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00:00Speaking of players and goals in Africa, I have to ask you guys the same question, but this time African players for club

00:05Maybe it's players for Chelsea players in the Prem players for Napoli. Yeah, what African player?

00:10Performed so well that today and on Thanksgiving Day you guys are sitting here and tell me I'm thankful for that as well

00:16I have to go with I know it's a lot of recency bias

00:20But I also think it is important to live in the moment Adamola lookman's hat trick in Europa League final

00:263-0 over Bayer Leverkusen who was on pace for an undefeated treble season

00:32Having the best season in that club's history to absolutely we talk about Thanksgiving parties

00:37We'll talk about spoiling a party just completely torch them

00:41One of the best individual performances I've seen and thinking about how good that Bayer Leverkusen team was not just individually

00:47But as a collective and what he brought to that city. I got to give it to lookman in that recent performance

00:52Yeah, I mean for me obviously being a Chelsea fan

00:56I have to go back to the Drogba era

00:58Kind of just like 2009 through like 2012, 2013, 2014

01:03But not just Drogba, but all the like African and African diasporic cast that made up that Chelsea's like

01:10That time in Chelsea's history. So like Drogba, Essien, Jono B. Bikel

01:15Kalou

01:16Kalou

01:16The list goes on

01:18Makalele

01:19Maluda

01:21Anelka

01:21Maluda

01:22Like the list goes on and then obviously it makes room for like the likes of Kante

01:26That we see today

01:28Yeah, so it's just beautiful to see that level of success in a league like the Premier League

01:32Hurts to say as a United fan

01:35But you know respect to Liverpool

01:37Within the last decade

01:38They've had two African wingers that have gone crazy

01:41There's a point in time nobody could touch Mane Asala

01:44Yeah

01:44You know, so that was really cool to see

01:46Yeah, like I said, it hurts to say

01:49That might be the greatest African pairing of all time

01:52I would struggle to find a better one

01:56Up top in Europe

01:58Up top in Europe?

01:58Probably

01:59Salah and Mane up top

02:00To win a modern UCL prep

02:02To win modern every trophy in club football

02:05They won all six?

02:05Yeah

02:05I ain't mad at it

02:07Mane was unplayable

02:08Salah's left foot was dangerous

02:10There

02:11I can't think of a better one

02:13One that comes to mind actually that I am thankful for

02:16Is there was a time when AS Roma had Gervinho and Dumbia

02:20Cheesh

02:21Up top

02:21That was fun

02:22We'll never forget that headband

02:23That was a lot of fun

02:24A lot of pace

02:26That was a lot of fun

02:27What did you say?

02:30I said I'll never forget that headband

02:31Thankful for that headband

02:33For sure

02:34No but I think

02:37A player I'm very much thankful for

02:39That played for a club

02:40Back to Italy

02:41Is Kevin Prince-Boateng

02:42For AC Milan

02:43Yeah

02:43Cultural figure

02:45Cultural icon

02:46Ghanaian icon

02:47Had the ability to represent Germany

02:49Chose to represent Ghana

02:51I think my favorite memory with him

02:54Is when AC Milan won the Serie A in 2012

02:57And he hits the moonwalk on the stage

02:59In front of us

02:59Sold out Sun Ciro

03:00I think

03:01There hasn't been a player like him

03:04For quite some time

03:06Pogba I think

03:07Maybe picked up the mantle

03:09Of someone with that level of flair

03:10That level of

03:11Just kind of bursts of raw talent

03:13That you cannot even see coming

03:14So I'm really really thankful

03:16That I got to see a little bit of

03:18Kevin Prince at AC Milan

03:19One quick thing I do want to add

03:21Like specifically about that

03:22Chelsea era

03:22Like there's one video

03:23I specifically have in mind

03:25That I always remember

03:26It was

03:28The club was interviewing

03:30Makalele like post training

03:31And basically like

03:33Drogba, SC and a bunch of other

03:34Players like come around

03:36And they're kind of teasing

03:37Makalele because his English

03:38Isn't really the best

03:39And so they keep asking him

03:41To like answer questions in England

03:42And like Makalelele's

03:43Kind of being shy

03:44He's like no no no

03:45Like I don't have anything else

03:46Anything else to say

03:47Anything else to say

03:48And it just kind of highlights

03:49Also the diasporic

03:51Like beauty of like

03:52Playing in England

03:52And like the fact that like

03:54Although Makalele is like

03:56New to England

03:57And like trying to learn

03:58How to speak English

03:58And what not

03:59Like he has players

04:00Who also are francophone

04:02And so we also see that element

04:04The familial element of it

04:05At these clubs too

04:06Yeah

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