Good afternoon and welcome back to the Touchline on Y25. My name is Maxwell Wasik. We're going to speak about the way forward regarding Kenyan football and of course joining me are two gentlemen who form an integral part as far as Kenyan football is concerned. One of them is Simon Sepemulama, former Kenyan international and he also featured prominently for some local clubs led by FC Leopards and Mother United.  Immediately we leave this studio and you know Ali Amur, a man who has been serving in FKF transition committee in charge of leagues and competition. Good to see you gentlemen, starting with you Sepemulama. How are you doing? It's been a while. Good to see you. How are you doing? I'm good. You keeping well? Always. I can see. Ali Amur, the last time you were here I think it was two weeks ago. Right now you are mandated as people in charge of running Kenyan football in interim capacity came to an end yesterday. Is there a vacuum? First thanks for having me again two weeks. Ya, I don't think there is a vacuum. There will always be a plan. I mean the government can never miss a plan in terms of putting things together and fixing up challenges. So I'm not sure if there's going to be a vacuum. I'm not sure there's going to be a vacuum. Sepemulama, from the perspective of a person who's waited playing football to try and live and put meal on the table. Right now as you speak there is no much of activity. What do you make of the sport and what it means for a player? The lack of activity for the soccer players is discouraging because this is your livelihood and we have some people who are involved in football who let's say they call themselves club owners. So they will take advantage of this and if you are a player they will tell you the league is not going on. We are not getting any sponsorship. So there's no way we'll pay you any money. And you're going running for months and even if there's money it's coming from my pocket so I appreciate whatever it is I'm giving to you. So it's very discouraging and if I put myself in their shoes I'm always looking forward to when will the leagues and the competitions begin so that I can actually be able number one to put food on my table and be able to take care of my bills as an individual and as a family man. But personally you featured for some professional clubs overseas like Ismailia of Egypt. Is that what happened abroad? Like you know when there is no activity a team doesn't pay you because you're not offering something in return. That's a bad comparison because you know we have countries and continents that we can say they are developed. They are more advanced in terms of football and sports and the respect they have for the sports and people involved in sports, the ethics and everything. So if you have a contract we have a situation like this people do honor their contracts. You know if you get injured and it looks like it's a long term injury and you are six months to the end of your contract they pay you and say okay it was good doing business with you or we cannot have you anymore. So people honor those contracts in places where the respect and the advancement in the game is seen but you know we are talking about real situation here at home. People will take advantage of that and we have seen clubs that are doing that to players. Ali Amur talked to us about you know the accomplishments of the committee now that their mandate came to an end yesterday. What are the milestones? What can we talk about that has been achieved by you know General Moriso Yugi Lead Committee? Yeah, Maxwell as I'll be echoing the accomplishments I'll also emphasize for Kenyans to read the reports so they can actually understand because maybe on this show I'll just highlight a few of them but it's very important to get in details because it goes back, way way back of this issue and that's what Mulama also mentioned is here the person who is really getting affected is the player and that is a major stakeholder in football that unfortunately in Kenya they have been ignored. So generation after generation one of the accomplishment that I'll call out is we recommended players contract to be respected and to be made transparent all the way from the under 13 player that is good to under 15 under 17 because we've seen in our school days you're playing very good football, our clubs come and recruit you but you're not given a contract and because you have passion you feel happy you're playing for a bigger club. So there has to be a legal structure, a sports legal structure by the Ministry of Sports that is actually only focusing on players contract because that is huge and the players are many. That is one of our recommendations. The second recommendation is which is my passion is about digitalization of the entire football fraternity and when I say digitalization what do I mean? We want to know if by just a click of button coming how many team managers do we have in Kenya? What are their credentials? How many coaches do we have? How many referees do we have? How many players do we have and what is their age group? Why are we saying that because you'll find players are impacted by the age. They feel maybe I'm playing in division 2 but I'll be recruited as a professional player but nobody is telling them at a certain age you're absolute nobody wants you. So that dealer education about age group performing in league is very key and because that structure is not there that's why Munaama is coming up with his academy because there's no any other platform whereby a scout will come in and looking for an under 13. That's why you see all these academies are coming in to address that issue but if today there's a proper league structure with a segmented edge his academy will be in that league. So you see that is business that is commercialization and that is visibility for the player. Third thing that recommended is the league structures. You can't have a league where you have 127 teams. It just can't work. First the player has to rest. I mean even the referees officiating all this they have to be well trained. So it has to be a structured league and for you to have all these teams then it has to be distributed across the country. So by the time you're coming to the top league everybody has really actively compete. That's very key because you one league and you find a same platform of league let's say division 3 but they are 397. Adana 11. Adana 22. So they are not as per the FIFA regulation. We actually skip all the FIFA regulations because FIFA comes and just looks at what happened in the Federation administration but they don't have supervision of what happened below. And probably their priority main priority is the national team. Priority of FIFA is admin. Though FIFA has a lot if you go into FIFA portfolio in terms of training of team managers, training of how to manage league it's a lot. The question is as administrators do you utilize that a lot that timetable? For countries which utilize that they have started their own school.  That's like the kafni you can actually go in until the highest rank. So those structures need to be in place. That's on our community. The fourth recommendation that we actually put is women football. All KPL clubs must have a women football NIST. Now it's mandatory. So what should we ask our clubs ready with that? Because if you are qualifying on club licensing do you have a youth team? Do you have a women team?  Because teams now are actually coming with that. And you've mentioned about critical points and I think one of them is about edge grade football and you know centers of excellence. And when you are talking about the two, Simon Sepe Mulami is an expert of the same because I understand he works in partnership with overseas organizations that offer quality education to young ones who exhibit passionate football talent and they are also academically oriented. And talking about the same, what has been the situation like because as you speak right now even you got academy yourself. Are they working in conformity with what is supposed to be in adherence to FIFA rules and standards? Let me call them youth clubs. Youth clubs? Yes. Right now you will find like my brother says, clubs and people in football at the grassroot level are trying to address that gap. So you will find certain areas of the country. I mean Nairobi so I'll talk about Nairobi. We'll try and mobilize a certain number of teams maybe 20 in a certain area and say let's have a youth team league where we have 12 teams. And spread that maybe we move to another region. Let's have a U9 league with 10 teams. Let's compete. Are they adherence to regulations as FIFA? Not certain. Are we trying to give an opportunity to kids to enjoy themselves, have fun and try to develop their God given talents? Yes, we are because some of us got the same opportunities. Without saying, ok FIFA or MSMR we do this. So if we hold back and say let us wait for somebody to tell us what FIFA wants so that we can implement the same. Number one will be being very unfair to the kids. Yes. Number one and will be denying them opportunities. So if the structure and the proposals and the policies are set right at least they'll find you moving. You know if we are now asked that starting today hands forth Nairobi we've split Nairobi into 16 parts and we want guys from Pangani up to Dandora to participate in this youth team league. Number one will not have any trouble finding the teams and number two all the teams would love to do that. Ok so for the youth teams for the young boys and girls that are at the bottom, I'm a grass root, people are trying to be as creative as they can so that they can get the opportunity for the kids. And for the most part it's voluntary and you can just see and feel the passion that is with the coaches and the guys who own the clubs and the kids. So it is tough because if you have let me say an FA or a branch in Nairobi branch that represent football in Nairobi and you need to affiliate and all that you don't expect necessarily money to be given to you. But since you're giving an opportunity to kids you expect at least soccer balls, ok, a set of cones, katona man, he and there, you know kids, amma even bibs. So if you have to be doing this every day and stuff like football you need to keep replenishing. You can always start with ten balls in January and end up with the same ten balls in December. So every month you need to put in a few more balls in there. So it has been tough for the guys at the bottom but we are resilient and we will keep going. Just wishing that everything turns out well for everyone. You mentioned about welfare of a player who is a paramount factor as far as growth and development of the game and how player contracts need to be honoured by the employers. As we speak right now we have about the KFW, Kenya footballers welfare association. I think amma am not certain about it. I don't know whether it's part of the same because it consists of former internationals led by their president James Tuma. As a FKF transition committee have you tried to collaborate with former players and working in partnership with those existing entities that advocate for player welfare? Ya, I think there are three bodies. You have the KFW, you have the legions, you have another one, KFW or something. KFW or KFW? We've had meetings with them. And what personally I told them or advised them say this is one of the strongest bodies you can ever have in a football fraternity. It's a football place in Kenya. Why am I saying so? Because it consists of present players and ex players. What they need to do is, at least the advice I gave them, they need to come together and put a structure. And because footballers, everybody had their own season and time, they need to start with tier. Let's say from 1970 to 1980, tier one. Now that is a totally different group. It will be tier one. Then 1980 to 1990, tier two. Up to where we are right now. So at that, if you look at those tiers, you will have legions, all players. So you have a tier consisting of the likes of Bobby O'Gorla, JJ Maske. Exactly. And the reason I'm saying that, so that anybody who is now in the 2022-2021 who may not remember a legend, he's not getting mixed with that discussion because that discussion is totally different. Then they have two bodies. The players who are active and the players who are non-active.  So if they come together and they'll have representatives in all the counties, because other players have gone back home, all the counties. So you have through a county or whatever the stream is, the football association or the football union for another county. If you want to see so and so here. Now under them, they'll have the legal department. Under them, we even started a program whereby for the former footballers, we are saying, can they be match homes? They are training programs and everything. So if a footballer has a problem with the administrator, this body is so strong that you cannot play around with it. It's happening in all other countries. But unless they come together. And then now they insist that insurance, because insurance is not only for the active player, also for the non-active player. All the time, and Mola Mola will tell you, most of the players who are now have gone back home sometimes cannot even afford 100-200 shillings for medical cover. NHI 500 a month. And what the labor that given to clubs you can't imagine. So they need to come together and form a strong group. And all of them have a good will. All of them have a good will. Just come together and just put those tears. So they need to embrace solidarity. Yeah, solidarity. And then say, these are here. Just amortize everything. Because somebody who is played in the 80s, you cannot mix him with somebody who is playing in the 20s. They will have issues. And all of them have played in national teams. The only need to understand is the role of footballer. But administration is something totally different from actually the active playing in the field. So we have actually advised them. It's also in the recommendations. And talking about the insurance scheme, I think all of us watched some story regarding one of the local players, Ezeke Lotoma, who featured for Kulindi Stars at some point. He's paralyzed and I think his football future has been brought to an end. I'm not sure, but obviously we wish him well whether he will play again because of the situation that he is facing. And if there was such a medical scheme in place, maybe we could have had some hope in him getting revived. Simon Sepemulama talking from that perspective of what players go through. Besides insurance scheme for the current crop of players who are actively involved in the game, which other mechanism should be put in place by the current FAA or the incoming regime to help address the plight of bowlers? If we leave the challenge we are talking about, if we leave it for the FAA alone, we will be being very unfair. This is a societal issue. So number one the entire society, number two the government, then we have the FAA and we have the clubs. Clubs were the employers now? Yes, I'll give you an example. I was playing for Mathare United and I got injured and insurance was not there so I had to take care of myself. If the society shows the same passion that they show when number one commenting and giving their views about the game, maybe Haramistaz plays Togo, everyone will be talking about the game and everyone is a coach and all that. If society gave the same passion in funding and contributing towards supporting clubs, the government the same, so county government and Nairobi does the same to clubs, county government in Western does the same. You'll find the players getting good payment. Because the funding in football, let's say football in this country is not good enough. So even with the insurance you're talking about, personally kama I didn't have enough funds without an insurer, then maybe I could be limping right now and give over crutches. So what I'm saying is it's not just the FAA, but the entire 60 kama a country, we need to number one really love the game, we need to have it passionately enough such that this is my club I'll go to the stadium and pay, I'll pay membership, I'm a corporate in Kenya, Pengine for example, Mimini equity bank, I will support with this much. But the money is not enough, even whatever the FAA does and the money is not there in the pockets of the players, I'm at the clubs, there's little that can happen. So I think we need to put in a little bit more money to the players, payment to players who want a cup, at least minimum wage for the players.   You cannot take care of yourself Pengine in recovery the same way until he gets there. So minimum wage at least in Kenya if he gets 150,000 lowest paid, what's the problem with that? So kama society, if we can show the same love, translate that kipesa so that there's money in the pockets of the players, pockets of the clubs, then even to reassure us like he says, a player cannot afford to pay for himself 200 bob, then we can now be, now we can be able to do that and we can be able to be talking about as a progressing kama country in football. Aliamur, it boils down to who? Regarding sepe's comments over sell sustainability of players so that we provide quality remuneration to them that will enable them to take good care of themselves including insurance scheme. We come back again to commercialization of clubs unless we commercialize fully our clubs then we're going to achieve all those points that Mulama has mentioned. One, if you're running a club you as an official of a club what is your aim? What's your target? Do you want to be an official just by name or official for selfish gains or an official that this club has to be taken from this level up to this level? Then the champions of the club do they give targets to the people who actually the administrators? Do they have marketing teams that all the time they are rushing with business plans to corporates? We have a huge following and the funds are passionate but even the funds are getting tired because they are passionate is being discouraged all the time not because of the players is because of the way the clubs are run so we have to go fully into commercialization and what is commercialization in football clubs? It's high time now clubs have a proper organogram where you have a chame you have a board and who is sitting on that board? At your free time go and google who sits on Bayern Munich's board you find the director of Adidas he said they are German telco these are people who when you see them or when you know that they are sitting there you as a fan you are confident that the money that you pay to the club first is secured What sorts of revenue do we need to drive to sustain clubs? How we constructed our march in a way that this season this is what we are unveiling to our clubs then how do you protect the player? We protect the player it's not only on the contract that contract has a lot of caps on it if he is going to be putting a jersey and maybe an Adidas shoe and Adidas saying me and Mulama we are signing a different contract so Mulama is a brand ambassador today in the country like many others but do those officials still recognize them as a brand ambassador because maybe indirectly there are so many kids out of Madare seeing him they got motivated you see now that is indirect income for the club that is gaining without him being active but if you go to other countries they are still active out of the field because one kid grew up and say Mulama is very disciplined and like to be like him so his brand is still being utilized then in the contract after a certain age how is he covered medically am I going to pay for the next 5 years 500 for him in terms of NHIF so that contract of the player has to be really protected then comes to remuneration now that is I think an elephant in the room players are getting paid handouts and I was almost interjecting when he was talking about the yards that they have taken during this transition period and you know some of those points and one of those points that I picked the bar is set too high when you are talking about club licensing and you say it is going to be mandatory if you have a club in the premium you have a women's team and you have a youth team and this is a club that can barely get a sponsorship what 10 million you know we have been hearing somebody say one of the big clubs gets 55 million per season you know that is not even enough but ok now how many clubs out of the 18 are getting anywhere close to that even half of that ok and then we have you need to have a women's team participate in a league and you need to have a youth team that you know having a youth team does not just mean you have kids running around but a lot of stuff is going on and even taking care of their school to some extent you know in places that really embrace and understand football and the importance of grooming these young kids you take care of their food that is how you come up with the cost of this player so to speak ok so he is 17 years old and he is going to Manchester United and you say he is worth 50 million how did you reach to how did you reach at this figure these are the things that you want to be doing in the youth teams our clubs really like he says are the owners of the the holders of these offices in these clubs are they the right people are they even do they even understand the kind of situation they put themselves in by saying I own this club and I am running a club and this is where we want to get to because honestly what is happening right now with the clubs the club owner is the marketing manager we have many heard you know some of the coaches still some are doing their finances so aki se maibu dokutayenda and that brings us to the question of you know who is supposed to be in charge of a club what are the eligibility requirements for someone you know who deserves being at the helm of a top tier club that he would he would oversee the successful running of the team because like you were talking before the show started about you know Florentino Perez of Rialma it has been a mainstream regarding his tenure as a president of the team because I think of his financial might when the team gets rendered he got what it takes to come to the rescue of the team should you also follow suit and replicate the same at home Yanga, Azam, Simba I think are doing the same too over and above that and I said during the Kiataka committee tenure can we take our club KPL champions both men and women at least to Tanzania just to learn how clubs are being run an induction trip let me call it an induction trip just to learn how clubs are being run they get a blueprint and just when they come back let them replicate only 40% of it not much because Yanga, Simba and Tibwa and Coastal Coastal Union all of them started like where we are our clubs were far much better ahead by then but now they have overtaken us because they disrupted everything sat down, looked back and were active listeners unfortunately some of us are not active listeners if he is giving feedback say so when you are giving a point to become an active listeners then you action it if a sponsor comes in it's all about just giving money to the club the sponsor should ask the value the value and one of the value is how are you playing your players how are you paying them can I see an ERP system whereby I know your players are being paid a minimum amount so I know the money that I'm giving you goes into this do we have agreements maybe with hotels where a season is starting here's a club you know that you're going to go to Mombasa or Kamega or Kericho do you have a hotel in advance engage them and say I'm going to come to your hotel can you give me this discount so your financial person has a proper budget air tickets and everything once you have that in advance and that's what good organized clubs does there are some clubs do that here then these are my players then which insurance company because today insurance company are yearning to cover players but what is a package so your sponsor man comes automatically it goes to insurance you are covered it goes to salary you are covered it goes to transport you are covered then now you look for other source of revenues extra revenues which clubs are minting millions globally in terms of those meetings so we need the KPL clubs owners at least or champions to have an induction trip to go and see what are the best practices what are we missing to go do benchmarking just benchmarking my friend we we had senior government officials do that when we had World Cup yeah I think it was in Russia benchmarking 2016 now we are 2022 6 years later you tell me what anybody any one of them learnt and what we are trying to implement okay we've talked about stadiums having you know you go benchmark and see why these countries are so developed in football and why they are where they are how is it that they produce a certain number of professional players you know and world beaters and we come and say we want to build one stadium in every county and we feel that's developing the game let us talk about Nairobi because this is what we are we understand Nairobi if we have a stadium in Kangemi and you live in Dandora or Kayole how many times are you going to access that stadium as a kid you need training certain number of hours a week you need to participate in matches Toka Dandora every day at least one hour training in Kangemi how feasible is that doesn't even make sense we have countries and we have reports UF has made a report after the same World Cup 2018 I believe and say they build many pitches so that when this kid is at home at Kengaliya in Jedrisha there is a field there not necessarily make up carpet but it has been leveled and the guys around that area that love the game and have invested in the game in terms of training and coaching they have been actually educated and trained so well the list the list certificate was a UFAB in the project that I'm talking to you about the heart trick project UFAB license that's the list everyone else is above that so this kid goes out there's a level playing field Kiwanja safi safi safi and we have well trained coaches just from around there since the benchmarking in Russia how many cases how many coaches can we say the government felt that every year they will be sponsoring or backing this number of coaches every year so that we can be where those people that we watched at the World Cup are you understand so it's a big challenge if we had senior government officials go and this is where we are I don't know about the FK I don't know about the KPL club owners but it is a great program back home now that you widely travelled with your vast experience how can it get executed because like what Sepe is saying if senior government officials including ministers and politicians led by MPs and Senators travelled to Russia in 2018 for benchmarking and nothing has been as materialized in terms of implementing what they so how possible is it to execute it is very much possible there is good will right now when you talk to clubs champions and see there is very much good will what they need to we also suggest this maybe they go in for a 3 day seminar in the country and you have professionals coming in to train them you remember in the caretaker we actually have a report I think from PWC or one of these or delayed or something that these guys who are actually managing football league premier football league this personal league we have that report from them so one of the advice is we bring in the CEOs and the champions of clubs for a 3 day seminar to take them through why do you need a limited company why is it important to have a players contract and on that seminar we are inviting sponsors and the sponsor come and say this is what we require from new clubs because a sponsor who comes in to sponsor they want their brand to be protected and they want value for their money even before they start this coming league it is important to have a 2 days or 3 days seminar and to take these clubs through a vigorous seminar to understand this is your vision and then you have a timetable when are you going to have a women team when are you going to have a youth team then with that that is a report I say clubs have agreed to have a women team on this date a youth team on this date or you can adapt a youth team and say I have a youth team I have adapted it or a women team have adapted it so this is our youth team so the sponsor comes in knowing that I am sponsoring 3 teams there is a women the KPL the women and the youth then this sponsor will understand wow so we have youth teams across the country so my brand will be known from this age group this value and the sponsors are willing they are only scared because anytime they come in this chaos if that chaos is packed these KPL clubs will grow because we have talent we are really visionary and we really want to grow so it's important to take them too then now call even legions what is your experience in running an academy what is your experience as a player today we are calling all the legions say he can be a brand ambassador go back to Fafajeriko or go back to Queens or to Kisi and say ya is for me to be here I was not smoking I was not doing this then they become legions become brand ambassadors of countries today Oliver Khan had to be taken back to school after playing all international matches and winning world cup so that he can become a manager those are job opportunities there are so many and I'll keep on insisting football in itself does not need funds from outside if we are all structured properly with transparency then we can actually sustain ourselves in football quality conversation it's been with this traditional menu for an integral part as far as Kenyan football and before I let them go I think I would want your final submission sepe what is your parting shot regarding way forward for Kenyan football yesterday I was talking to Bob Yogola, former Kenyan international and asking him about his insights regarding upcoming FIFA World Cup in Qatar and African chances and he was telling me before we talk about other 5 African countries representing we need to talk and ask ourselves why is Kenyan not there and even before we start talking about Kenyan we need to start talking about Kenyan should start qualifying for regional competitions like Secafa, Afghan then World Cup so it's a gradual process what's your parting shot is it really a parting shot but to get our football to where we need we all would love to see it from everyone, from government private sector citizen and everybody involved in the game let us be honest to the game and try to get it to where it needs to be I'll give you an example Benin right now the government and FIFA and the FA they work together on football education and development for the betterment of football in Benin so if we can pull everyone honestly together as society I think it's an effort that like he says we won't need anyone any funding or any support from whatever other source we as a country for the 6 million plus people can come together and decide the future of this country wow Ali Amur, what do you wanna say regarding way forward on Kenyan football actually three things first and foremost is FIFA calendar today we have to look at the FIFA calendar we are banned, we are suspended when the suspension is lifted tomorrow which is the immediate competition that our clubs or international matches we are going to honour if you look at the African Cup I think it's been postponed to 2024 clubs towards mido end of 2023 and even Secafa it will be next year so we have a window of 6 months if our ban is lifted today we have a window of 6 months for us to go actively back to FIFA tournaments and that is one thing even clubs don't understand it we need to understand the FIFA calendar which is supposed in Senegal it's shared to everybody they know this is the FIFA calendar in other countries even in Tanzania they know the FIFA calendar because of the activities so in Kenya I don't think most clubs or even officials understand what is the FIFA calendar if our ban is lifted today which is the immediate competition that our teams are going to get engaged so we have time to fix our house together that is one second I mean in the previous show you talk about doping we talk about doping at competition level I think doping education should be introduced in schools and age heating too yes should be introduced in schools whereby the kids who are growing up and they want to be athletes you will understand for me to be accessible athletes I am not supposed to be taking this kind of drugs or ETC the third one is about World Cup we need to emphasise World Cup many African countries are not participating in World Cup but if you look at the emphasis imagine putting KBC I am sure you are you are a Holocauster it should be emphasised they should be kind of education to the academies and say today his academy is going in to watch a World Cup match sponsored only by water and everything and you replicate it in different counties then you will find that there is mileage now people understand oh I want to be a player because some of us were young we saw the Kinapeles and the Kinaplatini and it motivated us and it gave birth to so many professional footballers Kenya as a country late a bit in professionalism but we had a very great team it was in Ismailia I can tell you this passion with Egyptians the town that you come from that is your club and that is what happened in UK in any other countries that is your town you will not go to any other club so we need to create that passion the town that you come from and everything my last point is about stadiums we are struggling with venues today we have 12 KPL clubs only in Nairobi imagine if six of them are playing on that weekend that's why we brought our food at one o'clock double headers one o'clock and three o'clock we were talking about the diet do you know at what time as a player you are supposed to take your food and go to the field meaning you've eaten at around 11 no four hours before four hours before four hours before and a certain diet yes you cannot be that diet but at least for a KPL club to play one o'clock I don't think it's right my opinion so in the next stadiums we need to have proper stadiums and the stadiums will start who are the one of the third KPL clubs the clubs they have to start now owning their own stadiums wow Ali Amur in charge of leagues and competition in the just ending FKF transition committee Simon Saipem Lama Foma Kenyan international loving featured for mother united and FCL but it's too unfortunate mother united has been relegated most of us rallied behind them but there's no other option and coincidentally both of them schooled in Iterio same region same region Nyanza Michael Kots was your classmate no he's my schoolmate Saipem was your schoolmate person of your generation for our generation well we had a huge and a great school Sunday Udiyamfu was there Dulebdala daddy was there you know John Mumui Rori John Mumui Rori wow countless names oh it's been a pleasure joining me thank you guys for coming through and sharing that insightful information regarding Kenyan football the state of Asoka and going forward what we should do to ensure that you know we revive the dwindling standards of the game and they lost glory as well thank you for coming through it's the touch line my name is Max Oluasike don't go away continue staying tuned the show proceeds thank you


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Every career has their special tricks on how to find job openings and mining engineering is no different. Here I will share the five best ways that you can find job openings as a mining engineer. I will also give you one tip at the very end that will improve the chances of finding a job. So the first way is to use CareerMind. So the website for that is careermind.com CareerMind is a really good place to find all types of jobs in the mining industry, not just for engineers. So if you've got friends that are operators or study business, this would be a good site for them. CareerMind is a website that aggregates job postings from most of the mining companies and they will even include postings from staffing companies that are posting on behalf of mining companies. So just to show you guys an example, you can type in your keyword. So let's just say if you are a mining engineer, just type that in. And you can also search based on your location. So if I want to search all of Canada, then I would just select that and select within 100 miles. So this gives me all of the job postings within Canada. Click search jobs.  So this you can see it's located in Toronto, Ontario. And this is actually posted up by a staffing company, not the original mining company itself. Same as this one here is provided by a staffing company. The third one here we can see is posted up by Agnico Eagle. There's Valley, another one posted by a staffing company.   And you can also filter out by the category that you're looking for or term, whether you want a permanent position, an internship, contracts, search for full time and part time language requirements. And whether you want postings from a recruitment consultant, direct employer or both. So this is one of the best websites that you can use for looking for jobs. The second way is to look through Wikipedia. So let's just jump through that for a second. So you want to look up a list of mining companies in your country. And you can either go through the entire list for mining companies around the world or you can narrow it down by lists of mining companies in Canada. And so once you have found this list, we want to click on the individual company's name, go to the website and look for career opportunities. So for example, you can go to London mining. And in the references, you can search up the company name and go to careers. And so sometimes companies may not be hiring at the time that you're looking for a job. So it's important to bookmark this page once you get to it so we can go back to it later, perhaps when they have a hiring available. It's currently the only half a finance position. Another way to look through a list of software companies. So a good website for that is mining software.org. And then similar to what we did before on the Wikipedia page, we want to go to products and go through each of them, get to their careers website page. So you will have to search up the name or you can click this button here, that leads them directly to the website and find the careers page and look for job openings. And once again, you'll want to once you enter into these websites, you want to bookmark them so you can access them easier later on. So now we're going to combine the last two tips and use Wikipedia to search for mining equipment companies. So once again, we are going to look for mining equipment companies. We're going to go into each of these websites. So first click the name and go to the website and go to the careers page and look for any job openings. The last one to use is LinkedIn. So LinkedIn is actually a pretty good platform to look for jobs. So just type in the search bar, mining engineering and jobs. One benefit that LinkedIn has is that you can sort jobs by experience level all the way from the internship level to the executive level. So here you can easily find the experience level that's suitable for you. And you can see here, there are some jobs that are posted by consulting companies or staffing solutions companies and some are promoted by the direct employers themselves. So these are my five favorite methods to look for job as a mining engineer. Lastly, as promised, the one tip that will improve your chances of finding a job is to check back often. Postings usually only stay up for two weeks or less. So you should be checking these websites at minimum once a week. But ideally, you do it multiple times a day. Thanks for watching this video. And if this is the first time you're on this channel, make sure you subscribe so you don't miss more great tips on mining engineering.


I mentioned that there is a roadmap and a roadmap to create space ecosystems where there is none. And so we're looking at doing this here and potentially doing it in other countries so that collectively it becomes a global space economy. And we start that with several kind of like elements. So for one, capacity building is the first thing to think about. So education, training, being able to brief people of the opportunities. When you get to that point that people are interested, then you start to create individuals and start-ups and businesses that could potentially work on projects that would be related to that. And so therefore our role also is to try to find tools and training and support and mentorship for those entrepreneurs to go through that process. And then essentially sort of like the last bit is of course funding is always a thing that is needed to actually scale whatever project or start-up that you're working on. And so we're also working on that by looking at innovative ways of crowdfunding potentially. But we're doing this kind of like step-by-step process and we're still kind of in our baby infancy stage.


Dear Portland, it's not America's job to solve your problems, by Ryan McMacon, an audio-mesis wire narrated by Million Quinteros. In response to my article last week opposing the use of federal soldiers and federal agents on the streets of American cities, my inbox and the article's comments section filled up with readers claiming that it most certainly is the job of the U.S. federal government to step in and take control of U.S. cities against the will of the state and local governments. These interventionists have lots of reasons for their federalization of local law enforcement. The author is not realizing the seriousness of the Communist insurgency underway. Federal intervention is unjustified, except in cases where the local elected officials refused to do what they had taken an oath to do. The people are under the protection of the Constitution, thus during insurrections the president has the duty to mobilize to restore order. Oregon State and Portland City governments, either or both, can't or don't want to stop violent protests with destruction of public and private properties. Therefore federal government needs to intervene to restore the order, normal functioning of city businesses and government offices. Many of these readers attempt to make claims about constitutional authority, such as the meaningless claim that, the people are under the protection of the Constitution, whatever that means, and that therefore the feds can do whatever they want to restore order. Other claims are just vague legal assertions about how the president can send in troops wherever local officials aren't doing what we want them to do. To this, I would only restate that the entire historical and legal context of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the American Revolution is one of preventing distant national powers from sending in their agents, bureaucrats, and troops to carry out federal prerogatives. But even if the current U.S. Constitution did authorize federal takeovers of local police, which it doesn't, then the Constitution ought to be ignored, because constitutional authority is inferior to the larger moral principle of subsidiary, self-determination, and local control. As with all things, the Constitution is only useful and worthy of being quoted when it limits federal power. When it doesn't do so, it should be ignored. The Constitution is not some holy writ. It's useful when it attempts to limit federal power and worthless when it doesn't. In this case, the Constitution is on the right side. It limits federal intervention in these cases. But if it weren't on our side, then it would be wrong. Stated simply, here is the basic principle at hand. As an American taxpayer who lives many hundreds of miles from Portland, it's not my job to solve Portland's problems. To business owners and others who live in Oregon and Portland and who are being negatively affected by the riots there, I'm sorry you continue to choose to live in a poorly run state where the political leaders are craven socialists who kowtow to the mob. I highly recommend you consider moving away or expending your own time and energy to do something about it. I'm sorry you didn't see the writing on the wall years ago as voters put into power again and again left-wing demagogues. You decide it to stick around. But it's not now the job of Americans and other places to bail you out. I fully encourage you to organize a local militia, a local political movement, recall effort, or some other strategy to deal with it. But Americans have plenty of their own problems in their own cities. We have our own crime problems and our own problems with corrupt politicians to deal with it. I'm sorry that residents of Portland and Oregon appear to be especially inept in this regard. But neither the Constitution nor common sense dictates that it's our job to swoop in and save Portland from itself, especially when the local majority is apparently fine with the situation. There are a lot of poorly run cities in America, like Baltimore, for instance, where the homicide rate is 10 times the national rate. It's not the job of the American taxpayer to solve Baltimore's problems either. I know that some readers fancy themselves the only ones who truly appreciate the fullness of the communist insurgency underway. In their minds, the federal government cannot possibly be given too much power, so long as that power is used to crush the commies. Anyone who insists on limiting federal power is thus naive. Yet it is these non-naive people who want to grant even greater power to a federal establishment that clearly views the American people as the enemy. These federal agencies are the ones who have relentlessly conspired to remove the current democratically elected president because he was not to their liking. These are the bureaucrats who let 9-11 happen and then got races afterward. These are the federal hacks who massacred women and children at Waco and at Ruby Ridge. These are the people who wanted the Patriot Act so they could spy on every American. Back in the 1990s, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre referred to federal agents as armed terrorists dressed in ninja black.  While I'm no particular fan of LaPierre or the NRA, he was right. Wanting to limit the power of these feds is hardly the naive position. For more content like this, visit Mises.org.


5. More fun activities to encourage your students to speak. To keep the activate stage more fun and lively, offer your students one of these cool speaking activities. They will definitely enjoy the conversation and get creative with the tasks. Remember that any of these exercises can be easily used online. 1. Teacher for a day. Students share their ideas on how to make class more interesting and engaging. Let them discuss an ideal day in your ESL class, and then propose their ideas to you. 2. Describe a picture. Give each student an unusual photograph, use photo stocks for that, and ask them to create a story to go along with the picture. After they have planned their stories, have them share their pictures and stories. 3. Redo your talk. Students identify a conversation in their past that was unsuccessful, perhaps when they were first learning to speak English. Ask them to redo that conversation by looking back, identifying their mistakes, determining how to avoid them, and then role play the conversation with a classmate. 4. Trip advisor. Ask your students to plan a field trip. For this activity, you need to choose a particular topic to limit the conversation. They can plan a family dinner, a sports event, etc. 5. Communal story. In a circle, a volunteer student starts a story with, once upon a time. Each student adds two to three sentences to the story, keeping consistent with what their classmates have already said. Continue around the circle, finish with, and they lived happily ever after. Do you want to teach English abroad or online? Take a TEFL course.


Everybody you welcome to Psychic Medium Tony Green relationship edition. So today I have a very special co-host and we are going to be discussing all sorts of relationships, dues, don'ts, wills, won'ts, and remember I'm not the boss of you, whatever makes you comfortable, go ahead and do it. But these are just suggestions, just little things that might help you on your journey to finding what everybody likes to call the one, that one person that makes you, you know, drop your panties without thinking about it, the one, I don't know, or that one person that you think is going to fulfill all of your, all of your everything. Okay, so let's, let's go to my very special co-host, Scott, Kevin Scott. How are you today? I'm good. I appreciate that you were looking for someone who's made every mistake in relationships to come on the show to learn from my errors. That's so funny, because when I told my sister that I was doing a relationship show, she looked at me with like this shocking look on her face and said, you're not giving relationship advice, are you? And I pretty much had the same use. Yes, go ahead, I'm sorry, yes. Because once you've been through the good, the bad and the ugly, I think you can draw from that to give to people and help them out in some sort of way, right? Oh gosh, please learn from our mistakes. Do not, do not, if you don't have to go through something, definitely don't do it. So Scott, I want to start off today by talking a little bit about when is it appropriate to ask those questions in a dating scenario?  Scott, the questions that are more telling about where each person is going, when do you feel that that's an appropriate, it's an appropriate time to do that? My experience is not that online, it's generally been more organic. And so you're getting to know each other. But I think it's a person that's either not what you're looking for, or maybe you weren't looking for them and they just came in your life. And it's a lot more than you ever expecting. But I think it's critical for yourself to respect. Right, exactly. And I agree 100%.  If you're looking for something serious, something not so serious, if you're looking for the one, and you should be able to ask that of the other person. Now, it doesn't mean you're asking that person, do you think I'm the one? That would be awkward over the first cup of coffee.  Go ahead. That's a critical distinction, though, is, you know, are you open to something like that? This is my ring size. Exactly. So one of the best ways I've heard it put, and there's a couple different ways you can say this, without making it personal, without making it like about me. But if I'm sitting with somebody, and we're having a conversation, we're on what I think is a date. First of all, established is this a date. Because there are a lot of people that will go, no, I'm just looking for friends. So established before the date that it is a date, maybe, with some of these people out here. Second, one of the things that I, one of the ways that there are several different ways you can ask, if you don't want to be too blunt and to the point, you can just say something as simple as, so why, why are you dating? What's your purpose for dating? That takes a lot of pressure off, because then somebody can say, I just want to get to know people. I want to meet people. I'm not looking for anything. And it's not personal. It's not like I'm saying, why are you dating me? Where is this going? Right? What do you think about that? I don't do online dating, but I do think or sort of blind date kind of thing. So there's sort of some build up for it. And so you're not really confused. But I do think, and I would think regardless of your gender, that's something you would want to get out there immediately. Yeah. And I'm going to, and thank you for saying that. I think the only person, people who wouldn't want to get that out there, regardless of your gender is our people who might be trying to play you. And I just want to say one more thing. If you're afraid to ask a question, you shouldn't be dating or you shouldn't be dating that person. I agree. 100% right? I agree. And you, yeah. And you can't be afraid of that response. You just have to be like that. So I'm, thank you next. Like I want to find out before I invest feelings in a person where it's going. I want to know, like, if you're just looking for friends, that's great. At this point in time, I don't have time for friends. I barely have time for, you know, well, we won't talk about what I personally have time for, but I'm just saying, like, no, it is for a whole another show. So let's, let's go to the first caller. How about that? Okay. So, okay. When I call out your area code, please have a specific relationship and or dating question ready. Take us off of speakerphone. That means put your phone to your face. If you're using Bluetooth or anything else, it will catch the noise around you. So please put the phone to your face and we will have a conversation area code 917. What's your name? Where are you calling from? 917? All righty. Maybe that was, are you there? Okay. So what's your name? Where are you calling from? Okay. Stacey, what's your relationship question for us? So let me ask you, why don't you have a relationship until next summer? Is the person out of town or what's your deal with that? I can get into a relationship. Okay. I get that. I get that. That sounds, that sounds fair. Stacey, I want to ask you, when do you think, so I'm going to turn this sense, you don't have a relationship question. I'm going to ask you to participate with the relationship questions. When do you feel like it's appropriate to ask those, those questions, those really telling questions about where the relationship is going? When do you feel like it's, it's a good time for that? The appropriate time to ask those questions? Yeah. Like not, not like, and we're not saying, where do you think this is going with me? But more so just like, yeah. Even though I might kind of take it seriously, I would just treat him like popcorn just to see, they kind of just go out with him at least a few times by the Thursday to by the fourth date. Then I, okay. Now one of the things like, and here's Scott, here we go. I've heard, I'm going to put this out there. There's this expectation or this thing about the third date. The third date is the date where a lot of people are like, well, this is the third date, you know, what happens on the third date? I don't prescribe to that because you know, it takes a lot more than three dates to whatever. So if it is a third date thing, if somebody's thinking, and this is, this is the irony of our society, if somebody's thinking, if there's this preconceived notion that by the third date, it's pants down, why is it wrong to ask on the first or second date, where is this going other than the third date pants down? Okay. Who wants to answer that first, Scott? And again, you've already established. I was not aware of the third date rule. I'm curious about what it would be like popcorn is. I'm preaching a lot of salt and butter. Yes, I don't, I don't subscribe to the third date rule. Do you? Do you, Stacey, correct? Do you subscribe to the third date, third date rule? Okay. I get that. I understand that. Very good. Very good. Okay. Well, thank you so much for calling in. And I want to tell you, you have the potential to meet somebody in March, but I do feel like you're going to wait until June. Now I feel like wherever you're, I just, I feel like I keep hearing March for you. There's going to be a lot of changes in your life in March, but I feel like in June is when everything is going to take off for you. Okay, love. You are so welcome. Thank you so much for calling in. Thank you. So you are welcome. So then I want to ask Scott, now that we've established, you know, the sooner you ask the questions, the better. Let's talk about how to ask those questions, because sometimes I think for women, it's a little bit different than men. I think there are a lot of women that in our society and in many other societies, it's a male dominated, whatever it's called, that men, men make the decisions in relationships, nine times out of 10 in most societies. So women are always waiting on a man to like ask those questions, to ask us out to make the move or to, you know, propose or whatever it is, we wait in many instances for the man to make that move. And I'm traditional, I do. I won't. I would be that person that would wait. So if a woman is in a situation with someone and she's waiting, what do you feel like is, I don't want to say an appropriate amount of time to wait because it's each person is individual. But if you're with, if you're dating someone, and this is the biggest question I get from a lot of women, he hasn't proposed yet, when is he going to propose? Or when are we going to get married? And there is a lot of concern around that as far as that situation. And I think those, those sorts of things should be discussed early on and then held to, right? There's, there's a point where you have to really hold to those things.  I would say most that the men get to make the decisions. But I understand that was the premise of your question. At least once the marriage starts, but 90%, but a man or a woman is you have value. Nothing is more important than your happiness. And it doesn't mean it's more important than anybody else's, but you deserve to be treated like you have value. And if you're in a relationship, they held valuable, but why that's anybody's goal, the goal will be to find the right person and let it sort of progress where it's going to progress, which may be marriage or married to people they shouldn't be married to. But I do think you can say, look, that's not changing. It's just giving you the knowledge. Right. And absolutely, I agree 100%. And I would even go so far as to say is, if you're pushing for, you know, if something goes wrong in a relationship, or you don't feel secure in the relationship, you shouldn't be pushing for the next step, because the next step isn't going to change the personality of that person. It isn't going to change the way they behave. It isn't going to change their character or how they treat you. It's just the next step. That's something they may not have wanted to be in. Yes. And they're, you know, they're, I don't want to say survival instinct, but it's just going to be worse. It's certainly not going to change it for the better. You know, I agree 100%. And I'm going to tell you, sometimes you're in a relationship with somebody who just doesn't want a commitment for whatever reason, if it's because they want to play the field, or they're terrified of commitment, whatever it is, find out what the reason is. And if you can live with that, live with that. If you can't move on, but the sooner you find these things out and move on, the better off you are going to be. Because inevitably, if you're with somebody who doesn't want a commitment, if you're with somebody who is in a third party situation, if you're with somebody who's whatever your personal situation is, the sooner you find out the truth, the sooner you take yourself out of denial, the sooner you can move on to something that's much better. And I think we've all been in situations with people who are maybe weren't the best people for us. They, they taught us a lot. They weren't our ever after person. Right? And then we get to, once we get out of that situation and Scott, I think Scott, Kevin Scott, that always reminds me like Bond, James Bond. I don't know why I call it. I'll just call you Kevin now or I'll keep calling you Scott either way. I think that the sooner, and we've all had this experience where once we get out of something, and we look back, we can go, oh my gosh, I can't believe I went that long or it got that bad. But then it really does open the door to something better. And would you like to speak on that? Yes. You want to cherish and you want to be recognized to go. It certainly has been relationships where you look over. Gee, I thought I ended this two years ago. What was I thinking? Yeah.  And then it's horrible. And then, you know, the next step is just to get out of that relationship. And then if you stumble into a really healthy one, it is like, you know, the heavens open up and all that time being unhappy and feeling less about myself when nothing is out there. Yeah. 100%. And I think that people get stuck in. Like we, once we get into something, we get stuck in, but I love them. But if I hurt them, I'll hurt them. If I leave them, I'll hurt them. Or we have any number of reasons not to leave someone. But the real thing is we're afraid. We're afraid that maybe we won't find somebody better. We won't find somebody else because that's the other biggest question that people ask me. Will I meet someone else? Will I meet somebody better? Well, for the love of God, let's hope you don't meet the same person again or somebody worse because I can't imagine that like what you've been going through, right? Like, it's got to get better. And the fact that we don't even believe there might be somebody better out there, how defeated are we at that point and love the fact that? Well, that's because you've been conditioned because every day you wake up unfilled or unsatisfied or unappreciated and you start to believe it. Exactly. And I'm going to say this. If you love this person, that's great. You can love somebody up close and you can love them from a distance. But if you're loving somebody who isn't giving you back that same level of love, that same level of respect, that same, if they're giving you false promises or not even promises, love them from a distance. It's much easier and it's better for your personal soul. It's better for your heart. And find somebody who's on your level. Find someone who can give you that same level of love and respect that you're capable of giving. And they are out there. Listen to Scott. Listen to the way Scott's talking. He is a very amazing man, first of all. And this is a... I'll walk around saying it, but you don't have to because it's true. Here's women.  You deserve to be appreciated. And if you're not, go because there is somebody out there. And Scott is not the only man like this. I mean, you know, I'm just saying there are a lot of really healthy, loving and caring men and women out there that are single. You just can't settle. Would you agree with that, Scott? Obviously you would. And if your affection is unequal, the relationship will not work and should not work for you because you just deserve better. Yes. Yes. And I want to go back to where we started at the beginning for a quick second and say, you know, again, if you're afraid to ask relationship questions, if you're afraid to ask that person, if they're looking for something serious, if they, if they're seeing other people, how long their last relationship lasted. These are folks, let me tell you something. These are normal conversations. These are normal questions that people ask people. I ask them to my female friends. If you're afraid to ask that to a potential partner, stop dating and don't take this personally. And if this upsets you, I'm sorry, stop dating, get maybe set up an appointment with a counselor or read some books on relationships and being healthy in relationships because you deserve to know from the beginning where it's going. And I'm going to tell you, if you're afraid, the person's going to get upset and answer the question harshly or get angry with you. Number one, then you've been programmed or trained not to ask uncomfortable questions. Is that the right way for me to say that? Like some place in your class. Yes, but you don't know that the person across from you is going to be uncomfortable with that question or get upset with that question. You're presuming that based on your last experience and big, big hello here. If this person does get upset with that question, get up and walk out. Get up and walk out because nobody should get upset about a question. Right? Nobody should be upset if you ask them a question. Right? Am I am I right? Well, certainly don't go back for a second one. You know, maybe the dinner was really good or something. You can hang around and finish. But yeah, I don't invest any more time. Okay, I would get up and walk out. I'm very practical, Tony. I know. I'm so dramatic. If somebody gets upset with me for asking a question, I just know at that point, like, well, it's not going to work out. Let's not waste anybody else's time. And you can take mine home with you. I'm done. Thank you.   I just don't want to be treated like this. But thank you so very much. And I'm, oh my goodness. But I have, you know what? I have very different views. Like I, I don't necessarily always believe in marriage, right? I don't believe in the piece of paper. If you want to have a ceremony and say you're committed to each other, go ahead and do that. But I don't think if I want to break up with somebody that I have to go get permission from a judge, like I just don't, I don't feel like, like, okay, we're not getting along. Please, Mr. Judge, sir, can we please get a divorce? Please, sir. I mean, that's my personal view. So this is who you're taking relationship advice from at this point. Well, the existence of marriage shouldn't be the goal. The defining the right person is the goal. And if that manifest in marriage, great. But too much only to risk of being cliched is the goal. Yes. 100%. I agree. And a lot of people think if they can push it to that next level and make it, they can change that person. And I'm going to tell you 100%. The only person you can change in this world is yourself. So please. But they're going to be the same and you're not going to be happy. And I love your sense of humor. Oh, yes. No, it's true, though. It's true. Like it's 100%. 100%. It's true. Okay. Scott, thank you so much for being a guest. It was such an honor and so much fun having you on today. I want to thank you. My pleasure. And I I hope so. I'm going to, I'm going to hold you to that. I'm going to bring you back again. And I do hope that you have a very merry Christmas along with everybody else listening. Please have a very, very merry Christmas. And I hope if I don't see you before New Year, happy New Year. I'll be back Monday at noon. And you can call in and ask any questions you want about life, love, career. Thank you so much for joining us.


I just tried to get our feedlot participants to think about feeding as a business and how they need to approach that business and some planning and finding their niche and their advantages in an industry so there was a margin of profit in it. How much margin or what opportunities do you see in cattle feeding for North Dakota? Is it the stocker, the finishing, the replacement? Historically we've mostly fed stocker cattle, wintered cattle over, put some added gain on and not finished a large number because we're quite distant from the end markets, the packing plans so that will continue to be our main opportunity and as some new things unfold and we may get more packing capacity closer to North Dakota then actually I think we'll transition very well into considerably more finishing. What opportunities for classes of livestock and profitability do you see for North Dakota? John? One of the classes of cattle since we are a large cow calf state we tend to have a market and demand for breeding females whether they're at time of breeding or as bred heifers go into the cow herd and I think some of our feeding facilities can gather up heifers when they're selling in a discount in the fall, can grow them, develop them, breed them, package them, market them profitably. As one I think also the feedlots tend to want to place heavier calves in especially these monoslope barns of Minnesota, some eight weight type cattle. We can take the five, six weight calf off the cow and grow it to eight very efficiently with the feeds we have and most years there's a margin of profit not huge, you know, $30 or something per head. The finishing one, that's a little bit more of a roller coaster. We hit some really good runs when the market goes up, make a lot of money and when things go against us we can also lose a bit. So I think the volatility and finishing cattle is great, takes more skill in doing so. Our feeds have to be managed better, but there's certainly some opportunity there too for the bull to tackle. What about cold cows in North Dakota? It would seem like that would be an easy one for us in North Dakota to feed cold cows. But what is not that easy because they are fairly poor converters, so if we have a very cheap feed source such as a green screening and they convert poorly it's cheap enough that it still makes sense, but typically we have to have high performance plus a rising market to really make good profits in that. Some people have sourced thin young cattle from certain areas in drought, bring them in, feed them these byproducts, they've done extremely well, but it takes some planning. It's not automatic that you add value to a cold cow, a lot of things have to be considered.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka the Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. We might be closer to the end of Footies than we are to the beginning, but EA may have just dropped the best content of the entire promo yesterday on this game. I want to show you guys the best grind on the menus right now, because it doesn't take that much work, and you can make coins and get a lot of SBCs done at the exact same time. So we're going to talk about a lot today, and of course, what's moving on the market with all this great content as well. If you're excited for the video, drop a thumbs up as usual, and of course, subscribe if you are new. Let's go into yesterday's content, because there was a lot. We had five brand new SBCs. We're going to go straight to footpin to start looking at all of these, and it all starts with, we'll start with maybe the least popular, least hyped. The 84x10, just like last week, there's not much else to say here. 84x10 SBC, refreshed, exact same requirements, exact same pack, not too much else going on there, except it's just an 84x10. Honestly, I would only do that one if you've completed all of your daily 85x10s. That was the big content from yesterday. We asked for something better, and we got something better. The 85x10, only one squad. Guys, the price made me look about the exact same as it was last week, but trust me, this is so much more craftable, so much more easy to get done because it is only one squad, and we can do it five times per day. Now, for those that are saying, Nate, an 88-rated squad is too expensive. I don't necessarily disagree with you, but it's the same prices last week. If you take a look at it, 96,000 coins, I think last week's 85x10 with the 84 and 86 squad was right around the 90 to 100k range as well, so it's almost the same price, but what makes it so much better and so much easier is that it is only one squad. We actually got it, guys. I'm a little bit surprised that EA didn't take their time to upgrade this over a couple of weeks to get us to this point. They just went out and they gave it to us. Now, the reason why this is so grindable is with the one squad, if you open this 85x10 and you get something that you don't really think is that amazing, or at least 75% of the 10 players that you get can go right back in to the SBC for the next four times that you do it and then completing the rest of that SBC becomes very, very affordable, right? The most expensive 85x10 is always the first one. And if you're like, Nate, I can't even do one of those right now. Here's what I would tell you. Go into objectives, play the draft mode. We're going to talk about Nani. There's great packs inside of here that you can get. They can get you some higher-rated fodder. So go and get that done. There's plenty of ways to acquire fodder right now, especially with the best of being in packs. But once you get that first 85x10 done, you're off the ground running. You've got 10 cards that are all 85 and above that, let's say, three quarters of them or maybe the whole pack. I opened a couple of these yesterday of my five and the whole entire pack went back in straight away. All I did was add one more player, most often a team of the week or a team of the season to get that requirement successfully done. And boom, you've got an 85x10 done and dusted and ready to go again. It's that easy and that's the best part about this. One squad versus two squads makes all the difference when you're crafting this SBC. And of course, it gives you good fodder back in return and it gives you a chance at higher-rated players. I opened all five of mine almost right away yesterday and I did end up hitting two footies cards. They weren't the most expensive, but I did hit footies Klaus and I hit footies Park Ji Sung. They were actually in the same 85x10.  So I had to use some other special cards like fill those up, of course, but it's just so much better when you have all those fodder cards that you can put right back in to the SBC. And that's not even the best menu grind out there right now, but that's kind of the most popular SBC for good reason. That's a crazy SBC giving you opportunities to pack the best players that are in packs right now. And if you really wanted to save it, guys, the 85x10 that is out right now, it's going to give you incredible potential even if you're like, man, I'm going to open maybe like three of these a day and then save two for Friday with batch three coming out, maybe more footies cards or I don't know what EA is going to do this Friday. This Friday is a real big question mark, at least right now, but batch three is of course, hopefully going to be in packs, which could include team of the seasons which imagine stacking up 85x10s all week until team of the seasons are back in packs. That would be absolutely insane. So big W here. It's also going to be available on Friday. This is not expiring before the end of the week. It's expiring on the weekend. So an 85x10 with batch three that's going to be out as well this Friday. If you're going to wait until then and just open them every day who says, no, not me. So that's a really, really big W from the content that was dropped yesterday. But like I said, that wasn't even the biggest menu grind that is out right now. One of the SBCs that was dropped yesterday was the daily gold upgrade, which gives you an 11 gold players pack and you don't even have to turn in golds. All you have to turn in are bronze and silver players. Now this is the 10th one that I have done. I've completed all of my daily gold upgrades per day. Guys, this is the craft that everybody needs to be grinding right now on these menus. And it doesn't even start with that daily gold upgrade. It can if you have stuff in your club already, but it starts with the daily bronze and silver. Back again, we're talking about bronze and silver SBCs in August. Yes, but you should do each of these three, three bronze and three silver daily upgrades. Get those done. You have probably three bronzes and three silvers in your club that you can do so nine in total. And then with the bronzes and silvers you get from opening those packs, you put those into the gold upgrade and from that gold upgrade, this is where it gets really good, right? You get the 11 gold players pack, one rare, 10 non-rares, and those non-rares go into the 80 plus three, or 80 plus times three pack, the footies crafting upgrade. And this is the best upgrade pack SBC guys that is available right now in this game, in my opinion, because not only do you get an 80 plus times three, which gives you three players that are all 80 and above instead of just one player from an 81 plus player pick that you get to take home. You get to get all three. It also gets you progress on the five star, five star Nani crafting objective. Crafting objectives are back, absolute massive W. And even if you're like, Nate, I don't want the Nani.  And then who would say no to a five star, five star 95 rated FIFA legend Nani at the very end of this? Nobody, right? So an absolute W craft for now. Of course, you have to do it at least once to get yourself the XP, which is just a little bit, but that SBC is a fat W, right? Whether you have to go and do the daily bronze and the daily silver to get those bronze and silver to turn into the daily gold or just going straight into the daily gold if you have bronze and silver is already in your club. Absolutely insane W SBC there and the 80 plus times three, which I actually have not finished any of yet. I've been still crafting up those daily golds. I'm going to open all those and put the golds into this. People are going to get Nani done for literally free. I mean, if you have just a couple of bronze and silver players in your club, that is going to literally get you the Nani card and all of those upgrade packs along the way for free. So that's the best grind on this menu right now. It doesn't even take that much time and it's absolutely an insane W for all the packs and the card that you get back. Now also yesterday that wasn't all we had the rivals bonus as well in objectives, which is again, just like it was last week, you get an 85 times 10 for the end. If you're like, Nate, I have no fodder. Here's another place where you can honestly if you really needed to just rubber band nine games of division rivals. It's not when it's play. You get some nice packs back from doing this. I mean, you get literally like 30 something pack players back for opening in 85 10 and 81 11 at 82 10 and in 84 times three. So another really good week to place a little bit of rivals or at least to get a few games in to get some extra packs. And then as we mentioned, the 81 plus player pick guys, it's fun to do player picks. Who says that they don't like player picks? Not very many people. The fact though that this requires rares in August is kind of like EA. Come on, man. Like that's why I would just say do the footies crafting upgrade over this. If you want to do a few 81 plus player picks, sure, right? Have at it, go for it. But the footies crafting upgrade with only non-rares required and getting three cards. I love that, especially for all those 80 pluses that you can put into other SBCs right now, right? Think about, um, let's see, like the 87 plus player pick that's actually going away today. You could craft into that. That's a low rated squad requirement right now in this game. The batch to player pick is a pretty cheap SBC. You could craft it into the tradable team of the week and the tradable team of the season, SBC, um, right now in this game as well, which is a big W. Speaking of actually, I have to, I have to point this out. Evidently yesterday in the first couple of hours, I don't know if it's still doing it right now, but the 85 times 10 was actually taking Tots moments cards as a Tots like it says team of the week or Tots required inside of it. But if you put a Tots moments, um, those cards were accepted as well, even though it didn't specifically list team of the season moments. And now let's get on to talking about how this is affecting prices a little bit too because the grind is fully back on the menus for sure. But with the 85 times 10 repeatable out with one squad Tots prices, team of the week prices, and as we just mentioned, team of the season moments prices all going up. Team of the seasons yesterday, as we looked at on the video, they were under 30 K like 29 30,000 coins yesterday at the video. They were 37 38,000 coins are back down just a little bit now, but those prices have really, really gone up and same thing with team of the season moments. I'm pretty sure Tots moments cards, people were saying yesterday on the stream were like 13,000 coins and now they are 20 K plus as of course EA is somehow accepting these in the requirements that 85 times 10. Just be careful if they turn that off today or if something changes with that, these Tots moments could come crashing back down as they are the most commonly packed card from that team of the season or Tots moments upgrade. So definitely keep an eye on that but team of the weeks once again, these were like what 20 K and crazy crazy low right last night and now they're back up to like 25,000 coins I believe and maybe still even rising. I bought a few yesterday at 24 25 K and they are into selling right now. They're about 26,000 coins for informs crazy that these are going up as much as they are just because there's so much SPC to man guys this is 100% the best place to be continually trading and investing right now in this game. Of course like the draw Maros I bought in last night's video sold those for like 40,000 coins. I bought him like 30 K a couple of these Tots cards that I picked up I sold them all for about 40,000 coins just cause they were a little higher rated they sold for a little bit more and I took the quick flip there. Now I will say this these cards are still pretty good to trade with if you get Snipes you can sell for Lazies that is the best place to be making coins right now on this market is the team of the season team of the week fodder market trading with all these cards getting on bids getting on Snipes and listing them up a few K over what they actually sell for is their lowest buy now on the market because they will sell there as so many people are buying them same thing with golds now golds are not moving as much that's why I say that informs and that stuff is the best place to trade right now but some of these cards like look at this 83 rated Luis Alberto went from 1.5 K last night all the way to 2000 coins and he's 1200 right now like that's really cheap 83s at like 12 1300 coins I would have to imagine that all these are going to go back to 2K again today with the refresh of SBCs and people getting on the game and you know of course these are all 2.1 and 2.3 yesterday for this Bremer card he's 1.5 K right now so I'd imagine that some of these cards would be good to stock once more again ahead of today's Tuesday content even if it's not that crazy of a day you guys know all the SBCs that are refreshing are going to bring some demand back to the SBC fodder market but the gold cards they're not moving as much it's the team of the seasons and the team of the weeks that are really moving more I mean 85s are pretty low these guys moved really good on Saturday if you guys remember like 85s, 86s had some really big spikes but yesterday they didn't do as great they only went to about 5000 coins it's going to take some other big type of SBC today to move them a lot more I would say if you're specifically trying to make coins team of the weeks, team of the seasons and Tots moments are the best place to go right now on this game now also yesterday with all the good content that we had some of the footies cards actually dropped in value you saw two Coutinhos on my transfer list I traded with a couple of Coutinhos yesterday and he's back up he's 240, 250,000 coins he was down to like 210,000 right at the content drop a lot of the footies team four cards had a bit of a dip right around that timeframe just because the content was really good and people sold some cards to go out and fund their SBC purchases right see 235K down to like 215 now he's back up to about 230 or 240 he has some pretty good fluctuations in there I think I saw that Lucio was down some Javi Simons was a card that moved a lot yesterday but for a good reason check out his graph guys he was down at 120,000 coins at weakening rewards went up to about 140 dropped right after content like literally 20, 30 minutes after content this guy was back down like 120K and then he went all the way it says 150 he was actually 170,000 coins now the reasoning for that is EA posted yesterday that Javi Simons had an incorrect week foot rating and the issue was addressed and they upgraded his card to be five star five star because now he has a five star skills in the five star week foot and yeah so Javi Simons card went up a lot yesterday right around that content drop timeframe and of course yeah a five star week foot upgrade in this guy does look really really nice he's now five five still medium high I think a lot of people are playing him in the midfield I think the work rates are still the biggest problem with this item but he's got to be pretty pretty awesome in game I have not packed him yet but I'm sure he's really amazing especially if you're running a Bundesliga squad so that's kind of the issue with the Javi Simons that happened yesterday but a lot of the other footies team four cards are similar to their prices that they were earlier Jonathan Klaus is another one that is actually back to like 210K but he was down as low as 180s I think on snipe 190 he's back up a little bit Oblak you know Mbappe right around that 10 million coin range so not like a crazy amount of movement on your footies cards Dina Talley did drop off with some panic selling early in the day yesterday but some of those middle tier cards like the Coutinho they had some fluctuations Alaba continues to move a lot just keep an eye on these as we get towards the end of the week wow Alaba I mean he's rare man if you ever see Alaba like 630 620 630,000 coins that's a buy because he fluctuates all of the time those real Madrid links and just Alaba being Alaba is really really good to keep an eye on now that's all that happened yesterday let's talk about today a little bit what's happening today Nate what do I have excited what do I have to be excited for about today well first of all we are probably going to have well it's not a probably we are guaranteed to have another cover star icon SBC and before we get that I'm going to open this 87 plus because this is an SBC that's going away today are we going to get something good oh wow well I got all special cards I'll take them at home not bad but that SBC is going away today will it refresh last week I think it did we've had that 87 plus for two weeks in a row now I believe I remember correctly and I'm I'm sure the real place it was something today another reason why low rated father could be a watch but the big SBC that we all know about that's coming today is the Shevchenko I don't know did I say Shevchenko or Javi Alonzo at the beginning I don't remember what I said but Shevchenko is coming today we already got Javi Alonzo cover star Shevchenko is coming into SBC today's August 15th it's got to be cheap and EA's been absolutely killing the game with these SBC's right the cover star icons Javi Alonzo skulls Rui Costa I mean they've been really really good the prices have been good but more importantly the stats have been amazing I can only imagine what a Shevchenko is going to look like today like we have this 91 Shevchenko as a prime I'm feeling like high 90 shooting really good dribbling mid to high 90s like mid 90s pace hopefully five star five star he's three star four star if they make him four five that'll be a little bit of a downer I could see that happening just to kind of put your expectations out there he also has high high work rates I would be completely fine with it if they made him high medium but of course icons you know they kind of played the way they played so maybe high high is the most accurate for Shevchenko I can't say that are all those other cards high high or some of them different okay that one's high high the world cup is high high so I think all of his have the exact same work rates none of them are changed ooh the mid is high medium hey EA do that for the do that for this one high medium would be a little bit better in my opinion but anyways Shevchenko SPC again the loan is what we have to do to get some XP that's coming out today 100% the 87 plus player pick is another thing that we're watching out for today as an SPC could be dropping player SPC maybe I think that the Shevchenko will take that place are there any players that are expiring today in terms of SPC because sometimes when there's one that's expiring you know EA likes to replace it okay Chicharito is going away now the only thing with Chicharito is if I remember correctly I think he might have been a voting SPC maybe not he might have been not a voting SPC but we do have another vote on EA's Instagram that is active which stat do you like to see upgraded for a center mid and I believe that this SPC whoever it is where I'm guessing we're gonna get passing right I'm gonna vote oh I can't vote here I can only vote on mobile or maybe that's Dionne I don't know but I'm pretty sure it's gonna be passing guys think about it center mid you think passing and I think that SPC would drop on Wednesday because that's when Podolski dropped that's when Chakiri dropped that were the other two votes that at least I remember I don't remember Chicharito honestly if that was a vote or not it might not have been but I would expect this to be out on a Wednesday so probably not today but that is on EA's Instagram if you would like to check that out and vote and partake in the voting still don't understand why they're not voting on those in the game or why we are not it would be much better if we had the lone versions we could see the vote in the game so not sure why they're doing that but that is the case there maybe some extra Week in League bonus requirements today they kind of forgot to do that last week I really hope they remember to do it this week because last week a lot of people were asking like Nate where in the world are our extra Week in League packs and extra requirements but those did not ever drop so hopefully they do this week and the last thing is we're still kind of watching this schedule here. I mean EA did say that the upcoming deep dyes that are listed out here we have one more that we have not gotten we've got all the team last week maybe we're getting clubs today or tomorrow I just think that every single week that we get closer and closer to F.C. 24 EA is going to try to drop just a little bit of information here or there give keep us involved keep us thinking about F.C. 24 and we're going to be doing some F.C. 24 giveaways live today in the Twitch stream as well so make sure you guys come through then link is down below in the description we're going to be doing some giveaways there for the pre-orders right because again August 22nd is that pre-order date that you got a pre-order buy to get yourself the Champions League men's or women's hero pack kind of like the World Cup hero pack from last year so who knows if we'll get some more EA F.C. information today tweeted out by EA but I mean I'm not expecting that crazy if they have content it feels like there's a lot to do right now in this game because of the grind and the craft that was put out yesterday of course some people have already got the Nani some people are running through draft games right now with rivals giving out extra packs people were doing that Champs qualifiers of course got to get those done for the weekend maybe just in fact save your champs qualifier games just in case EA do drop something a little bit extra today but yeah keep working the market if you guys are trading it's a great place to be at the moment because there's so many people buying and selling fodder and also if you're grinding the beta um yeah I mean I don't know if they've opened up the forums for that yet or not I've only played probably like 30 45 minutes I played my first game on the beta yesterday and I haven't submitted any feedback yet but I'm wondering if EA is going to you know turn some things up with that as well they give out a lot of free packs if you're playing that so if you feel like you're stuck in that in that mode don't completely just quit yet because uh there's probably some more free packs coming as they try to keep people interested because that beta goes until I believe the end of the month so that's all the news and ultimate scene today Ryan I'm going to be doing upgrade packs on stream all five of my 85 times 10s we'll see if we get something good again today and hopefully another chance of packing those big boy footies cards that's what I'm all about right now trying to pack the 99 footies cards the older ones from the player picks or of course the Mbappe Lucio Alaba the great ones that are in packs right now so if you enjoyed today's video drop a thumbs up on a comment below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new it's been an eighth of the count catch you guys