Speaker 1: Bassis dropped on a new week of the Morning show
Speaker 1: here at the SDH Network. John here, you there, and
Speaker 1: I've got kind of an elongated opening kickoff. But my
Speaker 1: first question, well, how was your weekend? Was a weekend
Speaker 1: where some MLS teams played, some didn't. We had some news,
Speaker 1: we had a national team play on several levels on
Speaker 1: and off the field. Results obviously not what a lot
Speaker 1: of folks were looking for, especially against rival Bark Keeler
Speaker 1: from the Soccer for USPL that you'll be joining us
Speaker 1: in about ten minutes to break all that stuff down.
Speaker 1: And the reason that Bart is early this morning, other
Speaker 1: than the US men's national team playing this past weekend,
Speaker 1: Pochettino possibly probably maybe perhaps being announced named appointed, dots
Speaker 1: cross t's dotted that kind of thing is that, like
Speaker 1: I said, a couple different levels where we had national
Speaker 1: team play. Then with all of the stuff on the field,
Speaker 1: we had Alex Morgan playing her last match this past weekend.
Speaker 1: It literally was like snap notice. As you noticed on
Speaker 1: the show, when those of you who are as intrepid listeners, watchers, viewers, reporters,
Speaker 1: producers as you are finding Alex Morgan's retirement announcement twenty
Speaker 1: six thousand showed up at Snapdragon, by the way, very
Speaker 1: very cool on short notice to see Alex Morgan's last match.
Speaker 1: And she did. And I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: a soccer thing or a you know, just a leaving
Speaker 1: the sport kind of a deal where you take your
Speaker 1: boots off in wrestling, and I mean this in both
Speaker 1: the entertainment aspect and in the sport aspect. When you
Speaker 1: play your last match, or when you have your last
Speaker 1: match on the mat, you take your shoes off and
Speaker 1: you just leave them there in the center of the
Speaker 1: ring you walk away. Alex Morgan did the same thing,
Speaker 1: except she took her cleats with her. That might have
Speaker 1: been kind of messy it Snapdragon, if folks are trying
Speaker 1: to play and you know, it's the thirteenth minute and
Speaker 1: folks are trying to play around her cleats and things
Speaker 1: like that. But she took her cleats with her. So
Speaker 1: it's Alex Morgan, it is US M and T with
Speaker 1: mikey Veris, and it is also reffing down here, and
Speaker 1: reffing down here is going to be opening kickoff because
Speaker 1: this past weekend we had a couple of angry coaches
Speaker 1: for a couple of different reasons. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: now that we've got the full rants of two coaches
Speaker 1: about particular things that happened in the game this past weekend,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna play them for you. And like I said,
Speaker 1: they're complete rants. Traditionally, you know me, I want things
Speaker 1: to be done in their full context. And the two
Speaker 1: rants that we have they're long. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: they are long rants, but they are worth your time
Speaker 1: to hear the whole thing. Our number one we'll hear
Speaker 1: from Caleb Porter. Our number two. We're hoping knock on
Speaker 1: Wood to start our number two often. This is the
Speaker 1: other reason that Bart's at nine point fifteen that if
Speaker 1: technology can work for us, we will be able to
Speaker 1: catch up with some folks about European soccer history. If
Speaker 1: it works, it'll be cool. So hoping that can happen
Speaker 1: at ten o'clock for a couple of minutes, then an hour.
Speaker 1: Number two we've got the other coaching rant from the weekend,
Speaker 1: and we've got an update on Chelsea and the ownership
Speaker 1: group there seemingly infighting and trying to figure out, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not leaving, you're leaving. I'm not leaving you're leaving.
Speaker 1: I'm not leaving, and we might know the why. The
Speaker 1: other coaches rant comes from the MLS activity on the
Speaker 1: weekend and it's something that we've talked about and it
Speaker 1: really came to the four this past weekend with one
Speaker 1: of the matches that occurred, so we'll have that information
Speaker 1: as well. So it is Bart with reffing down here,
Speaker 1: the USM and t Alex Morgan and anything else on
Speaker 1: his mind. Ten o'clock. If technology works, then we get
Speaker 1: to catch up on some of your history. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna reveal it because I tried to put it in
Speaker 1: the two hundred and eighty character app announcement. That's the
Speaker 1: other thing this morning, but it wouldn't fit in everything else.
Speaker 1: And then our number two once again, if technology works,
Speaker 1: it'll be a cool moment out of Europe plus Chelsea,
Speaker 1: plus more rules and coach rants, and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: the two's and the big weekend that they had as well.
Speaker 1: So that's the show for the morning once again. Thanks
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Speaker 1: of opening Kickoff has to do with the two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty character app. And I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys are having the same problems that I am. So
Speaker 1: when I try and post that, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a show coming up at nine oh
Speaker 1: five Eastern, and I do it on my phone, and
Speaker 1: like I said, it could be just the fortress that
Speaker 1: we have here at Office HD and the Dome of
Speaker 1: Silence doesn't allow anything to be written in the two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty character app. But I tried this morning
Speaker 1: to post the update of yeah, you know, we're gonn
Speaker 1: to be up at nine oh five Eastern here on
Speaker 1: the network, and this is what we're going to talk about.
Speaker 1: And every once in a while I'll try it and
Speaker 1: the message will fail, and then I have to come
Speaker 1: down here, warm up the computer and get the computer
Speaker 1: to say it. As opposed to the mobile device. Every
Speaker 1: single time recently that I have attempted to post an
Speaker 1: update to the mobile device, the two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: character app kind of looks at me and goes, bruh,
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. It's really not gonna work. And I
Speaker 1: didn't know if you guys had the same problems, So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I was just checking to see if
Speaker 1: there was an issue that you guys had as well
Speaker 1: trying to post things to the two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: character app. And I mean that just like in any
Speaker 1: general sense, not just like now or in the eight
Speaker 1: o'clock hour Eastern time. I mean like period when you
Speaker 1: post thing, are you having problems every single time I
Speaker 1: try mobile device versus computer Here in the office of HDNIS,
Speaker 1: I always seem to have a problem, and I didn't
Speaker 1: know if it was just me, which it probably is,
Speaker 1: my phone, which it may be, or the two one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty character app but someone with a higher
Speaker 1: pay grade probably has a better thought on that than
Speaker 1: I do. Okay, just it's just checking, So let me
Speaker 1: know on the twitch pitch, all right. The other element
Speaker 1: of opening kickoff leads us into Bart at nine point
Speaker 1: fifteen or and probably close. So Bart's going to be
Speaker 1: listening to this too. We're gonna get into refing down
Speaker 1: here this morning. And there were instances or incidents in
Speaker 1: the New England All Caps match from the weekend that
Speaker 1: drew the ire of an individual, and there were two
Speaker 1: specific instances, one that had to do with a handball
Speaker 1: call and to the new substitution rule. So after the
Speaker 1: match is over, and so Bart gets to listen to
Speaker 1: this rant as a part of his open so he
Speaker 1: can have his coffee and react in facial expressions, we're
Speaker 1: all going to listen to this together. To two draw
Speaker 1: was how it ended up with the Revs and All
Speaker 1: Caps on the weekend. And this is courtesy of our
Speaker 1: friends at Blazing Musket. Blazing Musket found the audio from
Speaker 1: the beginning of the Caleb Porter postmatch press conference where
Speaker 1: he was upset about two things and decided to let
Speaker 1: the center f have it with not just both barrels,
Speaker 1: but any barrel that he could find. And I mean
Speaker 1: like he probably went to like Niagara Falls or a rodeo,
Speaker 1: grabbed some barrels, brought them with him and posted them
Speaker 1: there in the press conference. That's how mad Caleb Porter was.
Speaker 1: So here is Caleb Porter, and I will bring in Bart,
Speaker 1: considering it is nine fifteen and I want to be punctual,
Speaker 1: so I just want to say, Hi, Bart, what's in
Speaker 1: the mug.
Speaker 2: Earl Gray tea with honey?
Speaker 3: Because John, we're getting over a battle with COVID apparently.
Speaker 1: Oh no, No, that's that's that's that's not good. That's
Speaker 1: that's that's a that's a illegal.
Speaker 2: You can't have that illegal.
Speaker 1: Yes, So, uh so Bart is now here, so Bart
Speaker 1: will be able to listen to the rant like the
Speaker 1: rest of us. And we're going to listen together to
Speaker 1: Caleb Porter because he was mad after the two two
Speaker 1: draw and talked about two instances. And we come back
Speaker 1: from the Caleb Porter rant, then we'll talk about the
Speaker 1: two instances and what you thought about, Uh, the two
Speaker 1: instances themselves, Like I said, one has to do with
Speaker 1: a handball that wasn't called. The other has to do
Speaker 1: with our new substitution rule in Major League Soccer. So
Speaker 1: after the match, Caleb Porter was slightly angry about a
Speaker 1: lot of things. And so here's Caleb Porter feeling he
Speaker 1: was screwed and let everybody know about it, especially centerth
Speaker 1: Timothy Ford.
Speaker 4: We're gonna win a lot of games and play that way.
Speaker 5: We're very disappointed. It's one hundred percent penalty kick. It's
Speaker 5: I don't know how you look honestly at the screen
Speaker 5: and decide not to give a penalty. It is a
Speaker 5: complete joke. It's a travesty, and there needs to be
Speaker 5: some accountability for that decision because we lost two points
Speaker 5: because of that decision. And we have literally had that
Speaker 5: same thing happen to us three different times where the
Speaker 5: official has been sent to the monitor and there's a
Speaker 5: clear penalty and the official.
Speaker 4: Doesn't call it.
Speaker 3: What is happening.
Speaker 5: It is mind boggling, mind boggling that he doesn't call
Speaker 5: that a penalty. We are the only team in the
Speaker 5: league that hasn't had one penalty.
Speaker 3: What is happening.
Speaker 5: I've never seen anything like it. For me, all I
Speaker 5: can say is a complete coward. The referee was a
Speaker 5: complete coward in that moment, complete coward, and it's a
Speaker 5: Travis Ky.
Speaker 2: He shouldn't officiate.
Speaker 5: He cost our players two points today, two really important points.
Speaker 5: And I'm not gonna stand for it. I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: stand for it. I don't care if I get fined.
Speaker 5: I don't care what don Garber says.
Speaker 1: What Donn Garver.
Speaker 5: Needs to do is look at that situation, look at
Speaker 5: the official in that situation, and needs to hold this
Speaker 5: official accountable. And then the second part of the joke
Speaker 5: show clown show was giving us a penalty for not
Speaker 5: getting out of the game. Luca was coming out of
Speaker 5: the game because he was injured. But we want guys
Speaker 5: to literally he couldn't sprint me faster to get out
Speaker 5: of the game. He couldn't get out of the game
Speaker 5: any faster. Initial initially he walked, yes, but then he
Speaker 5: sprinted out of the game as fast as he could.
Speaker 5: The referee told me that it was fourteen seconds. Fourteen
Speaker 5: seconds have took him to get out of the game.
Speaker 5: So because he's four seconds late because he can't spread
Speaker 5: any faster. They penalize us and we end up giving
Speaker 5: away a goal during that penalty. The game isn't meant
Speaker 5: The game isn't meant to be played this way. It's
Speaker 5: an absolute joke. You're supposed to, as an official, use
Speaker 5: your discretion in those moments. He did not use his
Speaker 5: discretion in either of those moments. He missed a clear penalty.
Speaker 5: If he looks at the monitor and decides that's not
Speaker 5: a penalty, he should not be official in this league.
Speaker 5: He's not confident enough to be an official in this
Speaker 5: league if he chooses in his discretion to penalize Luca
Speaker 5: Langoni when he's sprinting for forty yards to get off
Speaker 5: the field. He's trying to get off the field. It
Speaker 5: was fourteen seconds. The referees are supposed to use their distrettion.
Speaker 5: He was walking initially because he was injured. This this
Speaker 5: is a joke, and so it's impossible to talk about
Speaker 5: the game without talking about those two two moments.
Speaker 3: For the official, Yo, could did you get an explanation
Speaker 3: on that possible handball?
Speaker 4: Did you say what it was or was.
Speaker 5: It he He said that his arm was in a
Speaker 5: natural position. So I don't I don't know about you guys,
Speaker 5: but I don't see guys running like this or jumping
Speaker 5: like this. If the I he handled the ball right here.
Speaker 5: Everybody in the whole stadium saw the replay.
Speaker 4: Everybody.
Speaker 5: If that's not a penalty, that's not a handball, I
Speaker 5: don't know what is.
Speaker 4: But the fact that he actually.
Speaker 5: Looked at it and decided that wasn't he's got no boss.
Speaker 5: You can't be in this job if you're a coward,
Speaker 5: if you're not contingent. I liked him as a person.
Speaker 5: I think he's a good guy. But at the end
Speaker 5: of the day, this is our livelihood, this is these
Speaker 5: players' livelihood. We have to have a standard. And even
Speaker 5: though he's a good guy, he clearly showed today he
Speaker 5: should not be officiating in the league with those decisions.
Speaker 5: That's a win, that's a win for us.
Speaker 2: Then he took away, So Hi, Bart, good morning.
Speaker 1: I thought it would be important to run the entire thing.
Speaker 1: And I know that folks are sitting there going, Man,
Speaker 1: that was long, but yeah, it was. And it was
Speaker 1: two issues that I wanted to bring up on purpose
Speaker 1: because I don't like to do sound bites in that situation.
Speaker 1: I don't like to do that. And so the two
Speaker 1: elements that Caleb Porter brought up was a handball in
Speaker 1: where it looked like it was basically a jump ball.
Speaker 1: And in this case, and what I'll do is I
Speaker 1: will post the link to the Blazing Musket articles where
Speaker 1: they have the screen caps and things like that, so
Speaker 1: folks can see if they didn't see the match itself,
Speaker 1: look like it was a jump ball. And you have
Speaker 1: a bit of jostling and it is a part and
Speaker 1: as the body goes up, then you have that contact
Speaker 1: and it kind of clatters around shoulder and shoulder then
Speaker 1: goes away. Then the other element is the ten second
Speaker 1: new rule about get your butt up and get off
Speaker 1: the field or you're going to play down a man.
Speaker 1: Saint Louis ends up being down a man after it
Speaker 1: was judged that Luca Langoni did not leave in a
Speaker 1: timely fashion. You're playing shorthanded. It's basically a power play
Speaker 1: for Saint Louis, and Louis cours to tie it to
Speaker 1: with about twenty to go, Caleb Porter's hot which one
Speaker 1: you want to start with?
Speaker 3: Well, let's start with the substitution, because I think this
Speaker 3: is a little more.
Speaker 2: Cut and dry.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 3: Look, I think coaches need to realize that referees this
Speaker 3: year specifically or not going to be playing around because
Speaker 3: these are the rules they've been given. Right, you have
Speaker 3: ten seconds to get off the field. You can exit
Speaker 3: the field at the closest point. You do not have
Speaker 3: to go from one corner flag to the center line.
Speaker 3: You can go off the field wherever you feel is
Speaker 3: the closest point for you. And if you are truly injured,
Speaker 3: then you need to stay down and get that medical
Speaker 3: help and then go off the field for that. So
Speaker 3: I don't really have a whole lot of sympathy in
Speaker 3: that situation, to be quite honest, because you know, if
Speaker 3: the player was truly injured, then he should have come
Speaker 3: off when he when medical with medical help right, training
Speaker 3: staff should have been out there, or he could have
Speaker 3: gone off the closest you know, exit at the closest
Speaker 3: point of the field, and I wouldn't have had this issue.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I just don't have a whole lot of
Speaker 3: sympathy for that. And I'll be honest John, going into
Speaker 3: the next one, I don't have a whole lot of
Speaker 3: sympathy for Caleb Porter period you got hired and paid
Speaker 3: a decent amount of money to make a team good,
Speaker 3: and y'all are worse than Atlanta United, which takes a
Speaker 3: lot of you know, that's a lot to accomplish it
Speaker 3: this series.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, So that was point number one,
Speaker 1: the exit which created a game time goal and it
Speaker 1: stayed to too. The other incident has to do with
Speaker 1: a judicating handball once again, and in this particular instance,
Speaker 1: once again, it looked like it basically it was a joust,
Speaker 1: the jousting moment where you have two players going up,
Speaker 1: one on each side and you have contact made and
Speaker 1: Caleb Porter was of the opinion that in the contact
Speaker 1: and as the ball is coming down that it should
Speaker 1: have been a handball call on Saint Louis and it
Speaker 1: was not. Or for Caleb Porter once again was upset.
Speaker 1: Once again, go over, if you would please, the idea
Speaker 1: of handball and the the allowances that are given center
Speaker 1: Refs when it comes to adjudicating a handball in today's game.
Speaker 3: Well, the first thing we're looking at here, specifically is
Speaker 3: does the ball touch a non playable part of the body.
Speaker 2: And it does, right, I think it's very clear that
Speaker 2: it touches somewhere above the elbow.
Speaker 1: At least it was right in here. You know, basically,
Speaker 1: you know, shoulder rotator cup is headed down towards the bice.
Speaker 3: And it definitely touched you know, what I would consider
Speaker 3: an illegal part of the body, right, Like, you're not
Speaker 3: supposed to be able to touch the ball with that
Speaker 3: part of your body. But you know, was it deliberate?
Speaker 3: I don't think it was deliberate. So there's the first
Speaker 3: thing that we're checking off us. The ball does not
Speaker 3: you know, the hand does not moved towards the ball
Speaker 3: or anything. The hand is, however, outside of the natural
Speaker 3: silhouette of the body, right he has made his body
Speaker 3: bigger by putting his hand up. So I think there
Speaker 3: is some legitimate question as to why this was not
Speaker 3: deemed a handball in the penalty area. But we're also
Speaker 3: looking at was there Was it a consequence of the
Speaker 3: The wording is justifiable by the player's body movement for.
Speaker 2: That specific.
Speaker 3: And that's where I think we get into the gray
Speaker 3: area here, John, is the player is jumping at you know,
Speaker 3: to seemingly head the ball. We all know that in
Speaker 3: those situations your arms are going to come up you know,
Speaker 3: you're going to in some way, shape or form, be
Speaker 3: using your arms to get more both height and protection.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: And I think the other thing that's not really talked
Speaker 3: about in the laws of the game that but that
Speaker 3: we do talk about a little bit referee training is
Speaker 3: the idea of deflection or the amount of time you
Speaker 3: have to react to that. And it wasn't like it
Speaker 3: was I don't know, kicked directly into his arm, right.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like Kyle Hebert was thinking about it then, right,
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's like there was. It was it was
Speaker 1: a natural reaction to try to contest for a ball
Speaker 1: that was elevated. So Hebert is trying to jump up
Speaker 1: toward the ball to make contact and he's second to
Speaker 1: make cause.
Speaker 3: So I think there's a legitimate gripe. But I think
Speaker 3: for him to make this to be some sort of
Speaker 3: like you know, the referee should never referee again, I
Speaker 3: think is a very foolish thing. I mean, I would
Speaker 3: argue that Caleb Porter doesn't need to be coaching in
Speaker 3: this league again, because the man hasn't been able to
Speaker 3: get a team into the playoffs and god knows how
Speaker 3: many years. So you know, this is one of those
Speaker 3: things where where I understand the frustration, but this type
Speaker 3: of reaction is completely it's just unacceptable from Caleb. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is not a as clear cut as he thinks
Speaker 3: it is, especially given the fact that it's more of
Speaker 3: a deflection from you know, it's not like this was
Speaker 3: a long kick that was hidd into his arm. It
Speaker 3: was definitely something that was a boom boom play. That said,
Speaker 3: had this been given a penalty kick, I don't think
Speaker 3: that heab could have been super upset with being penalized
Speaker 3: for that because, again, to quote the laws of the game,
Speaker 3: by having their hand slash arm in such a position,
Speaker 3: the player takes a risk of their hand or arm
Speaker 3: being hit by the ball and being penalized. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a risk, and in this situation, I don't feel
Speaker 3: like it was worth penalizing. But had he been penalized,
Speaker 3: I don't think there would have been too much that
Speaker 3: he could have said that would have saved him. I
Speaker 3: don't think that it's I think both instance says I,
Speaker 3: especially the substitution thing.
Speaker 2: Sorry, that's just the rules.
Speaker 1: Them's the rules is what.
Speaker 3: Them is the rules, And if you are injured, then
Speaker 3: you need to make that clearer to the referee or
Speaker 3: something like something, you know, be like, hey, I can't
Speaker 3: you know, leave, but he again, you can leave at
Speaker 3: any point in the field that's whatever closest to you
Speaker 3: and then goes get medical attention once you're off the field.
Speaker 1: And the the rant toward Timothy Ford. While a lot
Speaker 1: of managers in Major League Soccer in front office folks,
Speaker 1: I'm sure have rants about Timothy Ford totally Atlanta being one,
Speaker 1: the Revs being one because Timothy Ford called three first
Speaker 1: half penalties against the Revs in a game back in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two against NYCFC. Carlos Heil did remember that
Speaker 1: when he was asked about it, you know, post match,
Speaker 1: about just the game in general. But how large and like,
Speaker 1: we don't really have a base of operations here when
Speaker 1: it comes to figuring out length of fines and such.
Speaker 1: But how big a fine do you think, How big
Speaker 1: an envelope is Caleb Porter going to be getting from
Speaker 1: the league office in New York? How big a fine
Speaker 1: do you think he gets? And does he get? Does
Speaker 1: he get suspended here? Do you have to make an
Speaker 1: example of Caleb Porter for the words that he said.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's a suspension, but I do think
Speaker 3: there's a sizable fine. You know, I don't have off
Speaker 3: the top of my head what a what a benchmark
Speaker 3: would be for another coach getting fined for referee comments.
Speaker 2: But I mean he'll get fine. It'll probably be a
Speaker 2: little heftier because.
Speaker 3: Of the length and the language use. It wasn't profane,
Speaker 3: but it was very strong. Yes, But you know, again,
Speaker 3: the other thing is I would agree that Tim Ford
Speaker 3: has had been part of some very contentious moments in
Speaker 3: MLS this year or even in a year's past, So
Speaker 3: you know, he he probably is a referee who needs
Speaker 3: a little bit more coaching and a little bit maybe
Speaker 3: pay attention more in the uh you know, pre season
Speaker 3: modules talking about how do we be a little bit
Speaker 3: more consistent across referees across all matches. But you know,
Speaker 3: I again, I don't think these two instances are are
Speaker 3: something that is an egregious flaw by his referee.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's let's put the the reffing down here.
Speaker 1: Aside as you sample your earl gray uh, the UH,
Speaker 1: the the US national teams plural they are they are active.
Speaker 1: Right now. You have some Hawaiian te action going on.
Speaker 1: You have some M and T action going on. Let's
Speaker 1: start with They'll start with the good stuff. Alex Morgan
Speaker 1: yesterday retires. She does. So it was short notice. I
Speaker 1: mean I think it was Alix got to post it
Speaker 1: all and he's like, hey, guys, look over here by
Speaker 1: the way. Yeah, And so the retirement, the retirement notice
Speaker 1: comes out on social media, turns out more than short notice.
Speaker 1: Twenty six thousand plus end up at Snapdragon to see
Speaker 1: her final match. She gets subbed out in the thirteenth minute,
Speaker 1: she gets a PK saved. Hey, read the room, Come on,
Speaker 1: it's her last match. So Alex Morgan leaves in the
Speaker 1: thirteenth minute, very very cool moment where she takes off
Speaker 1: her boots and she walks off. When you think of
Speaker 1: Alex Morgan and her place in American soccer, whether it's
Speaker 1: national league, what have you, when I mentioned Alex Morgan,
Speaker 1: what comes to.
Speaker 3: Mind, Well, I think Alex Morgan as a player has
Speaker 3: been someone who has just been kind of as she
Speaker 3: has set the standard for what US women's national team
Speaker 3: players have to be and how they conduct themselves for.
Speaker 2: You know, twelve years now. And I think that that
Speaker 2: kind of.
Speaker 3: Ability to say this is as this is where you
Speaker 3: need to be as a national team player. Has been
Speaker 3: integral to the team winning back to back World Cups
Speaker 3: to during her time. Maybe she wasn't part of it,
Speaker 3: but during her time winning two gold medals, winning another
Speaker 3: medal as well, she has been part of the greatest
Speaker 3: period of success in US woman's national team history. You know,
Speaker 3: she's also been part of some failures. You know, she
Speaker 3: was part of that twenty eleven team that failed to
Speaker 3: win the only time they've ever lost a World Cup final,
Speaker 3: you know, losing in penalty kicks to Japan. She was
Speaker 3: a part of that twenty sixteen Olympic team that crashed
Speaker 3: out in the first knockout round. But her leadership and
Speaker 3: her standard of play is the reason why they were
Speaker 3: able to rebound.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: You remember in twenty eleven, okay, well, they lose the
Speaker 3: final Japan. What do they do in twenty twelve win
Speaker 3: a gold medal? You know, you get knocked out early
Speaker 3: in the twenty sixteen Olympics.
Speaker 2: What do they do?
Speaker 3: Well, twenty nineteen, they go win a World Cup. And
Speaker 3: that was when she was, you know, a mainstay fixture
Speaker 3: of that team. But just her standard of play. Has
Speaker 3: been in a role on the field, but then John
Speaker 3: off the field is where I think she has been
Speaker 3: the most effective. You know, you think about the equal
Speaker 3: pay fight, you think about some of the sexual and
Speaker 3: personal harassment issues that endab Boselle has dealt with. She
Speaker 3: has been a champion of those women who have come
Speaker 3: forward with their stories to make sure that other women
Speaker 3: can be safe in the league. Stories of her going
Speaker 3: over to Tottenham and basically demanding that they have better
Speaker 3: playing conditions in Lelona and in Tottenham again. She expects
Speaker 3: the standard to play from herself and everyone around her,
Speaker 3: and then she expects the people off the field to
Speaker 3: give them a certain state entered of support. And you know,
Speaker 3: I think that is something that will continue to live
Speaker 3: on long after you know, eight twenty whenever. And ended
Speaker 3: up being you know, the thirteenth minute of the game
Speaker 3: last night when she was taken off.
Speaker 1: YEP. The U twenties Women's World Cup made it to
Speaker 1: the knockout stage in Colombia with a seven zero win
Speaker 1: over Paraguay in the Group C finale. They finished second
Speaker 1: in the group. Pietro Tordin had a hat trick and
Speaker 1: the second place behind defending champ Spain. They get Mexico
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, will be a match of the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three U twenty Championship, which Mexico beat the US two
Speaker 1: won the final. Only five starters from a twenty three
Speaker 1: team are in Colombia.
Speaker 3: By the way, Yeah, that a Mexico game and was
Speaker 3: a wild one. US completely dominated and Mexica got two
Speaker 3: lucky goals and somehow won that game in Mexico, mind you.
Speaker 3: So you know they seem to always play these concic
Speaker 3: CAP Championship in Mexico is quite funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's It's a good opportunity.
Speaker 3: I mean again, I think on the men's side, I
Speaker 3: usually am a little indifferent about these tournaments.
Speaker 2: I'm just glad we're there and hope we make that
Speaker 2: OU at the knockouts.
Speaker 3: But on the women's side, especially this team, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of professional talent on this team, particularly and despite
Speaker 3: the fact that Tracy Kevins is still coaching this team
Speaker 3: for god knows what reasons, I don't know why she
Speaker 3: has been catapulted into the sun. She's a terrible coach.
Speaker 3: She continues to just squander talent anytime that she's ever
Speaker 3: been a part of coaching staff for this youth program,
Speaker 3: and I don't know why she's still here. I hope
Speaker 3: Emma Hayes that's the first thing that she actually does
Speaker 3: post Olympics is get rid of her. But this team
Speaker 3: is I'm sorry that was a rant that a lot
Speaker 3: of us in soccer felt, uh Like y'all complain about Burhalter.
Speaker 3: But but this team has a lot of professional talent
Speaker 3: on it. Like literally, there's a lot of players who played.
Speaker 2: Professionally on this team.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And and you need to start raising the expectation for
Speaker 3: these age groups because just being there isn't good enough,
Speaker 3: and we need to start taking advantage of these opportunities
Speaker 3: to build not just team cohesion, but expand the player
Speaker 3: pool and really build out what needs to be the
Speaker 3: most robust player pool in the world.
Speaker 2: You know, I think.
Speaker 3: Specifically to Mexico, you better go win. You're a better
Speaker 3: team than they are, you have been for a long time.
Speaker 3: And after that, you know, you just try to win
Speaker 3: the next game. But yeah, these youth tournaments for the
Speaker 3: women need to start being a little bit more emphasized
Speaker 3: and winning because we need to kind of reclaim that
Speaker 3: top spot. And you know, Spain has dominated the youthful
Speaker 3: ranks for a decade now. There's a reason they're one
Speaker 3: of the best national teams in the world. But we've
Speaker 3: got to start performing better in these tournaments to get
Speaker 3: back to that spot as well.
Speaker 1: Men's side, it looks like, i use the words, looks
Speaker 1: like it looks like we're getting closer, closer and closer
Speaker 1: and closer and closer and closer to some kind of
Speaker 1: official announcement with trumpeted fanfare from parapets upon high in
Speaker 1: you know, Roman castles from the seventeenth century or something,
Speaker 1: with the flags draping down as they would always do.
Speaker 1: Looks like we're getting close to Mauricio Pochettino because we
Speaker 1: had an announcement over the weekend. It looks like the staff,
Speaker 1: the main staff that he traditionally has and has headed
Speaker 1: all of his stops as far back as folks can remember,
Speaker 1: will be the staff that he brings in for the
Speaker 1: national team. So it's like it's gonna be Mauricio and
Speaker 1: his and his crew coming in here for this when
Speaker 1: this becomes finally final.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think people forget that.
Speaker 3: That's like a big part of these coaching negotiations as
Speaker 3: well as who they.
Speaker 2: Can bring in.
Speaker 3: And you know, if POC costs a lot of money,
Speaker 3: his staff is going to cost a lot of money
Speaker 3: as well. And so in it's about how do we
Speaker 3: find that that money in.
Speaker 1: The coffers for professorships?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, how do we how do we sponsor how
Speaker 3: do we get those endowments, uh to.
Speaker 2: To keep those.
Speaker 3: Players or excuse me, those coaches with him? Yes, you
Speaker 3: know we did this with Emma. She got a lot
Speaker 3: of the staff that she normally has had with her
Speaker 3: throughout her time at Chelsea to come over.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: There are there are a lot of things.
Speaker 3: To these coaching negotiations, and one thing people do have
Speaker 3: to remember about US soccer is it is not one
Speaker 3: person or one board necessarily making a decision. They're not
Speaker 3: just full time all the way there, you know, and
Speaker 3: they're certainly not in one location. So these things don't
Speaker 3: just come together.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: The word is that they are meeting today to approve that,
Speaker 3: because you know they have to, you know, virtually.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that makes a lot of.
Speaker 3: Things a little bit easier, but you know, they're they're
Speaker 3: they're not those people aren't necessarily employees, if you will
Speaker 3: of us soccer. They're not on the clock nine to
Speaker 3: five for US Soccer today, so it it is coming together.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we have an announcement before tomorrow because by guy, we.
Speaker 2: Need we need to coach in here, cut John.
Speaker 3: Someone who is going to hold these players accountable because
Speaker 3: they're saretell ain't seem to be able to do it themselves.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And like I said, this is why I was
Speaker 1: building to this for the remainder of the segment or
Speaker 1: however much longer you want to talk about it, up
Speaker 1: to the top of the hour, because I think we.
Speaker 2: Talked about Alex Morgan again.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, well, I think I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to have our guests coming up at the
Speaker 1: top of the next hour. So if this, if if
Speaker 1: technology works, it's going to be very very cool. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna go ahead and ask it this way. What
Speaker 1: in the blue hell happened in this matchup against Canada
Speaker 1: where apparently now if the if the the numbers are correct,
Speaker 1: it's the first home defeat to Canada in sixty seven
Speaker 1: years years? Man, what happened here?
Speaker 3: Well, I think we need to look at this on
Speaker 3: a couple of things. One, Canada cared a lot about
Speaker 3: this game as they're going to care about every game
Speaker 3: because that's how Jesse Marsh coaches, right, He's going to
Speaker 3: be everything, s geared up for everything, and you know
Speaker 3: that's great. That can take you far, but it can
Speaker 3: also fizzle out really quickly, So good for him. They're
Speaker 3: still in the honeymoon stage of his coaching. They you know,
Speaker 3: they did finally figure out how to score goals, which
Speaker 3: was a struggle for their first like five matches. On
Speaker 3: the flip side, the US played terribly. No player seemed
Speaker 3: to want to grasp. No starters seemed to want to
Speaker 3: grasp the moment of an opportunity to prove themselves without
Speaker 3: a head coach that you know, there were there were
Speaker 3: guys on this field who had opportunities to really make
Speaker 3: their case to the new the incoming coach, whoever that
Speaker 3: might be. Even if it's not poach shit could have
Speaker 3: been Mikey.
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, there you go.
Speaker 1: There, there's there. It is explicitly thirty six minutes in
Speaker 1: out a boy. Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, no one seemed poised to want to make
Speaker 3: a name for themselves or show out in a good way.
Speaker 3: And there were definitely some players on this field who
Speaker 3: had chances to do that. I think Malik Tillman looked
Speaker 3: the best side of those kind of like not on
Speaker 3: the bubble players, but those players who needed to prove
Speaker 3: that they belong. I will be honest, I'm very disappointed
Speaker 3: Caleb Wyley wasn't in this game because Christopher Lund provided
Speaker 3: very little of any sort of positivity on the field,
Speaker 3: right And Johnny Cardoso is a major disappointment. You just
Speaker 3: have to call it like it is. I mean, we've
Speaker 3: been wanting to see him for the US national team.
Speaker 3: He's performed well in Brazil, performed very well relatively going
Speaker 3: over to Spain. And the reason he were stumped why
Speaker 3: can't he play better with the US men's national team?
Speaker 3: Is it just because he's in a single pivot versus
Speaker 3: a double pivot? Like that shouldn't be the reason you
Speaker 3: still had unis Musa dropping very deep. I mean they
Speaker 3: were basically playing a double pivot, you know it was
Speaker 3: there was a lack of desire from this men's national
Speaker 3: team that has been here and I'm sorry to go
Speaker 3: back to him, but it's been here since the second
Speaker 3: era of Greg Berholter taking over, and for some reason,
Speaker 3: some sort of malaise and complacency has crept into the system,
Speaker 3: crept into this program, and the guys do not feel
Speaker 3: like they need to actually improve upon what they did
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two. And that's really really frustrating. And
Speaker 3: at this point you do have to question the players
Speaker 3: and their leadership because I'll call him out, Christian Polistic.
Speaker 3: He's just not that type of leader, right, That's not
Speaker 3: who he is. He's a I'm going to do it
Speaker 3: by how I play. And he didn't play poorly by
Speaker 3: any stretch. But you know, you were missing Tyler Adams,
Speaker 3: you were missing Weston McKinney, you're missing Jedi Robinson, guys
Speaker 3: who have been kind of those types of more vocal vibe,
Speaker 3: spased leaders. And you know, Tim Raim has said it,
Speaker 3: there are guys who aren't taking it seriously enough for
Speaker 3: you know, playing for the national team. At the same time,
Speaker 3: Tim Raim had a terrible game, So you know, how
Speaker 3: much of that do you take into consideration. You know, again,
Speaker 3: we're trotting out Tim Raim despite the fact that all
Speaker 3: signs are saying we need to start moving on.
Speaker 2: So some of this is on Mikey.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a reason he hasn't succeeded anywhere he's been,
Speaker 3: to be quite honest, as a head coach, and you know,
Speaker 3: outside of a good you know, Conker Cafew twenty run,
Speaker 3: hasn't really had a lot of success as a head coach.
Speaker 2: So you know, there's that.
Speaker 3: It was frustrating they couldn't pass to each other. Part
Speaker 3: of that is because again, this system that they continue
Speaker 3: to play, and Mikey's system is very different, not very
Speaker 3: different from Burhalters, if there is any difference, continues to
Speaker 3: be slow, continues to not demand players move into open
Speaker 3: space even to receive a pass. I mean that first
Speaker 3: goal was because Patrick Schulte took ten felt like ten
Speaker 3: minutes trying to find anyone who is moving into an
Speaker 3: open space. So he has to go short to Tim Reem,
Speaker 3: which invites the whole Canada team to do the one
Speaker 3: thing they want to do, which is press, and Johnny
Speaker 3: makes a really bad decision on a pass. He had
Speaker 3: plenty of time, he didn't have to do that. But
Speaker 3: when you're under pressure like that, you're going to make
Speaker 3: bad decisions. That's the red Bull way, and you give
Speaker 3: up a goal, you know. And then conversely, they defended
Speaker 3: with heart, They defended with determination and that kept you
Speaker 3: off the board for the most of the game, as
Speaker 3: well as just flat out fizzling out attacks when he
Speaker 3: didn't too, because again we don't have enough support in
Speaker 3: the box, which is a common theme under Greg Berhalter,
Speaker 3: and it's continuing under Mikey Virus because he's not a
Speaker 3: real head coach.
Speaker 1: The way that it laid out Jesse Marsh after the match,
Speaker 1: it was very, very intriguing. And so hang on just
Speaker 1: second and let me get to the quote. I'd rather
Speaker 1: coach our team right now, one hundred percent, no questions asked,
Speaker 1: Marsh said after the win. You can see the mentality
Speaker 1: has been developed. You can see the way this team plays.
Speaker 1: You can see how much they love playing for the
Speaker 1: national team, willing to put their careers and lives and
Speaker 1: the way they play on the line to be the
Speaker 1: best they can be for each other and for the team.
Speaker 1: That's all you can ask for as a coach. Bart
Speaker 1: guess what I'm gonna put a bookmark in this because
Speaker 1: our guest is early. Our guest is early. Get this
Speaker 1: all right, So after what happened last week, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do a little bit set up here we have
Speaker 1: on the network, we have somewhat adopted our friends from
Speaker 1: San Marino. All right, so and we all know what
Speaker 1: happened and what happened last week. So here's here's the
Speaker 1: proof that we've adopted our friends from San Marino. So
Speaker 1: after the wind, I reached out and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: can we talk about what happened here? And guess what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it? All right, so let's check technology
Speaker 1: and Luca, how are you? How are you mine?
Speaker 4: Fine? Really really fine? Thank you?
Speaker 1: And you I'm doing great? Man. Hey, look as I
Speaker 1: as I was telling our friends here on the show,
Speaker 1: I said.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the really nicest car.
Speaker 1: Yep, and it is. It is only a part of it.
Speaker 1: And so we last week after the wind, we went
Speaker 1: ahead and said we are all San Marino here on
Speaker 1: the network, were we are all sand We could not
Speaker 1: have been happier for you with what happened. And I
Speaker 1: reached out and I wanted to say and I wanted
Speaker 1: to see if we could get some kind of a response.
Speaker 1: And you reached out and you were like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we can talk it through. And I know that you're
Speaker 1: you're in Moldova, right.
Speaker 4: Correct, We checked in in our hotel one hour ago
Speaker 4: because we had the late flight schedule this morning with
Speaker 4: our chapter flights to reach Moldova and play tomorrow our
Speaker 4: official friendly. But yeah, here we are. I just entered
Speaker 4: the room at ten minutes ago.
Speaker 1: It's all good, brother. I won't keep you too long.
Speaker 1: I'll probably keep you until five o'clock your time, and
Speaker 1: then that way you can go and actually take care
Speaker 1: of stuff instead of talking to us morning shows. By
Speaker 1: the way, Luca Pettitcioni. He is the press officer for
Speaker 1: the San Marino Federation and the San Marino squad that
Speaker 1: got the win last week to break a losing streak
Speaker 1: and the unbeat the bet the it's just the streak.
Speaker 1: Let's call it what it is. What did it means?
Speaker 1: Let me let me ask this to get to win
Speaker 1: and have the windless streak stop after twenty years? What
Speaker 1: did that mean to the country and to those who
Speaker 1: love the sport of soccer in your country.
Speaker 4: You probably cannot see my goosebuand but that's it. You know,
Speaker 4: it means everything to some Marina because before starting to
Speaker 4: work in the football serciation as a press officer, I
Speaker 4: used to to work like as per journalists in Samarno devastations.
Speaker 4: So I'm handling Sammarines football since fifteen years more or less.
Speaker 4: And then immedia that was outside the country that we're
Speaker 4: asking for information on Smarno or asking about interviews or contents,
Speaker 4: were all about this losing strike. Then we start to
Speaker 4: have some draws, thanks also for to the withinations leagues
Speaker 4: that start these path eight years ago, six years ago
Speaker 4: to be to be more precise. And then they ask
Speaker 4: when are you stopping this not scoring strike? Then we
Speaker 4: started scoring because last year we got some headlines and
Speaker 4: also FORIGN newspapers and medias for three in a row
Speaker 4: Goes scored against Denmark, Finland, Kazakcident. Then the question became
Speaker 4: when you're going to win since you're not winning for
Speaker 4: one under forty games. Yeah, we won, we won last Tuesday.
Speaker 4: I think we are going to post so many trowbacks
Speaker 4: Thursday contents and in the next week's next week's coming.
Speaker 4: But you know, any any of these one underd forty
Speaker 4: games played by Samarina against how to say, some month
Speaker 4: clib monster teams like England the Netherlands were for sure
Speaker 4: defeat announced it announced defeat even before the starting with so,
Speaker 4: but our players always shown their pride and swet their
Speaker 4: jersey even if they were fully aware that they were
Speaker 4: going to a defeat. I think they see the opportunity
Speaker 4: and they exploited. They shown on the pitch last Tuesday
Speaker 4: that they really want to win this game and they
Speaker 4: want it means everything for Summaria players, to any sacrifice
Speaker 4: they're going to go through any week.
Speaker 1: And the young man that scored wasn't even alive when
Speaker 1: the streak started, I mean Nicos and sol Is nineteen.
Speaker 1: The streak was twenty years old. To have folks who
Speaker 1: are still wanting to be a part of things, To
Speaker 1: have the younger players still sit there and say, yes,
Speaker 1: I want to be a part of the San Marino
Speaker 1: national team. What does that mean that folks still want
Speaker 1: to be a part of it even though things had
Speaker 1: not been going well up until last week.
Speaker 4: You know, the theme of youngsters, it's really a new
Speaker 4: one in sub Marina because since we have really few players,
Speaker 4: because to get a submarine's passport it's really really difficult.
Speaker 4: And our country is made of sixty one kilometers squared
Speaker 4: and thirty five thousand people throughout the country, So this
Speaker 4: basically means that you can count on forty to fifty
Speaker 4: players that normally are splitted between under twenty one and
Speaker 4: the A team. But from a couple of years the
Speaker 4: approach was slightly different. If in the past who had
Speaker 4: to completely recycle in under twenty one and then move
Speaker 4: on the eight team. Now we don't have any more
Speaker 4: the fear to launch some youngster in the in the team.
Speaker 4: You can see from March onwards, I think eight players
Speaker 4: under twenty three made their deboots with the national team
Speaker 4: of Submarino. One of them scored in June at the
Speaker 4: very first caps It's manager Condy Nico sensually had four
Speaker 4: caps with the one IT goal scored. But it's very
Speaker 4: the boot in a competitive game because it played the
Speaker 4: three three friendlies. A couple of players born in two
Speaker 4: thousand and five two thousand and six were playing last Tuesday.
Speaker 4: You know, if you need it, you're probably will be
Speaker 4: pushed to do it. But it's not so easier to
Speaker 4: think because I mean, this is also the product of
Speaker 4: a change of mentality that this federation tried to embrace,
Speaker 4: fully aware that it may lead also to big defeats,
Speaker 4: but we are quite used to big defeats, so why
Speaker 4: not try to approach the the situation from another point
Speaker 4: of view.
Speaker 1: Has it sunk in that that the last twenty years
Speaker 1: are now, the windless streak is over. Has it really
Speaker 1: sunk into everyone there, not just on the team and
Speaker 1: it plays the sport, but to the those who live there.
Speaker 1: Has it really sunk in that the streak is over?
Speaker 4: You know, you can never seen ever in both directions,
Speaker 4: because we are fully aware that we weren't. I think
Speaker 4: we weren't the worst team in the world. Even the
Speaker 4: diff ranking was telling this, but we hadn't another the
Speaker 4: chance to challenge our opponents in South Asia Conference, for example.
Speaker 4: But we are fully aware we're not the worst in
Speaker 4: the world. After this winning We're not in Brazil, so
Speaker 4: for sure, I mean in the this victory drove to
Speaker 4: a different perception from outside because we are and we
Speaker 4: were and we'll always be fully aware of what we
Speaker 4: are who we are. But probably from abroad there is
Speaker 4: this condition of thunderdog. The always losing team as well,
Speaker 4: seem like why they're taking part to this international stage
Speaker 4: if they're losing all time, why they should compete in
Speaker 4: a group. If they are going to lose all the
Speaker 4: all the game and the other five teams are always
Speaker 4: get six points with them. I think that we demonstrated
Speaker 4: that we deserve to stay in this stage even if
Speaker 4: we are going to lose the upcoming thirty thirty matches.
Speaker 4: From a Summarian's point of view, I cannot tell you
Speaker 4: that the average Summarians player is so proud of the
Speaker 4: sports achievement. Probably they're not used as well. We've seen
Speaker 4: also in the recent in Tokyo Olympics so three years ago,
Speaker 4: where we got three medals, and it's an incredible thing
Speaker 4: if you just think about the average medal for population,
Speaker 4: but not so much celebration or part is something normal
Speaker 4: like the defeat. Also the you know, also the good
Speaker 4: things are taken with all our profile sub marine. I
Speaker 4: don't know why, but that's it.
Speaker 1: So you've got the matchup coming up, and when you
Speaker 1: now have what's going on there in Moldova obviously right
Speaker 1: now Group D one Nations League. Right now you're on
Speaker 1: top and there's going to be the matchup with Gibraltar
Speaker 1: to determine who wins the group coming up down the road.
Speaker 1: When you have matchups like this one coming up with Moldova,
Speaker 1: what do you, what do you think you're willing to
Speaker 1: learn about yourselves as a team with this friendly coming
Speaker 1: up with Moldova where you are right.
Speaker 4: Now, I should forward this question to ad the head
Speaker 4: coach to have a proper reply. But from a point
Speaker 4: of view, all the games in which some Marineans vote
Speaker 4: is involved are the most important of the world. From
Speaker 4: our point of view, there's no difference between friendly or
Speaker 4: competitive games, at least in the previous one hunder forty
Speaker 4: games according to the Gibraltar littens and fixtures a couple
Speaker 4: of days ago. For sure, the next one would be
Speaker 4: really really different because as you said, you are on
Speaker 4: top of the league with the two points on Gibraltar,
Speaker 4: and if this game against Moldova friendly would have been
Speaker 4: just three days before the game in Gibraltar, for sure
Speaker 4: would have been approached in a different way, I'm sure
Speaker 4: also to preserve and to avoid the potential injury or
Speaker 4: something like that. But summar In his players have a
Speaker 4: lot to to to understand two two, to pick up
Speaker 4: from from any game, from any training and so on.
Speaker 4: This would be just another opportunity to raise the bar,
Speaker 4: to increase the level, to better our performance, and you know,
Speaker 4: to approach a game against another team like Moldova that
Speaker 4: is competing in the league of the way, the Nationals
Speaker 4: League and the other group. So also to to to
Speaker 4: see if we are on the same level or how
Speaker 4: far we are from them.
Speaker 1: When is the match up against Gibraltar.
Speaker 4: Uh, it's mid October, okay?
Speaker 1: And is it in San Marino at the study O
Speaker 1: Aplica or is it there?
Speaker 4: No, it will be played in Gibraltar, okay.
Speaker 1: Uh. Well, glad that we were able to catch up.
Speaker 1: Glad you made it to Moldova safely. Moldova right now
Speaker 1: leading in Group D two by the way, and uh, Luca,
Speaker 1: I cannot thank you enough for coming on an American
Speaker 1: morning show to talk about everything going on there in
Speaker 1: San Marino. Like I said, we follow We were right
Speaker 1: there with you, brother and could not be happier with
Speaker 1: what happened last week. Be safe and have a great fixture,
Speaker 1: Get home safely, and we will definitely be continue to
Speaker 1: if it's okay with you as things continue to go,
Speaker 1: We'd like to keep reaching out. Have you keep coming
Speaker 1: on the show talk about things and what's going on
Speaker 1: there in San Marino. Cannot thank you enough for doing
Speaker 1: this and hopping on we got you out right before
Speaker 1: five o'clock local time.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Yeah, thank you very much, John, when not
Speaker 4: hopefully next time on site in America.
Speaker 1: Got you, got it, brother, Thanks again.
Speaker 4: We'll catch up soon, my pleasure. Oh why bye bye?
Speaker 1: All right. Luca PETACIONI he's the press officer for the
Speaker 1: San Marino national team. That's fantastic, that is absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1: The beauty of stream yard and as I said, we
Speaker 1: are all San Marino. And I'm hoping that I didn't
Speaker 1: scare Bart away because we were getting into we were
Speaker 1: really getting into the discussion about the US men's national
Speaker 1: team and Luca called in early. So Luca called in
Speaker 1: early at ten a quarter to ten. He wasn't supposed
Speaker 1: to call in until ten o'clock, but he got in
Speaker 1: the hotel room and at ten thirty hour time, five
Speaker 1: thirty local they've got to do their match day minus
Speaker 1: one press conference stuff with Moldova. So here's here just
Speaker 1: to recap before Bart comes back on. And Bart knows
Speaker 1: he's coming. So literally after they won and beat Liechtenstein,
Speaker 1: I reached out and I was like, okay, can we
Speaker 1: have some kind of a presence on the show all that,
Speaker 1: So Luca emails me back and he's like, yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: be in Moldova. I've got this window of like five
Speaker 1: to five thirty local time on Monday, and I'm like okay,
Speaker 1: And like I said, and that was what triggered making
Speaker 1: sure that Bart could be on and he could be
Speaker 1: on early. And then of course Luca hit all of
Speaker 1: his marks early and got all the green lights and
Speaker 1: came in at a quarter till. And so thanks to
Speaker 1: Bart for putting the rest of the segment on hold.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so that was Luca Pelacconi. He's the press
Speaker 1: officer for the San Marino national team for soccer, and
Speaker 1: he dialed in from a hotel room in Moldova. Oh brother,
Speaker 1: all right, So that was that was our number one.
Speaker 1: And that was hilarious. It was fantastic and hilarious all
Speaker 1: at the same time. We need to figure out a
Speaker 1: way to get San Marino's national team over here for
Speaker 1: a friendly. That's what we've got to figure out. So
Speaker 1: that's the latest out of San Marino. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to see if we could find someone
Speaker 1: that could put a voice to what happened when you
Speaker 1: have a windless streak of twenty years and you have
Speaker 1: a win at home from someone who was nineteen years
Speaker 1: old and wasn't even alive when the streak started to
Speaker 1: get that interview, it's fantastic. But no, I give full
Speaker 1: props to Luca for that, and that was absolutely wild.
Speaker 1: But that's the beauty of the morning show that we
Speaker 1: have occasionally. And like I said that, I didn't know
Speaker 1: if it was gonna work, I didn't know if Luca
Speaker 1: was gonna make it in time. I had him scheduled
Speaker 1: for ten o'clock when they were getting into the hotel,
Speaker 1: but he got into the hotel early, and got into
Speaker 1: the hotel a half hour early and then punched all
Speaker 1: of his punched all his green lights and here we go. Okay,
Speaker 1: so here's segment number two with Bart uh Hi.
Speaker 3: Bart, morning again, Good morning Will, Good morning Scott, Good morning,
Speaker 3: Abbey oh Man.
Speaker 1: But no, like I said, uh, Luca PELACIONI was is
Speaker 1: the press officer for the San marineternational team, And like
Speaker 1: I said, I didn't know if it was going to work,
Speaker 1: and at worked, and so we just t it is.
Speaker 3: It is celebration time out in San Marino in the
Speaker 3: middle of Italy.
Speaker 1: It was fantastic. Okay, So, uh you were yelling about
Speaker 1: uh the second goal, I don't know if I was
Speaker 1: yelling was you're still communicating, Okay, then you were sternly
Speaker 1: communicating about the defensive lapses with the United States and
Speaker 1: they're lost to Canada. Yeah, I think the frustrating part
Speaker 1: and I forget who said it in the chat, but
Speaker 1: you know, Tim reim what you have been great for
Speaker 1: your club country. You've been a great club player for
Speaker 1: a long time. But I think this is this is
Speaker 1: where you do have to fault mikey Varies for being
Speaker 1: a little too afraid to shake things up. I mean,
Speaker 1: the mission to me should be we need to start
Speaker 1: turning the page right, and you kind of even had
Speaker 1: leeway to do that with the fact that Jedi was out,
Speaker 1: McKenny was out, Adams is out, you know, and most
Speaker 1: of those for you know, obviously Adams actually heard, but
Speaker 1: you know, we allowed the I kind of don't really
Speaker 1: want to fly over to.
Speaker 3: The States right now, excuse to be which it should be.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think we've talked about this particular window
Speaker 3: being superfluous at best and unnecessary probably in reality, and
Speaker 3: not very well placed on the calendar. FIFA's talking about,
Speaker 3: if not removing that, moving it back into the month
Speaker 3: as well, because you're going to get players who are
Speaker 3: a little not quite ready.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think that.
Speaker 3: You need to start rewarding and punishing players for performances
Speaker 3: on the field.
Speaker 2: And I think this is.
Speaker 3: Something that the Burholter coaching tree values so highly training
Speaker 3: sessions and doing drills correctly and doing the instruction part correctly,
Speaker 3: that they don't seem to value the actual on field
Speaker 3: performance and production. And that's something that's been very frustrating,
Speaker 3: is you know, and it's led to Burholter holding on
Speaker 3: to players for way too long. It's led to you know,
Speaker 3: players getting complacent in their roles on the team. And
Speaker 3: Tim Reem is a perfect example of there's a reason
Speaker 3: why he can't be in this camp. I mean, he's
Speaker 3: a domestic center back, he's pretty experienced.
Speaker 2: Why not? But why does he need to be the
Speaker 2: locked in starter, right?
Speaker 3: And if it's just because he does the drills better, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's thirty, dad guns seven years old. He'd better be
Speaker 3: doing the drill as well in his life, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Yeah, So that's kind of where I
Speaker 3: think the mentality needs to start shifting, and I do
Speaker 3: blame mikey Varis for not seeing the opportunity to start
Speaker 3: a guy like Trusty or McKenzie.
Speaker 2: Who if they screw up, then we learned something.
Speaker 3: And that's just where again, these friendlies need to be
Speaker 3: learning exercises. We didn't learn anything from Tim Breen screwing
Speaker 3: up a bunch other than he's probably not fit for
Speaker 3: international play anymore.
Speaker 2: But then you didn't.
Speaker 3: Necessarily bring in someone to you know, sub him off
Speaker 3: and say, okay, well here's your shot. Christopher Lund had
Speaker 3: a average day. This was a perfect opportunity for Caleb
Speaker 3: Wiley to get some playing time and say, hey, look
Speaker 3: we're struggling right now.
Speaker 2: Let's see if you can go make something happen.
Speaker 3: You saw Aiden Morris take advantage of that opportunity, finally
Speaker 3: looking good for the in the Red, White and Blue.
Speaker 3: He's struggled on the international stage. Juxtaposing that to you know,
Speaker 3: Johnny Cardoso being a very poor performance.
Speaker 2: You know, those were good to see.
Speaker 3: You know, we still haven't seen Josh Sargent play for
Speaker 3: the US Actional team, I think since twenty twenty two,
Speaker 3: which is continuing to be a concerning trend for him. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, Geo obviously got hurt this camp because you
Speaker 3: know the law of Geo ranas he can't be healthy
Speaker 3: for more than a week, and you know that was
Speaker 3: a problem. And that's that was just you know, frustrating.
Speaker 3: Is that it's one thing if you're bad, right because
Speaker 3: you put out a bunch of new players, or because
Speaker 3: you're trying something new, or because hey, you know what, guys,
Speaker 3: the point of this friendly is for all of us
Speaker 3: to go play together and get some new guys some
Speaker 3: time on the field. If that was your stated goal,
Speaker 3: because we know the Burrholter treat coaching Tree loves goals
Speaker 3: and metrics that have nothing to do with actually winning,
Speaker 3: then that's fine. But that wasn't what was presented here.
Speaker 3: And you put out a you know, it wasn't like
Speaker 3: you experimented much with your lineup, right, I mean everyone
Speaker 3: who played was like, a, well, of course you're going
Speaker 3: to play because for some reason, Brendan Aaronson is scene
Speaker 3: as a better soccer player than how do you write?
Speaker 2: Because he, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Moves his feet quicker, even though he doesn't really do
Speaker 3: anything with that.
Speaker 2: You know, Joe scally is the obvious. Right back back
Speaker 2: up to Sir Gino Desks.
Speaker 3: I don't think it was bad, but you know, just
Speaker 3: one of those things where it wasn't like you did
Speaker 3: anything to go well, you know, look, I'm the substitute teacher,
Speaker 3: so who cares. It almost felt like he took the Burholter.
Speaker 3: You know, Greg Burholter left a little folder with the
Speaker 3: instruction plant, the lesson plan for the day. For some reason,
Speaker 3: the dude is fired. Who gives a crap? You do
Speaker 3: something different?
Speaker 2: And he did it.
Speaker 3: He got too scared, and so I do blame Mikey
Speaker 3: a lot for this, even though he was you know,
Speaker 3: hot and said, oh, it's on the players.
Speaker 2: Well it's also on you man. You have to set
Speaker 2: that stand.
Speaker 3: Because we've heard this from Berhalter as well and from
Speaker 3: players as oh, well it's an intense training session. Well
Speaker 3: then why doesn't that transfer to the playing to playing
Speaker 3: in the game. You know, if you're if you're going
Speaker 3: hard and intense in training, why aren't we Why is
Speaker 3: that not translating the games? So I'm leading it's leading
Speaker 3: me to believe that there's not really the intensity that
Speaker 3: they think there.
Speaker 2: Is in training and they're just saying it is.
Speaker 1: Then you end up with the ratings, which you pretty
Speaker 1: much have skewered here when it comes to everything. The
Speaker 1: the oh, by the way goal in the most dangerous
Speaker 1: leading in soccer came from Luca Delatore. Uh An Ldt
Speaker 1: scored with about twenty five to go, and once again
Speaker 1: you look at too little, too late. Mikey varus after
Speaker 1: the match that I love those guys, but the mentality
Speaker 1: to fight and run and to sacrifice, I can't do
Speaker 1: that for them. That's on them. It's a combination between
Speaker 1: me and them, all of us together. End quote from
Speaker 1: our friends at a press.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't there. I mean you just you look
Speaker 2: at the the ratings and no one.
Speaker 3: Did well except for Patrick Shulte, who I think does
Speaker 3: need to get a shot out. I think people were
Speaker 3: unfairly criticizing him for that first goal. Maybe you should
Speaker 3: have done better, But Shlty was the only player who
Speaker 3: in my opinion, played well this game.
Speaker 1: Looking at our ratings of course, from our friends at
Speaker 1: Soccer America, Shulty pulled a seven, Chris Richards a three,
Speaker 1: Tim Reema two, Christopher lund to four along with Joe
Speaker 1: Scally midfield units musa three, Malex Tilman of three, Johnny
Speaker 1: two forwards, Brendan Aaronson a three full air and baligant
Speaker 1: and Christian Polisic got four's subs Aden Morris of five,
Speaker 1: l D t A six obviously with the goal, Hodgi
Speaker 1: right at three, Kate cowl a four and Peppy and
Speaker 1: incomplete obviously with the number of minutes that he that
Speaker 1: he did not play in the mask gracious rating for
Speaker 1: Caid Cowell and Next up US gets New Zealand at
Speaker 1: t Q Well on Tuesday seven o'clock Eastern kick with
Speaker 1: this this one when it comes to this particular matchup
Speaker 1: against New Zealand, I mean, obviously you've got to be
Speaker 1: you've got to do a make good in here somewhere
Speaker 1: and be out for blood. Yeah, at least figuratively.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's the Greg Burholter mentality that's
Speaker 3: being transferred through mikey Baris.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's where we're at.
Speaker 3: I mean, responses would be great, but we haven't seen
Speaker 3: this team respond to adversity really. You know, sure, they
Speaker 3: tied Brazil, a not very good Brazil team after getting
Speaker 3: smacked by Columbia, but it's not like they magically flip
Speaker 3: the switch and we're like, oh, this is how we
Speaker 3: play soccer again. So you know, yeah, you have to
Speaker 3: have a better response. New Zealand is a much worse
Speaker 3: team than Canada, so anything short of a multi goal
Speaker 3: win is going to reflect badly on everyone involved. I
Speaker 3: don't care who the coaches and that's kind of what
Speaker 3: bothers me about this Canada game is I don't who
Speaker 3: the coach is. The lineup we had and the players
Speaker 3: we have are better.
Speaker 2: Than the Canadian players.
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, David Laren and Davies are very good players, right,
Speaker 3: but we have players who should be able to match
Speaker 3: up with them, and we have better overall quality and
Speaker 3: I did not show And so that's where the frustrating
Speaker 3: part is. You know, who's going to start showing their
Speaker 3: actually good quality because right now, not even Christian Polisic
Speaker 3: is showing their good quality. And you know, again, you
Speaker 3: can tell me that you need to do this and
Speaker 3: that and that, but until you actually do it, it's
Speaker 3: just empty words.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we're heading to this match on Tuesday and
Speaker 1: we'll see where it lays out there is there is
Speaker 1: a previous soccer for US PO D episode that is out.
Speaker 1: What are the next plans for a future soccer for you?
Speaker 3: The goal is to record on Wednesday afternoon. I'm flying
Speaker 3: to Pittsburgh for a certain football game this weekend backyard Brawl,
Speaker 3: so we better get it recorded by Wednesday so I
Speaker 3: can edit and send it.
Speaker 2: Out to you. So that is the plan.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we're talking about Pochettino more in this episode and
Speaker 3: not as much about the actual play on the field,
Speaker 3: because at that point it won't matter, right if you
Speaker 3: hire Pochattino and you announce them before Tuesday or even
Speaker 3: on Tuesday, the performances don't really matter all that much
Speaker 3: because you can start talking about a new coach and
Speaker 3: not why this team can't seem to play better than
Speaker 3: the some of its parts after six years, seven years
Speaker 3: of trying to do that.
Speaker 1: All right, So I'm before you go, I am looking
Speaker 1: at the schedule and I am checking the get in
Speaker 1: price as a subtle plug to our college football show
Speaker 1: that we have over on the OSG Sports side of things,
Speaker 1: where we look at football on a budget. And by
Speaker 1: the way, this is not football on a budget. If
Speaker 1: you are looking to go into this particular game at
Speaker 1: actressher In Pittsburgh right now, West Virginia two and a
Speaker 1: half point favorite. The total sixty and a half three
Speaker 1: point thirty kick on ESPN two. Get in price at
Speaker 1: the former Heinz Field is a low, low get in
Speaker 1: price of seventy two dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, that's what happens when you know a team that
Speaker 3: actually cares about football college football plays an actresser, You're
Speaker 3: going to actually have taket prices that are at you know,
Speaker 3: market value. Oh boy, I mean, look, that stadium is
Speaker 3: going to be full packed capacity. Last time we played there,
Speaker 3: it was the largest crowd for a football game ever
Speaker 3: in this in Pittsburgh. It wasn't because of the pitt fans.
Speaker 3: I'll just tell you that right now.
Speaker 1: So we will be looking forward to the next go
Speaker 1: round of the soccer for USPOD, hopefully coming up before
Speaker 1: your departure. Otherwise you're cutting it into the Pittsburgh airport
Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: I'm not bringing a laptop with me on this trip.
Speaker 1: So oh okay, so we are cutting ties. Yeah wow, okay,
Speaker 1: So three thirty kicks Saturday afternoon. Once again, thanks for
Speaker 1: dropping by in Part one and part two. Considering our
Speaker 1: guests from from the Central Europe that came out of this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well thanks John for having me.
Speaker 2: Everyone stay safe, stay healthy.
Speaker 1: Yes, stay stay stay healthy, and continue drinking the Earl Gray,
Speaker 1: my friend. And so there goes Bart. Bart's gonna go.
Speaker 1: I think Bart is gonna end up probably drinking a
Speaker 1: lot of tea. So all right, so let me go
Speaker 1: through the comments this morning. We got two major topics
Speaker 1: before we get out of here this morning, and they
Speaker 1: probably will take up the balance of the time. One
Speaker 1: well three, since the two's played this weekend, we'll get
Speaker 1: into the twos a little bit. With the teams in
Speaker 1: Major League Soccer that did play this weekend, we have
Speaker 1: a major point that was made in and a rant
Speaker 1: by a coach and it was a we have a
Speaker 1: courtesy of our friends at Massive Report and Wilford Nazi
Speaker 1: went off and so it is a larger point once
Speaker 1: again that we have emphasized on the show and we
Speaker 1: will discuss with what happened in his match. And basically
Speaker 1: it was one question and the press officer for the
Speaker 1: Columbus Crew basically said to Wilfrid Nanci when he came
Speaker 1: in the door opening statement. Nanci was like, nah, give
Speaker 1: me questions, We'll go ahead and take questions. And so
Speaker 1: literally he takes the lead in question, goes on this
Speaker 1: rant for the Ages, and it is a rant for
Speaker 1: the Ages, and we're gonna play the whole thing. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I don't normally play something that's that is
Speaker 1: as long as Caleb Porter, but I thought it was
Speaker 1: important in the grand scheme of things to understand where
Speaker 1: he's coming from. I traditionally don't play something that will
Speaker 1: be as long as the Wilford Nanci rant from the weekend,
Speaker 1: but it is just as important. I probably will do
Speaker 1: play by play underneath it as he's going, or reactions
Speaker 1: underneath it as he's going. So we have the Wilford
Speaker 1: Nanci concern that we have had here on the show
Speaker 1: in the past, and we will we'll carry that through
Speaker 1: and we will let you hear about that. And then
Speaker 1: the news on Chelsea, and I'm sure that Michael heads
Speaker 1: ears a burning because there's news there where the partners
Speaker 1: are angry at each other. Bully is angry at clear Lake,
Speaker 1: clear Lake's angry at Bowley. And we'll see how it
Speaker 1: all plays itself out, but we'll get you the play
Speaker 1: by play on Bowy clear Lake not happy with each
Speaker 1: other as the owners of Chelsea. And we'll lay all
Speaker 1: that out for you, and if there's anything that we've missed,
Speaker 1: lay it out in the twitch pitch. Here's the week,
Speaker 1: by the way. After that, Tuesday, once again, we'll go
Speaker 1: over everything else that we missed today. Then Wednesday, since
Speaker 1: Tyler is back from the boat that he was on
Speaker 1: with his family and like he tried apparently to get
Speaker 1: a cell signal once didn't work, so he kept his
Speaker 1: cell phone off. God helped the man with all the
Speaker 1: messages he got when he came back. Tyler's at nine
Speaker 1: to fifteen Wednesday, see if we can catch up with
Speaker 1: the busiest man in the Northeast, Dyllan Butler. Ten maryon
Speaker 1: Crowder hopping in to talk USL Super League, Jessica Charman,
Speaker 1: by the way, calling it matches on Peacock this weekend.
Speaker 1: She had the Spokane Brooklyn match on Peacock this weekend.
Speaker 1: We need to catch up with jess about college, about
Speaker 1: USL Super League, and about Charlotte. So whenever jess can breathe,
Speaker 1: we'll try to have her on the show. Maryon Crowder,
Speaker 1: like I said, ten thirty on Wednesday, Thursday. Our number
Speaker 1: one's wide open right now. It's the Power Hour with
Speaker 1: Nino and Nico. And remember in Nino's coming with news.
Speaker 1: Apparently he's gonna break some news on Thursday, and we'll
Speaker 1: see if we can have Nino and Nico discussed Rolleruy
Speaker 1: Diaz and what happened with the two with him, with
Speaker 1: the announcement that happened to the story that happened on
Speaker 1: Sound or at Heart that we talked about late last week.
Speaker 1: And then Friday, getting you ready for all of the
Speaker 1: action on the weekend, Nashville coming town, see if we
Speaker 1: can get Lucas Panzeka have got lead off and talk
Speaker 1: about Nashville and see what's going on with him and
Speaker 1: Nashville in general, and see if we can grab Jason.
Speaker 1: We can whip around all that stuff on the in between.
Speaker 1: So that's the week that we've got here on SDH
Speaker 1: and being here in the office all right, So let's
Speaker 1: get into the comments and everybody who's hopping and joining us.
Speaker 1: It looked like Tom Russo was at OBX this past
Speaker 1: week and so he got the chance to be on
Speaker 1: vacation and stay away from all of us. Morning Abbey,
Speaker 1: Morning Will and Abby saw Alex Morgan's goodbye speech and
Speaker 1: apparently the four letter is annoying. Will and Abby liked
Speaker 1: the taking off of the cleats as a part of
Speaker 1: I'm done ownership infighting. What is yeah? What is this
Speaker 1: Atlanta's spirit? But at least at least Will Bowy clearly
Speaker 1: can be in the same city and they can yell
Speaker 1: at each other across the table instead of being in
Speaker 1: three separate cities and trying to figure out who's in charge.
Speaker 1: Do not get me started about Atlanta Spirit. Do not. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see, so Will says, I thought I got booted
Speaker 1: for criticizing fanatics quality in a very PG way and
Speaker 1: I got a six hour ban. Yikes. Abby has not
Speaker 1: been posting Morning Alex morning. Will Yes, health very pricardive
Speaker 1: you Bart Yes with the Earl Gray tea. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so Will. You mentioned the rant from calib Porter about
Speaker 1: Timothy Ford. Like I said, Timothy Ford and got a
Speaker 1: whole lot of friends when it comes to to this
Speaker 1: side of the aisle or the team side of the isle,
Speaker 1: because everybody remembers Timothy Ford with Atlanta United. Timothy Ford's
Speaker 1: got issues apparently with New England on more than one occasion.
Speaker 1: So it will be interesting to see what, in fact
Speaker 1: the consequences are. Keep an eye on the weekend and
Speaker 1: see if Timothy Ford and maybe maybe the weekend, maybe
Speaker 1: the midweek after because of assignments and travel and all
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. Maybe it's If it's not this weekend,
Speaker 1: check the midweek and check next week and see if
Speaker 1: there's any internal consequence with Timothy Ford after this outburst,
Speaker 1: this tirade from Caleb Porter. So we'll see, Uh Morning
Speaker 1: Scott Scott flood hopping in an hour number one saying
Speaker 1: hi to everybody, and uh Will says, pro is the
Speaker 1: combo Carolina pans there's with Daniel Jones as a QB.
Speaker 1: Apparently the trivia question came out yesterday that Bryce Young
Speaker 1: improved from half to half, and this was the joke
Speaker 1: that was circulating that Bryce Young threw an interception on
Speaker 1: his first pass in the first half yesterday he waited
Speaker 1: till his second pass to do that in the second half,
Speaker 1: so there was some level of improvement. Apparently morning Nick's
Speaker 1: Jason little late to the party, but glad he's here.
Speaker 1: Abby would wants to know how much he's gonna get fined.
Speaker 1: I don't know if You're gonna get a number out
Speaker 1: of this, find an undisclosed amount and will serve a
Speaker 1: suspension of X number of matches. That's what I think,
Speaker 1: And it will end up being a news dump probably Thursday,
Speaker 1: Thursday late maybe, so we'll see what happens there. Nick
Speaker 1: says with the US legit the worst US M and
Speaker 1: T performance in a long time, especially to Jesse Marsh
Speaker 1: and as Punch probably, you know, I don't think he's
Speaker 1: rethinking his decision. I think that he sees it as
Speaker 1: a challenge. He's going to bring in his guys. He's
Speaker 1: going to bring in his staff and we'll see what happens. Uh.
Speaker 1: So that will be intriguing when it comes to the
Speaker 1: men's national team. Yes, time you missed all the Boca
Speaker 1: tak last week. Abby, no freaking passing, the passing suck.
Speaker 1: Canada deserved the win, the US had no hutzbook. US
Speaker 1: players didn't want it. Nick says Canada could have should
Speaker 1: have scored at least for Shelter had a few massive saves,
Speaker 1: and Nix brought up the question about Tim Reen being
Speaker 1: in camp and another disappointing crowd for US soccer match
Speaker 1: of fairly small venue US Soccer fails again to promote
Speaker 1: the game and actually fill the stadium. Now did you
Speaker 1: see did you see? Did you see the friendly or
Speaker 1: the friendly that El Tree had? Way, it was at
Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl and they had like twelve people there.
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. I mean it was. That was pretty bad,
Speaker 1: and I think I went too far. I don't want
Speaker 1: to choose a league. I just stop. I think pop
Speaker 1: up windows, pop up windows from freaking people alleging to
Speaker 1: be Exfinity while I'm trying to search for things. Wow,
Speaker 1: is that annoying? Let's see Conker Calf Nations League. I
Speaker 1: wants to go international friendly, so let's do that, all right?
Speaker 1: So no, September tenth. I don't want that. So let's
Speaker 1: back up. Well, and I have Nazi's rant, so it'll
Speaker 1: be there, all right. So yes, pop up windows pop
Speaker 1: up because that's what they do, absolutely all right. So
Speaker 1: I think it was this international friendly with New Zealand.
Speaker 1: If I could find the date, yes, okay, So it
Speaker 1: was a nine o'clock start Eastern time at the Rose
Speaker 1: Bowl on September seventh, so today, so Saturday night, Saturday night,
Speaker 1: New Zealand was in country, meaning the United States to
Speaker 1: take on Ltree at the Rose Bowl announced crowd twenty
Speaker 1: five to seventy one. And I feel sorry for Ltree
Speaker 1: in New Zealand because Joseph Dickerson was the man in
Speaker 1: the middle. Three zero win for l three allegedly in
Speaker 1: front of twenty five two seventy one. I want to
Speaker 1: say that was tickets sold instead of butts in seats,
Speaker 1: but that was There were pictures out of that one
Speaker 1: that not a lot of folks un Morning four card.
Speaker 1: If the only if the M and T had other
Speaker 1: options for a right backer, they can play good crosses
Speaker 1: hm hm, exactly, Abby thoroughly bummed. If Caleb doesn't get
Speaker 1: any playing time. Potch has to be a motivator of
Speaker 1: some sort as a coach or somebody has to be
Speaker 1: a motivator of some sort as a coach or an
Speaker 1: interim coach. Absolutely, if you're mikey Verius, you've got to
Speaker 1: motivate your Poachatino, you got to motivate Morning Harry. So yes, Alex,
Speaker 1: we will be playing Wilford Nanci's rant in its entirety.
Speaker 1: We have it. It will be played in its entirety.
Speaker 1: It is worth it because, as I said, it addresses
Speaker 1: issues we have talked about here on the network a lot,
Speaker 1: and we'll get into it. So let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: start the discussion of Major League Soccer. We'll start with
Speaker 1: Next Pro Two's had a big win, big, big, big,
Speaker 1: big win on the weekend, going to New York City
Speaker 1: the Icon Stadium on Randall's Island, first match ever renovated facility.
Speaker 1: They get the win in PKS. Jaydon Hibbert comes up
Speaker 1: big again and NYC and Atlanta United draw after ninety
Speaker 1: minutes stoppage time equalizer Gajardo on a corner to ephrin Morales.
Speaker 1: Morales heads it in past Luis Barrazza two to two.
Speaker 1: After ninety they go to PKS. Atlanta United two gets
Speaker 1: the extra point. So if you missed it, then you
Speaker 1: can go catch the whole thing on the twos review
Speaker 1: on the network. It exists twos review on the network.
Speaker 1: You can go back. You've got highlights and we lay
Speaker 1: out where things are in the Eastern Conference right now
Speaker 1: in MLS Next Pro Atlanta United obviously they've got some
Speaker 1: work to do. Huntsville Cities coming to town on Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 1: and it will be a chance for Atlanta United two
Speaker 1: to continue to climb up the ladder in MLS Next
Speaker 1: Pro and chase after the eighth spot in the standings
Speaker 1: Conference standings. Just so, just so you know, four matches
Speaker 1: to go four at Land United to in the regular
Speaker 1: season f C Cincinnati right now f C Cincinnati two
Speaker 1: forty five points, Union two at forty three, Columbus Crew
Speaker 1: to at forty two. NYCFC two got the one point,
Speaker 1: they're at forty one. Crown Legacy has one more win
Speaker 1: than Orlando City B. They're both at forty Miami with
Speaker 1: their win over Huntsville City Football Club, they're now at
Speaker 1: thirty nine. Doesn't change the eight seed point total, just
Speaker 1: changes who it is. Chicago Fire two right now thirty
Speaker 1: eight points, four matches to go at Land United two
Speaker 1: seven points back with four matches to go, Chattanooga FC
Speaker 1: behind by one goal and goal difference. They've also played
Speaker 1: one more match. Chttanoogev C has three matches to go
Speaker 1: regular season and if you have the chance to go
Speaker 1: back and listen to chattanoogev C can catch our buddy
Speaker 1: Gabe Shry who calls the matches up there. At Finn
Speaker 1: Carolina Corp. Five hundred on the road this season at
Speaker 1: five and five. After their rough start, they've really come
Speaker 1: around under Roy Lassiter. The nine seed right now, but
Speaker 1: they have two matches in hand on Chattanooga one on
Speaker 1: Chicago Fire two. So they're at thirty four. Red Bulls
Speaker 1: thirty three points. They are under five hundred at home,
Speaker 1: I mean at home, they're what are they at home?
Speaker 1: They're five six and one. No, No, they're away five
Speaker 1: six and one away from home. Wow, three five and
Speaker 1: four away from Montclair. So Red Bulls two right now
Speaker 1: at eleventh at thirty three points. Atlanta's at thirty one
Speaker 1: through twenty four matches. The only thing keeping a Toronto
Speaker 1: FC two in the playoff picture is that they have
Speaker 1: a match in hand with folks underneath them right now
Speaker 1: nine points out of a playoff spot, match in hand
Speaker 1: and they've got five to go. Huntsville City and New
Speaker 1: England have been eliminated from the postseason. Huntsville City at
Speaker 1: twenty three points, New England Revolution two at twenty to
Speaker 1: oh eleven and one away from home. So that's Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference in Major League Soccer. On the weekend, it was
Speaker 1: a handful of teams that were like and remember in
Speaker 1: Major League soccer, you have the option to play through
Speaker 1: international windows. Some teams needed to catch up on matches
Speaker 1: and they did that, and some teams got in trouble
Speaker 1: during those matches. So going back to last weekend and
Speaker 1: the handful of matches that were there, we'll start with
Speaker 1: the late and we'll work our way forward. Vancouver, Dallas,
Speaker 1: Goli Straw, Houston LAFC Goli Straw LAC did not have
Speaker 1: Kiki a Lavera, did not have Danny Bwanga, did not
Speaker 1: have Matu's Bogush, so shut out for Steve Clark and
Speaker 1: the Dynamo. DC beat Chicago at Seat Geek. Red Bullerena
Speaker 1: won to one draw Red Bulls in Sporting Kansas City.
Speaker 1: We talked about the two two draw with the Revs
Speaker 1: and Saint Louis. The other match was the first one
Speaker 1: on the board, Seattle and Columbus. So context Seattle beat
Speaker 1: the breaks off of Columbus four nill, but it was
Speaker 1: even until a moment late in the first half that
Speaker 1: involves part of the plot line that we have here
Speaker 1: that's attached to the rant for Wilford Nazi. Because Patrick
Speaker 1: Schulte was away on national team duty, they called up
Speaker 1: Abraham Romero to be their keeper. Evan Bush was injured,
Speaker 1: so Abraham Romero was the Cruise keeper. And because of
Speaker 1: all of the call ups that they've already made this season,
Speaker 1: they could not call up another individual, so Abraham Romero
Speaker 1: was the keeper. That's it. Abraham Romero, bang, that's it.
Speaker 1: The bench for Columbus on Saturday night did not have
Speaker 1: a second keeper. You had three players that were called
Speaker 1: up from Crew two. Oh impressed this, Tahaha Brun and
Speaker 1: Gibron Ryoh. Then you also had Derek Jones, Ya Yaboa,
Speaker 1: Dwan Jones and c Ram so you had a seven
Speaker 1: player bench. You did not have a backup keeper because
Speaker 1: of all of the call ups that you have already
Speaker 1: made this year. So Abraham Romero goes outside the eighteen
Speaker 1: for a challenge, plows into the Seattle player at forty
Speaker 1: five plus three gets a red card. So once again,
Speaker 1: no backup keeper for Wilford Nanci because of all of
Speaker 1: the previous call ups that he's made this year, and
Speaker 1: that included the match that was going on against Seattle.
Speaker 1: Two keeper injured Shelty Away on international team duty, so
Speaker 1: that men Abraham Romero got the call up. No backup,
Speaker 1: Romero gets a red card. Shan Zowatsky defender had to
Speaker 1: wear a keeper jersey for basically the remainder of the
Speaker 1: first half and all the second half, like fifty minutes
Speaker 1: or so of action where shan Zawadski has to wear
Speaker 1: a keeper jersey gets beaten on the set piece off
Speaker 1: of the red card as Albert Rusnach was on his
Speaker 1: way to a hat trick, one nail at the break.
Speaker 1: Jordan Morris scores in the sixtieth Rousknock scores. Basically, a
Speaker 1: brace within three minutes gets a hat trick. Seattle goes
Speaker 1: on to win at four nil. So that was a
Speaker 1: game the crew had to make up because they were
Speaker 1: kind of busy right now. In the Eastern Conference, Messi
Speaker 1: and friends have an eight point lead with twenty seven
Speaker 1: matches played. Cincinnati's eight back. Columbus still has a match
Speaker 1: in hand on Cincinnati. There are two points behind them
Speaker 1: right now in third at forty nine points. So it's one,
Speaker 1: then it's two and three, then it's red bulls, and
Speaker 1: then the fight starts five through the remainder. NYC at
Speaker 1: thirty nine, Charlotte at thirty eight, eight, Orlando at thirty seven, four, five, six,
Speaker 1: and seven are a group technically then because of all
Speaker 1: the action, Toronto's at thirty three, DC's at thirty two,
Speaker 1: that's your playoff bar, Atlanta's at thirty one, Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: at thirty four. Teams separated by three points eight through eleven.
Speaker 1: New England Montreal both at twenty seven points. New England
Speaker 1: ahead the goal difference of a minus twenty one Montreal's
Speaker 1: and minus twenty three Chicago and Nashville. Chicago at twenty
Speaker 1: eight matches as twenty six points, and they're ahead on
Speaker 1: goal difference by two. So twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, four
Speaker 1: teams separated by one point. After the match, Columbus loses
Speaker 1: four nil. Keeper gets a red. Shawan Zawatski has to
Speaker 1: play the remainder of the MA match as your keeper
Speaker 1: because you don't have a backup keeper because of all
Speaker 1: of the call ups that you've made this season, all
Speaker 1: those emergency callups that we always see, like so and
Speaker 1: so called up from the twos, all of the emergency
Speaker 1: call ups that were made, none of them could be
Speaker 1: an emergency keeper. And so your keeper gets a red
Speaker 1: that you called up that you had as your third
Speaker 1: but you had no backup. So after the match, and
Speaker 1: once again this is courtesy of of our friends in Columbus.
Speaker 1: This was what Wilfrid Nanci said, and like I said,
Speaker 1: it's a long thing, but it's worth it. This is
Speaker 1: what Wilford Nanci said after the match when he really
Speaker 1: wasn't even asked about it, but he talked.
Speaker 6: About it the game tonight to visit and my plan
Speaker 6: was to talk about Shustaph already win or lose, I'm
Speaker 6: gonna try to beat Coherent because this is not for me. Yes,
Speaker 6: we lost today, obviously I'm not happy with that, but
Speaker 6: I'm not appy also about the lack of understanding of
Speaker 6: a clear situations. So I'm going to explain myself after
Speaker 6: to night game. We are at salin nine matches played.
Speaker 6: We were mandated to have three goalkeepers on the team
Speaker 6: sheet for CCC. This is what we did. We had
Speaker 6: to use a coll op for a friendly game against
Speaker 6: aston Villa. So why I'm not happy before the game
Speaker 6: all the week it's happened. I was not appeal about
Speaker 6: that because there is a rule, as you know, we
Speaker 6: can use only four times four collps. One player from
Speaker 6: the reserve team was a contract as you know, you
Speaker 6: know the issue that we had with the goalkeepers, with
Speaker 6: even Bush, So we tried to anticipate that we trade
Speaker 6: for adding a Ford goalkeeper, knowing that we could have
Speaker 6: a situation like this today. And when we ask before
Speaker 6: the game to have another call Op four our goalkeeper
Speaker 6: for the reserve team, they said no, knowing that these
Speaker 6: games seattle. We were supposed to play this game in March,
Speaker 6: around March. So for me, yes, we lost. But again
Speaker 6: the MLS, the league, there is a clear evolution about
Speaker 6: the way we do things, the numbers of game that
Speaker 6: we have. There is addition for the League's Cup, there
Speaker 6: is addition for the World Cup, and so on and
Speaker 6: so on and so on.
Speaker 1: We are pleased with that. All.
Speaker 6: Yeah, when you ask me the question about how many
Speaker 6: games you gotta be tired, we have. We have a
Speaker 6: lot of games and so on. I never complained because
Speaker 6: I said we won't. So this is the reward of
Speaker 6: the fact that we won't. So we have games, and
Speaker 6: we are pleased with that. We are proud of that.
Speaker 6: But I cannot understand whence there is a lack of coherence.
Speaker 6: We have a simple rules. That's why we don't use
Speaker 6: the color when we do the frontly game, the precison game,
Speaker 6: we play the stone Villa, so start and call, we
Speaker 6: call them, they play serow minutes and we use all
Speaker 6: the eight corps total for them. So what is the point.
Speaker 6: I'm not asking to ban the coll ops. I'm asking
Speaker 6: to add more corps because we have more games. This
Speaker 6: is impossible to think like that for me. This is
Speaker 6: a lack of this is this is I'm losing a
Speaker 6: bit my words in English. But this is not this
Speaker 6: is a command in manonette and manionette. This is this
Speaker 6: is this honest. So we just asked to add a
Speaker 6: coll op because of the situation that I told you.
Speaker 6: We said no, they said no, But we use a
Speaker 6: coll op for the friendly game, and we we.
Speaker 1: Are a club to develop players.
Speaker 6: So what is the message? Knowing that I can talk
Speaker 6: because we have a young team, and we are able
Speaker 6: to win with a young team, and we are able
Speaker 6: to do good things with the academy. I'm really proud
Speaker 6: of all the players I want with the national team.
Speaker 6: I'm not complaining. I don't complain about that. I have
Speaker 6: no problem with that. I do this job for that.
Speaker 6: But why are we going to sign a player a
Speaker 6: young player a professional contract for one game, knowing that
Speaker 6: this is not the moment to sign this player, because
Speaker 6: what is going to happen what we're gonna sign this
Speaker 6: player is going to come in the local room, He's
Speaker 6: going to be part of the group. But he's not
Speaker 6: ready for that. So what is the message for the
Speaker 6: young players in the academy? Oh, yes, I signed a
Speaker 6: player because I didn't have a goalkeeper or they didn't
Speaker 6: have a player. Hey, to become a professional player. Sorry
Speaker 6: my language, but this is fucking difficult. Ah, we signed him. Call,
Speaker 6: we signed him, but there is different pathway with that call.
Speaker 6: We had to learn him because there is different pathway
Speaker 6: to become a good consistent player. I'm not saying that
Speaker 6: we will not sign player. I will like young players,
Speaker 6: That's why I'm here. I like also odd player, but
Speaker 6: then we should have consistency. It's a wrong message if
Speaker 6: we don't adjust that with the number of the game
Speaker 6: that we have, it's the wrong message. The league wants
Speaker 6: to add more young players, no problem. I started my
Speaker 6: career at eighteen years old, but I stop at twenty
Speaker 6: two years old. Maybe I started to first, Maybe I
Speaker 6: earned a lot of money when I was eighteen years old,
Speaker 6: but at twenty two years old, I had no more money.
Speaker 6: So what is the singal? So we're gonna sign a
Speaker 6: player to give him a good salary at eighteen years
Speaker 6: old or seventeen years old. Instead of winning thirty thousand dollars,
Speaker 6: we're gonna give him a salary of eight year thousand dollars.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be happy, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: it will not play. There is different pathway for few players,
Speaker 6: so the CBER they have to understand that. And I'm
Speaker 6: not upset because we lost the game.
Speaker 2: I was a bit.
Speaker 6: I was upset already before the game all week because
Speaker 6: this is not careerrent.
Speaker 1: Thank you courteousy of our friends at Massive Report. That
Speaker 1: was Wilford Nanci after lose the match at home to
Speaker 1: Seattle on the weekend. It is a topic that we've
Speaker 1: brought up here on the morning show a lot and
Speaker 1: nan Sea makes a lot of good points in this.
Speaker 1: You have to make a call up for a friendly
Speaker 1: against aston Villa and it counts against your numbers. If
Speaker 1: that is in fact the case, then you ought to
Speaker 1: get to make good from the league for having that
Speaker 1: call up that you had to have in a friendly
Speaker 1: that has no bearing on anything going on in Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer. We've talked about it when it comes to
Speaker 1: other competitions. We've talked about it when it comes to
Speaker 1: how the league in and of itself has addressed Open
Speaker 1: Cup in the past and probably should address Open Cup
Speaker 1: in the future. Relax your roster rules. Relax your roster
Speaker 1: rules in an Open Cup situation. Relax your roster rules
Speaker 1: for those friendlies. Because once again, as well for Nanzi
Speaker 1: said he had to make he had to have a
Speaker 1: call up for a friendly against aston Villa, And I
Speaker 1: think that what this is once again, I think that
Speaker 1: once again it emphasizes the need for Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I have something that would fit here.
Speaker 1: This notebook doesn't have all of the pages in it anymore.
Speaker 1: I've used a lot of pages traditionally when we have
Speaker 1: a notebook, you know, when we get the notebook at
Speaker 1: the beginning, this is almost like doctor Joe Macknick and
Speaker 1: the rule book. You know what, what what does the notebook do?
Speaker 1: Notebook's flexible rule the rules of the game. The rules
Speaker 1: of the game, according to Doctor Joe flexible. So once
Speaker 1: again we have an instance where Crew because of all
Speaker 1: of their specific rules that you have to have, the
Speaker 1: rules of engagement, the rules of the road when it
Speaker 1: comes to roster call ups, and the machinations of paying
Speaker 1: a player. I mean he mentioned Cole Moroca, who we've
Speaker 1: seen with Crew two with Atlanta United. To to help
Speaker 1: further Cole's career, you loaned him out. In some situations
Speaker 1: when you have to call a player up, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're paying them that you know, that daily salary,
Speaker 1: or you're signing him to a deal, to a first
Speaker 1: team contract, the veteran men, that eighty thousand number that
Speaker 1: he mentioned. But what good does it do? I mean,
Speaker 1: it does great for your bank account, no doubt, but
Speaker 1: what good does it do under the current construct of
Speaker 1: the rules. If you're called up, you're signed to a
Speaker 1: first team deal because you need a guy because you've
Speaker 1: got other guys that are, you know, off international duty,
Speaker 1: which is a good thing, But what good does it
Speaker 1: do the player if you sign him to a deal,
Speaker 1: you know, and if it is the first team contractor
Speaker 1: what have you. You bring the player up under whatever
Speaker 1: construct you want to use, and he doesn't play. Like
Speaker 1: I said, we've seen it with the Landy United that
Speaker 1: Landy United's had to bring players up just to kind
Speaker 1: of fill out a bench they don't play. But once
Speaker 1: again with will Ford NANSI what he said after the match,
Speaker 1: he said, he's not complaining about the match. It was
Speaker 1: what it was. He was mad coming in because of
Speaker 1: all of the machinations that he had to do, and
Speaker 1: he only had the one keeper because of all of
Speaker 1: the previous machinations he had because he's so successful as
Speaker 1: a club inside Major League Soccer, he only had the
Speaker 1: one keeper. Abram Romero gets a red card. Shan Zawatski,
Speaker 1: here's your multicolor jersey. You get to wear it for
Speaker 1: the rest of the day. But I think this is
Speaker 1: the most recent example of how the roster rules and
Speaker 1: the roster rules of engagement need to be more flexible.
Speaker 1: I don't understand if this is in fact the case
Speaker 1: where if you have to have callups for a friendly,
Speaker 1: how that counts against you. In your eight call ups
Speaker 1: during a year, four of which you can use, four
Speaker 1: of which players you can how that counts against you.
Speaker 1: I don't understand that. I really don't. That should be
Speaker 1: something that should be taken off to the side. It
Speaker 1: is a friendly. It is outside the construct of any
Speaker 1: kind of a competition that matters involving a Major League
Speaker 1: soccer club, but apparently it doesn't. So you've got to
Speaker 1: be mindful of who you call up for these kinds
Speaker 1: of things, knowing in fact that it is a friendly,
Speaker 1: knowing that you don't want to damage any of your starters.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, folks are paying good money
Speaker 1: to see your starters play minutes. So I think that
Speaker 1: once again Wilford Nanci is reinforcing the fact that we
Speaker 1: got to take a look at the rules of engagement
Speaker 1: from Major League Soccer, benefiting the clubs, making sure that
Speaker 1: they can be as flexible as possible when it comes
Speaker 1: to competitions, because if you're successful once again, you're gonna
Speaker 1: need to figure out how to navigate ate everything so
Speaker 1: you can be as one hundred percent as possible and
Speaker 1: that could have a not gone effect in how you
Speaker 1: navigate your Open Cup. Rosters do it like they do
Speaker 1: you know, the the NBA, the ten day deal, but
Speaker 1: don't sit there and put a number on it. You
Speaker 1: can only do it X number of times this season.
Speaker 1: Well what if what if you're successful, or what if
Speaker 1: you have more things going on than x number of
Speaker 1: games allow you get pinned into a situation like Wilford
Speaker 1: Nanci did this past weekend with Columbus. Like I said,
Speaker 1: we looked at the bottom of that roster, the game
Speaker 1: day roster, Tahaja Brun Gibron Rayo, and who was the
Speaker 1: third who was the third roster? Who was the third
Speaker 1: one that I can't remember, uh Tahaha Brun Gibron Ryo
Speaker 1: and the third one crap, I can't remember who the
Speaker 1: third one was. This is what happens when you end
Speaker 1: up with with crew two on the brain and you
Speaker 1: can't remember who it was, Who was it? Who wasn't?
Speaker 1: Who was it? Oh? Oh, I press this? I mean
Speaker 1: Seattle had Seattle signed Georgie Manongoo to a deal, and
Speaker 1: Niko Morena was under the impression that was probably gonna
Speaker 1: end up being a permanent But you look at Sutak Tahara,
Speaker 1: Dylan Tevis, Jacob Castro, those individuals are probably heading back
Speaker 1: to Tacoma. But Minongoo signed a deal, signed that first
Speaker 1: team contract. But they had a they meaning Seattle had
Speaker 1: a longer bench in this matchup than Columbus did. No
Speaker 1: backup keeper, seven players deep, three called up from Crew
Speaker 1: two nine for Seattle on the day, and it looks
Speaker 1: like three were called up from crew two and you
Speaker 1: sign man noon go to a first team deal. So
Speaker 1: once again, this is another situation, another variant of the
Speaker 1: same topic that we've had on a couple of different occasions.
Speaker 1: But my biggest raising of the hand is why should
Speaker 1: a friendly count against you? Why should a friendly count
Speaker 1: against you? Alex, Yes, this CBA really liked how it
Speaker 1: was in a generalized gripe about MLS, but a very
Speaker 1: specific takedown because players get paid for friendlies and the
Speaker 1: players' union doesn't differentiate the competition its members are laboring in.
Speaker 1: The union doesn't want the players to get used to
Speaker 1: too much without the guarantees of a contract. And no,
Speaker 1: it's not any and Alex, you know, Alex says it's
Speaker 1: not an easy thing to fix on the fly. As
Speaker 1: much as MLS loves to lay a directly in front
Speaker 1: of them, Alex doesn't think this is on them directly. No,
Speaker 1: I mean it was something that was negotiated in a CBA,
Speaker 1: and so I think that you have to have that
Speaker 1: baseline of you have to have those guideposts. But I
Speaker 1: think that also when it comes to competition. I think
Speaker 1: that the league can sit there and make allowances when
Speaker 1: it comes to call ups and player involvement, you know,
Speaker 1: second team players and academy players and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. If in that, you know, then if in
Speaker 1: that match, the fore nill not the the Villa friendly.
Speaker 1: If in I mean the friend, let the friendly be
Speaker 1: a friendly. Fine, But since it is outside of the
Speaker 1: construct of a match inside of Major League Soccer, then
Speaker 1: it shouldn't. It should not count against everything else that's attached.
Speaker 1: It's another example, another example of a couple of line
Speaker 1: items that are in the CBA that I think need
Speaker 1: to be looked at because then because of your own
Speaker 1: success and you're having to work on the fly, you
Speaker 1: get too late in the year and you have a
Speaker 1: situation like we have this weekend, amplified by the fact
Speaker 1: that the keeper that you had your only keeper, ends
Speaker 1: up with a red card. So I think that I
Speaker 1: think that both sides have to sit down at the
Speaker 1: table and make allowances for Okay, well, say a friendly
Speaker 1: doesn't attach itself to the regular season or any competitions
Speaker 1: that the Major League Soccers attached to League's Cup, Open Cup,
Speaker 1: regular season, so those outside friendlies should not count in
Speaker 1: the instances of trying to call someone up and be
Speaker 1: okay and just to have them, you know, and have
Speaker 1: it be okay basically. So I didn't know if I
Speaker 1: was going to go that long with it, but but
Speaker 1: I thought it was important. You know, when you've got
Speaker 1: when you have a coach like Wilford Nanci who is
Speaker 1: as successful as he is lay out an issue that
Speaker 1: he has with roster construction and being able to construct
Speaker 1: a roster on a game day basis. Like I said,
Speaker 1: much with Caleb Porter in our number one all right, Abby,
Speaker 1: good to see you, Thank you for catching up with
Speaker 1: me yesterday offline, and I thought I thought that hearing
Speaker 1: both of those press conference opportunities in their entirety, I
Speaker 1: thought it was important so we all can hear something
Speaker 1: more than a SoundBite when it comes to when it
Speaker 1: comes to those coaches and their issues that they have
Speaker 1: and understandably so okay. News of the day legitimately probably
Speaker 1: has more to do with our friends that the athletic
Speaker 1: than anything else. Abstromobiles almost completed with decor people, very
Speaker 1: very cool.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 1: Biggest topic that I wanted to get into this morning
Speaker 1: has to do obviously with Chelsea and the ownership crisis
Speaker 1: therein as it's being referred to. It appears that not
Speaker 1: everything is right in Mudville, and we go to our
Speaker 1: friends at the Athletic. I love how once again, how
Speaker 1: it's a New York Times byline. I think that I
Speaker 1: always thought that that was pretty funny. But it appears
Speaker 1: that obviously things ain't right right now with Chelsea as
Speaker 1: they sit there and they give me a as they
Speaker 1: give me an article about Ernest Slut and what he's
Speaker 1: going through at Liverpool, which is the one that I
Speaker 1: didn't click on. Why clearly In Bowley's marriage is at
Speaker 1: a breaking point once again? It is Toomey Simon Johnson
Speaker 1: and a lot more dudes. So a little bit more
Speaker 1: than two years after their takeover clear Lake's Capital, clear
Speaker 1: Lake Capital's marriage to Todd Buley is in tatters. Those
Speaker 1: are the words that they use. Rumbling is the discontent
Speaker 1: audible behind the scenes. Specific accusations of breakdowns and relations
Speaker 1: between Bowley and clear Lake co founder Beatadic Bali, We're
Speaker 1: always denied until now now, in the wake of a
Speaker 1: Bloomberg report last week that revealed clear Lake and Bully
Speaker 1: are each exploring the ownership options. All parties for the
Speaker 1: first time acknowledged the scale of the riff. People from
Speaker 1: there with Bowley's thinking say he considers his relationship with
Speaker 1: clear Lake and Igbali to be irreconcilable, and the others
Speaker 1: claim the two men barely speak to one another. Med
Speaker 1: the many points of contention broad agreement. Three factors, in particular,
Speaker 1: if contributed to the fracturing of the owners A fundamental
Speaker 1: cultural difference in how the Premier League club should operate.
Speaker 1: That's not good clear Lake and Bully, each believing the
Speaker 1: other has sought to unduly influenced sporting decisions. Two the
Speaker 1: decision to mutually part ways with Mauricio Pochattino at the
Speaker 1: end of last season, which exposed the first public fault
Speaker 1: lines three lack of tangible progress in the stadium project
Speaker 1: over the last two years, with the club not yet
Speaker 1: resolved on a revamp or a rebuild of Stamford Bridge
Speaker 1: or moving to a nearby sighted Earl's Court. Meeting took
Speaker 1: place last month when the pair decided to explore their options.
Speaker 1: Bowley and associates have received approaches from investors in recent
Speaker 1: weeks with a view to buying out clear Lake. While
Speaker 1: clear Lake has aspirations to buy out Bully, committing one
Speaker 1: point to more than one point two billion pounds in
Speaker 1: transfer fees generating more than five hundred million pounds in sales,
Speaker 1: Bully has been the name most often cited. He has
Speaker 1: not led recruitment at Stamford Bridge, however, since January of
Speaker 1: twenty three, when he relinquished his interim sporting director title
Speaker 1: once again. That coincided with Paul win Stanley and Lawrence
Speaker 1: Stewart as co sporting directors. Eg Bali remained very active
Speaker 1: on the sporting side, flying to Turkey with wyn Stanley
Speaker 1: to pitch Shaktardnets on a deal to sign Mikayla Mudric
Speaker 1: initially for seventy with a further thirty in potential due
Speaker 1: to do in performance related add ons. That's a possible
Speaker 1: one hundred million euro max on Moudric, contributing to why
Speaker 1: they signed him to an eight year deal so they
Speaker 1: could defray the cost all the way through. Win Stanley
Speaker 1: and Stewart continue to work closely with Eggbali. They led
Speaker 1: the negotiations on getting Enzo Fernandez from benficag Bali's more
Speaker 1: engaged in the day to day, but Stanford Bridge and
Speaker 1: at Cobbham the training complex. As the representative of the
Speaker 1: private equity, from the own sixty one and a half
Speaker 1: percent of the club's shares, he can be considered the
Speaker 1: most powerful figure. Bully's approach, is evidenced by his work
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers, is to hire specialists and allow them
Speaker 1: to get on with their jobs, while clear Lake, particularly
Speaker 1: ag Bali, has taken a role considered by Bully to
Speaker 1: be micromanaging. A source close to Bullie's side described Agbali's
Speaker 1: being obsessed with player trading. One person familiar with Clearlake's
Speaker 1: thinking disputes this, insisting Agbali's level of engagement in Chelsea's
Speaker 1: recruitment serves only to support Winn, Stanley and Stuart, not
Speaker 1: least regarding the numbers involving the transfers and contracts and
Speaker 1: structuring of deals where his financial acumen complements their football expertise.
Speaker 1: In any case, all major decisions taken at Chelsea requires
Speaker 1: sign off from Bowley, ag Bali and Clearlake co founder
Speaker 1: jose E Feliciano. Boley has never exercised his veto power
Speaker 1: over transfers. The lack of open resistance, according to figures
Speaker 1: close to him, is due to a desire to pick
Speaker 1: his battles. Similarly, Similarly, no clear like checks on any
Speaker 1: of the transfer business conducted during Bullie's ill fated tenure
Speaker 1: as interim sporting director in summer of twenty two, tried
Speaker 1: to address the unsuccessful signing selling Kula Bali and Obama Yang,
Speaker 1: freezing out Sterling before loaning him to Arsenal Yep. Many
Speaker 1: have questioned the wisdom of subsidizing a large part of
Speaker 1: Sterling's wages as he lines up for a team likely
Speaker 1: to be bone of Chelsea's competitors in the Champions League Totino.
Speaker 1: In the second half of May, Bully made public pronouncements
Speaker 1: at Sportico and that the quitar economic forum that appeared
Speaker 1: to advocate for keeping him on his head coach. Bully
Speaker 1: then raised his eyebrows at Stamford Bridge by inviting Pochettino
Speaker 1: to a private dinner on the Friday evening before chelsea
Speaker 1: season ending home win against Bournemouth, a courtesy that the
Speaker 1: coach promptly disclosed the journalist. In his final press conference
Speaker 1: of the campaign following Tuesday, it was announced that they
Speaker 1: decided to part ways. After six hours of discussions over
Speaker 1: two days at Cobham with wyn Stanley Stewart and agbaliwell
Speaker 1: Bully dialed in from the US. People familiar with Bully's
Speaker 1: thinking say he wanted Chelsea to retain Pochattino, didn't formally
Speaker 1: veto when the final decision was mutually reached. These sources
Speaker 1: and he considers meaning Bully. Bully considers egg Bali to
Speaker 1: be trigger happy and the driver of the call to
Speaker 1: move on in the Pochattino case. Also, a belief on
Speaker 1: the clear Lake side being overruled by Chelsea's sporting leadership
Speaker 1: on Pochattina was the tipping point for Bulli to begin
Speaker 1: exploring his options within ownership structure, diverging interests. Question is
Speaker 1: why the parties didn't see the tension coming when they
Speaker 1: came together to buy out Abramovich back in twenty two.
Speaker 1: Never operated a business together going in tensions during Pochettino's
Speaker 1: tenure and the way he played out his exposed the
Speaker 1: fault lines among Chelsea's owners once again, which have now fractured.
Speaker 1: So it is a long read, no surprise, but it
Speaker 1: goes into the stadium issues, and it goes into the
Speaker 1: relationship or lack thereof now with Bully and clear Lake,
Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens there. Matching rights veto powers
Speaker 1: regarding potential offers from outside investors. Clear Lake can therefore
Speaker 1: credibly argue all roads must go through its majority shareholder,
Speaker 1: but Bully and the others also have to a measure
Speaker 1: of protection against any changes to the ownership structure that
Speaker 1: do not have their approval. Also important note that not
Speaker 1: all Chelsea shares are created equal. Clear Lake shares are
Speaker 1: Class A Senior, Bully and his co investors are Class
Speaker 1: B junior meeting the latter are exposed to first loss
Speaker 1: of the club loses value. Walter and Viz would be
Speaker 1: guaranteed the same rate of return on selling their stakes
Speaker 1: as like Bali, Feliciano and clear Lake. Clear Lake and
Speaker 1: Bolli have set out their respective stalls, but posturing with
Speaker 1: an exaggerated level of conviction high level business. Neither party
Speaker 1: is going on the record to clearly state their intentions
Speaker 1: really and reassure the club's supporters. Nobody knows how or
Speaker 1: when this will end it ends quote. What is clear, however,
Speaker 1: is that the public litigation of these grievances only deepens
Speaker 1: the sense of disorienting instability Chelsea failed to escape since
Speaker 1: the first sale sign went up outside Stanford Bridge more
Speaker 1: than two years ago. So that is your requested required reading.
Speaker 1: Kind of bounced around and talked about it a little bit.
Speaker 1: But yes, according to Crafton, the source attention interesting more
Speaker 1: than just Postchatino's exit, which bully opposed but didn't formally
Speaker 1: veto ultimately a culture clash between investor types individual money
Speaker 1: equity versus private equity. And then Crafton has the look
Speaker 1: of that in New York Times. So that is that's
Speaker 1: your Monday. That's your monday here at SDH. Let me
Speaker 1: second see if there's anything to watch, what to watch,
Speaker 1: how to watch it, where to watch it, those kinds
Speaker 1: of things. Like I said, tomorrow, it'll be uh be
Speaker 1: back to normal unless something else breaks that we don't
Speaker 1: know about, and then we'll talk about it. So what
Speaker 1: to watch, where to watch it, how to watch it.
Speaker 1: Soccer on TV today got a lot of college stuff obviously.
Speaker 1: Nations League at ten o'clock on CBS Sports Network. Guatemala,
Speaker 1: Costa Rica Group play in Nations League France and Belgium
Speaker 1: at two forty five on FS two Valor and Ottawa
Speaker 1: eight o'clock in the Canadian Premier League on FS two.
Speaker 1: On the Plus La Liga two Castillo and Katis at three.
Speaker 1: Fox Soccer Plus has group play Cyprus, Costovo, Norway and
Speaker 1: Australia noon and two forty five concic CAB Nations League.
Speaker 1: It is a big day for concic CAB Nations League
Speaker 1: three six nine to twelve fifteen matches in concor CAB
Speaker 1: Nations League today. Trying to see if there are any
Speaker 1: interesting ones a Aruba Puerto Rico at eight, Guatemala, Costa
Speaker 1: Rica at ten. Apparently the Dominican Republic Dominica match is
Speaker 1: going on right now. Let's see Antiga and Barbuda take
Speaker 1: on Bermuda four. Barbados takes on the US Virgin Islands
Speaker 1: Cubanicaragua four, Saint KITT's Nevis on the b and the
Speaker 1: BBI at four thirty. Honduras and Jamaica is your nightcap
Speaker 1: at ten o'clock. So that's that's where to watch it.
Speaker 1: How to watch it because it's on Paramount Plus, all
Speaker 1: of it it's on Paramount Plus. So thanks to uh,
Speaker 1: thanks to Luca Pelacione. That was crazy. Uh, Luca Pelachoni,
Speaker 1: the press officer for the SANA, the Samona Nase, the
Speaker 1: San Marino men's national team for soccer. They were calling,
Speaker 1: he was calling in from Moldova. They got a friendly
Speaker 1: tomorrow against Moldova's They get ready for their matchup against
Speaker 1: Gibraltar to see if they can get out of Group
Speaker 1: D one and maybe get into Group C when it
Speaker 1: comes to Uaphan Nations League. Great for Bart to come by,
Speaker 1: and uh grateful that Bart let everything go on hold.
Speaker 1: Came back and we talked about yelling at people. So uh,
Speaker 1: that's all the info that you needed when it came
Speaker 1: to the US men's national team, all the roughing down
Speaker 1: here on Alex Morgan, all that kind of stuff that
Speaker 1: was USM and T at the soccer for USPOD at
Speaker 1: Bartamus Prime nineteen played Caleb porter Rant going into Bart's
Speaker 1: segment where he really might be getting a large or
Speaker 1: short envelope with a lot of large letters in it.
Speaker 1: Big fine, we'll see what happens. Keep an eye on
Speaker 1: Timothy Ford in his activity, see if there's any repercussion
Speaker 1: there when it comes across the board. And then it
Speaker 1: was catching up with all of you guys, and once
Speaker 1: again another rant well for Nanci, but there was a
Speaker 1: reason for it. I think there was a good reason
Speaker 1: to remind everybody about it. So that is the rundown
Speaker 1: of everything here today. Be back at it again in
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Speaker 1: single day from nine oh five until whenever we're going
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Speaker 1: That's just kind of how we are. But once again,
Speaker 1: thanks to everybody who hopped intoday. Listen to the two
Speaker 1: big Rants, Listen to Bart Rant, Listen to the story
Speaker 1: about what's going on in the in the Principality of
Speaker 1: San Marino morning. David, good to see you as well.
Speaker 1: Once again. Back in a little less than twenty two
Speaker 1: we'll do it all over again and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: everything going on in the world of soccer. I gotta
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