 This is the breakfast right here in plus CV Africa. Well, the Super Falcons boycott training over unpaid bonuses, I mean, or bonus if you want to see an allowances. These days, it becomes a very big issue for people not to be paid, you know? So you have matches that they have actually played. You have that of Botswana, what have you, all of the games they have played, including the fees for the camp. I mean, this is totally unfair if you ask me. Do we need a sotsia to say that it's not fair? What's the motivation for the people? Especially with all of this, one cannot even say that that's the reason they lost the game to Morocco. Could there have been the reason? But I think the girls have been on top of their game despite all of the happenings. We have Monday thermos as always, join us this beautiful Friday morning. As we talk sports, we stay with the Nigerian football and all of the sporting activities. Monday, it's good to have you join us. Good morning. Good morning. It's always a pleasure to be here talking sports. Let's get on with it. All right, so first of all, let's start off, I know it's past, but you were very, very positive about the performance of the girls, the Super Eagles, I beg your pardon, the Super Falcons then, playing Morocco. You were very positive, but it really didn't turn out that way. What do you think went wrong? Okay, I mean, I don't think any person full of empathy will want to criticize the girls, will want to criticize the whole team. I think everyone did their best. I mean, every department was working. What really happened on that day when we took on the post-mation Morocco, I think it was just football happening. I mean, football sometimes can be very cruel. Football sometimes might not give you what you deserve because the Super Falcons deserve to win that game, even with the nine players on the pitch. If you see their resilience, you can see that they were high spirit, they were very tenacious in defending, and they were able to stop the Moroccans from scoring even when they went down by two ladies. But also, there's some argument that after we scored the first goal, we can remember we had already gotten, I'll leave my index center in the first two minutes of the second 45 minutes, and I just went ahead to score, we are no goal by the Moroccans. I think we should have defended better, knowing that we have nothing to lose anymore. We just have to protect the goal line, but we're still out there, and the Moroccans created two chances immediately after we scored the first goal and the converted one. I mean, when you are the whole nation, you have the home advantage. You can see the lasers I was flying about, Cap, I'm not talking about it, because it's okay to have home advantage in a football game. So, they did that very best. I mean, even when going down by two ladies, they were still able to force again to penalty, and goodness gracious, give Monday's camera an almost score. She has scored, and then Joe will be talking about playing the finals with South Africa. What football just happened, they gave them their very best, but sometimes you might not get your best, but you just get what football has to give you, and that was the situation against Morocco. But away from that, I think the super bowl can be in another great spirit to take on the couple queens of Zambia, because it's a game of great importance, we've clinched a World Cup sport, and if we finish the third in Africa at the 20-22 Women's Cup of Nations, we had a nine-time African champion. There was still some respect in the name of Nigeria as far as women's football is concerned, but there are also situations that the ladies have not been able to get complete bonus. So, what do you say now? Monday thermals, would you say that we should still put the respect? Should there still be some respect? And we also know that there's supposed to be a game, I don't know if that's actually changed, or it would change anything, but the girls are supposed to take on Zambia today, being Friday. What do you make of this development? Are we really learning? Is anything wrong with us as a people? Well, I didn't get your question, Mercy. Can you go again, please? So the girls are supposed to take on Zambia. Do you think that that will become, that's going to happen? Will the girls go ahead and play the game? And what do you make of the situation that the Super Falcons have not been paid allowances? How do you describe the situation? And my question is, what do you think is wrong with us as a country? Okay, first off, I would love to talk about the game. It's certainly going to be a very difficult game for the Super Falcons of Nigeria, knowing that there are some, many people expected them to please the salty but not the plain third place. And coupled with the fact that the ladies have not been motivated enough, even after that fantastic performance against Morocco, they lost that particular game. I just think that it also goes down to what is really happening at the administrative point. I mean, the NFS, they are not doing their very best. These ladies have gone far to secure 250,000 for making it to the final of the WAPCAN. They've secured 750,000 for making it to the World Cup. I mean, the ladies have to be paid their bonuses. I think last time, the last time I got an information about that, it was $1,000 each of them instead of $10,000. So I think it's just an administrative problem. I'm very sure Mercy, this is not the first time we're going to talk about how the administrative administrative system, especially when it comes to sports in the country, is not really doing their best. And then with time and time again, with charity, how we can say things that could make things work, but it's not just working. And I don't want to just keep on, because every time we talk, it looks like we are just talking off the dog feather. And it's quite tiresome. But right now, we just need to believe in the ladies to believe at a third place. But I don't see that happening because they're taking on the Zambian side who are very, very cold. You can remember how the loss in the third final to South Africa, the Bayana-Bayana was struggling 90 minutes against the Copper Queen. They have to be decided from penalty that was awarded virtually in the 90th minute. So with all of this happening, the Super Falcons not being paid complete bonuses. And of course, also with that pain of living in the third final, it's going to be a very daunting game for the Super Falcons later on by 9 p.m. today, against the Copper Queen of Zambia. So in other words, should we cancel, I mean, should we give up on the aspiration that we probably would have clenched to the 10th title? Should we just give up and just move on? For some reason, for some reason, I personally wanted the Super Falcons to win this. Forget the fact that we won it for the ninth time. I mean, this 10th time would have been so important because this is the first time we are seeing a 12th nation, top of nation in women's football in Africa. And it would have really been massive because the other times we don't get to see 12 teams and winning against a 12 team, a 12 team nation's cup really exerts how good you are in the continent. Well, come on, they have to play against the whole nation to have home advantage. Well, I think the ladies should just play for pride. They should play for their name, they should play on mouth because people are watching them. But for the country, I know we still have the 29 games right there. We are failing these ladies' time and time again and it's not really fair, but I'm still expecting them to put up a great performance, but a great result, I'm not expecting that. So as before we move away from the Super Falcons now and look at the world athletic championship that's going on, what are your predictions for the game today, Zambia and the Super Falcons? Zambia will beat Nigeria, we are by penalties, but Nigeria not going to finish third place. It's got a very, it's a boot, it's a boot of truth, from my point of view. My head is shattered now and I'm asking, Monday, Thomas, where's your patriotism? I mean, you're very patriotic. At this point it feels like you're giving up already on the girls. But- I'm not giving up on the girls, all right. I have a lesson to move away, that's on a lighter note. Let's look at another one, the Athletic Federation of Nigeria, the technical director is saying that, believes in the Nigerians team, saying that the performance over has been quite impressive, despite not even winning or clinging to any medal at the point. Do you think that that's true? Has the performance been great? And if the performance is that fantastic, why don't we have a medal? Well, so I hope that I'll let you go back in history a little bit. The last time I won two medals at the World Electric Championship, it was way back in 2013, in Moscow, Russia. And you won two medals and the last time we got two medals at the World Electric Championship, we got four to 2019. It's the last time we ever won a medal and that was by a big grown man winning a bronze medal. That was the only time we won a medal. The last time we won a medal, that was in Doha, 2019. And now we're in 2022, the 18th World Electric Championship, where we saw Toby Lova-Muza having a record time 12.41 seconds in the event she partakes in. And we had young stars like Imabong Silco who was very great at the African Electric Championship. And we had some names already, like the people of the city in 200 meters, gracing local Charles Mary Chukuma, and as well as the discourse Choua, Chouma Onyekere. And we thought we had a great team, but we also also need to take a look at the preparation to this World Electric Championship currently ongoing in the United States. In the first event, the debut, the coffee later for the Team Nigeria, it was a hammer throw up, a hammer throw what she didn't do so well. And the next event was a four by 400 mix relay. According to reports, the teams just arrived in the U.S. What was the preparation? What were they thinking? They think it was arriving in the U.S. That same day, and they have to get on the truck. And you expect good results from them? Well, it's not to be, because I think from full of function, if things form properly, then they are certainly going to function accurately. So the form of the air fence, that is the Nigerian production, the athletic production of Nigeria, I think they need to go back to the drawing board. I know that's a cliche. They keep saying, go back to the drawing board, but nothing really happened. So I think they really need to, when they say, go back to the drawing board, that you really go back to it and to see how they can restructurize for a better team Nigeria at any big athletic competition. Well, for now, we have an absolute fiasco. I thought after I came back to Nigeria when we saw the African Olympic Championship, I'm not sure if you might want to go cool. And I'm just last month, the lack of a tubular movement was prolific in that event she took in. But what is happening now? It's quite a shame. Although, why I went back to this street, just to tell people that we don't get to do well in the World Athletic Championship. But when you look at what these names have done already in their previous event, we thought we have to go for something with the World Athletic Championship, but it's not just to be. It's going to end in two days and we don't get to see Nigeria anywhere close to the medal table. The United States are dominating. But thanks to that, we have African teams who are also doing greatly, like the Vistopia and KM. Well, quickly now, we have three days just before the end of that. I mean, if I'm very correct, before the end of the championships. And we haven't registered any medal or any sort of significance. Do you think that there's any magic that can happen because those who are calling the shots are very positive that there's still hope for us? Do you think there's anything that we can do? Any hope for a medal or something? In two days, the competition is going to be over and if we can see the likes of Opev are feeling headed to the semifinals of the 200 meters. He lost the semifinals of about six, the likes of our old video World Cup, ultimately to the 200 meters semifinals. I mean, the best have not been heard from him. So I don't think there's any hope for Team Nigeria to get any medal. That's World Athletic Championship. We just have to be honest with ourselves. Well, the CAF awards came and of course we've seen the likes of Assisato Sola. And on the other hand, you have Sadi Omani. What do you make generally? For instance, I mean, making of the awards and looking at the CSAT clinging to the award, some people think differently. But what are your thoughts? All right, okay, let's talk about the World Cup award. I'd like to start with Assisato Sola before I head to Sadi Omani. So Assisato Sola winning it for the fifth time, that's a record, for any, any male and female football competition in Africa. And that is quite great. Assisato Sola, she scored about 20 goals in 19 appearances for Barcelona in the last season. And despite not playing the most part of the women's cup of nation, I think she deserves it. Because we took a look at the other counts of that, talking about the joy of the Cameroon and the ladies from Zambia. She was the top one. She was definitely the best among those names. And she deserved it. She deserved it, but for the fifth time, that's certainly a great one, a record breaking one for Assisato Sola. And we pray that she gets to, of course, return to fitness, and we get to see her in a proper and in form of Assisato Sola, right there at the FIFA Women's World Cup next year. But for Sadi Omani, we need for the second consecutive time, 2019 and 2022, it has to be him. It has to be Sadi Omani. And what a day it was for him yesterday, just going in first goal for five minutes and traveling from the US to Morocco. And he has to win the men's player of the year. In my opinion, he's definitely the best. He did it for Liverpool. He did fantastically well for Senegal winning their first African in 2021. He deserved it. He deserved it. And I think more is yet to come for the big man. And I hope he will be able to fly there the flag of Senegal as the upcoming CAC 2022 World Cup. Well, at this point, we'd like to say thank you, Monday, Thomas, for being part of the show. We appreciate all of your thoughts right here. It's always a pleasure keeping you here, Murphy. Do you have yourself a fantastic weekend ahead? You too. And that said, thank you so much. That's the size of our conversation. On the breakfast, a beautiful Friday morning. We'd like to keep it very light-hearted. And we will return on Monday. But if you missed out on any part of the conversation, it will be beautiful to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. And subscribe to our YouTube channel where Plus TV Africa and Plus TV Africa Lifestyle. I am Messi Book. 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