Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go. It's another edition of
Speaker 1: First eleven eleven minutes or less with the Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer US Soccer Hall of Famer Bruce Murray. It is
Speaker 1: DC not on the road against the New York Red Bulls.
Speaker 1: Also news today d C and I will be taking
Speaker 1: on the Charleston Battery May sixth, US Open Cup action
Speaker 1: important to support the team. Remember last year when the
Speaker 1: Open Cup controversy about the MLS teams were not going
Speaker 1: to be in the Open Cup and they talked about
Speaker 1: while not getting the crowds. So I think it's important
Speaker 1: for soccer supporters to show up May six because we
Speaker 1: want this tournament. We love this tournament. Bruce Murray, your
Speaker 1: experience with the with a tournament.
Speaker 2: We actually won the Amateur Cup with an amateur team
Speaker 2: here in town called the Spartans the Greeks. The Greek
Speaker 2: teams had had you know, representatives. We crashed out of
Speaker 2: the Open Cup, but in the in the Amateur Cup
Speaker 2: we did quite well. But you know the other thing
Speaker 2: about this particular event is it's like the Fake Cup.
Speaker 2: Anything's possible, right, Anything's possible. And I think if you
Speaker 2: if you look at you know, right down our bench
Speaker 2: and go to the very prominent person on the bench.
Speaker 2: His name is Troy Last, our head coach, and the
Speaker 2: Charleston battery coming. That is uh, you know, that's going
Speaker 2: to be mixed emotions for him because that's really where
Speaker 2: where his professional career was.
Speaker 1: Great point, But again, I think it's important because it
Speaker 1: became such a controversy. Wait a minute, MLS side should
Speaker 1: be a US Open Cup. But I did understand Commission
Speaker 1: Garber's counter argument noting that there were a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, small crowds and because of that, you're playing
Speaker 1: at alternative, alternate venues. So I think if we want
Speaker 1: to make the US Open Cup continue to be a
Speaker 1: thriving competition, it's important for the supporters of the game
Speaker 1: to get out. So that's May six at Autifield.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, Dave, that that is that is a
Speaker 2: great point because if you if you want it, then
Speaker 2: you've got to go out and you got to put
Speaker 2: your money where mouth is and that's that's the bottom line.
Speaker 1: Well no, and that's just it. And if you don't
Speaker 1: want it, if you don't want to pay for it,
Speaker 1: you don't want to show up, then I don't think
Speaker 1: you can complain when Commissioner Garber says, you know, we
Speaker 1: don't need to be in that competition because it does
Speaker 1: come down to it, it's not worth it if only
Speaker 1: a thousand people are showing up. So we look forward
Speaker 1: to May six against the Charleston Battery and the US
Speaker 1: Open Cup. All right, d C United, New York Red Bulls.
Speaker 1: It was a loss last week def C Cincinnati, but
Speaker 1: a recovery what would you describe? And as this DC
Speaker 1: United team transitions from losing six to one, are we
Speaker 1: getting closer to getting should we say back on track?
Speaker 1: Or how does doctor Bruce Murray diagnose the situations?
Speaker 2: You know, we broke our leg and then it was
Speaker 2: a compound fracture when it was six to one, you know,
Speaker 2: and San Jose and now all of a sudden in
Speaker 2: the second half. We found our footing the other day
Speaker 2: and we were playing some wonderful football for thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: We were we were, you know, foot on the gas,
Speaker 2: couldn't quite put it away. So if you look at
Speaker 2: things like I do, in thirds, you know, eight games in,
Speaker 2: you know, if you can steal a couple of points
Speaker 2: in that that first third of games, uh, then and
Speaker 2: your team is now right where you need it to be.
Speaker 2: You're playing good football, and now you're learning how to
Speaker 2: win points versus performances, like even if the performances aren't
Speaker 2: as good, then you're a team that's got You know,
Speaker 2: you really can't hit panic buttons until you're done with
Speaker 2: the second third and you're and you're not putting something
Speaker 2: together on the field. What I saw in the second
Speaker 2: half was really good football.
Speaker 1: Panic is a good thing to point out because it's
Speaker 1: hard not to get a little squeamish if there's a
Speaker 1: four to one loss, a six to one loss. But
Speaker 1: when we're talking as we talk here in April, you
Speaker 1: start panicking. And you know this is if you if
Speaker 1: you're a player in the locker room and senses that
Speaker 1: the coaches is panicky, that that suddenly it's all changed.
Speaker 1: Often that doesn't end well. Then it becomes a scrambled there.
Speaker 1: You do have to adjust things, but there has to
Speaker 1: be belief in what you were doing, in what you
Speaker 1: sold to the players at the start of the season.
Speaker 2: That's right, Dave. And you know, you know I becked
Speaker 2: Troy li saying, I just love the way he goes
Speaker 2: about his business. You know, he never talks about like
Speaker 2: laying into the players, and we know, you know that
Speaker 2: Troy's he's the kind of guy that's will He's so
Speaker 2: honest to me as a coach that he you know,
Speaker 2: I know he gives it to people if he has to.
Speaker 2: And as a group, he wants to hear from the
Speaker 2: group what's more, what's better than a player? And everyone
Speaker 2: can talk about the old school days and Alex Ferguson
Speaker 2: and the hair dryer speeches. Don't think that doesn't happen occasionally,
Speaker 2: because it does. No coach survives without the ability to
Speaker 2: have that in his arsenal. Okay, but this coach also
Speaker 2: lets players have a little bit of say and that
Speaker 2: makes players feel good, and players that feel good play good.
Speaker 1: All right, But finishing scoring goals? DC United needs more
Speaker 1: than ben Teke. So that was your specialty? Scoring goals?
Speaker 1: How does that happen?
Speaker 2: When Leo Messi goes in, Liono Messi goes in to
Speaker 2: a dribble and just starts spreading up people with the ball,
Speaker 2: you can ask him. He doesn't know what he's going
Speaker 2: to do. He just works off the situation. If you
Speaker 2: watch Pirani the other day, he ran at people again,
Speaker 2: like he did last year and he hasn't been doing
Speaker 2: that this year. And so we had we had Peglo
Speaker 2: Piranib guys just running at people with the ball and
Speaker 2: what that does is it completely unbounces his defenses. It
Speaker 2: allows them to get off of ben Teke right as
Speaker 2: the primary mark and Ben tech becomes mobile. Ben Techy
Speaker 2: can't do anything in this league if he's not mobile,
Speaker 2: because he's he's just a target.
Speaker 1: Right. So the individual brilliance is then important when you're
Speaker 1: talking about what a Peglo, what a Prowny can can
Speaker 1: bring because if if the player as he's dribbling doesn't
Speaker 1: know what he's going to do, the defender doesn't.
Speaker 2: Know absolutely, And that's the key, that's the key to it,
Speaker 2: you know, is just to make sure that you're willing
Speaker 2: to go and take on that risk. And it's almost
Speaker 2: like somebody from the bench or or somebody hit a
Speaker 2: switch and said, hey, guys, you know what, just go
Speaker 2: just go pretend you're eleven years old again and you're
Speaker 2: you're in your your club team and you're the best
Speaker 2: player on the field. Go for it. And that's what
Speaker 2: it looked like, Dave. It really did for thirty five minutes.
Speaker 1: And that has to be repeated against the Red Bulls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does, it does. But at the same time, defensively,
Speaker 2: I said it the other day, we still have to
Speaker 2: squeeze in. We have to bring one, you know that
Speaker 2: that second center midfielder back. We have to bring the
Speaker 2: off the weak sided midfielder in so that we end
Speaker 2: up with that three man middle becomes a six man
Speaker 2: middle and slows them down. Because again Red Bulls probably
Speaker 2: one of the better teams on the fast break. We've
Speaker 2: got our league as a fast break league, there's no
Speaker 2: question about it.
Speaker 1: The prescription of doctor Bruce Murray, we just elevated you
Speaker 1: to doctor status. It is first the level. We appreciate
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Speaker 1: Bruce Murray, I'm Dave Johnson. Yeah, thanks for the time.
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