfer and spice up the interest from other clubs when a player united is chasing after because even chances that price tag will get hiked when a player is linked to united are very high so we've seen one united getting linked to everyone but at long last I think it's high time this Ed Woodward guy who is the chief executive for the club now stumps authority and being charged and goes for these players that are getting associated with you see Chelsea at no point we saw them getting interested in Tim Ovan it was live up all along but suddenly ultimately we saw Frank Lampard being is talking about to be a very good master mind in transfer ZH that stumps bridge now Tim Ovan and now they are chasing after Ben Chilwell from Leicester the left back seeking forward to strengthen their back line I think united now needs to stop this fact getting associated with these players but at long run they don't sign them Jack Grilish, James Maddison Jadon Sancho that's a very serious conversation we should be having with the people of marketing and branding because these are the people who know the link between the brand and the money if I am right getting what you are saying from these sports agents that's what they are doing the brand but in all this transfer and everything how come we are not getting serious news from the Arsenal camp well again I wouldn't want to take anything away from Arsenal funds right now and from the club itself where they were in the beginning of January Mika Leicester set us to buy two defenders and they got the two defenders a right back and a centre back and that was something that he believed that was lacking right now if you look at it from hindsight again the partnership the trio partnership Twin Pepe, Obama Yang and Lacazette that's something still they are working on although that is a powerful attacking so do you want to stabilize that first three do you want to change maybe the system maybe start with two upfront and one acting as a number 10 and then maybe go into the transfer market and get like two decent midfielder those are things that maybe a teta can look at but for me from an attacking perspective I believe they are one of the sharpest attacking not only in England but I think in Europe but if they get it right if they get it right if they get it right the trio because Pepe came in with so much so much psych came in with so much expectations those expectations were doing immediately after the second game Obama Yang has been there Lacazette has been there Lacazette has some brilliant moments Obama Yang has some brilliant moments at the same time so it's just maintaining that between them to make sure that they can become those sorts of players a big one we are still discussing everything when it comes to football here in the country and abroad and Robert Osoro, Josaina is here and Maxwell was seeking as we are discussing everything when it comes to sports here in the country and all around the world the FA Cup was also renamed this week and it will not be called the Prince William Cup and one of the major campaigns that the FA Cup will be championing this season and something that is at the heart of Prince William is mental health and how sports is actually a catalyst to help people who are suffering from mental health and people who have not suffered from mental health not to get to that situation this is from back in the day the FA Cup has had that link with the Monarch for a very long time but this time around we are saying Prince William take that initiative take that initiative to bring it back home and make sure that the Monarch influence and really decision making of this Cup but this time around they have come with mental health a campaign in mental health it seems that mental health has become a very serious disease in the sports world and also in the world where doctors not even in sports itself Yes it has and if you look at it from my insight the FA in the United Kingdom is the oldest football association in the world oldest so there is the pedigree that is associated with the royal family not only that if you look from the commercial bit of it it's one of the glorified cups in the world so if you would link it with something that is seriously bothering the community as mental health it's an awareness that can be raised not only that we have been in the last if I can call it the last 3 months of a covid season whereby you couldn't see loved ones you couldn't travel to see loved ones as a sports person for example if you take Paul Pogba he's always been living with his brothers and his mother and then all of a sudden maybe that is taken away so for some sportsmen that and women that can affect them and this can bring in the mental health situation so that is why it's important yes to advocate for it and I'm very happy that something like this has been advocated for to push also other leagues to advocate for mental health we've been going about racism which is yes it's a pandemic but these other matters we've been talking about cancer now we're talking about mental health let it be expounded further but it's an initiative that the FA have taken that is a brilliant move to make sure that mental health is put on the world map as a warring catalyst that has been going on in the world we go there for us as we are following some of the discussion I'm considering that players are suffering in silence yes because there is this condemnation from fans who want a player to live on the beach and see what the player is going through behind the scenes someone like Alexis Sanchez I saw some quotes from under herrera saying that sometimes football is hard to understand because a player who's just come from a team a few months ago he's been in sparkling form he joins another team then he's form diminishes and he becomes a worst performer on the beach and things just go however like that it's hard to understand but I think if you sit exclusively with Alexis Sanchez whatever he might be going through as a result of what is happening the reality of it we saw even yes a lingard we've seen condemnation on yes a lingard but I think at long last he revealed what he's been going through how the mother the sister have been suffering through cancer is the one who's been taking care of them in terms of medication and even standing by their families because I think he's sort of the only breadwinner but you see for man united fans they want yes a lingard to deliver on the beach yes true and to accuse him of shinani gansai just good you have brought that angle because it takes me back to Eric Cantona kicking a fan remember even Greg Bellamy fighting with a fan because at the end of the day for us fans when we go to the stadium we just want them to at 120% performance not taking care not even wanting to know what their life is outside the field of play and that's a very serious serious scenario I think there are players I miss and probably would have some version of the same in current football I miss Joe Barton you remember him during his Newcastle stint very controversial calling as paid as paid you know a fan would want him to do something that probably he's not capable of doing then you tell the fan of I think the likes of Roy Keen I think he's of the same character you know people like Genaro Gattuso demo headed man Elhaji Diofa I was reading the mirror at some point when he joined Liverpool from Bolton Wanderer still Gerard was the captain and I think Steven was a disciplinarian he wanted to instill you know a sense of discipline amongst players but sometimes it could get to an opportunity where Elhaji Diofa is telling of his captain come on man considering that you have taken us back to nostalgic memories of back in the day of these players and everything one thing that we had on the running water was can you believe it's been 10 years since Africa hosted the World Cup or South Africa I'm telling you but it looks like it happened yesterday you can even bypass those Brazilian between you can bypass those Brazilian between you can bypass that and you remember it's really and that Shabalala goal South Africa playing at home now one of the country that is well equipped in terms of facilities a lot of crowd fans showing up in large numbers I think was nostalgic but that's pain team I was back in high school I was in my last year of high school doing my form 6 back then and then the World Cup is in South Africa and we watched it during the school we saw the Shabalala goal and everything but one thing that can never get out of my mind was those devil hands of Luis Suarez I'm telling you one of the most controversial players at this big stage he always does something in this big stage but you see for us we keep condemning Luis Suarez of course it will never fade in the history books of football but he did what he did to save his national team Uruguay they made it to the semifinals I think as a mojian also that kick is another kick we'll never forget his incident is also unforgettable of course missing out on converting a penalty that probably could have propelled Black Stars of Ghana to the semifinal stage but it was rejected for Frank Lampard they called it rejected for Frank Lampard against Chelsea against Germany I think it ended 4-2 and probably some pundits think that if that girl, that goal would have been allowed then the outcome of that particular match would have been something different what are your best and worst memories from the 2010 World Cup the devil hand obviously from Luis Suarez that would be very bad for me I think the positive and we keep on talking about these things and we miss out on the brilliance of Spain in that World Cup when Tikataka free flowing football you on croif system of play was transported from Barcelona into Spain and people could not understand how Shavi and Iniesta and Busquets would control that ball in the midfield and still have a chance to make sure the likes of David Silver the likes of Fernando Torres would get that ball ball playing defenders something that we had discovered pike coming to the ball almost halfway and giving a long pass that's something that guys did not understand and for me that was the highlight of that World Cup nothing taken away from the fact that Africa hosted the World Cup that would never be replaced I think I remember the World Cup and I think some guys is amazing in me is called Walter Makoha I think these are the people who used to watch this football after high school you are not looking forward to doing the college then you are chilling back home guys watching football and I think now club fanatism people are carrying it into World Cup into the World Cup someone now that he is a support of Arsenal and Mesut Ozil is playing for Germany so definitely he would rally behind Dai Manshaft we are in Runi playing for United now featuring for England you have to support England Ozil is goal against Ghana that's that class can you remember they were under 21s then Ozil was about I think 20 years old you mentioned some important point of Spanish national team still under Shenta Del Bosco was still the 4th and of course that is the time they won the World Cup and you can even name this quote Ika Kasiya in between goalposts I think right back is Sergio Ramos is playing and Carlos Puyol and Gerard Pique is playing the other side then on the left side you had Ayang Jodi Alba but I think Khabdevia and Khabdevia was playing was in the starting line up then now the midfield park oh my goodness and Iniesta and Busquets then David V are now up front because I think Fernando Torres could get a spot and then David Silva was coming into the squad David Silva, Fubrigus Fubrigus they were playing a force number 9 Fubrigus and I think now that's the prime Fubrigus coming from us think that is the time you could name even for support of England like myself we just had the problem with go keep it go keep it it was green David James we had a lot of options Robinson, David James, Robert Green I remember it was Robert Green who did the problem with the they remember the South African World Cup and also its own football it was called the Jabulani and they kept on complaining about the ball and that is slip on it and that's how it played away from Robert Green but another thing that now that it's been 10 years and I've been I was watching those documentaries and everything and all that then I realized that the African icons played a big part in the World Cup without people actually knowing about it remember everybody called it the Nelson Mandela World Cup remember even in the beating process Nelson Mandela went to Zurich he had the Kofi Anans coming from Ghana but he was championing for South Africa Desmond Tutu these are the people who stood and you realize that past the World Cup we came together for a certain course and we did that for the World Cup and there's no other World Cup that we'll ever see that will go past the South African World Cup in terms of another African country hosting it even other countries in the world I mean if you look at 4 years later in Brazil Brazil really now made a riot they stole the the horn the vuvuzela they took it to Rio obviously Brazil being the home of football had you believed the home of football again that had a new twist to it but in 2018 having it now in Russia was unprecedented if you think about it World Cup in a very cold place in a very community sort of state so you sit down and then there are now the ideas of having Qatar hosting the next one in 2022 and it had a little backlash you see the African World Cup was the World Cup that championed for rotation remember the World Cup that championed for rotation so we might say it coming back to Africa definitely it will come back what now African countries need to do even presidents of these African nations need to do is to advocate and push for improvement in infrastructure because I think for what governing body we found then say blood as the president giving the mantle to essay a lot of factors came into play well equipped facilities South Africa you see I used to think that the capital city for South Africa is Johanna it's Pretoria and we also have Daban we also have Cape Town but you see in Kenya we have Nairobi and I think Nairobi maybe is the equivalent version so I think facilities in terms of improvement and ensuring that facilities are at an advanced stage Morocco can try because we see not an African nation Egypt did African cup of nations very well Egypt I think it showed that it has the facilities to hold a World Cup so I think nostalgic moments of FIFA World Cup but I think my memorable one the Samba Boys World Cup Champions being trashed 7 man by Germany that was the best that was the best I was in studio that day I think I was doing radio commentary that game Brazil, Germany with Bernardo Koumu so analysis was juicy man Brazil conceding you were having the Samba Boys I was getting impressed it is a touching idea remembering some of the football moments that we had from the World Cup 2010 and others that are coming our way but for now let's come back to what is happening this weekend as we go ahead Maxwell you can give us the fixtures of the La Liga that are coming out this weekend and see Barcelona, Real Madrid final stages right now after the COVID-19 you think they will come back with that rivalry against Maloka yesterday Barcelona will pick up points against Maloka Real Madrid is also going to pick up points what we should be worried about is now the match fitness you can be you can be fit you serve in terms of your peak performance but now it's one thing being fit and another thing being match fit understanding the tactics remembering that for example you know Barcelona's strategic you are in croif principle we are on short passes with an addition maybe runner up top will Messi still remember the same thing will Messi still be as sharp as he was last night we thought Cristiano Ronaldo would have done Marvel stuff but he ended up even missing a penalty and it was dubbed the most expensive miss because he is a billionaire right now there was a perfect move the world of football I think the talking point football resumed was lack of fans but I think I've liked something I watched that game between Sevilla and Betis and you know that virtual kind of sound I think bring that aspect of I see fans are in the study I just enjoy the following in Tokyo they put dolls I don't know if you saw that in Tokyo they put dolls they put teddy bears and everything actually by the way I was watching I was watching Sevilla against Betis with someone then I was asking myself those playstation fans ya it's improvised the way they are doing it just to spice up the game so that people can continue catching the game on the screens I know now Joe having enjoyed having enjoyed 3 months without subscribing for benefitting multi-choice now it's high time you're putting me in the spot again multi-choice Kenya please I have been subscribing and I'll still continue subscribing so you asked about the fix that's lined up today Sevilla against Villarreal I think 4 matches on card as far as Spanish La Liga is concerned Espanol against Alaves coming at 3pm then Sevilla against Villarreal at 6 Villarreal against Valladolid at 8.30pm then Lechron in Lechikovtai Mayoka against Barcelona I think that's the game everyone will be looking forward to that is today's fix of course Bundesliga continues Munchengladbach against Bayern Munich I think if Bayern wins today then they take the crown they consider that there is 7 points adrift between Bayern Munich and Dortmund so I think it's done I believe they have been rising and rising and rising even if they finish 3rd or 2nd it will be a good season for them it will be but also there will be the loss of their star striker if he goes that void to replace it's all going to be easy and also you see the team Leipzig is not very facilitated in terms of financial backing compared to Borussia Dortmund or Bayern Munich but Red Bull has tried keeping those players making sure those players get what they need they have tried but I think these teams with financial muscles do other coming clubs a big disservice you so what happened to Ajax Amsterdam after their heroic exploits in Europe champions football you know high profile players getting swept off now CH at Chelsea delits at Juventas I think this is the same thing that might happen to Leipzig and they are coach I think it was coached by Jose Mourinho at some point Julian 2 years old and I think a lot of high profile players in that particular squad Mekano they might be living so what will save such teams and I wanted again to mention when Maxwell was saying it is the academy Ajax have a beautiful academy whereby players it's like a rotation system guys are sold, other players are coming in from the academy that's the same thing Leipzig has to do and they have to perform and prove that they deserve it so the academy is very important for these teams and now you see that's how important the role of technical director is it's like Edwin Van Dasa has been at the helm in charge of Ajax and I think he has ensured that there is continuity he has been a system from lower level to and then the other semifinal today in Kopa Italia Napoli versus Inter Milan big match that is going to be playing there and the winner will be going again as Juventus in the final well Napoli having a one goal advantage again going into this I believe that Inter Milan can overturn this and we have us escalating Juventus versus Inter Milan in the final wow there is our last word from Joe Saina here on the Fandom Robaro Solo we have been hanging out as usual with Maxwell Waseke we'll be back next week with the best of the touch but I know for me I'm still here just waiting for Masimu Angangi to come with the daily press conference from the AFI house just updating the nation on the latest amid coronavirus how many have tested positive in the last 24 hours and the protocols government continue to put in place to ensure that we suppress this pandemic so I'm hoping to see Masimu Angangi soon but whichever the case even if it's vulnerable Mutai, I'm still here