Planet Sport Football Africa

This week we look at some of the top transfers involving African players ahead of the start of the European season, including Serge Aurier to Paris St Germain and Brown Ideye to West Bromwich Albion. And we talk about the great innovation of World Cup – vanishing spray, and we ask if we need it in Africa.

This week we ask whether Didier Drogba will have a successful comeback at Chelsea. And we find out about Futsal – a version of five-a-side football that's not very popular in Africa, but when we were at the World Cup we discovered that it's huge in Brazil.

This week we continue to reflect on the 2014 World Cup and ask if moving the Africa Cup of Nations from even to odd years helped with the performance of the African teams in Brazil. We also ask how the shift will affect the 2015 Nations Cup. And we discuss whether Africa should have more than five slots at the World Cup.

We ask what lessons can Africa learn from the 2014 World Cup? It was the first time two African teams have progressed from the Group stages but what is necessary for teams to progress further? In particular what can African nations learn from the success of smaller nations at the World Cup such as Costa Rica and Algeria? And we find out about some of your favourite World Cup moments.

This week, with Brazil exiting the World Cup in spectacular fashion and criticised for changing their way of playing to a European style, we ask if African teams can learn something. We ask why African referees are not given the finals of major global tournaments to officiate, and we meet some Ethiopian fans who have travelled to Brazil to watch the World Cup.

For the first time, two African teams reached the second round of the World Cup, but both Nigeria and Algeria have been knocked out at that stage and hence have failed to reach the quarter-finals. So Cameroon, Senegal and Ghana remain the only three teams to have got to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. What do you think of the overall performance of Africa at this tournament?

Steve Vickers, Solomon Ashoms and Stuart Weir in Rio discuss the progress of African teams at the World Cup in Brazil as Nigeria and Algeria progress to the Round of 16.

Steve Vickers presents the show from Rio de Janeiro with analysts Solomon Izang Ashoms and Stuart Weir. They assess the performances of the five African teams at the World Cup, meet an Ivory Coast fan and hear from Silas Ngong, chaplain to the Cameroon side.

Steve Vickers presents this week's show from the Fans Zone on Copacabana Beach after watching Brazil's opening 3-1 win over Croatia with joyous 20,000 fans. Solomon Ashoms assesses the chances of the five African nations and we talk to people in Zimbabwe who are trying to avoid watching the World Cup.

We talk to Nigeria's former star Jay Jay Okocha and current hope Peter Odemwingie about the Super Eagles' hopes for the 2014 World Cup and we ask fans in Zimbabwe what they are looking forward to about the World Cup?