 It's still the breakfast in plus TV Africa. Monday, Thomas joins us this morning as always and at this time we get to talk about sports and all that's happening. Monday once again, thank you for being with us. It's always great to be here. So it's a pleasure to be talking sports this morning. So let's start off with Jose Pesario. I mean, looking at his antecedent, he started fessos the time he lost the match. His first game with Mexico, Niger, playing with Mexico, we lost that particular one to one. And it really didn't turn out very well, the Algeria game right there, international friendlies, Nigeria, four days after Nigeria really lost. What are your thoughts? Do you think that he's the man for this job and he can lead the Super Eagles, you know, to the promised land? Okay, I don't know who's laughing there, but I'm quite discombobulated because the results that we are getting so far from this man is no what we are expecting. We are the Super Eagles of Nigeria. We shouldn't be losing games. And if you take a look, just as you mentioned this first game, he lost against Mexico and his last five games, he has just won twice. And that is against a very lowly rated side, likes of South Tome and Prince it. And as well as Sierra Leone, we had a struggling win in that game, a two one win in the Afghan qualifiers for the next tournament. We lost to Mexico. We lost to Ecuador and of course, losing to Algeria some days ago. I mean, it was a game where the Super Eagles were very deadly on the ball. Well, every time they have the ball, they are very deadly. They are very promising. But in that game, they didn't even have the ball because Algeria were enjoying themselves. The goal we scored, I think it was a lucky goal. But of course, shout out to Terry Murphy for getting his fifth goal for the Super Eagles of Nigeria. It was an abysmal performance. The second goal that was scored from the outside of the box, many people are still not forgiving Francis Azor or saying that he was comparable for that game. So I don't think it's just about just a press service about the whole team. I mean, I know we're supposed to get the responsibility of making the team work, but I think our players too are not up to par. We just simply overwrite this players. And you can say that that game, the key players, the key actors that we're supposed to feature, the likes of real friend Didi Willem Trusekong, they got injured before that game. So it was basically a test game for the young stars who are coming up. But for me, just a side role, I think we should still give him time. We should still give him time. What it matters the most. He sometimes just comes up with something brilliant, just as it is in the Afghan qualifiers where he was, he were in Nigeria, of course, Sierra Lone, and as well as Souterman Principal. I think we should still give him time. We should still give him time. He may not be doing well, but we heard from him, the post match conference where he said that he hates to lose. And that should be the mentality of every manager. But yet again, they're positive he has lent from that game. The key players did not feature against Algeria, but it should have been a game we should have at least gotten a point. And many people are still blaming the referee. Remember, Nigeria scored a goal in that game. There's double the lead before the referee called it off for offside. So it's just a very confusing situation and it's a little bit complicated. It just clearly shows mercy. It just clearly shows the struggle of Nigerian football. And today is the crossroad. And today is the day, thankfully, that we'll get to see, we'll say goodbye to the Amarjo Melpin, a PNIC-led administration, which for me, I'll just quickly describe it as a bittersweet administration. But for just a point of sorrow, I think we should give him time. All right. Interesting Monday, we'll come to the NFF in a matter of seconds. But let's talk about something just crossed my mind. But let's talk about the goalkeeping crisis in the Nigerian national team, Med's national team, the Super 8 goals. Of course, when the Super 8 goals in the warm-up game face Algeria B-side, we saw that Madukawa Koye had a Haula, a blunder that led to a goal being scored. Yes, yes, indeed. And then, of course, we've seen the Nigerians say, oh, Uzoho is a guy. He's the man all over Twitter. And Uzoho now also, of course, fumbles and concedes a goal, which makes Nigeria lose this game. People after the Madukawa Koye Haula against the team, he said, oh, you know, even the best goalkeepers in the world will make mistakes. You know, David De Haere, Peter Czech, and so on and so forth. Manonua, they kept mentioning these names. Do we have a goalkeeping crisis in the Super 8 goals? All right. So this is why I would really blame Jose Pesaro for Nigeria not performing well, because we have this goalkeeping crisis plaguing the Super 8 goals since since the days of Vincent Yama was over. I mean, so it's been a Super 8 goals problem. So we should give Jose Pesaro a time for him to fix that problem. And now let's go to that question that you asked. The answer is an absolute yes. We have a goalkeeping issue, a goalkeeping, crazy issue for the Super 8 goals of Nigeria. And I don't know how they are going to change this because time and time again, we have different coaches with Ike Shiromo was there as well. Alloy was also there as a goalkeeping coach, but it's still the same issue. I think it's just time for us to dump these players. I love giving people chances, Alice, for you to just give you the benefit of the doubt, but at what expense? At what expense? Motoko Koye, it's unforgiving. What he did against the Algerian team, it's unforgiving. What are you doing? I mean, we've seen mistakes. Even at the World Cup, the 2018 World Cup, where Hugo Yoris, the World Cup winning goalkeeper, made a mistake where that saw the Christian score the second goal of that game. It wasn't that embarrassing. You may mention of other goalkeepers, but what Francis Azor did, what Motoko Koye did on that day was, I think I've not seen that kind of horror before. He was not just making a mistake. He was shaking. I mean, what are you doing? But probably the reason I ask if we really do have a goalkeeping crisis is because maybe it's a crisis of confidence. You know how Nigerians came after Motoko Koye, that he's just there being a fine boy wanting to pose for Instagram and for the ladies. And I don't know if that may have affected his confidence, meaning that he had to tremble, because keepers make mistakes. And you see that the butterfingers he had in the Nation's Cup, it was just something that keepers, you know, would have faced. Maybe it's a confidence thing. We go to Uzo Ho, Uzo Ho too. He's kept for Nigeria in the World Cup, the last World Cup in Nigeria. Yes, I think it was in Russia. And he didn't do, from abysmal. He was okay. He was decent. He was okay. So is it more of a confidence thing, a passing thing that we need to see these players through or not? And that's number two. Who should be Nigeria's number one goalkeeper amongst either these two? Don't forget, we still have Danny, like Pei, whom I have no confidence in at all. He's still there. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. He's he's prone to mistakes. Calamity goalkeeper. So who should be Nigeria's number one? You're being too harsh. Yes, sorry, my feet. You know, even Debbie James was called Calamity James. Who should be Nigeria's number one goalkeeper amongst these three? Or should we scout for other goalkeepers? Should we call a Zenwa back? You know, should we look to the local league? There's a guy in Tottenham I'm seeing called Josh Oluwaiyemi. I don't know if he's a goalkeeper, but who should be Nigeria's number one? I think, I think, first of all, I would say playing for the Super Eagles of Nigeria, it's a very difficult task. But of course, it's a pride of the whole nation. So they demand Ha Ha. I know Francis Azor, the likes of Madoko Koye, they know that every time they make a mistake, I'm pretty sure they don't go on Twitter. I'm pretty sure they don't go on social media because it is bonkers there. So the demand is high. And when you talk of confidence, confidence comes when you play a number of games for your respective club. Did you take a look at Madoko Koye, sits on the bench at Warfare in the championship? Monday, can you hear us? So I mean, Monday is frozen on the screen right there. We're unable to have that connection with him. We lost connection. But we're hoping that he's back. Monday, are you back now? Can you hear us? Yes, I am back. I'm back. And I would like to continue from where I stopped before that disruption. So basically, I'm talking about confidence issue just as battles as I like it. Confidence comes when you play a number of games in, week in, week out for your respective side. Amunani Kozia, when last did Francis Azor play for his time? When last did he have consecutive five games with this club side? Madoko Koye is the same issue. This player didn't even play for their club for, they're not number one choice. So for them to be number one choice for the Super Eagles of Nigeria, it shouldn't be the case. So I think both of them cannot be the number one choice for Nigeria. I don't, I'm not sure Dan Delacueiro would love to play for the Super Eagles of Nigeria, because he was criticized wrongly after the 2019 couple of nations. He shouldn't have been criticized that way. That freaky that was scored by Rian Maris, very few goalkeepers would have stopped that one. So for me, it's the best out of those, among those three players. For me, it's the man. But right now, is he playing regularly in South Africa, if he's still there? I'm not, I'm not. Remember, I said that he may not want to play for the Super Eagles any longer. I mean, it's done with the Super Eagles. But for me, I think he has more confidence than this, because you can remember that time, he was the number one goalkeeper for the Super Eagles of Nigeria. He was the number one choice for Kaiser team in South Africa. Let's quickly move on. So we can also look at the NFF elections, hopefully they happen today. A quick one now. And so, Nigeria is also built to play that international friendly games as Super Eagles with Portugal and Lisbon. And some people think that that's going to be a major disaster. You know, it feels like we're going to be showing our true colors. But I'm very patriotic right here. And I think that, you know, the Super Eagles would get their arcs together. And the coach, you know, will be able to put available resources to achieve, you know, win, which is the goal at the end of the day. But your thoughts quickly, do you think it would be a disaster? What are your expectations? I'm pretty sure he has learned a lot from the loss to Algeria. And he's a Portuguese. So he somehow may understand better how the Portuguese national team play. And he might just find the antidote when the Super Eagles will be in action against the Portuguese side, who are the current, the current holders of the UFO Nations League. I think as well that if we have our players feet, but it's quite unfortunate that Nigerian players are not performing in Europe as we used to see them. The likes of Wilfred Diddy, he's having a disastrous season with Leicester City. He used to be our best player. But right now, I'm not really sure the Super Eagles player, they need to also play very well so that they can also execute the plans on the formation of the head coach when the time comes for Portugal. So it's going to be a very exciting affair. And I'm not going to rate the Super Eagles by any chance. And I'm pretty sure they will show their true colors, just as you highly highlighted. Looking at the NFF elections, I mean, I don't know why we should go back to calling them NFA, because with the way things are going, is there any future ambition in this body? I mean, look at the fact that some sort of stakeholders who are only known via the letterhead, we should later threat saying that the election goes ahead, they're going to disrupt it and bomb the place or something like that. I have to go back to that. It's all chaotic, really. I looked at one of the videos put out by one of the candidates whose name I all mentioned, so we don't see him partial, going to submit his form. And I looked at the environment where he submitted his form. It was quite dirty. It was quite, I was like, is this where the NFF forms are being submitted for election of a body as big as this on the African continent? So now that the court has okayed, appeal court has okayed the ruling, so the election and said that they should go ahead with it September 30, which is today. What are your expectations? What should we expect? Well, I'm expecting that it will not be business as usual. Before now, it was just 44 delegates who were entitled to, of course, vote for the candidate to have, of course, gotten their forms and clarified scrutinized and they're qualified to vie for the highly exalted seats of the NFF. Out of 10 candidates just for this particular seat, we know that some of them are with the incumbent already. The likes of Shea Kungumi, who is the vice, the first vice NFF president, and the likes of Malam Shih Uduko, who is also with the incumbent. So clearly shows that there's some people who are the contenders and we should just wait and see what would happen, but I'm pretty seeing that it could be a time for a change. We'll get to see their ex-international Peter Saidi Da and as well as the UK base, David Warren, it's time for a change for the Nigerian football. It's time for us to get to, of course, a vie for great tournament and not just go for tournament, but for vice to win it, vice to win it. So it's not going to be business as usual and according to the Federal Government 10-year master plan committee which proposed the amendment of the original statute from 44 delegates voting that's been increased to 101 delegates. I'll quickly just like to break this down because I think it's quite brilliant that many people are being involved or many group of persons are involved for this particular election so that I don't think everyone will vote wrong. So I'm just putting an award there that every delegate should try to be fair, should try to be, of course, just in this. Sorry, just a quick follow-up. Who do you expect of the, who do you think are the front runners who also want to get a sense of this election very quickly? Just like I quickly said that they are contenders in every contest. They are always contenders and they are always retenters. So for me, the contenders are the likes of the vice chairman of the NFF, Vashya Kungumi, and not also forgetting the leader of the former or the defunct LMC, I'll put it on where, Vashya Malamdiko, who's also part of the Malvin Phoenix administration. And of course, the CAF Security Officer, Dr. Shih-Wu Ramu, I can't really get his name clearly, is also one of the contenders for that particular one. And I think the pretenders could be, and the shockers, we could be shocked because, like I said, the delegates have been increased, so it's not going to be business as usual. We're not just going to be seeing 54 persons vote for this. We're going to see a different number of persons, 111. So I'm not expecting the contenders on the papers. So quickly, I mean, as we cost this conversation down, who would you be tipping to win the elections? So the question is, who do you think will be the next NFF? I was afraid you were going to go there. Mesa is asking you to campaign. No, no, no, I'm just saying you tip off. I mean, you're like, who would win? This is not a general election. She's putting you on the spot. But Mesa, you don't put my guy on the spot, please. I'm clearly telling you who I want to win the election, right? And people will know who is my candidate, and I'm not going to do that. Oh, well, we will eventually, I mean, run for the session. I just think, I think it's time to have an ex-international run for ball in this country. I think it's time. I don't think so Monday, Thomas, I think it's time, you know, because you look at what's happening. It's going to be brilliant. I was trying to break down, I was trying to break down the people who are now involved in the electoral process. And it's quite fantastic that we now have the main actors. We've got six referees. We've got six player unions. We've got six coaches. We've got 20 NPFL club representatives who are going to be voting. We've got 12 from the NNL. We've got 12 from the Nigerian professional women's football league. So it's time for us to see an ex-international. These are people who have been in the game. They understand the game. They've been major actors. They like to be decided that I spoke to him some time ago. And he sounded like someone who has a clear vision of what he wants to do for Nigerian football. But I would stick with my guns that I'm not tipping anyone to win. I just hope the delegates who are assigned to do the voting will do the right thing because it's time for Nigerian football to move forward. I totally agree with him. You know, these ex-international really do, at least for those who have been around the world, you know, they've seen how it's done in other parts of the world. These are football people. Merci. They are football people. And they know how football is run. You look at Cameroon. You know, Eto Fils is there. You look at Cote d'Ivoire. You have Didier Drobart doing his thing. And you can look at other parts of the world, even Europe. You had the former French international, you know, doing his thing and all that. So it's important. Let's see if it will have a different result. So that's it. We need to go now. Thank you, Monday Thamas, for being part of the show. We appreciate your time. It was great. It's always fantastic talking to you guys. We can go now. Maybe next week we can talk about Arsenal, maybe. What is the size of the conversation? I'll be there soon, so I'll be there. Monday Thamas, we have to go now. Thank you so much. 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