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00:00So what do you do going into a tournament like AFCON?

00:02How do you prepare for that mentally, knowing that the big objective, of course, the World Cup for them,

00:07they just kind of missed out on that.

00:08Now they have another objective that they need to get to.

00:10Does it help them or hurt them?

00:12To me, if they want to come back for AFCON and really get it together,

00:16they got to get rid of the coach, Eric Chele.

00:19In a decisive moment for me, he talked about the substitutions.

00:22The decisive moment for me was when they go out in the last stage of qualifying

00:27and his response in the media is that the reason that they lost a penalty shootout

00:33was due to Congolese players and staff practicing voodoo.

00:37If you can't hold yourself accountable, you can't hold your players accountable

00:42for the loss that you take, the errors that you made in coaching,

00:46the penalties that you miss, and just take that on the chin and regroup as a group.

00:51If your default setting is to blame something else that the other team did,

00:55you should not be the manager because what?

00:57They're going to come back, go to AFCON, he's going to be like,

01:00guys, we did well, we did our best, the voodoo got us.

01:06You know what I'm saying?

01:06Versus being like, all right, you messed up, you messed up, I messed up,

01:09this is what we're going to do to fix it.

01:10The mentality is gone.

01:13That's your parting words?

01:14I agree.

01:14I think he will be fired too.

01:16I'd be surprised if he sticks around.

01:17I agree.

01:17I think it's the mentality of a small nation,

01:21the mentality that is not fit for the Nigerian national team coach.

01:25It's an external motive.

01:26I don't really want to get into the religion to talk about all of that,

01:30but at the end of the day, it is something external.

01:32It's not speaking about what happened on the field.

01:34It shouldn't even go to penalties.

01:36Nigeria, first of all, shouldn't be going through the playoff gauntlet.

01:38No.

01:38Then, Nigeria should not be going to penalties against Congo.

01:41No.

01:41So, to then have to go blame it on external things, I think, is very, very small.

01:46It's a very small thing to do in comparison to the massive history that Nigeria has as a footballing country.

01:52Imagine we're watching Brazil versus Argentina.

01:56Yeah, exactly.

01:56And Brazil loses.

01:58And Carlo Ancelotti is like, the Argentinians were, you know, they're doing magic over there.

02:03Which, the Argentinians, they'll do their magic.

02:05Yeah.

02:06They'll do their magic.

02:06But you need to have your own magic.

02:09If people heard Carlo Ancelotti say that they would be up in flames.

02:12Exactly.

02:13Like, what are you talking about, bro?

02:14You're not being serious.

02:15You can't let it rock because this is AFCON.

02:17Agreed.

02:18Or because this is CAV.

02:19Yeah.

02:20We have to hold everybody to the highest standard.

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