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 It’s embarrassing seeing our talented-home-based players leaving the NPFL for other African League sides as a result of poor salary and maltreatment of players in the NPFL.

After 18 exciting episodes of the Motherland Ball Africa Podcast, giving you the African fan the best of football analysis and stories, we will take a break to plan better for a new season. We would like to thank our esteemed friends and outstanding guests that have joined us on this super jolly ride.  We'll see you very soon for season 2.

CAF has decided to go ahead with the African Super League. It is likely to include 20 teams. Patrice Motsepe says it will be a more inclusive league and will benefit the 54 member nations. The Motherland Ball Africa podcast crew analyses the possibilities and relates to the European Super League.

Kaizer Chiefs are in their first continental final ever with former Gavin Hunt sacked in the quarterfinals. Authur Zwane has been the man for the team.  Al Ahly are coached by one of the best coaches around in Pitso Mosimane. They are the defending champions. They won a treble last season.

The Nigerian Home-based Eagles were walloped 4-0 by the Mexican National team. Questions have begun to rise about the quality of the local players and their possible inclusion in the Super Eagles squad. The Motherland Ball Africa Podcast crew discusses all of these and more in episode 15 of the podcast.

Kaizer Chiefs have qualified for the finals of the CAF Champions League and will face Al Ahly of Egypt in the final. It has been a fairytale run for the South African side who are making their very first appearance in this competition. The Motherland Ball Africa Podcast crew discusses this and plenty more juicy football stories from the continent.

The last four of the CAF Inter-Club competition is going down. Al Ahly is aiming to defend their title, Wydad Casablanca is aiming to break the jinx and Chiefs are hoping to set a new record. In Cameroon, Coton Sport has one lifeline as Pyramids dare Raja. 

A lot of players did impress in the just-concluded European season, so many names will come to your mind when you talk about the African Player of the year award. Though the award is still 6 months away, we take a look at the potential winners of the most prestigious individual award on African soil.

Al-Ahly have won everything on the Africa spoil and are still pushing to win more. They have made and broken records but the big question is, is there any club in Africa that can stop the North Africans' dominance on continental club football?

The Super Cup finally goes down this weekend as Al-Ahly eye another Super Cup title, the CAF inter-club competition is set for the semi-finals stage while we have champions in Tunisia and Ethiopia, it is a bumper package on this episode of the Motherland Ball Africa.