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00:16welcome to another episode of five aside on being sports and we have a very exciting week
00:22because we are entering the fifa intercontinental playoffs for the world cup amazing matchups going
00:29on and first up we have yeah we have bolivia versus surinam with the winner going on to play iraq
00:37what
00:37are y'all predictions for this game well it's tough no no i'll do for bolivia this time give me
00:43bolivia
00:43yeah i think so too surinam would be a big upset to be honest of course bolivia have a certain
00:49type
00:49of grit that they play with you know they've obviously put a lot of you know pressure on the
00:54teams they played so far now the fact that they're playing conan ball and you're going against brazil
00:57in argentina colombia like they've had a bit of those heavyweight tests i think that's going to
01:01fare for them well and they're going to be able to beat surinam but will they beat iraq no iraq
01:08has
01:08it that is really tough that one is the one i'm very 50 50. i just don't believe in bolivia
01:13outside
01:14of bolivia yeah that home for that home for that just carried them a long way like a lot of
01:19those
01:20points they picked up was at home um and so you think surinam or you or you think iraq i
01:27think
01:27bolivia will get past surinam okay even though surinam i feel like probably has some of those
01:31ballers too that we may not be sleeping on yeah um but i don't think bolivia gets past iraq
01:37yeah i think we're going with iraq as well iraq was very close to qualifying on like super close by
01:42their own yeah in the regular process so yeah yeah yeah playing for a lot of stuff back home as
01:47well and then we get into the heavyweight side of the bracket i would say in terms of we've got
01:51some
01:52african representation congo will be playing the winner of jamaica versus new caledonia jamaica you
01:58have to win there's no excuses first off you should have already been in the world cup out of conca
02:02calf
02:03no excuses for the fact that you're in the playoff i don't need to find this you know what i
02:07mean
02:07no excuse that you're in the playoff but then we have jamaica congo unless any of y'all think
02:11new caledonia now listen listen at the end of the day you think new caledonia jamaica can't
02:16fumble like that i'm not gonna hold you jamaica national team you've heard a lot of my friends
02:20feelings you'll have to figure this out you have to i believe it yeah i believe it yeah you know
02:26what i'm saying i was wearing the jamaica kit last time i was on the show you have it behind
02:29you
02:29right now josh you know i'm saying right here big up ja yeah i'm saying but they got to figure
02:34it out
02:34and then congo's waiting for you so good luck i just don't have any faith in this jamaica team bro
02:38they played up against curacao jamaica trinidad and bermuda and although like there were only one
02:43point for missing qualification that's a group they should have like easily got passed for the
02:48amount of you have to win that group bro you have to people are like oh new caledonia like
02:53who was that like not to you know yeah of course teams on this list but it's like yo like
02:59if they
03:00can't get past some of the teams they have to play against to qualify i can't like the pressure's on
03:05too new caledonia is there for like obviously they want to make it but all they're playing with
03:09house money as they say a little nerve wracking yeah jamaica know i'm saying listen y'all got the
03:13new kits i have faith in y'all it's just a restructuring that had to happen you've hurt too
03:17many of my friends heart yeah you even hurt my heart as well don't do that well josh i have
03:21a
03:21question for you don't do that if they win they play congo yeah yeah yeah whose hearts will be hurt
03:26after that listen i don't know whose heart's gonna be hurt but fumble be listen fumble break something
03:30i'm glad that game is gonna be nuts yeah after congo jamaica you said you have to go you flying
03:36to mexico it's gonna be i'm going to make it for the world cup it's gonna be a quick flight
03:40from
03:40mexico to jamaica oh you're saying it's over yeah it's over yeah i can't congo nah they got it
03:47first they made semi-finals of the afton if congo qualifies first time in a world cup since
03:531974 yeah and we saw them at afton this team did not and i say yeah it was harder to
03:58get out of
03:58i would say than yeah you have to definitely there and they almost beat algeria in that game
04:03and they just beat nigeria well it was a quarter final yeah wait didn't they just beat cameroon
04:07in nigeria to even be in this playoff there you go i'm going congo well keeping it international
04:12but bringing it to the states we got to talk about florin balogun who is absolutely thriving in
04:18league on he just scored another goal this time another winner away from home for monaco and this
04:23was against leon which now brings them within one point of fourth place in league on fire how good do
04:28we think he's been this season and how good can he be for the u.s men's national team and
04:32if he is
04:32that starting nine like how far can you take us he's someone that's stepped up as the season has
04:36gone through which is something that you need you know what i mean you can start well but as
04:40at least in my family they'll see if the end will hopefully you can continue to score and stay
04:44healthy for the world cup yeah yeah yeah i definitely think a lot of people probably just
04:48slept on him a little bit he was flying under their radar and like you said just getting big goals
04:53and really big games um in the regular season as we get into the final stretch literally that's all
04:58you can ask for your number it's true to do it and a lot of teams out there your number
05:02nine is not
05:02delivering so yeah that's a fact you can have no words for balogun um but i think he'll be huge
05:07for
05:08usmnt this yeah yeah this form is amazing i think this is the best time to find your form right
05:12before
05:12world cup for sure this is that point in the season right before world cup where players really
05:15started like turning it up a notch yeah so i think balogun finding his form right now competing for a
05:20champions league spot next season for monaco yep he's everything's going the right way for him he
05:24just has to keep it up but yeah he this is exactly what they need and i think the u
05:27.s men's national
05:28team will benefit a lot these friendlies and during the tournament yeah at number nine and he's scoring
05:32meaningful goals like i said against psg against leon he now has nine league on goals he scored five in
05:38the champs as well this is what you want from the u.s starting nine and i can't really think
05:42of a world
05:42cup where our starting nine is just in europe putting up stats like this yeah and then to also have
05:47ricardo pepe doing what he's doing then you got the likes of a haji right you know looking like
05:51he's gonna get promoted ajeming as well with derby county like we have a wealth of options which i
05:56think is also pushing these guys making that squad is not even a guarantee let him be in the starter
06:00so
06:00i think balogun is operating like that and it's good to like pochettino he doesn't have a set number
06:05nine yet he's rotating him a lot so there's a yeah there's a lot of competition in the spot we
06:09have to
06:09see who'll take it for sure for sure bringing it back to africa though we do have to talk about
06:14afcon in the final and the continuation of the fallout as there's constantly more news going
06:21on about it we now hear that senegal is going to be taking this to the court of the arbitration
06:26of
06:26sport to further appeal the appeal to the decision and see if they can have any change to the ruling
06:32there's then rumors about hakimi's reaction to it does he even support it as moroccan um so on x he
06:38tweeted energy speaks i don't people are questioning what this means is that a way of him which is
06:45very cryptic so you can't say he supports it or doesn't support it but it's just a lot swirling and
06:49it seems like the fallout is definitely still continuing in africa yeah i mean i'm not surprised
06:54senegal is appealing yeah uh i think i even saw like they were calling on sadio mane to give the
07:00like
07:00player of the tournament award to brahim like people are like oh yes to like personally deliver it's
07:06crazy which is obviously like banter but like it yeah we i think we talked a lot about the fallout
07:13of the final like the title being shifted yeah so like thinking about like player awards and just
07:17act individual accolades too it's a bit much it's kind of crazy to think about but um
07:23i yeah i think senegal they might fare well at that core of arbitration yeah i think they could
07:30i'm gonna i'm gonna read off the official statement so musa and by a member of the senegalese
07:35federation executive committee added um this is a procedure we are going to carry out people will
07:39hear a lot of fake news but they should have the patience to wait for official communications from
07:43the s f s f we will not act emotionally but in a very cold and strategic way to defend
07:48at best
07:48senegal's interests um so in the blink of an eye the lawyer handling the case had previously
07:53represented morocco at cas when calf sanctioned atlas lions excluding them from two afcon additions after
07:58they refused to host the 2015 tournament so yeah this going to the court of arbitration for sport
08:03yeah it's interesting just to see all these governing bodies because you think okay calf
08:06the african federation has to end there but then it goes to the arbitration of sport and it's like
08:10well you can get the u.n next like it's just crazy um but how's this gonna affect the world
08:14cup for
08:15these guys hey listen at the end of the day you reap what you sow later than you sow more
08:19than you
08:19sow you know i'm saying and so the refereeing decision not being able to control that game has
08:23bled into this the world cup of ads you know we talked about the birth of a new rivalry
08:26yep that's for sure you know even if you feel like you don't have something to prove there's even more
08:31to prove now if let's say they lose the appealing and somehow you know what i mean there's something
08:35even about the senegal jerseys that were at the you know event last week yeah the star and now
08:39there's going to be a star yeah so no i think it just sets up for a very fiery um
08:45i guess
08:47intercontinental relation yeah i don't know hopefully it's the type of thing though the world cup actually
08:52can present a moment for them to represent africa together well yeah i mean they both they're gonna
08:58both be playing games in new york both we will be there and it's new york is a place where
09:03there's
09:03a lot of moroccans there's a lot of senegalese folks yeah harlem is gonna be very interesting
09:07yeah harlem versus queens it's gonna be very interesting they have those two interact but
09:11you know talk is talk at the end of the day the only way they can prove it right now
09:14is on the pitch
09:15yeah and they have the best opportunity to do on the world stage they're both playing you know top
09:19level opponents in france early on yeah to norway scotland so at the end of the day the best thing
09:26that
09:26they could do is play well and let the fans and the media kind of let the narrative go as
09:30it will
09:31because at the end of the day it doesn't matter all they're thinking about is the start the start
09:35matters but what really matters is bringing that world cup home so for sure keeping it within africa
09:39we have an absolute legend in muhammad sala who will be officially leaving liverpool at the end of
09:45this season he went on to win two premier leagues with them champions league all types of goal and assist
09:50records what are y'all thoughts on his legacy as liverpool player and african legend in general
09:55yo loki he might be a bigger legend than steven gerrard it's not crazy to say that's not crazy
10:03no i'm just doing this because you know the scouts is when they get this clip boy and this is
10:07a
10:07they might agree there's some that would agree i mean trophy cabinet i'm not to say like i feel like
10:11he has one more he won more uh excuse me more prems because um gerard never won a prem you
10:18know the
10:18slip and all that yeah man like he did more for the club like he did more for the club
10:23and he probably
10:23did more individually as well with the assist and goal records and he broke some more yeah
10:28in terms of peak seasons so it's like all endorse outs so i'm curious to see if one liverpool fans
10:35start disrespecting salad like they did with trent yeah and two if people actually talk about him in
10:40the way that they used to talk about stevie yeah or it's still talking about stevie to this day just
10:44to talk about his impact he single-handedly there's case studies showing that he's decreased uh incidence of
10:50islamophobia in england yep and the fact now we're looking at premier league soccer and they're
10:54they're taking breaks for for ramadan to let players break their fast they're making rooms for
10:59fans you know to pray during um during matches yeah so i think it's it's hard not to say that
11:04you know salah's impact and his presence as a star in the league hasn't you know contributed to those
11:09things so yeah it's completely different legacy but in the scope of african football like salah has
11:15paved the way for african footballers to to thrive in their premier league and it's normalized and
11:20this next generation now led by players like marmouche uh even yeah just across the premier
11:25league yeah african players you know thriving there salah really kind of normalized and opened
11:30up those conversations yeah like africa is a place where you can source talent you don't have to get
11:33talent only in europe the idea of european tax doesn't only exist on players you know you can bring
11:38in top level talent so i think we won't be able to understand his impact until later like 20 30
11:44years
11:44after what we're seeing this next generation of egyptian ballers playing out in liverpool and
11:48other big clubs it's true it's true that's facts an undisputed african legend but that's all from
11:54us today on five aside we'll talk to y'all next week peace
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