 Welcome back and as always we do Friday sports conversations and today is not going to be any different. Wally Scott is joining us or has joined us rather to talk sports this morning. Good morning Wally Scott. Good morning. Good morning Wally. Now of course the biggest conversation across you know the African sports in the world is afghan. It starts off on Sunday there was a little bit of controversy here and there you know different nations and of course even you know to send players or allow players you know to come down here for the tournament but eventually you know have arrived. So let's talk about preparations. How ready is the African continent? How ready is you know every country who is going to be there? It's the continent ready I don't know because first of all we're hearing stories about a particular city in Camero called Limbe. The city has been a case of terrorism, bombings for a while now. Some teams were threatened. Yes they're still being threatened and the the group wants to form a group out of a camera room called ambisonia and they threaten to actually bomb the stadium during the matches. Now the group F matches will hold there Tunisia is in that group and they will play their matches there and they had major security presence in Limbe right now. That's the only problem we have for now. Cameroon all all already except for Limbe but the little problems that we have is that yes some teams didn't want to release their players. Some players have their key players. Some teams have their key players in that team. Lester City for example of Wilfred Indidi have Kelechi and Acho who are their main players first eleven players who are Confeditions Cup but the most hit is definitely Liverpool who are losing Sadio Mane and Mo Salah who are their major strikers in the team but Nigeria have their own problems too because a certain Dennis who plays for Watford who is doing very well for his team in Watford has said he's not coming because Osimea was called initially Osimea couldn't make it and then Dennis was called as a replacement and he says I don't want to be an alternative. He should have called me in the first place why call me now because Osimea is not coming. Now we have sent for two players two strikers who are one is on his way one has refused to come and one has begged us we present as not to call their names yet because he was scared they might say no like Dennis did one has accepted is on his way when he arrives who announced that he has arrived you know the other guy is still been spoken to hopefully he will accept to come so we are two strikers short we are one striker short now but all you know well the Nigeria Super League goes do well yes yes we will do well individually we are a fantastic team I mean in like three or four sports magazines a French sports magazine a German sports magazine named Joe Aribo and Chico Eze has players of the future legends of the future in football that's how good our team is will we play together as a team will we bond as a team I won't speak for that that will be up to a government's technical abilities however Messi was asking me a few minutes ago and saying Egypt yes that is the problem the opening match that is the problem because I'm a big fan of consistency I believe that if Osarogi has 11 players who play together on a field every Sunday and we bring in internationals professionals from abroad who come together and then train together at all I believe there's a large tendency 80 percent that Osarogi's team will beat that team because they play together consistently so the bond you're talking about yes we don't have that we've never had that because our players this is like every tournament there's our players train together at most five days together and these are guys who play somebody plays in Sesca Moscow somebody plays in Laurent in the French Los Champs you know someone plays in the English Premier League someone in the Bundesliga coming together to treat together for four days three days how can they bond however the pharaohs of Egypt have got fantastic players of course they've got the almighty Moussala in the team but don't forget there are 11 players on that field of play in the pharaohs of Egypt seven of them play in Al Ali okay so they play together week in week out okay that's gonna be a problem really so but they're major they're also feelers that you know the likes of young Igalo probably off Igalo is not coming and like I told when does that leave us I was on a radio show this morning on the phone on the phone life and I told them on the show and I said audio Igalo is behaving like an illiterate and that is the truth you know that people like Igalo they make them the abuse and it's not fair really Igalo signed a contract with Al Shabaab and what he told them in the contract was I have retired officially from international football he told them that it's in his contract and then you call them down and say oh all of a sudden my country has called me and I have to go and it's refusing to train and it has been fined right now although Igalo was fined this morning of a large amount of euros for not coming to training he's actually boycotting training because Al Shabaab did not let him go forgetting that he signed a contract saying that he had retired from international football at that time he had retired yes he had retired so if the country calls you now there are ways you can there's always a humane part of management go to that humane part yes and talk to them and say I didn't expect this call up but the country needs me guys how can you help me out that's a different case yeah one boycotting and training and said I'm not going to train once again you signed a contract saying you had retired from international football that's not their business if they call you now it really is not well um let's also with the time that we have let's also look at the coaching strength that we have and you know what are the possibilities of Nigeria going far you know of Senegal and you know the rest of the the team the boys know him they know he used to be a for Super Lagos international but one positive effect we'll have from this is that we want the chance couple last under Steven Keshi who was a homegrown coach and Steven Keshi did something that stunned the world not only Nigerians when we met Cote d'Ivoire Cote d'Ivoire at that point was the biggest team in Africa they had everybody who was a star Didier Zocora Didier Drogba Yaya Ture Kolo Ture they had everybody who mattered in world football from Africa they were the biggest African exports to the world and we beat them to one and the Ivorian coach let's take a look from there the Ivorian coach came out and said listen I had a list of players who would give me problems in that team and the guy who scored the second goal against us Sondinba who played for Rangers then was not on my list he was it wasn't a problem for me and he was even so which means our homegrown coaches know what to do when to do it and how to do it however World Cup is a different ball game it's in both football so we can play as we like but the African Nations Cup is all greats strength physicality and Ivorian should know better like Steven Keshi knew better general all his years he is the longest serving coach of the Super Eagles 64 months and he didn't win the Nations Cup for us Steven Keshi was there for just one season and he won the Nations Cup so hopefully Ivorian is back a homegrown coach who played for the Super Eagles maybe just maybe you can do it because you have actually mentioned I mean on this but we've had several conversations and you keep saying that you know one of the major issues we're faced with is the fact that we don't have a coach that is very tactical and so you're saying with all of this that we hope to see some tactics and that's why we haven't gone great so you are you saying that um you know having this boys go through um on Monday we're going to see that tactical coach and all of that coming through get our role was a foreigner he never knew anything about Nigerian football Eguavoin played for Nigeria at the international level and when he played for Nigeria we were playing wing play that means coming from the wings to your to your which means that we had Amonike on the wings we had Amokachi on the wings we had Fididi George on the wings Ikedia on the wings and he played in that team and the first thing he announced when he became coach was I am going back to wing play that is what Nigeria is known for I am going back to wing play which means we might see very talented very skillful good dribblers like Joe Aribo like Chico Eze on the wings on Nigeria Alexi Woby on the wings that would be nice that will be going back to what we know Nigeria to play for we play from the wings we attack from the wings I remember that we almost beat one of the best teams in the world at a point at USA 94 Italy Italy we're down we're 1-1 1-0 we're almost going to score the goal and Aribo Sachi their coach stood up and pointed like this and he went back to his seat and Amokachi was out and in five minutes Amonike was out and they won that match our major strikers attack wingers who could make it happen and so the Aribo Sachi read what could have gone wrong with that team which means if it goes back to the wings and this time around we have fantastic players almost as talented as the Amonike and Amokachi Joe Aribo Chico Eze on the wings for Nigeria going up against an opponent like I said earlier someone says I was lying that I've only been funny about it but I'm not Nigeria will beat Egypt come January 11th we will qualify from that group and for some reason I feel we just could with their initials cup and what happens if we don't beat Egypt thank you thank you miss and this is where we wrap up the breakfast for this morning and for the week we'll be back here again on Monday morning thank you for your time and for joining us remember where to catch up if you missed out on any part of the discussion or through the week it's simply a plus TV Africa on Facebook Instagram and the same with our YouTube channel also a plus 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