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Speaker 3: Welcome to Eye on the Ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 3: fourteen fifty. Welcome to Thursday, and would be today? Is
Speaker 3: Dave Silver my usual guy sometimes in the week. Good
Speaker 3: to be back. How's that my usual guy sometimes in
Speaker 3: the week, sometimes in the week. Yeah, that's contradiction. And
Speaker 3: our guy Kobe, Hello, Kobe, Kobe.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 3: I'm sure everybody knows by now, but the women's team.
Speaker 5: Lost women's basketball, losing their first game in the Big
Speaker 5: twelve Tournament to Colorado sixty one to fifty eight. Arizona
Speaker 5: had a pretty big lead and you could not hang
Speaker 5: on by pretty sad.
Speaker 3: How many times have you seen that this year in
Speaker 3: men's and women's.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they were outscore twenty one to ten
Speaker 5: in the fourth quarters. They had an eleven points I
Speaker 5: basically had an eight point lead and could not close
Speaker 5: out thing out.
Speaker 3: So there was a weird, a weird I'll say this
Speaker 3: a weird interview at the end with the broadcast guy.
Speaker 3: I don't know his name, although he's been on the
Speaker 3: show an idea because you know, this is this what
Speaker 3: she does after the game, and he kind of misspoke
Speaker 3: about what's next and looking at the future after this,
Speaker 3: kind of maybe knowing that there's not gonna be a
Speaker 3: future this year if they don't make the tournament, right.
Speaker 2: And she said chance.
Speaker 3: She didn't say that, but you can assume that she
Speaker 3: was thinking that because the question was odd. And he
Speaker 3: apologized because you know, he's already any of the season
Speaker 3: and they have yet, but they're there. If there's a bubble, yeah,
Speaker 3: if there's a bubble, the bubble is not good.
Speaker 2: They're probably not even on the bubble.
Speaker 3: Right, that's a good way to put. The bubble is
Speaker 3: over there? Yeah, yeah, So which is And they had
Speaker 3: a decent season nineteen and whatever it was, nineteen and
Speaker 3: eight sodian and nine twenty wins would have looked better,
Speaker 3: they would have won the first game in the conference.
Speaker 3: We'll see what happens, because you know, I think it's
Speaker 3: a lot of unspoken stuff that we don't know what's
Speaker 3: going to happen.
Speaker 5: They're pretty far down just in the Big twelve and
Speaker 5: looking at the list, I mean, they were nineteen and thirteen,
Speaker 5: didn't didn't finish the season strong. You know, there was
Speaker 5: just it was just an up and down year early on,
Speaker 5: you know, victories and then just kind of you know,
Speaker 5: trying to get through the Big twelve schedule was tough
Speaker 5: for them as well, and you know, the usual suspects, injuries,
Speaker 5: things like that just kind of came back to haunt them.
Speaker 2: I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we'll see what happens beyond the next couple
Speaker 3: of weeks. I don't think I don't think there's a
Speaker 3: postseason non in C Double A. I know they did
Speaker 3: really well on that one few years ago. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: wn I T I don't know if that's still an
Speaker 3: option or whatever.
Speaker 5: Even it is something, there is something they want to
Speaker 5: do that though, I mean I don't know. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: if they again, it could be one of those financial
Speaker 5: things like, hey, you know, the WI really want you
Speaker 5: because we know you're going to draw, right, you know,
Speaker 5: eight thousand fans for some game.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We'll see what happens in the next week or so,
Speaker 3: because the tournament selections will be coming out here in
Speaker 3: the soon and they just didn't show it today.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the league is pretty good. I mean
Speaker 5: TCU is you know twenty eight and three and twenty one. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Baylor's really good. So there's a couple of really good
Speaker 5: teams in the conference itself. But Arizona was kind of
Speaker 5: in the middle of the pack all season long, and
Speaker 5: it was an eight nine seeded type game today, so
Speaker 5: sadly they could not get it finished.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, we'll talk about that if you want
Speaker 3: to give us a call for that. We're gonna have
Speaker 3: a couple of good callers today. Our couple of guests,
Speaker 3: I should say, we wouldn't have Wolfgang Weber at three seventeen,
Speaker 3: of longtime soccer coach at South Point. They wont another
Speaker 3: state title. I'll ask them how many there have been,
Speaker 3: because there have been a.
Speaker 2: Number of them.
Speaker 3: I have to research that one the grandfather of soccer
Speaker 3: and Tucson yep. And then we're gonna have at four seventeen,
Speaker 3: we're gonna have Paul Wolpi, one of my great sponsors
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Speaker 3: at for the Cult of Guard Classic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he'll be.
Speaker 5: On talking about that, driving down Rise to come here
Speaker 5: to the studio, and there's a bunch of easter coming
Speaker 5: east Yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 2: It wasn't.
Speaker 5: You know, there were cars there and there's buses and
Speaker 5: stuff like that. But I guess tomorrow it begins officially,
Speaker 5: which sadly looks like it's going to be raining.
Speaker 2: It could be a problem tomorrow. But are you going
Speaker 2: there anytime?
Speaker 5: I might try to get out there on the weekend.
Speaker 5: I't have to talk to Paul about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going.
Speaker 3: I'm going said it with a friend and Sunday again
Speaker 3: later with another friend, so we should see what happens.
Speaker 3: Sunday should be fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean those tournaments have always been one of
Speaker 5: the highlights of the year, and it's nice. You know,
Speaker 5: it's kind of now tucked in the middle of town,
Speaker 5: so it's kind of easier to get.
Speaker 3: To, except people are afraid of the parking. Do you
Speaker 3: know where the standard parking?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. I don't know. I mean I
Speaker 2: saw some signs.
Speaker 5: Again, if you're coming on sunrise, you can see the
Speaker 5: signs like park here for you know, a lot one
Speaker 5: or something like that, or a bus parking. There's probably
Speaker 5: a place. I'm gonna think I don't know for sure.
Speaker 5: Paul can tell us, but I'm sure there's gonna be
Speaker 5: shuttles coming together, maybe Long Cantata or someplace.
Speaker 3: Or down even like the Tucson Mall or something really
Speaker 3: coming up. Well, probably because you know, up heres kind
Speaker 3: of like scares.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're gonna be on Golf Channel.
Speaker 5: I was checking out some golf today, just with some
Speaker 5: of the PGA events. But they'll be on the Golf
Speaker 5: Channel pretty much all weekend, late in the day. It's
Speaker 5: kind of weird how they do that. But I may
Speaker 5: I think it might be even taped to like you.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure it is. I I have, but not
Speaker 5: not as much as I do younger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like me.
Speaker 3: I was just wondering if you played it in the
Speaker 3: celebrity or the program or whatever they have.
Speaker 5: One time I was invited to play the LPGA pro am.
Speaker 5: So that was I don't know, twenty years ago. Maybe, Yeah,
Speaker 5: Chris Cheddar anybody remember that. No, she was from I
Speaker 5: want to say, like North Dakota, I mean like a
Speaker 5: non non golf state.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I had a great time. It was really fun.
Speaker 5: I didn't hurt anybody, you know, terrified in that first
Speaker 5: t shot fortune they.
Speaker 2: Weren't too many people. Yeah, but she was great.
Speaker 5: It was really you know, I think about it, it was
Speaker 5: really a lot of fun. She was she was a
Speaker 5: good sport and you know she understood the caliber players
Speaker 5: that she was playing alongside.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Cool, Okay, again, the number is five two oh four
Speaker 3: one six seventy four forty If you want to give
Speaker 3: us a quick call, we have some time now. We're
Speaker 3: gonna have Wolfgang at four seventeen, and then we'll be
Speaker 3: open at four to thirty five. And I think Coe's
Speaker 3: just grabbing his information for breaking news, right yep? Okay cool,
Speaker 3: and then we'll have, like I said, Paul Volpi, and
Speaker 3: then more time for calls. So you know, here we
Speaker 3: go another day closer to the Kansas game. Yep, we'll
Speaker 3: see what happens. Kansas is just not as desperate as well.
Speaker 3: I don't know who's more desperate, Kansas or you A Well,
Speaker 3: what does you have you have to play for?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 3: They don't I don't think. I don't think it's a
Speaker 3: three or four right, three four five? See oh seed?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Sorry, as the Big twelve tournament. No, it doesn't matter anymore. No,
Speaker 3: And they've overcheved. I thought they've overcheved. Don't you think
Speaker 3: you have a yeah, because they're a pick fan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean yeah, I think it's because we just
Speaker 5: weren't sure how some of the new guys are going
Speaker 5: to fit in and how the whole season was going
Speaker 5: to play out with that, and.
Speaker 2: You know, the inconsistency.
Speaker 5: I guess it turned out overall it was okay based
Speaker 5: on how they wound up, you know, wrapping things.
Speaker 3: Up good to maya Cowa dot com, I know you
Speaker 3: do well. He had posted something today with the graph
Speaker 3: line saying that here are the teams that played over
Speaker 3: there over their expectations, under their expectations, and then at
Speaker 3: the areas where this team just absolutely just didn't play
Speaker 3: worth the crap uh in a in a grind graph
Speaker 3: on Twitter, and I wanted to see what you thought
Speaker 3: were He put Arizona it was above the underachievers. And
Speaker 3: let me tell you them it's true. It's it's true
Speaker 3: that the underchieved, and probably more more so in the
Speaker 3: first ten games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean that, obviously the first part of
Speaker 5: the season was not good. But they over the four
Speaker 5: and five, right, isn't.
Speaker 2: That four and five for five?
Speaker 3: They win? If they go let's say they go three,
Speaker 3: did go six and three. I guess six and three
Speaker 3: that would have been much better loose to you know,
Speaker 3: maybe U C. L A and and not to the
Speaker 3: teams that Oklahoma or West Virginia early.
Speaker 5: On either the Evan Maya is no, well, sen or
Speaker 5: my computer's not working, but I'll all the check out.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay. There's a lot of teams out there. You
Speaker 3: know that the Yukon underachieved. Oh yeah, for sure some
Speaker 3: and some of those. I's why I wanted you to
Speaker 3: call it up, just to see what I said.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: And check out where they're at to in his in
Speaker 3: his place, here we do. They're not in the top ten,
Speaker 3: no tell you that. No, they'd probably in the top
Speaker 3: twenty for sure. Their nets still high. Fifteen fifteen, that's
Speaker 3: about right. That's all right. So I did this, and
Speaker 3: I think I've talked about it on the show already.
Speaker 3: I was at the casino last week just missing around,
Speaker 3: and I bet my future I told you, I tell
Speaker 3: you this.
Speaker 2: What'd you bet on? Who do you think?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Gosh, Florida. That's Florida end to one.
Speaker 3: Wow, good number, because guess what, after they won last night,
Speaker 3: they're going to be maybe the one or two seed overall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean Duke, Well, no.
Speaker 3: Auburn about Doug Houston, Auburn still maybe Auburn well Aburt
Speaker 3: for Houston, Duke you said, and Florida they could be
Speaker 3: the number one overall seed. I'm not sure. I don't
Speaker 3: like that that there'll be number one if they are,
Speaker 3: because that's just too much of a burden. But they
Speaker 3: did look good last night, and they continue to look
Speaker 3: good off and on.
Speaker 5: And he's got Texas Tech really high too. Sixth, Tennessee seventh.
Speaker 5: I mean it's all two two, Duke one.
Speaker 3: If Houston could score, and I loved the Houston lat year,
Speaker 3: that's what a bit last year and the lost starting
Speaker 3: guard last year. If they could score, they'd.
Speaker 2: Be by number one. I like them a lot. I
Speaker 2: just didn't like the Rots too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you know again, it's who they play, and
Speaker 5: if they can control the tempo type of situation. Seems
Speaker 5: like every time you get a Houston game, that's going
Speaker 5: to be in the sixties and.
Speaker 3: And you know this, most games in the tournament are
Speaker 3: those games, right, yeah right, I mean you're not going
Speaker 3: to have dude running out there and scoring one hundred
Speaker 3: and ten on them.
Speaker 2: No things like that.
Speaker 3: But no, you know, it's it's the mid majors, the
Speaker 3: mid majors that no one knows about and that these
Speaker 3: teams have. We'll beat them, and then they show up
Speaker 3: and they're down by fifteen in the first half, and
Speaker 3: then you have to play their style, yeah, because you can't.
Speaker 3: Can't otherwise you got you gotta play score.
Speaker 5: I mean, is Arizona gonna be able to put up
Speaker 5: you know, one hundred and thirteen and these types of games?
Speaker 5: Ever again, could you let us just don't guard us
Speaker 5: just half the time? Half of that would gardens might
Speaker 5: might be good enough in some of these tournament games.
Speaker 3: That was a that was a strange game, Dave. You're like,
Speaker 3: you didn't have to go late night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I hadn't sit there and watch that and
Speaker 5: go to bed at eleven thirty year Oh my.
Speaker 3: God, I wish I could have done that.
Speaker 2: I was home by one.
Speaker 3: Uh. It was just a poorty, porty, defensive game. Both
Speaker 3: fans just to just I got to bluster.
Speaker 5: I got to the point where I was like trying
Speaker 5: to figure out why were they always wide open? I
Speaker 5: was watching that high pick and roll. Do you watch
Speaker 5: the I can look at the replay here. I am
Speaker 5: like a ten thirty at night, going, what is happening here?
Speaker 5: What every time they do a pick at the top
Speaker 5: of the lod, somebody comes over, tries to become play defense,
Speaker 5: and nobody else picks up the guy.
Speaker 2: He was just supposed to be guarding. The guy's wide open.
Speaker 7: It was.
Speaker 2: It was strange.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, guess what now the next two to three weeks. Uh,
Speaker 3: anything like that could happen at any time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about that the other day.
Speaker 5: I mean we were kind of watching how the season
Speaker 5: is going to end sadly.
Speaker 3: What do we kind of dissect what? What are the options?
Speaker 3: Have a lead, lose it? Uh, you should can't hit
Speaker 3: the three point line. We should have a little dry,
Speaker 3: dry erase board here. Check check. Can't defend a three,
Speaker 3: can't hit a three. That's another thing. And uh, those
Speaker 3: two I think are at the top of the list.
Speaker 3: Can't hit I can't hit a three, can't hit it,
Speaker 3: and can't hit was the other one that I said,
Speaker 3: the first one. It was the first one. That's how
Speaker 3: bad my foul trouble? No, no, no, no, we'll defend it
Speaker 3: was just defense in general. Defense in general, and injuries. Injuries.
Speaker 3: They haven't really been like by that. Maybe Townsend a little, Yeah,
Speaker 3: but their bench is not it's not deep.
Speaker 5: No, I mean well, I mean the crevious injury kind
Speaker 5: of changed the whole season sadly for.
Speaker 3: The true true but you know, but the dynamics of
Speaker 3: it may have helped because because Henry is a different
Speaker 3: she's more of a curveball than he is a fastball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, he was great. The I thought he
Speaker 5: was the best player. I guess I think. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm just looking at the numbers that he was. He
Speaker 5: was pretty pretty effective. And you're talking about issue game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 5: I agree with you.
Speaker 3: Uh, and I guess you saw that Caleb kind of disappeared.
Speaker 3: Again he's Houdini, Houdini.
Speaker 5: But he disappears in this game. He wasn't what was
Speaker 5: his final two points?
Speaker 2: I think?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, I'm sorry, was twenty one, twenty one,
Speaker 3: five and one. Yeah, so there's nothing to really, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it wasn't disappear. He Yeah, he just comes and goes.
Speaker 3: But you know he was up this time. That's yeah.
Speaker 5: And then who knows, how is the did they do
Speaker 5: a ceremony? Yeah, they really showed much about it before.
Speaker 3: It was just the the players coming down and same thing,
Speaker 3: same thing. Yeah, it's funny because we had Michael lev
Speaker 3: on yesterday. He made a funny observation about Tommy because
Speaker 3: Liam was a fittury guy, and Tommy waxed more poetic
Speaker 3: about Caleb than he did about his son. You know,
Speaker 3: it was true. It was very funny. You know, his
Speaker 3: business as usual. Liam Caleb. Oh, I love the guy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I love the guy.
Speaker 2: How funny? So it is what it is.
Speaker 5: Can he score twenty five a game for the next
Speaker 5: Caleb three weeks?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What's the odds on that? I don't know. I'm
Speaker 2: just saying that's probably what he was thinking. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: can we can we just keep this guy hot? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right, somehow got to keep him on a good side.
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Speaker 15: Steve, He's got his eye on the ball on Tucson
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to wying the ball here on Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, You're Dave, and you're Kobe.
Speaker 3: Now we have maybe Wolf Kane Weber Weber coach you there.
Speaker 16: Line, But all I got is the yeah.
Speaker 3: But you're you're on now, coach.
Speaker 6: Now you're on coach, so goodness sakes, Okay, I'm on
Speaker 6: my cell phone.
Speaker 2: Yes, no, that's fine. You sound perfect.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 16: I'm good? How are you guys?
Speaker 2: We're dying here.
Speaker 3: I'm here with Dave Silver, one of your guys from
Speaker 3: long ago when you were like really.
Speaker 4: Young young channel nine. I remember nine.
Speaker 3: Hey, how many of these state titles do you have?
Speaker 3: And where the hell do you put all the trophies?
Speaker 6: Well, the trophies are at at soel point. But this, uh,
Speaker 6: this one, this last one was a little bit of
Speaker 6: a special one from the standpoint because it was number
Speaker 6: twelve and there's no other soccer program in Arizona which
Speaker 6: has ever gotten to twelve. You know, we were tied
Speaker 6: with eleven with two a school, I believe, And so
Speaker 6: you know, this last one is a little bit special
Speaker 6: from the standpoint that it was the twelfth one, which
Speaker 6: puts us on top of everything. And then it also
Speaker 6: was the fifth one in the row, which is the
Speaker 6: very first time that that happened for any soccer program
Speaker 6: boys all girls in Arizona. So you know, this has
Speaker 6: a this last one has a special meaning from that standpoint.
Speaker 5: And what's it like for you to just continue to
Speaker 5: just kind of coach and mentor I mean, you're talking
Speaker 5: about generations now with players. How satisfying has this been
Speaker 5: for you, this run of your time at cell Point.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, when I started in nineteen eighty two,
Speaker 6: I thought, well, I'm going to do this for two
Speaker 6: or three years, and of course now I'm looking back
Speaker 6: and it's forty three years. But honestly, I think what
Speaker 6: keeps me going is, you know, every year, you know,
Speaker 6: I have a new group of players, outstanding kids, and
Speaker 6: this last group, you know, was probably one of the
Speaker 6: very best. Although you know, I you know, really enjoyed
Speaker 6: all of them. I have to say, winning or losing,
Speaker 6: And I think the reason I kept going is because
Speaker 6: I kind of adapted, and I'm trying to impart that
Speaker 6: to the kids. The most important thing is not, you know,
Speaker 6: wins and losses. Of course, you like to win more
Speaker 6: than you lose. And when you do the right things
Speaker 6: and you work hard, you know, you end up winning
Speaker 6: a lot of things. But it's just like in real life.
Speaker 6: You know, sometimes you have setbacks. Sometimes you lose a
Speaker 6: game you were supposed to win or you should have won.
Speaker 6: You know that type of thing. And then, you know,
Speaker 6: I've always you know, I tell this.
Speaker 16: To the parents every time.
Speaker 6: When we started season, I remind them, hey, you know
Speaker 6: we have one or twelve times, that mean thirty one
Speaker 6: times we didn't win the state championship.
Speaker 16: But the most.
Speaker 6: Important thing is is that the kids are on this
Speaker 6: path of continuous improvement, you know. And this is something
Speaker 6: I learned some time ago. It's it's a Japanese business
Speaker 6: philosophy which is called the Kaisan method, and it's the
Speaker 6: method of continuous improvement. So that allows you to even
Speaker 6: after a setback, to come back and say, what can
Speaker 6: we learned you know from the game? Reach is lost
Speaker 6: and how can we do this better? And it's it's
Speaker 6: you know, it's kind of that philosophy which allowed me
Speaker 6: to come back, you know, or was never honestly, guys,
Speaker 6: I was never disappointed, you know, even when we didn't.
Speaker 16: Win the state championships.
Speaker 6: And of course, you know, you prefer to win it,
Speaker 6: but you know, there are so many teams who were
Speaker 6: so good and one thing or the other held and
Speaker 6: then you just have to realize that the sun comes
Speaker 6: up the next day and you got to go back
Speaker 6: to work and try to improve, you know, the tomorrow
Speaker 6: be better than your were today, and that kind of attitude.
Speaker 3: So I've known Wolfgang for a heck of a long
Speaker 3: time with his amigos days. I'm sure Dave you will
Speaker 3: remember those days. He coached my kids for like twelve years,
Speaker 3: you know, lucky enough to have him as a coach.
Speaker 3: I'm going to ask you this because I think I
Speaker 3: know what the answer is. But what do you think
Speaker 3: You've had a lot of success. It doesn't happen by accident, obviously,
Speaker 3: And I know you from not South Point, but I
Speaker 3: know you from the club teams almost year round, the
Speaker 3: club teams. What do you think your secret sauces? What
Speaker 3: do you bring to the table that gets the kids
Speaker 3: to play hard for you or well for you, or
Speaker 3: however they play for you?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I mean, there's there's lots of joy
Speaker 6: to spread around. I mean, the most important thing is
Speaker 6: you have to have kids with some talent and a
Speaker 6: desire to really do well. And you know, looking back,
Speaker 6: I have to say that I have been really, really blessed.
Speaker 6: You know, they have that situation at some point that
Speaker 6: you know, and even in club that I've always had kids,
Speaker 6: you know who had a desire to do well. And
Speaker 6: you know that philosophy I just talked about that. The
Speaker 6: kids even bought into that. You know that they realize,
Speaker 6: you know that you don't give up because you lost
Speaker 6: the game, but it inspires you to do better, you know,
Speaker 6: the next time you go out. And and you know,
Speaker 6: I think that's kind of the secret sauce to it.
Speaker 6: And you know, I'm just you know, first I've got
Speaker 6: to give first credit to the kids who are the players,
Speaker 6: because if the players are not good, it doesn't make
Speaker 6: any difference how good you are as a coach. You
Speaker 6: can coach yourself blue in the faith and you might
Speaker 6: not win. But you know, more importantly, if you can
Speaker 6: get the kids to be better than I think as
Speaker 6: a coach, you have already succeeded.
Speaker 5: That being said, I was going to say that. Being said,
Speaker 5: what about youth soccer in southern Arizona. You know, what's
Speaker 5: your opinion on how it is now and how it's grown.
Speaker 5: Certainly in the forty years you've been around South Point, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, it has grown and leaps and bounds, you know.
Speaker 6: I mean, when I go back to the late seventies,
Speaker 6: when I started coaching in the youthe leagues that you
Speaker 6: know was typically a season of three months, you know,
Speaker 6: and then the kids will play three months of baseball
Speaker 6: and three months of football. This is how the parks
Speaker 6: were divvied up. And then, you know, in nineteen seventy eight,
Speaker 6: there was a group of people we got together and
Speaker 6: we said, look, if we ever want to have a
Speaker 6: chance or kids have a chance to go on to
Speaker 6: the next level, three months isn't going to get it done.
Speaker 6: We need a situation where we play nine or ten
Speaker 6: months of the year. And so we've founded this Tucson
Speaker 6: United Soccer Cup in the late seventies, I.
Speaker 16: Think it was nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 6: And as a result, then, you know, I mean the
Speaker 6: first response of the other clubs was, oh, you're warning everything,
Speaker 6: and this then the other. But really within two years,
Speaker 6: every other organization in Tucson was doing the same thing
Speaker 6: we were doing, playing for nine or ten months, and
Speaker 6: the result of that was pretty astonishing.
Speaker 16: In the eighties, you know, there were a.
Speaker 6: Number of clubs who won state championships. You know, Tucson
Speaker 6: United was one of them, but Menroe Pike, the Tucson Estecs,
Speaker 6: you know, just to name a few.
Speaker 4: On the girl's side.
Speaker 6: Fort rowe had a fantastic girls pogram at the time,
Speaker 6: and it was all based on the fact that we
Speaker 6: weren't just playing for three months, but had that extended
Speaker 6: season and go to tournaments out of town and starting
Speaker 6: to build some tournaments heyo, where out of town teams
Speaker 6: would come to Tucson to compete with us, you know,
Speaker 6: and that really had wonderfully contributed to.
Speaker 4: The goal of soccer now, you know.
Speaker 16: At the time, you know, I'll.
Speaker 6: Remember back in the early eighties at cell point, you know,
Speaker 6: I think all of the high schools had like two
Speaker 6: or three good players and the rest of them.
Speaker 16: Were, you know, more average.
Speaker 6: But the quality of players because of the club programs
Speaker 6: has grown tremendously.
Speaker 16: You know, I can.
Speaker 6: Honestly say that of the twenty six players I had
Speaker 6: on the loss this year, all of these kids could play,
Speaker 6: you know, And of course some of them have a
Speaker 6: chance to contribute more and others have to wait a
Speaker 6: little bit more, or you know, didn't get an opportunity
Speaker 6: to be in the game as much.
Speaker 16: But they all could play.
Speaker 6: And that's not something we could say fifteen or twenty
Speaker 6: years ago.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In fact, one of my my Sun team and.
Speaker 3: Both game that year, four or five of them went
Speaker 3: on to play Division one Soccer's great.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you know, and that's you know, we took
Speaker 6: you know, as as.
Speaker 4: A as a club, you know, we it was Tucson.
Speaker 6: United, and then they came to Tucson Soccer Academy and
Speaker 6: now it's.
Speaker 4: FC Tucson Youth.
Speaker 16: You know. But the federal we.
Speaker 6: Put in our cap is that we've you know, have
Speaker 6: brought so many more kids and opportunity to move on
Speaker 6: to the next level. And the next level even starts
Speaker 6: already here on Tucson. If you look at the Pima
Speaker 6: College right Pogram, you know, two national championships and Dave
Speaker 6: Costkov has done a fantastic job at that level.
Speaker 16: And then again many.
Speaker 6: Kids take that route and play at Tema and then
Speaker 6: continue on after that to go to a four year school.
Speaker 6: So that was a big step in the right direction
Speaker 6: for us here locally as well.
Speaker 3: Let me say this real quick, I know we all
Speaker 3: know here to to us, you're the grandfather of soccer
Speaker 3: and Tucson. You go back to seventy eight, you had
Speaker 3: the the Amigos and you have C Tucson and then
Speaker 3: the Tucson United, and we know how you how we
Speaker 3: feel about you here. How do you think you're perceived
Speaker 3: in Phoenix or even in the state giving you one
Speaker 3: five straight and you got twelve under your belt, what
Speaker 3: do you think they say?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know that they really liked me all
Speaker 4: that much.
Speaker 6: We played Suavo of Scottsdale again, and this is the
Speaker 6: second time in three years that we beat them in
Speaker 6: the finals. And you know, so let me put it
Speaker 6: this way. You know, whenever I shake hands, I'm always
Speaker 6: being very complimentary of the other teams, and I have
Speaker 6: to say that, you know, sometimes I get some compliments back,
Speaker 6: but oftentimes we don't, you know, And so I honestly
Speaker 6: don't know to actually how to answer that question real
Speaker 6: quick before we let you go, your thoughts on the
Speaker 6: World Cup coming to the US next year?
Speaker 2: Are you going to be involved? You're going to go
Speaker 2: over or try to see some.
Speaker 6: Well, I will try to see some games, you know.
Speaker 6: Of course, I turned seventy eight next year, seventy nine,
Speaker 6: So god, I'm going to go and see some of
Speaker 6: the games.
Speaker 16: I had a.
Speaker 6: Pleasure of going to the Katar World Cup a couple
Speaker 6: of years ago. And you know, and Dave Ord, which
Speaker 6: you guys know, and my assistant coach Louis Luis Gonzalez.
Speaker 6: We went there to the World Cup and totally enjoyed it.
Speaker 6: And before that, you know, of course, I saw some
Speaker 6: of the World Cup in ninety two.
Speaker 16: It was here in the United States.
Speaker 6: And I remember going back, you know, I came to
Speaker 6: the United States in seventy three, but in seventy four
Speaker 6: I went back to Germany to take in some games
Speaker 6: at that World Cup as well, you know. So you know,
Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to it. I think it will be
Speaker 6: another big boost, you know, in the popularity of soccer,
Speaker 6: and and we've come a long way in the last
Speaker 6: thirty forty years, you know, in terms of being competitive,
Speaker 6: you know, even at the world stage, if you will.
Speaker 3: So maybe last question, King, are you say you're going
Speaker 3: to be nine soon? You've been doing this a long time.
Speaker 3: I guess this is what keeps you young. How long
Speaker 3: do you have more to do this?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 16: I know that I'm a lot closer to the end
Speaker 16: than the.
Speaker 6: Beginning, but you know, I God willing I will be
Speaker 6: around next season, you know, and I really can make
Speaker 6: any predictions beyond that, you know, I just got to
Speaker 6: go one year at the time. But I do you know,
Speaker 6: I have to tell you I have some limitations from
Speaker 6: the standpoint of demonstrating four or five years ago. I
Speaker 6: was still able to demonstrate to the kids, you.
Speaker 4: Know, what I wanted them to do, and all of that.
Speaker 6: Work have fallen to Louis Gonzabz now who is my
Speaker 6: associate head coach, and he is the one which allows
Speaker 6: me to still be around and be an effective coach.
Speaker 6: You know, I kind of bring some wisdom from the
Speaker 6: standpoint of all of these years, you know, and having
Speaker 6: been born on several second which has gone to day.
Speaker 6: It's kind of that situation where you look back, you know,
Speaker 6: what could I have done better? You know, what did
Speaker 6: I do well? And I've been piling up for forty
Speaker 6: three years, you know that kind of stuff. And I
Speaker 6: still can talk to the kids about those things, but
Speaker 6: you know, the day to day grind of training, you know.
Speaker 6: Louise handles for me very.
Speaker 3: Nice, great, very nice. Wolf Gang is always thank you
Speaker 3: very much. Congratulations for number five, number twelve total all
Speaker 3: but that five and five in a row man, that's tough.
Speaker 2: That's very tough.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was that was kind of special I really
Speaker 6: have to say that. And thank you so much guys
Speaker 6: for paying attention to soccer and and and for having
Speaker 6: me on your show.
Speaker 3: Sure, thank you. With Gang tick here be.
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to my in the ball here on
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Speaker 3: us know what you were thinking talking about Saturday's game,
Speaker 3: today's game. Yeah, all the games going to WBC today.
Speaker 3: You've been to Brazil, Germany two or three. Yeah, because
Speaker 3: Columbia is in.
Speaker 5: Right, Columbia advance, China is out, and these the two
Speaker 5: left over all.
Speaker 2: Okay, so they're playing.
Speaker 5: How did you enjoy your time? It was fun. It
Speaker 5: was really fun. I got to do PA for a
Speaker 5: couple of the games. It was true just to kind
Speaker 5: of do that since I hadn't done it as far
Speaker 5: as anything you know of that magnitude. But it was
Speaker 5: really cool to be in that stadium again. The stadium
Speaker 5: looks great. It would be so wonderful, of course if
Speaker 5: we could have a regular team or even spring training
Speaker 5: or some games. I mean, the stadium looked fantastic. They
Speaker 5: did a great job with the with the field, the
Speaker 5: sod and everything. They redid the entire field. If I'm
Speaker 5: not mistaken that.
Speaker 2: You know, it was good.
Speaker 5: You just kind of reminisce and think about all the
Speaker 5: games I saw there and games we've seen in Tucson
Speaker 5: really forever up until like the last ten years or
Speaker 5: so where it just stopped. So yeah, it was kind
Speaker 5: of kind of a sentimental moment just to be up
Speaker 5: there and experience it that way.
Speaker 3: Did you get to meet anybody, like there's some people
Speaker 3: here they were Ramirez.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Ramirez, I didn't just from where I was. I mean,
Speaker 5: I was, you know, up in the press box. I
Speaker 5: didn't have that much of a chance. But yeah, I've
Speaker 5: seen some of the stories that like Javier has done
Speaker 5: and then the stars done, so yeah, I mean there's
Speaker 5: been good stories. The See family, you know, was in
Speaker 5: town and many Ramirez was here to watch his son,
Speaker 5: and there are a few others.
Speaker 3: So Pedro Gomez, the son was there too, Page That's right.
Speaker 2: He played for the U of A. Patro was such
Speaker 2: a good guy too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me ask you, quing, do you still a
Speaker 3: fanboy or no? Or did you what did you stop
Speaker 3: being a fan boy?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? Oh, I you know, I think
Speaker 2: I've always kind of been that way. Yeah, I think so,
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 5: I mean, I just there's always been something I'm I
Speaker 5: don't know about you, but lots of the reasons why
Speaker 5: I enjoyed journalism so much was the stories and these
Speaker 5: people that you know, provide these stories.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's kind of why I still only enjoy that
Speaker 2: part of it.
Speaker 5: Wow, you know, Many Ramirez comes in, well, you know,
Speaker 5: maybe his career was kind of tainted at the end.
Speaker 5: But you know, he had some great moments and everybody
Speaker 5: loved watching him for so many years. And you know,
Speaker 5: I mean, the whole Agacy story is pretty amazing. I
Speaker 5: think just the fact that you know, these two great
Speaker 5: tennis players produced a baseball player who was good enough
Speaker 5: to play at this level.
Speaker 2: It's just fun to see that. Those are just good stories,
Speaker 2: right right, No, No, And that's why we do what
Speaker 2: we do.
Speaker 3: We're storytellers, really, uh And we happened to do games
Speaker 3: and get into controversies because we don't create them.
Speaker 2: The people who cover do.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's the best thing about sports is you
Speaker 5: just don't know what's going to happen. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: you go in every day and you think, oh, you
Speaker 5: know whatever, it's going to be a slow day. And
Speaker 5: then you know, somebody throws a no hitter, or somebody
Speaker 5: does something crazy, hits a great shot, or a football game,
Speaker 5: you know, ends of the last.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just the great thing about sports. It's unpredictable.
Speaker 3: So I'll give you a quick story about about something
Speaker 3: I don't know, hitter. At the Citizen, you know, we
Speaker 3: had all this eclectic people, you know, photographers, news people,
Speaker 3: sports people, sports people knew about the sports. We had
Speaker 3: a photographer there. She was fairly new, I guess, and
Speaker 3: she was covering the sidewink not sorry totals back in
Speaker 3: the day. And you know it's getting late, nine o'clock,
Speaker 3: ten o'clock, you know, a triple a game which gonna
Speaker 3: last forever, And she said, you got anything. They called
Speaker 3: her up, you've got anything? Action, wized anything, because it says, no,
Speaker 3: this guy's not this picture's not letting these guys hit.
Speaker 3: There's no action. So what's going on? Well, there has
Speaker 3: no hitter, I get. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy's not the ball. I got nothing.
Speaker 5: That's funny thinking about it now and how things were,
Speaker 5: say twenty years ago. If we were at the game, say,
Speaker 5: and sometimes we would go just because of the time.
Speaker 5: You know, we couldn't sit there for three hours with
Speaker 5: a camera. Yeah, so we would leave, you know, in
Speaker 5: the fourth inning saying we got six runs and we're
Speaker 5: good for our highlights. And then we'd come back to
Speaker 5: the station and we get a phone call it's a
Speaker 5: no hitter. You might want to come back. And we
Speaker 5: did a couple of times during my time, we had
Speaker 5: to send the guy back just to go get the
Speaker 5: last couple outs and you know, I don't even remember
Speaker 5: if it if it worked out that way, but that's
Speaker 5: kind of how it went for us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, do you I'm sure you know this
Speaker 3: because some stations are going to delayed news programs, like
Speaker 3: they're taping him and then they're showing him later.
Speaker 2: I hope I'm not giving a secret.
Speaker 4: Sun.
Speaker 5: I don't want to speak because I really don't know,
Speaker 5: but I've heard stories about that too. I don't you know,
Speaker 5: we probably should talk to management there and to find
Speaker 5: out what's really happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's it's the way the world. Well, we know,
Speaker 3: we talked to those newspapers. Their deadlines were like five o'clock,
Speaker 3: so you don't get the news the next day, and
Speaker 3: you kin'd have already know the news anyway with the
Speaker 3: internet and you know, you can watch it live.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean definitely.
Speaker 5: I don't think the news paper business would be able
Speaker 5: to adapt to that much easier than TV since they're
Speaker 5: still kind of on a you know, five, six and
Speaker 5: ten schedule at least on the air. What they show
Speaker 5: on their websites, I don't know how they, you know,
Speaker 5: pick and choose what stories or how it's even done
Speaker 5: honestly on TV or at this point yeah TV. I
Speaker 5: mean as I was wrapping things up, they were asking
Speaker 5: us to put our stories on the web before they
Speaker 5: even hit the air.
Speaker 2: So people consume news so much differently now.
Speaker 3: Sure, and remember the days when they used to have
Speaker 3: the service. You know, Jim Bob used to the tape
Speaker 3: the show and then sell you the story so you
Speaker 3: can have it on a disc or on a VHS.
Speaker 2: Now you just use the link. That's true, that's true.
Speaker 5: There used to be a company that provided they call
Speaker 5: what they called the well their air checks is kind
Speaker 5: of what they're technically called.
Speaker 2: You know, we got to call real quick. We'll get Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on the air, nine on the ball. Who's this this? Brian?
Speaker 3: Brian?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 4: Well much?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 4: You know, you guys are talking about the news shows
Speaker 4: and stuff, and uh, it's hard to watch local news,
Speaker 4: especially sports. You don't get you don't you know, you
Speaker 4: don't get anything, not much. You know, every once in
Speaker 4: a while they thowt they're throwing a feature story. But
Speaker 4: you know, I remember back when Dave Silvera was doing sports.
Speaker 4: You know, you'd watch the sports and you got all
Speaker 4: the high schools, uh scores and basketball that night, baseball,
Speaker 4: all the sports.
Speaker 16: But now.
Speaker 4: You basically because the newspapers don't cover up, right, you know,
Speaker 4: unless you go online, you're not going to find out
Speaker 4: anything about local sports.
Speaker 3: Right, But what do you dave? It's more management deciding that, right, you.
Speaker 5: Know, it's it's it's been a long time coming. I
Speaker 5: think there was even when I was doing it. You know,
Speaker 5: we did a lot of research and things like that,
Speaker 5: and they'd come back to us and tell you, hey,
Speaker 5: you know, nobody really cares about X that you don't
Speaker 5: need to go cover them. The audience doesn't care. The
Speaker 5: high schools, yeah, do a little bit, but really the
Speaker 5: only people that care of their families and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: The whole world viewer. You know, when they see, you know,
Speaker 5: Callean Foothills is playing soorro in you know, women's basketballer girls,
Speaker 5: but they're gonna just say, do I want to spend
Speaker 5: thirty seconds to watch this? It was hard doing that job.
Speaker 5: You thought, well, I felt like I kind of had
Speaker 5: a say in what we're airing. But after a while,
Speaker 5: you know, the consultants came in and it kind of
Speaker 5: changed our approach.
Speaker 2: Sometimes so you still watch it.
Speaker 4: At all or no, no, no, I mean there's not
Speaker 4: really okay. I mean the u of a sports I
Speaker 4: can listen to on.
Speaker 17: The radio whatever, so it doesn't really matter what they.
Speaker 16: Say, you know.
Speaker 4: But otherwise I don't like to watch local news that
Speaker 4: much anyway. I mean, I'll watch local news and they'll
Speaker 4: have a story on thing can happened four days prior
Speaker 4: I'm going They repeated it five times, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 3: No, you said that, here's my issue, here's my issue,
Speaker 3: And I think it's just kind of funny. And maybe
Speaker 3: it's just me because I know that your surveys that
Speaker 3: you talk about is this. So we're living Tucson. It's June,
Speaker 3: it's one hundred and ten, there's one hundred and ten.
Speaker 3: All you have to go is outside and look, it's
Speaker 3: one hundred and ten. And then we have weather people
Speaker 3: for five ten minutes till it's just one hundred and
Speaker 3: ten and guess what tomorrow's gonna be one hundred and eleven.
Speaker 17: What the hell?
Speaker 3: It's just hot and Tucson. What's the news?
Speaker 2: When can we expect that cool down? I don't know. October.
Speaker 2: So they used to joke.
Speaker 4: No November.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really no, but.
Speaker 3: My points they give him. Do you get like two
Speaker 3: and a half minutes, Yeah, two and a half minutes,
Speaker 3: come on and the weather is getting five.
Speaker 2: It's hot. Welcome back to you, Dave Well.
Speaker 5: I mean again, the consultants and things like that, they've
Speaker 5: I knew that going into the business, the weather was
Speaker 5: going to get much more attention than anything else on
Speaker 5: every newscast. I mean people I could say sometimes maybe
Speaker 5: in the morning when you wake up and you're trying
Speaker 5: to figure out your day, what am I gonna wear?
Speaker 5: Things like that you want it's going to be like
Speaker 5: It's true, it's not going to change much, but Brian.
Speaker 2: Anything else, you know.
Speaker 4: And also I think too about the game this weekend. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 4: it's a fifty to fifty chance winner lose.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. The toss up, Yeah, no, I know,
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be. Do we already have an
Speaker 3: early line three?
Speaker 2: Whatever?
Speaker 3: I understand.
Speaker 4: I thought it was four by Kansas for Kansas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, three or four or something like that. You know,
Speaker 2: if if we.
Speaker 4: We're how to play some defense all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: I don't know how they forgot. I don't know they
Speaker 4: played well all those all those games, and now they
Speaker 4: can't play defense.
Speaker 2: That's very bizarre. I'm with you there.
Speaker 3: Because they were doing so well, people were saying, great,
Speaker 3: first time in forever they're playing that type of defense,
Speaker 3: and then then it's gone.
Speaker 4: I mean that game the other night, I mean it
Speaker 4: was it was fun to watch because it was up
Speaker 4: and down scoring. Besides the ten thousand fouls that were
Speaker 4: called on both team you know, yeah, I mean that
Speaker 4: was that was pretty That was pretty bad. But still
Speaker 4: it was fun to watch a game.
Speaker 16: It's basically an NBA score.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, thanks Brian, Okay, all right, thanks Home Sea.
Speaker 2: We got about five minutes.
Speaker 3: Okay, cool, Well we can talk about local sport now. No,
Speaker 3: that's going to be the age old thing. Locally whatever.
Speaker 3: You got the news, and you got the weather, and
Speaker 3: you get the sports. For a second or two. Oh,
Speaker 3: I was going to tell you off you remind me
Speaker 3: say I have something to tell you. Okay again, going
Speaker 3: to call five two four one forty uh WBC Tonight
Speaker 3: golf tomorrow starts tomorrow at Paoma Arizona Basketball in Kansas.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they're staying out there.
Speaker 2: I think they're coming back, I think. Don't you think
Speaker 2: they're coming back? I would too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an early afternoon game, right, they come here,
Speaker 3: get home by Saturday night, and then get out there
Speaker 3: by Tuesday. You have able to play Thursday, Thursday, Yeah, Friday, Thursday. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 3: so the guarantee that we'll see what happened after that.
Speaker 3: They're gonna play the rest of the ways. Is NCAA
Speaker 3: tournament teams yep, you know.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah for sure. Quality, I mean the top well
Speaker 2: maybe first.
Speaker 3: Depends, well who do they play. We'll have to see
Speaker 3: out it's bracket. But they're gonna be capable to get
Speaker 3: to that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be good.
Speaker 16: I mean.
Speaker 5: I watched basically three quarters of today's women's game. There
Speaker 5: there were a few people didn't seem like that much
Speaker 5: of a crowd.
Speaker 2: No, No, they're not going to.
Speaker 3: Already already exactly. No, I saw that in Facebook yesterday.
Speaker 3: They should like this smattering of people today, probably a
Speaker 3: smattering of people who's gonna.
Speaker 2: Go watch an eight seed nine seed game.
Speaker 5: I mean it's gonna be family, it's yeah, or any
Speaker 5: maybe some people who live in Kansas.
Speaker 3: Even the PAC twelve game game PAC twelve. They didn't
Speaker 3: go to watch that game. They went to the semi
Speaker 3: finals in the final. Yeah, so you know Vegas has missed,
Speaker 3: no question, and will be missed. But this is not
Speaker 3: the Pac twelve conference. I mean where you had Big
Speaker 3: twelve going to the Pac twelve, you had these guys.
Speaker 3: Were the guys invited coming there? Don't tell me how
Speaker 3: to arrange my furniture exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know the court was in it, did
Speaker 5: you see any I didn't look like a like a
Speaker 5: honeycomb or something. I'm not sure exactly what the what
Speaker 5: the layout is there, but yeah, it'll be you know, busy.
Speaker 5: It's a busy a couple of weeks for sure. It's
Speaker 5: it gets it really picks up, you know this week
Speaker 5: with the women's tournaments and you know some of the
Speaker 5: marquee players, you know, the Juju Watkins and the Yukon players.
Speaker 5: I mean there's there's there'll be some attention. It's kind
Speaker 5: of weird how that tournament kind of ends. I mean,
Speaker 5: all the postseason for the women's ends here and then
Speaker 5: there's nothing for like almost a week or so.
Speaker 3: No, it should be fun and college women's college basketball
Speaker 3: has gotten so good that it's made a lot of
Speaker 3: people interested. Yeah, you know, I don't know if it's
Speaker 3: probably because of the Caitlin Clark situation, but there was.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 3: It's been good besketball for a while.
Speaker 2: No, it's definitely improved. And it didn't hurt you know her.
Speaker 5: And you know the l s U team and things
Speaker 5: like that, Ashley Angel Reese know that rivalry move. You know,
Speaker 5: heated up over the last couple of years and they
Speaker 5: got great TV ratings. They got better ratings in the
Speaker 5: men's games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at the end.
Speaker 5: So there's a lot of attention in you know, South
Speaker 5: Carolina had a good run and I'm sure they'll be back.
Speaker 2: Notre Dame.
Speaker 5: I mean there's a lot of there's a lot of
Speaker 5: parody at the top. Yeah, maybe top ten and women's
Speaker 5: basketball nowadays.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, no calls. Would not takeing any more calls
Speaker 3: because we take forever. Good to talk to Wolfgang Weber.
Speaker 3: He was good seventy nine years old. That's amazing. It's
Speaker 3: still going, still going strong. It's just about me.
Speaker 5: Every I would think just about everybody who's played soccer
Speaker 5: Insan has faced off against him.
Speaker 3: And played on their side, played on their teams played.
Speaker 5: You know, against their clubs. You know, you look him,
Speaker 5: you google him and you'll see. You know, he was
Speaker 5: a good player in Germany back in the day, like
Speaker 5: in the late seven early seventies and stuff. He was
Speaker 5: on a World Cup team. So you know, do we
Speaker 5: ever really understand why he came to Tucson?
Speaker 2: Did you ever learn that story?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I wanted to say a story that when he Scott
Speaker 3: here he didn't know much English, Right, I can't really,
Speaker 3: I guess I could say I wanted him to say
Speaker 3: about it. He can have messed up where he came
Speaker 3: to the United States in tucsona and watch games and
Speaker 3: befriended this guy and you take him to the games
Speaker 3: and and all he would say was like bad words
Speaker 3: because that's all he heard of the games. That was
Speaker 3: his beginning of his English. That is that this because
Speaker 3: because that's what he heard until he realized you can't be.
Speaker 2: Saying that, Yeah, you can't be saying that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But I mean, you know again, Harry Is, he's
Speaker 5: set up shop here in Tucson for almost fifty years.
Speaker 3: And a heck of a loved guy from h in
Speaker 3: the soccer world.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they love him, you know, internationally, and
Speaker 5: like he said, he's going to try to get involved
Speaker 5: with the World Cup next year, which comes you know,
Speaker 5: all over the country.
Speaker 3: Story earlier yesterday or later the last night that the
Speaker 3: United Statestates would get their stuff straight or they're gonna
Speaker 3: be in trouble when they gay here. They're not ready
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: Really. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know where they're playing the venues are, but
Speaker 3: they got to get their stuff straight because it's catching
Speaker 3: up here and they're coming. Gotta be ready. Do you
Speaker 3: know where the sites are?
Speaker 2: Sorry? I had it up there for a minute. Now
Speaker 2: I've lost it.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's fine. He talked about ninety two. I thought
Speaker 3: eighty six. I was in Dallas in eighty seven or
Speaker 3: eighty seven, and I thought they were playing it in
Speaker 3: eighty seven as well.
Speaker 2: You have no they're sorry. Oh I saw that. You
Speaker 2: did have that. Yeah, Dallas, Seattle, some of the usual places. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's where I was. I was in Dallas.
Speaker 3: No, this is bad radio, bad radio. Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 3: That's cool. Ready to go, Okay, he's giving the no Vancouver, Seattle,
Speaker 3: Bay area, LA.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3: The state are they playing in the Football States?
Speaker 2: Kansas city hues. Then when when is it?
Speaker 3: When is one of the dates like when summer summer? Yeah, okay, okay, summer,
Speaker 3: so the not during football season. They're at the football stadiums.
Speaker 3: June eleventh, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: It ends.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, gosh, Phoenix is Phoenix openion.
Speaker 2: No it's not. Okay, it ends on.
Speaker 3: By the June twenty okay, by the time this radio
Speaker 3: shows that exactly.
Speaker 2: Now there's a lot of games.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you covering