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Speaker 1: the United States into the final of the Gold Cup
Speaker 1: the win over Guatemala. First of all, your thoughts, Bruce Marity,
Speaker 1: what you're seeing from this team there will be different
Speaker 1: from the World Cup team next year, but yet they
Speaker 1: are into the final.
Speaker 2: I saw a little grit last night.
Speaker 3: I saw players playing with passion, and you know, I
Speaker 3: don't know if it's because they're closer to a final
Speaker 3: or whatnot, but I saw a much I didn't see
Speaker 3: a great performance, but I saw a performance necessary to
Speaker 3: close the game out, and for that I was grateful.
Speaker 1: And again, the breakout of this Gold Cup is Diego Luna.
Speaker 2: Fair to say, yeah, I mean Diego Luna.
Speaker 3: Everyone knows about him in the league he's no secret,
Speaker 3: but he is that guy the passion. When you see
Speaker 3: him speak, when you see him play, he chases every
Speaker 3: lost cause you know, you know he's not going to
Speaker 3: get it, but he's going to go in there and
Speaker 3: take a swing at it.
Speaker 2: And that's the kind of guy you need right now
Speaker 2: to get this team on track.
Speaker 1: Now, you granted determination though, that's part of that is
Speaker 1: coming from him. He seemed to me in this Gold
Speaker 1: Cup playing like a guy that I'm showing you. I'm
Speaker 1: showing you I need to be a part of next year.
Speaker 2: That's what That's what the national team is all about, Dave.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you want to make it on the
Speaker 3: national team, you get your shot and then you shoot right.
Speaker 3: And I tell people all the time there was a
Speaker 3: thousand players better than me, but somehow when I got
Speaker 3: on the team, I would score a goal in a
Speaker 3: big game and then, you know, keep my place on
Speaker 3: the squad.
Speaker 2: Lots of competitionors always competition on the national team.
Speaker 3: I don't care if it was when I played or
Speaker 3: when they're playing right now, but competition, that is what
Speaker 3: you need to get better.
Speaker 1: Interesting, you mentioned that you've been on the national team
Speaker 1: obviously to start one time the all time leading goalstrun
Speaker 1: on the national team. The team dynamic. You're close friends
Speaker 1: still with a lot of your teammates, but the environment
Speaker 1: a supportive environment because you've got to mix competition with
Speaker 1: your working with somebody that's going off your job.
Speaker 3: There is there is a supportive environment, but there's also
Speaker 3: a very standoffish environment. And I always I have nightmares
Speaker 3: wake up at night. You know, was I was I
Speaker 3: a good enough guy off the field? Was I? It
Speaker 3: was hard for me to get close to players and
Speaker 3: be really good friends with them because, you know, we
Speaker 3: were all after what the other guy wanted, and we
Speaker 3: all wanted the same thing starting. We wanted to get paid,
Speaker 3: we wanted to be a national team player. So it's
Speaker 3: a very it's a it's a very uh, I guess
Speaker 3: uh dichotomy of things that come together, confluence of the vests.
Speaker 2: You just can't not it's hard to make really good friends.
Speaker 3: Now saying that, thirty years on, we all tell the
Speaker 3: stories and talk and laugh and it's.
Speaker 2: A different, different world.
Speaker 3: But when you're in that world right now, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of anxiety and a lot of competition.
Speaker 1: And another player I want to get to Sebastian Berholter.
Speaker 1: Obviously he's got the name, but he's also got the game.
Speaker 1: And to me, he's we're finding more about him from
Speaker 1: this World Cup. Fair statement, And what are you finding out?
Speaker 2: I'm finding a guy who's just like his dad.
Speaker 3: He's you know, Greg was just an absolute, you know,
Speaker 3: grinder and and you know Sebastian Bulletthalter. Whenever you see
Speaker 3: a fight or a tackle, you will see him. That
Speaker 3: is you know, that is the DNA he has. And
Speaker 3: I think that's what the team needs right now. Is
Speaker 3: he silky smooth on the ball. No, I mean that's
Speaker 3: not That's not what he's being asked to do. So
Speaker 3: I think I think Pochaccino's got him in a good spot,
Speaker 3: you know. And it's it's absolutely remarkable to me to
Speaker 3: have the former coaches I'm starting for the new coach.
Speaker 3: It's it's the weirdest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: All Right, who else anybody else we need to mention?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think mentioned Elik Tillman uh and and his big
Speaker 3: transfer that to uh where was it labor cusin thirty
Speaker 3: five to forty million?
Speaker 2: Is that what they were saying?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that just goes to show you that, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, the American player is not you know, now
Speaker 3: getting the respect.
Speaker 2: You know, and again we we started it.
Speaker 3: But but now these players, you know, every you know,
Speaker 3: Tilman has been playing great and you know he should
Speaker 3: he you know that that's a big move, by the way,
Speaker 3: and uh, that's gonna that's gonna really open up the
Speaker 3: floodgates for some other players.
Speaker 1: Now the assign in Mexico.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts, Yeah, I think we're we're we're looking at
Speaker 3: a Mexican team that's that's not on you know, they're
Speaker 3: they're in third gear. I don't I don't see them
Speaker 3: playing the way you would see a typical Mexican team playing.
Speaker 3: I think the United States has an excellent chance of
Speaker 3: of winning the final. You know, this is not the
Speaker 3: Mexican team of the past. This is a different group
Speaker 3: of players. It's a different philosophy. They're playing differently. What
Speaker 3: we can't do though, what we can't do And Mexico
Speaker 3: does this all the time. They bait you into try
Speaker 3: and put to try playing out of the back. And
Speaker 3: when we play out of the back, that's not our
Speaker 3: strong suit. Right, So for me, right, let's go with
Speaker 3: the old Partic Thistle Scottish League. We're gonna go a
Speaker 3: little route one because I don't think because we have
Speaker 3: you know why, because we got a guy who can
Speaker 3: hold the ball up now, big man up top al Jemmy.
Speaker 1: Okay and yeah, he continues to Augimoni continues to you
Speaker 1: were closed though, that was good speaking of a big
Speaker 1: man up top. Let's talk about DC nited now shifting gears. Look,
Speaker 1: we're at the point now, we're almost running out of
Speaker 1: time to say. There's still time a Saturday home game
Speaker 1: against Atlanta. And by the way, we're.
Speaker 2: Having a covering four.
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Speaker 1: to see from this team? It cannot be the same
Speaker 1: as we've seen the past two weeks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what I want to see, Dave, is I want
Speaker 3: to see us pick up three points off a team
Speaker 3: who's below us. You know, it doesn't right now, it
Speaker 3: doesn't seem to matter whoever comes into out, He's going
Speaker 3: to beat us. And I you know that that somehow
Speaker 3: that attitude has got to change, that that that that
Speaker 3: narrative is horrible, and we you know, you know we
Speaker 3: cannot allow this to happen. So if we are going
Speaker 3: to make that run, and we talk about all the time,
Speaker 3: you know there is time, there is points on the table,
Speaker 3: then it has to happen this weekend.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's Atlanta.
Speaker 3: They're having the worst season historically, and you know we're
Speaker 3: lucky that it's Atlanta to come in here.
Speaker 2: But let's go out and win this game. I mean,
Speaker 2: and especially you know our fans are starved for a victory.
Speaker 3: I know the players want the victory, but they have
Speaker 3: got to go out and they have to, like the
Speaker 3: hag Luna man, just chase every lost cause what.
Speaker 1: Would you do to create more chances? Should they do
Speaker 1: something dramatically? Play and I don't know if it's dramatic,
Speaker 1: but play with two up tops, somebody who support Ben
Speaker 1: Techy and out when he's back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely think so. Especially when you're an injured
Speaker 3: player coming back. It's not like you jump right in
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden everything's great again. It takes
Speaker 3: a while to get to get acclimated. So I'd love
Speaker 3: to see Boggy partnered up there. Two veterans, you know,
Speaker 3: give it kind of a double pivot. If you want,
Speaker 3: you know, you'll have Bogi, You'll come to the ball bench,
Speaker 3: and Techy will come to the ball. Let Ben Techy
Speaker 3: play the game, not just you know, flick on headers
Speaker 3: and all that.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I would love to see two up top.
Speaker 3: I'd love to see our wingers get in the game.
Speaker 3: And the one thing I would like, and I haven't
Speaker 3: seen this a lot, we need to get the ball
Speaker 3: cross earlier and often. And the reason I say that
Speaker 3: is is it's so easy to defend the guy in
Speaker 3: front of you, but once the cross comes in, now
Speaker 3: you've got to defend two things, the cross and the guy.
Speaker 2: And that's that's what we need to work.
Speaker 1: Look for that. On Saturday, DC Atlanta noted again the
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Speaker 1: There it is as we promised, in eleven minutes or less.
Speaker 1: In fact, under ten minutes, we got it done. He's
Speaker 1: Bruce Brody, I'm Dave Johnson. Thanks for listening.