Speaker 1: Wow, it actually showed up without the the other one,
Speaker 1: the other box with the info.
Speaker 2: Great small victories. All right. So since it's a Friday,
Speaker 2: Hello Friday, hmmm.
Speaker 3: Come on man, scoop for dude, it's fine dayDay.
Speaker 1: And it's wet and it's snowy. At least here it's
Speaker 1: U S D H h Q. It was funny this
Speaker 1: morning where you know, you're looking at the weather channel
Speaker 1: day and day and before and all this kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: and you're wondering, okay, is it gonna happen? And the
Speaker 1: way that it usually works is we always seem to
Speaker 1: deal in the extremes.
Speaker 2: Either the sky is gonna fall down.
Speaker 1: Or it's not, and there's you know, nothing in between
Speaker 1: that is gonna It's like, well.
Speaker 2: It might you might get a dusting, you might do
Speaker 2: this or this or this, this this.
Speaker 1: So this morning, the boss opens up a window and says, well,
Speaker 1: opens up the blind and she says, hey, look. And
Speaker 1: so then of course at that moment, I sit there
Speaker 1: and I'd pull out the remote control and I'd go
Speaker 1: to the weather channel and I would sit there and
Speaker 1: first and I go, okay, so where's Canty. He's in Nashville.
Speaker 1: So we're safe in that regard, and then what are
Speaker 1: the rest of the what's the rest of the coverage like?
Speaker 1: And so they've got dudes in Arkansas and on the
Speaker 1: Connector and they're showing dot cameras here where folks are
Speaker 1: venturing out on two eighty five, which is for those
Speaker 1: that aren't here in the Atlanta area. That's the Perimeter
Speaker 1: freeway that goes it circles around the city proper, and
Speaker 1: folks are on it and they're marooned and they're wrecking
Speaker 1: and things like that. So apparently the end of the
Speaker 1: world is happening, and it is supposed to go from
Speaker 1: from snow where depending on who you're talking to, it's
Speaker 1: two three four inches already on the ground. And remember
Speaker 1: it takes seven inches of snow for it to be
Speaker 1: one inch of rain in translation, so right now, some
Speaker 1: folks to three four inches. I put the cover for
Speaker 1: the outside non garaged automobile on the boss's car last night,
Speaker 1: and you can sit there and you can see that.
Speaker 1: You know that it is about two inches and everything.
Speaker 1: Ice has already started accumulating on the steps and things
Speaker 1: like that. So it is the end of the world,
Speaker 1: and we all should just you know, act accordingly. There
Speaker 1: are dogs that are enjoying themselves this morning in plentiful numbers,
Speaker 1: getting all of their zoomies out and everything. But the
Speaker 1: biggest thing is just be safe. Be safe, be safe,
Speaker 1: be safe, be safe, be safe. Please, we want to
Speaker 1: have you back a on Monday. We want you to
Speaker 1: listen to all of the things, and we want you
Speaker 1: to listen to all the stuff, and we want you
Speaker 1: to still.
Speaker 2: Be a part of them. We want you to be
Speaker 2: just be a part of the family. Just be safe. Okay,
Speaker 2: so come back on Monday, but enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Don't venture out unless you absolutely have to. I mean,
Speaker 1: like absolutely have to. So make sure that your faucets
Speaker 1: are running, make sure that you've properly winter rised, I
Speaker 1: mean get We actually, and I guess this is opening kickoff.
Speaker 1: We actually went out and purchased those. You know, they're
Speaker 1: like triangle there's styrofoam triangles that you put over your
Speaker 1: outdoor faucets. It's like there's a there's a latch that's
Speaker 1: on the inside of the styrofoam device and it locks
Speaker 1: over the spigot and you sit there and you and
Speaker 1: you put it on the top of it and then
Speaker 1: you tighten it up and so that way it doesn't damage,
Speaker 1: it doesn't freeze up the the opportunity for anything to
Speaker 1: come out of water from an outside faucet. So we
Speaker 1: actually got some of those. So we've tried to winter
Speaker 1: rise as best we can. And yes, tomorrow we are
Speaker 1: still going to try and escape to head south because
Speaker 1: next week is from the beach because it's anniversary week
Speaker 1: and technically anniversary is Sunday, so anniversary is Sunday. It's
Speaker 1: number twelve for me and the boss, and so we
Speaker 1: will be in We'll be at the beach, so you
Speaker 1: once again you'll see Pastel's behind me. Next week it'll
Speaker 1: be down there from inside the house that we rent traditionally,
Speaker 1: and we'll see just how frozen will be down there
Speaker 1: staring at water for a week. So uh so yeah,
Speaker 1: next week will be from the beach. By the way,
Speaker 1: Abe will be joining us on tape on Monday, as
Speaker 1: will uh sure not right, Bart's too busy.
Speaker 2: Bart's like real world stuff.
Speaker 1: So uh this is where I plug soccer for USPUD
Speaker 1: one O seven. So A will be joining us an
Speaker 1: hour number one next week, and Bart'll be incredibly busy
Speaker 1: doing real world things. So that's Monday, but all of
Speaker 1: next week will be from the beach, so once again pastels,
Speaker 1: funky portraits, all that kind of stuff in the background.
Speaker 1: You won't have the traditional background next week. So that's
Speaker 1: the biggest thing. So just be safe, be safe, be safe,
Speaker 1: please please please. That's all. That's all I can ask.
Speaker 1: That's all I can ask here, Okay, so just be safe.
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Speaker 1: at Kickoff Coffee and kickoff Coffeeco dot Com. Since I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about it, figured I would wear the Soccer is
Speaker 1: Just Better in Atlanta sweatshirt this morning. And this is
Speaker 1: from our collaboration with our friends at Grady Baby and
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Speaker 2: You can get this in.
Speaker 1: Red, you can get it in black, you can get
Speaker 1: it in T shirt, you can get it in sweatshirt.
Speaker 1: And then I would also recommend looking at all of
Speaker 1: their other gear to stack your closets because our friends
Speaker 1: at Grady Baby and Grady Baby Co. Are collaborating with
Speaker 1: us with this gear specifically because you know right here
Speaker 1: as DH Network, it's official right here on the cuff,
Speaker 1: Grady Baby on the other cuff. And if you help
Speaker 1: out purchasing stuff like this from our friends at Grady
Speaker 1: Baby and Grady Baby Co. You're helping out middle school
Speaker 1: soccer programs attached to the Atlanta Public school system. So
Speaker 1: that's something big that we've earmarked as one of our
Speaker 1: Soccer for Good campaigns in twenty five. So pick this
Speaker 1: up from our friend is It Grady Baby and Grady
Speaker 1: Baby Coke. You can go to Olivi and York you
Speaker 1: can get the first ever SDH jersey and with that
Speaker 1: that also helps out programs that we've earmarked to help out.
Speaker 2: Starting in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: You can get your presented by our friends at Kaiser
Speaker 1: Permanente Kays of Permanente across the front Olivi and York,
Speaker 1: and you can get personalized.
Speaker 2: On the back.
Speaker 1: It is navy and you can either have it in
Speaker 1: white letters and numerals for personalization or light blue. I
Speaker 1: think Abby got one of each, so you can get
Speaker 1: that at Olivi and York. And also you can help
Speaker 1: out our friends at the Marshall Islands with the Marshall
Speaker 1: Island Soccer Project. They've bet their new jersey out, the
Speaker 1: twenty thirty No Home Jersey, and it was great to
Speaker 1: catch up with Matt Webb a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: and find out what's going on, actually it was a
Speaker 1: week ago. Find out what's going on in the world
Speaker 1: of the Marshall Islands. Lloyd Hours, the technical director, apparently
Speaker 1: is heading over in February. We'll catch up with Coach
Speaker 1: and find out how things are going on the island
Speaker 1: when he gets back from that trip. So you can
Speaker 1: buy the scarf, buy the bucket hat, buy each of
Speaker 1: the jerseys, buy them out help out the last country
Speaker 1: on the planet that is starting a national soccer program
Speaker 1: and they're doing it through footsal and youth games and
Speaker 1: youth initiatives. A very very cool stuff from them there too,
Speaker 1: So do your search Marshall Island, Marshall Islands, the Soccer Federation,
Speaker 1: I think it's misf store and then you can get
Speaker 1: the gear from them, and to show your support for
Speaker 1: Maddy Cruz in her senior internship program where she helped
Speaker 1: model the scarf. So U that that's where we are, okay,
Speaker 1: so let me see where things are. Well four card
Speaker 1: thankfully right now since we ran all the faucets, you know,
Speaker 1: got God bless you.
Speaker 2: Fore card.
Speaker 1: Four card says Rain Sleeder snow general will you do
Speaker 1: in the show? I'm kind of like the mailman, I
Speaker 1: guess and morning four card, so h kind of sort of. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've been running faucets for like three days. Anything close
Speaker 1: to freezing, I'll run the faucets, but.
Speaker 2: Just because like I mean, I will literally I'll.
Speaker 1: Run faucet down here, fawcet in the mid level and
Speaker 1: where you're supposed to open the door underneath the underneath
Speaker 1: the faucet when you shut the door to the room
Speaker 1: that you're in for some reason, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: guess it, you know, evens out the air or whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But I was told that you're supposed to open the
Speaker 1: underside door where your sink is.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But anyway, do that do all the winter rising things.
Speaker 1: But I'm hyghper paranoid. Like the second that it gets
Speaker 1: under thirty or it gets or if it's like clearing
Speaker 1: in the twenties, I'm turning all the faucets on.
Speaker 2: So that's just me.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that we can navigate through today, navigate through tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we won't lose power. Hopefully none of you will
Speaker 1: lose power. But yeah, this morning we're doing the show,
Speaker 1: and like I said, Monday, we'll be down on the
Speaker 1: beach doing the show. So morning, four card morning Tom.
Speaker 1: Tom says, light floor. He's still going two to three
Speaker 1: inches in the springs and de Graham's in this morning,
Speaker 1: switched to sleep, but he got about two inches of snow.
Speaker 1: Morning Alex, and a snowy good morning across the board
Speaker 1: to everybody. Okay, a couple of things here breaking down
Speaker 1: the show this morning. Obviously we've got to get you
Speaker 1: ready for the weekend.
Speaker 2: There's news.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of news, and there's plenty of stuff to
Speaker 1: discuss in getting you ready for all of the activities
Speaker 1: on the weekend and training camps starting to warm up
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. Rundown today, we'll hear
Speaker 1: from Jack Collison and his new gig coming up in
Speaker 1: just a little bit. I've got some sound from MLS
Speaker 1: media days from Jesse Marsh that we need to get into.
Speaker 1: And in now our number two, Donovan Ricketts, the new
Speaker 1: head coach at Carolina Core, is going to be joining
Speaker 1: us to start our turn, our turn of the training
Speaker 1: camps here in the footprint. So I guess officially today
Speaker 1: is when we start training camp reports. We're gonna try
Speaker 1: to catch up with as many coaches as we can
Speaker 1: in the footprint all League One Championship, MLS Next Pro
Speaker 1: and USL USL MLS Next Pro, all the above. We're
Speaker 1: gonna try to catch up with as many coaches as
Speaker 1: we can to get you ready for the season. So, uh,
Speaker 1: that's where we are. Four Cards says he's got like
Speaker 1: four inches in little Bern and it's now turned to sleep.
Speaker 1: Just stay indoors, don't drive anywhere. Don't do anything of that, okay.
Speaker 1: So here is our first batch's sound and it is
Speaker 1: coming from our friend Jack Collison. Jack Collison, and for
Speaker 1: those of you that might have had the might have
Speaker 1: had the chance to see it is uh. He has
Speaker 1: now got a new gig with these with SSA and
Speaker 1: the Swarm, and so uh it is a new gig.
Speaker 1: He is the director of methodology for SSA and for
Speaker 1: the Swarm and their relationship with Brentford.
Speaker 2: So we caught up with Jack.
Speaker 1: Jason and Maddy went out to Austelle to catch up
Speaker 1: with SSA, to catch up with Jack Collison. The sit
Speaker 1: down interview in audio form was released this morning and
Speaker 1: so the video version is going to be coming out
Speaker 1: in short order. So here is a bit of that
Speaker 1: conversation that they had with Jack Collison about his new gig.
Speaker 4: It's a big time for ambition in soccer in Atlanta
Speaker 4: right now, with Club World Cup coming the summer, with
Speaker 4: a World Cup semi final coming in eighteen months. You know,
Speaker 4: what's your take on the landscape of soccer in the
Speaker 4: city right now?
Speaker 5: I'm blown away. I love it For someone who not
Speaker 5: born with a soccer ball in my hand, I used
Speaker 5: to go to bed wearing my football boots at time.
Speaker 5: So for someone who sort of lived and breathed it
Speaker 5: every single day and then coming out here five years ago,
Speaker 5: but seeing the growth in the previous five years has
Speaker 5: been incredible, and enough to play a small part of
Speaker 5: it has been great as well. But what's to come
Speaker 5: is just mind blowing. You look at, as you say,
Speaker 5: the World Cup, you look all the new teams coming up,
Speaker 5: You look at the infrastructure being put in place everywhere,
Speaker 5: and I think the great thing is obviously we're doing
Speaker 5: a lot of the good things here as well. You're
Speaker 5: going to see lots of changes to the training facility.
Speaker 5: There's a real professional feel now around the youth programs.
Speaker 5: The women's side is really growing, and as I said,
Speaker 5: already are ambition. There's no hidden secret is to bring
Speaker 5: pro soccer here to SSA and to the swarm. So
Speaker 5: fingers crossed, we can get there. And not only is
Speaker 5: it a great opportunity for the young players who are
Speaker 5: in the system, it's also a great opportunity for some
Speaker 5: of these young hungry coaches or coaches who have been
Speaker 5: around the system for.
Speaker 2: A long while.
Speaker 5: So we're all pushing we're all working hard and hopefully
Speaker 5: we can get to where we want to get to
Speaker 5: make all that.
Speaker 2: Get this, now, you hit a mute button. See can cough.
Speaker 1: I'm trying. I was trying to, you know, expand the
Speaker 1: Collison piece. And literally what I did is I waved
Speaker 1: the arrow. I waved the arrow over the uh, the
Speaker 1: open like I'm in the corner and it says enter
Speaker 1: full screen, and so I just literally waved the the
Speaker 1: the the carrot over the top of it, and there
Speaker 1: it was. So I don't know what well, I don't
Speaker 1: know what I did. I don't know what I did,
Speaker 1: but I'm still learning this silly thing. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, Pars, that was gonna mut button.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I muted myself so I could cough and
Speaker 1: so you guys could listen to Jack and I'd hear
Speaker 1: me cough. And so I've waved my finger over the
Speaker 1: top of it. Anyway, So that's part of the conversation
Speaker 1: with Jack Collison. D Graham lets me know that it's
Speaker 1: also out of video form, So go out to the
Speaker 1: go out to the SDH channel, subscribe if you haven't
Speaker 1: hit the like button and hit your notifications. So when
Speaker 1: things do happen and you end up with great interviews
Speaker 1: like Jack Collison's piece, that you can listen to the
Speaker 1: interviews with Jack and everybody else that we piece up
Speaker 1: on the network.
Speaker 2: So so there you go.
Speaker 1: Apparently, according to Tom, the four Letter has an interview
Speaker 1: with Pochettino because he's getting ready for camp Michael's touring.
Speaker 1: The subdivision started forty five minutes ago. Heavy snowsleep. Now
Speaker 1: I'm mixing no snow's ending boom. So I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: looking over at the Big fifty five and we'll see
Speaker 1: what's going on with the Big fifty five and make
Speaker 1: sure that that everything is fine. Like Paul Goodlock can
Speaker 1: actually see from the seventeenth Street Bridge, you can actually
Speaker 1: see into downtown looking southbound. So that's a bit of
Speaker 1: a bit of an upgrade for Paul Goodlow this morning
Speaker 1: on the Weather Channel. So so yes, stay safe if
Speaker 1: you travel, Please stay safe if you travel, and travel
Speaker 1: not recommended, travel not recommended, Thank you, Alex. When Guardian
Speaker 1: ruy Nosa switch and flick of a cursor, thank you.
Speaker 1: Is there a recording of the diala thing from last night?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 1: Yeah, on the go to the on the woodwork section
Speaker 1: over ninety two nine the game in the Odyssey app,
Speaker 1: that's where you can hear the full dial of conversation,
Speaker 1: the one where I didn't wave my finger over the
Speaker 1: cursor and blow everything out. So name Odyssey app you
Speaker 1: can listen into the full I want to say it
Speaker 1: was a nine minute conversation that Maddie and Jason got
Speaker 1: to have with Ronnie Dila. He made the rounds with everybody,
Speaker 1: made the rounds with everybody. So, uh, it was a
Speaker 1: chance for the local media to do sit downs with
Speaker 1: Diala and get caught up and all those kinds of things.
Speaker 1: And so it's the Jason Maddie conversation is over at
Speaker 1: ninety two nine in the game Odyssey app off the woodwork,
Speaker 1: Uh in the pilot in their podcast section. So that's
Speaker 1: where that full conversation is with Ronnie Diler. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: And this is the things that the youngins had got
Speaker 1: to learn. Abby says, daughter went to Nashville yesterday, told
Speaker 1: her Jim cantoy' is there. She said, she had no
Speaker 1: idea who that was lost. He's gonna find out. She's
Speaker 1: gonna find out who Jim Cantore is. Garon, damn tu
Speaker 1: She's gonna find out who Jim Cantore is. So, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: so can Tory's wearing the hat. He is in Uh,
Speaker 1: he's Inville. And it looks like everything is going to
Speaker 1: be in Nashville until about eight o'clock tomorrow morning, and
Speaker 1: then you'll have the ice and the tempts and everything
Speaker 1: to roll by. Pars has no idea to navigate it. Well,
Speaker 1: then do this, Pars. Go to ninety two nine in
Speaker 1: the game dot Com. Then go into the oh, the
Speaker 1: the Q and a first season that I don't know
Speaker 1: happened last night at six Michael, I do not know
Speaker 1: about the Q and a thing for STMs that I
Speaker 1: do not know. So ninety two nine in the game
Speaker 1: in the Odyssey app. Then what you do is you
Speaker 1: go into the podcast section. Then you click off the
Speaker 1: Woodwork and that's where ninety two nine the game houses
Speaker 1: all of their soccer content, and so you go from there,
Speaker 1: you go in, you click and you find the most
Speaker 1: recent episodes are obviously listed first. So go there ninety
Speaker 1: two nine in the game in the Odyssey app and
Speaker 1: that's where you find all of the off the woodwork,
Speaker 1: so you know, not in the game, uh, podcasts or
Speaker 1: Atlanta United podcasts. Off the Woodwork then Off the Woodwork
Speaker 1: gives you the listing of everything that they've done. So
Speaker 1: the conversation that Maddie and Jason had with Ronni Dalla
Speaker 1: is there. I do not know about the STMs thing
Speaker 1: that Q and A is posted anywhere. Someone might have
Speaker 1: some audio if they you know, if they're sitting in
Speaker 1: the room someplace, but just can't kind of keep an
Speaker 1: eye on that. But Michael, I do not know if
Speaker 1: that audio is up. Yes, absolutely true, Abby says, I
Speaker 1: asked my son if he knew who Cantory was, and
Speaker 1: he thought he was a sportsperson like the former Yankee
Speaker 1: manager Joe Torre. Okay, that's closed. I can get you
Speaker 1: that one. And Aby Abbey's letting a pars know. If
Speaker 1: Cantory's in your city, you don't want it. If Jim
Speaker 1: Cantore is in the middle of your city doing remotes
Speaker 1: and live shots, that means that you're supposed to be
Speaker 1: getting the worst of the weather and you.
Speaker 2: Don't want him there.
Speaker 1: That means then if he's there, you don't need to
Speaker 1: be put it that way, so that that's what you're
Speaker 1: staring at when it comes to Jim Canty. So if
Speaker 1: you're Jim Canty, then make sure that if he's heading
Speaker 1: to your city, that you need to be out of
Speaker 1: your city. That's the bottom line. Okay, once again, remember
Speaker 1: ten o'clock. We're getting you ready for the weekend. In
Speaker 1: the ten o'clock hour, Donovan Rickett's the new head coach
Speaker 1: for the UH for Carolina Core in MLS. Next pro
Speaker 1: is going to be joining us. We'll find out what
Speaker 1: it's like for him to be a head coach. He
Speaker 1: goes from keeper coach to head coach, and we get
Speaker 1: to start our tour of everything going on in in
Speaker 1: all of the clubs in the footprint. So that's what
Speaker 1: we're that's what we're staring at.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: One other thing that I wanted to get into, and
Speaker 1: it has to do with.
Speaker 2: National teams.
Speaker 1: Obviously, d Graham mentioned that there's an art that there's
Speaker 1: an interview with the Pochattino at ESPNFC, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's like just getting to know you kind of things, Hey,
Speaker 1: what do you want to accomplish with this camp? Those
Speaker 1: kinds of things. So, as it turns out, Tom mentioned it. Sorry,
Speaker 1: So Tom mentioned that ESPNFC has an interview up with Pochettino.
Speaker 2: Ricky was in the snow. Well, you're excused, it's up
Speaker 2: perfectly fine. You missed me.
Speaker 1: Still trying to fumble through sequences and trying to get
Speaker 1: folks to hear things here on the show. Interview with
Speaker 1: Jack Collison up audio and video over at the SDH network.
Speaker 1: So ESPNFC puts out an article to Pochettino. Major League
Speaker 1: Soccer was having their car wash for media day, and
Speaker 1: so you had various people popping up. Burhalter was there,
Speaker 1: he showed up, Chucky Lozano showed up for media day,
Speaker 1: and so basically it was everybody that the league wanted
Speaker 1: to have come up and talk about the game.
Speaker 2: They had him sit at a.
Speaker 1: Table, sponsored table, the whole thing behind you and all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. One of the folks that was
Speaker 1: brought up at the table was Jesse Marsh. And Jesse
Speaker 1: Marsh we know Jesse Marsh's we know Jesse Marsh's new
Speaker 1: gig he is. It's not necessarily new, but it is
Speaker 1: the most newest gig that he has and he is
Speaker 1: the head coach for the Canadian men's national team. So
Speaker 1: he was asked and this is courtesy of our friends
Speaker 1: at Major League Soccer. He was asked about the difficulties
Speaker 1: of navigating the national team landscape these days, and this
Speaker 1: is something that I did not anticipate ever hearing from
Speaker 1: a coach at points, But considering the trouble that Canada
Speaker 1: has had in the past, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: should be surprised by this or not. Jesse Marsh divulged
Speaker 1: this at MLS Media Day once again courtesy of our
Speaker 1: friends at Major League Soccer.
Speaker 6: First, we tried to have a January camp, and the
Speaker 6: stark reality is just financially we're not in a position
Speaker 6: as a federation to support a January camp yet without
Speaker 6: having the kind of opponents.
Speaker 7: To help support that.
Speaker 6: So we put a lot of effort in the September
Speaker 6: October November time period to see if we could make
Speaker 6: it happen, and a lot of it was because, like
Speaker 6: the US has used it over years, this was the
Speaker 6: blueprint for me too. With the Canadian group is trying
Speaker 6: to unearth some good young talents that are playing domestically
Speaker 6: in the CPL and with the MLS and finding a
Speaker 6: way to incorporate them into what we're trying to do
Speaker 6: with the national team. And seeing if they had potential
Speaker 6: to rise in that group and be considered for what
Speaker 6: we might be able to include.
Speaker 8: With the first group.
Speaker 6: So it's a bit of a shame that we weren't
Speaker 6: able to accomplish that this year.
Speaker 2: But I'm hopeful.
Speaker 1: So jesse Marsh opens up, and I mean that in
Speaker 1: the sense of opening up, you know, in a press conference,
Speaker 1: in an emotional sense. Jesse Marsh admits that Team Canada
Speaker 1: and Canada Soccer do not have the finances or did
Speaker 1: not have the finances. I guess they're still in the
Speaker 1: process of trying to gather them that they could not
Speaker 1: have camps. They could not have camps. Jesse Marsh says
Speaker 1: he hopes to hold a January camp in the future,
Speaker 1: after plans for a gathering this year had to be scrapped.
Speaker 1: The Molist media Day was down in Miami. I'm guessing Miami,
Speaker 1: not Fort Lauderdale, US. Once again, they traditionally hold the
Speaker 1: camp and they're getting ready for that. Canada Soccer has
Speaker 1: done that in the past. Kevin Blue apparently working on it.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that more an hour number two. But
Speaker 1: you know what this means. It is nine thirty ish
Speaker 1: on a Friday, the regular crowd shuffles in to para.
Speaker 1: To paraphrase the philosopher William Joel, and that means we
Speaker 1: get to welcome in one of our friends, Michael Parkhurst.
Speaker 9: How are you, sir, Good morning and happy New Year.
Speaker 8: John.
Speaker 2: I am good.
Speaker 1: So we are apparently facing snowmaged here in Atlanta. Uh oh,
Speaker 1: I heard two three four inches of snow. Everybody had
Speaker 1: better have run to the store and gotten their their
Speaker 1: run on milk, bread and water, and the shelves. The
Speaker 1: shelves are empty, and people are frolicking, and animals are
Speaker 1: sitting there and going bruh, I ain't going out and
Speaker 1: all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: You look outside, people are putting covers on cars and
Speaker 1: things like that. So, uh is it just cold, nasty
Speaker 1: and freezing where you are and you're laughing at the
Speaker 1: rest of us here on the planet.
Speaker 2: Is that how this works?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 9: No, I'm not laughing.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I'm laughing a little bit.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I remember how it is. I mean, that's great
Speaker 9: for the kids to enjoy a little bit of snow
Speaker 9: down there. Yeah, we had a we didn't have much
Speaker 9: snow up until, of course, the day before the kids
Speaker 9: were finally supposed to go back to school. They had
Speaker 9: been out for what felt like a month. I mean,
Speaker 9: it was a great two weeks around the holidays, but
Speaker 9: a full two weeks out honestly felt like a month.
Speaker 9: And so first day back, five forty five am, the
Speaker 9: phone call comes in. School is canceled. So the kids
Speaker 9: enjoyed a snow day. So we've had snow on the ground.
Speaker 2: We have.
Speaker 9: I don't think we're gonna get rid of it anytime soon.
Speaker 9: We're not gonna get above freezing for a while. So yeah,
Speaker 9: we've still got probably uh four inches on the on
Speaker 9: the ground.
Speaker 1: So do you still have your moments where yet you
Speaker 1: act like a teenager and you want to go outside,
Speaker 1: you want to throw snowballs in general, and just like
Speaker 1: throw them at you know, buzz them right past your
Speaker 1: kids' heads or or the boss or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Do you still have those mormentso you just sit there?
Speaker 1: So now that's for the young, Yes.
Speaker 9: I do, brought on by the kids and the dog. Right,
Speaker 9: the dog loves the snow, so she loves being back
Speaker 9: out there, and she loves chasing snowballs and then eating them.
Speaker 2: And I mean the.
Speaker 9: Kids are at a good age too, you know, throw
Speaker 9: it right back. So yeah, I enjoy a nice little
Speaker 9: snow day.
Speaker 2: Okay, do the kids eat snow themselves or just the dog?
Speaker 9: Newly fresh snow? Sure snow that's been down now for
Speaker 9: you know, almost a week.
Speaker 5: You.
Speaker 9: I hope I've taught them better.
Speaker 2: You just ew ick by the way, New Year, I mean.
Speaker 9: New platform, new background here that I'm looking at, a
Speaker 9: fancy schmancy here, John, I mean, I expect nothing less.
Speaker 2: But well, blame blame Longshore.
Speaker 1: He's the one who's the one who decided to get
Speaker 1: everything all gussied up in fancy. Uh. If you want
Speaker 1: me to do it, I'll screw it up. I'll play
Speaker 1: things out of order. It'll be like music sounders and
Speaker 1: it's like literally somebody with the hot keys kind of
Speaker 1: going like this and just mashing things out of order.
Speaker 1: That's me so far, trying to learn all this technology
Speaker 1: looks great. So what I wanted to do, and thank
Speaker 1: you for dropping by this morning, I wanted to kind
Speaker 1: of look back at twenty twenty four for beyond goals
Speaker 1: and look at now. I don't know, do you and
Speaker 1: Greg and everybody at BGM set New Year's resolutions or
Speaker 1: do you have goals aspirations to do list? How do
Speaker 1: you guys tackle how you want to grow into a year?
Speaker 1: Did you guys have a list of things you wanted
Speaker 1: to accomplish in twenty four?
Speaker 2: How did you attack this? Yeah?
Speaker 9: I think actually the marketing folks that we've been working
Speaker 9: with the last probably four or five months have really
Speaker 9: helped us in that regard, because when we started, it
Speaker 9: was kind of just like, well, we'll see where it
Speaker 9: goes and you know, growed as much as we can,
Speaker 9: and we didn't really have any goals because you know,
Speaker 9: it was just kind of like, yeah, we're just going
Speaker 9: to grow it as much as we can. So they've
Speaker 9: kind of helped us in that regard of setting some goals,
Speaker 9: you know, both for the year and then we do
Speaker 9: it by the quarter and saying, okay, hey, what do
Speaker 9: we want Where do we want to get accomplished this quarter?
Speaker 2: Where can we go?
Speaker 9: What do we want to do, what do we want
Speaker 9: to implement? So in that regard, it's been really good
Speaker 9: and it kind of just helps Greg and I kind
Speaker 9: of set the tone going into the year and where
Speaker 9: we need to be and what we want to do.
Speaker 9: And again we're not answering to anybody. So it's kind
Speaker 9: of like if we don't hit a goal, you know,
Speaker 9: we just adjust things and move on and you know,
Speaker 9: why didn't we and how can we get better?
Speaker 2: Type thing?
Speaker 9: And you know, same thing that we encourage our mentees
Speaker 9: to do really well.
Speaker 1: And you know the reason I ask is because I
Speaker 1: know that when when we all dive into this idea
Speaker 1: of Okay, I want to I want to start this,
Speaker 1: I want to do this, I want to do this
Speaker 1: as a business, you know, I want to I want
Speaker 1: to make sure that this is the next stage of
Speaker 1: my career that you want to hop in. And as
Speaker 1: driven as we all are, it's like, yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to do it right, I want to do it well.
Speaker 1: I want to do it this way, this way, this way,
Speaker 1: this way, and this way. How do you not get
Speaker 1: bogged down if you don't accomplish something, do you How
Speaker 1: easy is it to just kind of sit there and say, okay, well,
Speaker 1: we'll work just as hard to continue to get there
Speaker 1: and not get mad about not accomplishing something that you
Speaker 1: had on a list, I guess with something new.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's challenging, and I think you know that's why
Speaker 9: we encourage to have these smaller steps on the way
Speaker 9: because you know, if we're accomplishing what we want to
Speaker 9: get done on a weekly basis or a monthly basis,
Speaker 9: and then at the quarter we don't hit our quarter goal,
Speaker 9: you know, we look back and say, you know, what
Speaker 9: we did what we could, it just didn't fall our
Speaker 9: way this quarter, so hopefully we'll make up for it
Speaker 9: next quarter type thing. And so, you know, really our
Speaker 9: goals we try not to make financial goals because we're like,
Speaker 9: you know, our services are there and we try and
Speaker 9: grow it and it is what it is. If people
Speaker 9: want to sign up, great and if they don't, great,
Speaker 9: So you know, a lot of our goals are kind
Speaker 9: of like what can we do to put ourselves in
Speaker 9: a position to grow the business, and then just seeing
Speaker 9: did that help? Was that successful? And adjusting things from there.
Speaker 1: What was the most surprising thing that you learned beyond
Speaker 1: goals in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 9: I think the potential for growth. I think the looking
Speaker 9: outside of the box and thinking what more can we provide?
Speaker 9: What else could this become? And just knowing that the
Speaker 9: getting the feedback that we did from players and families
Speaker 9: just re emphasize like okay, we've got something here and
Speaker 9: we can do something. And so yeah, I think that
Speaker 9: was the best thing that came out of twenty four
Speaker 9: And then working with this this group, I think is
Speaker 9: going to really help us, you know, just on social media,
Speaker 9: get more organized, help us with goals and things.
Speaker 2: So it was.
Speaker 9: A good year in that regard, and we grew the
Speaker 9: business healthily, which was which is awesome. You know, Greg
Speaker 9: works extremely hard in that regard, and yeah.
Speaker 2: He crushed it.
Speaker 1: What what did you learn from Greg? And what do
Speaker 1: you think Greg learned from you?
Speaker 9: I think I can learn a lot from Greg's work
Speaker 9: work ethic, Like he grinds hard, and you know, I
Speaker 9: think that you need that in any startup business and
Speaker 9: young business. We're trying to grow it and do things,
Speaker 9: and I think that we just we understand each other's
Speaker 9: role within the business really well. Greg grinds and gets
Speaker 9: the customers and is so good with customer relations and
Speaker 9: connecting with people and talking to them about why. And
Speaker 9: I'm just trying to come up with new things and
Speaker 9: new projects and new partnerships and Okay, where can we
Speaker 9: go and what can we do? And okay, how can
Speaker 9: we hire somebody new? And you know, I think that
Speaker 9: we just we work well together. So I definitely learned
Speaker 9: from Greg, both in the hustle side of things, but
Speaker 9: also mentoring wise and how he works with some of
Speaker 9: his younger players and what he talks about, and we
Speaker 9: share ideas and we're continuing to grow obviously, and we
Speaker 9: encourage each other to grow and read and get better
Speaker 9: and improve things. And just seeing kind of where he
Speaker 9: talks to kids about and how he approaches sessions. Sometimes
Speaker 9: it's just different than how I do. So it's it's
Speaker 9: it's nice for each for both of us, I think,
Speaker 9: to see the other person in action.
Speaker 2: What's the last book you read?
Speaker 9: That's John It's number one on my list right now
Speaker 9: of I need to do better in twenty five.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, because I think.
Speaker 9: I started off well in twenty twenty four and I
Speaker 9: probably have not read a book in like four months,
Speaker 9: so that's not good. So the last book I read.
Speaker 2: Where is it? Where'd you hide it?
Speaker 9: I think it's still hidden potential to be fair. I
Speaker 9: did reread this one because it was so good. Yeah,
Speaker 9: but yeah, that's the last.
Speaker 2: Book I read. So when you when you read a book,
Speaker 2: do you high?
Speaker 1: Do you take a highlighter and destroy the inside of
Speaker 1: it and then end up getting another copy later. How
Speaker 1: do you when you take notes from other people to
Speaker 1: apply to what you want to do it beyond goals?
Speaker 2: How do you learn? How?
Speaker 1: What's the best way for you to learn from, like, say,
Speaker 1: a reading situation. Do you do you highlight? Do you
Speaker 1: write something down separate? How do you how do you learn?
Speaker 1: When you read?
Speaker 9: I take a picture of whatever paragraph or sentence or whatever,
Speaker 9: So I've got just a bunch of pictures when I'm
Speaker 9: done reading or halfway through or something, and then I'll
Speaker 9: go write notes in a Google doc and so that
Speaker 9: I can keep it organized of like, Okay, why did
Speaker 9: I take a picture of this? What does it have
Speaker 9: to do with whatever? That way I can kind of
Speaker 9: organize it into where it would be helpful, because some
Speaker 9: of these notes go into like more broad topics, and
Speaker 9: some of them are like, Okay, this would be really
Speaker 9: useful when I'm talking to a kid about X, and
Speaker 9: so I want this information or this idea in this
Speaker 9: little area of notes that we have, you know, for
Speaker 9: ideas for when we're talking to a kid about that subject.
Speaker 9: So that's how I do it. Take a picture and
Speaker 9: then go back to it and write it.
Speaker 1: Okay, when it comes to twenty twenty five and getting
Speaker 1: getting your your mentees to learn.
Speaker 2: Do you encourage resolutions? Do you?
Speaker 1: And it might just be goals and aspirations instead of resolutions,
Speaker 1: because when you think of a new year's resolution, the
Speaker 1: first thing you think of sometimes is like, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: give me like three weeks and I'll break it, you know,
Speaker 1: like working out. I'll set a new year's resolution to
Speaker 1: lose ten pounds and then three weeks and you sit
Speaker 1: there and go, man, this is this is not happening.
Speaker 1: Do you encourage goals and aspirations at the beginning of
Speaker 1: a calendar year? Do you just sit there and have
Speaker 1: that as something as a part of a continual conversation.
Speaker 1: How do you bring in a new year with someone
Speaker 1: that you're that you're having to, that you're working with
Speaker 1: as a mentor how do you break down outlook, I
Speaker 1: guess is probably the best way to phrase it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a great question, and it depends on who
Speaker 9: we're working with and if we've worked with them before,
Speaker 9: because I think that, you know, with soccer being not
Speaker 9: a calendar year sport, it kind of gets a little confusing, Right,
Speaker 9: do you make your goals at the beginning of the
Speaker 9: season for the soccer season or do you make it
Speaker 9: at the beginning of the calendar year for the year,
Speaker 9: And so it just depends on you know, if this
Speaker 9: if the player is playing year round, or if they're
Speaker 9: playing multiple sports, or or when we started working with them.
Speaker 9: So a lot of them we do, right. I think
Speaker 9: it's it's great to have calendar year goals where you
Speaker 9: want to be this time next year, and then we
Speaker 9: work backwards, right, we always are working backwards. Okay, we've
Speaker 9: got this big goal here, or a couple of big
Speaker 9: goals that where we want to be. Okay, how are
Speaker 9: we going to get there? And then what are we
Speaker 9: going to work on to get there? And ideally we're
Speaker 9: coming back to like a weekly or bi weekly checklist
Speaker 9: of Okay, have I hit these small little steps in
Speaker 9: order to get to my goal at the end of
Speaker 9: the year, because like I said earlier, John, we could
Speaker 9: hit all these steps.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 9: I've got a kid. He wants to get back with
Speaker 9: the national team. Right, he's been with the youth national
Speaker 9: team before. He wants to get back for the East
Speaker 9: national team. That's his goal for twenty five. I said,
Speaker 9: that's an awesome goal. Now how do we do it?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 9: Okay, we need to be playing consistently, Okay, we need
Speaker 9: to be healthy right, Okay, great, what are the steps
Speaker 9: to that?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 9: How are we going to take care of our body
Speaker 9: on a daily and weekly basis so that we are
Speaker 9: healthy enough? And you know, so you just small little
Speaker 9: challenges and goals along the way.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think that when you
Speaker 1: mentioned these these small goals, these incremental steps, I think
Speaker 1: that a lot of times we have a tendency to
Speaker 1: either take those small steps for granted and just it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll skip this chapter because I know that
Speaker 1: I do that, when in fact, you might be found
Speaker 1: out that you don't, or you sit there and it's
Speaker 1: just like, oh I did. It's it didn't quite register
Speaker 1: to me that I need to have that small of
Speaker 1: a step because it is one of those building blocks.
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting that you just mentioned that,
Speaker 1: because a lot of times we sit there and we'll
Speaker 1: take those small steps for granted, thinking that yeah, they're
Speaker 1: already a part of the process when they may not be.
Speaker 1: I thought that was really interesting that you brought that up.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a crucial, crucial aspect and that's where a
Speaker 9: lot of people go wrong and why a lot of
Speaker 9: resolutions fall all Right, the goal is just too far away.
Speaker 9: It's a big aspiration, a big goal, like it's a
Speaker 9: yearly thing or it's a huge thing that's going to
Speaker 9: take months and months. That's just tough for mentally, right
Speaker 9: where you're not accomplishing something, you know, especially if it's
Speaker 9: not a number or something where you can really you know,
Speaker 9: if it's just to look better or thin down or whatever,
Speaker 9: that's just tough over time. So yeah, we highly encourage it.
Speaker 9: I saw this video the other day. It was really
Speaker 9: really good. I think it was a school teacher trying
Speaker 9: to teach his kids about this concept. And he had
Speaker 9: this kid who needed to get from one side of
Speaker 9: the room to the other side of the room, and
Speaker 9: he had pieces of paper that the kid could step on,
Speaker 9: and so the kid stepped on the pieces of paper
Speaker 9: to get to the other side and said, okay, now
Speaker 9: go back, and then he took away a few pieces
Speaker 9: of the paper and it was really more difficult, and
Speaker 9: then he took away all the pieces of paper and
Speaker 9: he said, if you don't have these steps along the
Speaker 9: way to get to your goal. It's impossible to get there.
Speaker 2: I see now.
Speaker 1: I like the idea of pulling all of the pieces
Speaker 1: of paper off of the floor, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: so now what are you going to do? And if
Speaker 1: you don't have those if you don't have those pieces
Speaker 1: laid in place, then you're gonna miss them coming back.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna have them coming back, or you're just
Speaker 1: gonna walk on the desks to get from one desk
Speaker 1: to the other and just do it up above. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's there's gotta be always a way in like in
Speaker 1: Star Trek with the Kobayashimaru and James T. Kirk when
Speaker 1: when he when he went around and broke the machine
Speaker 1: and just kind of refixed the machine to his own benefit.
Speaker 9: That is true. I gotta find alternative ways sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah excuses, Yeah exactly, Michael Parker.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's all about finding different ways and that the
Speaker 1: and then your instructor goes, man, I wish I'd thought
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 9: But speaking of uh yeah, New Year's and like uh yeah,
Speaker 9: goals and things, and have you heard of the uh
Speaker 9: the viral like a hard seventy five.
Speaker 2: Challenge Uh no, what's this? Okay, Well you.
Speaker 9: Look it up John, it's uh it's I think it's
Speaker 9: a little older, but it became viral again. And basically
Speaker 9: there's like five or six things and you're supposed to
Speaker 9: do it every day for seventy five days. If you
Speaker 9: mess up or miss one day, you start over. And
Speaker 9: it's really intense. That's why it's called hard seventy five.
Speaker 9: But it's basically it's like, drink a gallon of water
Speaker 9: a day, read x pages a day, exercise twice a day,
Speaker 9: take a picture of yourself once a day, and there's
Speaker 9: a couple other things. I think. So I think Greg
Speaker 9: and I are going to implement a modified version for
Speaker 9: any mentees that want to do like a thirty day
Speaker 9: thing with us, where you know, you read a few
Speaker 9: pages a day, you get x amount of sleep per day.
Speaker 9: We're not taking photos of ourselves. That's not the goal here,
Speaker 9: you know. But exercise could be something as small as
Speaker 9: stretching or getting core work in right, and it's just
Speaker 9: kind of like a more of a mentality and a
Speaker 9: discipline thing than it is, like we're not trying to
Speaker 9: lose weight or do it for any specific reason. It's
Speaker 9: more like, hey, can we do something? Can we accomplish
Speaker 9: it for thirty days and stay dedicated to it and
Speaker 9: you know, get them thinking about and learning by reading,
Speaker 9: focusing on their sleep, getting certain amount of sleep. So
Speaker 9: we're tossing around the idea of, hey, should we start
Speaker 9: this for kind of the end of January and February
Speaker 9: type thing based off of this viral thing that's going
Speaker 9: around Andy Forsella.
Speaker 1: Think of this as an iron man for your brain.
Speaker 1: How to take complete control of your life and only
Speaker 1: seventy five days. Yeah, quoting for Sella, There's nothing worse
Speaker 1: than rolling through life in the passenger seat. You wake up,
Speaker 1: go to work, and drift through each day with no
Speaker 1: direction or driving force. Then you drive home, flip through
Speaker 1: your favorite TV shows, go to bed, repeat that same
Speaker 1: cycle the next day. Weekdays all run together. You find
Speaker 1: yourself trying to pass the time until the weekend so
Speaker 1: you can relax, unwind, and finally enjoy yourself. You start
Speaker 1: doubting yourself. I'm skipping forward, and so he said, this
Speaker 1: is why I believe in the seventy five hard program.
Speaker 1: I know exactly how you feel. I've been there myself,
Speaker 1: spend years feeling like I was nothing, floating through the
Speaker 1: days with no game plan and no results, letting myself
Speaker 1: go mentally and physical, trying program after a program to
Speaker 1: try to get back on track, only to fall off
Speaker 1: right after I completed it. I knew I wasn't the
Speaker 1: only one going through this, realize the root cause of
Speaker 1: all of my problems was not addressed by any existing program.
Speaker 1: And so Andy Fracella is the guy that did seventy
Speaker 1: five hards. So you want to spin off and do
Speaker 1: well ninety hard because there's ninety minutes in a match.
Speaker 9: Mabe, Well maybe, well, maybe we'll get to that. But
Speaker 9: you know, I think you know as far as smaller steps.
Speaker 1: Forty five, give me forty five, Parkhurst can just start
Speaker 1: and give me forty five.
Speaker 2: Then you can start it for me.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we might even do thirty just a thirty day thing.
Speaker 9: See how we can do it, see what the response
Speaker 9: is like, and then they'll take it from there. If
Speaker 9: it was fun and everybody enjoyed it, maybe we'ld do
Speaker 9: another one.
Speaker 1: There are other things that you guys did in twenty
Speaker 1: four that I thought were really cool, like bgtv's it.
Speaker 1: What's it like for you doing the television thing where
Speaker 1: you cut your teeth on programs like this, but then
Speaker 1: you actually, you know, then you go to BGTV and
Speaker 1: you do.
Speaker 2: That that work there. What was that like for you
Speaker 2: doing the video side.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I enjoyed doing the videos where I feel like
Speaker 9: I'm passing off knowledge of the way I see the
Speaker 9: game and the way high level athletes see the game
Speaker 9: and why they make the choices that they do on
Speaker 9: the field, and little little things that probably go unnoticed
Speaker 9: by a lot of youth athletes about what's making these
Speaker 9: professionals successful and what they're doing before the ball comes
Speaker 9: to them, and all these little things that I'm just
Speaker 9: trying to point out and help out. And so I
Speaker 9: really enjoy doing it. It's it's fun for me. I
Speaker 9: hope that we continue to grow that, you know, it's
Speaker 9: it's a challenge getting kids to see the benefit of it,
Speaker 9: I think right now, but I still have big hopes
Speaker 9: for it.
Speaker 1: And I mean when you when you have different mentees
Speaker 1: of different age groups, different aspirations, whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: early high school, high school, I would you know, for me,
Speaker 1: I would say middle school, just to just to be different,
Speaker 1: middle school, high school, different levels of professional.
Speaker 2: Aspirations things like that.
Speaker 1: How much of a challenge is it for you and
Speaker 1: Greg to make sure that your messages are catered to
Speaker 1: the individual and not just have blanket thoughts going in
Speaker 1: too every you know, everyone who is a mentee. How
Speaker 1: difficult is it for you to for you and Greg
Speaker 1: to segment and break apart all of your messaging with
Speaker 1: all of your different mentees because of all the different
Speaker 1: directions they're coming from.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's tough. That's that's a tech a challenge, right
Speaker 9: because we work with nine and ten year olds who
Speaker 9: obviously have different goals, aspirations and just ability to absorb
Speaker 9: knowledge differently than a seventeen year old who wants to
Speaker 9: get back with the national team. Yeah, or college kid
Speaker 9: who's playing D one, you know, so it is completely
Speaker 9: different levels. So we do try and we separate things.
Speaker 9: We know that not every message is going to hit
Speaker 9: every mentee, but some messages will hit some and some
Speaker 9: messages will hit others. And that's fine. Not every message,
Speaker 9: not every piece of information is for the entire spectrum,
Speaker 9: but that doesn't mean they can't take something from it.
Speaker 9: But yeah, it's that that is a challenge, and it's
Speaker 9: it's the same as like when I do soccer camps
Speaker 9: and you know, you try and have an age range
Speaker 9: of kids and you've got a level and you're just
Speaker 9: you're trying to do your best to teach everyone something
Speaker 9: so that they can get better.
Speaker 2: And have fun.
Speaker 9: But that's a challenge when you're dealing with different ages
Speaker 9: and different skill levels.
Speaker 1: I know that one of the words that we use
Speaker 1: a lot these days when it comes to approaches and
Speaker 1: learning and things like that is the a holistic approach.
Speaker 1: And I know that you you believe in that at
Speaker 1: Beyond Goals. When I mentioned the word holistic to you
Speaker 1: when it comes to an approach at BGM, what does
Speaker 1: a holistic approach mean to you?
Speaker 9: Specifically, A holistic approach means all encompassing and yeah, looking
Speaker 9: at everything to become better, so on the field, off
Speaker 9: the field, mental, physical, nutrition, sleep, everything that for me
Speaker 9: is a holistic approach when we're you know, three sixty
Speaker 9: view of your life and what is helping you or
Speaker 9: hindering you to get better.
Speaker 1: Because there are some folks who may sit there and
Speaker 1: think of holistic and think that it's all new, that
Speaker 1: it's new age. You know that they get stuck in
Speaker 1: this notion of oh, it's you know, just twenty first
Speaker 1: century thinking, and it's this you know, you know you're
Speaker 1: looking at chakras and crystals and you know those kinds
Speaker 1: of things. That's why I wanted to get your definition
Speaker 1: of when you say a holistic approach, then it's a
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty degree Okay, you've got to focus
Speaker 1: on this as much as you focus on this. You
Speaker 1: have to focus on the inside as much as you
Speaker 1: focus on the outside. You've got to focus on sleep
Speaker 1: and your your own mechanics as much as you do
Speaker 1: anything else. That's why I wanted to ask you, because
Speaker 1: there are folks that may sit there and look at
Speaker 1: it and their idea might be, you know, the the
Speaker 1: person that wanders around and you know there's just flipping
Speaker 1: smoke everywhere, you know, those kinds of things. So that's
Speaker 1: why I wanted to get when you say holistic, That's
Speaker 1: why I wanted to get your definition, because some folks
Speaker 1: may get stuck in an idea and it's not where you're.
Speaker 2: Going at all.
Speaker 9: No, you don't want to be on that that edge
Speaker 9: of the row seat when the guy's coming by with
Speaker 9: that stuff. You know, whoa a little a little strong.
Speaker 2: I remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, when you're when you're doing that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: that's very cool.
Speaker 9: To Bart's question over here, John, it's funny how snow
Speaker 9: day activities differ when you get a little bit older.
Speaker 9: My favorite currently is if we're gonna get snow on
Speaker 9: a lot of snow, so I can get the snowblower
Speaker 9: out right out that sucker. So I want to use
Speaker 9: that sucker. And thankfully we had enough snow last week
Speaker 9: to use it. So yeah, getting that guy fired up
Speaker 9: and using that's that's fun for me. And I still
Speaker 9: like sledding. Oh, if the kids are going to go sledding,
Speaker 9: I want to go sledding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't blame you a bit. As always, my friend,
Speaker 1: Great to see you, Great to catch up with you.
Speaker 1: Glad that Beyond Goals continues to kick some serious ass
Speaker 1: out of twenty four and heading into twenty five. And
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do this first time around is
Speaker 1: kind of recap twenty four, look at twenty five, what
Speaker 1: you guys have learned and what you're planning on learning
Speaker 1: going forward. So I wanted to I wanted to have
Speaker 1: the whole approach and kind of like a recap review
Speaker 1: preview kind of a thing for your first visit this year,
Speaker 1: to let everybody know how things have grown there at BGM.
Speaker 1: And for putting up with questions like mine on a
Speaker 1: yearly basis.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 9: And if we don't have a female hired in the
Speaker 9: next like three or four months, sean, you got to
Speaker 9: hold me accountable.
Speaker 2: That's I will, I will, all right?
Speaker 1: So Q one, all right, so Q one goal Parkhurst
Speaker 1: female higher. Okay, So I have officially written it down.
Speaker 1: There we go, and so by May first, if this is,
Speaker 1: if this has not happened and this particular individual has
Speaker 1: not been put in as a part of the rotation,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a talk park curve.
Speaker 9: That's right, like a little public peer pressure.
Speaker 2: Be well, my friend, b saf stay warm. We'll catch
Speaker 2: up with you soon.
Speaker 1: Thanks for dropping by a safe down in the snow, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: as always, there goes parking. And so now uh it
Speaker 1: is I might bring I might bring in our next guest,
Speaker 1: you know, a whole thirty seconds early, just because because
Speaker 1: we haven't quite hit ten o'clock yet. And this is
Speaker 1: where our tour of the training camps begins. Here for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five get to catch up with head coaches
Speaker 1: all around the footprint. And our first head coach is
Speaker 1: from our friends at Carolina Corp. And this is where
Speaker 1: we bringing Donovan Ricketts, the head coach for Carolina Core Coach.
Speaker 1: Thanks for dropping by this morning here kick off our
Speaker 1: number two.
Speaker 7: Thanks for having me John and right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let me ask you this, And this might
Speaker 1: be one of those questions that I don't know how
Speaker 1: frequently you've gotten it, but now that you're a head coach,
Speaker 1: and this is more like two or three separate stages,
Speaker 1: how does it feel to be a head coach?
Speaker 10: Well, you could just feel the stress already.
Speaker 7: It's not.
Speaker 10: No, it's a fun job, but not an easy job.
Speaker 10: But just let me preface it by saying that it's
Speaker 10: gonna be a very stressful job because no, you're managing everything,
Speaker 10: every single player, managing the environment and everything.
Speaker 7: So but it's fun though. If you love the sports,
Speaker 7: you'll enjoy the time.
Speaker 1: Well, so then let me ask you this, why now,
Speaker 1: why why at this point of your career did you
Speaker 1: you know, in the meeting the off season leading into
Speaker 1: this particular year, So what was it when when you
Speaker 1: woke up in the morning, you stared in the mirror
Speaker 1: and you sat there and you said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I think I'm ready to be a head coach in
Speaker 1: professional soccer. What was the what triggered that in your head?
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I think I'm ready for this kind
Speaker 1: of a challenge.
Speaker 7: Well, first thing, just remember I was a goalie and
Speaker 7: this said, yes, that is.
Speaker 2: GK. Union is definitely something that is different.
Speaker 7: So they say goods are crazy. So I just said,
Speaker 7: you know what.
Speaker 10: But to be perfectly honest, it's it's a natural progression.
Speaker 10: If you play the sport and you're involved with the sport,
Speaker 10: you naturally want to become a head coach. And then
Speaker 10: the opportunity came along. So I guess it was just
Speaker 10: the time and and everything was right.
Speaker 1: What did what did you learn about yourself as a keeper,
Speaker 1: coach and an assistant coach along the way that gave
Speaker 1: you the confidence to sit there and go, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I think I can do back and be a head coach. Well,
Speaker 1: what did you learn about yourself along the way to
Speaker 1: get to this point?
Speaker 10: Well, I think like managing the goal is because I'm
Speaker 10: managing like four different personalities sometimes and only one person
Speaker 10: can play so to get everybody on the same page,
Speaker 10: working with each other, working for each other might and
Speaker 10: also pushing each other, and it's still we maintained that
Speaker 10: unity and that camaraderie. I think it was just say
Speaker 10: I could translate that to an entire team where you
Speaker 10: have with outfield players, you have ten people that can
Speaker 10: play and still take people off the bench. So it's
Speaker 10: more you can keep people happier that way when other
Speaker 10: people know that they're going to be in the mix
Speaker 10: and the rotation. So I think just managing the goal
Speaker 10: is just knowing only one can play and keep everybody focus,
Speaker 10: keep everyone motivated.
Speaker 7: It just gave me that confidence well.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, as you mentioned being a
Speaker 1: member of GK Union, you're all crazy, but managing all
Speaker 1: of these different kinds of personalities, I think that that's
Speaker 1: probably one of those early challenges that you have, where Okay,
Speaker 1: I need to talk to this person this way. This
Speaker 1: person I need to this person I need to kick
Speaker 1: in the pants. This person I don't need to kick
Speaker 1: in the pants. I kind of need to put my
Speaker 1: arm around them. This person need to take them to
Speaker 1: go get ice cream. This person, you know, this person
Speaker 1: I need to go take the cookout. I mean, so
Speaker 1: that whole thing, the the whole navigating of personalities is
Speaker 1: something that you got to learn along the way too.
Speaker 10: Yeah, And to be honest, when we played it was
Speaker 10: just it was the same thing. It's like you're in
Speaker 10: the locker room with different personalities and you have to
Speaker 10: get along with those people for the collesiveness of the
Speaker 10: team of the group. So you learn to know who
Speaker 10: to talk to a certain way, how you push each other.
Speaker 10: So I think we learned that naturally by playing the
Speaker 10: game and being in the locker room, so it was
Speaker 10: easy to translate that. And also I saw things when
Speaker 10: I played that I didn't like that I thought maybe
Speaker 10: if I implemented this, maybe this could affect change.
Speaker 7: So just implementing things you learned. No, like when you're.
Speaker 10: A goalie, say the goalkeeper coach is preparing the team
Speaker 10: sometimes for the week, he only focuses on the man
Speaker 10: that's going to play on a Saturday, So the one
Speaker 10: that's not going to play fields kind of left out
Speaker 10: and sometimes think what's the point, So how can I
Speaker 10: get that person involved and get him focused, getting him
Speaker 10: thinking that I do have a chance. Also, and also
Speaker 10: the coach is prepared me just the same way he
Speaker 10: prepares the number one.
Speaker 2: Goal MLS Next Pro.
Speaker 1: Actually tell you what before we talk about the league,
Speaker 1: let me ask about High Point and the community and
Speaker 1: what you've been able to clean about Greensboro or h Greensboro,
Speaker 1: high Point, Wston Sale in that whole area of North Carolina.
Speaker 1: What's it been like to see that particular part of
Speaker 1: North Carolina there and High Point embrace what Carolina Core
Speaker 1: have been trying to accomplish. What's it been like to
Speaker 1: see the growth and the appreciation right there for Core?
Speaker 10: Nice good because the owners they shared a vision that
Speaker 10: the club was created for the community, so that was
Speaker 10: the first thing they said, It's created for the community.
Speaker 10: So us working in the community will be great for
Speaker 10: the everything Carolina Core. So we put on a lot
Speaker 10: of clinics, a lot of camps and you can see
Speaker 10: the turnouts, you can see the fun, engagement and everything.
Speaker 10: So I think it has been good up to this
Speaker 10: point so far.
Speaker 1: When you look at last season and the lessons that
Speaker 1: you think you can carry with you from orr's season
Speaker 1: in twenty four and MLS Next Pro, what do you
Speaker 1: think some of the big lessons were that you could
Speaker 1: carry with you coming into the twenty five season with
Speaker 1: you as head coach.
Speaker 10: Well, well, if you look how we ended the season,
Speaker 10: we lost out on the playoff by a point or two.
Speaker 10: So we just know that every single point is very
Speaker 10: important in order to get us to where we want
Speaker 10: to be. So there's no game that we'll go into
Speaker 10: a game and said it's okay if we lose this one,
Speaker 10: it's okay for this one. So everything is very important.
Speaker 10: Every point is important. I know, we're no longer that
Speaker 10: new team that no one knows about. No people know
Speaker 10: of Carolina course, so we can't come in and think,
Speaker 10: you know, we're just a new team. No people know
Speaker 10: about Carolina Corps. So no, we have to double that
Speaker 10: work to get to the end.
Speaker 1: And that's part of it that this is interesting because
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, you're a first year team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, they're they're they're new they you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll we'll sit there and we, you know, will
Speaker 1: either take them for granted and get bid or not
Speaker 1: taken for granted and get in for a challenge.
Speaker 2: Uh, you're you're now one of the more veteran.
Speaker 1: Clubs now in m LS next pro that that whole
Speaker 1: year one is out the door.
Speaker 2: When when you are a when.
Speaker 1: You're a father, there's always the talk of the terrible twos.
Speaker 1: You know, you have a new born, the new born
Speaker 1: is you know, he goes through that first year they're
Speaker 1: learning how to tea, learning how to walk. But then
Speaker 1: they always talk about the terrible twos where the kid
Speaker 1: just wakes up in the morning and all the all
Speaker 1: the kid does is just it doesn't matter what breakfast is,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what's going on.
Speaker 2: The kid is just crying and wailing and.
Speaker 1: Never happy and just it's like, no, I don't want
Speaker 1: to wear that, I want to wear this.
Speaker 2: You know, how do you and.
Speaker 1: How do you foresee having Carolina Core avoid the terrible
Speaker 1: twos to where it's one of those you know, you're
Speaker 1: the kids just stomping his feet and nothing's happening, and
Speaker 1: he doesn't like the wagon that he's got and he
Speaker 1: wants to, you know, go outside and play. How does
Speaker 1: Carolina Core avoid the terrible twos?
Speaker 10: Well, the beauty of let's just say, of us not
Speaker 10: making the playoffs last year is like we think, we
Speaker 10: just think we could have achieved something, So no, that
Speaker 10: hunger is there to achieve what we didn't last year,
Speaker 10: so maybe if we have made the playoffs last year,
Speaker 10: we are coming into this year thinking, oh, it's a
Speaker 10: cake walk, we can make the playoffs.
Speaker 7: But no, the hunger is there. No, we have to
Speaker 7: do something that we didn't do last year.
Speaker 10: So no, we have nothing to be complacent about or
Speaker 10: to feel we have achieved anything, because no, we want
Speaker 10: to create history by being the squad to be the
Speaker 10: first one to make the playoffs for the franchise. So
Speaker 10: the hunger is still there because we have something to
Speaker 10: play for. So I think that's how we navigate our
Speaker 10: terrible tools.
Speaker 1: How different a coach are you as a head coach
Speaker 1: from your time when you did it in Tulsa? How
Speaker 1: different an individual are you coming last time you were
Speaker 1: a head coach to this time as a head coach?
Speaker 10: Well, the person remained the same because I can't change
Speaker 10: who I am, so the person remains the same. But
Speaker 10: I've learned like lessons along the way regarding the football
Speaker 10: of how you want to do things or you don't
Speaker 10: want to do things things you want to change the person.
Speaker 10: Men's just say because I am where am I like
Speaker 10: a fun environment, I like a light environment because I
Speaker 10: think people thrive in that sort of environment, So the
Speaker 10: person will always mean the same, but the ideas will
Speaker 10: just change a little bit.
Speaker 1: When you got to come and play in the United States,
Speaker 1: you got to see a different version of Major League
Speaker 1: Soccer to where it is now to where you've got.
Speaker 1: You've got all of these different markets that are playing MLS,
Speaker 1: whether it's MLS or MLS Next Pro. What's it been
Speaker 1: like for you to see the game grow to where
Speaker 1: you are? You're in a high point, North Carolina and
Speaker 1: you have a professional franchise that you're in charge of.
Speaker 1: What's it been like for you to see the game
Speaker 1: grow from when you first came over from being a
Speaker 1: bantam to you know, be a hey, don't hey, don't
Speaker 1: think I don't know about Bradford City.
Speaker 2: Brother.
Speaker 1: Look I've got the jersey stashed away in my stack
Speaker 1: in jerseys with brad I know, I know all about.
Speaker 2: Kind of stuff. So what's it been like.
Speaker 1: What's it been like for you to see the game
Speaker 1: grow to where it's not just La New York.
Speaker 7: No, it's good.
Speaker 10: It's good because growth, I think for the age we're
Speaker 10: living in, growth is good and it's a natural process
Speaker 10: for growth. So it's good to see the game growing,
Speaker 10: and it's not only garnering interest from inside the US,
Speaker 10: but now the MLYS is making its name outside of
Speaker 10: the US and starting to become a force to be
Speaker 10: reckoned with. Uh.
Speaker 7: I've loved where the.
Speaker 10: MLYS is going because when we played, you know, we'd
Speaker 10: have to jump on a commercial flight and go to
Speaker 10: where we're going.
Speaker 7: Now they take private flights.
Speaker 10: So hey, this is why we work so hard because
Speaker 10: we want to get back to the MLS because we
Speaker 10: want to be on private flights too.
Speaker 1: But rather you know what these games is. You got
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference. Sometimes you might need one.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but it's good the growth of the game to
Speaker 10: see because I was in Tulsa and Smith Tosa, Oklahoma.
Speaker 7: It's a huge market for soccer. You soccer is big
Speaker 7: in Tosa, Oklahoma.
Speaker 10: So the game must come a very very long way,
Speaker 10: and I think it has even a far further away.
Speaker 1: When you're in high Point, are you are you recognized
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 2: Do you sit there?
Speaker 1: Can you can you go into the food line and
Speaker 1: get your shopping done? Or do you have to hand
Speaker 1: out index cards and shake hands and sit there and
Speaker 1: go hey, you know, be a season ticket holder, how
Speaker 1: are you when it comes to the public right now
Speaker 1: in high Point.
Speaker 10: Unfortunately it hasn't reached that level yet, So I'm good
Speaker 10: to go wherever, and nobody knows who I am, so
Speaker 10: we're working for it to get to that level. But
Speaker 10: right now I'm pretty good. Nobody recognizes me and I
Speaker 10: do my shopping myself nobody.
Speaker 7: I'm just a regular Joshmon.
Speaker 1: Dnavin Rigget's the new head coach for Carolina Core, hanging
Speaker 1: out with us hereal in the Morning show as he
Speaker 1: gets ready for his first training camp as being the
Speaker 1: man large and in charge for MLS next pro in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference in twenty twenty five. When it comes
Speaker 1: to your philosophy, now I know that, you know, we
Speaker 1: got to you know, we get to find out from
Speaker 1: Michael Parkhurst when he's a mentor. He takes a very
Speaker 1: holistic three hundred and sixty degree approach to everything when
Speaker 1: it comes to your philosophy and how you attack things.
Speaker 1: When someone walks in the door for the first time
Speaker 1: and they look at practice for Carolina Core, they look
Speaker 1: at the roster for Carolina Core and see the certain
Speaker 1: kind of individual that you want to have compete In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. How would you describe your philosophy to
Speaker 1: someone who hasn't seen you as a coach.
Speaker 10: Well, do you see a group of players that enjoy
Speaker 10: being around each other? So first, the environment has to
Speaker 10: be that kind of environment where it's a family environment
Speaker 10: where we look out for one another, and then we
Speaker 10: play for each other. So no, when we translate that
Speaker 10: to the field, they see hungred individuals. Every practice would
Speaker 10: be like a game because the practice is supposed to
Speaker 10: be harder than the game.
Speaker 7: As if we practice hard, we make the game easy.
Speaker 10: Because I have something I used to tell my goal
Speaker 10: is we might dive two hundred times in practice just
Speaker 10: to dive once in a game. So we just create
Speaker 10: that mentality, that philosophy that hey, we're preparing just two
Speaker 10: hundred times just to do one thing, to do it well.
Speaker 7: So with the team, it's the same thing.
Speaker 10: It's going to be a team that when you see
Speaker 10: as practice, it's going to seem like it's a real game.
Speaker 10: We're going after each other, we're pushing each other, we're
Speaker 10: driving each other. So first we create that environment where
Speaker 10: we work for each other, then we bring it on
Speaker 10: the field where we play for each other. So you're
Speaker 10: going to see a cohesive unit fighting and working.
Speaker 1: And I know at the same time, though, you're looking
Speaker 1: for a specific kind of individual to be a part
Speaker 1: of that roster that that can embody what you're looking
Speaker 1: for and have it, you know, right but right on
Speaker 1: the right, on the breast. They've got to have it here.
Speaker 1: When what's it like for you when your phone blows up? Hey,
Speaker 1: I want to come and play a high Point? I
Speaker 1: want to I want to come and play Carolina Core.
Speaker 1: What's it like having your phone blow up for players
Speaker 1: that are interested in wanting to be a part of
Speaker 1: what you're trying.
Speaker 2: To build.
Speaker 10: Now, just when the phone goes, it goes non stop.
Speaker 10: So the thing is, there are a lot of talented
Speaker 10: players out there. It's like a lot of talented players
Speaker 10: out there, But sometimes it's just beyond the talent, it's
Speaker 10: what kind of person you are, Because yes, you have
Speaker 10: the talent, but what kind of person are you? Can
Speaker 10: you fit into what we're trying.
Speaker 7: To build here?
Speaker 10: So yes, of course talent is very important in this
Speaker 10: support that we play, but also what kind of person
Speaker 10: are you? Can you get along with teammates in adversity?
Speaker 10: How do you react to adversities. So also the person
Speaker 10: that comes with the talent is very important to us,
Speaker 10: So I make sure I tell everyone that's hitting the
Speaker 10: phones up. It's like, yeah, you're going to send me
Speaker 10: the video and I'm going to look at the video
Speaker 10: and then I'm going to make a phone call and say, hey,
Speaker 10: what kind of person is this? So those two have
Speaker 10: to come together the talent as.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what's the timetable? When does the training camp
Speaker 1: officially start? When do we start hitting you and a
Speaker 1: and over the over the head to come back on
Speaker 1: the show and give us updates and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff.
Speaker 2: What's up? What's the time table?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 10: The players start arriving in market on Monday Monday. So yeah,
Speaker 10: players come in market on Monday. They arrive Monday Tuesday,
Speaker 10: and then they go through the orientation where they learn
Speaker 10: that we do the EKG and the hell stuff and
Speaker 10: paychecks and all that, and then come the twentieth of January,
Speaker 10: we hit the grown running with pre season starts officially.
Speaker 2: Good deal.
Speaker 1: Then make sure that, yes, make sure that everyone's direct
Speaker 1: deposit works.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes they won't actually coach.
Speaker 2: It's great to see you.
Speaker 1: First off, it's the first chance that we've had to
Speaker 1: catch up with you since you you've been named the
Speaker 1: big dog there at Carolina Core. Thanks for dropping by.
Speaker 1: Don't be a stranger any you know, if you're if
Speaker 1: you're bored one morning at practice and it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna crash the show. So anytime you
Speaker 1: want to crash the show and just be like live
Speaker 1: from practice, hey, yeah we get here's what's going on man,
Speaker 1: And you know, seriously, anytime you want to drop by,
Speaker 1: drop by.
Speaker 2: It's great to see my friend.
Speaker 1: We will catch up with you soon because MLS Next
Speaker 1: Pros coming up just around the corner. Donovan Ricketts, thanks
Speaker 1: for dropping by my friend. Great to see you have
Speaker 1: him safely.
Speaker 7: It was a pleasure man, for having you.
Speaker 1: Bet there goes Donovan Ricketts. That's that's kind of random.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's cool. Don't get me wrong. It's
Speaker 1: great to have Donovan Ricketts drop by. It's like, yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: you know our friends at Carolina Corp. They were like, hey,
Speaker 1: would you like to talk to the new coach, the
Speaker 1: new head coach, And we're like, well duh, So yeah,
Speaker 1: we caught up with him, and so it was great
Speaker 1: to great to have Donovan Ricketts drop by in the morning,
Speaker 1: and uh, it will not be.
Speaker 2: The first time.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna warn him now, it will not be the
Speaker 1: first time he's on the morning show. So I can
Speaker 1: still see him in the green room. You're smiling about
Speaker 1: those kinds of things.
Speaker 2: He's ready to go.
Speaker 1: So, uh, Donovan Ricketts a new head coach at Carolina
Speaker 1: Cort great trip to have him drop by and find
Speaker 1: out what's going on. All right, So we do have
Speaker 1: some developing news that broke while we were catching up
Speaker 1: with Coach Ricketts, and it has to do with the
Speaker 1: coaching staff with Atlanta United. And so we now know
Speaker 1: who is going to be with Ronnie Dila in year
Speaker 1: number one on.
Speaker 2: The coaching staff.
Speaker 1: So the technical staff has been announced for twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five and it is the following individuals. It is assistant
Speaker 1: coach Kenny Miller, goalkeeper coach Elliott Parrish, Matt Lowry and
Speaker 1: Carl Robinson remain. So that is your staff for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. Kenny Miller, most recently an assistant coach on
Speaker 1: Diala's staff at Alwada in the UAE, began his coaching
Speaker 1: career in twenty eighteen. Serving briefly as a player manager
Speaker 1: for Livingston, later an assistant on Robinson's staff with Newcastle
Speaker 1: Jets in Western Sydney, Wanderers and Australia, as well as
Speaker 1: an assistant coach with fal Kirkham Huddersfield. Twenty three year
Speaker 1: playing career for Kenny Miller nine titles, two forty nine
Speaker 1: and eighty six and seven hundred and eighty club appearances.
Speaker 2: After starting with.
Speaker 1: Hibbs Cabbage, Miller played for multiple clubs, majority of his
Speaker 1: appearances coming for Rangers and Wolves, eighteen goals in seventeen
Speaker 1: international appearances for Scotland. Elliott Parrish worked with Dila at Alwada,
Speaker 1: served as keeper coach. Previously was a keeping coach at
Speaker 1: Saint Johnston in the Premiership, where he finished his playing
Speaker 1: career in twenty three. The Towchester, England native began his
Speaker 1: career in Villa's academy. Made his professional debut for the
Speaker 1: Imps of Lincoln City in twenty eleven, represented England at
Speaker 1: the U twenties. Played for multiple clubs in England Scotland
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy eight appearances. Retired in twenty three.
Speaker 1: Matt Lowry he joined rob Valentino's staff as an assistant
Speaker 1: coach in twenty four after serving as an individual development coach.
Speaker 1: Matt has been around and Land United for quite some time.
Speaker 1: Previously held the role of Academy Director from June twenty
Speaker 1: one to April twenty four, where he oversaw soccer ops
Speaker 1: for the Academy and at Land United.
Speaker 7: Two.
Speaker 1: Originally joined the Academy for their inaugural season July twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen as head coach of the U twelves before being
Speaker 1: promoted to the U fifteen's and the U nineteens interim
Speaker 1: Atlanta United to assistant coach during the twenty twenty USL
Speaker 1: season and Carl Robinson Stays began his coaching career in
Speaker 1: Vancouver in twenty twelve as an assistant for two years
Speaker 1: before named head coach in December twenty thirteen. Three MLS
Speaker 1: Cup playoff appearances in four seasons, first ever Can champ
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, first ever appearance in the Conka CAF
Speaker 1: Hemispheric Extravaganza, semi final appearance during the sixteen seventeen Attorney
Speaker 1: went to Australia and then he came back to the
Speaker 1: US working with Wayne Rooney as an assistant at d
Speaker 1: C in twenty three, followed Rooney to Birmingham City assisted
Speaker 1: with the Wales national team UA for pro license turning
Speaker 1: it in twenty thirteen. So your assistants for Ronnie Dila,
Speaker 1: Kenny Miller, Elliott Parrish, Matt Lowry and Carl Robinson. So
Speaker 1: that is your rundown that is there with all of those.
Speaker 1: Once again, thanks to everybody. Yes and so yes, Jordan,
Speaker 1: good morning. It is snowy, snowy, snowy Atlanta. Welcome to Olive.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad that we got to Parky to talk
Speaker 1: about snow and snow activities and such. So okay, so
Speaker 1: back to where we were. When we were we were
Speaker 1: in between guests, and so I want to let mean
Speaker 1: for those of you that might have missed the sound
Speaker 1: bite in our number one, I want to go back
Speaker 1: and I'm going to play the sound bite and go
Speaker 1: back over what we were discussing involving Jesse Marsh and
Speaker 1: Team Canada. So this is once again, this is Jesse
Speaker 1: Marsh at MLS Media Day yesterday in Miami. And like
Speaker 1: I said, I'm guessing it's Miami. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was Fort Lauderdale or not, but it was in Miami.
Speaker 1: The Jesse Marsh said this about the Canadian men's national
Speaker 1: team yesterday, once again, courtesy of our friends at Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer.
Speaker 6: First, we tried to have a January camp, and the
Speaker 6: stark reality is just financially we're not in a position
Speaker 6: as a federation to support a January camp yet without
Speaker 6: having the kind of opponents.
Speaker 8: To help support that.
Speaker 6: So we put a lot of effort in the September
Speaker 6: October November time period to see if we could make
Speaker 6: it happen, and a lot of it was because like
Speaker 6: the US has used it over years, this was the
Speaker 6: blueprint for me too. With the Canadian group is trying
Speaker 6: to unearth some good young talents that are playing domestically
Speaker 6: in the CPL and with the MLS and finding a
Speaker 6: way to incorporate them into what we're trying to do
Speaker 6: with the national team and seeing if they had potential
Speaker 6: to rise in that group and be considered for what
Speaker 6: we might be able to include with the first group.
Speaker 7: So it's a bit of a.
Speaker 6: Shame that we weren't able to accomplish that this year,
Speaker 6: but I'm.
Speaker 1: Hopeful Jesse Marsh, Ladies and gentlemen, so that's Jesse Marsh
Speaker 1: yesterday at Media Day and he said that outside of
Speaker 1: that quote, he and Kevin Blue, General Secretary of Canada Soccer,
Speaker 1: have been tireless and trying to do fundraising to help
Speaker 1: elevate financially what we can achieve with the entire national
Speaker 1: team program for men and women. Canadian men, currently ranked
Speaker 1: thirty first in the world, will be competing for two
Speaker 1: trophies this year Nations League Final four March, in the
Speaker 1: Gold Cup in June and July. Marsh also reiterated Canada
Speaker 1: Soccer is also working on friendlies against sides from South America, Africa,
Speaker 1: Asia and Europe.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: Obviously, a lot of teams when we need matches, are
Speaker 1: trying to qualify for the World Cup. So you've had
Speaker 1: to be creative at kind of understanding which teams can
Speaker 1: be available, and then how to create a schedule and
Speaker 1: then still find ways to play in Canada, to play
Speaker 1: in different spots in Canada. So there are so many
Speaker 1: varial bulls. But I feel like we're in a good place.
Speaker 1: I think we're on track for some really good opponents.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: He says twenty twenty four was about getting to know
Speaker 1: his team, so much of it will be about establishing
Speaker 1: exactly how we're going to become who we want to
Speaker 1: be for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: I have a thought.
Speaker 1: I'm holding on to it till the end of this quote,
Speaker 1: and everything from incorporating a few more dual nationals to
Speaker 1: incorporating a few more individual younger talents into the player pool,
Speaker 1: and making sure that we are addressing everything we need
Speaker 1: so that by the summer of twenty six we know
Speaker 1: exactly which players we are going to need and who
Speaker 1: we are so that we can do the best we
Speaker 1: can to represent Canada in a home World Cup.
Speaker 2: That will be the most important all right, end of paragraph. Thought.
Speaker 1: So you're trying to establish exactly how you're going to
Speaker 1: become who you want to be for twenty six.
Speaker 2: How can you do that without camps?
Speaker 1: You're trying to incorporate more dual nationals and individual younger
Speaker 1: talents into the player pool. If you don't have camps
Speaker 1: and you don't have friendlies, how can you show empirical
Speaker 1: evidence to a dual national? Hey, we want you to
Speaker 1: be a part of this, be a part of what
Speaker 1: be a part of this program? Well, who are you playing? Well,
Speaker 1: we didn't play why not, because we're having problems raising
Speaker 1: money to play you know, friendlies in all of these matches.
Speaker 1: I feel like Canada continues to chase its tail.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: You didn't have camps because you didn't have the money
Speaker 1: to properly fund facilities and bring players in, et cetera.
Speaker 1: But what you did is you've had the Major League
Speaker 1: Soccer owners subsidize the hiring of a coach, Yet you
Speaker 1: don't go from the bottom up in trying to build
Speaker 1: infrastructure and player opportunities. You hire a coach and then
Speaker 1: you have nothing for the coach to do except perhaps
Speaker 1: possibly travel the planet trying to look at players and
Speaker 1: convince them to try to be a part of something
Speaker 1: when you don't have matches that they can be a
Speaker 1: part of because you don't have the money to put
Speaker 1: the matches on.
Speaker 2: Am I missing something here?
Speaker 1: This is? This is circle? This is circle logic. Here,
Speaker 1: this is circular logic. And he did make a point
Speaker 1: to talk about the Canadian Premier League and folks like
Speaker 1: Shola Jamo and Quasi Poku and the local developments such
Speaker 1: but so jesse Marsh, Jesse Marsh continues to confuse me,
Speaker 1: and so let me bring Jared in Hi, Jared, I'm
Speaker 1: confused by Jesse Marsh.
Speaker 8: I'm not as confused by Jesse Marsh as I am
Speaker 8: just perpetually disappointed with the way Canada is right now.
Speaker 8: Does it make sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's he's hopeful funds will be available for
Speaker 1: future January camps. There weren't any camps, So how can
Speaker 1: you bring in players for a new coach who's been
Speaker 1: subsidized I imagine the staff's been subsidized as well by
Speaker 1: Major League Soccer. He's got the corporate you know, he's
Speaker 1: got the he's got the tenured professorship, as Bart says,
Speaker 1: but you.
Speaker 2: Ain't got nothing going on.
Speaker 1: And it's like it it makes your it makes my
Speaker 1: head hurt where you're you're trying to sit there and
Speaker 1: you you bring and you bring in a manager, but
Speaker 1: you don't pay for the infrastructure.
Speaker 2: So the manager can have for things, have things to do.
Speaker 1: So anyway, it was it was one of those head
Speaker 1: splitting was a head splitting moment yesterday and I'm like, seriously,
Speaker 1: come on.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's and to Bart's point, like the problem isn't
Speaker 8: Jesse so much as Canada, Like Jesse is going to
Speaker 8: shoot off of the mouth. He's he's just just what
Speaker 8: he's gonna do. I think we've established that about him
Speaker 8: from when he, you know, kind of shot from the
Speaker 8: hip about US soccer. I won't say that he completely
Speaker 8: obliterated his chances of ever managing this country, because yeah,
Speaker 8: I think it's I think it's foolish to close doors
Speaker 8: like that. It's petty and foolish to close doors like that.
Speaker 8: But man, he made it. Gon't make it interesting in
Speaker 8: the future for him to come here with some of
Speaker 8: the stuff he said about US soccer, some of the truths,
Speaker 8: but not like is it a meritocracy. Nepotism is not dead,
Speaker 8: Let's put it that way. Yeah, Canada is just like
Speaker 8: Canada is its own chaotic problem. And no matter what
Speaker 8: Marsh wants to say or has to say, or how
Speaker 8: he has this manut, he has a tough job at
Speaker 8: edit it. He's being asked to kind of take spare
Speaker 8: parts and put together something that works. And yeah, there
Speaker 8: are some really good parts there, Like we know Canada
Speaker 8: has some amazing pieces, but when they can't even fund
Speaker 8: it January at Camp, Yeah, there are there are deeply
Speaker 8: deeply seated problems.
Speaker 1: Yes, speaking of teams in Major League Soccer in Canada. Apparently,
Speaker 1: according to Tom Bugger over at GMS, Robin Frazier is
Speaker 1: going to be the next head coach for Toronto FCA.
Speaker 1: So Robin Fraser, not Jim Curtin, not not not Jim
Speaker 1: Curtin or anybody else. Apparently it's going to be Robin
Speaker 1: Fraser that is going to be named the new head
Speaker 1: coach in Toronto.
Speaker 8: Sounds like I don't know if you've talked. I know
Speaker 8: I haven't really been in the last week or two
Speaker 8: over the holidays, but it sounds like Jim Curtin is
Speaker 8: not going to take any job right now. He's just
Speaker 8: gonna lay it out. That said, you also have the
Speaker 8: Vancouver job as the last job opening.
Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 8: And Giovanni seven, I said, was the other finalist for
Speaker 8: Toronto and as a finalist for Vancouver.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, and this is and we're going to talk to
Speaker 1: and we talked to Nico yesterday. I will I will
Speaker 1: say this that there is a there's a lot of
Speaker 1: angst north of the border. And you know that I
Speaker 1: that I do some pundit segments north of the border.
Speaker 1: There is a lot of angst north of the border
Speaker 1: that the White Caps will not exist north of the
Speaker 1: border when they get their new owner, that they will
Speaker 1: be down here in the state. Don't know, but everybody's like,
Speaker 1: we don't think they're going to stay here in Vancouver.
Speaker 2: Could be San Antonio, could be Vegas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so I mean it's yeah. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of angst going on right now in Vancouver. So
Speaker 1: they're going to hire so they so they're going to
Speaker 1: hire a coach in Vancouver. Vanny Startini should have been
Speaker 1: protected at all costs, but apparently he wasn't. The whole
Speaker 1: estate tax issue thing was what is one of the
Speaker 1: big stumbling blocks for the current ownership group that's looking
Speaker 1: to find a buyer because they invested very little in
Speaker 1: purchasing the white Caps. The value of the white Caps
Speaker 1: obviously is nine figures to the left of the decimal,
Speaker 1: and so the family was concerned about a state taxes
Speaker 1: and everything that would come down come raining down upon
Speaker 1: the family once the owner and the man at the
Speaker 1: top of the family pyramid would pass away, and so
Speaker 1: that's why they put the team on the market. They
Speaker 1: didn't want to have to worry about a state taxes
Speaker 1: coming up down the line for the family of the
Speaker 1: ownership group.
Speaker 8: So to to Bard's point, we should absolutely keep the
Speaker 8: name white Caps wherever they go. Let's take this back
Speaker 8: to the NBA style where we don't change the name,
Speaker 8: like Utah Jazz Jazz about the state of Utah, the
Speaker 8: Lakers originally coming from Minnesota. Let's just keep the names
Speaker 8: because I want to confuse the next generation the same
Speaker 8: way I was confused, and I'm like, what about what
Speaker 8: about Utah screams Dave Brubeck exactly? And what about Los
Speaker 8: Angeles screams Lakes? Because I was confused aby all this.
Speaker 2: So just keep the name the same, yes, like.
Speaker 8: Do the white Caps, but do it in like what's
Speaker 8: the least white capped here, Topeka, Kansas.
Speaker 2: Oh, there you go, the Yeah, the Topeka white Caps.
Speaker 2: Uh you know, it would be.
Speaker 8: Like the Manhattan Kansas white Caps, a little big.
Speaker 2: Apple, the little big Apple Caps.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just like just have like like like Manhattan Kansas
Speaker 8: gets the white Caps and they just have to keep
Speaker 8: the name.
Speaker 2: That's and they play at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, it becomes a fortress of American soccer.
Speaker 5: YEA.
Speaker 8: Even like it to the point where like college only
Speaker 8: college football fans can explain why it's a fortress. Yeah,
Speaker 8: even even soccer fans can't explain it. They have to
Speaker 8: call in college football people to explain why it's fortress
Speaker 8: and why when it happens. Bill Schnyder will somehow get
Speaker 8: hired to coach Kansas State one more time.
Speaker 2: Yes, he absolutely will.
Speaker 1: And you know, like in the year twenty one thirty eight,
Speaker 1: Kansas will so yes, well, you know it'll be they're
Speaker 1: looking for they're looking for a head coach to replace
Speaker 1: two hundred and twelve year old Chris Cleman. And who
Speaker 1: do they Oh, yeah, we'll get We'll get uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get. Uh, we'll get We'll get Bill Snyder. Can
Speaker 1: we do that, Yeah we can. Technology is amazing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's just to get his get his head preserved
Speaker 8: in a jar like Futurama. Just have Bill Snyder on
Speaker 8: the sideline, just drawing up, like drawing up like Zoo
Speaker 8: and duo.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely true.
Speaker 1: Let's say Nashville has signed to keep her Javier Valdez
Speaker 1: through the twenty twenty five season. Twenty one year old
Speaker 1: Dominican international and olympian claimed in December via the end
Speaker 1: of the year waivers. Territory rights Let's see, all right,
Speaker 1: let me see if I can understand this. Signed options
Speaker 1: for twenty section twenty seven claimed in the end of
Speaker 1: your waivers. Originally signed with Houston as a homegrown in
Speaker 1: twenty two after the Dynamo acquired his homegrown territory rights
Speaker 1: from both the Red Bulls and NYCFC.
Speaker 8: The most MLS sentence that I've heard this morning.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely true, I've grown rights from two teams.
Speaker 1: Yes, homegrown territory rights from both Red Bulls and NYC's
Speaker 1: signed by the Dynamo as a homegrown after they acquired
Speaker 1: his territory rights from two clubs. Keeper made fifty regular
Speaker 1: season and two playoffs starts for Dynamo Dose since debuting
Speaker 1: with the club in twenty two. This sounds like at
Speaker 1: the moment, it sounds like how your Valdez is going
Speaker 1: to be perhaps spending time in Huntsville.
Speaker 8: Only until they decide. So let's let's be honest, They're
Speaker 8: going to decide at some point that you know, Joe
Speaker 8: Willis has got to be up for uh god, we
Speaker 8: got to provide Joe Willis some competition the way we
Speaker 8: did with Panico. Yes, that is like he gets some
Speaker 8: starts and then people are like, oh, man, maybe we
Speaker 8: should start to consider Joe Willis, and Joe Willis just
Speaker 8: survives another like career assassination attempt.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely true, someone.
Speaker 8: Else to call him, but like, yeah, for like man,
Speaker 8: for what was it like the last two or three years, John,
Speaker 8: Like it was like Panico would start games and like
Speaker 8: maybe he should be the one who starts. Yeah, it's
Speaker 8: like Gary Smith was just trying to find a way
Speaker 8: to start him more consistently and then it just never
Speaker 8: suck and it was just trying so hard to make
Speaker 8: fetch happen.
Speaker 2: Gonna I'm gonna give Elliot a shot.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make sure that Elliott gets his opportunities and
Speaker 1: gets his reps.
Speaker 2: Could we think he's ninety minutes fit looking forward to
Speaker 2: it as a goalkeeper?
Speaker 8: I hope he's ninety minutes fit.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, can stand there for ninety minutes? Uh.
Speaker 1: Johnny Klein signs with the Charleston Battery this morning, And
Speaker 1: apparently Messi and friends have unveiled the information on their
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five preseason tour, as did Atlanta. So we'll
Speaker 1: get into Atlanta coming up in a bit. So here's
Speaker 1: how it is. January eighteenth, they played Club America at
Speaker 1: Allegiant in Vegas. Eleven days later, and this is what
Speaker 1: this is what Nino was getting into. Yesterday they're playing
Speaker 1: University Universitario di de Portes in the Estadio Monumental and Lima, Peru.
Speaker 1: So they're going from Vegas to Peru, flying from there
Speaker 1: to play Sporting San Miguelito at the Estadio RAML. Fernandez
Speaker 1: Goudieers in Panama City, Panama. Six days later, they're playing
Speaker 1: Olympia at San Pedro Sula, and then they're going to
Speaker 1: play the Purple Team on the fourteenth at the Pirate
Speaker 1: Ship at Raymond James. So it is Vegas, Peru, Panama, Honduras, Tampa.
Speaker 1: That's what Messi and friends are going to be doing.
Speaker 8: What you're describing as a plot to an Ocean's like
Speaker 8: Ocean's fourteen movie.
Speaker 1: There you go, you get you get Danny Ocean, and
Speaker 1: you get Brad Pitt and them trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: It's like, all right, we're gonna we're gonna take all
Speaker 1: the casinos in all those countries and we're gonna make
Speaker 1: sure that that happens. Atlanta United announced their pre season
Speaker 1: and they all before you came on, Jared. We went
Speaker 1: through the coaching staff for twenty twenty four with Ronnie
Speaker 1: Dila as well. So the twenty twenty five pre season
Speaker 1: schedule for Atlanta United at Fort Finley January twenty fifth
Speaker 1: to take on Chattanooga FC. Then February first, they go
Speaker 1: to Protective to take on Birmingham Legion. Then it is
Speaker 1: matches in Bradenton and i MG against the Revs and
Speaker 1: FC Cincinnati, and then it is a closed match at
Speaker 1: the Children's South Care Atlanta training Ground in Marietta taking
Speaker 1: on FCD on February fifteenth. So not quite Vegas, Lima,
Speaker 1: Panama City, San Pedro Sula, Tampa, but for Atlanta, it
Speaker 1: is Chattanooga, Birmingham IMG, IMG and the Children's South Care
Speaker 1: of Atlanta training Ground. So that's the pre season schedule
Speaker 1: for Atlanta United this season for Ronnie Diland.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you're getting I think you're you're kind of you're
Speaker 8: hitting the your thre in the needle here where you
Speaker 8: are doing your local matches, where you're reaching out to
Speaker 8: the teams that are nearby you. Chattanooga, Birmingham, your closest
Speaker 8: major cities. They have clubs and Chattanooga is a major
Speaker 8: city in this sense.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 8: The only other one I would love to see them
Speaker 8: do in the future is to get down to Statesboro. Oh,
Speaker 8: build that and build that connection. But then otherwise you're
Speaker 8: scrimmaging with n LS teams, which is what you should be.
Speaker 8: You should be challenging yourself in putting yourself through your
Speaker 8: paces pre season, which granted, dude, they'll they'll be put
Speaker 8: through their paces. Like, all I can think about is
Speaker 8: the uh Bobby Boswell quote where he talked about playing
Speaker 8: under tap time. He's like, man, there were like multiple
Speaker 8: complaints to the Players Association about how much we had
Speaker 8: to train and run and how much we had to work, Like, yeah,
Speaker 8: was about to come back, Dila is not. It's tricky
Speaker 8: whenever you discuss this because people still have the association
Speaker 8: with Gabriel Heinz and the way things. But I was
Speaker 8: gonna run them like he has fitness goals for them. Yeah,
Speaker 8: they have to be in a certain shape, they have
Speaker 8: to be able to do certain things, to be able
Speaker 8: to play a certain amount and to be able to
Speaker 8: which is funny to me because one of my favorite
Speaker 8: players from those Celtic teams was telling Ruggish. Uh, the
Speaker 8: Wizard of Oz, who's this Australian ten. It was very
Speaker 8: gold dangerous and would pop up in cup games and
Speaker 8: just score these amazing goals. Tom Raggish, knife to his throat,
Speaker 8: could not play ninety minutes, just couldn't play minutes to
Speaker 8: give you. He would give you the most scintillating seventy
Speaker 8: minutes you could imagine. But yeah, now that gas tank
Speaker 8: does not feel that high. This is a high performance vehicle.
Speaker 8: We're not putting regular unlettered in this and we're not
Speaker 8: expecting three hundred miles on a tank. Yes, but yeah,
Speaker 8: they'll they'll be. They will have to uh, they'll have
Speaker 8: me in jape for man.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely true.
Speaker 1: Now, there there has been uh, there has been some
Speaker 1: talk in the in the twitch pitch and other places.
Speaker 1: Yesterday Major League Soccer actually came out with a mea
Speaker 1: call book and they apologized, apologize they did for prematurely
Speaker 1: posting an article. It could be prematurely, we don't know,
Speaker 1: but they posted an article linking a signing from Celtic
Speaker 1: to Atlanta United. Long rumored, long wished for that kind
Speaker 1: of a thing, and so Major League Soccer posted an
Speaker 1: article after Atlanta had signed, came in Tagashi and brought
Speaker 1: Togashi sign in on a free. The folks at Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer had brought up that Fudahashi Son had in
Speaker 1: fact been signed, which was an error, and so then
Speaker 1: Major League Soccer had to apologize for posting that article.
Speaker 1: And what I wanted to discuss with you with that
Speaker 1: specifically is not the boot, not necessarily the boo boo
Speaker 1: by Major League Soccer, but the window into Celtic as
Speaker 1: a negotiator then going back into how things were and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. So, uh, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to remind folks about them and their their negotiating efforts
Speaker 1: in the past.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're just kind of a pain to deal with,
Speaker 8: it seems. But it seem I would would qualify this
Speaker 8: also by it seems like you have that existing relationship,
Speaker 8: which should make it easier. MLS full loving the damn
Speaker 8: article as a single entity.
Speaker 2: Yes, the most arguably.
Speaker 8: The most annoying thing they've done in a while. It's
Speaker 8: just so ham handed and stupid. I understand you have
Speaker 8: like articles in the chamber ready to go, but jesus
Speaker 8: those of them, so you have the existing relationship that
Speaker 8: garth worked with them to get Gig in here. One
Speaker 8: one piece of that is missing is that Gigi had
Speaker 8: mentioned that it was pro Spokanegger who came over and
Speaker 8: you know, made the personal visit to you know, sway
Speaker 8: him to come to Atlanta. I don't know who does
Speaker 8: that now. I don't know if that's Chris or if
Speaker 8: it's Arthur or somebody. He goes over there to kind
Speaker 8: of talk to Kyogo see about making that happen. Celtic
Speaker 8: is fifteen points clear. I think they lost to Rangers
Speaker 8: a week ago and then Rangers proceeded to draw two
Speaker 8: straight games because they're kind of inepty right now, Like
Speaker 8: they poured all of their eggs into let's beat Celtic
Speaker 8: three nail and it was like a hilarious thing to watch.
Speaker 8: But look, they're fifteen points clear. They're going for Champions League.
Speaker 8: The trick for them is replacing him because you have
Speaker 8: you have Audamida, who's a twenty twenty three as Northern
Speaker 8: Irish international, came from Norwich for the EFL. That goes
Speaker 8: among you, Yeah, the Championship goes. They have been long
Speaker 8: linked to Mattias feast Garden I think is how he's
Speaker 8: pronounced his name, who's up at Broadby very well thought of,
Speaker 8: like twenty to twenty three year old striker. If that
Speaker 8: move starts picking up steam, I'm kind of watching one
Speaker 8: with the other, you know what I mean. You look
Speaker 8: at if East Garden starts picking up steam to Celtic,
Speaker 8: then that makes me think, okay, well they're getting ready
Speaker 8: to replace a striker. Adam might have started the last
Speaker 8: two games for them, by the way, he came off
Speaker 8: the bench for thirty minutes the other day and to
Speaker 8: no win, didn't score. In fact, the other Japanese players did.
Speaker 8: Who will, Buddy, I will happily take Dyson. If you
Speaker 8: want to shift your focus to like Japanese Tito cool,
Speaker 8: do it because that's kind of.
Speaker 2: What he is.
Speaker 8: He just runs really hard for ninety minutes. He will
Speaker 8: press like an absolute demon. And now and like now
Speaker 8: he's like consistently learned how to finish. But he kind
Speaker 8: of has that Tito quality where like he creates more
Speaker 8: chances than you expect because of his speed and his quickness.
Speaker 8: He doesn't finish all of them, obviously, but he created
Speaker 8: but he creates so many just by being so freaking athletic.
Speaker 8: I would happily take that and if you'll want to
Speaker 8: ship focus and go get a striker elsewhere. Also, he's younger.
Speaker 8: I think he's like twenty six, twenty seven, But I'm
Speaker 8: kind of watching the because he's Garden Rumor or anyone
Speaker 8: else who might have bompt up for Rumor to get
Speaker 8: an idea of is this something Atlanta Saltic can get
Speaker 8: across the line, because like, yeah, posting the article's kind
Speaker 8: of dumb, like it happened the other day, but everyone
Speaker 8: here's professionals. I don't think that's going to kill any
Speaker 8: thing out right, And if it does, then I feel
Speaker 8: if that's if that's the thing that breaks it, then
Speaker 8: there was already stuff to break it. Like, I don't
Speaker 8: think that's the one thing to break it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: For someone who has not seen Fudo Hashi san play,
Speaker 1: what does he bring to the table.
Speaker 8: He's more complete striker. Look, Yakamakis was starting at Celtic
Speaker 8: it's Pias Kyogo is hurt, and then when he started
Speaker 8: back it was his starting job to lose scores and
Speaker 8: cup games. Has a penchant for popping up in derbys
Speaker 8: and Champions League games. But smaller than Yakamakis but more complete,
Speaker 8: very good pressing, very good counter pressing, good movement in
Speaker 8: the box, can score with either foot. Just he's he is.
Speaker 8: He's a finisher, like he's an athletic finisher. He has that,
Speaker 8: he has that thing where he just needs one touch
Speaker 8: to get in to space. And I think the game
Speaker 8: slows down for in those moments when it's one B
Speaker 8: one or one B two and he just's He has
Speaker 8: not produced the same numbers under Brendan Rodgers as he
Speaker 8: did under a Pastacoglu. But again, I just like out
Speaker 8: here running the it's like but that to an extent,
Speaker 8: some of that I think is like it's the hell
Speaker 8: Mummy thing man Like it's like Graham Harrell put up
Speaker 8: numbers in Texas Tech system YEP. I mean sometimes it's
Speaker 8: system sometimes it's system related. So yeah, we'll see. I think.
Speaker 8: I think if Atlanta wants to get it across the line,
Speaker 8: they will. This is this is therapy words. I think,
Speaker 8: I feel, I know this is I think, I don't
Speaker 8: feel or know anything. I think if Atlanta wants to
Speaker 8: get him in here and get it across the line,
Speaker 8: he's thirty years old now. I think he just turned thirty.
Speaker 8: Like this earlier this month. Yeah, where he was about
Speaker 8: to just turn thirty. You get three or four good
Speaker 8: years out of him at that point. I think his
Speaker 8: movement in the box, like his little quick movements, can
Speaker 8: be very dangerous doing what Ronnie Diler wants out of
Speaker 8: a striker. Do they get across the line? I hope
Speaker 8: so selfishly, But if you don't, then I still think
Speaker 8: your shopping ten to fifteen million for somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, we had mentioned that earlier this week about
Speaker 1: a shopping spree that involved to Luca and possibly fifteen
Speaker 1: million dollars as well as chasing after a striker.
Speaker 2: But you know, obviously we'll take it, take a peek
Speaker 2: on that, and a player comes from Portugal for eight
Speaker 2: and like sit up in the Apertura and everybody to
Speaker 2: Lucas like ooh, and so then now that player is
Speaker 2: allegedly linked in one article in South in Central America,
Speaker 2: which was then after the first of the year, brought
Speaker 2: back up by an MLS aggregator that has less than
Speaker 2: three thousand followers on the two hundred and eighty character
Speaker 2: app the Mexico newspaper had like seventy eight thousand to
Speaker 2: eighty thousand followers, and they put out that piece of information,
Speaker 2: but then once again aggregated north of the border for
Speaker 2: something less than three thousand followers. So once again this
Speaker 2: is where we remind you here in the month of January,
Speaker 2: on a snowy, wintry Friday in the southeastern United States.
Speaker 2: Check your sources.
Speaker 1: Check your sources, Check your sources, check your followers.
Speaker 2: You have your Tier A, you have your tier S,
Speaker 2: you have your tears.
Speaker 1: Z sort them out, keep an eye on them, follow
Speaker 1: the numbers, file the information away, but don't jump on
Speaker 1: it immediately as gospel and or fact that something is
Speaker 1: going to happen involving an individual.
Speaker 8: Can I give you like another little bit of a
Speaker 8: little bit of thing to.
Speaker 2: Keep an eye on with pez with please do so.
Speaker 8: I want you to pay attention to dates with Kyogo.
Speaker 8: Celtic plays in Champions League this month, so let's see league. Sorry,
Speaker 8: mechanical keyboard is allowed at all? Hell yeah, brother, this
Speaker 8: thing is this thing is loud. But they play on
Speaker 8: the twenty second in the twenty ninth they have young
Speaker 8: boys Austin Villa. Celtic sitting in twenty first place in
Speaker 8: all the Champions League. The new Champions League. Set up
Speaker 8: whatever the hell it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, be in the top twenty four and get it.
Speaker 1: Get out of get out of the group stage.
Speaker 8: Roper. You would enjoy this keyboard. All the keys are
Speaker 8: done in the black speech of Mordor from Lord.
Speaker 7: Of the Rings.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 8: This is this is the most This is my favorite keyboard.
Speaker 8: I digress. They play two games on the twenty second,
Speaker 8: the twenty ninth and Champions League. I don't know whether
Speaker 8: their future is in Champions League, but they'll get two
Speaker 8: more Champions League games out of him before he would
Speaker 8: have to leave on the thirty first. The window opens here,
Speaker 8: so if we don't see more rumors popping up outside
Speaker 8: of this, I'm kind of keeping an eye on this
Speaker 8: timeline because he can play two more Champions Leagues, including
Speaker 8: the Senville Nation on the twenty ninth, and hop on
Speaker 8: a plane comes stateside.
Speaker 1: And also Ropes is wanting to know about Patrick Waya.
Speaker 1: Patrick Waya. If you go to his two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty character app still lists him at Minnesota United. If
Speaker 1: you go to his ig, you go to his Graham,
Speaker 1: you go to his insta, he's listed as being Atlanta United.
Speaker 1: So there has been there's a lot of Minnesota United
Speaker 1: photographs and he is listed himself. I'm guessing he is
Speaker 1: in charge of his Instagram account as being Atlanta United,
Speaker 1: so you know, following six hundred and forty on the
Speaker 1: IG forty one posts just under ninety four hundred followers.
Speaker 1: But Patrick Wya is listing himself as or someone attached
Speaker 1: to Patrick Waya's social media or part of it is
Speaker 1: listing him as being tied to and associated with it
Speaker 1: Lane United, So that is, uh, that's where it is.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen anything officially involving the two's, any official
Speaker 1: announcements anything like that. Haven't seen anything official. There was
Speaker 1: there was one post I want to say that was
Speaker 1: a part of the the Instagram stories. I think that's
Speaker 1: where it was, where he was wearing a in Atlanta
Speaker 1: United warm up jersey. So, like I said, nothing officially official,
Speaker 1: but he is listing at Lane United on his Insta
Speaker 1: as his location. Where on the two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: he's still listing Minnesota United, So who knows.
Speaker 2: Maybe someone's in charge of one part of his social
Speaker 2: media not the other. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Kind of barts like he's kind of convinced he's not
Speaker 1: actually with it Lande n I just forcing the issue.
Speaker 2: Like, who was it that was? Who was it it
Speaker 2: was on trade deadline day?
Speaker 1: Was it a bombyan who basically camped out in front
Speaker 1: of the club that he wanted to be traded to
Speaker 1: and never got traded to him?
Speaker 2: And he had the microphones in his pap.
Speaker 8: I'm just thinking about the time that one dude in
Speaker 8: high school lied about being scouted by like two pack
Speaker 8: twelve teams and did like the hat ceremony.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they weren't action.
Speaker 8: They were like both these cools were like that's great, but.
Speaker 1: We didn't offer you Yeah, yeah, no, we had did
Speaker 1: the big offensive lineman. I want to say, yeah, that
Speaker 1: he was that he was lined up there logging all right,
Speaker 1: So Abby wants to know if anybody's having problems logging
Speaker 1: into the two hundred and eighty character app on their computer.
Speaker 1: I just never log off of it, so.
Speaker 8: I don't. But also it's kind of a it's kind
Speaker 8: of a crapshoot up anyway, considering the people who were,
Speaker 8: you know, going, Do you have a skeleton crow keeping
Speaker 8: it going?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 8: So when things happen, they just take longer to get fixed.
Speaker 1: Yes, So Uh, apparently Blooper is having a snow day
Speaker 1: up at the battery and he's by himself.
Speaker 2: And he's running in and around the field. So uh,
Speaker 2: there we go with with Blooper. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's just it's weird. Uh Sean dish out
Speaker 1: at Everton. And I know that Ropes and Tom Russo
Speaker 1: and our other resident Evertonians have have mentioned this and
Speaker 1: they're looking for hopefully King Carla to come back. But
Speaker 1: when you are a when you when you're a manager
Speaker 1: and you got new owners and the uh, the new owners,
Speaker 1: they want to.
Speaker 2: Have a talk with you. It's f it's f a
Speaker 2: cup weekend, by the.
Speaker 1: Way, So the juice bot would be a little different
Speaker 1: than traditionally what we would do on a Friday. But
Speaker 1: if you if you go to your new bosses Jared,
Speaker 1: and you sit there and you say, no, I think
Speaker 1: I've done. I can't take this team any further. Literally,
Speaker 1: your new owners walk in the door, they want to
Speaker 1: have a talk with you, and you're you're in a
Speaker 1: relegation fight again.
Speaker 2: And your new.
Speaker 1: Owners are asking you about what you think about the
Speaker 1: roster and the club and then the team and everything,
Speaker 1: and then they ask about the about what you're accomplishing,
Speaker 1: and he's like, no, I don't think I can take
Speaker 1: this team any higher.
Speaker 2: What does that say? What does that say.
Speaker 1: About Sean Diysh or does it say more about the
Speaker 1: freaking group where you're kind of like, you know, so
Speaker 1: I think I've maxed it out here. You're not interested
Speaker 1: in keeping a giar, I guess, but you're just kind
Speaker 1: of like, you know, I think I think I've maxed
Speaker 1: things out. What what the hell is that? Do you
Speaker 1: go into a meeting and have these kinds of discussions?
Speaker 1: I'm just asking, uh, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 8: Know, man, Like it's it's I can't tell if that's
Speaker 8: a I can't do anymore, or if it's like a
Speaker 8: subtle like that isn't good enough for me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of thing.
Speaker 8: But you kind of went into this thing. It's like
Speaker 8: an alternate universe of office space where he went to
Speaker 8: talk to the bobs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Tom's like, I'm not sure how to feel about dish
Speaker 1: Parbie wants to thank him for getting out of the way,
Speaker 1: part wants to be pissed. And that's kind of what
Speaker 1: I was getting at. It's like, you know, did do
Speaker 1: you want somebody around. Who's that honest? Do you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: And apparently, uh, there was supposed to be there was
Speaker 1: an opportunity for Ashley Young to play against his kid
Speaker 1: in the f A Cup and uh they didn't get
Speaker 1: to play against one another, but they still got to
Speaker 1: kind of hang out after the match. And I don't
Speaker 1: know who was more pissed off about it, but yeah,
Speaker 1: Everton was in the f A Cup and uh uh
Speaker 1: the had you had a chance they won right after
Speaker 1: I know, to nil.
Speaker 8: Like you got you got like the you got the
Speaker 8: new manager bounce within like hours. That's amazing.
Speaker 2: Uh huh yeah.
Speaker 1: And it was Layton Baines, Layton bains one of your
Speaker 1: one of your play one of your senior players. It
Speaker 1: was like, oh, you can't, you can't win with this group. Well,
Speaker 1: I sure as hell can. And you beat Peterborough in
Speaker 1: the in the f A Cup.
Speaker 8: Well, to be fair, I will never forget when uh,
Speaker 8: oh man what what Aberdeen?
Speaker 7: Crean?
Speaker 8: What was his real name?
Speaker 2: Oh? Uh freaking Jim what's his face? Yes? Uh?
Speaker 8: Who managed Aberdeen? After steeing Glass basically like walked in.
Speaker 8: Norm was like, oh I can fix his defense and
Speaker 8: in like in like two weeks, yeah, or or less
Speaker 8: than that or something like that, and then proceeded to
Speaker 8: like give up the same amount of goals.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 8: The reason you would give the reason they were giving
Speaker 8: up goals under glass is because they played on them.
Speaker 8: They were trying to like play on the front foot
Speaker 8: and leaving the back exposed a bit while trying to
Speaker 8: score a bunch of goals.
Speaker 2: But Jim good by the way, Jim.
Speaker 8: Goodwin like was giving up the equal number of goals
Speaker 8: while basically playing a shell defense. Yeah, he not only
Speaker 8: did not fix the he did not fix the not
Speaker 8: fix the defense, and also it just became infinitely less
Speaker 8: entertaining to watch.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh my god, so uh oh so oh. Abby
Speaker 1: just posted what apparently is happening Abby. It might just
Speaker 1: be that X doesn't like it. Abby posts today a
Speaker 1: link in the twitch pitch about trying to log onto
Speaker 1: the two hundred and eighty character app and it just
Speaker 1: kind of flashed at her like it was not interested.
Speaker 1: So but hey, it it ropes his Peterburgs at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the League one table.
Speaker 2: Yes, that may be true.
Speaker 1: Let me let me live my my romanticism of Layton
Speaker 1: Bains being a badass manager he's like the new Dunk.
Speaker 1: He's like the new Duncan Ferguson by the way, that's
Speaker 1: uh Layton Bains could have zero conscience and launch from
Speaker 1: thirty and get into it, get into a scrap and
Speaker 1: not think about it. He's get he'll get into a
Speaker 1: scrap and does not think about it at all. Uh So, jarreed,
Speaker 1: before you get out of here, what else is on
Speaker 1: your mind before the weekend other than bread, bread, milk
Speaker 1: and water.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, bread sandwiches and milk sandwiches. Bread and milk
Speaker 8: sandwiches were doing it. But I'll keep in weather il
Speaker 8: Celtics and see what they do, see what Yogo does. Yes,
Speaker 8: thank you, and any other rumors that pop up. I'm
Speaker 8: sure we'll get some other rumors before it's also done. Again,
Speaker 8: the window is an open till like I think the
Speaker 8: thirty first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the month and you'll get more.
Speaker 8: Of these rumors and then yeah, I want to see
Speaker 8: what happens with Vancouver, not just the moving thing, but
Speaker 8: like is it so what I say, because Jesus you
Speaker 8: all have the idea of Giovanni managing them and in
Speaker 8: tormenting Portland and putting Portland in the torture wreck is
Speaker 8: very real.
Speaker 1: Glad leave you with that, all right? So there goes
Speaker 1: Jared and Jared drops it by and it's always good
Speaker 1: to catch up with Jared, all right. I want to
Speaker 1: watch gossip Rumor in window?
Speaker 2: What to watch? Where to watch it? How to watch it?
Speaker 1: First off, thanks to Carolina Core, Donovan Ricketts for putting
Speaker 1: up with our silliness and for Michael Parker's for putting
Speaker 1: up with our silliness too. It's always great to catch
Speaker 1: up with them. And like I said, Carolina Core first
Speaker 1: one in the barn for training camps, all these kinds
Speaker 1: of things.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 1: Manchester United set to rival PSG for Kavichka Kavar at Skellia.
Speaker 1: According to La Keep, Liverpool could also move for Cava
Speaker 1: at Scellia Ifnopoli allow him to leave this month. That's
Speaker 1: from our friends at the Athletic David Moyes looks like
Speaker 1: he's going to be offered the chance to return. I
Speaker 1: think that they are dickering over the length. Is it
Speaker 1: going to be just a short term deal through the
Speaker 1: end of the year to try to keep them up
Speaker 1: or is it going to be longer than that? West
Speaker 1: Ham have asked to be kept informed on the availability
Speaker 1: of Marcus Rashford would be interested in taking him on
Speaker 1: loan once again, but they ain't paying for the full thing.
Speaker 1: Ac Milan and Como also interested in signing Rashford for
Speaker 1: the remainder of the season. According to Jean Luca Demarcio,
Speaker 1: oh A Ropes Rowdy wanted nothing to do with it
Speaker 1: out in Where's my blanket?
Speaker 2: Where's my heater?
Speaker 1: Arsenal cannot afford the British record transfer feet it would
Speaker 1: take to sign Alexander Esach from Newcastle this summer, while
Speaker 1: Alexander's and jing Co could leave the Gunners this month.
Speaker 1: That's four letter paper. Take the information at your own peril.
Speaker 1: Four Bournemouth stars are attracting the interest from the Premier
Speaker 1: League other clubs. Center back Elia Zabarney, left back Milosh
Speaker 1: kirksh Ford, Antoine Semeno Spain, defender Dean Houston, all being
Speaker 1: monitored by Chelsea, Newcastle and Liverpool. Manchester United have joined
Speaker 1: Arsenal in the race to sign Brian and Bumo from Brentford.
Speaker 1: Manchester City working on a deal to sign eighteen year
Speaker 1: old Brazilian defender Vitor Race from Paul Maris it is
Speaker 1: not an either or involving race and the other purchase options.
Speaker 1: They want to purchase them both. Forrest have inquired on
Speaker 1: a loan deal for you to Uve about Douglas Louise,
Speaker 1: but he's also on the radar for United City. In
Speaker 1: Fulham four letter paper, Southampton keeper Aaron Ramsdale being tracked
Speaker 1: by Newcastle three letter paper. Dortmund have made an approach
Speaker 1: for Manchester City's defender Max Allan. For Bridge Cio Romano
Speaker 1: Liverpool and England midfielder Harvey Elliott attracting interests from Brighton
Speaker 1: and Barusha. Dortmund from Lyle Thomas Crystal Palace is Tyreek.
Speaker 1: Mitchell is wanted by several Premier League clubs. England Fallback
Speaker 1: also being scouted by Athletico Madrid. Villa have entered negotiations
Speaker 1: with League de club Cohn for French eighteen year old
Speaker 1: forward TDM Gomese. Youve have made Ronald Arujo their primary
Speaker 1: target as they aimed to sign a new defender this month.
Speaker 1: Fulham received an improved offer of over twenty million pounds
Speaker 1: from Paul Maris for Andris Pereira. Four letter paper. West
Speaker 1: Ham have been offered the opportunity to sign Jonathan David
Speaker 1: from leal Born with considering a loan move for Paraguay
Speaker 1: and eld Yukito striker Alex Arse. So that's where a gossip,
Speaker 1: rumer and innuendo are also other quick movement here. NYC
Speaker 1: has signed Jacob Aroyave to a homegrown contract. RSL transferred
Speaker 1: Matt Crooks to Whole City of the EFL Championship. It
Speaker 1: is now officially official. Toronto has appointed Robin Fraser as
Speaker 1: head coach.
Speaker 2: I get to play this? Does it work? Is this?
Speaker 2: Or did I reassign the name of the thing? Okay? Anyway?
Speaker 2: Uh da da da da da da da da.
Speaker 1: Robin Fraser new head coach in Toronto, So that has happened.
Speaker 1: Tormenta have signed Moldovan defender and the Tony Propelita. You
Speaker 1: may remember Prepolita. Those of you hardcores. You might remember
Speaker 1: Propealita from his time at Chattanooga FC last season. So
Speaker 1: he moved from Chattanooga FC down to South Georgia Tormenta.
Speaker 1: Nolan Norris at FC Dallas called into the USU twenty
Speaker 1: men's national team training camp, third call up of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five captain the US as the team qualified in
Speaker 1: twenty four for the twenty five U twenty World Cup
Speaker 1: to be played in San Diego, Chile. Also on the
Speaker 1: board this morning, we'd mentioned what's going on with GMS
Speaker 1: and reporting about Robin Fraser led the club when he
Speaker 1: was in Colorado at the top of the Western Conference
Speaker 1: in twenty one, second straight year they made the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Departed the club before the end of the twenty three season.
Speaker 1: Fraser interviewed by at minimum both the Revs and the
Speaker 1: Earthquakes and SO Toronto. Since Greg Vanny left in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: Chris Armis, Bob Bradley, Terry Dunfield, John Herdman, and now
Speaker 1: Robin Fraser. According to Tom Bogert, club aim to have
Speaker 1: a period of stability moving forward, as seen by the
Speaker 1: comprehensive rebuild happening under GM Jason Hernandez. Following the departure
Speaker 1: President Bill Manning. Manning led deals to sign Bradley and
Speaker 1: Signior Bernardeski, among others. Savadeesa was a part of the
Speaker 1: Final two in Nashville over the summer and via to
Speaker 1: lead this winner. Interviewed with San Jose and New England,
Speaker 1: among others. White Caps last one out savades one of
Speaker 1: the finalists. One of the finalists in Vancouver. Toronto FC
Speaker 1: is also in the process of finalizing a deal to
Speaker 1: sun Canadian international Forteo Corbeanu from Granada on loan. Finalizing
Speaker 1: a deal to transfer Thiago Andrage to an Asian club.
Speaker 1: TFC traded with San Diego FC to pick up Andragi
Speaker 1: in the expansion draft and the sources saying the fee
Speaker 1: you're going to be around five hundred thousand. In his place,
Speaker 1: Corbiano is going to arrive Granada Digital first report of
Speaker 1: the signing was closed. The deals a one year loan
Speaker 1: with a purchase option at a million dollars. Caden Glover
Speaker 1: for All Caps is going to join the U twenty
Speaker 1: US youth national team for their domestic training in Wells.
Speaker 2: From the tenth to the nineteenth. So you have that
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see what other quick news notes that
Speaker 1: da da da da da da might be going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks like Coco Kataskia might be in talks with Pumas.
Speaker 1: Portland Timbers finalizing a deal to sign international midfielder shout
Speaker 1: Orties from Independent into de Viger so to they'll bring
Speaker 1: him up. We mentioned the Rione deal. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: see what other tracks and things have happened. Okay, so
Speaker 1: DC has signed Kim Jun Hang from Jean Bukjundai Motors,
Speaker 1: signing into a contract through twenty seven, option for twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Fifteen clean sheets, thirty four appearances in the k League One.
Speaker 1: Yet to make an appearance for the South Korean senior
Speaker 1: national team despite being named the bench Fire have bid
Speaker 1: for a share Winger Guyton Perrin sources a toll GMS
Speaker 1: for Britzie Ormano, first to report it. He is spent
Speaker 1: his entire career in France. Five goals, four assists, eleven
Speaker 1: hundred minutes in League ON this season, seven and ten
Speaker 1: in League DU last season. We've mentioned the waving of
Speaker 1: Randall ley Aalen Elliott Panico briefly in Nashville, so keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that. The deal for Orties from Independentia
Speaker 1: Devije is going to be around a million and a
Speaker 1: half dollars. He'll the salary cap as a TAM signing.
Speaker 1: Johanna called her own first reported that info as well.
Speaker 1: We mentioned Lastlie Lapelainen moving from Montreal to Columbus also
Speaker 1: on the board.
Speaker 2: Let's get you into.
Speaker 1: What to watch, where to watch it, how to watch
Speaker 1: it on your Friday and maybe your Saturday, because you
Speaker 1: might still be in the house. So let's see what
Speaker 1: to watch, where to watch it, how to watch it.
Speaker 1: You got English, You've got FA Cup going on, and
Speaker 1: so Friday. LEGA on doubleheader, on bing and being an Espaniol,
Speaker 1: you can get b in, you can get newester l
Speaker 1: a cdo for the fans, are budding, Nino Torres and
Speaker 1: Gold TV, all of that stuff.
Speaker 2: You can get that at Finantes.
Speaker 1: FNTZ dot co slash Soccer down here helps out Finantes,
Speaker 1: helps out us, and it helps you with your true
Speaker 1: degenerate nature of watching things. Lego doubleheader not in Monaco.
Speaker 1: O'sher and lel This afternoon, being and being an Espaniol.
Speaker 1: ESPN two has the Bundesliga Dortmund and Bayer levercus In
Speaker 1: at two thirty. F S two has the legal we
Speaker 1: neither condonne endorse nor promote.
Speaker 2: At noon.
Speaker 1: Deportes is simul casting the Bundesliga match. Fox deportis simul
Speaker 1: casting the Saudi match two to NA doubleheader. The Klausura
Speaker 1: begins tonight. Cadettao America at eight Tijuana Te Luca at ten.
Speaker 1: FA Cup is at two forty Wickham and Portsmouth Villa
Speaker 1: west Ham is at three. Bundesliga is on the Plus.
Speaker 1: Spanish Lalliga Ryo Vaicano and Celtadevigo is at three o'clock.
Speaker 1: That is also on the Plus Paramount Plus Syria Lazzio
Speaker 1: Como two forty five Arena Soccer at eight with Empire
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, also Syria. Now we mentioned the Syria
Speaker 1: matchup and then on Vick's at ten o'clock at is
Speaker 1: Masatlon and Juarez.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, League uh On being triple header.
Speaker 1: League DA starts off their day so being being an
Speaker 1: Espanol have Liguda and Liga Italian Syria nine o'clock on
Speaker 1: CBS Sports Network. Before that Syria, Feminina, Juventus and sant
Speaker 1: Doria FS two A forty five, Saudi being simulcast and
Speaker 1: being an Espanol ESPN Deportise it is a quadruple header
Speaker 1: of Laaliga eight ten, fifteen, twelve thirty and three Fox
Speaker 1: Deportees simulcasting Syria noon and two forty five plus De
Speaker 1: Saudi Gold, TV Atletico Ugnon Universit dot Co tolcause it's seven.
Speaker 1: Telemundo has Liga MX at eight, with Guadalajara in Santos
Speaker 1: Laguna two to NA cruse Asul and at LASS at
Speaker 1: ten o'clock. Universo Guadalajara Santos Laguna at eight, Univision cruz
Speaker 1: Asul and at Lass at ten. ESPN Plus Belgian Pro
Speaker 1: League at noon, air of VIZ twelve forty and three
Speaker 1: FA Cup starting at seven o'clock in the morning on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and there's an ish ton of games three, six, nine, twelve,
Speaker 1: fourteen at seven o'clock, followed by two at twelve forty
Speaker 1: and three at one o'clock. Bundesliga five matches at nine
Speaker 1: twenty on Saturday morning, and it is one at twelve
Speaker 1: twenty with Bunching Gladbeck in Bayron Munich, LaLiga quadruple header,
Speaker 1: Lalliga two at twelve twenty on the Plus, Malaga and
Speaker 1: Deportiva La Coruna. Women's once again Feminina nine o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning on Saturday, come on in Fiordentina, League two,
Speaker 1: Siria and Scottish Premiership on Paramount Plus on Saturday. Peacock
Speaker 1: has Guadalajara Santos Laguna, so that should get you through
Speaker 1: your snow day once again. Remember next week, we're at
Speaker 1: the beach, so it'll be Pastel's behind me, but we'll
Speaker 1: still do the show. Abe Gordon will be joining us
Speaker 1: to bat lead off on Monday to talk about things.
Speaker 1: They'll be broadcasting live from the Children's South Cavertlanta training
Speaker 1: Ground by the way, so we're gonna do Abe segment
Speaker 1: early and he'll be on in two places at once. Literally,
Speaker 1: he will be on Children's South Caretlanta training ground live
Speaker 1: while he's on with us on tape on Monday. And
Speaker 1: Bart's like busy in things and so he's got stuff
Speaker 1: to do business wise, so Bart will not be joining us.
Speaker 2: Umharumph.
Speaker 1: Fa Cup does definitely need a golosso show ropes. You
Speaker 1: are absolutely correct, and we would be the ones to
Speaker 1: do it, so that would be fun. So let me
Speaker 1: say hi to everybody before we get out of here
Speaker 1: and see if I missed everybody. So morning four card,
Speaker 1: four card got like four inches. Morning Michael, Morning Abby,
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to go back and see.
Speaker 2: If I missed anybody.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's morning Pars, Morning Alex, Morning Michael, Morning Abby.
Speaker 1: I saw Jordan had popped in this morning morning Ricky.
Speaker 1: Ricky was out playing in the snow. Let's see, so
Speaker 1: morning Abbey, Morning d Graham, Morning Andy King. Terminal objectives
Speaker 1: or enabling objectives, Absolutely true. Let's see morning Jordan. Snow's
Speaker 1: note joke. He drove to the garage of his gym
Speaker 1: so it's not exposed to the elements. Absolutely fantastic idea.
Speaker 1: Bart wants a game scheduled at home around April twenty
Speaker 1: six to April thirty so he can attend, I guess
Speaker 1: in high Point, so that'd be kind of cool. Let's see.
Speaker 2: So, morning Jordan, Morning Ropes, Morning Unk. So let's see.
Speaker 1: And I know that you guys in the twitch pitch
Speaker 1: were discussing Kyogo and the article and all of that stuff.
Speaker 1: Alex is a part of the Premier League discussion this
Speaker 1: morning and all of all that. Let's see. That's a
Speaker 1: morning Bart, Morning Jordan, Morning Tom.
Speaker 2: Let's see what was see.
Speaker 1: Let's say there's Ropes, and there's Alex, Dean Graham, the keyboard, Bart, Abby, Alex, Ropes,
Speaker 1: all of you guys talking. This is fantastic. I love
Speaker 1: it when you guys do this. Yes, so Ropes, glad
Speaker 1: to see you as well.
Speaker 2: All right, so.
Speaker 1: That's it for another week, and thanks for putting up
Speaker 1: with us and going over because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: information that we had to get into once again thanks
Speaker 1: to Donovan Riggot's up at Carolina Core, thanks to Michael Parkers,
Speaker 1: thanks to Jared, thanks to all of y'all. And so
Speaker 1: what that means is is that we come back here
Speaker 1: nine oh five.
Speaker 2: Just be safe. Please, just be safe. That's all I want.
Speaker 2: Be safe.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your time, enjoy the snow, enjoy your animals frolicking
Speaker 1: about if this is what they wish to do. And
Speaker 1: may your power stay on the entire time because it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be dicey tonight and early tomorrow as we
Speaker 1: try to make our way out of town to go
Speaker 1: to the beach, so we'll see what happens there. Once again,
Speaker 1: couldn't do this with without all of yous and thanks
Speaker 1: for being a part of this, especially on a snow
Speaker 1: day where pictures are very pretty. But we've got to
Speaker 1: stay safe and not be dangerous out there. So that'll
Speaker 1: do it nine oh five again tomorrow or tomorrow, wow,
Speaker 1: on Monday morning, we'll be doing it from the beach,
Speaker 1: So play it safe. Everybody moved your platyall, since that
Speaker 1: means it is a Friday. We play ourselves out this way.
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Speaker 11: us questions, and our papers sent electric shocks just threw
Speaker 11: our body like a candle prod out in the warehouse.
Speaker 11: The trucks kept banging into the docks, not even thinking
Speaker 11: about stopping. Our frail bodies were strapped.
Speaker 2: To the chairs, and our chairs.
Speaker 8: Were chained to the desks.
Speaker 11: Our please for justice were ignored, and the end seemed near.
Speaker 11: But we busted our slave drivers, little bitty balls. We've
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Speaker 11: Friday Fridayday.
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