 And we're back with the breakfast and plus TV Africa. Monday, Thomas joins us this morning as we talk sports. Monday, it's good to have you join us. Thank you once again. Mercy, it's a beautiful Friday and we've seen lots of beautiful events in the world of sports. I can't wait to get on with it. OK, let's start off with the fact that fans are already slamming the flying eagles after their defeat at the semi-final. We're talking about the under 20 Afqon now. I mean, it's quite very painful because it looks like we learned from our mistakes the first game where we lost to Senegal. I mean, I saw some improvement in that particular squad. The second game we went ahead to get all three points. The third game and also in the quarterfinals where we beat Uganda. But certainly, some people didn't know that beating Gambia was certainly going to be a peak box because when you take a look at Gambia, last competition, they made it to the third place. They made it to the third place and this competition, they're through to the finals where they will take on Senegal tomorrow. So I think Nigeria were a little bit complacent, especially when we, before we considered the first goal, where we had a little bit of lackluster performance, but we woke up. I mean, just like any team will do when they go down by a man. And also, Nigerians will not be happy for that penalty miss. But for that player who missed the penalty, he got a red card in the first game against Senegal. It just came on in the semifinals just to make amends for that red card he got. He played well so well that day, I tell you mercy, but that penalty miss could have gone anywhere. I mean, he did everything right, beat the goalkeeper, but could not beat the post. Today by 3 PM, I think it's that time for us to just rally around the under 21s again and get to support them. They already threw through the World Cup, which is a big win for Nigeria. But we know that Nigerians were a little bit insatiable when we see that we can win something extra. Why not go for it? But it's OK. We've won the tickets to the World Cup. And today, it will just be something that would get to a peace Nigerians if we get the bronze medal. All right. We've seen it a number of times that the national team, the age grade teams, will not perform win the African tournament, but will go ahead to do better in the World Cup. What changes do you think need to be made? I mean, Laden, Bosa, I'm sure agree, it's done well. But what changes do you think need to be made ahead of the World Cup, which is now the focus, not even this third place, as far as I'm concerned, to get the team to perform better? Do we need to get in more foreign-based youngsters? Do we need to get in players who play in the top elite leagues in the world? Are they even part of this team? Are they ongoing African tournament? First of all, crashing out in the semifinals is a big negative, but I've seen lots of positive in that particular score. And what Laden, Bosa needs to do, I'm pretty sure the NFA will give him a chance to be the coach of the upcoming World Cup. And I'm pretty sure what he needs to do, what he needs to improve on is to let the players understand the reason why they are wearing the green jersey, the reason why they are doing that Nigerian jersey, but it's a thing of pride. They should know that it's not just for their personal owners, but it's also for the country as well. They need to have that understanding. And if they do have that basic understanding, certainly gonna work on their mentality, work on how they motivate themselves and how they get to perform on the pitch or play. I mean, it's good to work with a team that will sit at the under 20, so I don't think an inclusion will help. I think he needs to refine those boys and it's to train them more, it needs to make them have a little bit of understanding because it could be that they were not well prepared going into this tournament. They did not get to play together to understand how each individual will play and how they are now the seller of play. So I think at the World Cup later on this year, they'll get to understand themselves more. They'll stay together in the camp. I don't think inclusion will help. They should just work on the team more and see how we can go to the World Cup and of course do great things. And here are seven times winners of the AFKON where the number one nation when it comes to the under 20 AFKON. Yeah, just a quick one now. Set to play a third place with Tunisia. Do you see us rewriting the wrongs or trying to make it right? Maybe with a more position or a win. Mercy is not going to be so easy to predict because in Africa, I would permit me to use this word, there's a resurgence in Africa. I mean, you don't get to see small teams play like small teams anymore, all right? Like Gambia, no one expected that Gambia would beat Nigeria, but Gambia did beat Nigeria. And we've not really known Tunisia for under 20 football. We've known Nigeria, of course, seven times champions. It's not going to be an easy game by 3 p.m. today. But I think Nigeria can go all the way and now we're in for the under 20 of Nigeria. The age of some of these footballers at the under 20 tournament has been called to question. What do you say about that? Have you seen any faces you'd wonder? I just can't really hear under 20. I think my smells have answered the question, that's it. I've seen some of the pictures, I mean. Also, I think it's an African thing, all right? It's not just Nigeria. We saw a South Sudanese goalkeeper in this tournament where, of course, South Sudan had a fantastic tournament. It was a debut tournament and they made it to the quarterfinals. Unfortunately, they couldn't make it to the semifinals. It's an African thing. We've also seen some players from the Congo and also Senegal. You know, it's a third-world country. We are a developing continent and we don't get to see football started at the right time for this young lad. And just like the pictures we're seeing on the screens, these players don't look around under 20 for me. I think we should just call them some slack. Some of them are under 20 for certain, but some are not. Well, I'm Monday Thamas. We have to leave you that. Thank you so much. We'll be joining the newsroom at 9 o'clock for the news brief. We look forward to sharing your thoughts as we proceed. All right, hopefully next time there will be more time to talk sports. Thank you so much for having me, Mercent, Kofi. Appreciate it, guys. Thank you. Well, that's the size of our package. It's been a very thrilling week right here on The Breakfast and Plus CB Africa. We actually celebrated women. I was going to have one or two questions about women in sport. Mercent, but women are doing fantastically well in sport for Nigeria. If you look at the the plaudits and the laurels that the country has won in sport, I think we can say that most of them have been won by women. We'll talk about the likes of athletics. You can see the athletics, powerlifting, weightlifting, football. It's mostly women. Track and field, you know, table tennis is mostly women. Paralympics, it's mostly women. And I just want to take this time to celebrate Nigerian women. You know, they deserve all the plaudits. All the laurels, most of the medals Nigeria has won is brought in by women. So women in athletics in sports, we celebrate you. Mercent, I celebrate you. Thank you. I didn't have a chance to wish you have international women. It's a very wonderful woman and I celebrate you. I celebrate you. That's the size of our package for this week. You can follow us on social media, Plus CB Africa on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and of course at YouTube, Plus TV Africa and Plus TV Africa lifestyle. On behalf of all our team, we have a large number of people working on this program every single day from the control rooms, but the production and master to transmission to the cameraman, to the producers, to our news team, head of news. Everybody's been putting their hands together to ensure we have a good program. I want to thank you for joining us this week. My name is Gofee Bartels. And I am Mesti Ibupo. We joined the newsroom at nine o'clock for the news brief. Please stay with us. Good morning.