Africa’s New Football Power & Brazil’s Rebuild | Dotun Adebayo, Tim Vickery and Maher Mehazi

The international break is here, but for Africa and South America it means two very different things.

Dotun Adebayo is joined by Tim Vickery and Maher Mezahi to look beyond the usual international-break headlines and explain what is really at stake across two continents.

In Africa, qualification for AFCON 2027 begins. Nigeria start their campaign without Victor Osimhen, while Madagascar provide a reminder of just how quickly the balance of power is changing across African football.

Maher explains the role academies and diaspora players are playing in that change, from Cape Verde and Comoros to Madagascar and Mali, and why getting player development right in Africa is far more complicated than simply copying the European model.

There is also a huge opening fixture between Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Hervé Renard is back with the Elephants and beginning a new generation, while Carlos Queiroz remains in charge of a Ghana side facing a rebuild of its own.

Then Tim takes us to South America, where attention has already turned towards the 2030 World Cup.

What happens to Argentina after Lionel Messi? Who becomes South America's next great number 10? And can Carlo Ancelotti rebuild a Brazil side that now needs something it once produced almost automatically: midfielders capable of controlling matches?

Plus, why the unusual format of the 2030 World Cup could completely change South American qualifying, and why national teams outside Europe are finding it increasingly difficult to organise meaningful international friendlies.

Featuring: Dotun Adebayo, Tim Vickery and Maher Mezahi.

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