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Oct 31, 2026
Vincent Sowah OdoteiGUEST
It's a double-edged sword, both the history, the thing, it weighs you, but it also gives you a lot of, enhances you in the status.
Vincent Sowah OdoteiGUEST
Because I remember, I led Hearts of Oak to Morocco five years ago when we went to the Champions League.
Vincent Sowah OdoteiGUEST
And as big as we see Morocco, as big as we see WAC, when we're training, most people in the town came wanting to see Accra Hearts of Oak.
Vincent Sowah OdoteiGUEST
It was shocked.
Vincent Sowah OdoteiGUEST
And here we are, if you recall, at that time we had four slots in Africa.
Vincent Sowah OdoteiGUEST
We never played...
Vincent Sowah OdoteiGUEST
Two in the Champions League.
Vincent Sowah OdoteiGUEST
Two in the Champions League, two in the Cup.
Maher MezahiHOST
And that money is going to trickle down past the 20 clubs and the closed league into the rest of African club football.
Maher MezahiHOST
We all said, how are you guys going to generate that money? Like we are the ones covering the African Champions League.
Maher MezahiHOST
We know what the figures are.
Maher MezahiHOST
We know what their financial ecosystem is like.
Steve VickersHOST
I'm Steve Vickers in Harare, Zimbabwe, joined by Piers Edwards and by Stuart Weir.
Steve VickersHOST
This week we catch up on the CAF Champions League as holders Mamalodi Sundowns fail to make it to the group stage.
Steve VickersHOST
Also we look ahead to the 2026 CAF Women's Champions League starting on Sunday in Egypt.
Steve VickersHOST
And lots on the English Premier League plus Jan Jomande's good form at Real Madrid.
Steve VickersHOST
And we highlight the qualities that made Harry Kane a Ballon d'Or winner.
Steve VickersHOST
Well, that's all coming up on the show.
Steve VickersHOST
Let's start with the CAF Champions League.
Steve VickersHOST
The draw for the group stage was made on Wednesday after the completion of the second qualifying round last weekend.
speaker_11PANELIST
Yes, we are 旁边, yeah.
E.K. WallaceHOST
And see CAF Champions League 旁边 and, uh, group stages 旁边 Uber group A, yeah, Esperance Tunis, uh, 旁边, and Petro Luanda, uh, 旁边, and, uh, CS Ougadougou, uh, and, uh, AS Vita Club, uh, Rubine Kazan like AC, uh, young Africans, uh, and, uh, AFI, MC Algiers, uh, Club Africain and so HLM groups, you know, RS Berkane, uh, Simba SC, uh, Orlando Pirates now face, uh, Colombo, uh, Sportif also HLM.
E.K. WallaceHOST
Group D, no, uh, Pyramids FC and then Al-Hilal of Omdurman.
E.K. WallaceHOST
There's a Sudan team, no, no.
E.K. WallaceHOST
Now face Royal SC 旁边 and, uh, Mas Diface and so, uh, uh, uh, but where, uh, CAF, uh, Champions League, uh, group stages, no, 旁边.
E.K. WallaceHOST
Uh, may a lot of analysis on the CAF Champions League, no, Confederations Cup, no 旁边.
E.K. WallaceHOST
FIFA under 17 Women's World Cup into Black Maidens, 旁边 a place in the quarterfinals of the tournament following their 5-4, uh, penalty shootouts, uh, yeah, win over Argentina after South Americans, no, 旁边 cancel out, uh, uh, Jessica Pia Asamoah 16th-minute, uh, strike, you know, in regular time.
E.K. WallaceHOST
And see Jessica Pia Asamoah only win, uh, most valuable, uh, uh, player of the game.
Michael AbramsonHOST
Let's start with the success stories of the weekend and Orlando Pirates proving far too good.
Michael AbramsonHOST
They will be carrying the flag for South Africa in the CAF Champions League.
Tiani WagamabasaGUEST
They can see that anything is possible.
Tiani WagamabasaGUEST
They can do it.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
The Sharks will be hoping to finish their European tour on a high note this weekend when they take on Munster in the URC.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
And Orlando Pirates have been drawn in Group C of the CAF Champions League.
Michael OdewaleGUEST
If you say Gaddafi, you're a fucking idiot.
Michael OdewaleGUEST
Colonel Gaddafi, for example, I think was trying to build the African Champions League And UEFA, FIFA, you know how they get.
Michael OdewaleGUEST
When they found out about that, they were like, no.
Michael OdewaleGUEST
Because all the black players, Kante, Mbappe, wasn't alive yet.
EmmanuelHOST
A World Cup winner
Hakeem AdegbeyinroGUEST
... a World Cup winner and, um, uh, played so well in, in the Champions League and in even the, uh, Spanish La Liga for Barcelona.
Hakeem AdegbeyinroGUEST
But when you consider what Harry Kane has brought to the table, uh, for Bayern Munich and even for England, you realize that, um, [clears throat] beyond just a personal, um, uh, player, he, he's some sort of a team player.
Hakeem AdegbeyinroGUEST
Uh, carries the team, carries, um, the, the nation, um, a- as a skipper, and his contribution to, uh, Bayern Munich in the last, uh, few years cannot really be, um, be shaken.
Hakeem AdegbeyinroGUEST
...
Hakeem AdegbeyinroGUEST
when, when you work in an environment that you are not welcome, when you work in an environment, um, that is very hostile to, to your craft, then you, you, you can always think about as the exit point.
Hakeem AdegbeyinroGUEST
Uh, the man has guided this, uh, team from a 2-0 deficit in Abeokuta, and then they overturned the 2-0 deficit to also qualify to the group stage of the Champions of, um- CAF Champions League.
Hakeem AdegbeyinroGUEST
But that notwithstanding, he's, he's saying that he wants to, you know, throw in the towel, not because, uh, he has not performed on the field, but because the environment is not conducive enough for him to continue his craft.
Michael AbramsonHOST
They'll be hoping for a good cup run, as was their case in the Nedbank Cup last season.
Michael AbramsonHOST
In the capital, sundowns up against Marumo Gallants, looking to put the disappointment of being eliminated in the CAF Champions League behind them.
Michael AbramsonHOST
And Chiefs, who also will put their disappointment of being knocked out in the CAF Confed Cup, they're at home to TX Galaxy at the FNB Stadium.
Michael AbramsonHOST
Speaking of the FNB Stadium, the Soweto Derby takes centre stage there on Saturday.
Jon GerickeCORRESPONDENT
Steve Smith is still to undergo a fitness test on his troublesome neck.
Jon GerickeCORRESPONDENT
Orlando Pirates will be South Africa's representatives in the CAF Champions League group stages after a weekend of contrasting fortunes for the country's leading clubs.
Jon GerickeCORRESPONDENT
The Buccaneers thrashed Namibia's African stars 4-0 at Orlando Stadium on Friday.
Jon GerickeCORRESPONDENT
5-0 aggregate win to book their place in the last 16.
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