 Good afternoon and welcome back to the touchline on Y25. My name is Maxwell Wasika. Last night witnessed a situation where Netherlands, the Orange, a team that missed participating in 2018 FIFA World Cup beat Germany for the second time in UEFA Nation's League 3-2. Then last night 4-2 in one of the European qualifiers that were played in various venues of the continent. Of course this is the fans on fan favorite segment where we discuss international football that forms the basis and also the transfers that happened on the deadline of last week and so is racism which has been a ramp and practice affecting several players including Romelu Lukaku and Paul Pogba both at Inter Milan and United respectively and somewhere later announcing his retirement from football. How about Somalia pulling a surprise against Zimbabwe. Of course let's get straight to the niti grittis of the same. So Robert I've just seen you reporting live from more international sports center because ran ahead of tomorrow's clash what's the update besides what you told us what's the atmosphere like the mood in the playing camp of the Rambisters. I think it's one team that is really compact this time round and you don't get to hear a lot of stories coming out of that dressing room. I think Kuch Kim has molded a young squad that they understand what he wants and what he is offering to that team. It's a team that is really quiet. You don't hear anything any stories coming out of that dressing room and that is what you want from that team and the major update is there's a crop of really good young players joining the team someone like Cliff Nyakia. You saw him there and I saw him in practice this morning. They have that competitive age even in practice because they want to break into the national team. There are players like Bonfest Mishiri coming in. We've got Adi from Bandari also joining the squad. So those young players like Wandera also from Taska is a big improvement for the team and also we saw Jesse Wery in the team. He was training me but he has a hamstring so we don't expect him to be playing tomorrow but that is what we want from the national team and also the foreign best players that have joined the team. Michael Longa was training in the morning good for the team. Ayub Timbe was also in the team and it was a perfect mold and they are going to play tomorrow. Nyambura am really good to see you. The last time you were here was two months ago during African Cup of Nations 2019 edition. I'm happy for you that you've been lifted from the cold room and you are back at the helm. I know you're running for Kenya head of tomorrow's game. What are your expectations? Yes of course my expectation is that we win that game. I'm sorry to say is that bringing in new players is very good but I'm yet to see I can't really say my favorite though I'll say my favorite players like people like Dukabuya, people like Harrison Mwenda. I really want to see them in the team. Maybe maybe not but I'm a fan of good talent. I've seen what they can do so I really want to see them maybe in future be included in the team but I'm happy for the new players for the young players being blended with the foreign players the usual players we see so I'm really positive. I think one thing I learned from the training today and everything this time around is that this time around Vestaz is not all about talent it's all about hard work and how much hard work are you putting in to get onto that team you realize that they are players like Ivan Waisuza who have made this time around and it is that hard work that they club level and also in practice that will get them onto that side. Harrison Mwenda has been around for I think four years now if he can work hard because it's Coach Kimuwa who brought him onto the limelight he can get that chance to join the team. Yeah but you wouldn't really know anyone's potential in the international team if you don't include them. Yeah but maybe you are attributing Sharks players to their inclusion in the national team after their victory against Everton being the first Kenyan club to win against English women inside. I saw a lot of Kenyans saying that you know Karibank Sharks now has to contribute immensely to the national team because they played very well and fully packed kusarani stadium beating Everton. Is that your reason as well? No definitely not but maybe that's one of them because it shows that we are really but that was that was something else I'm just talking about the overall play of the yeah they have good players it's not about the Everton match no it's just that but they still got a chance they still got a chance because we have got a long way to go to 2021 because it's all about the qualifiers of 2021 and we have got other friendlies coming in we're just playing Uganda we will be playing I think Libya in Morocco then we'll be playing Mozambique Baki Atom then we head on to the qualifiers so there's a lot of time for the coach to gather these troops but also don't forget the team they are going against if there's a big derby in East Africa it will be tomorrow forget Tanzania it is the Uganda claims and if Kenya is going to play Uganda claims I can tell you for free it is going to be a big game because Uganda they come all guns blessing I saw a ucho is already in town kateriga was not selected this time round and for both teams the big change has been the coaches we've got Francis Kimansi leaving coming in after Sebastian and then we saw De Sabre leaving and now we've got Alan Mubiru taking over the Uganda claims job so for both sides it's a friendly yes but the most important team for the national teams is the test matches that they have as they prepare for their way forward of course it's FIFA international break and no european club football this particular weekend several friendlies and several qualifiers as far as euro 2020 is concerned AFKON 2021 in Cameroon and World Cup 2022 of course they too will be coming later on but much action as far as african and european football is concerned let's get straight to what happened last night the orange do you think they are failure to participate in 2018 world cup was a good opportunity for them to go to the drawing board and now they look a great side and uh ronal kuman yes yes i think that was a very very good wake up call because they knew they had to do something about their team and like uh mefis dipa playing really well and also yeah people like wawen aldham they really played very well and um i think this is a preparation even for them to participate in the next coming world cup so we hope to see them and i think it was a very good game yesterday coming back from two goals down was a very very massive win for them and i think germany people are even saying is it germany that was not good or is just netherland that was too good for them i think it can be said like that considering that when we watched the uf nation's cup last season around the one that portugal won we saw a side of germany that is taking time to transition to a new crop of players and the netherlands after the world cup 2018 miss they went back and made sure that they are making a team that can do something this team made it to the finals of the uf nation's cup and lost it to portugal and now they are starting again so for them they are a team that is together they are a team that is molded germany at the moment they are still relying on tony cross in that midfield and he's got a lot of young players on his side yes yeah so even mystics from ta and on goal from him and that was not a german that we are used to seeing so it will take a bit of time for german to come together but the thing that they can take from it that their identity as a team has not been lost yeah it has not been lost at all but for netherlands they were just the better side yeah i think germany is also missing people like uh ozil to drive the midfield there so i think they have not gotten replacement for someone like him so they have they are having problems transitioning to jinaab replayed well uh of course in absent of tomas mula who's been at the hell so he's makore who's do you think even joakim low he has overstayed at the the german national team he's been at the helm for quite long and something one of the outstanding observations uh that you know captured my attention is you know the inclusion of ryan babel yeah in that particular netherlands team the two babel and joakim low has been at the helm for rather it worked for netherlands but for joakim low do you think he is overstayed um i think it's about him maybe changing tactics maybe he's yes maybe he's overstayed but it doesn't mean that he can't perform if you've you overstayed you know maybe he really needs to look at other tactics maybe if it's not working for him right now it really means he has to do something different maybe including other players or blending them the old and the new coming ones but i think change is always good so if they can't change him maybe it will be good for them wells against azabai jan i know gareth bell is the captain for the national team and uh you remember his tribulations at real madrid with arrived with coaches in adin zidon but he scored the last club football uh los blancos played two all draw against a by if i'm not wrong and he was on this coach it then getting rec recated during the last moment of that particular game he was crucial for wells last night and ran gigs is the man in charge do you think it's high time now we can start seeing a national team like wells playing at the big stage even at the walka because they've been missing out and players like uh garret bubble who have been turned out at club level you know missing out on such a need competitions i think wells have been there they've been performing very well less in the euro and the uf nation's cup this time round but for garret bell is all about he doesn't sparkle all the time not a player who is in the big stage for all the time he has been at real madrid i think six years now that he has been at real madrid one three champions leg title but what was his impact in the three champions leg titles that he won everybody can say it will be given to kristen ronaldo karyum benzema yes it's called some crucial goals but not a really direct impact on real madrid as they were as a team for wells is one of the senior most players in that dressing room and that is why ryan gigs has to give him the captaincy and try to mold the players in his way and that is what is going to do but can he deliver up to the end of the season because now the moment the uf nation's cup starts it's going all the way up to me can he deliver on all that time plus club football it usually goes back to his injury problems because he's a player who has never stayed a full season perfectly until the end i think the only last time we saw him being perfect a full season one was when he was a tottenham and they beat i think inter Milan getting on to in the quarterfinals of the uf a champion until past that we have not seen him at the big stage proving day in day out if he can do it for real madrid this time round then good for him but for the wells national team it's all about the seniority that he has in the team and also ryan gigs trusting him as a captain to mold the younger generation going forward let's speak about transfer deadline earlier this week on monday it was transfer deadline for especially players participating in english premier league joining other gigs because for england it got closed a few weeks ago and we saw player movement enrique mikitarian moving to roma and someone was tweeting i don't know whether it was a joke or a realistic post that how comes roma is you know getting actively involved in acquisition of players who are perceived to be epl flops because mikitarian and so is elixi sages both joining italian football roma and inter milan respectively we saw fenanto lorenta joining napoli from spas and maoro ikadi alongside kailan avers joining paris in germain ikadi has been you know a stubborn boy at inter milan quite talent but bad influence in the dressing room and chicharito formula united recently at west hub joining severe in spanish league football which captured your attention in terms of player movement i think it's the it's the sages one and um you seeing people saying about italy or italy team speaking premier league flops i think they have seen um potential in these players that this epl teams have not because even up to now alexi sages has always been my favorite player and he has not performed at uh manchester united i don't know if it's because he's not given the chance because most of the times he he has been on the bench so there is no way he would have made any impact on manchester united and i have a feeling that he'll really perform in inter milan than the way he performed in manchester united because he's got a lot of potential this is a player who loves football even i remember when he was at arsenal some of the times when he was called out maybe for sub he was really complaining because he wanted to play so it i don't know what really happened maybe you can tell us because you're manchester united fan you can tell us what really happened to him but um i think that is the really that is the one that caught my attention think if there's a job nyamboram ready would have played passionately being my spokesman because she always gets it wrong and disclaimer purposes is about noting i'm forest one time you have a champions league win and just a secret admirer of man united dosora robert is the one who supports man united and he looks like he's also discerning him after an awful show of results but what captured your moment because i've seen even people slamming teams like united for failing to get you know good players who are living for free who are living for loan yet they could have been good addition to ultra funds code i think it's the coach who makes the final decision on the players they want on their team so they can be a player outside day when he is on free transfer but what is he going to add to a coach's team because it's the coach who sets up his team knowing that this play becomes onto my side is going to do something good christ malin moving to roma yes was a big one for me because now he has a chance to play season in season out and try to get a chance back onto the england squad but the italian clubs i think they don't have the much intensity that the english primarily does that's why most is it because of viewership no that is debatable a player does not care about viewership he already has a contract with the club he's getting his millions at the end of each week so why does he care about the same reason as to why bishu anyamos moving to club route from spaz victor mngubi doesn't care about tv money tv money is primarily one that he'll care about about how much viewership we are getting and all that but at the end of the day these players just want to move to a place where they can play football day in day out look at uh alex sanchez he is still moved on to inter milan money united will still be paying a huge chunk of the salary but at the end of the day alex sanchez just wants play time yes tv does not give play time is the coach and the player who goes out there and says i'm going to pray very well to get a chance to be on this team and then when these players are moving now if you are moving from england to italy your money goes down the the cup of money you are earning the salary he has to go down because even in the case of alex sanchez they could not afford to pay him so because he's on loan money united will be paying most of his salary but for him he's getting that play time and also we had ikadi moving to paris in jaman i think also coach tukil is looking at a lot of depth on his side he was looking for a lot of experience depth on his side on players who can help him perform not on the liguan stage but i think most importantly on the champion's leg stage racism has been a rampant practice in european football of late romelu lukaku when he was taking his penalty was racially abused and so he's paul pokban so he's abrahim braham tami and chelsea both players you know getting racially abused especially when they miss out converting either penalty or an open scoring opportunity or scoring against an opponent do you think looking of points is the way to go now i really don't know what will stop racism because even even looking out the fans it has not been it has not been successful because there's still people going out there and and racially abusing the black players but i think i think that is the way to go because they'll feel the pinch about their club being denied the points or even the players should even abandon the match because it's it's it's really bad when you do that someone you do do that to someone okay here is a catch roma versus eugenice roma versus inter Milan inter Milan wins but they racially abuse the roma players right so the fans will be like you can doka the points but what about the players who played that game and won what will you be telling them no that is the that is the crucial part because um the opponent the the winner might have abused people and they will be they denied the points and you can't really say it's everyone who is involved in that racial racial abuses so it becomes really hard to contain it because at this point maybe they stop and then from nowhere the next day the next game they start again so i think it's it's about being it's about the fans being educated to stop it because even if we try and and contain it maybe even denying the winning team the points or even the people who have scored and the people continue doing that the fans it's not going to work i think it starts with the fans themselves people have to be educated that they have to appreciate others the way they are so docking of points you think is the way to go because even if you ban a fan who is closely associated with throwing a racial abuse others will follow suit and do the same man like if you dog points they will feel the pinch yes but but as Osori is saying look at the scenario he just provided right now it's going to be it's going to be debatable even the docking of points was what if the other the team that has been like has participated in the racially abusing people they denied the points and maybe they are not even involved in it so it becomes hard it's unfair it's unfair Samuel Eto announced this retirement from football and now probably would be concentrating on something else let's say coaching we've seen him getting involved in matters african football amad amad kaf president giving the opportunity to several you know form of ballers did a drug bar Samuel Eto you know Osam Mido what do you remember Samuel Eto for i know he's been magnificent he's been tremendous he was exceptionally such one of the african greats when it comes to football at club level national team level but what's the exceptional moment that makes you remember Samuel Eto for yeah is one player who has made really great moments for everybody in the world of football first with the kameru national team and i think is the all-time african cup of nation's top scorer i think he's got 25 goals and that's a milestone that no one other striker has got into that level and we have to recommend him for that i think my best moment for Samuel Eto was when he was at Barcelona alongside Messi and Daniel they really played some good football and also winning the champions league second time i think third time with Osam Morya in Inter Milan it was really a good good striker but the good thing i liked about Samuel Eto in all the problems that african teams usually have and the money that Samuel Eto has as a player usually came to the aid of the national team that is one exceptional moment that a player can come to the rescue of the national team that even the government cannot do and that was actually telling the government right on that you're not doing your job and you don't know how to do your job and that was for me some of one of the bigger things that he has ever done in the world of football but that he's a player that we will miss on the field of play i think i'll say it's about his commitment to to the national team of which you don't see with the current players that we have and he'll be remembered because he's the all-time top scorer in the african cup of nations and the fact that he has played i think in in professionally in different six countries that is a very very big achievement for him and i think i'll also remember him the way he played really well in Barcelona i think that is where his talent was really shown and just about him being committed to the national team is the very best thing about him i think one of a few africans to have conquered at the big stage in terms of international football playing at Barcelona and his partnership with Ronaldinho Gaucho you remember Messi was in the scene but you know no player as overshadowed Lionel Messi at Barcelona several of them have left the camp because of that agent in es theory on re you know Zlatan Ibrahimovic several of them I think even Samuel Eto left because of that but he had conquered you but when we were growing we used to watch african cup of nations and you know intometable lions up against the super eagles of Cameroon and Samuel Eto, Jeremy Jeter, Patrick Boma up against the likes of Sunday or Lisa, Nwan Kokan, JJ Okocha water pass Osoro Robert actually I did that game I did that game during the just concluded african cup of nations on tv on channel one and I was with Simon Mula maforma international and I was asking him does this mean that you know the dub between Nigeria and Cameroon lost value when the likes of Samuel Eto exited the scene no it did not it's because but it doesn't live up to the billion it it yes it is true it is the change of times it is the change of times we cannot deny that I think we look at in the 90s when a super eagles was playing football and Cameroon made it I think to the world cup in 1990 that was one I think by Germany yeah Germany they won it in Italy in 1990 we have had standard performances of players I think the 1990 Cameroon is called the Boma Boma the Patrick Boma Cameroon but in that squad we had the likes of Roger Mela in that team so you cannot say he was the only one performing in that side then as Cameroon was going down we saw the rise of the super eagles in 1990 I think super eagles came came up in 1993 1994 then we saw the likes of Daniela Mukaches and Ulisse Uche Ukechuku coming up to win the 1996 Olympics gold medal and that is the first African team to do that but you're forgetting in that time also I think in 1990 Cameroon also came and won the Olympics back then before the world cup in 1990 so it is a change of time from then to now the big question is the players who are playing today can they live to the standards of the players of the past can the likes of Oniru of Nigeria at the moment being linked to Liverpool yeah who has played very well the likes of Chiquese who is at Villarreal were playing very well because it is the start of their careers they are really young can they play to the level of the likes of JJ Okochia can they get to that level and someone can say this is Okochia this is Oniru and this kid is good the way we say there is a debate now which says between Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi who is supposed to be the good so that is the big question Diego Maradona played at his time he was really good but Messi has come up is really good so can this crop of players who are playing today get to the level of the players of the past but I think it's really hard because times have really changed you know even player selection right now is even influenced by so many factors not even about talent or hard work so I think even about player selection has really influenced the performance of some teams and I really doubt if these people can reach if these players can reach the level of these past players because even right now players are not really sticking to that flag you know that passion is not there anymore because as long as I'm getting money from the club I'm playing for I don't have any other need because even right now it's not even about being committed to your to your country is about the money you're getting from the football itself so things have changed I think we can never go back to how it was because things are really changing every now and then and it's going to be hard so it's just that we learned to adapt with this new crop of players we have with the time that we are playing in at the moment and we just adopt to it because going back to how it was it will be really difficult let's wind up and speak about English Premier League football a little bit and you support us no he supports United you know both clubs now still living in riches because no silver wire no and it's a battle it's a two house race between Liverpool and City as we speak as far as English Premier League title chase is concerned and so is European football Sebayos I know is is is the talk of the town yes is he good enough to assist us in all yes get to another level football yes I can really say he's a Zaloni which means in case in places we are madrid won't send selling permanent no that is the problem because he's Zaloni I wish we would have that option of making him permanent but he's a very good player I saw what he did against Adili Ali I don't know if you watch that game um the land and north land and Debbie so he's a very good player I hope that he gets a play time so that he can really perform well so I'm confident about Arsenal finishing in top for I really can't say about winning because right now it's tight especially with Liverpool winning all their games as in it's it's tight even your former your former coach said that it's about the top three will be Tottenham Liverpool and Manchester City so others will be fighting for number four so Zoro Robert Daniel James three goals to his name he scored more goals than what Alex Sanchez been at his time at Old Trafford do you think the new kid on the block is something to to to look up to at Old Trafford? Yeah Manchester likes young players and if a young player is given a chance he can really perform very well he started very well he's playing very well but he needs that if we are going to score goals all the way to the season he needs that momentum and for man United to perform very well or come back to their glory days that they need to have they need to have some other players scoring goals not not the way it was that Rashford scores 10 11 goals is the only one player scoring goals so you need other players to help in scoring goals and if Daniel James has come in and is helping in that perspective then let him be given a chance to impress it's been the touchline on Y25 for this particular afternoon every Saturday one to three talking matters putting this place both local and beyond and the case has been the funds on where we give a focus on international football Osoro Robert Maibu Kovahost and Nyamburam Riddhi the guest coming in after a pretty you know few months in the cold but she's back and she looks happy don't you I am thanks for watching and let the conversation continue our social media handles hashtag touchline Y25 to our super crew did the amazing job kudos and thumbs up have us fantastic sporting weekend and god bless you