00:00How would you describe a Akevdonia current form this season,
00:04but both in extra class and also the conference team?
00:08How can I describe? I would say it's a team who have the courage to attack
00:15because we like to play high, to put intensity on our game, to create a lot of chances.
00:21And I would say an offensive team in extra class and also in conference.
00:28Even that big teams are coming, that we try to stay by us and try to do our things.
00:33That means I put intensity, play high and take the risk.
00:37I would say an offensive team.
00:40And what actually are goals on this season?
00:43Are you guys speaking to each other in the dressing room?
00:47Are you speaking with the coaches, with the sporting director?
00:50Because shortly you will play against Fiorentina, you know?
00:53Yes, so if we talk about it, let's say no.
00:57We just say that we take game by game and we will see what's going to happen at the end.
01:02But of course we want to go as far as we can in the conference league.
01:05And like I say in the same in the league, yeah, to win as much as we can games
01:10and to see what's going to happen at the end.
01:12But we don't talk about like doing about something now.
01:15We just take it easy and think just game by game.
01:19You are in a third season, Afimiko.
01:22How would you describe this squad to compare with the past one?
01:27Of course, the squad now is much younger than before, for sure.
01:32But now we discover that this squad has a lot of talent too,
01:36because it's a lot of young players but with big potential.
01:41But yeah, this is what I would say.
01:44Like more, of course, younger and more talented players.
01:50When we check in in the league, you scored 12 goals in your first season in Jaggedonia, then 10.
01:56Now you have already nine, checking only the league goals.
02:00How important is for you personally to scoring the goals?
02:04And also, are you making any plan, any challenge every season to how many goals I score?
02:12To be honest, I don't make any challenge myself.
02:16The only thing that I care, let's say, is to be on the pitch and try to help the team
02:22as much as I can.
02:24Of course, I'm a strike and I like to score.
02:27And if I have the chances, of course, I will put it in.
02:31This is my job, this is what they're paying me too.
02:37If I would say something, of course, to beat every year.
02:41What I did in the past, to challenge myself to go higher and higher.
02:45Yeah.
02:47Afimigo, you've been the best goalscorer last season in the Conference League.
02:51What does that actually deep achievement mean to you?
02:53And does that change something for you personally?
02:58To be honest, it's a big achievement.
03:00And to be honest, I didn't believe that it could happen.
03:04But at the end, thanks God that's happened.
03:06That means that the hard work that I've done in the past pay off.
03:11And like I say, I'm hungry for more.
03:13For sure.
03:14And to continue to grow.
03:16And yeah, of course, it changed something.
03:18For example, I got two call-ups from the national team.
03:22Of course, you see that it changes, put you in another status, let's say.
03:27And now I'm just happy.
03:29And like I say, I'm hungry for more.
03:31And I will try to do everything to beat these records.
03:35Probably after last season, there was more calls from your agent with the names of the clubs,
03:40potentially to want to join you, isn't it?
03:43Yeah, that was a lot.
03:47How would you describe Afimigo your relation with the coach, with Adi and Sieminyans?
03:54What was what he brought to you and what actually he asked you to be as a striker?
04:02Of the relation, what you have, like I say, it was more like big brother and his little brother.
04:11Like what you expect, what the brother expect from his little brother, like to give him the confidence,
04:16to protect him, to say the truth and do the things wrong, to push him to be a better player.
04:22And this is all this mix, let's say, that he did with me and that he made the player who
04:28I am today.
04:30And like I say, our relation still be the same.
04:34It's hard to me sometimes, but then I know this is because he wants to help me to grow and
04:41to be better and better.
04:42So I have a good relation and this is our relation.
04:45Yeah.
04:46But there was any like, you know, like a tactical thing that Adi and ask you to use as a
04:54striker?
04:54Any difference?
04:57And this I cannot say, yeah.
04:59Yeah, go on.
05:01They will see only in United States.
05:03But yeah, he is like, he told me that he is looking for like a striker like me, like because
05:12I can hold the ball and can also participate to the game.
05:14So to be like a pivot target man, let's say, but also to be like this first one and I
05:20know he's dropping.
05:20So this is what he is waiting for me.
05:24And yeah, of course, that I give all the time 100% in every game.
05:28So, but he never put that up scoring goals or something like this.
05:34How is the atmosphere now?
05:36Because we are entering to the really important period of the season.
05:40How is the atmosphere in the dressing room?
05:43And are you guys motivate each other in a special way?
05:48Like for, especially for the tight matches?
05:51The atmosphere is like the same, is good, like allies.
05:55But we know at the end what can happen at the end of the season and in which position we
06:00are.
06:00So, of course, we know that we want to stay where we are in this first place till the end.
06:07So yeah, every, each game, the coach and the players like Taras Romantic and Rezo Simas are all the time
06:14like,
06:16to reminding us that, hey guys, stay focused, continue to give everything because you are in this position
06:22and you don't want to let it and you need to fight, you need to fight for it till the
06:27end.
06:27So, this is, let's say, the smaller things what they say to us.
06:33So, game by game theory, like a Chelsea man, say nobody.
06:37So, you mentioned about the squad, you mentioned about the youngsters,
06:42the squad is a bit of difference than the previous years.
06:48But I would like to ask you about the one guy, Oskar Petrushevski, of course, joined to the FC Porto.
06:54Did you see this potential in him from the very beginning?
06:58And how do you see his future progressing?
07:01Yes, you saw him because when he came to us, he was just 16.
07:06So, and when you see 16 years old, he's touching the ball like this and who's like going against three
07:13guys who are like,
07:14I don't know, 10 years more older than him and he dribbled the guys.
07:19He's just saying, yeah, this kid is special and easy too.
07:25So, it was for me no surprise that he will not stay longer here because I think his future is
07:31brave and he will still grow up.
07:33Of course, I wish him the best.
07:34And I think that today he made the right step to go to Porto because Porto is a really good
07:40team with also good young players.
07:43And I think, yeah, if he continues in this way, then, of course, what his main, let's say, thinks is
07:50to him is his character.
07:52He's really, has really big character.
07:54And I think this can be something really good.
08:01And for me, I think that this guy can reach the Champions League level.
08:05This champion, this Bundesliga, League One and everything.
08:09So, he just needs to keep it and believe in himself.
08:12Did you have to stop him sometimes?
08:14Hey, kid, don't run. Pass me the ball then sometimes.
08:17Exactly.
08:18Because, yeah, he's like a child, you know, when you put him just on the street and you just want
08:24to dribble.
08:24But sometimes you need to understand that this is professional and this is not the street.
08:28So, yeah, something else cream on him.
08:30But at the end, I hope that he helped him.
08:34I think that's all the best.
08:36Big game now in Extra Casa against Cracovia.
08:39Very important for both teams, actually.
08:41What are your expectations and also what will be your message for the fans?
08:49Expectation?
08:50I think that it's going to be an open game because they are at home.
08:54They want also to show that they want to fight for the first place.
08:57So, and we want to defend this first place.
08:59So, it's going to be a 50-50 game.
09:01So, I think both teams would like to attack, will affect the ball.
09:05It's going to be, I hope, a nice game.
09:08And, yeah, for the fans, for sure.
09:09We will fight for them all the time.
09:12Fight for the calls till the last second and try to bring the three points at home.
09:18Perfect, cross the fingers.
09:19In the end, just a quick-fire question, Afimiko.
09:23I will ask you, of course, and you shortly respond that.
09:26Let's go then.
09:27PlayStation or Netflix?
09:29PlayStation.
09:32Sweet or salty food?
09:36Sweet.
09:37Best dancer in the team?
09:44Afimiko Pululu.
09:46Me.
09:48Good one.
09:49Day or night you prefer?
09:54Night.
09:57Favourite football shirt you've ever swapped for?
10:04With Thomas Müller.
10:07He hiding talent.
10:09Your talent, of course, outside the football.
10:14To speak language.
10:17Oh, that's nice.
10:18How many did you speak?
10:20How many did you speak then?
10:22I speak four now.
10:25This one.
10:26That's a good one.
10:28Winter or summer?
10:34This depends, to be honest.
10:39Summer, I'd say.
10:41Perfect.
10:42Lovely.
10:43Like this.
10:43Thank you very much, Afimiko.
10:45I would really appreciate for your time, and we'll keep in touch.
10:48And best luck, of course, in the Polish extra class.
10:52Thank you, thank you, thank you.
10:54I invite you guys to watch Polish extra class in Beansport, in USA.
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