 And well, for the second leg of our conversation here on the breakfast and plus TV Africa, we have Monday Thamiz, who's a sports analyst, who joins us from Aquabomb. Monday Thamiz, it's good to have you join us and happy anniversary. I mean, you know, Aquabomb is 35 today. Well, I'm voting to join you guys today as well as Aquabomb celebrates its 35th anniversary. It's been a fantastic ride so far. Well, I'm not 35, so I didn't really know what happened back in 1987. So what history speaks for itself, Aquabomb is developing, is growing, and certainly is the center of attraction as far as I'm sure is concerned. Yes. I'm going to talk sports. Why not? So let's talk about the games for the support girls now and the friendlies we're talking about with Algeria. What do you make of the composition? I mean, we're looking at the composition of the players for this friendly games in terms of, you know, the midfield and also the wingers. All right, all right. It might not be a start-studded formation. It might not be a start-studded composition as you want to put it that way. But I think it's time for us to get to Bill and Ian team. Joseph Poussaro is a new manager, is a new coach, and he wants to try out something new for himself. I mean, gone are the days where we used to stick to a particular style of football. Now we have a Portuguese manager who, for me, has some level of pedigree as far as modern-day football is concerned. We've seen the lines of the inclusion of the new names, Oñedica, and we've also seen some new players, Terry Moppe, not really new, being featured for the Super Eagles in that 10-year old Trashing of South Tomy and Princip. But I think it's a great composition. It's basically a game where we are going to know how good these players are, especially the new names, the likes of Ibube Duro, who is joining from Rivers United, not forgetting the man who plays in Portuguese League, the Casa Pia Man. His name is Godwin, Godwin Simon, who's been doing fantastic in his play dates in Portugal. So it's a new composition. I'm thinking that we are ready to make the country proud because adorning the jersey of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, you know that you're not playing for just your name. You're playing for the pride of the whole nation. And financially, it's good for your CV as your club will get to respect you more. So I'm thinking this new names, although they're new, they're going to do something remarkable for Team Nigeria or the Super Eagles of Nigeria. But a lot of people are saying, what are we playing for? I mean, none of them is going to the World Cup, which is, I think, 58 days from now. And you can just see that these people are playing to try to build momentum to ensure that they play as a team because football is a team sport. And you have to play with unity. You have to play understanding the formation. You have to play understanding the team so that you can produce a great performance when it matters. But for now, I think they're just going there to have fun. But many people will also say, let's go out there and revenge. Let's go out there and revenge the loss that we had against the Algerian side in 2019 at the Cup of Nations. I don't think it's a game where we get to revenge anybody, but it's just a game where we get to watch and ensure the Super Eagles of Nigeria and also criticize them if they are not producing the performance we expect from them. All right, if you've answered our next question here, the importance of this game. But I'd like to ask you, firstly, does Nigeria really need a new team? Was it a question of the team not being good enough to qualify Nigeria to the World Cup or Nigeria and having the right tactical direction and the right coaching to be able to get itself past Ghana to the World Cup, if you look at the former team. That's number one. Number two, I saw a very interesting post on Twitter over the week. There was this eye emoji. You know what they do? Eye emoji, two eyes, eyeballs. And a picture of Madoka Okoye doing his warm-up in camp. That got me laughed, cracked up. What I thought of Madoka Okoye's return to the Nigerian team and the reaction of football fans of the Super Eagles. So those two questions here. All right, football is an unforgiving sport, especially in this part of the country. We get to exaggerate on that. If a player makes a mistake, we talk about it time and time. Players, great players in this world, great goalkeepers, the likes of Ike Kasih. I remember his ending part of his career. He was devastatingly bad. The likes of Piches Maikyo, even Edwin van der Saas, these players or these goalkeepers have gone through a very difficult time in their careers. And I think we should just let bygones be bygones. Madoka Okoye is a growing goalkeeper. And you know one thing about goalkeepers, they get better as they're growing older. So we should just give them time. He's still a man for us. I think so. Madoka Okoye, Francis Azor. These goalkeepers can still make us proud if they are determined to do so, if they're determined to put in the work to learn more about goalkeeping. I think we should still give them a chance. There's no point to criticize that. I don't want to even go back there. I think it's a new era for him on the new coach because players tend to do better under a new management. It doesn't mean that they were bad for the old management, but they want to step up their game to ensure that they maintain their jersey or they maintain their number one shirt with the national team. And my expectations for this game, we heard yesterday that Real Friend DD will not be playing in that particular game because of an injury-sustaining training. He wasn't really fit. Joseph Asairo, I heard him speak this morning. He wasn't really fit. He's been struggling. Lester City are having a shambolic season. So mentally and of course physically, it has shown that Real Friend DD will not be fit for that game tomorrow. So I think it's a chance for the new names. I think it's a chance for the likes of Raphael O'Neill who he plays for. Yeah. OK, so quickly because we will be calling it a wrap in no time. Let's look at the NBA now. The NBA coach, Imme Udoka, who's been suspended for fraternizing for the session of 2022 and 2023. What are your thoughts? And some people have stated that really, a moral compass with all of this discussion, it's been generating a lot of buzz, but I'd like to share your thoughts on this one. What do you make of this action, the suspension of the coach? All right, just like I said in our previous conversation, that football is an unforgiving sport, basketball, sports in general, people tend to forget what you've done, especially when you get involved in a scandal. I'd like to remind anyone listening, anyone watching this particular one, that Imme Udoka is the first coach for the Bolson Celtics since 2010 to qualify for the Bolson Celtics to the final. It's the fifth coach in 25 years to win or to make it to the NBA finals in its debut season. And of course, you know, already the first Nigerian and a first Nigerian to be an NBA coach, people will forget his achievements, he did it in just one season. And I don't want people to forget that. We're all humans, we get involved in some immoral things. No one is perfect. And it's quite a shame that on the 35th anniversary of the Acquibom Day, an Acquibomite somewhere in Boston was handed a suspension for the 2022-2023 NBA season. And according to reports, they've already, of course, lined up a replacement for Imme Udoka for this season. But hopefully, hopefully because it's clearly, his job is on the line, he's in jeopardy right now. And we might not see him coach at the NBA, but we just keep praying and hoping that as just as many people who got himself involved in scandals, how they got out of it, hopefully he gets out of this particular one. Like I remember Ryan Geeks, Ryan Geeks got in a scandal as a Manchester United player. They had to take the father of, one of the fathers of the carpenters in the UK to go and sell for the issue. So it's not the first person to do so. He's a prolific, prolific NBA coach. And we saw that last season. It's just quite a shame that this happened to him. And I had to be against someone who was being in the Norleywood, someone who's been in the mainstream of entertainment in America. His partner, I wouldn't say his wife, because they've just been engaged for the past seven years. They're not married, although they have kids. So she prefers to be called a partner to email Docker. Neil Long, she's a big name in the Hollywood industry and what a shame this is happening to email Docker. But I still have so much belief in him and I hope he will come back strong. All right. Interesting way to see how things work in other parts of the world. As far as our standards are concerned, you know, values are concerned there. So I think we can learn more relief or two in our old climbs here. Monday, it's great to have you join us. And interestingly, email Docker is also from a dear good-acquired boom state as well. And even though he's American, great things he's doing in the United States. We hope he pulls through. Is he in Nigeria at first? He's from a team of local government every boys in America. Absolutely, yes, indeed. So we hope he pulls through, wish him all the best with his partner as well. Monday, thank you very much for your time. Jose Pesero has said that he wants Nigeria to win the next African Nations Cup just very quickly. Do you feel that is possible? Just to drag you back to that conversation. Do you think that's possible? Well, we've not seen the best of Jose Pesero. What he tells us that Nigeria could win the next Nations Cup and the next major tournament. We should just watch and see. We should underrate him. We should just give him the chance because he has come out to drag about his confidence. And I like that. And I think he needs a chance to show what he has come out to say he will do. Thank you so much. Have a fantastic weekend. Do have yourself a great weekend. It's going to be fun here in Aqabam. I mean, I'm ready to party. I can imagine. I know how they party down in New York. Thank you so much for your time. You know that coffee. The Aqabam and the Afam, it's going to go down today. Absolutely. All right. All right. Spare some for me. Maybe when I come next time, I'll have my own share. Talking about birthdays, Aqabam is not the only state that is celebrating its birthday today. A wonderful cameraman right here from Placid, Africa, Richard also has his birthday today. So Richard, from messing with myself, wishing you a happy birthday, many happy returns. And we will eat rice and chicken today as well. Yes, indeed. God bless you so much. And, you know, grant you a happy birthday. All right. Well, that's the site of our conversation. And we appreciate you for being with us all through the week. We will return on Monday. But if you missed out on any part of the conversation, you're always on social media, on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. And you can also subscribe to our YouTube channel. It's at Plus TV Africa and Plus TV Africa Lifestyle. My name is Messier Bukbo. Have a great morning. My name is Kofi Bartels. We'll return on Monday. Have a fantastic weekend.