Speaker 1: But time now for the triumphant return. He's been a
Speaker 1: busy boy. He's traveling all over the place, but I
Speaker 1: believe he's back in town now. Brian Dunseeth RSL Legends, Dottie,
Speaker 1: how are you, buddy, I'm good.
Speaker 2: I'm good. Yeah, I appreciate that. By the way, two things.
Speaker 2: Number one, I'm so happy for you, man, you're absolutely
Speaker 2: killing it. I love to see the arc of your
Speaker 2: career and how you've established yourself as the voice of
Speaker 2: sports here in Utah, and just the role that you
Speaker 2: have in educating people and getting the guests that you have.
Speaker 2: You do such a great job. And then I'll know
Speaker 2: in my own minds. I like to think that tribe
Speaker 2: called Quest is be open just specifically for me. So yeah, man,
Speaker 2: I'm always appreciative of the opportunity to talk with you.
Speaker 2: My man.
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate the kind words. And yes, when we
Speaker 1: think Dottie, we think RSL. So it is for you,
Speaker 1: or excuse me, we think tribe call Quest it is
Speaker 1: for you. Are you back? Are you back on the ground, Bryan?
Speaker 2: I am, I am. I was just my wife and
Speaker 2: I were just calculating what these last two months have
Speaker 2: been since I did the United States first game against
Speaker 2: Turkey two months ago out in Stanford, Connecticut, and I've
Speaker 2: done thirty eight games in two months times. So the
Speaker 2: FIFA Club World Cup, I think I did twenty five
Speaker 2: games in twenty eight days back to MLS and then
Speaker 2: I just came off doing six games in eight days
Speaker 2: for the League's Cup. So very very very fortunate and
Speaker 2: a very very busy time. And my wife Jade is
Speaker 2: doing what I mean or can give me this opportunity
Speaker 2: for a dream drib.
Speaker 1: And it feels like to reciprocate your kind words, your
Speaker 1: career has really taken off as well. I mean, what's
Speaker 1: it kind of been like to expand this role that
Speaker 1: once upon a time was calling RSL games on the
Speaker 1: radio or doing pre aff and postgames on the radio
Speaker 1: with me, and now to experience where your career arc
Speaker 1: has taken you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, man, listen for those that don't know when
Speaker 2: I retired or what, they just basically said, you're not
Speaker 2: good enough. My first job in the business was with
Speaker 2: you doing prem postgame radio for real sell late games
Speaker 2: and that was that was two thousand and six. That
Speaker 2: would have been right around May two thousand and six.
Speaker 2: And you know, here hear this crazy path of not
Speaker 2: having an agent, and you know this trying to create
Speaker 2: relationships and be a man of your work and be
Speaker 2: a man of you know good, you know, like your
Speaker 2: morals and sticking to it, especially in this business which
Speaker 2: you know you can sell your you can sell your
Speaker 2: soul pretty quickly, as we've seen a lot of guys
Speaker 2: in our business do. Yeah, man, really really really fortunate.
Speaker 2: And the FIFA Club World Cup was the first time
Speaker 2: that I was getting the opportunity to be the undisputed
Speaker 2: number one analyst, you know, being able to call some
Speaker 2: amazing games with Andris Cantor for Lionel Messi, and then
Speaker 2: to Miami, to being there and watching PSG thrump Real
Speaker 2: Madrid and call the game from MetLife Stadium and that
Speaker 2: four mil thrashing, and then you know, four days later
Speaker 2: watching Chelsea beat PSG at their own game in the
Speaker 2: sellout of MetLife Stadium. You know, to the point where
Speaker 2: I got invited to a FIFA dinner one of those
Speaker 2: Gallas and I said, nah, I'm my left coast, Jay goes,
Speaker 2: are you out of your mind? You are absolutely going
Speaker 2: And it's Cipriani's on fifty fifth Wall Street and being
Speaker 2: there with Infantino and Arsen Benger and you know, iconic
Speaker 2: players like Stoychcough and Cofu and being around all the
Speaker 2: guys from the zone and you know, hearing them speak
Speaker 2: in front of me about you know the job that
Speaker 2: I do. It was. It was wild man, so very
Speaker 2: very very thankful, very fortunate. You know, a broadcast that
Speaker 2: on his own was doing good, jillions of numbers doing
Speaker 2: on T and T almost two million eyeballs for the game. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's outside of outside of calling a World Cup or
Speaker 2: calling a ua F Champions League final. This was the
Speaker 2: biggest game that I've could have been a part of.
Speaker 2: And yeah, hopefully keep the ball rolling and continue to
Speaker 2: grow and evolved as a broadcaster. It's it's been a
Speaker 2: fun ride.
Speaker 3: Man, it's really cool.
Speaker 1: I wonder, Donnie, how you would articulate because I heard,
Speaker 1: you know, Don Garber has told the story when he
Speaker 1: was in for our listeners who don't know. Don Garber
Speaker 1: is the commissioner of Major League Soccer and when he
Speaker 1: was with the NFL, they went overseas and he saw
Speaker 1: a real Madrid game and I think it was in
Speaker 1: it ins to Don who scored like a crazy scissor kick,
Speaker 1: like thirty yard bomb, and that was like Don's eye
Speaker 1: opening moment to wait. Soccer has played like this, And
Speaker 1: my father oftentimes tells the story similarly of being with
Speaker 1: the NBA NBA International prior to his staying with MSG,
Speaker 1: and he was over in Madrid and went to a
Speaker 1: Real Madrid game and saw the way soccer was played
Speaker 1: over there juxtaposed the way that it's played here. How
Speaker 1: do you articulate, like when you're calling a FIFA World
Speaker 1: Cup Championship match between two powerhouses like Chelsea and PSG,
Speaker 1: and then you're asked to call like a Columbus crew.
Speaker 3: I don't know, San Jose, game? What what?
Speaker 1: What are the main differences in the way the game
Speaker 1: is played at the highest of levels in Europe or wherever,
Speaker 1: opposed to the way that it's played here in Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer?
Speaker 3: And are we making progress here?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Let me let me, let me, let me attack
Speaker 2: this from the way you fit or doesn't get the
Speaker 2: respect that it deserves. And you and I go back
Speaker 2: to that first year with Real Salt Lake, playing up
Speaker 2: at Rice Cycles and trying to put together a team
Speaker 2: led by Jason Christ and Clant Mathis and Eddie Pope
Speaker 2: and Dante Washington myself, you know, mixed in with Brian Candler,
Speaker 2: mixed in with a bunch of dynamic, young, inexperienced, heavily talented,
Speaker 2: heavily egoed kids, and where the modern game is now
Speaker 2: versus then it's undescribable. I mean I could sit here
Speaker 2: and try to wax poetic verbally and I still wouldn't
Speaker 2: touch the growth that we have in a league soccer,
Speaker 2: the speed of player, the technical ability, the infrastructure. I mean,
Speaker 2: we were getting dressed in the football locker room, stepping
Speaker 2: out on that turf, and our bodies were breaking down
Speaker 2: on a daily basis because ten months training on turf
Speaker 2: and never being on grass is absolutely murdered all of us.
Speaker 2: And to see now what happens, you know, down at
Speaker 2: the Zebra, the training facility for we also like the
Speaker 2: infrastructure for the academy, for the Monarchs, for the Royals,
Speaker 2: the investment, the collective bargaining agreement, all these things. It's
Speaker 2: incredible what we've seen in real time. But we're also
Speaker 2: then trying to judge the you know, this juxtaposition of
Speaker 2: a team that's thirty years old, versus these infrastructures that
Speaker 2: are over one hundred years old. And even the game
Speaker 2: against Club America the other night, I mean, you have
Speaker 2: one hundred years worth of difference between these two clubs.
Speaker 2: We all saw laking Club America. You're talking about Chelsea,
Speaker 2: You're talking about PSG. It's to spend. You know, Chelsea
Speaker 2: spent over two billion dollars on players in the last
Speaker 2: three seasons, versus a PSG that has an unlimited checkbook
Speaker 2: because it's state funded. So when you're talking about that,
Speaker 2: you're talking about players that are worth you know, anywhere
Speaker 2: from fifty to one hundred million that are sprinkled throughout
Speaker 2: that roster. And to see the speed, the athleticism, the intelligence,
Speaker 2: the technical ability to see and try to put together
Speaker 2: food for thought when you're talking about tactics and you know, execution,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's just not fair to try to compare
Speaker 2: the elite of the elite versus what we've seen in
Speaker 2: Major League Soccer. I know, we're constantly trying to wed
Speaker 2: and this is what the brilliance of the FIFA Club
Speaker 2: World Cup because we say, oh, you know, like Fluminense
Speaker 2: in Brazil. You know, I wonder what they would look
Speaker 2: like against a premier league team, a game that matters.
Speaker 2: This summer was not about friendlies. This summer was about
Speaker 2: the winning team taking home over one hundred million dollars
Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars. So the balance is the speed
Speaker 2: of play is going to look different, the technical ability
Speaker 2: is going to look different, and the overall quality the
Speaker 2: assets are astronomical versus when you're in Major League soccer,
Speaker 2: you know that there's a really strong starting eleven and
Speaker 2: then it's going to taper off a little bit. But
Speaker 2: I think that's the brilliance of having owners like inter
Speaker 2: Miami with Jorge Mas and David Beckham that are pushing
Speaker 2: the envelope of growth in Major League soccer. I still
Speaker 2: don't think David Beckham gets the credit he deserves for
Speaker 2: coming at the time in which he did to the
Speaker 2: LA Galaxy. But I also don't think he gets the
Speaker 2: credit for what he's done in terms of building inter Miami,
Speaker 2: because I think that club is really going to push
Speaker 2: the envelope and fast track and rising tide is going
Speaker 2: to lift all ships in Major League socer, and I
Speaker 2: think we're going to see I call it nuclear arms spending,
Speaker 2: Spence I think you're going to see more and more
Speaker 2: nuclear arms spending because it's going to be the necessity
Speaker 2: of MLS teams having to spend between ten to fifteen
Speaker 2: million just to stay with him touching distance, as other
Speaker 2: teams are going to look to push the threshold somewhere
Speaker 2: between twenty five and thirty five million per off season
Speaker 2: and per summer transfer window.
Speaker 1: There have been some very notable signings as of late,
Speaker 1: and the sun has set in La Donnie.
Speaker 3: See what I did there, my guys, Sonny.
Speaker 2: I did and I can't.
Speaker 3: I'm excited.
Speaker 1: He's been my favorite because you know, I'm a Spurs
Speaker 1: guy and I've loved him for a long long time.
Speaker 1: In a vacuum. What sort of effect does this have?
Speaker 1: Not just for LAFC, but what does this say about
Speaker 1: players willingness to look at MLS.
Speaker 2: As strong as ever? Rodrigo de Paul leaving at Atletico
Speaker 2: Madrid to go play in Miami, you know, think about
Speaker 2: Thomas Mueller signing Invancouver leaving you know, FC Byron. This
Speaker 2: one's a little bit different though, because I don't think
Speaker 2: I know, you know the power of funny with the
Speaker 2: South Korean market. A guy who has one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty four international appearances for South Korea. He is he
Speaker 2: is a a K pop superstar footballer and it's funny.
Speaker 2: I do the podcast, the LC Podcast of an Expertos
Speaker 2: and the moment that there was the announcement that Sonny
Speaker 2: was leaving Tottenham Hotspur, we were doing the podcast and
Speaker 2: the jump in numbers on the podcast was extraordinary. Whether
Speaker 2: it's TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, the numbers are outlandish
Speaker 2: because out the money. Don't worry about the money the
Speaker 2: twenty six twenty seven million that's spent, that's going to
Speaker 2: be recouped the Jersey sales. I hope LFC and Adidas
Speaker 2: are prepared because that black and goal number seven in
Speaker 2: English and in care is going to be unbelievable. They
Speaker 2: had a Hello Kiddy Night at Bimo Stadium about a
Speaker 2: month ago and it was outrageous to see the response.
Speaker 2: This is going to be a destination demo stadium, a
Speaker 2: destination for not only the Korean fan base in Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: but the Korean fan base as a whole. I think
Speaker 2: it's genius. It's a messy level type impact, and that's
Speaker 2: what I think is the most fascinating that fans truly
Speaker 2: don't understand the South Korean market and this is so
Speaker 2: much bigger than anybody could truly understand in real time.
Speaker 2: And by the way, that's a branding commercial side. On
Speaker 2: the field, I'm in love with Sonny. I think he's
Speaker 2: fantastic as a human being. As a player, his net
Speaker 2: goal contribution, goals and assists is extraordinarily high. And for
Speaker 2: anyone says, yeah, but he's thirty three, he's thirty three
Speaker 2: with young man's legs, so plenty left in the tank.
Speaker 2: Brilliant execution from LAFC and I'm glad to deal up done.
Speaker 1: Your guy, Max handled that politician. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw the clip, but there was a city council woman.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, can we not have politicians involved in signings?
Speaker 3: They don't know their elbow from their rear.
Speaker 1: So she alluded to the fact that now that Sony's
Speaker 1: playing in LA somehow he's gonna help us win a
Speaker 1: World Cup, and then Max step steps up and brilliant
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, we might get a US South Korea final.
Speaker 3: I thought your guy handled that so well, del.
Speaker 2: Max man, he's the best. He's absolutely you know it
Speaker 2: reminded me of when Bastin Steinsteiger signed with the Chicago
Speaker 2: Fire and a similar thing happened. And so this is where,
Speaker 2: you know, let's I agree with you. Let's just keep
Speaker 2: politics out of sports and just let sports be sports.
Speaker 3: No doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 1: All right, before we get to some specifics with RSL,
Speaker 1: we've got a couple of years sample sized with this
Speaker 1: League's Cup tournament.
Speaker 3: Donny, what do you make of it?
Speaker 1: What do you like what we're trying to do here
Speaker 1: with MLS and LEGUA Macki's yeah, I do.
Speaker 2: I do the adjustment to the format that it is
Speaker 2: MLS versus League A Mechi's in every single game. I
Speaker 2: think it's brilliant. I think it helps both sides to
Speaker 2: really understand from a business perspective, from an on the
Speaker 2: field perspective, what's happening. Covering the Club America game, Pablo
Speaker 2: and I talked about it's going to make him and
Speaker 2: his coaching staff better because they're going to understand going
Speaker 2: against Jardiney, the manager from Club America, being one of
Speaker 2: the best in the region. You know, the influence, the tactics,
Speaker 2: the shape, the change of systems, the substitution patterns. All
Speaker 2: of that are hugely, hugely beneficial. And again, I think
Speaker 2: it's naive to suggest that there's not an opportunity for
Speaker 2: maybe Club America fans that see Real Salt Lake beat
Speaker 2: them to say, hey, hold on a second, I'm in
Speaker 2: Salt Lake City, my family, we grew up Club America fans.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go out and support Real Salt Lake.
Speaker 2: They're going to be my local team. And I'm still
Speaker 2: going to support Club America each and every time they're
Speaker 2: on television, and we can go to a game and
Speaker 2: support them. So there's a cross branding effect ahead of
Speaker 2: the World Cup next summer, Mexico, Canada and the United
Speaker 2: States holding games. And I think within you know, my
Speaker 2: friend is my rival, my rival is my friend. I
Speaker 2: think somewhere there's a conversation and the relationship between legan
Speaker 2: Mechi's and Major League Soccer to continue to evolve and grow,
Speaker 2: as well as creating organic rivalries in the meantime.
Speaker 1: How do these two leagues match up currently? I think
Speaker 1: once upon a time the gap between where League at
Speaker 1: Mekis was and MLS was was massive.
Speaker 3: Is that gap closing?
Speaker 1: Do you think these two leagues are at least on
Speaker 1: similar footing at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's certain teams that have passed the
Speaker 2: majority of the League A Mechi's teams, but the superstar
Speaker 2: teams are still the superstar teams. And you know, when
Speaker 2: you talk about the monsters and the giants of chieves Ta, Guadalajara,
Speaker 2: Pulmas Cruz, as who think about America, think about Tige,
Speaker 2: I think about Pachuca, think about Monterey, you know they.
Speaker 2: I think more and more you're seeing LEGA Mch's leadership
Speaker 2: adopt ideas that MLS has had. I think you're seeing
Speaker 2: League A Mechi's teams be really impressed with the infrastructure
Speaker 2: and the spend of the way that MLS is doing things.
Speaker 2: And I think more and more, as these games happen,
Speaker 2: there's going to be more players that their first instinct
Speaker 2: would be to play for League A Mechis that are
Speaker 2: now saying, hold on a second, I've played against that
Speaker 2: MLS team. They're really good. I'd rather be a part
Speaker 2: of that. And thinking about from a family perspective, off
Speaker 2: the field perspective, and what that looks like of life
Speaker 2: in America. So I think a lot of things are
Speaker 2: happening right now that are wake up calls for league
Speaker 2: at mechis that are wake up calls for Major League Soccer.
Speaker 2: And overall, I think it's going to strengthen the product product,
Speaker 2: both on and off the field.
Speaker 1: So over to ours. A couple of minutes left, I've
Speaker 1: got with you, Donnie. There they are unbeaten in nine
Speaker 1: of their last ten. We'll get to the new additions.
Speaker 1: But what do you what do you to tribute this
Speaker 1: recent turn of form too.
Speaker 2: I think it was adapting to who they weren't and
Speaker 2: by that I mean the departures of Crooks, Chicho Anderson,
Speaker 2: Julio Andres Gomez. I thought, and I understand the ownership
Speaker 2: change created its own circumstances, but Pablo was kind of
Speaker 2: put in a lurch to try to compete with the
Speaker 2: big spenders and the strengthening of rosters at the start
Speaker 2: of the season. He's adjusted. And by the way, for
Speaker 2: anyone that doesn't think Pablo is very very intelligent, he
Speaker 2: and his staff in terms of tactics, just look at
Speaker 2: the response of how they got the best out of
Speaker 2: Paulo Luiz. When Brian o'heeda was away trying to get
Speaker 2: his paperwork sorted. The evolution of Diego Luna while he
Speaker 2: was gone and coming back to a team, and now
Speaker 2: you know the significant spend on both Rowan Cruz and
Speaker 2: Olatunji and what that means even with strengthening maybe a
Speaker 2: couple other domestic spots before this summer transfer window closes.
Speaker 2: I think what Pablo and his team have done if
Speaker 2: they put themselves in a position to get into the
Speaker 2: playoffs when that certainly wasn't a certain It wasn't for sure.
Speaker 2: And now how quickly can they adapt both the new
Speaker 2: players into the team. Can the new players adapt to
Speaker 2: the culture, the dynamics, the training habits, and then the
Speaker 2: structure and go out and be the best version of
Speaker 2: themselves and the reason why they were brought into play
Speaker 2: for Risso Lake.
Speaker 1: So let's dig into these signings real quick. Ron Cruz,
Speaker 1: we saw him last night for about thirty minutes. It
Speaker 1: was a pretty quiet thirty minutes. He's brought in as
Speaker 1: a DP. Pablo on the show called them a nine
Speaker 1: point five somebody who can play striker but also make plays,
Speaker 1: so designated player. There's a purchase option at the end
Speaker 1: of eighteen months. What do you know about him? How
Speaker 1: do you think you'll fit in here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So a player that was a part of Bodafogo's
Speaker 2: squad for FIFA Club World Cup, didn't play, hasn't played
Speaker 2: a lot of minutes recently, very dynamic, high high, high ceiling,
Speaker 2: spent some time over in Europe, scored I think twenty
Speaker 2: four goals and like fifty appearances, came back. If he's
Speaker 2: coming out of Brazil, I would put him. Yeah. I
Speaker 2: would use the example of Colorado's Hafel Navajo, the number nine,
Speaker 2: where it took him a little bit of time to
Speaker 2: adapt and once he did adapt, these last ten years
Speaker 2: two years, he's been fantastic. So I'm hoping he's like
Speaker 2: Hafa Navajo in Colorado. Great size, great intelligence, great technical ability.
Speaker 2: He's adapting to the teammates. The teammates are adapting to him,
Speaker 2: similar to Williagatta. Similar. The good news is he's early,
Speaker 2: like Chicho al Latunji, great experience Nigerian in Sparta Prague.
Speaker 2: He's got some international understanding of what it means. He's
Speaker 2: kind of a right side underneath type Ish player. They
Speaker 2: need that, especially with Dominic Marchuk being nowhere near the
Speaker 2: player we thought he was capable of being so we'll
Speaker 2: see how quickly they adapt. Still think they need competition
Speaker 2: at right back. Besides that, everything else looks pretty good.
Speaker 2: I need to see more from Diogo Gonsalvez. Still haven't
Speaker 2: seen enough from him. But they got some tough decisions
Speaker 2: to make, and we'll see as important players coming in,
Speaker 2: I think is as important as some of the players
Speaker 2: going out.
Speaker 1: So the Olatunji kid, the Victor Olatunji kid more of
Speaker 1: a natural nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And also.
Speaker 1: Both these two players Doney are big and tall and long,
Speaker 1: and Pablo on the show a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: was kind of bemoaning the fact that they just aren't
Speaker 1: a very big team. They actually just scored their first
Speaker 1: corner of the year and it was Oheita, who suddenly
Speaker 1: is like scoring goals left and right, which is wild.
Speaker 1: But as far as the natural nine, how do you
Speaker 1: think a tune Gi fits in?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if he's a true number nine.
Speaker 2: To be quite honest with him, With what I've seen
Speaker 2: so far, I think he's I would probably use very
Speaker 2: similar the nine point five conversation, or maybe an underneath
Speaker 2: type of guy, or maybe even like on the right
Speaker 2: hand side when he's facing goal. He's frightening, and that's
Speaker 2: what they're going to look Listen. You know for Pablo
Speaker 2: talking about bodies, you know, a god is good size,
Speaker 2: peels and good size, but they need players that conversion
Speaker 2: to opportunity is much higher. And you know, the Cover
Speaker 2: Medica game is maybe the perfect example of the Cincinnati game,
Speaker 2: the perfect example that Willie a Gotta puts himself in
Speaker 2: some great spots, but he's not a natural converter. He
Speaker 2: needs three or four opportunities. And so that's effectively what
Speaker 2: you're trying to buy is guys that need two chances
Speaker 2: to find the back of them as opposed to guys
Speaker 2: that you have that need three to four chances. So
Speaker 2: that's going to be the challenge for the two new
Speaker 2: guys coming in.
Speaker 1: You may have answered this question because you reference the
Speaker 1: compet right back that you think needs to be there.
Speaker 1: But Kurt on the show yesterday alluded to one or
Speaker 1: if not two potential additions before this window closes, which
Speaker 1: I believe is in about two and a half weeks.
Speaker 1: Any thoughts on where that could or should be? What
Speaker 1: does that look like?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm of the belief since Brooks Lennon and
Speaker 2: Aaron Herrera left Real salt Lake And these are multiple,
Speaker 2: multiple years that Real Salt Lake has been extremely weak
Speaker 2: at the right back position. You know, Andrew Brody was
Speaker 2: supposed to be the guy, and Body Hidalgo was supposed
Speaker 2: to be the guy. You know, You've gone through three
Speaker 2: or four or five different options. Noel Kalaskin has done
Speaker 2: a fantastic job, but I'm not of the belief that
Speaker 2: he's a right back. Kimmler to win Mechanelli was being
Speaker 2: played at right back, I didn't think he was a
Speaker 2: right back. So there's going to be players that are
Speaker 2: experienced and that are going to be made available. And
Speaker 2: I'm of the belief that what this roster needs is
Speaker 2: experienced MLS type of veteran guys in that locker room
Speaker 2: that can help navigate some of the lesser experienced players
Speaker 2: as well as some of the foreign players that don't
Speaker 2: know the riggers and the daily ins and outs of
Speaker 2: what it takes in Major League Soccer. I think having
Speaker 2: a couple of really experienced MLS guys are always important,
Speaker 2: and I would use that example. I would use the
Speaker 2: example of Toronto FC when Toronto FC had Giovinco and
Speaker 2: they had Michael Bradley, and they had Josie Altador. They
Speaker 2: still had the Jonathan Assorios. They had the Beta Shores,
Speaker 2: they had the Justin Morrows, they had the Drew Moores.
Speaker 2: And I think it's a very undervalued group of players
Speaker 2: that become high value type of players for a team
Speaker 2: in the locker room.
Speaker 1: I believe eleven matches left Dottie before the end of
Speaker 1: the season, before he set you loose. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like this recent turn of form, combined with the additions
Speaker 1: will be enough to get RSL into the playoffs and
Speaker 1: maybe do something I'll just say somewhat interesting.
Speaker 2: I think they're a playoff team with these additions. I
Speaker 2: don't think they're a home playoff team with these additions.
Speaker 2: That creates its own set of circumstances. But as I
Speaker 2: say that, I would reference last year in the final
Speaker 2: was LA Galaxy against the New York Red Bulls. It's
Speaker 2: a different tournament once you get into the playoffs, and
Speaker 2: it's all about form, it's all about momentum, and the
Speaker 2: idea of this weekend being a perfect example, if we
Speaker 2: also LA can go to the New York Red Bulls
Speaker 2: and walk away with three points, that's the type of
Speaker 2: mentality that they need to start creating. It's a free hit,
Speaker 2: it's out of conference, and you need to be able
Speaker 2: to understand that you are going to have to be
Speaker 2: on the road in the playoffs based on that first
Speaker 2: half of the season. So if you start to do that,
Speaker 2: then you build yourself to confidence and the momentum necessary
Speaker 2: to potentially make a run at an MLS Stup final.
Speaker 1: All Right, my guy, I appreciate the time as always,
Speaker 1: Welcome back, welcome home. Go spend some time with that
Speaker 1: family and we'll chat soon.
Speaker 2: Be well, okay, appreciate you, ma man, thank you all right.
Speaker 1: Brian donseeth rsl vet's played ten years in MLS, was
Speaker 1: on the Olympic team, was the captain of that Olympic team,
Speaker 1: and now broadcaster for Apple TV and Turner Sports, doing
Speaker 1: some really really big matches including the FIFA Club World
Speaker 1: Cup final between Chelsea and PSG, which is pretty phenomenal
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