Speaker 1: Faces dropped on a freestyle Friday. Things are a little
Speaker 1: different this morning because of things that have gone on.
Speaker 1: We're leading off with Bart because we had things happen
Speaker 1: involving the national team last night. So here's the rundown
Speaker 1: for the show. Bart's going to be here for the
Speaker 1: first half hour. Traditionally, we have our friends from Beyond
Speaker 1: Goals menuring coming on at nine point thirty, but there
Speaker 1: is a championship game in USL League won this weekend.
Speaker 1: We have we have broke her to deal with our
Speaker 1: friends at Union Omaha and if technology works. Lagos Kunga
Speaker 1: joining us at nine thirty to break down what life
Speaker 1: has been like for him in USL League One as
Speaker 1: Union Omaha is chasing after championship. Jessica Charman joining us
Speaker 1: at ten o'clock to break down everything. Let's see NWSL,
Speaker 1: USL Super League Colleges MLS because of a team that
Speaker 1: she is active with no longer being in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And then ten thirty will go through news of the
Speaker 1: day and all this kind of stuff. Now the reason
Speaker 1: and Alex is saying that you need to get on
Speaker 1: a blue sky. By the way, apparently you are. You
Speaker 1: see your own blue skys. He's showing off all right,
Speaker 1: see soccer for USPOD right there on Blue Sky. The
Speaker 1: reason that I'm leading off with Bart other than the
Speaker 1: US M and T. And I told Bart just to
Speaker 1: kind of come in and crash because something happened yesterday
Speaker 1: in concer CAF the Nations League outside of the United States,
Speaker 1: and Bart, I want to bring you in to discuss this.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you follow Glenn Crooks at all,
Speaker 1: either on the two hundred and eighty character app or
Speaker 1: on the Blue Butterfly.
Speaker 2: So we're calling it the butter the blue Butterfly.
Speaker 1: I'm just guessing. You know, hey, it was it looked
Speaker 1: like a butterfly and it was blue, so that was
Speaker 1: first thing. So, h Glenn Crook's on the Blue Butterfly.
Speaker 1: Yesterday he's down in the Caribbean with Stern John and
Speaker 1: he's in Saint Lucia and uh it is. He's helping
Speaker 1: them out, Marco Masucci and Stern John for the Saint
Speaker 1: Lucia men's national team as they get ready for national
Speaker 1: Nefro Nations League matches. So Glenn's down there, he's thinking
Speaker 1: everything's gonna be nice and normal, and you know, I'm
Speaker 1: helping Stern John out and hanging out and all this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Yesterday, apparently at practice, curasal allegedly had
Speaker 1: two guys with Kurras logos on their apparel and they
Speaker 1: were caught recording Saint Lucia's training session, and Glenn was
Speaker 1: there and he's got video of them getting found out.
Speaker 1: So Curasow hosting Saint Lucia in the Nations League after
Speaker 1: losing in the last window, and Glenn has video of
Speaker 1: these two dudes who apparently, allegedly possibly it appears, had
Speaker 1: a drone like device which you can kind of see
Speaker 1: in the background as it's being spirited away from the
Speaker 1: training ground that they were on. Two dudes apparently hanging
Speaker 1: out shooting video for Cirosow against Saint Lucia. And now
Speaker 1: apparently Conker CAF is investigating what happened, and Glenn Crook's
Speaker 1: apparently just lucked into being in the right video place
Speaker 1: at the right time. John Herdman and Canada had a
Speaker 1: six point penalty at the Olympics for for similar activity.
Speaker 1: So the video is there, and if you listen closely
Speaker 1: to the video that was posted by Glenn Crooks, someone
Speaker 1: is saying take it down. Literally, someone is saying take
Speaker 1: it down. So, uh, you know, if you ain't Jeet
Speaker 1: and you ain't trying. Apparently Nations League does not disappoint
Speaker 1: outside of the United States. We'll get into them in
Speaker 1: a second. But hey, Currousale and Saint Lucia.
Speaker 2: Man, yeah, so let me get this right. Curisol and
Speaker 2: Saint Lucia played already once. Yes, okay, they did not play.
Speaker 2: They did not play tomorrow, correct today, I should say,
Speaker 2: I think so, Yeah, they don't because curs I was
Speaker 2: playing some French colony, Saint Martin. Okay, interesting, okay, oh no, no,
Speaker 2: they do. They play on Monday.
Speaker 1: That's what it is.
Speaker 2: Oh, then that makes sense. Okay, yeah, hey, look, if
Speaker 2: you ain't cheating, you ain't trying.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: But if you are gonna cheat, maybe don't wear officially
Speaker 2: branded apparel from the other team. Drones are not the
Speaker 2: great way, the greatest way.
Speaker 1: To cheat because you kind of get busted, uh knowing
Speaker 1: that there's a drone there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, let's Group B or League B. I should say,
Speaker 2: let's let's find uh so two points ahead of cur
Speaker 2: Asal in the standings.
Speaker 1: Uh huh yeah, two points ahead, four matches done, two
Speaker 1: matches to go in the window. The first team obviously
Speaker 1: moves out and then you end up with green shading,
Speaker 1: and then I think that goes playing the play in section.
Speaker 1: And right now Currousu is ranked third in the second
Speaker 1: place teams that could advance out of Group B if
Speaker 1: you get into League A playoffs and things like that.
Speaker 1: So there there's Saint Lucia and Curasle separated by two
Speaker 1: points the top of Group B. There's something, there's some
Speaker 1: things in play here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh so Dick, Yeah, they've got they've got
Speaker 2: to win on Monday.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: Curse how has to and curse Ow, by the way,
Speaker 2: is probably feeling some type of way because they should
Speaker 2: have been on the up and up compared to where
Speaker 2: they've been in the past decade, and then now they're not.
Speaker 2: So the fact that Saint Lucia in League B Group
Speaker 2: B has the edge on them is probably disconcerting.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. So it did not got decided. Possibly probably, Well,
Speaker 1: let's put it this way. It appears individuals for Currousel, Uh,
Speaker 1: we're doing some advanced scouting in a way that they
Speaker 1: weren't supposed to. And Glenn Crooks was there.
Speaker 2: What a great fine for a journalist like that.
Speaker 1: I'm down here just hanging out and helping out a buddy,
Speaker 1: and then I'm standing literally on the sideline during practice
Speaker 1: and dudes on the other side of the fence. You
Speaker 1: literally turn and Glenn takes his phone and literally turns
Speaker 1: and there are dudes standing at the top of the
Speaker 1: stands there wherever they're practicing. O boy, John, I tell you,
Speaker 1: and get allegedly busted for helping out another country.
Speaker 2: Yeah wow, John Hardman, School of Soccer Preparations Man.
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Speaker 1: a crowd announced at twenty five thousand. US Done took
Speaker 1: care of business, scoring in the fifth minute, Ricardo Peppi
Speaker 1: winning one nill and hanging on and Jamaica will be
Speaker 1: without Mason Holegate for the return fixture in Saint Louis
Speaker 1: because he went double yellow and you wonder what Mason
Speaker 1: Holgate was thinking picking up that second yellow after he'd
Speaker 1: had the first one. But one nill Us comes out
Speaker 1: on top and they everybody flies to Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: Apparently they've touched down safely in Saint Louis, according to Twitter,
Speaker 2: because USM and T is not on the butterfly app yet.
Speaker 2: But yeah, look, winning on the road that's all that matters. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you can talk about how they actually played, you can
Speaker 2: talk about things that may or may not have been
Speaker 2: should have been called. Uh, they gotta win, and in
Speaker 2: this particular format, it's not just about winning. It's the
Speaker 2: fact that you scored, they didn't score. So you take
Speaker 2: the one goal aggregate lead back home, you take the
Speaker 2: one away goal back home with you, and you're sitting
Speaker 2: pretty uh going into a game in Saint Louis, where
Speaker 2: you know you have had success before and you feel
Speaker 2: confident at home in these concacaffeinations league matches.
Speaker 1: When you look at this particular performance and that there
Speaker 1: were there were moments of angst. Let let let me
Speaker 1: go ahead and drop a little refing down here in
Speaker 1: here here, uh Matt Turner and Shamar Nicholson. Let's say you,
Speaker 1: now that the match is over, let's say you about
Speaker 1: the uh Matt Turner uh moment early on with Shamar Nicholson.
Speaker 2: Well, it was a foul, It's a penalty cake.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 2: As I said, it was a lot of guys who
Speaker 2: quote should have done better, right. It was one of
Speaker 2: those like Taylor Felman, He's got to be better. There
Speaker 2: about three of those in a row that end up
Speaker 2: with a penalty kick. But Matt Turner saves the himself
Speaker 2: and saves the team with a very good penalty kick save.
Speaker 2: That was not the easiest penalty of penalties.
Speaker 1: To say, that is a.
Speaker 2: Decent effort, and you know that is the type of
Speaker 2: heroics that you need from a guy who is still
Speaker 2: the number one. But I think confidence is waning in
Speaker 2: Matt Turner or has waned over the past two years.
Speaker 2: But that was a very that's what you have Matt
Speaker 2: Turner and goal for you know, if you that is
Speaker 2: one thing he does very well. I know, I think
Speaker 2: it was. Paul Carr tweeted out that he's saved three
Speaker 2: of the eight penalties that he's had against him for
Speaker 2: the national team. That is wrong. It's actually eight because
Speaker 2: one of them hit the crossbar and that counts as
Speaker 2: a save and goalkeeper world you can ask Jessica Sharman
Speaker 2: when she comes on that is technically a save despite
Speaker 2: what they say.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know that's what he does.
Speaker 2: He's he's almost at half you know, half the time
Speaker 2: he's saving a penalty. And at the international level, that's
Speaker 2: pretty darn good.
Speaker 1: It's damn ridiculous. I mean, when you have that, then
Speaker 1: you had a couple of and saving penalties.
Speaker 2: By the way, John, saving penalty is in live play
Speaker 2: much harder than saving penalties at a penalty kicks shoot
Speaker 2: out because you don't have any you don't get your
Speaker 2: water bottle, like literally, you know you don't have that.
Speaker 2: Uh and and in a PK shootout you have way
Speaker 2: much more time to kind of read a player, and
Speaker 2: and you know you can miss one and then you
Speaker 2: got four more so the fact that he saved three
Speaker 2: out of eight and live play is a pretty darn good.
Speaker 1: Feet, no doubt. And uh so Matt Turner and we
Speaker 1: go through the ratings as we always traditionally do, to
Speaker 1: sit there and pick them apart. Matt Turner gets a six.
Speaker 1: By the end of the night, he did have a
Speaker 1: couple of key moments and big sits along the way.
Speaker 1: Joe Scaley, Anthony Robinson, Mark McKenzie, Tim Reim. Scaley got
Speaker 1: a four along with Jedi. Tim Ring got a five.
Speaker 1: Mark McKenzie gets a six. On the evening, Let's say you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought McKenzie had a better night than Reem.
Speaker 2: I think Reim was a curious decision for this particular match.
Speaker 2: I personally would have gone with Trustee or Robinson, someone
Speaker 2: who's a little bit more physically fast. Let's just put
Speaker 2: it that way. Or we're not going to sugarcoat it.
Speaker 2: They're just faster, they're fleeterer of foot. John. You know,
Speaker 2: no offense to Tim Reim, He's been great, but you
Speaker 2: know he's got the Brad Guzanne problem where Yeah, at
Speaker 2: some point it's just you know, it's harder. Your feet
Speaker 2: get heavier as you age, so I've learned, and you know,
Speaker 2: he just needs to you know, he got the job done,
Speaker 2: but I do think mackenzie was better. Although mackenzie had
Speaker 2: an interesting first half, but I thought the backline was
Speaker 2: okay enough. Joe Scalley continues to be a guy who
Speaker 2: isn't a problem, but isn't a guy that inspires a
Speaker 2: whole lot of confidence, which is, you know, unfortunate for
Speaker 2: someone who has been playing now it feels like a
Speaker 2: decade in the Bundesliga. Yeah, I mean, he obviously not
Speaker 2: that long, but he's been playing there for quite a
Speaker 2: long time, and he would expect him to be a
Speaker 2: little bit more solid defensively than he is. But look,
Speaker 2: you gotta shut out, so good job defense.
Speaker 1: Yes, So then your midfield started out Musa Testaman, McKinny
Speaker 1: and Johnny. Johnny exits after the twenty first minute with
Speaker 1: an injury, replaced by Malick Tillman. Weston McKinny. Soccer America
Speaker 1: gives him a three Unice Musa Tanner Testament each got sixes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Testaman had a worse night than McKinny,
Speaker 2: but I also think McKenny it wasn't as good as
Speaker 2: we would want him to be. Johnny and Testamen were
Speaker 2: decent together. I think Johnny leaving, we didn't have as
Speaker 2: much control on the ball, which meant we had less
Speaker 2: control of the game in total. And that's a little
Speaker 2: bit on Testament. That's not his game necessarily. He can
Speaker 2: do it, but that's something that he definitely needs to
Speaker 2: improve on, whereas Johnny is much more of a get
Speaker 2: on the ball, tempo setter type dude. But I was
Speaker 2: really hoping to see something from Tessaman and Johnny, and
Speaker 2: I think what I saw from Tessaman is that I'd
Speaker 2: need to see more, and not in a bad way,
Speaker 2: just I would like to see more of him to
Speaker 2: be able to make a better conclusion, you know, especially
Speaker 2: when you're looking right now where Musa is playing as
Speaker 2: a right midfielder, right winger, some sort of position that
Speaker 2: was further out wide because we don't have the winger depth.
Speaker 2: Now we get Tim Waya back in Saint Louis because
Speaker 2: he'll have served as two game suspension for someone in
Speaker 2: the back of the head and so we probably won't
Speaker 2: have the Musa at right wing or whatever in that game.
Speaker 2: But this is a decent wrinkle to look at as Okay, well,
Speaker 2: if he's playing there, who else can play in that midfield?
Speaker 2: And I think Tessaman and Johnny put together a decent
Speaker 2: enough performance in the twenty minutes to say, okay, this
Speaker 2: is a solid solution. And without Musa, without even Goo,
Speaker 2: without Tyler Adams, which you know, especially the later the
Speaker 2: latter two like who knows that they're ever gonna be
Speaker 2: healthy again?
Speaker 1: Right? Uh four was up top. Peppi and Polisic each
Speaker 1: got seven's. Ricardo Peppi, by the way, with his goal,
Speaker 1: becomes the fourth player to score a dozen national team
Speaker 1: goals before his twenty second birthday, joining Polisic, Josie Altador
Speaker 1: and uh don Ovan Landon Donovan. As those four there
Speaker 1: your subs. Malick Tilman got a five, Busio gets a five,
Speaker 1: Brandon Vasquez US Open Cup hero Brandon Vasquez gets a four.
Speaker 1: Alexand and Austin Trusty because of the minutes that they
Speaker 1: were in got incomplete Spaceically, I.
Speaker 2: Think it's fair to say Vascuaz probably should have had
Speaker 2: a goal. He had some opportunities as Jamaica was pushing
Speaker 2: late to put a goal behind Andre Blake.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Thought I thought Tillman did okay. The problem with Tilman
Speaker 2: was but he was brought in. I don't think I personally,
Speaker 2: I think if I were to criticize Pachettino, I would
Speaker 2: have brought Tillman in, moved Musa inside, put Tillman out wide.
Speaker 2: So your midfield three after the Johnny injury would have
Speaker 2: been Tessaman, Mussa, McKenny, which is a little bit better
Speaker 2: of a win the ball, go forward type of midfield.
Speaker 2: Tillman is not the best ball winner, especially in the midfield.
Speaker 2: He's a little bit more of a okay, you win
Speaker 2: the ball and then give it to me type of guy.
Speaker 2: But he got a good enough positioning there, and then
Speaker 2: I think they put McKenny back there with Testaman Moore
Speaker 2: and let Tilman play up top in that midfield formation.
Speaker 2: So I think he did okay. But that was an
Speaker 2: interesting thing that I saw Pochettino do that I personally
Speaker 2: would have changed.
Speaker 1: A little bit. Line up for Jamaica on the day.
Speaker 1: Andre blaken net Linbakisa Holgate, low Bell Lee, Damari Gray
Speaker 1: let A Bodier, Palmer Bailey and Nicholson left obvious substitutions
Speaker 1: in Jamaica. Going down to ten. Uh, you know ten
Speaker 1: you had two cards for Mason Holegate in a ten
Speaker 1: minute period, one of the seven six and the second one.
Speaker 1: You're kind of sitting there going, you know, I get
Speaker 1: what you were doing. But at the same time, you
Speaker 1: know there's four minutes left and you're still trying to
Speaker 1: get an equalizer. And so, yeah, Mason Holgate really handsreings
Speaker 1: his club in the eighty six minutes.
Speaker 2: I do not think he needed to. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: go back through the timeline so I can look at
Speaker 2: it for sure, but yeah, I don't think he needed to.
Speaker 1: Is I think it was a grab on the way
Speaker 1: by Yeah, so.
Speaker 2: The first foul was just a yeah. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: think the first foul is just a regular old like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's a yellow card foul. The second one, for sure
Speaker 2: where he gets the red card, I don't think he
Speaker 2: needed to make that particular foul. He had a defender
Speaker 2: to cover. You know, obviously, if you're looking at it
Speaker 2: from Jamaica's standpoint, you probably say, hey, we don't want
Speaker 2: to give up another goal, so I'll take the red
Speaker 2: card and risk it. But I think that was a
Speaker 2: little foolish and short sighted of him. But he was beat.
Speaker 2: You know, that's the thing is he got beat and
Speaker 2: probably shouldn't have let that happen.
Speaker 1: Yep. Ten shots total both sides, half of those on target,
Speaker 1: three for the US, two for Jamaica, two saves on
Speaker 1: each side, three corners for Jamaica compared to one for
Speaker 1: the US. Twenty five fouls called on the day by
Speaker 1: the Costa Rican officiating crew. One Gabriel Calldrone, the man
Speaker 1: in the middle.
Speaker 2: Well, I thought was decent. Last night. There was some
Speaker 2: chatter on Twitter about him not being good enough. Maybe
Speaker 2: should have given some yellow cards for persistent infringement. Look,
Speaker 2: that is a CONCACAF match. I don't think the match
Speaker 2: got really out of hand from the referees point of view.
Speaker 2: I think the players got out of hand, and I
Speaker 2: think he at least tried to calm things down. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think the one that Jedi got the
Speaker 2: yellow card for, he gave yellow card to both teams
Speaker 2: after that kurfuffle. Yeah, yeah, he could have been a
Speaker 2: little bit more proactive, but I thought he actually did
Speaker 2: a pretty visa job last night.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Fifty nine percent of the possession went to the
Speaker 1: United States as well. Before we let you go to
Speaker 1: start your weekend and have you back on Monday for
Speaker 1: reffing down here and getting ready for match for a
Speaker 1: match day number to the return fixture at the Pink
Speaker 1: Park in st.
Speaker 2: Which has a sponsor now by the way, apparently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is the the Energizer Bunny, and so they
Speaker 1: don't have to switch the pink texture. And so now
Speaker 1: instead of it being City Park, it's now Energizer Park,
Speaker 1: and so they just keep that. They just keep the
Speaker 1: pink motif. I want to get your thoughts on the
Speaker 1: Canada soccer situation and now that they have come out
Speaker 1: with their official findings and you have a priestman, Mander
Speaker 1: and Lombardi basically done for and now it seems like, uh,
Speaker 1: the the issue may be closing upon a particular individual
Speaker 1: who we somewhat referenced at the beginning of this segment.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the obvious solution is to disband Canada soccer.
Speaker 2: US Soccer absorbs all of that, and now we have
Speaker 2: Kadeshi Canadan and Ashley Lawrence to play for the US
Speaker 2: women's national team. Jonathan David pared and you know, we yeah,
Speaker 2: and then we get we get Davies and David and
Speaker 2: and and you know, I think that's just the fairest
Speaker 2: solution out of all of us. No, but in all seriousness,
Speaker 2: I do wonder, especially because he's coaching for Toronto. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that's gonna be tricky for Canada soccer because
Speaker 2: you know, it's not like you can say, well, I
Speaker 2: you know, he fled to New Zealand again. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: still in the country. And the fact that he is
Speaker 2: to this point avoided being truly involved in the investigation
Speaker 2: is a little bit to me, uh problematic.
Speaker 3: From the investigations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's the people's eyebrow gets raised. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll I'll help you out and I'll sit there and
Speaker 1: whatever you guys need. And uh, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: scheduling issues and quotation marks are the are the problem
Speaker 1: where John Herdman cannot well schedule.
Speaker 2: He ain't been doing a job for the last month.
Speaker 2: I got eliminated.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and you know it's like you couldn't take
Speaker 1: like an early day or something, or have somebody run
Speaker 1: a practice or there's an off day in there somewhere
Speaker 1: that's where.
Speaker 2: You go after your office hours, you know something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think video deposition I mean, there are ways.
Speaker 2: Again, I don't think Bev Prieseman came up with this
Speaker 2: all on her own, because it seems like she felt
Speaker 2: like this was an inherited piece of the program that
Speaker 2: was started from John Hrdman. And you know, again, it
Speaker 2: calls into question not just the women's team's success from
Speaker 2: before Priestsman then with Priestsman at the twenty twenty slash
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one Olympics, but also calls into question the
Speaker 2: the success that Canada soccer on the men's side had
Speaker 2: during the twenty twenty two qualification cycle where they won,
Speaker 2: because that matters. Yeah, and you know again reiterates that John,
Speaker 2: when they got to the World Cup they were the
Speaker 2: second worst team, you know, and mhm up until also
Speaker 2: haven't really done anything since then, despite them chirping a
Speaker 2: whole whole lot, you know, they haven't won Gold Cup.
Speaker 2: They haven't even made a final of.
Speaker 1: The Gold Cup.
Speaker 2: John, The Canada soccer has not been in a final
Speaker 2: of the Gold Cup since they won it in two thousand. Right,
Speaker 2: So I'm not great at math, but by next summer
Speaker 2: it'll be twenty five years since they've even been in
Speaker 2: a final. Now, they did make a Nation's League final,
Speaker 2: but even then it's been USA Mexico and all the
Speaker 2: finals except for one, you know, two of the three.
Speaker 2: So again, that's that's kind of where I do question them, right,
Speaker 2: is you had all the success during qualifying, but when
Speaker 2: it came down to actually doing it in a real
Speaker 2: tournament against your your opponents in the region, you haven't
Speaker 2: really found that success like you claim to have in quality.
Speaker 2: And that is where I do wonder how much of
Speaker 2: the drone uh pilots came into play, right, Yeah, So
Speaker 2: that's uh, that's that's kind of what you're what you're
Speaker 2: staring at the what do you what you've done with
Speaker 2: the information on hand? I guess is probably how how
Speaker 2: do you disseminate what was what was taken and the
Speaker 2: level of success success they're in?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: All right, So ten o'clock Monday, we'll go through what
Speaker 1: happened this weekend. We'll get reughing down here, anything else
Speaker 1: that happened nationally as we get ready for the reverse
Speaker 1: fixture in Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which you know, I'll say again it should be
Speaker 2: a win, should be comfortable win. Pochettino got his first
Speaker 2: road win in Conca calf, which is the same amount
Speaker 2: of road wins as Greg Borrolhalter has if I could
Speaker 2: just not trying to diss the man, But you know,
Speaker 2: I think that Pochettino his mentality was you play to
Speaker 2: win the game. Yes, and the team played to win
Speaker 2: the game last night, and I think you saw how
Speaker 2: they got an early goal and still maintained control of
Speaker 2: the match for the most part until you know, second
Speaker 2: half began and Jamaica is playing to you know, with
Speaker 2: with a little bit more energy and a little bit
Speaker 2: more determination, which which happens in Conca CAF. I don't
Speaker 2: know about you, John, but someone needs to go cut
Speaker 2: that grass.
Speaker 1: But I was gonna mention that, not me.
Speaker 2: I don't I hate yard work, but someone should go
Speaker 2: cut that grass.
Speaker 1: That was That was a grounds keeper's delight, without question.
Speaker 2: That, like I joked about, that was like when you
Speaker 2: know dad, Dad was gone for the week on a
Speaker 2: business trip and he'd be like, Hey, by Friday, I
Speaker 2: need to cut the grass. And it's Friday morning and
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I haven't cut the grass yet, and
Speaker 2: so you got to rush out there and cut it.
Speaker 2: I think someone forgot to cut the grass before this game.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they forgot to cut it, they
Speaker 2: just kind of well, look, I think I think the
Speaker 2: Jamaica team also was hampered by the grass, quite honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, all right, well we'll catch up with
Speaker 1: you at ten o'clock on Monday morning. Is always great
Speaker 1: to see my friend. Thanks for the analysis and nothing.
Speaker 1: Quoting HERM Edwards to wrap up a segment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you play to win the game.
Speaker 1: Exactly, all right, be good, enjoy your coffee. We'll see
Speaker 1: it Monday. There goes Bart, all right, nine thirty. This
Speaker 1: is a treat and uh, you've got you've got a
Speaker 1: club that is hosting a championship game this weekend, and
Speaker 1: we get to find out about what life is like
Speaker 1: for a particular individual that those of us here in
Speaker 1: the the SDH footprint here in the Atlanta area know.
Speaker 1: We got to see him grow and now he's now
Speaker 1: he's at Union Omaha, he is. He is a murder
Speaker 1: owl by trade. Now we're gonna bring in Lagos Kunga
Speaker 1: to find out what's going on. Lagos. Good morning, my friend,
Speaker 1: it's been too.
Speaker 5: Long one morning. How are you well?
Speaker 1: Questions for you man, you're the one that's taking up
Speaker 1: for a championship right now, what's it? What's it like
Speaker 1: now to T minus won?
Speaker 6: It's I mean, we're just all excited. I mean I'm
Speaker 6: super excited.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: It's been a it's been a good, good, good year
Speaker 6: and finally being back in a team setting and playing
Speaker 6: a whole season, it's just been awesome and just now
Speaker 6: is I can't wait to just like finish it, finish
Speaker 6: it strong.
Speaker 5: So I'm excited.
Speaker 1: So for those that don't know the story and how
Speaker 1: all of this came together, how did you and Los
Speaker 1: bu host connect? How did this happen where you end
Speaker 1: up being a part of things with Union Omaha?
Speaker 6: It was last year I didn't I was playing in
Speaker 6: Libya or the year before, and then some things happened
Speaker 6: behind the scenes, and there were some cases like with
Speaker 6: the FIFA and stuff I couldn't I didn't have a
Speaker 6: club for for about six months. I couldn't sign anywhere,
Speaker 6: and then I finally joined Des Moines, which is a
Speaker 6: USL two team, and had a really good season. And
Speaker 6: then after that season, there was a few teams that
Speaker 6: reached out and I talked to a few of them,
Speaker 6: and you know, Omaha was the most attractive especially with
Speaker 6: the history and stuff. So that's how it came about.
Speaker 6: So I signed last year around October of last year.
Speaker 1: So and with your time there in Des Moines and
Speaker 1: USL League two, it's safe to say that Lagos was
Speaker 1: a menace and we mean that both literally and figure
Speaker 1: to leave what you did in USL League too. What
Speaker 1: did you learn about yourself from the time overseas in
Speaker 1: that six months where you couldn't sign and then finally
Speaker 1: getting to play in Des Moines. What did you learn
Speaker 1: about yourself, both on the field and off that you
Speaker 1: could carry with you as you continued your career.
Speaker 6: I mean what I learned is, you know, like it's
Speaker 6: I mean, when you don't have a club is very tough.
Speaker 6: It's very tough to just cause you don't know what's happening.
Speaker 6: You're just training alone and you're just waiting for that time.
Speaker 6: So it's it was a very hard time. But I
Speaker 6: you know, I just what I learned is just like games,
Speaker 6: you know, playing games and having that game experience is
Speaker 6: very very important. So that's that's what I'm you know,
Speaker 6: that's the main thing for me now to just playing games.
Speaker 1: How have you improved when it comes to your game
Speaker 1: and your style with your time there in Iowa and
Speaker 1: now in nebrasketion O maha, how have you matured as
Speaker 1: a player since folks might have had the last chance
Speaker 1: to see it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think between USL two and USL one, it's
Speaker 6: like the game is much faster, and that's why I
Speaker 6: think I got better at that, like decision making and
Speaker 6: all that stuff.
Speaker 5: So I think that's the main main thing, is the speed.
Speaker 1: How long of an adjustment period was it for you
Speaker 1: to realize, Okay, I've got to I've got to hit
Speaker 1: this into a different gear. I can be at one
Speaker 1: gear in des Moin, but it's a different match and
Speaker 1: it's a different game entirely there with Union Omaha. How
Speaker 1: long did it take for you to adjust it was?
Speaker 6: I mean, like I think the first two three sessions
Speaker 6: it was very tough, you know, I was.
Speaker 5: It was different type of fitness.
Speaker 6: I know, the first two sessions, I was already like
Speaker 6: I couldn't keep up. And then the coach came up
Speaker 6: to me and he was like like after training, he
Speaker 6: was like, hey, let's talk. And then when I heard that,
Speaker 6: like I was already like in my head like okay,
Speaker 6: like I probably I don't need the standard like I
Speaker 6: was already, you know, but he you know, he talked
Speaker 6: to me.
Speaker 5: He was like, hey, don't don't worry about anything.
Speaker 6: We know what you could do, you know, just go
Speaker 6: out there and and just you know, have fun, play
Speaker 6: your game, like this is why we brought you here.
Speaker 6: And then I think after that conversation, like everything switched,
Speaker 6: and that's, you know, that's when I start, you know,
Speaker 6: I started playing and and then obviously the fitness came
Speaker 6: later and stuff. But I think I'm I'm best when
Speaker 6: like I'm just I'm just playing and I'm I'm relaxed
Speaker 6: and stuff. So I think that conversation was very important
Speaker 6: and I've never really had a coach tell me that.
Speaker 5: So I think that's when everything everything changed.
Speaker 1: What have you learned from Dominic Casciato, the head coach
Speaker 1: there at Union Omaha this particular season, about yourself, about
Speaker 1: Omaha and about USL League one. What have you learned
Speaker 1: this season from him? Specifically?
Speaker 5: He's he's he's he's tough in a way.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: He I think, like right, how football is right now,
Speaker 6: like you have to adjust and I think that was
Speaker 6: my biggest thing. And he wasn't like he's not like, Okay,
Speaker 6: if you're good, you're gonna play. No he he he was,
Speaker 6: He'll sit and he'll sit you down. And there was
Speaker 6: a couple of games where I had to sit down
Speaker 6: because I just, you know, like I just wasn't because
Speaker 6: I'm playing a different position as well, so I had
Speaker 6: to I had to adjust, and then I had to
Speaker 6: do like the off the ball stuff, the fitness stuff,
Speaker 6: the running back and tracking back and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: So that that's what I learned, and you know, like
Speaker 6: that's where that's what I'm gonna take wherever. Whatever comes
Speaker 6: next is the you know, you have to work hard,
Speaker 6: you have to you have to run, not just when
Speaker 6: you have the vault, but you also have to do
Speaker 6: the other the ugly part.
Speaker 1: So what has this what's this playoff run been like
Speaker 1: for you guys? It's a USL League one traditionally is
Speaker 1: one of the tougher leagues out there. I mean literally,
Speaker 1: if you have a good week, you can go from
Speaker 1: eight to two. If you have a bad week, you
Speaker 1: can drop from one to five. What's it been like
Speaker 1: for you in this really tough league this year?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, for sure, it's been it's been good. You know,
Speaker 6: we had a lot of we had a lot of
Speaker 6: ups and down on and off the field. What happened
Speaker 6: with our teammate, Me Shak and stuff like that. So
Speaker 6: I think we just go out there and play for
Speaker 6: him and try to fight for him, and we're trying
Speaker 6: to make him a champion.
Speaker 5: So we you know, we we're excited for Sunday.
Speaker 1: For those that don't know the story about me Shaq
Speaker 1: Jerome and where you you guys are are playing for
Speaker 1: him and his family critically injured in the home explosion
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. For those that don't know Me Shack
Speaker 1: as a person, how would you describe who he is
Speaker 1: and how he is a part of that team there
Speaker 1: in Omah.
Speaker 6: Oh we all we all love him, and you know,
Speaker 6: that's my best friend on the team. Like if you
Speaker 6: see me Shak, you see me, Like in all the photos,
Speaker 6: it's me and me Shack everywhere like await trips, we're
Speaker 6: always together. So you know, it really hit me hit home.
Speaker 6: So because you know that's that's my that's my best friend.
Speaker 6: So I'm excited to play for him.
Speaker 1: And you the guys, I mean, obviously the entire community
Speaker 1: has rallied around me Shack because there was a GoFundMe
Speaker 1: that was out there to try and help the family
Speaker 1: with expenses and things. For those that don't know Omaha
Speaker 1: as a soccer community, how would you describe what football,
Speaker 1: what soccer means to Omaha.
Speaker 6: I mean before coming here, I didn't really know much
Speaker 6: about the Midwest sports. And you know, I think Omaha
Speaker 6: is a sports It's a sports country or a sports state,
Speaker 6: you know, like we get we I think we have
Speaker 6: one of the best fans, you know, like they always
Speaker 6: make sure we're we're good, giving us gift bags and.
Speaker 5: Stuff like that.
Speaker 6: So I mean they show out every every week to
Speaker 6: every game, so it feels you know, it feels good.
Speaker 5: They really are behind this team.
Speaker 6: And I can't wait how many of them going to
Speaker 6: be out there on Sunday.
Speaker 5: So very excited.
Speaker 1: All right, So now that you've mentioned about Omaha, now
Speaker 1: that you've kind of gotten used to what life is
Speaker 1: like there Omaha, what are some of your your favorite hangouts?
Speaker 1: Where do you get to go? Do you get recognized
Speaker 1: in town this season? What where do you when you
Speaker 1: when you got to have logos time? Where do you
Speaker 1: go and where where do you kind of sit there
Speaker 1: and have your moments. And do you get recognized there
Speaker 1: in town because of younion?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: Uh yeah.
Speaker 6: Usually I go to like a coffee shop. I drink
Speaker 6: a lot of my day, so I would bring my
Speaker 6: made with me. I started to drink that last year,
Speaker 6: and I would just hang out at a coffee club or
Speaker 6: coffee shop. There was before the Richmond game. I was
Speaker 6: walking to the coffee shop and somebody was like, hey, like,
Speaker 6: you know, like we're going to be at the game tonight.
Speaker 6: And I turned around and they were talking to me,
Speaker 6: and I was like, oh really Like he was like, yeah,
Speaker 6: like you play for Omaha, right. I was like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: So that was that was pretty cool, you know, And
Speaker 6: so that's that's cool.
Speaker 5: So you know they people actually pay attention.
Speaker 1: What what makes a good mate?
Speaker 5: The water?
Speaker 1: Because I have to ask because you know Jason Longshore,
Speaker 1: Jason loves a good mate, and so I've got to
Speaker 1: you to get your Oh yeah's Jason's a mante guy
Speaker 1: is and so I've got to ask you so I
Speaker 1: can prepare the evidence for him. So you said the
Speaker 1: water makes a good mate.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I get my I get the Canari one
Speaker 6: and the water, So you gotta hold your bottle to
Speaker 6: make sure it's not too hot, because if it's too hot,
Speaker 6: then it's not good. So it has to be if
Speaker 6: you can't hold the bottle for ten seconds without burning yourself,
Speaker 6: then it's perfect.
Speaker 1: Okay. This is the kind of hard hitting stuff that
Speaker 1: we have here on the Morning Show. These are these
Speaker 1: hard hitting questions when it comes to the sport here.
Speaker 1: You got a championship game coming up. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know this, but you got it. You're playing
Speaker 1: for a title coming up this weekend. What has study
Speaker 1: Hall been like getting ready for this game? And what
Speaker 1: kind of the game are you anticipating there?
Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be it's gonna be a fight,
Speaker 6: for sure. You know, Spokane, they they're they're underdog. I
Speaker 6: mean they they finished seventh place in the league, and
Speaker 6: like they beat Colorado, who's very very it's very tough
Speaker 6: to beat them, especially at their home, as well as
Speaker 6: on Madison, who it's a Madison is a tough place
Speaker 6: to play.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: I've been there a couple of times and it's it's tough,
Speaker 6: you know. Uh So, I mean, so it's not gonna
Speaker 6: be an easy game. I don't think. I think they're
Speaker 6: they're gonna fight, but we're up for it. You were
Speaker 6: up for it, I think everybody. You know, I think
Speaker 6: after the semi final game, like all the nervousness, like
Speaker 6: when they you know, like when we first started the game,
Speaker 6: like a couple guys were a couple of us were nervous,
Speaker 6: and you know, they got a quick goal and then
Speaker 6: we realize, okay, like you know, we can get back.
Speaker 6: So I think we're you know, we want to a
Speaker 6: better start for the game. But yeah, I think it's
Speaker 6: gonna be It's gonna be a fight, for sure. But
Speaker 6: I think the boys are ready. I think the last
Speaker 6: few sessions everybody was locked in, you know.
Speaker 5: So I think I think we're ready.
Speaker 1: I think we're ready for someone who hasn't seen Union
Speaker 1: Omaha play and they will for the first time Sunday
Speaker 1: afternoon when they watch a championship game. How would you
Speaker 1: best describe what coach Dom and everybody does out there?
Speaker 1: How would you best describe Los Buhos soccer when when
Speaker 1: everything's going well, How would you describe what you're doing?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I think we are possession based team. I
Speaker 6: think we like to attack. We like to have the ball,
Speaker 6: but we like to have the ball with purpose. I
Speaker 6: think the coaches they're very like they pay attention to
Speaker 6: every single details even I practice, So you know, you
Speaker 6: can expect I'm very.
Speaker 5: Attacking mind a team for sure.
Speaker 6: We try to get a lot of goals for me,
Speaker 6: like personally, you know, I'm I like to entertain fans
Speaker 6: when I have the ball like I like to, you know,
Speaker 6: take people one on one, dribble, go and run.
Speaker 5: So I think you should expect that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Union a Maha hosting Spokane coming up Sunday
Speaker 1: afternoon and it is going to be on the Golasso
Speaker 1: Network on CBS Sports chasing after the title in USL
Speaker 1: League one. Before you go, I have to ask when
Speaker 1: it comes to your time here in Atlanta, how would
Speaker 1: you say your time here helped you grow into the
Speaker 1: young man that you are today and the professional athlete
Speaker 1: that you are today. How how did your time growing
Speaker 1: up here help you where you are now?
Speaker 6: I think when I was in Atlanta, I was I
Speaker 6: was very young. I didn't I took a lot of
Speaker 6: things for granted, I feel like I didn't. I wasn't
Speaker 6: as professional, you know, the little things that I wish
Speaker 6: I should have done that I didn't do. But you know,
Speaker 6: like in terms of soccer, like the speed of play,
Speaker 6: like learning a lot from Tata really helped. I think tactically,
Speaker 6: I'm very I'm pretty sharp, so I think that helps
Speaker 6: a lot.
Speaker 5: So but I I enjoyed my time in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Well as always, it's great to see you and great
Speaker 1: to see you exceed my friend. Good luck to see
Speaker 1: much after a championship. There at Warner Park, two o'clock
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon, Glossal Network. It is Union O Mahado's Boos
Speaker 1: the murder out. Lagos, be safe, my friend, be well,
Speaker 1: have a great game. We'll see you on the flip side. Okay,
Speaker 1: don't be a strange.
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me so, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: I enjoyed it. Hope to do this again.
Speaker 1: Some you got it. You got red carpet anytime. That's
Speaker 1: logo everybody. So Lagos is going to go get mate
Speaker 1: now and he's going to do his thing. And once again,
Speaker 1: thanks to William Clark and our friends at Union Omaha
Speaker 1: for making that happen on short notice, especially during during
Speaker 1: a practice week chasing after a championship. But yeah, the
Speaker 1: big story In addition to what's been going on there
Speaker 1: with the success for Union Omaha has been the story
Speaker 1: of me Shack Jerome and so critically injured in the
Speaker 1: home explosion two weeks ago. And there's a go fund
Speaker 1: me out there if you should feel so inclined to
Speaker 1: help the family with expenses. But playing for me Shaq,
Speaker 1: playing with Me Shack, and you got to hear what
Speaker 1: kind of relationship Lagos has with Me Shack Jerome. So
Speaker 1: they're playing with an additional purpose. They're in omahas they're
Speaker 1: chasing after a championship in USL League one. So thanks
Speaker 1: to our friends there in Omaha for orchestrating this probably
Speaker 1: before practice this morning, so very very cool, and thanks
Speaker 1: to like I said, thanks to way Clark and everybody
Speaker 1: there in Omaha for giving us the chance to catch
Speaker 1: up with Lagos on short notice and to see what's
Speaker 1: what's going on there as they're going to play for
Speaker 1: a title on Sunday afternoon. Okay, good morning everybody. Now
Speaker 1: that we've got a chance to kind of catch our
Speaker 1: breath a little bit, Jessica Charman joining us at the
Speaker 1: top of the hour, and we got a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff to talk about with Jess, it is NWSL, It's
Speaker 1: the USL Sjupi League, it is colleges because I think
Speaker 1: Jess will be busy in the college ranks, and also
Speaker 1: what's going on in Major League Soccer. And then we'll
Speaker 1: put a bowl on the week and get you ready
Speaker 1: for the weekend with anything and everything going on that
Speaker 1: you might have missed out on Nations League, in concer cap,
Speaker 1: you've got what's going on in Europe with international play.
Speaker 1: Steian Gregorson got a couple of minutes yesterday for the
Speaker 1: Norwegian national team, and so Stean is getting minutes and
Speaker 1: he's logging that in as well. So we'll go back
Speaker 1: and recap everything as we go. So good morning, Alex morning,
Speaker 1: Harry morning, Jordan, Morning, Scherif and morning four Card morning,
Speaker 1: tom morning, David, morning Derek, and there you go. So
Speaker 1: morning to all of you. However you are accessing us
Speaker 1: this morning, I was doing some research myself and it
Speaker 1: is oh okay, So Jess wishes to push for Monday,
Speaker 1: So yeah, Jess can push to Monday. So all right,
Speaker 1: So Jessica Chrman is pushing to Monday. So Jess will
Speaker 1: be here Monday and we will figure out a time
Speaker 1: for a jess to hang out and join us because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff to talk about. So we'll
Speaker 1: talk about what happened and so yeah, literally just just
Speaker 1: texted me, so so we will orchestrate things on Monday
Speaker 1: with jess. So there we go. So Jessica Charman pushing
Speaker 1: to Monday. It's the beauty of live, live media, live radio,
Speaker 1: live TV, whatever you want to call it. So bart
Speaker 1: is on Blue Sky. I had to do that digging myself.
Speaker 1: So yes, sure e flashbacking to another similar CONCA CAF incident.
Speaker 1: Well another major tournament incident, yes, and so yes, and
Speaker 1: in shootouts you don't have to worry about spilling and
Speaker 1: rebounds and those kinds of things. But yeah, you have
Speaker 1: Matt Turner who is four for eight when it comes
Speaker 1: to penalty kick save opportunities. Very very cool stuff morning, everybody.
Speaker 1: So David was hoping that Saint Louis would get a
Speaker 1: Saint Louis sponsor. That sounded a little like Casey like Casey,
Speaker 1: like Enter and Co in Orlando. So if Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: if Saint Louis were to get something Enter and Co
Speaker 1: ish in like in Central Florida, who would it be, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you pop the top on Budweiser Park something like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That'll be the thinking cap question for
Speaker 1: for for us this morning, okay, So that'll be the
Speaker 1: thinking cap question if it was if it was something
Speaker 1: more Middle Florida ish when it came to a stadium.
Speaker 1: And by the way, speaking of Middle Florida, we're booking
Speaker 1: our stuff and it's going to be yet another SDH
Speaker 1: invasion down next weekend next Sunday in Middle Florida, so
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see all of you there that get
Speaker 1: to make the trip down there as well. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll be down there, and I think we'll be down
Speaker 1: there starting Saturday late because we've got Academy soccer and
Speaker 1: we've got to navigate that before we all hop on
Speaker 1: planes and head south. So not next month, not this
Speaker 1: Monday coming up, but the Monday after the game in
Speaker 1: Middle Florida, that Monday's show. So you're having me do
Speaker 1: math on a morning, okay. So the twenty fifth, the
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, the morning show will be from Orlando, probably
Speaker 1: be from some business room or something like that, or
Speaker 1: a hotel room or something like that. So the morning
Speaker 1: show will be from Orlando on the twenty fifth, because
Speaker 1: MCO does not really have late flights like they do
Speaker 1: here in Atlanta. So I was trying to figure out
Speaker 1: if there would be away where I could leave late
Speaker 1: Sunday night after the match, and didn't happen, like literally,
Speaker 1: like the last flight out is I think seven thirty
Speaker 1: or eight on a Sunday night. And that's even with
Speaker 1: all of the high fallutin. That's all, with all of
Speaker 1: the high fallutin airlines that fly in and out of
Speaker 1: Middle Florida, there's no real such thing as a late
Speaker 1: night flight out of MCO. So I'm staying Sunday night.
Speaker 1: So the morning show on the twenty fifth will be
Speaker 1: from Middle Florida and we will discuss what's going on
Speaker 1: with the Purple team, and we'll do that on the
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, So the twenty fifth will be down there
Speaker 1: for the match, and starting on the twenty third, will
Speaker 1: be down there for the match on the twenty fourth.
Speaker 1: Morning show will be down from Middle Florida on the
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, before we up on planes late night or
Speaker 1: late afternoon on Monday the twenty fifth, before we come
Speaker 1: back to see what's going on in this particular part
Speaker 1: of the planet. Derek talking about Team Canada fail, well,
Speaker 1: failed hockey players who I don't know how many of
Speaker 1: them have actually played hockey. It'd be an interesting question
Speaker 1: how many of them grew up playing hockey, how many
Speaker 1: of them just stuck to what was going on with
Speaker 1: what was going on just on the soccer pitch. So
Speaker 1: we'll get into that, all right. So we've got to
Speaker 1: go through all of the news and everything. Since we
Speaker 1: were in the lower divisions. Let's focus on lower divisions
Speaker 1: and let you know what's going on in that and
Speaker 1: in international play and all that kind of stuff. Yesterday
Speaker 1: in Conca cap just so you know, USA was a
Speaker 1: minus one oh nine on the road at Jamaica. Jamaica
Speaker 1: was a plus three to zero one draw was a
Speaker 1: plus two thirty one. The US got to win. And
Speaker 1: we'll go over standings in a bit. El Salvador beat
Speaker 1: bon Air one. Neil bon Air, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: had the thirty nine year old keeper who was not
Speaker 1: the most svelt individual, and there were photos circling around
Speaker 1: that Bonnier's keepers thirty nine years old, they were plus
Speaker 1: seventeen hundred and they lose one. Nill hosting El Salvador
Speaker 1: in the play in positions believes beat French Guiana to
Speaker 1: one at a plus one fifty four. Panama beat Costa
Speaker 1: Rica one nil at a plus two h two, So
Speaker 1: a big road win for Panama yesterday. Today you've got
Speaker 1: a couple of different things. Saint Lucia, Grenada and it's
Speaker 1: Grenada on the roads of plus one thirty three, the
Speaker 1: Caymans and guadal Guadaloupa minus twenty five hundred by the way,
Speaker 1: going up against the Cayman Islands. League B kirasaua minus
Speaker 1: seven to fourteen at Saint Martin, Haiti a minus five
Speaker 1: thousand at Sint Martin at a plus twenty eight hundred.
Speaker 1: Barbados hosting Guyana at a minus one forty five. League
Speaker 1: A Playoffs Canada at Sir and Am at a minus
Speaker 1: one seventy nine. We probably should catch up with our
Speaker 1: friend Christian Jack and find out how things are going
Speaker 1: in Canada. Sir and Am north of plus four hundred.
Speaker 1: Honduras in Mexico, that is, at nine o'clock tonight, available
Speaker 1: on networks of of choice. Mexico going to Honduras at
Speaker 1: a minus one thirty Honduras at a plus three thirty
Speaker 1: and League B Puerto Rico at home minus five fifty
Speaker 1: six hosting Aruba, who's plus nine point eighty. League B
Speaker 1: Bermuda is minus two thirty eight hosting both Antiga and Barbuda,
Speaker 1: like William and Mary, Antiga and Barbuda to plus five sixty.
Speaker 1: Dominican Republican min is three twenty three on the road
Speaker 1: at Dominica, who is at plus six eighty five in
Speaker 1: the composite, And we even have an early number on
Speaker 1: USA in Jamaica they are at a minus two point fifty,
Speaker 1: meaning the United States hosting Jamaica Jamaica once again without
Speaker 1: Mason Holgate for the return fixture at the Pink Park
Speaker 1: on Monday, Monday at eight Eastern times. So it's probably
Speaker 1: like eight ten or something like that. So minus two
Speaker 1: fifty and a plus five seventy five for Jamaica. David
Speaker 1: with a couple of good suggestions, Casey Masterpiece stadium. But
Speaker 1: now all right, so would the people in Saint Louis
Speaker 1: get mad if you was calling it Casey Masterpiece? Would
Speaker 1: the territorial elements that are attached to that? Would that
Speaker 1: draw some ire of some folks at the Pink Park,
Speaker 1: Because well right now, it's pink. I don't know it was. Well,
Speaker 1: it was kind of pink when it was City Park too,
Speaker 1: So would they get mad in Saint Louis if it
Speaker 1: was called Casey Masterpiece if it was a masterpiece in
Speaker 1: Kansas City? Now that and we do have some roster
Speaker 1: moves from some teams yesterday that were interesting that we'll
Speaker 1: get into from Major League Soccer, because once you're eliminated,
Speaker 1: then you get to announce folks that aren't going to
Speaker 1: be around anymore. So Sportsman's Warehouse Park, well, if you well,
Speaker 1: David brings up some points. If the stadium was in
Speaker 1: Kansas City and Children's Mercy or the stadium that could
Speaker 1: hold a sporting Kansas City too for MLS next pro
Speaker 1: if they were looking for a sponsor, could you call
Speaker 1: it a case Masterpiece. I think that would be kind
Speaker 1: of funny. I think that would be appropriate at the
Speaker 1: k C Masterpiece Stadium, where the stadium is a masterpiece
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. I think that would fit. And then
Speaker 1: Sportsman's Warehouse Park, if it looked like a warehouse, you
Speaker 1: could just call it Sportsman's Warehouse. Although I think that
Speaker 1: folks might kind of take iyre to it. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is not a warehouse. I mean, if it was a warehouse,
Speaker 1: you'd have probably have to have a roof on it
Speaker 1: or something so that. Yeah, Derek admits Casey Masterpiece would
Speaker 1: go over like a lead balloon in Saint Louis. Yes,
Speaker 1: in Kansas City not so much. But if the stadium
Speaker 1: was a masterpiece in Kansas City and you had Casey
Speaker 1: Masterpiece that was there, I think that you could have
Speaker 1: the you could have the elements attached to it. So
Speaker 1: now that keep them coming. We'll keep talking about standings
Speaker 1: by the way in CONCACAF before we leave conky CAF. Today,
Speaker 1: the League A playoffs once again. Quarterfinals. Panama beat Costa
Speaker 1: Rica one nil. USA beat Jamaica. So we're waiting for Canada,
Speaker 1: sir and Am, Mexico and Honduras. With how things were there,
Speaker 1: you're looking at Group A and Group B with everyone
Speaker 1: that had advanced forward, Costa Rica, Cernam, Jamaica and Honduras
Speaker 1: through the four matches that were there. League B. Just
Speaker 1: so we know and remember, you win, you have the
Speaker 1: chance to get into Group A. Then you have to
Speaker 1: be then you have to survive as one of the
Speaker 1: four second place teams that are attached to it as well.
Speaker 1: The four winners and the four second place teams. El
Speaker 1: salvad are currently leading Group A, two points ahead of
Speaker 1: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, so that's not a fair
Speaker 1: fight Saint Lucia and Kiris. We talked about that in
Speaker 1: Group B, with the chaos that's going on that Glenn
Speaker 1: Crooks got to see yesterday. He's helping out his buddy
Speaker 1: Stern John and it's on his two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: character app account the video or they're like take it down. Literally,
Speaker 1: they're telling the guys from Kurrasl led by Dick Advacott,
Speaker 1: who take it down. That's where you are. Group C.
Speaker 1: Haiti is six points ahead of everybody else. Puerto Rico
Speaker 1: is second in the group. Haiti has run the table.
Speaker 1: They've won the first four and their goal differences at
Speaker 1: a plus thirteen. Of course, when you're playing St. Martin
Speaker 1: and Aruba in Group C and it's really just Haiti
Speaker 1: and Puerto Rico, then that's what you're anticipating. A big
Speaker 1: number being put up by Haiti and Puerto Rico in
Speaker 1: that group. Group D Dominican Republic has also put up
Speaker 1: big numbers. They have run the floor in their first
Speaker 1: four Bermuda with a shock loss to Dominica to start
Speaker 1: group play has Bermuda at nine points, safely in second
Speaker 1: with two matches to go, and Dominica right now at
Speaker 1: three points. Antigua and Barbuda look looking like the last
Speaker 1: and the last team in each of the groups get
Speaker 1: sent down to group to League C. So League B
Speaker 1: winners have a chance to go up, as do the
Speaker 1: second place teams, but the ones who finish last in
Speaker 1: their groups drop to League C, which currently are Montserrat,
Speaker 1: Saint Martin, Aruba, and Antigua and Barbuda. So that's what
Speaker 1: League B looks like League C. Just so we have it.
Speaker 1: It is a handful of teams. It's three groups of
Speaker 1: three Barbados, Bahamas. Barbados has run the table in Group
Speaker 1: A and it is Bahamas in second, Belie and Anguilla
Speaker 1: they are one and two in Group B, Group C
Speaker 1: Saint Kitts and Nevis and the Caymans with the British
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands not winning a match, and then the ranking
Speaker 1: of the second place teams the Caymans and goal difference
Speaker 1: with the Bahamas and Anguilla. So that's what you're looking
Speaker 1: at in there and then in the play in round,
Speaker 1: rich Ran has a note about Sporting Kansas City too.
Speaker 1: Benny Fayle Harbor was not renewed, so Saint Kitts and
Speaker 1: Navis in the final. In the play in they advanced
Speaker 1: Belize in the play and they advanced Guiana, Barbados, Guadaloup
Speaker 1: and the Caymans. We are waiting for those, so news
Speaker 1: from rich since we are now at the top of
Speaker 1: the hour. As a part of the roster moves yesterday
Speaker 1: that were made, Benny fail Harbor not returning as Sporting
Speaker 1: Kansas City two's head coach in twenty five, So Sporting
Speaker 1: Kansas City two made that move yesterday. In Major League Soccer,
Speaker 1: once again you have teams making roster decisions and news
Speaker 1: and things like that. So with all of the with
Speaker 1: all of the news, you end up with Austin signing
Speaker 1: Danny Pereira to a contract extension, Minnesota United transferring MI
Speaker 1: Kyle Marcus Devastadas a s K. We mentioned Diego Charrah
Speaker 1: and his contract extension in one So Sporting Kansas City
Speaker 1: moves on from Johnny Russell and Tim Melia end of
Speaker 1: season roster moves, confirming that Andrea Ufontas and Remy Voltaire,
Speaker 1: among others, are leaving the club, both out of contract.
Speaker 1: Russell and Melia two wins in their first sixteen Sporting
Speaker 1: never recovered, finishing next to last thirty one points in
Speaker 1: the Western Conference, missing out on the playoffs second time
Speaker 1: in three years. So that comes a year after Sporting
Speaker 1: moves on from Zusie and Roger Espinosa. And so now
Speaker 1: the key questions in Kansas City will come from a
Speaker 1: chief soccer officer and manager, Peter Urmes. What are you
Speaker 1: going to do in the off season? How are you
Speaker 1: going to how are you going to fix what's going
Speaker 1: on in the off season. Johnny Russell signed from Darby
Speaker 1: County ahead of the twenty eighteen season. Two time club
Speaker 1: in v twenty two, third all time leading scorer across
Speaker 1: all comps sixty seven goals, thirty four years old, name
Speaker 1: club captain in twenty twenty one, nineteen twenty one, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, after Matt Beaesler's departure. Tim Milia. By the way,
Speaker 1: you want to talk about someone who is insane when
Speaker 1: it comes to saving penalties, Tim Millia is that guy.
Speaker 1: Sportings all time goalkeeping leader in regular season appearances with
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty saves at seven hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: two shutouts at sixty nine. Nice Milia helped them win
Speaker 1: Open Cups in fifteen and seventeen, Player of the Tournament
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, earning MLS Goalkeeper of the Year best
Speaker 1: eleven in twenty seventeen as well. Thirty eight year old
Speaker 1: Millia legendary penalty kicked shootout performer, going a perfect five
Speaker 1: for five and seven for seven throughout his career in
Speaker 1: playoff deciders. Seventeen penalty saves in the regular season, seventeen
Speaker 1: in the regular season. That's an insane number, the most
Speaker 1: in Major League Soccer since twenty fifteen. And we welcome
Speaker 1: in Nickolefy for our number two. Nikolefy, what is up
Speaker 1: in your mind sir as we go this morning?
Speaker 7: Oh no, man, I'm just here. I'm trying to survive.
Speaker 1: As we all are. It was an interesting first hour.
Speaker 1: We had bark Keeler dropping by to discuss what happened
Speaker 1: with the US M and T and their win on
Speaker 1: a how do we best phrase this? A surface that
Speaker 1: needed some serious manicuring. I guess is probably the best
Speaker 1: way to phrase it last night playing in Jamaica. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing that they gave the grounds crew the week off
Speaker 1: considering the growth of that turf and the growth of
Speaker 1: that grass in Jamaica. In the end, the US ends
Speaker 1: up getting the one nil win, But yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: When you're in these situations, you're gonna do whatever you
Speaker 1: think benefits you. And if that means grow in the
Speaker 1: grass to slow down the United States, it ends up
Speaker 1: slowing you down as well. But yeah, that that surface
Speaker 1: needed some manicuate.
Speaker 7: Yeah, look, it was a win, right, yeah, okay, all right, yeah,
Speaker 7: yeah these if it's one zero and it's not the dominating,
Speaker 7: crazy performance you wanted, then I get it. There's gonna
Speaker 7: be some kind of hand ringing going on. Oh man,
Speaker 7: you know, how are we going to do this against
Speaker 7: Belgium or Germany or France or But these are also
Speaker 7: the wins that you can hang your hat on later,
Speaker 7: right when when, because you will end up playing a
Speaker 7: very good team on a very bad surface down the road.
Speaker 7: And now you can walk into the locker room say, fellas,
Speaker 7: remember what, Jamaica, We've done this before. There's and it's
Speaker 7: easier to get your mind back into that sort of
Speaker 7: peak performance state. You don't have to there's no distraction
Speaker 7: at that point. So that's what these wins do. So
Speaker 7: it's it's okay to you know, not have a you know,
Speaker 7: this sort of doomsday mentality. What I know, I know
Speaker 7: it's crazy, but it's okay, it's one zero, it's fine,
Speaker 7: no big deal.
Speaker 3: All as well.
Speaker 1: You're you're not you're not running into the you're not
Speaker 1: running into the the the darkness at the rear of
Speaker 1: the set and going what what's going on here? What's
Speaker 1: going wrong? It's not like Kevin and Home alone up
Speaker 1: and down the staircase.
Speaker 7: No, No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not worried about
Speaker 7: it at all. I mean, it's it really is a
Speaker 7: you know, if right now you're building chemistry, right now,
Speaker 7: you are building mentality for twenty six. That's all you're doing.
Speaker 7: You don't have to worry about qualifying. All you're doing
Speaker 7: is just building a level of cohesion amongst all the
Speaker 7: different levels of your player pool, and you are building
Speaker 7: confidence going into twenty six, which is no matter what surface,
Speaker 7: no matter what temperature, no matter the weather, climate doesn't matter,
Speaker 7: means nothing, no factor. Right, That's that's the two words
Speaker 7: that they are trying to build within this program right now.
Speaker 7: No factor and so you know all that matters is
Speaker 7: eleven v eleven and get the win. Just win baby,
Speaker 7: It's Al Davis time exactly.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, hmm, A point was made by Alex
Speaker 1: Passin in the twitch pitch.
Speaker 7: An excellent point, might I add in.
Speaker 1: A one nil win in League A in UAPHA Nations
Speaker 1: League yesterday, m Italy mm quoting our bestest buddy and
Speaker 1: favorite big toast Sergeant Hulka. Italy at a plus one
Speaker 1: seventy seven, a slight road dog at Belgium gets a
Speaker 1: one nil win in League A and Sandro Tonali was
Speaker 1: the individual who scored said goal for Italy in their
Speaker 1: win in League A yesterday.
Speaker 7: My boy, Sandro, you know what I'm saying. Look for
Speaker 7: some reason that is beyond me. UEFA and FIFA have
Speaker 7: an affection for Belgium that makes no sense. They make
Speaker 7: it makes no sense, and their fascination with losers is
Speaker 7: unbecoming of such two prestigious organizations as UEFA and FIFA. Y,
Speaker 7: you know, their fascination with significant talent with very little
Speaker 7: delivery is uh is it's It's just fascinating to me.
Speaker 7: It's it's interesting that Belgium gets so much love because
Speaker 7: yet again Belgium proves that they are a group of
Speaker 7: individuals who cannot pull it together. They just don't. They
Speaker 7: have all the drama of France, uh, with none of
Speaker 7: the results. And that's a that's a bad kitchen, right,
Speaker 7: that's a bad kitchen. If you can't if you get
Speaker 7: all the drama none of the results, you're not cooking anything.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, if you're if you're if you're
Speaker 1: cooking in a kitchen and you've got the recipe there
Speaker 1: in front of you, and if you uh, for for
Speaker 1: for some reason or another, if the if the meal
Speaker 1: doesn't come out right, then isn't that on the chef?
Speaker 2: I mean? Uh?
Speaker 7: And if you go into the stats, right, so we
Speaker 7: go into the wonderful world of stats here, it was largely,
Speaker 7: you know, outside of passes, a pretty even game, right,
Speaker 7: I mean, shots were eleven each shots on target four
Speaker 7: for Italy, three for Belgium. Possession was fifty four forty six,
Speaker 7: Italy passes five forty seven to four sixty two. Italy
Speaker 7: pass accuracy eighty six eighty four Italy. The fouls nine
Speaker 7: and eight, and then Italy with nine and then yellow
Speaker 7: cards three for Belgium, two for Italy and then off
Speaker 7: sides though four for Italy, and I have no problem
Speaker 7: with that level of off sides because that just tells
Speaker 7: me that you know, you are you're being very progressive
Speaker 7: in you know what you're trying to do in the
Speaker 7: attacking phase, like you know, that's timing. A lot of
Speaker 7: that's timing, and that's that gets sorted seven corners to one.
Speaker 7: You know for Belgium. Belgium had seven corners. You're not
Speaker 7: able to make anything of it. That is, that's a
Speaker 7: bit wacky in my opinion. But if you go to
Speaker 7: the standings, you know, look at the goal scoring, right,
Speaker 7: Italy is leading this group with twelve goals scored. They're
Speaker 7: the only double digit scoring team going. They have five
Speaker 7: goals allowed. Right defensively stout Belgium only six goals forced.
Speaker 7: And that's the thing about Belgium is that they have
Speaker 7: they have attacking talent, right, they cannot put it together.
Speaker 7: And this is nothing new and for any news organizations
Speaker 7: sports talk podcast that looks at Belgium and says, well,
Speaker 7: Belgium should walk away with this all you're doing is
Speaker 7: you're just roster reading, like you're telling me you don't
Speaker 7: watch any games with Belgium, that you don't watch anything
Speaker 7: with them. Historically, it's all the same thing. It's Belgium
Speaker 7: non stop. That this is the Belgian Golden generation, that
Speaker 7: golden of what like fools gold pyrite, it's the pyrite
Speaker 7: generation of of soccer. I I don't I'm tired of
Speaker 7: hearing about how Belgium has this great insane level of talent.
Speaker 1: They had this great insane level of talent nick.
Speaker 7: But that they do nothing with it, nothing with it.
Speaker 7: So why are they still ranked? Why are they still
Speaker 7: ranked above Italy? Why are they still ranked above uh?
Speaker 7: You know people who I don't know have won a
Speaker 7: tournament uh in like the past two cycles. That's it's
Speaker 7: it's crazy to me.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, but I'm.
Speaker 7: Glad that Alex and I get to share the joys
Speaker 7: of Tonali. I'm very sad he's still not in red
Speaker 7: and black. Hopefully one day we can rectify that. However,
Speaker 7: at the moment, as long as he is performing well
Speaker 7: for Alex and performing well from Mayozuri, then the mayor
Speaker 7: joyous times continue.
Speaker 1: Yes, a couple of other stories attached to that particular
Speaker 1: group to start things off. Actually, police broke up clashes,
Speaker 1: and once again, when you have more than one writer
Speaker 1: on a story, that's not necessarily a good byeline to have.
Speaker 1: Tom Morgan Peter Allen from the Telegraph headline, Police break
Speaker 1: up ugly clashes involving Israel and France. Fans supporters involved
Speaker 1: in fights in the standsman fierce protests outside the stadium
Speaker 1: over Israel being allowed to play. Article outside the Sotude
Speaker 1: de France. A fearsome police presence surrounded pro Palestinian demonstration.
Speaker 1: Skirmishes erupted in the stands. During the match. Fans wearing
Speaker 1: Israel flags were involved in confrontations broken up by undercover
Speaker 1: French officers, although it was not immediately clear whether they
Speaker 1: were fighting pro Palestine protesters. However, videos post on social
Speaker 1: media showed scores of fans fleeing from the trouble in
Speaker 1: the stands. Only a small group of opposing fans appeared
Speaker 1: to be directly involved in confrontations. However, one man in
Speaker 1: particular being incensed and shouting in the direction of Israel supporters,
Speaker 1: fighting quickly broken up by officers. Reporters on the ground
Speaker 1: said skirmishes were fleeting. One israel fan, who asked not
Speaker 1: to be named, said he was in Paris on an
Speaker 1: organized visit and had recently been fighting with the IDF
Speaker 1: and Lebanon quote. I've come along to the game to
Speaker 1: enjoy the football and I'm sorry there's so much tension
Speaker 1: between the two sets of supporters. I have no interest
Speaker 1: in getting involved in fighting in France. There's plenty ongoing
Speaker 1: back home. So that was part of that. And then
Speaker 1: the English fans apparently were mad that they were being
Speaker 1: treated the way that they were being treated before the
Speaker 1: Greek the match against Greece, and apparently they were none
Speaker 1: too happy. They treat us like animals. England fans complain
Speaker 1: about Greek riot police. I'll bringing in Jarrett here for
Speaker 1: the last hour as well. But yeah, apparently the Mike
Speaker 1: McGrath in Athens and Ben rumsby Athens meaning Greece not Georgia.
Speaker 1: They got a different set of issues this weekend with
Speaker 1: Tennessee Mike McGrath and Ben rumsby the FA and Football
Speaker 1: Supporters Association of launched investigations after England fans say they
Speaker 1: were quote lucky end quote to avoid a disaster after
Speaker 1: allegedly receiving quote unnecessary treatment from Greek police. Testimonies on
Speaker 1: social media to tell how some of the thirty five
Speaker 1: hundred traveling fans struggled to get inside the Olympic Stadium
Speaker 1: in Athens before England's three nil win over Greece in
Speaker 1: Nations League. Police and riot clothing with shields and batons
Speaker 1: marshaled out the supporters as they queued to get into
Speaker 1: the seventy thousand sellout, many not getting into the stadium
Speaker 1: before the kickoff at nine to forty five local time.
Speaker 1: Some have complained about the use of tear gas and
Speaker 1: say fans were pushed as they were cued. If a
Speaker 1: spokesperson came out, we were aware that some of our
Speaker 1: fans had a difficult experience. This is an under sell.
Speaker 1: We are aware that some of our fans had a
Speaker 1: difficult experience outside the ground and they're obtaining more information
Speaker 1: on exactly what happened. So then you had free Lions
Speaker 1: fans embassy posting on the two hundred and eighty character app.
Speaker 1: There's videos about a lot of cues. More fans shared
Speaker 1: claims of being pushed and receiving heavy handed treatment from
Speaker 1: Greek police. Outside the stadium. Footage on social media showing
Speaker 1: fans crowded into a small area as they attempted to
Speaker 1: get into the match. Others suggested there were only two
Speaker 1: toilets for the away end and they were located outside
Speaker 1: the stadium. Jude Bellingham was targeted by supporters with a
Speaker 1: green laser green light shone on him from the stands
Speaker 1: when he touched the ball, and there is video of
Speaker 1: There are stills of that. Bellingham hoped to open the
Speaker 1: scoring with a pass to Olie Watkins and the seventh
Speaker 1: then it noticeable that Bellingham had a green light pointed
Speaker 1: toward his face and the body when he touched the
Speaker 1: ball and also after an early booking for dissent. So
Speaker 1: once again, nothing changes. The more things the more things
Speaker 1: go down the timeline, the less it changes, gentlemen. So
Speaker 1: once again, you're you're in Nations League play and things
Speaker 1: like this continue to happen. So Hi Jerrett, good morning morning, Nick.
Speaker 1: Dive in at any point, you know.
Speaker 8: The real trick with this kind of thing, first of
Speaker 8: all is the fact that Europe likes to tell everybody
Speaker 8: how much better they got it for soccer when they have.
Speaker 3: All this craft go on You're not better than everyone.
Speaker 3: You're just European.
Speaker 8: You just have better mass transit, and some of your
Speaker 8: countries have better ideas on how to take care of
Speaker 8: people in a social setting. Also, the real challenge with
Speaker 8: this is never that it happens, it's that can you
Speaker 8: discuss it without being almost cartoonishly racist?
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know if that's the case.
Speaker 7: Well, and here's another thing is that I don't understand
Speaker 7: why the English supporters are so shocked and amazed that
Speaker 7: they get treated this way everywhere they go, because everywhere
Speaker 7: they go there's problems, even in their own home country.
Speaker 7: Do we remember the Euro Final where they storm their
Speaker 7: own freaking stadium, beat up their own stadium's security and
Speaker 7: broke down doors and tore the place apart. I I mean,
Speaker 7: you act like that in your own house, you know,
Speaker 7: why should I think that you won't come to my
Speaker 7: house and act the same way. So I understand that
Speaker 7: there are good English fans, good and proper English fans
Speaker 7: who are showing up with their vegemite and their whatever
Speaker 7: beans and toast and having just a you know, watching
Speaker 7: a proper game of foot. I get it. But the
Speaker 7: problem is is that the douche canoes of your of
Speaker 7: your fan base are so loud and so stupid. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and then they complain NonStop about everything, and then they
Speaker 7: continuously antagonize other supporter groups. That what we what we expect? Yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, Germany's come a very long way
Speaker 7: from from the bombers. You know, the blitz is over.
Speaker 7: You know, the Blitz is over. Guys, Churchill's gone. We
Speaker 7: don't have to worry about singing about German bombers anymore.
Speaker 7: You know, we can move on and you know, maybe
Speaker 7: not tear your own place apart because Thatcher's gone too, right,
Speaker 7: So you know that the crazy repression, You don't have
Speaker 7: to worry about any of that. Just it's okay to
Speaker 7: show up and be chill and watch a game and
Speaker 7: go and have some fun.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know about that. I don't don't I
Speaker 1: don't know if you can actually have those kinds of things.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's levels to the antics that people do, because like,
Speaker 8: you get this, but you got I think.
Speaker 3: For me, it's just the lack of true absurdity.
Speaker 8: Like Como Ball and Conka Calf will have issues like
Speaker 8: this as well, where fans are mistreated and.
Speaker 3: It's not okay.
Speaker 8: Ever, English, It's it's not okay the mistreat people like you.
Speaker 8: In a perfect world, you'd like everyone to have a
Speaker 8: like a safe space to watch the game. But it
Speaker 8: seems like this is just what they what they have
Speaker 8: going on, whereas in South America they have this, but
Speaker 8: then you also get things like throwing a pig head
Speaker 8: on the field or dislodging a toilet and throwing a
Speaker 8: toilet on the field, and there's just a little level
Speaker 8: of absurdity that doesn't exist as frequently in Europe that
Speaker 8: they're missing. It's it's kind of like somebody made eggs
Speaker 8: and they just didn't put the spices on them to
Speaker 8: make them breathing enough.
Speaker 1: Oh man ay yeah yeah yeah. Ye oh.
Speaker 7: By the way, thank you David for your for your
Speaker 7: kind comments. And uh and work hard. How you doing, boss,
Speaker 7: You're doing all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I'm thinking.
Speaker 7: But you know, and I know that nobody wants to
Speaker 7: touch France Israel with a twenty foot pole, and you know,
Speaker 7: because it's Chernobyl radioactive. But it's I think it goes
Speaker 7: to what's happening largely at a worldwide level. This Mike
Speaker 7: concerns me about sports, and that is that sports used
Speaker 7: to be, you know, a distraction, you know, whether it
Speaker 7: was Bread and Circus or you know, hey, look we're
Speaker 7: just here to take your mind off of things for
Speaker 7: a little bit.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 7: You know, I've seen in very recently how sports can
Speaker 7: be used to the positive, and especially down in South Georgia,
Speaker 7: you know, where you have essentially what a place that
Speaker 7: looks like a war zone, where people were able to
Speaker 7: come together and and have a tiny bit of normalcy
Speaker 7: for a little while. But I've also seen where sports
Speaker 7: are now being used as your megaphone, that's now being
Speaker 7: used as an extension of your rage, and because you
Speaker 7: have no other outlook for it, you know, and you
Speaker 7: don't feel like you're being heard by anyone else, so
Speaker 7: let's just go turn our sporting event into an extension
Speaker 7: of my rage. That is the concerning thing for me,
Speaker 7: you know, and because it the world has shown me
Speaker 7: that it's only gonna get dumber, you know, like it's
Speaker 7: it's only going to get far more ignorant. It is.
Speaker 7: It's something where we are as a as humanity or
Speaker 7: going that we're gonna have to figure out what to
Speaker 7: do with our rage, and we're going to have to
Speaker 7: figure out how to do it in a non nuclear way.
Speaker 7: We're going to have to figure out how to do
Speaker 7: it in a way that does not involve dead kids.
Speaker 7: We're going to have to figure out a way to
Speaker 7: do it that doesn't involve, uh, you know, concert goers
Speaker 7: being massacred. We're going to have to do it in
Speaker 7: a way that doesn't involve people climbing fences and smashing
Speaker 7: security guards to try to get a seat to watch
Speaker 7: a game. We're going to have to figure out a
Speaker 7: whole bunch of stuff, humanity. We kind of need to
Speaker 7: get off, you know, the household chemicals that were ingesting
Speaker 7: recreationally to get ourselves sorted and figure out how to,
Speaker 7: I don't know, hate each other for the right reasons,
Speaker 7: you know, hate each other because you're wearing a Juventus kit.
Speaker 7: You know, I think that's.
Speaker 3: We used to have a way to address this. It
Speaker 3: was called mal arcides.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, like I you know, we used to
Speaker 7: do this at uh like the Mortal Kombat too, uh,
Speaker 7: you know game at the arcade. We would like I'll
Speaker 7: just take all your money and then I'll whoop see
Speaker 7: you in the corner until you get absolutely enraged and
Speaker 7: leave the arcade.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 7: There were there were peaceful ways of handling this. That's
Speaker 7: still enriched me. But I don't know, man, I have
Speaker 7: I have a number of concerns about where we are
Speaker 7: right now and and how we address rage. And you know,
Speaker 7: like I enjoyed trash talking Juventus, there's some people who
Speaker 7: I care about deeply who are Uve fans. I'm convinced
Speaker 7: that they have been huffing draino for a few years.
Speaker 7: That doesn't mean I hate them that, you know, I
Speaker 7: do question their recreational activities. You know, inter fans, same thing.
Speaker 7: You know, I don't. I don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 7: Maybe you've been trying to put raid all over your
Speaker 7: house and you're kind of getting buzzed off of the
Speaker 7: the bug sprit. I have no idea, but we can.
Speaker 7: We can do these things without you know, being absolute, uh,
Speaker 7: you know, morons to each other.
Speaker 8: I don't know, uh, speaking the international one, this is
Speaker 8: one of the reasons I hate the international break because
Speaker 8: we literally we cannot go.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I don't know if we can go an international break
Speaker 8: without some somebody on this God forsaken planet doing something stupid.
Speaker 8: Look a federation, Yeah, and it look you're always gonna
Speaker 8: be kind of playing wid loaded dice because so many
Speaker 8: of these federations are like Dudley do write, cartoon level corrupt. Yeah,
Speaker 8: so you're always gonna have something just kind of that
Speaker 8: that sort of damnically is hanging over the idea of
Speaker 8: something stupid is going to happen. Well, yes, because so
Speaker 8: many of these federations are cartoonishly corrupt.
Speaker 3: And in some cases incompetent.
Speaker 8: Been to where we get to have you know, the
Speaker 8: great question of uh, they're they're the great adage of
Speaker 8: don't attribute to malice what you can attribute to them
Speaker 8: in competent because sometimes it's a little column, a little
Speaker 8: columb sometimes it's more of one or the other. But
Speaker 8: it makes it it's it makes.
Speaker 3: The international breaks exhausting for me personally. Not everyone shares that.
Speaker 1: View, and that's fine, live your best life, yes.
Speaker 3: But I'm just yeah, I would like to enjoy games.
Speaker 3: I'd like to enjoy stupid things like Argentina losing. Yes,
Speaker 3: the product that was amazing, that was hilarious. I'd like
Speaker 3: to enjoy these things without having.
Speaker 8: To deal with like people getting completely out of pocket
Speaker 8: and deciding to.
Speaker 3: Make us all have to have conversations.
Speaker 8: And also at the same time, most points to these
Speaker 8: people for torpedoing their own lives in the process in
Speaker 8: some cases because say or do whatever you want. But
Speaker 8: some of the stuff that these people do, like you
Speaker 8: know they have cameras.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 8: You know, you know your life's it's not going to
Speaker 8: be the same after you do something stupid.
Speaker 1: No that.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty four, buddy.
Speaker 1: No, Paraguay by the way, was a plus four to
Speaker 1: sixteen at home in that matchup against Argentina who Argentina
Speaker 1: was a minus one fifteen and speaking.
Speaker 7: Of money changed hands on that one.
Speaker 1: Uh yes, and Ecuador shut out Bolivia four nila the
Speaker 1: minus five point fifty six.
Speaker 8: Shout out to era friend friend Morales absolutely absolutely got
Speaker 8: the start.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely true and uh. Venezuela and Brasile finished at
Speaker 1: a one to one draw. That was the early match
Speaker 1: yesterday at a plus two eighty six. Venezuela, by the way,
Speaker 1: what was Venezuela was a plus six hundred to win
Speaker 1: outright brazila minus one eighty two And what did Venezuela
Speaker 1: do to try and ensure the frustration of Brasil late
Speaker 1: in the match to try and get a point out
Speaker 1: of the deal. Somehow, the sprinklers in the stadium went
Speaker 1: off with about a minute and a half to go
Speaker 1: in in time that was added on by by the
Speaker 1: man in the middle.
Speaker 7: Hey, teamwork makes the dream work.
Speaker 1: Just look. Just ask ask the grounds crew in Jamaica
Speaker 1: about letting the grass grow. Ask the folks who set
Speaker 1: the timers at the stadium in Venezuela about when the
Speaker 1: uh when when the sprinklers are supposed to come on
Speaker 1: after a match?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: I mean, my guess is they were probably set to
Speaker 1: come on at six o'clock anyway, And it just so
Speaker 1: happened that the match started at four and in and
Speaker 1: around six o'clock it's time for the sprinklers to water
Speaker 1: the field. And hey, there was still a minute and
Speaker 1: a half to go in the match in the Brazil,
Speaker 1: and the Brazil squad was less than pleased that they
Speaker 1: were having to navigate the sprinklers as they were trying
Speaker 1: to gather some momentum and try and get a game
Speaker 1: winner that they didn't get.
Speaker 7: I see nothing wrong with this, this is Look these things,
Speaker 7: first of all, let me go ahead and speak on
Speaker 7: behalf of my dear friends with Venezuela and say that,
Speaker 7: you know, in these times of modern technology, mishaps occur,
Speaker 7: and we are my clients are very apologetic by the
Speaker 7: timing of the sprinkler system going off. Uh, you know,
Speaker 7: but unfortunately these are the things that happen when you
Speaker 7: are attempting to modernize systems, and bugs are guaranteed to occur.
Speaker 7: So we look forward to the next game in which
Speaker 7: we can uh, in which we can meet our dear
Speaker 7: friends to the south and uh and and have great,
Speaker 7: great times playing the world's sport, the beautiful game UH.
Speaker 7: And we look forward to that opportunity.
Speaker 8: Yes, shout out to and shout out to the time,
Speaker 8: you know, over the summer when we were like Brazil
Speaker 8: got to got to like deal with Costa Rica's the
Speaker 8: darkest of magic that Costa Rica could could pull out.
Speaker 8: And I I never thought I'd see the day where
Speaker 8: a como ball team would be flat footed by the
Speaker 8: dark magic like the shoot heel antics of another club.
Speaker 8: But man, I'll never forget watching Costa Rica basically turned
Speaker 8: that like take that wrestling match and just turn it
Speaker 8: into a stalemate. Like just put like you turned it
Speaker 8: into a ground match and basically just locked in and
Speaker 8: so yeah, yeah, that was it was. It was like
Speaker 8: it was like a Roman greco. It was like an
Speaker 8: Olympic wrestling match where someone is very overmatched but has
Speaker 8: a good ground game, and he just was like.
Speaker 3: You know what, for the next three minutes, We're not
Speaker 3: gonna wrest I'm just gonna hold you here.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: In jiu jitsu, it's called pulling guard. So you have
Speaker 7: somebody who's a really good technician and somebody who knows
Speaker 7: they're out matched, and the person who knows they're outmatched
Speaker 7: just pulls guard. It's like I'm just gonna get I'm
Speaker 7: gonna wrap the legs and we are We're just gonna
Speaker 7: sit here the whole time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, We're just we're kind of gonna grapple and our
Speaker 1: greco wrestle romaning for a good The least.
Speaker 8: You could do is trade recipes during that time and
Speaker 8: figure out something good that you cook for dinner when
Speaker 8: you get hold.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, maake this time productive for you, right.
Speaker 1: Argentina, after eleven matches, three points ahead of Columbia. Columbia's
Speaker 1: match in hand gets taken care of today, uh Columbia
Speaker 1: could draw even on points, still be behind on goal difference.
Speaker 1: Bruscill eleven matches seventeen points with the draw, Butguay at
Speaker 1: sixteen points. They've drawn three of their last four. They're
Speaker 1: ahead of Ecuador on goal difference. Ecuador unbeaten in their
Speaker 1: last four, Paraguay out of plus one in goal difference,
Speaker 1: they've won three of four. There are sixth seventh as
Speaker 1: you're playing spot right now, and that is Venezuela, who
Speaker 1: has drawn three of their last four. They are at
Speaker 1: twelve points, ahead of Bolivia, well ahead of Bolivia on
Speaker 1: a goal difference minus two to minus fourteen. Peru is
Speaker 1: at six points, Chile is at five points, and those
Speaker 1: two square off today as a matter of fact, and
Speaker 1: if you want to hear, you have a Colombia and
Speaker 1: Chile going at it today. So Colombia, they could be
Speaker 1: a part of it. In Brazil's playing Peru. Sorry my bad,
Speaker 1: I had it wrong. I'm clicking the wrong dates. Peru's
Speaker 1: playing Chile today at the bottom of the table, and
Speaker 1: so this could be one of those elimination six pointers
Speaker 1: if you'll look at it that way. And then Uruguay
Speaker 1: and Colombia is going on today. We'll get into the
Speaker 1: juice boxes there in just a little bit. We mention,
Speaker 1: you know, enjoying the experience at a soccer match. Saw
Speaker 1: this from our friends at the Independent now and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead, and you feel free to react in
Speaker 1: real time as I relay the story here. And this
Speaker 1: is from our friend Chris Wilson at the Independent. Four
Speaker 1: clubs in the Women's Championship will allow fans to drink
Speaker 1: while in their seats during home matches this season, in
Speaker 1: a bid to help create the game's own distinct atmosphere.
Speaker 1: Birmingham City in Southampton understood to be part of the
Speaker 1: four club trial, which is being put in place by
Speaker 1: the Women's Professional Leagues Limited. They took over ownership of
Speaker 1: the Women's Super League and the Women's Championship from the
Speaker 1: FA last August, with Nikki just Set the chief executive
Speaker 1: of the company. Having previously discussed the desire for the
Speaker 1: trial to take place. The WPLL want to assess whether
Speaker 1: drinking in seats would contribute positively to the creation of
Speaker 1: a better atmosphere or if it will lead to worse
Speaker 1: behavior from fans.
Speaker 8: Brother we get alcohol to at SEC games with one
Speaker 8: hundred thousand streaming psycho paths.
Speaker 3: Nothing good happens? Does something bad always happen?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Not necessarily does anything good happen? No? No, this is
Speaker 3: kind of like throwing the football. Three things can happen
Speaker 3: to them?
Speaker 1: Are bad? Yes? Thank you what he hayes. Though the
Speaker 1: selection process hasn't been finalized yet, the trial will likely
Speaker 1: take place across Birmingham and Southampton, as well as two
Speaker 1: more clubs in the identity of the other two has
Speaker 1: not yet known, reports The Times. The women's game has
Speaker 1: previously adapted to the same alcohol laws as men's football,
Speaker 1: where alcohol has been banned from consumption in view of
Speaker 1: the pitch since nineteen eighty five in the top five tiers,
Speaker 1: and a change to the rules and the women's game
Speaker 1: would not require a change to any FA rules or legislation,
Speaker 1: but merely an alteration of the wpll's own rules. Trial
Speaker 1: set to begin after the new year, clubs required to
Speaker 1: meet certain criteria to be involved. These include sufficient hospital
Speaker 1: mentality offerings, the ability to gather necessary data from sales,
Speaker 1: and high quality CCTV. Both Birmingham Women and Southampton Women
Speaker 1: play at the club's Maine Stadia, Saint Andrews and Saint Mary,
Speaker 1: so they'll likely meet the criteria and they're sufficiently large
Speaker 1: and any crowd trouble would likely be limited. Speaking at
Speaker 1: leaders Week London last month to set announce the trial
Speaker 1: and said, quote, we're gonna test it in a couple
Speaker 1: of teams in the Championship this season and we'll see
Speaker 1: what we learned from that. I think the behavior of
Speaker 1: our fan base is different. It's about giving our fans
Speaker 1: choices while maintaining safety and being responsible. And quote Nick,
Speaker 1: you're already laughing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, this is just acceptable bad. That's all it is.
Speaker 7: It's acceptable bad. Like we need we need a little
Speaker 7: bit of spice from our fans, right, and we need
Speaker 7: to make better television. So how are we gonna do this? Well,
Speaker 7: it's not like there's gonna be recreational cocaine tables set
Speaker 7: up outside of the stadium, right, So what are we
Speaker 7: gonna do instead? Uh, just start serving booze. We'll see
Speaker 7: how it goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Alex says this is why people in the UK
Speaker 1: spend as little time in the stadium as possible. Into
Speaker 1: the seats as the ball is kicked in out the
Speaker 1: door asap. So that's uh seturing Nick.
Speaker 3: Nick is just describing was still and breaking bad and
Speaker 3: just that.
Speaker 8: But yeah, yeah, this is yeah, man, this is It's
Speaker 8: gonna be a lot and and but it's one of
Speaker 8: those things, John, I don't think about it that much
Speaker 8: because we're so used to having recreational drinking in American
Speaker 8: sports venues all the time. Correct, Like you can go
Speaker 8: to a Kinesas State game and grab a beer.
Speaker 1: Are you sure you want to? Now?
Speaker 7: No, Well you have to. You have to grab a
Speaker 7: beer in order to survive. At this point, you might.
Speaker 8: Have to play eight you might have to suit.
Speaker 1: Up eighteen players in the portal immediately after the decisions
Speaker 1: that happened in the midweek eighteen.
Speaker 9: Well, but the point beating like it's it's just it's
Speaker 9: in a different world because I mean, like you have
Speaker 9: like teams will sponsor and have their own alcohols.
Speaker 3: Like a Landy United too had their own beard.
Speaker 8: They had their own cider that was like they partnered
Speaker 8: with a with a brewery or Sgary.
Speaker 3: I need I need another rise in meteries.
Speaker 8: We need to go back to to people just making
Speaker 8: bead yes, yeah, enjoying and enjoying like mead out of
Speaker 8: a horn. Oh wow, you might vote across across.
Speaker 7: Like linear Monk's mead. You can go to Monk's mead
Speaker 7: and monks. If any of you guys are listening to this,
Speaker 7: you better have my damn horn. Still, uh you can.
Speaker 7: You can get a horn and and you can drink
Speaker 7: your meat from the horn like a true psychopath that
Speaker 7: you know, a psychopathic farmer who just jumps in your
Speaker 7: long boat and goes rowing and slaughters Englishmen indiscriminately whilst
Speaker 7: taking the town goal.
Speaker 8: So and to Alex's point, have to maximize the mouthfilling concessions. Yeah,
Speaker 8: you're trying. You're gonna try and maximize it every not
Speaker 8: just profit in general, for every profit.
Speaker 1: Avenue and KSh you apparently had their own beer recording
Speaker 1: to Alex as well. Uh yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 7: Well yeah, it's been consumed by the by the leader
Speaker 7: still there one mask sitting.
Speaker 8: It's being consumed right now, probably by the poor people
Speaker 8: who have to run the social media accounts, who have
Speaker 8: to deal with all the fallout even though they didn't
Speaker 8: make the decisions.
Speaker 7: So four card, we're talking about how in England the
Speaker 7: Women's game they are test running serving alcohol during games
Speaker 7: where you can be in your seat drinking booze, which
Speaker 7: has not been allowed since like eighty five. So we,
Speaker 7: in the true SDH fashion, have tied it back to
Speaker 7: what's happening here in how the European mind could never
Speaker 7: comprehend going to, you know, a football event here in
Speaker 7: America and not drinking. And then that of course led
Speaker 7: to Kinnesaw State the absurd handling of their firing of
Speaker 7: coach Bohannon and where they said he resigned, he did.
Speaker 1: Not, and like, no, I didn't.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was voluntold to leave, and which is also
Speaker 7: known as firing. And they have eighteen players who have
Speaker 7: entered the portal. So now we're saying that at kinnesas say,
Speaker 7: you probably need the booze to be able to remain
Speaker 7: the entirety of the.
Speaker 2: Game eighteen.
Speaker 1: Eighteen one eight, on your way to nineteen and on
Speaker 1: your way to twenty.
Speaker 3: Yeah four cards, you also might have to suit up
Speaker 3: for get us all.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 8: If if I wasn't emotionally if I wasn't emotionally torn
Speaker 8: about the idea of supporting just their clown shoes decision making,
Speaker 8: I'd be interested to go watch them play, because I
Speaker 8: imagine the ticket, they might pay you to go. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and it's still college football and you'll get at least
Speaker 8: to see you'll at least get to see one team. Yeah,
Speaker 8: there's that there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The European mind cannot comprehend.
Speaker 8: Can you imagine the pearl clutching in England if we
Speaker 8: put if like we sent let's send an SEC game
Speaker 8: over there, the pearl clutching in England.
Speaker 3: The first time they hear neck, Oh my god.
Speaker 8: That either either they're gonna faint or they're gonna like
Speaker 8: co opt it and try and find a way to
Speaker 8: use it. For some I don't know, man, who who
Speaker 8: would what club over in England is the most likely
Speaker 8: to use neck?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 1: Oh Millwall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's where my heart went to.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Blank you blank you I'm neck.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and some and somehow it's even gonna get worse
Speaker 8: if they do it. Yeah, they're gonna they're gonna no
Speaker 8: Wall would take neck and somehow make it even more neck.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way, the get in price at the fraction
Speaker 1: three o'clock tomorrow afternoon for Sam Houston and Kansas State
Speaker 1: or what's left in kannessa state, eight dollars get in
Speaker 1: price and Sam Houston is a sixteen point favorite. Your
Speaker 1: total forty two and a half, and uh, just make
Speaker 1: sure that you send the best vibes humanly possible the
Speaker 1: Chandler burks.
Speaker 7: Yeah, get yeah, I'll take the over and put all
Speaker 7: of it on Sam Houston. Like take the over and
Speaker 7: all the over is going to be by Sam Houston.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that forty two and a half you're assuming, KENNI,
Speaker 1: A lot of the onus goes to Sam Houston State
Speaker 1: and to get to that forty two and a half,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a long day games on
Speaker 1: the plus, but get in price eight dollars to the
Speaker 1: fraction for keeping an eye on what's left of Kennesaw
Speaker 1: State football. So you got that to look forward to tomorrow.
Speaker 10: But yeah, you have alcohol in the English women's Yeah
Speaker 10: that's somebody, somebody, somebody again, somebody's going to show up
Speaker 10: to that one of those games where there's drinking in
Speaker 10: the women's league in England.
Speaker 3: Someone is going to do something that's.
Speaker 8: Going to sabotage their professional career and it's going to
Speaker 8: be done as a fan because they can't hold their
Speaker 8: liquor and they can't hold their tongue. And it is
Speaker 8: annoying though, because you should be able to enjoy a
Speaker 8: drinking a game.
Speaker 3: Can responsible at all.
Speaker 7: Well, No, I'm mad that it's the women who have
Speaker 7: to be the guinea pigs for this. That's what I'm
Speaker 7: mad about. I'm mad that it has to be the
Speaker 7: women who are the guinea pigs for this. No, no, no,
Speaker 7: take that mess. Square up to the men's group. And
Speaker 7: because they you know, I doubt there's going to be
Speaker 7: a ton of sexist remarks made to the men playing.
Speaker 7: And the women don't deserve to be the guinea pigs here.
Speaker 7: It's not there's a reason why we call it guinea pigs, right,
Speaker 7: because we're testing the you know, we do the animal
Speaker 7: testing the guinea Yes, yeah, because we are you know,
Speaker 7: we don't want to test it on humans. Hey, sorry,
Speaker 7: we put this eyeshadow on you know, on a on
Speaker 7: a twelve year old and it caused a violent chemical
Speaker 7: burn on you know, this poor kid's face. No, no, no,
Speaker 7: we're gonna do that to the guinea pig instead. Right
Speaker 7: for the women who are already dealing with idiocy at
Speaker 7: at you know, at a critical mass, Now you're going
Speaker 7: to do alcohol infuse critical masks like the women don't
Speaker 7: deserve that. Come on, man, give it to the men.
Speaker 7: Give it to the men. So that way, when you know,
Speaker 7: when some job starts running their mouth and you do
Speaker 7: it to some really really pissed off Welshman, the Welshman
Speaker 7: goes round our test and runs up into the crowd
Speaker 7: and starts combat, kicking the guy in the face. That right,
Speaker 7: there is good TV, right, you know, having it where
Speaker 7: some you know where some women are out there, you know,
Speaker 7: playing a great game. They're you know, they're they're building
Speaker 7: their sport up. The last thing you need to do
Speaker 7: when they're in the building phase is insert some some
Speaker 7: bat blank crazy variables. Yes, you do that to the
Speaker 7: established order.
Speaker 1: I don't know, all right, So I have I have
Speaker 1: a rundown here in front of me of stories, and
Speaker 1: I will let the I will let you guys. In
Speaker 1: addition to what to watch, where to watch it, how
Speaker 1: to watch it, and gossip, Prumer and new window, we've
Speaker 1: got that toward the end of the show. I have
Speaker 1: a couple of stories here. I have uh an interesting
Speaker 1: story about is the third time the charm. I have
Speaker 1: a cool story, uh involving someone that we have followed
Speaker 1: their career and a new announcement involving this particular individual
Speaker 1: and a touch line. And I also have a story
Speaker 1: about a new trophy. Which story do you guys want
Speaker 1: to talk about next? Which one of those three topics?
Speaker 7: Jared, go for it.
Speaker 3: Let's do the trophy because I mean I need Nick.
Speaker 3: I know what trumphy it is.
Speaker 6: Nick.
Speaker 3: Do you know the cinematic masterpiece th Ghosts?
Speaker 7: Yes, Yes, I do.
Speaker 3: Okay, do you remember the end of the movie where
Speaker 3: like it's in the puzzle room with like Tony Salo's
Speaker 3: having to jump across the floor that's like spinning like
Speaker 3: it's a silent hill trap. Indeed, Yeah, it's a trophy
Speaker 3: that kind of looks like that.
Speaker 1: So the the Club World Cup has a trophy. It
Speaker 1: is rather it is rather thick gold plated for the
Speaker 1: thirty two team tournament, designed by FIFA, made by Tiffany
Speaker 1: and Co. The jeweller Tiffany and Co. Johnny Infantino has
Speaker 1: had his name engraved on the trophy, not once, but twice.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The inscription on the cup includes a passage which reads, quote,
Speaker 1: we are witnessed to a new age, the golden era
Speaker 1: of club football, the era of FIFA Club World Cup,
Speaker 1: the pinnacle of all club competitions, inspired by the FIFA
Speaker 1: President Gianni in five and then there are a couple
Speaker 1: of In the Times, there are a couple of close
Speaker 1: ups of said trophy. Infantino's signature is also engraved on
Speaker 1: the trophy as quote founding President Kama Gianni Infantino closed
Speaker 1: quote period. The wording is engraved in thirteen languages, including
Speaker 1: Ancient Greek and Latin.
Speaker 3: Bro we had that it was called the Georgia Guidstones.
Speaker 3: You created the Georgia the Guidstones into a trophy.
Speaker 1: The fifty four year old, according to The Times, is
Speaker 1: at least as far as one of his predecessors. The
Speaker 1: first World focus name rip Met trophy in honor of
Speaker 1: the Frenchman who launched the tournament in nineteen thirty while
Speaker 1: he was president of FIFA. FIFA has also released a
Speaker 1: four minute interview with Infantino talking about the trophy. He
Speaker 1: describes the tournament as quote, daring and bold when it
Speaker 1: comes to its format quote, even though it replicates the
Speaker 1: format used at World Cups. The national teams between nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety eight and twenty twenty two, thirty two teams, eight
Speaker 1: groups of four before four knockouts. Infantino adds quote, this
Speaker 1: tournament is definitely a game changer for club football at
Speaker 1: a worldwide level. Oh yeah, JIFA said the design of
Speaker 1: the trophy was not led by Infantino and was intended
Speaker 1: to portray football's history. Chelsea and Manchester City, two English clubs,
Speaker 1: among the twelve European clubs involved in the tournament from
Speaker 1: June fifteen, twenty twenty five, to July thirteen. The draw
Speaker 1: take place in Miami on December five. At least that
Speaker 1: one will be held in person, and not the vote
Speaker 1: for the twenty thirty four World Cup, which is apparently
Speaker 1: going to be done virtually.
Speaker 7: So yeah, everyone is really really stoked to watch the
Speaker 7: Kashima Antlers take on Real Madrid. That is high on
Speaker 7: my list of things that are worthy of such a
Speaker 7: magnificent trophy. That looks like the starship delivery vehicle from
Speaker 7: the movie Contact. Yeah, that does you know that? To me?
Speaker 7: That is well done, Johnny, well done.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, it's it's his, it's his old thing.
Speaker 1: Uh So I figured I would bring that to the
Speaker 1: floor this morning, will you Now? When I have two
Speaker 1: coaches stories one third times the charm and welcoming somebody back.
Speaker 1: Where do you want to go next?
Speaker 7: Third times the charm?
Speaker 1: All right? Cloudier run Yeri out of retirement for Roma
Speaker 1: at the age of seventy three. Hell yes, at the
Speaker 1: end of the season. He's going to take a role
Speaker 1: as an advisor to the owners. He's the fourth head
Speaker 1: coach for Roma this season, coming out of retirement at
Speaker 1: the age of seventy three to take charge until the
Speaker 1: end of the year, days after the sacking of a
Speaker 1: Croatian Ivan Yurich, third coach of the season, and this
Speaker 1: is his third time coaching his hometown club, having guided
Speaker 1: the Jilla Rossi from nine to eleven and again in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Club statement quote as Rama play to announce
Speaker 1: that Claudio Ranieri's the new head coach of the first team.
Speaker 1: At the end of the season, Claudio will transition into
Speaker 1: a senior executive role where he'll be an advisor to
Speaker 1: the ownership on all sporting matters at the club. The
Speaker 1: search for a future coach will proceed over the next months.
Speaker 1: Claudio will have input in that decision as well. End
Speaker 1: quote fired on Sunday. Yurich was after the three to
Speaker 1: two home loss to Bologna left Roma twelve, four points
Speaker 1: above the relegation zone. Urich replaced Daniela Dodossi in September.
Speaker 1: Ranieri becomes Roma's fourth coach this year, Dorossi having taken
Speaker 1: over from Josie Mourinho in January. Dan and Ryan Friedkin
Speaker 1: have had a crisis filled season. According to our friends
Speaker 1: at The Guardian, fans protested after Dorosi was fired. The
Speaker 1: CEO and general manager Lena Suluku resigned days later after
Speaker 1: fans blamed her for do Rossi's departure. Ranieri helped Calorie
Speaker 1: avoid relegation last season and said that that would be
Speaker 1: his final club job. Best known for leading Lester in
Speaker 1: the prim and twenty sixteen to English audiences, anyway, face
Speaker 1: is a difficult debut at the Serie I leader's monopoly
Speaker 1: in ten days time.
Speaker 7: Well, okay, let me go ahead and start with this.
Speaker 7: I do not. Claudia Ranieri is an institution, right, one
Speaker 7: of the good guys in the game. Everywhere he goes,
Speaker 7: people love him. Dadiadi. Their ultras are known for being nutcases,
Speaker 7: and even they were had tears in their eyes when
Speaker 7: Claudio quote unquote retired. But he will never abandon Roma
Speaker 7: never like that is that's his baby. He will never ever, ever,
Speaker 7: ever ever walk away from that. Like if he could
Speaker 7: be ninety seven years old and if Roma calls, the
Speaker 7: man would answer, he would drag himself out of positive
Speaker 7: care to like to be on the touch line. It's
Speaker 7: he's like, you know, I can't. He's like the Dusty
Speaker 7: Rhodes of of of of Italian coaches, right He's the
Speaker 7: man's gonna end up like God forbid, the man's gonna
Speaker 7: die on the touch line. And at the end of
Speaker 7: the day, I'm happy for him because if he's happy
Speaker 7: and he's coaching and Roma is somewhat competitive, it's good
Speaker 7: for the game over in Italy. Anyways, the freakins this
Speaker 7: is a problem of the freakin's own making. These these
Speaker 7: these guys have got to get out of the way
Speaker 7: they are. They're going full Snyder Dan Snyder on Roma.
Speaker 7: You know where they think they know better than anyone else.
Speaker 7: They think they have all the analytics they think they
Speaker 7: have you can and the same thing, the same damn
Speaker 7: thing is being played out across Italy right now, where
Speaker 7: you have these americanized owners who come in and they
Speaker 7: do analytics, analytics, analytics, and they don't understand the Italian game,
Speaker 7: and they don't understand the personalities, they don't understand the
Speaker 7: Italian culture. They don't understand anything outside of revenue generation.
Speaker 7: And they are killing Roma, killing Roma, slowly but surely
Speaker 7: because they and they're not doing it, you know, like
Speaker 7: in a way that is you know, ha haa haa
Speaker 7: like what you know what you see John Fisher doing
Speaker 7: with the a's right where it's or it's intentional. What
Speaker 7: you're seeing is like very much like like Dan Snyder,
Speaker 7: which is the you know, I think I know better
Speaker 7: than anyone else, so I'm going to run the team
Speaker 7: the way I want to. And now you're sitting just
Speaker 7: above the relegation zone. So if Claudio can come in
Speaker 7: and here's the one thing that will happen, he will
Speaker 7: have enough clout not only in the locker room, but
Speaker 7: in the organization surrounding the freakins that if people will
Speaker 7: go to the freakings and say, look, if Claudio says
Speaker 7: we need to do this, I think we just need
Speaker 7: to trust them. But he's a bridge. He know, Claudio
Speaker 7: knows he's a bridge. He doesn't care that he's a bridge.
Speaker 7: And He's going to get it sorted. But the freakins
Speaker 7: have to step back. This is their issue. They are
Speaker 7: creating this, no one else, no external forces. Is a
Speaker 7: pure internal self own. They are hitting themselves in the
Speaker 7: crotch with a rake because they keep stepping on the
Speaker 7: damn thing. Ow ow it's a Japanese game show of
Speaker 7: buffoonery with these idiots, and they've got to get it sorted.
Speaker 1: Oh, it is MXC at points most certainly, I will
Speaker 1: grant you that. Uh, gossip rumor and innuendo want to
Speaker 1: watch where to watch it before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: trending rumors, and we'll basically treat this like cliffhanger. If
Speaker 1: there's one you guys want to talk about, just go
Speaker 1: ahead and start talking about it. Liverpool of valueing Ricardo
Speaker 1: Peppi is a potential transfer target. According to ekrem Conor
Speaker 1: PSP have set the twenty one year olds transfer fee
Speaker 1: at twenty five million europe. PSG and Barca remain interested
Speaker 1: in Kevicha kvart Skellya's contract negotiations with Napoli as that continues.
Speaker 1: Per Gazette, Della Sport under contract at Napoli until twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven. Current deal sees him earning just a million
Speaker 1: and a half euro a year. Negotiation set to continue
Speaker 1: this week. Cav Art Skellya currently requesting a salary increase
Speaker 1: to just under eight million euro a season. PSG reportedly
Speaker 1: willing to testnopolies resolved once more, having a one hundred
Speaker 1: million euro bid rejected last summer. Chelsea could rival Real
Speaker 1: Madrid and Manchester United for Norwegian vunderkind sved and Ipie.
Speaker 1: According to Team Talk, seventeen year old can play midfield
Speaker 1: and attack, has already featured over fifty times for Rosenborg,
Speaker 1: Sin spanking his debut earlier this year. Dortmund also monitoring
Speaker 1: under contract until December of twenty six. Rosenborg seeking a
Speaker 1: transfer fee of twenty five million europe Real Madrid want
Speaker 1: to sign Trent Alexander Arnold by a lever, Cusans Jonathan
Speaker 1: Ta and Bayern Munich left back Alfonso Davies on freeze.
Speaker 1: According to As this summer keen to save money and
Speaker 1: they'll have gotten themselves a huge bargain if they can
Speaker 1: get all three for nothing. ESPN sources also revealed that
Speaker 1: they're keen on signing Florian Verts from Bier Levercusan, but
Speaker 1: that could cost you one hundred million europe United and
Speaker 1: Liverpool keenon signing Jedi Robinson, according to Football Insider, and
Speaker 1: we'll keep an eye on that one as well, Nick
Speaker 1: you Ves. Paul Pogba set to become a free agent
Speaker 1: in the coming days by terminating his contract. Thirty one
Speaker 1: year old set to restart his career in March after
Speaker 1: seeing his band for taking Dhea reduced from four years
Speaker 1: to eighteen months.
Speaker 7: Yeah but yeah, look, just go to MLS, dude. And
Speaker 7: that's not a knock on MLS, it is it's the
Speaker 7: one place outside.
Speaker 11: Can he run enough for that.
Speaker 7: For the right team, for the right team, he can.
Speaker 7: I mean he can get a paycheck. He'll run enough
Speaker 7: to get a paycheck. You know, one of the LA
Speaker 7: teams will take him. I mean, look, they signed Douglass
Speaker 7: costat the Galaxy Gain when Costa was wash that was
Speaker 7: so Yeah, look for one of the LA teams to
Speaker 7: end up snagging him. But Pogba again a mess of
Speaker 7: his own creation. You know, he'll get offers in Turkey.
Speaker 7: But if he wants to have, if he wants to
Speaker 7: enjoy his final years playing at a competitive level, go
Speaker 7: to the Galaxy, make an offer they can't refuse and
Speaker 7: then just sign a Douglas Costa contract. Or yeah, Saudi,
Speaker 7: Saudi will take him. Saudia take him four card with
Speaker 7: a great shout.
Speaker 1: On that one h Garnacho would only leave Manchester United
Speaker 1: for Real Madrid. United have been linked with the swap
Speaker 1: deal for Garnacho and Atletico midfielder Pablo Badios plus forty
Speaker 1: million euro. Argentina international would only join Athletico's rivals. As
Speaker 1: a result, Manchester City have entered the race to sign
Speaker 1: Bodios for one hundred million euro. Bayern Munich and Barcelona
Speaker 1: in the race with Real Madrid to sign Jonathan Toalen
Speaker 1: he becomes a free agent. Financial constraints could scupper a
Speaker 1: Laport's dream move to Real Madrid International. He's being lined
Speaker 1: up as a temporary replacement for ader Militao, who's been
Speaker 1: ruled out for the rest of the season because of injury.
Speaker 1: Laporte's sizeable twenty million euro a year contract at Al
Speaker 1: Nasser proving to be an issue. No contact between Real
Speaker 1: Madrid and former defender Sergio Ramos over a possible return
Speaker 1: to the club as a free agent. According to a
Speaker 1: Fabrizio Romano. Roma defender Mario Ermoso said he's honored to
Speaker 1: be one of Real Madrid's transfer targets. A youth product
Speaker 1: of Madrid and joined Roma as a free in the
Speaker 1: summer after five seasons at Atletico Madrid, but he claims
Speaker 1: he could be interested in returning to his former club.
Speaker 1: River Plate will have to pay two million euro to
Speaker 1: sign Nicholas Ottemendi from Benfica in January, as his contract
Speaker 1: expires in the summer. The thirty six year old has
Speaker 1: often expressed a desire to play for River, pushing to
Speaker 1: finalize the fifteen million euro transfer of Circle Bruish forward
Speaker 1: Kevin Dinky. FC Cincinnati also keen on that one, according
Speaker 1: to Rudy Galletti, so keep an eye on that and
Speaker 1: possibly getting a striker in FC Cincinnati and Jared apparently
Speaker 1: Lucco Costa at the FC Cincinnati exit interviews was like,
Speaker 1: it might be it, it might not be it. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 11: A Coosta is acting like that girl you knew on
Speaker 11: Facebook back in two thousand and eight who just posted
Speaker 11: some passive aggressive It just never gets better. And then
Speaker 11: someone asked, what's wrong, Oh, nothing, I don't want to
Speaker 11: talk about it. I hope it gets better. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 7: Perfect perfect analogy, perfect analogy, zero notes.
Speaker 1: Perfect according to pseud analytics. And this just popped in
Speaker 1: according to Sebastian Sreher from Radio Continental, apparently Newcastle, the
Speaker 1: Claire's Miguel al Maroon negotiable and is asking for ten
Speaker 1: million dollars us.
Speaker 7: Garth, Garth, can you imagine together who almaron speed.
Speaker 11: Putting put him on the wing opposite Saba, Like if
Speaker 11: you're not convinced that like it, like God bless Shandai
Speaker 11: for finally able to deal, finally able to get over
Speaker 11: that foot injury. But even if you kept even he
Speaker 11: kept Shanday as a death piece. Imagine if it's met
Speaker 11: I'm pulling the strings in the middle with Saba and
Speaker 11: then Miguel floating out. Probably you probably get vert and
Speaker 11: play and played them in Verden and played, you know,
Speaker 11: Miguel on the right and let him cut in on
Speaker 11: his left foot, but also having the freedom to just
Speaker 11: kind of move wherever he wants. Jesus Christ, I mean
Speaker 11: you're talking to get a striker, and.
Speaker 7: I mean that that's that would be like like Brady DeMoss,
Speaker 7: that's what that it would it'd be scoring like.
Speaker 1: So you'd be saying that you just got miggied or
Speaker 1: you just got Saba.
Speaker 7: I look, Moran Shook's timing on his passes. It took
Speaker 7: him a little bit to get sorted with, you know,
Speaker 7: at the American windows and American timing. Once he got
Speaker 7: it down, game changer, right. So if you were able
Speaker 7: to put if Saba's inside runs Miggy's vertical runs, my god,
Speaker 7: it would just be oh man, that would be absolutely well.
Speaker 7: And you know, and the returns home and you know
Speaker 7: that Miggey's lady loved living in Atlanta. I'm just saying.
Speaker 1: Going down there and yeah, uh yeah. On line one,
Speaker 1: Real Madrid considering a forty five million euro move to
Speaker 1: sign Mario from Forrest Wolves left back. You go Bueno
Speaker 1: online at Finnard on the Raido at Barsa Crystal Palace.
Speaker 1: Want to sign at Chelsea's seventy million eurowinger Mikhailo Mudrick
Speaker 1: on loan in January, Liverpool and Chelsea tracking Red Star
Speaker 1: Belgrade midfielder Andrea Maksimovich. So that is gossip, broomer and innuendo.
Speaker 1: What to watch, Where to watch it, how to watch it?
Speaker 1: Before we wrap it up on a Friday where absolutely
Speaker 1: this turned into sot for our number two and I'm
Speaker 1: all for it. AFCON qualifying underway now on being and
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Speaker 1: seven at two forty five, including our friends from San
Speaker 1: Marino who take on Gibraltar and Host in a big
Speaker 1: match up in the group stage at two forty five,
Speaker 1: so keep an eye on that one as well. Jared
Speaker 1: oh Oh, I forgot to mention the other the other
Speaker 1: piece of coaching news, and I forgot to mention, by
Speaker 1: the way, our buddy Jack Collison is back as a
Speaker 1: head coach Southern Soccer Academy Swarm are delighted to announce
Speaker 1: that Jack is going to be the head coach of
Speaker 1: the League two program for the twenty five twenty six season.
Speaker 1: So Jack Collison an SSA Swarm combining for League two
Speaker 1: starting in the twenty five to twenty six season. So
Speaker 1: there's your notes on Jack. That was the other coaching
Speaker 1: piece of news that we had this morning.
Speaker 11: Well, also, it's not coaching news yet because it's not sure.
Speaker 11: But I personally am buying futures on Toronto and needing.
Speaker 7: A head coach before February. Yep, yes, yes, yes, man.
Speaker 11: Jim Curtin and Toronto would just be the most heel
Speaker 11: news impossible to Oh.
Speaker 7: My god, Am I the only one who wants nothing
Speaker 7: of Jim Curtin here in Atlanta? Well you're not, No,
Speaker 7: I want nothing of that guy here. Nothing.
Speaker 11: Here's the thing, man, Like, I'm okay not doing that,
Speaker 11: I'm okay not going down that route. I think he
Speaker 11: is a good coach. I think he got a lot
Speaker 11: out of some of the shitty spending that Philadelphia gives him. Yes, man,
Speaker 11: is he just going to be toxic the whole way through?
Speaker 7: Eh? Look? Well, first of all, let's go ahead and
Speaker 7: give a shout out to Dji Drones for ensuring that
Speaker 7: herdman will probably be looking for a job very very soon.
Speaker 1: Well, and remember what we were talking about when we
Speaker 1: started the show this morning, with what's going on with
Speaker 1: Dick Advacott and Kiras out down in St. Luc Ship.
Speaker 7: Yeah it is. Yeah. Look, you know, come on, guys,
Speaker 7: let's get a little creative here. You know, you know,
Speaker 7: at least Bielsa broke down his entire scouting process and
Speaker 7: you got to see how clinically insane the man. He's
Speaker 7: like powerpointing the old uh, like the old XL spreadsheets,
Speaker 7: like overhead projector that's see, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 11: Man, that was amazing where he basically told him like
Speaker 11: yeah Chee did Yeah, I spied on him. That is
Speaker 11: what I found out. Here's why it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Yeah I get it, but I didn't need it.
Speaker 7: This is stuff I already knew.
Speaker 11: I wasted my I was a waste of time doing that.
Speaker 11: I better think that could have done.
Speaker 1: Yea absolutely.
Speaker 7: Incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah him, He'll come to the door with a grenade.
Speaker 7: So from Italian Football TV really quick, because I know
Speaker 7: we're in overtime here extended extended hours.
Speaker 1: The fourth the fourth held up the banner, but we
Speaker 1: always play through it.
Speaker 7: Yeah so, uh so, Italian Football TV posted on their Instagram.
Speaker 7: Uh Claudio Rognieri allegedly being told by Roma Brass not
Speaker 7: to play Dibala. There they were reluctant to play Debala
Speaker 7: because there is a clause in his contract where automatic
Speaker 7: automatically renews after a certain number of appearances, uh Claudio said.
Speaker 7: And then again the freakin's they're they're they're slapping themselves
Speaker 7: by stepping on the rake. Claudia Rinieri allegedly told Roma Brass,
Speaker 7: I told the president that I'm gonna do whatever I
Speaker 7: want the situation with Debala. I told the president, I'm
Speaker 7: gonna do whatever I want. Is that clear? I don't
Speaker 7: want to know if he has a clause in his
Speaker 7: contract or not. And then he goes on to say,
Speaker 7: one time a club president told me, if you play
Speaker 7: this player, you're going home. I told him, if you
Speaker 7: freeze this player out of the squad, then you, as president,
Speaker 7: you should tell him yourself, because you're the head of
Speaker 7: the club. If this player is still on the squad,
Speaker 7: I choose who plays. He replied to me that if
Speaker 7: you play him, I'm sending you home. What do you
Speaker 7: think I did? Did I play him or not? I
Speaker 7: played him and I got said home. That is what
Speaker 7: I'm talking about, Claudio. That's the man is an institution man.
Speaker 7: He's one of the last of the crazy Italian coaches.
Speaker 7: Let this man cook.
Speaker 1: Yeah, love him and no doubt about it. So also
Speaker 1: on also on the board this weekend, we got the
Speaker 1: semifinals in USL Championship. If you miss the interview that
Speaker 1: we had with Kano Smith, then that you can catch
Speaker 1: that on the network and you can keep an eye
Speaker 1: on all of that. So it is Rhode Island, and
Speaker 1: it is Rhode Island at Charleston, and it is also
Speaker 1: in the what is it in the West? I'm trying
Speaker 1: to figure it out in the West really quickly. Switchbacks
Speaker 1: are hosting? Who are the Switchbacks hosting?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Vegas? So Switchbacks Vegas, Charleston, Rhode Island at your final
Speaker 1: four in at USL Championship. FC Tulsa promoted Luke Spencer
Speaker 1: to the role of head coach. Tampa Bay has signed
Speaker 1: Leo Fernandez and Lewis Hilton to new deals. FC Tulsa
Speaker 1: has signed Johan pain Uranda to a multi year extension
Speaker 1: in to be the anchor in net SO Championship game
Speaker 1: in USL League One Sunday afternoon, Warner Park and papal
Speaker 1: And Nebraska, the seven seed Spokane Velocity taking on the
Speaker 1: number one seed Union Omahaalos Bus. It's great to catch
Speaker 1: up with Logos Kunga early this morning, and also great
Speaker 1: to catch up with Bart Keeler from the soccer for
Speaker 1: USPOD and they are on the Blue Butterfly. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact right now, uh Abe Abbe's gonna join
Speaker 1: us on Monday. Bart's gonna join us on Monday. Is
Speaker 1: going to join us on Monday. So you've got semifinals
Speaker 1: in the NWSL this weekend, semifinals in the USL Championship
Speaker 1: Championship game in USL League One, all the college conference
Speaker 1: action going on. You've got Division three at Emory. If
Speaker 1: you want to catch up with that. You want to
Speaker 1: watch some college soccer this weekend, you can do that
Speaker 1: over at Emory University. Clayton State has Division two at
Speaker 1: the Peach Belt this weekend, so keep an eye on
Speaker 1: that there. Go and widen your horizons if you've got
Speaker 1: some time go catch something that you haven't caught already
Speaker 1: this year. Go catch some small college soccer, Go catch
Speaker 1: some stuff that's out there in addition to the college
Speaker 1: football that's out there that we know is going to exist.
Speaker 1: And watch some of the lower division stuff too. It
Speaker 1: was really cool to catch up with Logos this morning
Speaker 1: from the offices in Omaha and to see how things
Speaker 1: have gone for him this year. Gentlemen, it's always fun
Speaker 1: to do the sot to wrap up a week. I think, honestly,
Speaker 1: this is probably what we should do to wrap up
Speaker 1: the week every week, is just to sit there and
Speaker 1: invite everybody in to just vent their spleens and get
Speaker 1: ready for the weekend. You know, I'm all for it.
Speaker 11: Well you still have the music.
Speaker 1: Well that's true. I do, I do, I do. We
Speaker 1: have the proper way to wrap up the week as
Speaker 1: we always do here. So uh, Nick, final thoughts before
Speaker 1: we get out of here and play us play us
Speaker 1: out for you in another week.
Speaker 7: To what John said earlier, Look, there are plenty of
Speaker 7: other leagues out there. If you're not happy with you know,
Speaker 7: your club and who owns your club, or if you're
Speaker 7: not happy with the fan base and how they react
Speaker 7: to certain things. Look, there's a ton of options out
Speaker 7: there your local colleges, especially your D two, D three kids. Hey, look,
Speaker 7: they would adore you coming out and supporting them, where
Speaker 7: your voice would actually make a significant difference in the
Speaker 7: game day experience for them, So go and check that out.
Speaker 7: Typically it's like it doesn't cost anything to get into
Speaker 7: these games, and U and I know if you have kids,
Speaker 7: the kids always have a great time. The players are
Speaker 7: typically very cool with all of that. So check it out.
Speaker 7: It's there for you. I promise it's here in Atlanta.
Speaker 7: I don't know about where you know. If you're outside
Speaker 7: of Atlanta, then I wish you the best of luck.
Speaker 7: But outside of that, don't follow the money, baby, follow
Speaker 7: the game till next time, muchamuchi euro.
Speaker 1: Y'all what he said? Time to get us out the
Speaker 1: door for yet another Friday. Enjoy your weekend, stacked Mondays.
Speaker 1: We get you ready for Atlanta and the Purple Team
Speaker 1: in Middle Florida. Not this weekend, but next enjoy it, everybody,
Speaker 1: and we are out for yet another week, which means
Speaker 1: that we get to play. We get to play ourselves
Speaker 1: out of here as I can sit here and go
Speaker 1: and figure out. Where's my Friday drop? Where's my long
Speaker 1: Friday drop? It's right here. Here we go, Friday drop long,
Speaker 1: We'll see you later.
Speaker 12: The geez, the sharp sticking into our fingers, dictating equipment
Speaker 12: starting get us questions and beepers, stands, electrics just threw
Speaker 12: our body like a candle brod out in the warehouse.
Speaker 12: The trucks kept banging into the docks, not even thinking
Speaker 12: about stopping.
Speaker 13: Our frail bodies were strapped.
Speaker 4: To the chairs, and our chairs were chained to the desks.
Speaker 4: Our please for justice were ignored, and the end seemed near.
Speaker 13: But we busted our save drivers, little bitny balls. We've
Speaker 13: udged high their breakftress the straits, our hersy guys hats Friday, Fridayday.
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