00:00Now that we're back, who is the best AFCON player in the world post-AFCON?
00:06It's tough, man.
00:07It's tough.
00:07Best, I would say most informed.
00:10I'm not going to lie, Semenya made a January transfer look crazy.
00:13Yup.
00:14He made it look crazy.
00:15It's like a little through ball, just tap it in, you know what I mean?
00:18He's been, you know, scoring lots of goals off the...
00:20Yeah, for me, I'm going to...
00:25Not to be biased with the Dima Magda Morocco on, but I still have to give it to Hakimi, who's coming off.
00:30As the Cav Men's Player of the Year, they are still fresh off the treble, still defending their crown in the championship.
00:35Champions League, still defending their crown in Ligue 1 as the league champions as well.
00:39And...
00:40Though he was injured and had to kind of make his way back into the squad and get back on the field, I feel like...
00:45Like, more is going to have to be done by the African players on the rest of Europe to...
00:50To take the throne from Hakimi, so he's still getting back in form, still getting back to his best, but I think...
00:55For now, he still is the person at the top for me.
00:58I kind of feel like...
01:00I want to lean into one of the Nigerians.
01:02Yeah.
01:02We saw them a lot too in person.
01:04Yeah.
01:05Like, eye test-wise, Lookman was...
01:08He was much better...
01:09Like...
01:10Obviously, previous African Player of the Year, amazing player, but seeing him...
01:15Him in person was like, oh, like, he literally can do whatever he wants.
01:20On the pitch.
01:20Like, when he gets the ball, like, it's up to him what's next.
01:24Truly, truly.
01:25Like, he can really boss a game, and I feel like for him, he just needs to be on a different...
01:29On a different...
01:30On a different team, like, there's no reason he's still at Atalanta.
01:32He deserves, like, a big transfer, and I think...
01:35Like, if he's able to get that this summer, like, he has an argument for being the best African player.
01:40In the world, and obviously, Oseeman as well, another player that bosses in that nine position.
01:44Yep.
01:44Yep.
01:45Bro, even, uh...
01:47Why am I blinking on his name now?
01:48Mane?
01:49No, not...
01:50Nigeria, the midfielder.
01:51Oh, it will be, it will be.
01:53Even Alex.
01:53The vlogging boy, yeah, yeah.
01:55That's a hot take to call him the best player, an African player in the world.
01:58But, bro, like...
02:00He was so comfortable.
02:01My test-wise, watching him play...
02:03Yes.
02:03Bro, he would...
02:05No, he would receive the ball and be like, yo, everybody calm down.
02:07Never up.
02:07And dribble up the field.
02:09And he did it.
02:10In the Prince Moulet-Abdele Stadium against this team.
02:12He's the only player that looked that close.
02:15Calm, other than Senegal, who went on to win the competition.
02:17But he was the only player, I would really say, for Nigeria that was...
02:20Okay, 70,000 people are screaming, but we're going to control the midfield, and that's
02:23a special...
02:24And he was having fun.
02:25I was in his vlog, bro.
02:27As I was interviewing Bright, I was in his vlog.
02:29That's a fact.
02:30It's hilarious.
02:30It's a claim to fame.
02:31Say, bro, you know, I got my little 20 seconds.
02:34Next.
02:35So I'll bring up an interesting one, right?
02:37Here we go.
02:38Watching Mane play...
02:40Nice.
02:40Because you guys didn't get to come with Moussinah to Tangine.
02:42Here's the second.
02:44That performance...
02:45From Mane was one of absolute absorption of all responsibility.
02:50Yeah.
02:50Like, it felt like...
02:51It felt like when...
02:53When, like...
02:55A superhero in a movie is like, all right, I'll take care of you.
02:58Who are they playing?
02:59Who are they playing?
03:00Who are they playing for...
03:00They were playing Egypt.
03:01Yeah.
03:01So, like, not to mention the Mane-Sala rivalry, not to mention...
03:05The fact that there's, like, so much intricacies into that game.
03:09Yeah.
03:09The ball falls...
03:10The ball falls to Mane, 88th minute, jukes one, takes it down, takes another step.
03:15Steps to the right, like, angles his body straight into the bottom corner.
03:18Yeah.
03:18And even during the final...
03:20The responsibility that that guy, like, held to keep...
03:22Yeah, his aura, his aura.
03:24His aura.
03:25Like, the increase in respect that I have for Mane tripled quadruple.
03:29I'll be real, bro.
03:30If he doesn't bring his team back on the pitch, eventually it will be considered a forfeit
03:33and they lose that match.
03:34Yeah.
03:35I agree.
03:35He saved...
03:36I agree.
03:36He saved...
03:36Some people say he saved football that day.
03:38You know what I mean?
03:38Like, nah, shout out...
03:40Contemane, bro.
03:41Contemate professional.
03:41I'll raise you out this, right?
03:42So when Messi won that Ballon d'Or after winning the World Cup...
03:45The club season that he had was relatively un...
03:49Un...
03:50Uninspiring.
03:51Especially compared to what Holland did.
03:53Relatively.
03:53No, for real.
03:54Compared to what Holland did that...
03:55This Senegal team just beat Morocco, who was in the semifinals of the World Cup last time.
04:00Wes.
04:01This Senegal team looks amazing.
04:03And outside of...
04:05There's no such thing as a home stadium in the U.S.
04:08There's no Prince Muley Abdullah.
04:09There's no...
04:1085,000 Americans screaming their heads off in the same way that the Moroccans are doing.
04:13Because we don't have the same culture.
04:15It's just the reality of the fact.
04:16So Senegal doesn't have to worry about that.
04:18If they can make...
04:20If they can make it to the final and win the World Cup with Imani Performance, I think
04:22Mane...
04:23Oh, bro.
04:23Oh, if it happens for sure.
04:24If it happens for sure.
04:25Of course, though.
04:25If they win the World Cup, automatic...
04:27I think it's more, are they going to win the World Cup?
04:28Yeah, yeah.
04:29I just watched...
04:30I watched them win AFCON and beat the semi-finalists in the last World Cup.
04:32It's true.
04:33It's not always how math works, but I do.
04:35No, of course.
04:35Sports is not math.
04:36Yeah.
04:37But...
04:38Hey, man.
04:38I'll say that.
04:39They can do it.
04:40Since George White, it could happen.
04:41Yo, Senegal wins the World Cup after winning AFCON.
04:44Straight to heart.
04:45Harlem, you heard?
04:46125th.
04:46Actually, no, 116th.
04:48At...
04:48What?
04:49At my life?
04:50I'm moving back to Harlem if they win, bro.
04:52I'm leaving Brooklyn.
04:53I'm moving back to Harlem.
04:55If they win.
04:55I used to live in the Senegalese neighborhood.
04:57Shout out my Senegalese.
04:58I will move back.
04:59I will move back.
05:00I will move back to Harlem if Senegal wins the World Cup.
05:05For sure, man.
05:05Listen, let's get said wicked, bro.
05:07And I'm moving to Queens from Morocco wins.
05:08That's a fact.
05:09Mm-hmm.
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