Speaker 1: Bass has dropped here on SDH and it is John here,
Speaker 1: you there, thanks for dropping by this morning, and the
Speaker 1: way that things are this morning, hang on a second,
Speaker 1: let me let me do a little bit of let
Speaker 1: me do a little bit of business here, all right.
Speaker 1: So I discovered something and this actually might be opening kickoff. So, uh,
Speaker 1: the way that things are now with.
Speaker 2: And let me I'm seeing if what.
Speaker 1: I'm doing is the right thing. I'm checking to see
Speaker 1: if what I'm doing is the right thing. Morning d
Speaker 1: Gram Morning Alix.
Speaker 2: Stream Yard is like our are our host, and they
Speaker 2: like they'll add bells and whistles occasionally, and they'll they'll.
Speaker 1: Like sit there and say, okay, well, hey, how about this,
Speaker 1: Hey here, try this, try this, try this, try this.
Speaker 1: And so what they've done now is they've basically allowed
Speaker 1: you to check and see, Okay, well, if this is
Speaker 1: a default setup, then you get to just use this room.
Speaker 1: And this is the room that you're in and you're
Speaker 1: locked in place, so that way you're not having to
Speaker 1: log in each and every time. And so I'm testing
Speaker 1: my own acumen when it comes to business and when
Speaker 1: it comes to setting up things and being technologically sound.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens if in fact, and I
Speaker 1: think the fact that you guys are are logging in
Speaker 1: already it's a it's a good thing because you're staring
Speaker 1: at me.
Speaker 2: Which is always a good thing.
Speaker 1: Steve Cook said, to join us at nine forty five
Speaker 1: and then we'll talk at Landy Nightey two for like
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty minutes and we'll get into MLS Next Pro.
Speaker 1: Because MLS Next Pro two o'clock and three o'clock this afternoon.
Speaker 2: It's the pick your dance partner part of the program.
Speaker 1: With the playoffs, a lot of alliteration from anxious anchors
Speaker 1: placed in powerful posts.
Speaker 2: So what you've.
Speaker 1: Got is the chance to if you are the one,
Speaker 1: Morning Wiley, Morning Abby, Morning Dell, you have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to pick your dance partner, and then you end up
Speaker 1: with something that legitimately gave issues too folks last season,
Speaker 1: so they picked their dance partners, and I said, that's
Speaker 1: that's part of the deal with Part of the deal
Speaker 1: with MLS Next Pro is that you know if you are,
Speaker 1: if you're the one, then you can pick from anybody below,
Speaker 1: you know, five through eight, and then the two gets
Speaker 1: to pick, and then the three gets to pick and
Speaker 1: the four is left over with what you got. So
Speaker 1: didn't really work out all that well last year, So
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens this year. Two o'clock for the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference, three o'clock, uh to the for the Western
Speaker 1: Uh the Western Conference. Oh, the scrolling thigamajig. I guess
Speaker 1: this might well, this is the scrolling thigamajig as Abby
Speaker 1: is seeing here on the on the video side of things.
Speaker 2: That's that's from our friends.
Speaker 1: At glance Led, and glance Led is something that I
Speaker 1: stumbled across and the boss was like, ooh, you got
Speaker 1: to get that. And so what you can get is
Speaker 1: various sizes of boards and literally this was the only
Speaker 1: one that could fit unless I put it like on
Speaker 1: the h unless I put it on the train track.
Speaker 1: Because you can get various sizes and it gives you
Speaker 1: up to date information, news, whether what have you, and
Speaker 1: you could program all the sports you want, news of
Speaker 1: the morning, all that kind of stuff. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: this is from our friends at glance Led, and so
Speaker 1: I guess this means now I'm gonna have to clip
Speaker 1: this for them and send it to them, because yeah,
Speaker 1: well and I know it's it's Uh, it's kind of
Speaker 1: then don't look at me. So what it does is
Speaker 1: it gives all the final scores and it helps me
Speaker 1: out because there are times where I would you know it,
Speaker 1: maybe it saves me. It saves me a little time
Speaker 1: in trying to talk about stuff occasionally. So you'll get
Speaker 1: uh store, you get scores from Europe, you'll get matchups, mls,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. And so that's from our
Speaker 1: friends at glance Led. They've got a couple of different
Speaker 1: sizes of devices, and uh, I mean what I you know,
Speaker 1: I what I could do is I could expand I
Speaker 1: could I could expand this and see what's going on.
Speaker 1: So but no, it's it's from our friends at glance Led.
Speaker 1: And I'm debating getting the larger size and maybe putting
Speaker 1: it in the train track, but that would sacrifice some
Speaker 1: hats and we'll see what happens there. But now, it
Speaker 1: was very very very very cool idea and so uh
Speaker 1: it was all of the all of the deal. So
Speaker 1: we'll see what is Uh, we'll see what's going on
Speaker 1: with our friends at glance Led.
Speaker 2: So all I know is, uh, what you got with
Speaker 2: all of that stuff. That's all.
Speaker 1: That's all I know all right, so opening kickoff brought
Speaker 1: to buy our friends at kickoff cough morning, Pars. I
Speaker 1: know it's in the fifties and things. Uh you know
Speaker 1: it's uh yeah, so we'll see what's going on anyway.
Speaker 1: Uh that's that's what's that's what's up this morning. So
Speaker 1: we'll see what's up Land. It's like I said, Steve
Speaker 1: Cook said, to join us nine and we'll discuss what's
Speaker 1: up with uh, what's going on with uh Atlanta United
Speaker 1: two and MLS next pro Like I said, we'll have
Speaker 1: our we'll talk about dance partners and things like that,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about the season that Steve had with
Speaker 1: Atlanta United. I think it's uh, let's see SDHL Fresco
Speaker 1: nicely done, Hodge odds. Atlanta United makes the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: think it was somewhere between two and ten percent. I
Speaker 1: think that was the number. So uh so we'll see
Speaker 1: what's up and uh all right, that's all I know
Speaker 1: for that anyway. The Pars the monitor in the background,
Speaker 1: Oh uh, that's from our friends at glance Led. So
Speaker 1: this the monitor in the background, that's from a glance
Speaker 1: Led and there for like info junkies and things like
Speaker 1: that and so literally they have different sizes and this
Speaker 1: was the only one that I could find that could fit.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's our friends at glance led right there,
Speaker 1: and so you'll have you'll have scores and things popping
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Speaker 1: when you're wandering around the house barefoot, step on a
Speaker 1: sharp object, show a hand.
Speaker 2: That was me yesterday.
Speaker 1: And so what happened is you know, obviously I'm running
Speaker 1: around the office or walking quickly step on something sharp
Speaker 1: and because you know, you're bringing stuff in from the
Speaker 1: outside bottom of your shoes and things like that, and
Speaker 1: four card is definitely to your benefit that you don't
Speaker 1: wander around anywhere barefoot. So I was, I said, I
Speaker 1: was here in the office yesterday. I was here in
Speaker 1: office HD yesterday wandering around. And because you know, when
Speaker 1: you step on things you come inside, you know, you
Speaker 1: bring stuff on the bottom of your shoes and on
Speaker 1: your clothes and things like that.
Speaker 2: So I ended up stepping on I'm guessing a.
Speaker 1: Thorn of some description or something sharp, and so so
Speaker 1: you know how it gets on the bottom of your
Speaker 1: foot and everything, and you're trying to sit there and go, okay,
Speaker 1: try and get this out, you know. And you're sitting
Speaker 1: there and you're trying to sit down and contort and
Speaker 1: try to find like a pair of tweezers or something
Speaker 1: to try to that kind of a thing, and you're
Speaker 1: trying to get the get the splinter out of your foot.
Speaker 1: I was unsuccessful and so waiting entirely too late to
Speaker 1: get the splinter out of my foot. It is now
Speaker 1: like embedded and you can't get to it. So that's
Speaker 1: what well, David, Yeah, kind of like lego blocks but
Speaker 1: smaller and more impactful because it's a splinter and it's
Speaker 1: now literally in my foot and I can't do anything
Speaker 1: about it because it's past the line of.
Speaker 2: Hydrogen peroxide.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Havy, because I was going to ask, see, see,
Speaker 1: this is what happens when we're together for like the
Speaker 1: seventh season, and that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Four card, it's in there forever. But if you you.
Speaker 1: Know, but if you're abby, Abby's like paroxide, didn't take
Speaker 1: a bath and needle it out.
Speaker 2: So that's where I am right now.
Speaker 1: So suffice to say, when I'm walking around with shoes,
Speaker 1: it doesn't hurt. When I'm walking around barefoot, I'm mashing
Speaker 1: onto that splinter and I'm constantly being reminded of how
Speaker 1: deep it is inside my foot. No, no, pars, I
Speaker 1: do not take I do not take feet picks.
Speaker 2: Pars. I do not take feet picks. Not happening.
Speaker 1: No, you would have to actually, I would have to
Speaker 1: actually know what I'm doing when it comes to taking
Speaker 1: pictures in the first place, I end up taking pictures
Speaker 1: of stuff that's facing the other way because you know,
Speaker 1: like if you're because with the phone, you know, you
Speaker 1: sit there and you log in, you hit your you
Speaker 1: hit your photo ID, and it's like you take a
Speaker 1: picture and ends up you want to take a picture
Speaker 1: that way, it ends up being a picture of your face.
Speaker 1: I still have to navigate that kind of stuff. But no,
Speaker 1: I was going to ask an Abby beat me to it.
Speaker 1: If there's a point of no return, if there's something
Speaker 1: that I end up that I can end up doing
Speaker 1: and chasing after it and get it out of my
Speaker 1: foot because it hurts like hell.
Speaker 2: So that's what I was That's what I was chasing after.
Speaker 1: David says, I think if you keep walking it turns
Speaker 1: into a diamond in fifteen years. That wouldn't go over
Speaker 1: well because then I would do circulation in my foot
Speaker 1: unless it just falls out of my foot in fifteen years. Yeah, Hutch, Yeah,
Speaker 1: just look at the old the old James, but the
Speaker 1: most recent James Bond movie with nanobots.
Speaker 2: I think that that might be work.
Speaker 1: Abby's like, get a corn pad and have the spot
Speaker 1: in the middle cushioned all around. Then you're good until
Speaker 1: you can dig it out. Okay, Yeah, four card knows
Speaker 1: a little too much about all this stuff. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: Nick's basically wasting no time. He's just getting right to
Speaker 1: the end. But it just amputated.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 2: Limbs are cool, though.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the boss would I could just
Speaker 1: see the boss right now actually where literally it would
Speaker 1: be like, you know, dude, what are you doing. I'm
Speaker 1: amputating my I'm amputating the base of my foot because
Speaker 1: there's a splinter in there. Oh okay, carry on, She'll walk
Speaker 1: out of the room. Yeah, one of those kind of things. So, uh, amputation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: home amputation kit, I think would be what I would
Speaker 1: need next, Nicks. So yeah, the home amputation kit would
Speaker 1: be the next the next thing that would be on
Speaker 1: the line. Why do I have sharp objects on my floor? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, it's just it's you know,
Speaker 1: like you go out walking and then you end up
Speaker 1: with like stuff that attaches to the sole of your
Speaker 1: shoe and or you know, you wander inside. You know,
Speaker 1: you're out there trying to clean out in the yard,
Speaker 1: and so things, you know, things blow in, things end
Speaker 1: up on the bottom of your shoes. It happens, Nicks.
Speaker 1: Sunrises in the east sets in the West. We pay
Speaker 1: our taxes in April, and we'd always drag things into
Speaker 1: the house off of a shoe or a piece of
Speaker 1: clothing or something like that. So Della is listening on
Speaker 1: the peloton this morning. He's got a half iron man
Speaker 1: in the nineteenth Does that make you either iron or
Speaker 1: a man?
Speaker 2: Which one? I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm asking, no way I would ever complete
Speaker 1: one of those things. You're a better man than I.
Speaker 1: De Graham feel better, please, So that is that was
Speaker 1: opening kickoff. I was wondering if there was a solution.
Speaker 1: And well, this is what in pars okay, so Par says,
Speaker 1: next time duct tape. Well, because what I did is
Speaker 1: I took packing tape and I put it on the
Speaker 1: sole of my foot and I tried to do the
Speaker 1: same thing and it didn't quite work. Uh So I
Speaker 1: you know, I was right there with you, Pars. I
Speaker 1: was right there with you. I was thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: something like packing tape. Somewhere in there. I had packing
Speaker 1: tape because it was easily accessible, and it didn't work.
Speaker 2: So it was an idea. Abby, I'm good.
Speaker 1: Uh Like I said, I'll probably do your peroxide bit
Speaker 1: because I'm sure we have peroxide. Uh well, and yeah,
Speaker 1: Dell Dell is asking epsom salt and ibby saying peroxide.
Speaker 1: So I'll go with hydrogen peroxide because I know we
Speaker 1: have that in the house. So at eleven oh something,
Speaker 1: I will probably go upstairs to the bathroom and try
Speaker 1: and figure out, Okay, here's the deal. And then so
Speaker 1: it would end up being hydrogen peroxide, and then maybe
Speaker 1: I could blonde my hair out a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: get it, get it in and around. Obviously I would
Speaker 1: take the headset off first, but but that that would
Speaker 1: be what I'm what I'm chasing it. No, Dell, I'm
Speaker 1: not worth. I'm not worth the money. But Dell's like
Speaker 1: the boss is trying to kill me. No, I'm worth
Speaker 1: about I'm worth what is it? They say the body's
Speaker 1: worth about thirty seven cents. That's about what I'm worth.
Speaker 1: So it's no, uh, Hutch, I'm guessing, U.
Speaker 2: Hutch.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it's like one of those wood splinters. So
Speaker 1: it would be it's a wood splinter, I guess, Dell.
Speaker 1: It is not the basement, sir, It is the office.
Speaker 1: Is the office that is not a basement. Leave the
Speaker 1: headset on.
Speaker 2: The contrast stripe would look great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, I mean it's just like it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: so which which part of me is functioning here?
Speaker 2: Uh clear?
Speaker 1: Okay, Abby, You see now I needles, sterilize a needle,
Speaker 1: cleared out ground, and have a good pair of tweezers,
Speaker 1: So I could do I could do the tweezer part,
Speaker 1: I could do the hydrogen peroxide part, the whole needle thing.
Speaker 1: You didn't get me to do that because then that's
Speaker 1: more surface area that I'm responsible for, and you don't
Speaker 1: want that. But no, I was just I was wondering,
Speaker 1: since I was past the point of no return, is
Speaker 1: there a way to reverse the process. That was my
Speaker 1: opening kickoff, and so it seems like hydrogen peroxide is
Speaker 1: the way to go when we're at past the point
Speaker 1: of no return. So that, like I said, that was
Speaker 1: like that was my big question. That was my big question.
Speaker 1: And so that was where that was where I was
Speaker 1: this morning. So that's opening kickoff Rochers by our friends
Speaker 1: at kickoff pop needle thing is after the prox I
Speaker 1: Proxi cleans it up. No Nicks, No, it's just you know,
Speaker 1: opening kickoff by now Nick is just something that random
Speaker 1: that pops into my head and so we it's a
Speaker 1: way of getting into the show. It was just literally
Speaker 1: is like I was trying to figure out, Okay, what
Speaker 1: do I do here in Hutch with a YouTube short?
Speaker 2: Do I need to know about this?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: Uh so uh splinter trick thank you from doctor Mandel.
Speaker 1: I don't know who doctor Mandel is, but we'll get
Speaker 1: into thank you. Okay, so splinter trick, thank you. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a cold open, so uh I have to dig
Speaker 1: great Uh Okay, but no, it's not international international break
Speaker 1: or international or no international break.
Speaker 3: It's the cold open.
Speaker 1: It's always what it is to get us into the
Speaker 1: show and say hi, basically. But yeah, No, it was
Speaker 1: a random thought that I had in my head that
Speaker 1: I thought I was passing overturn.
Speaker 2: I passed the point of no return.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, Steve Cook coming on in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: Then we'll discuss the season for at Landing and that
Speaker 1: it too MLS Next Pro in general. How much of
Speaker 1: a challenge is it for coaching staffs and things like
Speaker 1: that to be in MLS Next Pro, considering that there
Speaker 1: are sometimes when you don't know what your roster is
Speaker 1: going to be until game day, because if the first
Speaker 1: team plays and you need reinforcements, then you can have
Speaker 1: first teamers hang back and help you out. At Land
Speaker 1: United too, Basically, we're going to talk about the season
Speaker 1: that was, talk about the challenges to talk about the
Speaker 1: players that and literally like when we talked about it
Speaker 1: when Tyler was on back on Friday and we broke down.
Speaker 1: Basically a lot of folks that got to see the
Speaker 1: next stages of their game happened through MLS Next Pro
Speaker 1: and Atlanta United too. So we'll talk about some folks,
Speaker 1: hobby armist, Jaden Hibbert, Aiden Torres, a lot of folks.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this yesterday, Alan Carlton
Speaker 1: on his Instagram bid adieu to Atlanta.
Speaker 2: What the future holds.
Speaker 1: For Alan do not know, but Alan, So we'll keep
Speaker 1: an eye on Alan Carlton and we'll see where Allen's
Speaker 1: next season is. We'll keep an eye on Alan Carlton
Speaker 1: going forward. But yeah, on his Instagram yesterday had the
Speaker 1: thank you message for Atlanta. But we'll get into a
Speaker 1: lot of the players. We'll get into the challenges of
Speaker 1: MLS Next Pro, what the season was like, what the
Speaker 1: function of MLS Next Pro is, and how it kind
Speaker 1: of serves a duel purpose, and get into players and
Speaker 1: growth in those kinds of things.
Speaker 2: Catching up with Steve Cook in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: And I can't thank Steve enough for coming on to
Speaker 1: break everything down. It was a fun season for us
Speaker 1: at the SDCH network to call at Lady United. Two
Speaker 1: matches all across the board. So, like I said, we'll
Speaker 1: catch up with Steve in about twenty minutes, go over
Speaker 1: the playoff structure and what the matchups could be, those
Speaker 1: kinds of things. So don't know, del do not know,
Speaker 1: do not know, Like I said, do not know. We
Speaker 1: just know that Alan said thank you at Dell's like
Speaker 1: Alan to Charleston. Don't know, but Alan posted a thank
Speaker 1: you note to Atlanta on his Instagram yesterday. Dell very
Speaker 1: thankful for MLS Next Pro. It's how you've got MD
Speaker 1: Myers at the Battery.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: MD Myers for NYCFC two was a pain in the butt,
Speaker 1: absolute pain in the butt.
Speaker 2: And so M. D.
Speaker 1: Myers and Merchanic doing tremendous things offensively for the Charleston Battery.
Speaker 1: And then you never know what the next stage is
Speaker 1: going to be because Merchanic's heading to Europe after the
Speaker 1: season's over. Great move for Charleston. Hopefully it pays off
Speaker 1: for Merchanic as well. So but yeah, just an MLS
Speaker 1: Next Pro discussion of two's discussion within the framework of
Speaker 1: Atlanta nighted those kinds of things. So we'll catch up
Speaker 1: with Steve about twenty minutes. The awards have come out,
Speaker 1: The nominations have come out, not the giving of the awards,
Speaker 1: but the nominations have come out for all of the
Speaker 1: awards in Major League Soccer, and it is one of
Speaker 1: those things where we get to see, you know, who's
Speaker 1: been nominated, who's doing what, and who's going where.
Speaker 2: Jared Smith joining us. Good morning, Jared, Good morning Joe.
Speaker 2: So I actually did a thing, I guess, huh with
Speaker 2: the kind.
Speaker 1: Of with the with the the the passwords and pass
Speaker 1: codes and everything, I actually formulated a room in a
Speaker 1: studio space where we can come and just congregate and
Speaker 1: not have to send the same thing each and every
Speaker 1: single time.
Speaker 2: I did a thing.
Speaker 3: Man, you did a thing.
Speaker 1: So when Steve comes on in twenty minutes, first off,
Speaker 1: are you going to be able to hang out with
Speaker 1: us or is.
Speaker 2: The real world gonna enep me until ten? Okay? So okay, So.
Speaker 1: It will be a fun discussion with Steve about MLS
Speaker 1: Next Pro and the twos and player development and coaching
Speaker 1: challenges and things like that. So, uh, get your questions
Speaker 1: ready for Steve in the next when he comes on
Speaker 1: in about twenty minutes to discuss it.
Speaker 2: Land United too.
Speaker 1: But when you look back at the season for the
Speaker 1: two specifically with the playoffs coming up, the announcement where
Speaker 1: you get to pick your dance partner at two and
Speaker 1: three depending on your conference. Today, when you look back
Speaker 1: at the season for the twos, what sticks in your mind?
Speaker 3: I think just the first For me, it's frustration because
Speaker 3: of the potential they showed, but they didn't quite reach
Speaker 3: if that makes sense right. And you know, we talked
Speaker 3: to Steve. Games were you know, they would put on
Speaker 3: you have, you Have, and you'd always have games like
Speaker 3: this where you know, you felt like you played well,
Speaker 3: you played better than the result. And then you'd have
Speaker 3: games where you pulled out a win. And we talked
Speaker 3: to him and they got to clean that up. They
Speaker 3: can't play like that and win next week. And it's
Speaker 3: all a learning process because, yeah, you've got academy kids
Speaker 3: that play there. You'd love to see I think more
Speaker 3: academy kids all the time. But it's tricky because so
Speaker 3: many of these kids in the past are getting ready early,
Speaker 3: especially early in the season. They're getting ready to go
Speaker 3: to college, they're getting ready to you know, to get
Speaker 3: moved into some place in some cases across the damn country,
Speaker 3: and you know, they're trying to get their lives moving
Speaker 3: in that direction. And then you've also got guys who
Speaker 3: are going to be playing in MLS next tournaments. And
Speaker 3: with academy games, it's it's so much easier said than
Speaker 3: done to just say, well, just play all the academy
Speaker 3: kids all the time. It's not always easy. They're not
Speaker 3: always there and it's tricky. We've talked to him, God knows,
Speaker 3: We've talked to Tony, we talked to Steven Glass spout
Speaker 3: of the past. Man, it's hard to like, it's hard
Speaker 3: to build that continuous continuity because then aside from that,
Speaker 3: you have first team guys getting or tecond team guys
Speaker 3: getting pulled up to the first team for training, academy
Speaker 3: kids getting pulled up to the first team for training. Like,
Speaker 3: that's a lot, man, as far as the whole entire
Speaker 3: you know, how it went down, Like, it's disappointing because
Speaker 3: I think they showed that if they could have had
Speaker 3: that consistency continually, they could have made noise. They had
Speaker 3: the talent. You know, you brought in a really dynamic
Speaker 3: striker in the middle of the window to acquire on
Speaker 3: Glla Garry. I'm interested to see what this looks like
Speaker 3: going into next year for the twos, because you're gonna
Speaker 3: have some of the academy guys a year older. You're
Speaker 3: gonna have decisions to make on guys like Eric Steno,
Speaker 3: who's been here for three years now and has been
Speaker 3: trying to break through. Jadan Hibbert's going to continue to improve,
Speaker 3: and I thought he just kept just taking leaps him
Speaker 3: balance all year last year. Man, Yeah, you've got you know,
Speaker 3: Daniel Russa is gonna want to come back and prove
Speaker 3: something after having an unfortunate injury. M there's a lot
Speaker 3: of questions ask and we'll see how the one year
Speaker 3: deals work out with it too, because I'm sure you'll
Speaker 3: get another group of those you know, just screamed to
Speaker 3: meet me, come back. What is scream to me? Me's
Speaker 3: future look like? You know, what does what does you
Speaker 3: know Nick Corrido's future look like? How does this play
Speaker 3: out for the for guys like that who kind of
Speaker 3: feel like they are veterans and leaders but might have
Speaker 3: a chance to go somewhere and get more. Yeah, we
Speaker 3: saw a fat It was one of those guys get
Speaker 3: loaned out to Lo City and I lose it, trigger
Speaker 3: the purchase and he's driving up there and happy, happy
Speaker 3: for eight. So just interested to see what you find
Speaker 3: with that because those I know, those one year deals
Speaker 3: and some I think some clubs do like two or
Speaker 3: three year deals with those guys they bring in who
Speaker 3: are not a part of the system. They're kind of weird,
Speaker 3: but for a place like Atlanta. They can be very
Speaker 3: useful to try and help, try and help somebody uncover
Speaker 3: what they can be and get did that with Nick Permino.
Speaker 3: Nick Forereno again was a homegrown in New England who
Speaker 3: didn't stick comes here and was you know, he was
Speaker 3: the MLS next Progress eleven last year. Damn you're one
Speaker 3: of the boot this year. Kind of caught in between
Speaker 3: because of you know, getting benches with the first team,
Speaker 3: not always being available for the second team. You know, what,
Speaker 3: where do you go? Where does he go from here?
Speaker 3: And can you go find another guy like that where
Speaker 3: you might be able to knock some dust off a
Speaker 3: bottle and see what's it?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 1: And I mentioned Alan Carlton on Instagram yesterday mentioning doing
Speaker 1: the thank you note for Landy United. And when you
Speaker 1: see something, Yeah, when when you see someone like Alan
Speaker 1: Carlton develop over X number of years and you get
Speaker 1: to see the sand paper version of Alan Carlton come
Speaker 1: to come to fruition where you get to see his imagination.
Speaker 1: But at the same time you got to see his
Speaker 1: sandpaper that was attached to Uh. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: you think, just because somebody is you know, hyper skinny,
Speaker 1: and you think he's going to be a pushover. Alan
Speaker 1: proved in the twenty four season that yeah, you just
Speaker 1: keep you keep underesting, underestimating me, and I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: a sombrero and a whoop you do around you. I'm
Speaker 1: going to leave you about ten yards behind me. And
Speaker 1: then if you want to try to, you know, bow
Speaker 1: up on me, well we'll play a little chippy, will
Speaker 1: get a little sandpaper and I'll get in your grill.
Speaker 1: There's nothing, there's nothing wrong with that. I mean to
Speaker 1: see that evolution of Alan Carlton. I thought was really
Speaker 1: cool in twenty four.
Speaker 3: It was he really took off this year. And yeah,
Speaker 3: it sucks like he's leading. Sounds like makes me wonder
Speaker 3: if somebody reached out, if you got basically a somebody
Speaker 3: reached out and said, hey, we'll we'll give you a
Speaker 3: shot right now, whether it be MLS or USL. If
Speaker 3: somebody said here's a guaranteed contract, come down here and
Speaker 3: be part of the project, come up here, depart of
Speaker 3: the project, whatever, it might be interesting to see where
Speaker 3: he lands. Because he had made such progress, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: in this organization, and I think he you know, he
Speaker 3: started to bowk up at, which we had been begging
Speaker 3: for for a while. Man, Yeah, I hate see it
Speaker 3: leave because the kid, the kids talented, these technicals all hell,
Speaker 3: and he's got he's got grit doing Hopefully Reverie lands
Speaker 3: he thrives. Because at the end of the day, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you want to keep all of these guys who have potential,
Speaker 3: but you can't. It's not possible. See, I hope you
Speaker 3: keep the right ones, and all you can do is
Speaker 3: try and keep as many as you can. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: the ones that you can't keep, you just have to
Speaker 3: lois them the best and hope that they can go
Speaker 3: find success and hope that you've done what you can
Speaker 3: to set them up for success.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind.
Speaker 3: Of the end of the day, up it. You can't
Speaker 3: keep all of them. Sometimes they want to move on.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you might not feel like they're going to break
Speaker 3: through in a specific position where they are, and there's
Speaker 3: a lot of bodies in the way. They might decide
Speaker 3: they want to go try and do something else, whatever
Speaker 3: it might be. You just kind of have to You
Speaker 3: kind of have to try and get them as ready
Speaker 3: as you can to be useful and to be a
Speaker 3: part of your project. And if they don't, if they
Speaker 3: aren't part of the project, you got to hope that
Speaker 3: they go and are able to drive somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean you may mention Aiden McFadden and
Speaker 1: lou City. There's always the Lanty Nighted two pipeline that
Speaker 1: goes to our buddy Stephen Glass out of Memphis nine
Speaker 1: oh one, where on any given day there could have
Speaker 1: been at least three or four former Landy United two
Speaker 1: players that were attached.
Speaker 2: To his success.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, Chris Allen is still floating around in
Speaker 1: USL Championship. You had a guy like Jack Kerr who's
Speaker 1: out in Sacramento as well. So you get to to
Speaker 1: see players come by and then you get to see
Speaker 1: them take their next steps.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: D Graham mentioned Jarrett alluded to it, the idea of
Speaker 1: a forty man roster or eighteen or available and d
Speaker 1: grams loan everything out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, loan everything.
Speaker 3: It doesn't work, Unfortunately it doesn't work. Then something we've
Speaker 3: worked on before, but the hell, let's revisit. It would
Speaker 3: help if MLSPA, oh boy, MLS and the NCAA could
Speaker 3: all be locked in a room together and to figure
Speaker 3: out how they want to do this so that we
Speaker 3: could have academy kids make the bench on a first
Speaker 3: team roster. We need Tom you know where, hey Columbus
Speaker 3: like when they had to when they lost their goalkeeper
Speaker 3: in that game, and and wolf Nazi kind of promo, Like,
Speaker 3: imagine a world where a kid can play for a
Speaker 3: USL team out of the academy and not burn his
Speaker 3: uh his in double eligibility. USL is a pro league,
Speaker 3: second division pro league, but if he plays for an
Speaker 3: LS team, he burns his eligibility because the INCLA just
Speaker 3: doesn't always make sense and it needs to be more
Speaker 3: of a living, breathing thing into that respect, I think,
Speaker 3: because imagine if Columbus said, hey, we got a seventeen
Speaker 3: year old goalkeeper who we're just gonna call up for
Speaker 3: the academy and hopefully he doesn't have to play it.
Speaker 3: If he does, if he's in the shooting range, and
Speaker 3: he'll get the room, he'll get to keep that memory forever,
Speaker 3: good or bad.
Speaker 2: I mean, damn.
Speaker 1: The National Hockey League in Arenas have a emergency keepers
Speaker 1: for these kinds of situations.
Speaker 3: Who was that? Who was it? Was it the Canes
Speaker 3: that had to do that?
Speaker 2: Or yeah, it was it was the Canes that had
Speaker 2: against the Leaves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they went like in like pull a guy off
Speaker 3: the street who was playing like pick up hockey with
Speaker 3: his like in like a pick up like an adult
Speaker 3: league or something. Yeah, like you suited him up for
Speaker 3: one game and he got the win. Because if there's
Speaker 3: any team in the NHL that's going to lose a
Speaker 3: game to a team that is missing like three or
Speaker 3: four goalkeepers that just pulls a guy off the street,
Speaker 3: throws a shirt on him and sticks him between the pipes,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be to rough. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then before that, remember it was the Chicago Blackhawks
Speaker 1: who had the league keeper, the beer league guy that
Speaker 1: was there sitting in the stats and got the call.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was the Canes, and then before that
Speaker 1: it was Chicago. And in both of those instances you
Speaker 1: had legendary movement. And you've got great stories about dude
Speaker 1: who are like in their late twenties, early thirties or
Speaker 1: mid thirties. Yeah, so sure, why not, But no, the
Speaker 1: NCAA and no, we can't, we can't have we can't
Speaker 1: have nice things.
Speaker 3: Jared simplify that like in the MLSPA, like he sit
Speaker 3: down and figure out how to kind of rope in
Speaker 3: these MLSNX Pro players into the MLSPA bullies so that
Speaker 3: everyone is involved and that everybody's getting the coverage they
Speaker 3: need so that you can move back and forth and
Speaker 3: make loaning players I think easier, make player movement easier.
Speaker 3: But there's always going to be tricks with managing second
Speaker 3: teams and yeah, man, it's weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I want to get into the all the
Speaker 1: magic tricks that it takes to make sure that things
Speaker 1: go as well as humanly possible. Like I said, Steve
Speaker 1: Cook coming up in about five minutes or so, so
Speaker 1: it'll be really cool to kind of pick his brain
Speaker 1: when it comes to the all lives and times of
Speaker 1: MLS Next Pro, because I know that a lot of
Speaker 1: folks get locked into the idea of Okay, you're a
Speaker 1: team in a league, therefore you're there to try and
Speaker 1: win championships and things like that.
Speaker 2: But an MLS Next Pro, that's a part of the equation.
Speaker 2: It's not the full equation. You have to do.
Speaker 1: You have to juggle the idea of player development plus
Speaker 1: trying to win and the lessons that go along with it.
Speaker 3: Jared, Yeah, you do. And look some some programs that
Speaker 3: handle it better. You look at some of the you know,
Speaker 3: sex person standing zone. The Columbus wins at year one. Yeah,
Speaker 3: if Philly and New York are generally near the top,
Speaker 3: the system is more of a streamline, straight line in
Speaker 3: terms of style. Yeah, man, it's some places are handling
Speaker 3: it better than others. I mean there are some places
Speaker 3: they handle it worse. In Atlanta kind of in the
Speaker 3: middle of the road where they go through I think
Speaker 3: every club in NL six pro has gone through those
Speaker 3: stretches where they'll go about a month and you're looking
Speaker 3: like you do you guys even know each other names,
Speaker 3: where they just look at the sink and then they'll
Speaker 3: give a little bit of time on the train, crowd
Speaker 3: together and like, oh this this is terrifying too much,
Speaker 3: you guys, where's this thing? It's tough, man, Like, I
Speaker 3: think every club deals with that, and it's just part
Speaker 3: of like I said, you know, first, the guys called
Speaker 3: up the first team training, they might not always be
Speaker 3: training together building that chemistry that they want to have
Speaker 3: because the first team's looking at those guys saying, come
Speaker 3: train with us, show me something to you end up
Speaker 3: like a Formino situation and it's it's tough to balance
Speaker 3: it and stuff, you know as well, where you're gonna
Speaker 3: have situations where like first team says, hey, we're off
Speaker 3: this week. These two or three guys they need minutes.
Speaker 3: We're sending them down to play for you. And that
Speaker 3: can be a thing where it's where it's yeah, we're
Speaker 3: sending them down to play for you, and you're kind
Speaker 3: of being volatile. Yeah, and it's because you're working for
Speaker 3: the organization as a whole. The first team is the
Speaker 3: most important thing. So you might have to shuffle your
Speaker 3: line up a bit and shuffle your expectations and shuffle
Speaker 3: who you put on the bench and see who's available
Speaker 3: because of injury or if they're going out and playing tournaments,
Speaker 3: or if they're getting ready to go to college, or
Speaker 3: you know, whatever the hell it might be. First half
Speaker 3: of the year and MLS next pro is always going
Speaker 3: to be just chaotic mm hmm.
Speaker 2: And now it's uh, we'll get into the chaos here.
Speaker 1: And as as Jared as you as you speak about
Speaker 1: the chaos, we have the man who is running point
Speaker 1: on part of the chaos about ready to drop in.
Speaker 1: Let's see if what's what's on Steve Cook's mind here
Speaker 1: as we bring him in this morning.
Speaker 2: Steve, it's John and Jarrett. Thanks for dropping by this morning.
Speaker 4: It's a pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 1: When you look back now that you've had, you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit of time to kind of let the
Speaker 1: twenty four see and digest. I guess what are some
Speaker 1: of the things that stick in your head about at
Speaker 1: Lane United too, and what you were able to accomplish
Speaker 1: this season and MLS next pro.
Speaker 5: I think when when you look back on a season
Speaker 5: as a competitor, and I'll address this one first, and
Speaker 5: you don't win the trophy at the end of the season,
Speaker 5: you're always a little bit disappointed, you know. I don't
Speaker 5: think that'll ever change for someone like me, or for
Speaker 5: most of the players that we have with us, and
Speaker 5: certainly not the coaching staff or the club. You know,
Speaker 5: this is what it's like when you're at a big,
Speaker 5: big club. The reality, though, is that the two sitting
Speaker 5: a very different place than than the first team. You know,
Speaker 5: we sit in a place that is really about player development.
Speaker 5: The goal of the group is to get as many
Speaker 5: players through that pathway as we possibly can, from the
Speaker 5: academy and outside the academy, and.
Speaker 4: Then into the first team.
Speaker 5: And I think when you look at the contributions that
Speaker 5: various players have made in US Open Cup playing minutes
Speaker 5: for the first team. You know, even this past weekend,
Speaker 5: you look at a great finish from Tyler Woolf recently
Speaker 5: got good minutes with the twos, and you look at
Speaker 5: the development of some of the young players from the
Speaker 5: academy Dominic Chunk.
Speaker 3: We really really.
Speaker 5: Sticks in my mind there as well. I think you
Speaker 5: can look at the season as a real success because again,
Speaker 5: just like last season as well, we had a great
Speaker 5: record of bringing players through our academy through the college system.
Speaker 4: Actually, when you're.
Speaker 5: Back at Nick Formeno last year coming from another MLS
Speaker 5: club and then gaining some traction with US, and then
Speaker 5: the same thing happened this year with Matt Edwards coming
Speaker 5: from college and has now made great contributions. So if
Speaker 5: you ask me that question, as Steve Cook the competitor,
Speaker 5: I'm going to say, my goodness, I'm a bit disappointed.
Speaker 5: But the reality is that if you look at the
Speaker 5: vision and the purpose for the twos, we've had yet
Speaker 5: another really good season where a lot of players have improved,
Speaker 5: a lot of players have moved through the pathway, and
Speaker 5: probably some of the successes they've had and the challenges
Speaker 5: they've had are really about preparing them for their futures
Speaker 5: and the future for the first team, and that really
Speaker 5: makes us all proud, because that's what it's all about.
Speaker 6: Coach, I wanted to ask about the emotional development in
Speaker 6: these situations, because especially some of these teenagers. We were
Speaker 6: all seventeen at one point, and not all of us
Speaker 6: were mentally and emotionally mature enough to handle playing a
Speaker 6: game professionally. What's it like trying to get them into
Speaker 6: a good place mentally and emotionally week after week where
Speaker 6: they can contribute to not let things kind of weigh
Speaker 6: them down.
Speaker 5: I think this is a really big question, and it's
Speaker 5: one that I think we probably is should I say,
Speaker 5: more mature people, We probably forget how we were when
Speaker 5: we were that age, As you alluded to, We also,
Speaker 5: I believe, might not appreciate what it is like for
Speaker 5: a young person in the twenty first century, and certainly
Speaker 5: in the twenty twenties with social media, so everything they
Speaker 5: do is magnified. Everything they do from their performance as
Speaker 5: a scene on Platus like Why Scout and on Huddle
Speaker 5: and we've got people all over the world putting stats
Speaker 5: together for these young people. And so I think one
Speaker 5: of the difficulties these days for any young person is
Speaker 5: that their lives are lived out in the public eye.
Speaker 5: And especially as a young young player coming through the academy,
Speaker 5: you play with that joy, you play with that freedom,
Speaker 5: You have this sense of you know, it's a kid's
Speaker 5: game and I'm really lucky to be playing. And then suddenly,
Speaker 5: you know, around about the age of sixteen seventeen eighteen,
Speaker 5: it starts to take on a little bit more meaning
Speaker 5: in a professional sense. And then when you go through
Speaker 5: the ups and downs publicly, it can be quite traumatic
Speaker 5: for a young player. And I think one of the
Speaker 5: big things I think we do try to focus on
Speaker 5: is making sure that the players are in a good
Speaker 5: place from a holistic sense, you know, their lifestyle, from
Speaker 5: their daily habits, from not getting too high with them
Speaker 5: when they have good games, and certainly not battering them
Speaker 5: when they get too low. But they do also need
Speaker 5: to learn how to be professionals. And the reality is
Speaker 5: that the professional world of soccer is really, really tough
Speaker 5: to make a career, and it's really difficult to progress
Speaker 5: as a young player, because for every person that you
Speaker 5: are chasing in the first team, there is somebody chasing
Speaker 5: you as well.
Speaker 4: And I think for these young players, you know, if.
Speaker 5: They get so concerned with their past performance, it can
Speaker 5: really be damaging for them. And instead, I think they
Speaker 5: need to live that moment, work as hard as they
Speaker 5: possibly can, every day, be themselves, really express themselves in
Speaker 5: a way that is uniquely them. And then we give
Speaker 5: them guidance both in a soccer sense and in a
Speaker 5: lifestyle and a personal sense. And I think in our
Speaker 5: club we've got some really good people. They're very hard working,
Speaker 5: the young men who really commit themselves. But then again
Speaker 5: we have to also make sure that that pathway for
Speaker 5: them is not too smooth. We don't want it to be,
Speaker 5: you know, this constant upgrading of themselves. It's got to
Speaker 5: be a struggle at times and create that struggle. And
Speaker 5: I think you're right there, Jared. Is that the mental
Speaker 5: side of the game. If you want to be a
Speaker 5: top performer at the top level these days, I really
Speaker 5: believe the mental side of the game is probably paramount.
Speaker 5: And you know, they all have some ability, but can
Speaker 5: they handle the strains and stresses of a career in
Speaker 5: professional soccer, and that is something that we always have
Speaker 5: to continuously remind ourselves of.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, though, you have those individuals
Speaker 1: who are on the other side of college, the twenty
Speaker 1: two to twenty three, twenty four year olds like a
Speaker 1: noble o'kello, like a hobby Armors, who while they are
Speaker 1: learning that next step as well, they have those added
Speaker 1: years of experience, whether it's in university or just life,
Speaker 1: and so their learning is coming at a different speed,
Speaker 1: learning different things, where you have the sixteen seventeen, eighteen
Speaker 1: year olds who are also learning. So it's almost like
Speaker 1: two different paths that you and jose Silva Lewis Sharp
Speaker 1: have to negotiate as coaches in the day to day
Speaker 1: just with the individuals that you have on the roster.
Speaker 5: I think that's a good point in that in our group,
Speaker 5: the players come from so many different spots, right, and
Speaker 5: you know, it's easy to look at the young academy
Speaker 5: players and say, well, they're all on an upwards trajectory,
Speaker 5: they're all going to make it, and that is one element.
Speaker 4: But then you're right, is that we have these young
Speaker 4: men who.
Speaker 5: Are coming from college situations, their experience in life is greater.
Speaker 5: They've lived away from home, they've done their own laundry,
Speaker 5: they've got the groceries, They've just like you said, done
Speaker 5: a bit more traveling and lived on the planet a
Speaker 5: little bit longer. So they have that life experience and
Speaker 5: I think that really does stand them in good stead. However,
Speaker 5: from a soccer standpoint, some of those players you mentioned
Speaker 5: how the armis this was his first year as a
Speaker 5: pro at the age of twenty four, going to be
Speaker 5: twenty five relatively soon, you know. And at the same time,
Speaker 5: we've got Matt Edwards who's coming back in from college
Speaker 5: and he's, you know, a little bit younger, but he's
Speaker 5: also in his first days as a professional player. And
Speaker 5: how quickly they adapt and how quickly they at times,
Speaker 5: I think, can face the challenge of not necessarily being
Speaker 5: the best player in the team anymore and maybe not
Speaker 5: feeling like they're is accomplished. And why am I playing
Speaker 5: with these young kids all the time? I think they're
Speaker 5: they're their own personal challenges. And then you know, this
Speaker 5: year we had John Berner, who probably at thirty something,
Speaker 5: who's been a great mentor and leader and had a.
Speaker 4: Really good career.
Speaker 5: It's probably coming towards the end of that phase of
Speaker 5: his life, and so he's now looking at something else
Speaker 5: as well. And I think that, you know, Kareem Tommi
Speaker 5: might stand out in that regard as well. And so
Speaker 5: I think we've got this group of players that are
Speaker 5: all coming from different points of view, And you're right,
Speaker 5: is that my responsibility.
Speaker 4: Jose lewis sharp, is to.
Speaker 5: Connect with every player, develop those relationships so that we
Speaker 5: can do what is best for the player and in
Speaker 5: turn therefore doing what's best for Atlanta United, given where
Speaker 5: the players are at that stage of their careers. And
Speaker 5: and it's it's really enthralling. It's invigorating every day to
Speaker 5: wake up and not quite know what's coming. There are times,
Speaker 5: like I said to you, when it gets a little.
Speaker 4: Frustrated.
Speaker 5: But that's not to say that's not a beautiful thing,
Speaker 5: because because helping these young men with their lives and
Speaker 5: their soccer careers is really what we're all here for.
Speaker 6: The coach he talked about John for a second. I
Speaker 6: know we talked about it. We talked to him early
Speaker 6: in the season and talked about him before he got
Speaker 6: banged up. How tough is that to find those kind
Speaker 6: of veterans who you can bring in and comfortably tell
Speaker 6: them I want to give you minutes, but you might
Speaker 6: get passed by, and I need you to be a
Speaker 6: mentor and have that right mentality because we've had that
Speaker 6: here at the club before with Jack Metcalf when he
Speaker 6: was still playing. Tyler Ruthven who's with the club now,
Speaker 6: was in that role in one of the early years.
Speaker 6: How is it finding those guys who have the right
Speaker 6: mentality that they can kind of surrender minutes as the
Speaker 6: season goes along, but translate into that mentor role where
Speaker 6: they can still be a help for the kids.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the answer is it's really hard because because they
Speaker 5: have to be very good performers and they have to
Speaker 5: also have the mentality that that means their perform moment
Speaker 5: at times has to take a back seat to some
Speaker 5: of the younger, more developmental players. And I think as
Speaker 5: they're all competitors, otherwise they wouldn't be at the level
Speaker 5: they're competing at. But the reality is, I can only
Speaker 5: imagine that for many players that is one of the
Speaker 5: hardest transitions they're going to have to make in their
Speaker 5: time where their career takes a little bit of a
Speaker 5: back seat to some of the other players lives and careers,
Speaker 5: and we've been really fortunate with some leaders in the
Speaker 5: group this year who were slightly older, slightly more mature,
Speaker 5: but they came to training every single day and help.
Speaker 5: And that switch in a player's mentality should sound easy,
Speaker 5: but you know, when you want to play and you
Speaker 5: have your own family to feed as well in your
Speaker 5: own career to look at, there are going to be
Speaker 5: difficult days with that, and I think that to find
Speaker 5: them is one thing. To have them then stay on
Speaker 5: track and understand what the club's vision is and what
Speaker 5: the club's philosophy is with that is at times a challenge,
Speaker 5: and we've been really fortunate with the kids here. And
Speaker 5: I probably pride myself on being pretty honest with the players,
Speaker 5: and at times that.
Speaker 4: Might be maybe a bit too blunt.
Speaker 5: Probably my greatest strength is my greatest weakness, and that
Speaker 5: directness and that honesty sometimes might sting in the initial stages.
Speaker 5: But I've always been honest with the players about their
Speaker 5: role and where they stand and what the future holds
Speaker 5: for them. And I always remind the group of the
Speaker 5: purpose of the team. So you mentioned someone like John Bernard.
Speaker 5: He's been nothing short of the consumer professional and I
Speaker 5: know that whatever he does in his life now or
Speaker 5: in twenty thirty years time, he's going to be a
Speaker 5: great success.
Speaker 1: And Landy nighted two head coach Steve Cook dropping by
Speaker 1: here on the Morning Show to break down what happened
Speaker 1: this past season, an MLS next pro that Landy united too,
Speaker 1: and the philosophy up there at the Children's Healthcare of
Speaker 1: Atlanta training grand You mentioned about being blunt and honest
Speaker 1: when it comes to player assessment. When it comes to
Speaker 1: delivering that message, I would imagine that it has to
Speaker 1: be delivered differently to each individual player, because I don't
Speaker 1: think you can sit there and just make a blanket approach,
Speaker 1: to sit there and say, well, player X, you need
Speaker 1: to work on this, this, this, this and this and
Speaker 1: have that work for the next guy down the line.
Speaker 2: How much of a.
Speaker 1: Challenge is that for you to be honest but cater
Speaker 1: the message to each individual player, knowing that they're coming
Speaker 1: at it from a different perspective each time.
Speaker 5: I think the basis of that comes from developing those
Speaker 5: relationships with people, not the player, but the person, understanding
Speaker 5: what they're about off the field, understanding what they want
Speaker 5: from their careers and where they're trying to get to
Speaker 5: and what they want to achieve, and not only a
Speaker 5: short term, but in the long term. We've got a
Speaker 5: couple of guys who got married this season, for example,
Speaker 5: so their lives during the season took on a different turn, right,
Speaker 5: and so we have to speak to them as fully
Speaker 5: grown men who are now responsible for an entire family
Speaker 5: and group of people, you know, and that is very
Speaker 5: different than the sixteen year old who's trying to come through.
Speaker 4: We probably a little bit.
Speaker 5: More, We probably push the young ones a little bit
Speaker 5: more because I think it's their first taste.
Speaker 4: But it really is like you said.
Speaker 5: That, they it's so individual and so based on their
Speaker 5: personalities and obviously ourselves.
Speaker 4: And again I am honest with them.
Speaker 5: I tell them where I think they are relatively often
Speaker 5: so that that by the end of the season it's
Speaker 5: not the first time they've heard it, or it's not
Speaker 5: a shock to the system or anything like that. But
Speaker 5: I think in our role, our only role really is
Speaker 5: to help these people with their careers and their lives.
Speaker 5: And I think one of the big things that when
Speaker 5: I say that honesty and being different for every person
Speaker 5: is really because we love them, we care for them,
Speaker 5: We want them as people to be successful, and that
Speaker 5: might mean in a different place than Atlanta United, because
Speaker 5: that's what's best for them or what's best for Atlanta United.
Speaker 4: And those decisions not made in isolation.
Speaker 5: They're not made, you know, based on only performance in
Speaker 5: the last month of the season, for example, or whether
Speaker 5: we made the playoffs. They're based on what the needs
Speaker 5: are for the first team, what do we have coming
Speaker 5: through the academy behind this group of players, and then
Speaker 5: more importantly, what the philosophy is and the succession planning
Speaker 5: is for the first team. And as you know, there's
Speaker 5: going to be some change with the first team and
Speaker 5: a new GM rolling in here, there might be a
Speaker 5: different philosophy. And I think our role is to constantly
Speaker 5: put the players at the forefront of our mentality so
Speaker 5: that whatever the philosophy is going to be from the club,
Speaker 5: we can help the players with their lives, their careers
Speaker 5: in Atlanta United and then further than that outside of
Speaker 5: Atlanta United when they finished playing for US.
Speaker 6: You talk about the changes potentially in philosophy. I wanted
Speaker 6: to ask you because I know every coach has their
Speaker 6: game model to head their philosophy, How tricky is it
Speaker 6: for you sometimes when I know we've talked about this,
Speaker 6: pop out this after games where guys might be training
Speaker 6: with the first team, they might be away at tournaments
Speaker 6: or with youth national team setups. How tricky is it
Speaker 6: for you to week to week get things set up,
Speaker 6: knowing you might have inconsistent training or might have different
Speaker 6: groups of guys getting the team set up with the
Speaker 6: right people on the right skill sets to succeed week
Speaker 6: in and week out.
Speaker 5: I think if you ask all throughout the world, people
Speaker 5: who coach reserve teams that are sitting right underneath the
Speaker 5: first team and the last stage of the developmental program
Speaker 5: going into the first team, I think they're all going
Speaker 5: to give you similar frustrations that you know, at times
Speaker 5: we don't get to train the group. At times we
Speaker 5: get players dropping in from the first team. At times
Speaker 5: we get told this player needs to play this many
Speaker 5: minutes from the academy.
Speaker 4: And I think.
Speaker 5: This is the beautiful part of what we do for
Speaker 5: a living, is this is the best part of it,
Speaker 5: putting that jigsaw piece together and making that puzzle fit
Speaker 5: together and work.
Speaker 4: And I think it's very simple for.
Speaker 5: Me, is that that is the role of the head
Speaker 5: coach of this group, and it is the role of
Speaker 5: the coaching staff of this group and everybody involved.
Speaker 4: If that's not what you enjoy, if that's not what
Speaker 4: you like.
Speaker 5: To do with your career, because maybe you're living vicariously
Speaker 5: through the players, or you see this group as a
Speaker 5: vehicle to raise your own profile and suddenly become the
Speaker 5: head coach of Real Madrid, well, I don't think this
Speaker 5: is the role for you. I think this is a
Speaker 5: role for someone who wants to help young people, wants
Speaker 5: to help coaches as well. From my standpoint, I've been
Speaker 5: around the game of a long time now, and part
Speaker 5: of my joy is to really help young people with
Speaker 5: their coaching careers or support staff careers or playing careers,
Speaker 5: and I think it's critical that I always keep that perspective,
Speaker 5: and therefore all of the staff members can keep it
Speaker 5: in their proper perspective.
Speaker 4: If we're looking just to win.
Speaker 5: Games, we're gonna at times find it really really frustrating.
Speaker 5: But again, if you look across the country at reserve
Speaker 5: team coaches, we all share the same.
Speaker 4: At times frustrations. I've worked.
Speaker 5: This is my sixth professional club I've worked in and
Speaker 5: all of them have slightly different tweaks on a methodology
Speaker 5: or a style of play, and our role is to
Speaker 5: fit in with what comes along. And if the next
Speaker 5: GM or head coach comes in and says, this is
Speaker 5: what we need you to do now, then we nod
Speaker 5: our heads and we get on with it, and we
Speaker 5: make the very very best scenario of that. And I've
Speaker 5: been fortunate to work with some really really top level
Speaker 5: people in my time. I've worked with great players, great coaches,
Speaker 5: and really good people across the board.
Speaker 4: Everyone has good ideas.
Speaker 5: Nobody owns the best way of soccer, nobody owns the
Speaker 5: best way of developing players or playing, and I think
Speaker 5: our role is to really embrace it and help the
Speaker 5: players understand that if they're going to progress with their careers,
Speaker 5: they're going to encounter many, many people with many opinions
Speaker 5: and many different ways of doing things, and their job
Speaker 5: is to adjust and be the best version of themselves
Speaker 5: within that framework that the coaching staff and the club
Speaker 5: give them.
Speaker 1: Last question for you, Steven, thanks for and it's always
Speaker 1: great to have you here so we can pick your brain.
Speaker 1: Comes from one of our viewers this morning. Question is
Speaker 1: how difficult is it for you to change a player's position?
Speaker 1: Sit there and you look at somebody like an Ephran Morales,
Speaker 1: who was thought of, Okay, I don't think you're better
Speaker 1: up top. We think you're better as a center back.
Speaker 1: How difficult is it to change a player's position, to
Speaker 1: have them sit there and say, okay, we think you
Speaker 1: would be better full time here as opposed to where
Speaker 1: you've been in the past.
Speaker 4: That's a great question.
Speaker 5: It's not easy, you know. I'm not going to sit
Speaker 5: here and say, wow, it's so easy. We think is
Speaker 5: a right back, so we're going to stick him over
Speaker 5: there and it's smooth. I think all of the players
Speaker 5: that are with us are with us because we see
Speaker 5: something in them as players, regardless of position. Right, you know,
Speaker 5: you've got to be able to do certain things well
Speaker 5: to even become a good academy player, never mind a
Speaker 5: professional player. So you've got to be able to receive
Speaker 5: and pass the ball. You've got to be able to
Speaker 5: defend one v one a little bit. You've got to
Speaker 5: be able to understand the game to some degree to
Speaker 5: just get to this point. However, one of our key
Speaker 5: roles is to see players look at their best attributes
Speaker 5: look at their strengths and at times super strengths, and
Speaker 5: then put them in a position that they are able
Speaker 5: to succeed in. Put them in a position that they're
Speaker 5: able to use their strength as often as they possibly
Speaker 5: can and really excel in the game, because that is
Speaker 5: our role to help them with their lives. At times
Speaker 5: that means moving positions, and at times that means uncomfortable
Speaker 5: conversations about, hey, we're going to put you at center
Speaker 5: back today.
Speaker 4: Give it a go, and you see the fear.
Speaker 5: And the glazed look over their eyes because it's almost
Speaker 5: like a different game entirely, and then not being too
Speaker 5: harsh with them during that learning process and that adapting process,
Speaker 5: making sure that they're supported and when they make mistakes,
Speaker 5: keep playing them and keep pushing them on. And then
Speaker 5: ultimately it's up to the player. You know, if the
Speaker 5: player plays well, regardless of position.
Speaker 4: They will find a home.
Speaker 5: You know, again, if we play four at the back
Speaker 5: or three at the back, five at the back, you know,
Speaker 5: can you fit into a system because you're a good player,
Speaker 5: And that is our huge responsibility. And in answer to
Speaker 5: the question, it's not an easy task to move positions
Speaker 5: for a player, certainly it isn't easy for the player.
Speaker 4: For me, it is about more looking at.
Speaker 5: The player, seeing their best attributes and helping that player
Speaker 5: use them as often as they possibly can, not only
Speaker 5: to help themselves but to help the team as well.
Speaker 1: Steve, as always, you know you've got an open door
Speaker 1: policy here on the Morning show and with everything that
Speaker 1: we do here at SDH. You want to get something
Speaker 1: off your chest, you want you want to sit there
Speaker 1: and say, well, I've got something I need to talk about.
Speaker 2: You know, you've got an open door, my friend. It's
Speaker 2: great to see you.
Speaker 5: I do appreciate and thanks for everything you do for
Speaker 5: us as well. It really is very much appreciated by everybody.
Speaker 2: All right, go get your coffee. We'll catch up soon,
Speaker 2: my friend.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right. Steve Cook, head coach of it Landey knighted too.
Speaker 1: And it's always fun to catch up with Steve because
Speaker 1: of his knowledge base and his understanding of what it
Speaker 1: is with that Landy United and Landy United too and
Speaker 1: ML's next pro and all these kinds of things. But no,
Speaker 1: it's always great to catch up with Steve and find
Speaker 1: out what's going on. And I wanted to get that
Speaker 1: recap and it kind of turned out some somewhat karmick
Speaker 1: because of today being your pick a Dance Partner in
Speaker 1: MLS Next Pro for the playoffs two o'clock, three o'clock
Speaker 1: MLS Next Pro on their social media's and I think
Speaker 1: it's on their YouTube. I think Max Bretos is hosting
Speaker 1: both of those hours. So we'll see, we'll see how
Speaker 1: Pick a Dance Partner goes when it comes to MLS
Speaker 1: Next Pro and with what's on the docket for them,
Speaker 1: and obviously we'll have SDH on MLS Next Pro when
Speaker 1: those matchups come out, we'll talk about it. We'll get
Speaker 1: that stuff all laid out for you, so to let
Speaker 1: everybody know what it's like right now in MLS Next Pro.
Speaker 1: In the East, Cincinnati's your number one overall seed. Philadelphia
Speaker 1: is the two Messy and Friends to the Baby Heron's
Speaker 1: are the three Fire too, are the four Orlando City
Speaker 1: b or the five ny CFC two.
Speaker 2: In the three way dance.
Speaker 1: Of twenty eight matches played forty five points, eleven wins
Speaker 1: going to goal difference. Four teams had forty five points.
Speaker 1: Three of them had eleven wins. Chattanooga only having nine
Speaker 1: was the reason they didn't make the postseason to start,
Speaker 1: so they were out on the first tiebreaker number of wins.
Speaker 1: NYCFC two, Crew two Crown Legacy each had eleven wins.
Speaker 2: Then you get to goal difference.
Speaker 1: Ny CFC two is a plus twelve, Crew two was
Speaker 1: a plus six, Crown Legacy a plus five, and it
Speaker 1: was also in receding order the number of goals scored,
Speaker 1: so that was how you ended up the six, the seven,
Speaker 1: and the eight all forty five points. So right now
Speaker 1: Cincinnati gets to pick Orland n y CFC two, Columbus,
Speaker 1: Crew two, Crown Legacy, good luck, good luck.
Speaker 2: But that's at two o'clock this afternoon.
Speaker 1: We get to see what to pick a dance partner
Speaker 1: is like in the MLS next Pro playoffs. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I want to touch Crown Legacy. We've we've
Speaker 1: seen Crown Legacy this season. We know what they're all about.
Speaker 1: Crew two. It's like staring at a mirror. Do you
Speaker 1: want to play Columbus? I'm not so sure. N y
Speaker 1: CFC two, I don't know. Maybe I want to play Orlando.
Speaker 1: Orlando can be had. We've heard Orlando City B. We've
Speaker 1: had those matches here on the Network this year as well.
Speaker 1: But I think that OCB might be the might be
Speaker 1: the choice for Cincinnati in round in round one, then
Speaker 1: Union two would get the next selection. My guess is
Speaker 1: they would probably end up picking n Y CFC two,
Speaker 1: and then you have the Baby Herons picking something like
Speaker 1: Crew two or Crown Legacy. Good luck, good luck in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference. That's all I gotta say. That's going
Speaker 1: to be a pay in the butt two o'clock must
Speaker 1: see separate viewing experience if you can set it up
Speaker 1: and watch it that way. But to wrap up the
Speaker 1: rest of the Eastern Conference, Carolina Corp. Had a great
Speaker 1: run after a horrendous start. We probably should catch up
Speaker 1: with Roy Laster and find out what's up with Core
Speaker 1: and get an end of the season. Look at their
Speaker 1: season one forty three points for them. Red Bulls two
Speaker 1: finished with forty. It was a Toronto FC two at
Speaker 1: thirty seven. Then you had Atlanta United too at thirty two,
Speaker 1: Huntsville City Football Club at twenty nine, and New England
Speaker 1: at twenty two. We probably should catch up with our
Speaker 1: friends in Huntsville City as well. Western Conference, it's North
Speaker 1: Texas and everybody else North Texas and the number that
Speaker 1: they put up on decision Day.
Speaker 2: We'll get into that in a second.
Speaker 1: North Texas number one seed division title home field all
Speaker 1: the way through up North Texas six points clear of
Speaker 1: Saint Louis City two.
Speaker 2: Sorry. St.
Speaker 1: Louis City SC two, the town won the other division
Speaker 1: at fifty one points. Then you have Tacoma Defiance at
Speaker 1: forty six, LAFC two at forty five, Intura County at
Speaker 1: forty three, white Caps two at forty and a Dynamodos
Speaker 1: Houston at thirty nine. Raal Monarchs had one less win
Speaker 1: at thirty nine points, and that was why they're out
Speaker 1: of the playoff picture. Sporting Kansas City two at thirty eight,
Speaker 1: Timbers two at thirty eight, two less wins, Austin FC two,
Speaker 1: and we still haven't talked about Josh Wolf yet, Austin
Speaker 1: FC two at thirty six points, Loans two at thirty two,
Speaker 1: and Colorado Rapids two at twenty three. So I'm guessing
Speaker 1: this one might be something close to chalk. I would say,
Speaker 1: if I'm North Texas, I'm probably picking Houston. If I'm
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, I'm probably picking Vancouver.
Speaker 2: The town might be pay.
Speaker 1: I mean, this probably would go Chalk the town probably
Speaker 1: picking Ventura County, and then Tacoma stuck with LAFC two.
Speaker 1: So I would think that at three o'clock when they
Speaker 1: make these selections in the Western Conference, it's probably Chalk.
Speaker 1: The Eastern Conference is the one that's going to be
Speaker 1: really interesting at two o'clock this afternoon, Like I said,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that tomorrow. So great to catch up
Speaker 1: with Steve Cook and like, and I told Steve it's like, look, yeah,
Speaker 1: as you heard, he's got an open door policy.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Really looking forward to seeing how that continues to grow
Speaker 1: and evolve. And if Steve, like I said, Steve's got
Speaker 1: an open door, he wants to come in and talk
Speaker 1: about things. He didn't come in and talk about anything
Speaker 1: you want. So, uh, that's what It's great to catch
Speaker 1: up with him and find out about Atlanta nighted two
Speaker 1: and d Graham, thanks for the question you got you
Speaker 1: got Steve on that one. That was a good uh okay,
Speaker 1: So MLS. Actually I've what North Texas beat Loons two
Speaker 1: by the way eight to at Chalk Taw That was
Speaker 1: what I was wanting to get at on decision today.
Speaker 1: Saint Louis City SE two beat Tacomba five mil Sporting
Speaker 1: Kansas City two in LAFC two was four to three.
Speaker 1: North Texas put eight on the board against Loons two
Speaker 1: at chalk Taw and the town beat Austin for to three.
Speaker 1: So you had your your batch of crazy the last
Speaker 1: day of the regular season. But yeah, just to look
Speaker 1: at what happened with North Texas and it was eight
Speaker 1: one at one point, I mean, that's just nuts, absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1: The stats in that one, by the way, eight goals
Speaker 1: on eighteen shots, eleven shots on goal, a lot of passes,
Speaker 1: six hundred total passes in the day. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: eight goals on the board for North Texas last day
Speaker 1: of the regular season. MLS announced yesterday or it was
Speaker 1: late Sunday night that Josh Wolf was out at Austin.
Speaker 1: You kind of had the feeling front when Rodolfo Borel
Speaker 1: was named the new sporting director when that happened earlier
Speaker 1: in the season that he was probably on you know,
Speaker 1: it was definitely on the Missouri plan. You got to
Speaker 1: show me you didn't make the playoffs and so then
Speaker 1: you're out. But the one question I always have in
Speaker 1: these situations, and I think it was a universe. It's
Speaker 1: a universal question, is that why do it with one
Speaker 1: game to go in the regular season? And like I
Speaker 1: said that, I might be naive, but I would like
Speaker 1: to ask in general, why it is.
Speaker 2: That you do something with a game to go.
Speaker 1: I'm just asking if this is your if this was
Speaker 1: your plan, when did you come up with your plan.
Speaker 1: When did you finally decide, if you were Rodolfo but
Speaker 1: Al that you were going to dismiss Josh Wolf? And
Speaker 1: does one game really make a difference? Do something out
Speaker 1: there where it would be like, okay, I would say,
Speaker 1: if you want to present it this way, I think
Speaker 1: I could maybe digest it a little differently. Announce that
Speaker 1: Josh Wolf's cod tract is not going to be renewed
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, if he's at the
Speaker 1: end of a deal, or that you're going to part
Speaker 1: ways with Josh at the end of the season. You
Speaker 1: do it with a game to go. He gets his
Speaker 1: Swan song, he gets his last day. Then decision day
Speaker 1: is what decision day is.
Speaker 2: He gets his.
Speaker 1: Goodbye, you get it on tape, you go, and instead
Speaker 1: you decide on a Sunday night in a news dump
Speaker 1: situation that you're going to not that Josh Wolf and
Speaker 1: Austin are parting ways. He said, I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: figure out and I may not know anything from Adam's
Speaker 1: house Cat, but I'm just still trying to figure out
Speaker 1: the timing of it and the implementation of it. If
Speaker 1: you knew at X point that was a little further
Speaker 1: back in the schedule that you weren't going to renew
Speaker 1: his contract or that you were gonna part ways with them,
Speaker 1: go ahead and part ways. If it was like six
Speaker 1: matches to go, eight matches to go, whatever, if you
Speaker 1: if you drew impatient with it, you're done, then do
Speaker 1: it back then. But with a match to go in
Speaker 1: the regular season after the loss to l a FC,
Speaker 1: and what we talked about with the the Ricky Pooge incident,
Speaker 1: I mean was that was if that was the straw,
Speaker 1: then fine, but with a match to go, it's just odd. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and D and and D Graham, I'm.
Speaker 2: With you, yeah that I think that. But Ale put that.
Speaker 1: In place, and then you're like, yeah, yeah, okay, so
Speaker 1: if you didn't get the playoffs, you get to that point,
Speaker 1: and I'm with you, I think that. When but Ail
Speaker 1: came in, his idea was Okay, we're making the playoffs.
Speaker 2: This is your year.
Speaker 1: You got to show me, and if it's not happening,
Speaker 1: it's not happening. So but to my to my point,
Speaker 1: if you're not making the playoffs, what difference does one
Speaker 1: match make? If you're not making in the playoffs, you're
Speaker 1: coming up on the last game of the regular season.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's just odd. I mean, let him
Speaker 1: coach it out. It's one game. You're still not making
Speaker 1: the playoffs either way. Let him have his swan song. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, and like I said, I don't know, there's
Speaker 1: a there's a T shirt and I think I'm getting
Speaker 1: it delivered to the house and.
Speaker 2: It says, uh, there's nothing wrong with being nice.
Speaker 1: You're in a situation that was untenable at that point,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, maybe I'm becoming an old softy.
Speaker 1: But if you're not making the playoffs, and you know
Speaker 1: what your decision is going to be, does this last
Speaker 1: game of the schedule, when nothing's gonna change short of points,
Speaker 1: if you either draw or win, is it gonna make
Speaker 1: that much of a difference If he hangs on for
Speaker 1: that one more match, and now I've got a double
Speaker 1: check and see because Curiosity and the Adam and Adams.
Speaker 2: House cat once again. So uh, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So where on decision day is the last match
Speaker 1: for Austin. It's at home, okay, so see see now,
Speaker 1: all right, Austin's got one match left. I know you're
Speaker 1: not making the playoffs. You make the decision to part ways.
Speaker 1: Why not let Josh Wolf have his last home match
Speaker 1: and get to do his lap and his wave with
Speaker 1: the players. Like I said, I mean, I get, but
Speaker 1: Ale's ultimatum and we know what we know what Traditionally
Speaker 1: in whatever sport, that you end up with an individual
Speaker 1: who's coming in, who's the new whatever, the ultimatum is there.
Speaker 1: You're more comfortable bringing in your guys, and you know,
Speaker 1: having your philosophy implemented by your guys. Josh Wolf was
Speaker 1: not Rudolpho, but Ale's guy.
Speaker 2: I get that.
Speaker 1: But now, Josh Wolf, knowing you wasn't making the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you dismiss him with one match to go. Nothing's gonna change.
Speaker 1: Let him have the last match, Let him have his
Speaker 1: lap at Q two. Because the last home match is
Speaker 1: Colorado Rapids at Austin nine o'clock next Sunday. Not this Sunday,
Speaker 1: but next nine o'clock start Eastern Time, and now Josh
Speaker 1: Wolf has been shown the door before. In the bye
Speaker 1: week leading up to the last match of the regular season,
Speaker 1: he's got to clean out his office. And the last
Speaker 1: match of the regular season for Austin is a home game. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I might be an old softy, but
Speaker 1: I let him, let him finish, let him finish. Nicks
Speaker 1: firing with one match left as the first and only
Speaker 1: coach you've ever had is the height of petty. I feels,
Speaker 1: like I said, it just it rubs me the wrong
Speaker 1: way that you do something like that. I know that
Speaker 1: it's cutthroat. I know that you have an expected if
Speaker 1: you're RODOLPHO. Berdel, I know that the buck stops here
Speaker 1: and it stops with me, and I have an expectation level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, duh, I get it. But the notion that.
Speaker 1: You want to do that with a match to go, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just frustrating. He doesn't, he doesn't. He doesn't get
Speaker 1: his he doesn't get his way, he doesn't get his lap.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, that's what I would have done when
Speaker 1: I when I was looking at the schedule, finding that
Speaker 1: the last match of the season where nothing changes except
Speaker 1: maybe positioning in the draft where you don't let him
Speaker 1: have his last match at home to say goodbye? Are
Speaker 1: you that mad?
Speaker 2: He said? Just asking?
Speaker 1: He said, I'm like I said, I might be turning
Speaker 1: into an old softy and who knows, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: But you know, like I said, I'm just asking, uh,
Speaker 1: all right, something to keep an eye on this morning.
Speaker 2: Then maybe it'll happen after we're off the air.
Speaker 1: Chicago Fire on their two and eighty character app quote,
Speaker 1: You're gonna want to turn on your notifications this morning.
Speaker 1: The path to tomorrow starts today, So I'm guessing that
Speaker 1: that means that Frank Klopus is no longer going to
Speaker 1: be the uh head coach for Chicago Fire. And my
Speaker 1: guess is is that Joe Mannsweto is bringing in somebody
Speaker 1: that we all know to be the new head coach
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Fire. So set your notifications for the
Speaker 1: Chicago Fire this morning and we'll see what's going on there.
Speaker 1: Also USL League one news that came out top of
Speaker 1: the hour. USL League one is adding a franchise in
Speaker 1: Corpus Christi, Texas. They're going to compete in the twenty
Speaker 1: eight million dollar Corpus Christie Sports Complex currently under construction.
Speaker 1: We talked about Corpus Christi in the past, and now
Speaker 1: this means that we've really got to get them to
Speaker 1: do a one v one or have them on the show.
Speaker 1: Five thousand seat modular multi sports stadium. Kingslea Conquo is
Speaker 1: the leader of Corpus Christi Professional Soccer, becoming the city's
Speaker 1: only independent professional sports organization, first pro soccer team in
Speaker 1: the Coastal Bend region. And so there's a quote from
Speaker 1: Oconquo Investment Group led by Next Sports and Oconquo developing
Speaker 1: the forty six acre Corpus Christie Sports Complex, which began
Speaker 1: construction in December of twenty three, expected to be completed
Speaker 1: in twenty five, received a grant under a five year
Speaker 1: incentive agreement with the city of Corpus Christi. In addition
Speaker 1: to the stadium, the complex will include eight multi use fields,
Speaker 1: a go kart racing track, and office space.
Speaker 2: And so Corpus Christi gets added to the mix. When
Speaker 2: do they start play?
Speaker 1: By the way, so it has been awarded the rights
Speaker 1: to a USL League One franchise, yet no date has
Speaker 1: been announced to win this franchise would start, but Corpus
Speaker 1: Christy now is being added to the mix for USL
Speaker 1: League One, so a good deal with them. We need
Speaker 1: to catch up with Darren van Tassel at the end
Speaker 1: of the season two and the irwins, and we need
Speaker 1: to make the round Sean McDaniel catch up with everybody
Speaker 1: in USL League one when the regular season's over. Now
Speaker 1: that we know that the Yeggermeister Cup champs are your
Speaker 1: Northern Colorado hailstorm.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: MLS announced their end of season awards and let's roll
Speaker 1: through them. And I mean, here's the discussion that we'll
Speaker 1: have for a while anyway. Year end awards determined to
Speaker 1: be a voting from three groups each get a third players, club,
Speaker 1: technical staff, and select media members representing local and national
Speaker 1: outlets who consistently covered the twenty twenty four MLS regular season.
Speaker 1: Full disclosure, SDH was not a part of this discussion.
Speaker 1: Voting will open October seven, conclude on the twenty first,
Speaker 1: shortly after decision day, so everything's open for the nominees.
Speaker 1: Fans will have the opportunity to weigh in on top plays.
Speaker 1: Goal of the Year, Save of the Year go to
Speaker 1: MLS Soccer dot Com. Okay, MLS MVP nominees given to
Speaker 1: the MVP and Major League Soccer during the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four regular season. Eligible players must have played at least
Speaker 1: a thousand minutes during the regular season. There's like nineteen
Speaker 1: thousand names. Then we'll go through them. I'll do it
Speaker 1: quickly so we're not bogged down. But then we'll discuss Acosta, Oroogo,
Speaker 1: Our Tour, Beneke Bernardesci Bowonga, Burkie, Christina Spinosa. God bless
Speaker 1: them for including more than one person for San Jose, Evander,
Speaker 1: Matt Freeze for NYC Interesting, Ryan Gold, God's Dog, Carlos
Speaker 1: Heel Kucco, Christian Collina definitely should be named Saba for
Speaker 1: it Land United, Ernon Lopez and San Jose, Joseph Messi, Mihailovich,
Speaker 1: Lewis Morgan, Jordan Morris, Rafa Navarro from Colorado, Martin o'heeda,
Speaker 1: Oriano Osorio, piet Ricky Pooge, Jonathan Rodriguez, Santi Rodriguez, Rus Knock, Luisares,
Speaker 1: Facundo Tortis, Brian White. Okay, so there's a lot of
Speaker 1: names on here that makes sense. They do that question.
Speaker 1: They do Jared's back with us. We went through the
Speaker 1: whole before. I'm just mentioned we're gonna go through the
Speaker 1: end of season awards names and I just ran through
Speaker 1: the MVPs.
Speaker 3: But your thoughts, literally all of them.
Speaker 2: Sure, absolutely, there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: And I went I went through the josh Wolfe dismissal,
Speaker 1: and how I how I'm turning into an old softie.
Speaker 3: I think, how much time do we for me to
Speaker 3: go over this? So we have somebody coming in that
Speaker 3: if we have a hit for.
Speaker 1: No, we're clean, We're the road. Okay, runways clear for
Speaker 1: the rest of the show.
Speaker 3: Okay, because Austin Twitter found my tweet about this, and
Speaker 3: I need you to understand something. I got no problem
Speaker 3: with Joshua being fired. I think it's still kind of
Speaker 3: shitty that you fired him when you did. Firing during
Speaker 3: the last week in the window or firing next week
Speaker 3: like one game left just kind of feels like it
Speaker 3: was personal, and maybe it was. Maybe there was something
Speaker 3: going on within the organization that made it personal. Maybe
Speaker 3: it got ugly. It's just like that's a weird, awkward time.
Speaker 3: And then the well, they need to get a head
Speaker 3: start of the coaching search. Then he could have hardly
Speaker 3: look good. They knew they weren't bringing you back. They
Speaker 3: probably already got a head start on the coaching, sir.
Speaker 3: They probably already had people doing the work. It might
Speaker 3: not be formal interviews yet, but they could have been
Speaker 3: reaching out about it. It's just the timing of it.
Speaker 2: And the last match of the season's a home game
Speaker 2: at Q two.
Speaker 3: My thing is how you treat people matters, and like
Speaker 3: you said, there could have been some issue behind the
Speaker 3: scenes that complicates this a bit. It just feels kind
Speaker 3: of gross. Fired in with one game left. Either do
Speaker 3: it a month ago. And I know somebody mentioned like, well,
Speaker 3: the thing was if he didn't get the playoffs, he
Speaker 3: was gonna be gone. Look, I feel like if you're
Speaker 3: making that decision of you have to make the playoffs
Speaker 3: or you're gonna go, it's kind of like the situation
Speaker 3: of you already know what you want to do, you
Speaker 3: want to move on, then move on. If you're setting
Speaker 3: these stipulations over and over again, then move on. It's
Speaker 3: kind of the whole thing. If you can't make up
Speaker 3: your mind, pull out a coin and flip it heads
Speaker 3: for one thing, tails for another. If you find yourself
Speaker 3: hoping for heads versus tails or tails versus heads, then
Speaker 3: you know how you're leading.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, hey, heads Carolina tails California.
Speaker 2: I get it. That's what we're here for.
Speaker 1: MLS named all of their awards dudes the postseasons, and
Speaker 1: I and I said at the beginning that we were
Speaker 1: not a part of the one third grouping of media
Speaker 1: that were submitting names to all of this.
Speaker 3: No, it means I can be like fast and loose
Speaker 3: with my complaints about like some of the people who
Speaker 3: do have votes saying that Chris Armis doesn't deserve any
Speaker 3: down ballot votes. Get the hell on you and your BAMA. Yes,
Speaker 3: I get Wilford Nuns. He's gonna win this thing most likely. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because Jesus Christ, the season they've had, they've been outstanding. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but put some down ballot respect on Chris Armis's name
Speaker 3: and what he's done in Colorado.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, you have.
Speaker 3: That's all I'm asking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So, since you're in Coach of the Year, Armis, Charundelo, Courtois,
Speaker 1: Curtain Cushing, Hackworth, hackworths as as an interim get gets
Speaker 1: votes over the Cornell Herdman was seen Tata Martino, Master,
Speaker 1: Enni Nanci Neville, Noonan Olsen, Pereja Ramsey, Eric Ramsey getting
Speaker 1: votes are nominated Ian Russell, Vanny Sartini, Schmitzer, Schwarz, Dean Smith,
Speaker 1: and Greg Vanny. So that's your that's your group everybody.
Speaker 2: So pretty much. Yeah, So, like I said, you got
Speaker 2: the the.
Speaker 1: Thirds that are throwing names into the pile and it
Speaker 1: ends up being this list of nine thousand people by
Speaker 1: the time you're done. So but no, I mean, legitimately,
Speaker 1: for me, if I'm looking at if we're if we're
Speaker 1: treating this like the Downtown Athletic Club.
Speaker 2: It is Armis, it is.
Speaker 1: Tata obviously, but he's not getting my vote, Nancy. And
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean from legitimately, that's it because everybody
Speaker 1: else is like you know, if you look at if
Speaker 1: you go with Charundelo and Greg Vanny, Okay, great, you
Speaker 1: did what you were supposed to do with the resources
Speaker 1: you had.
Speaker 3: Both I'll give I'll give Vanny more credit than that though,
Speaker 3: because they're gonna win the West, right or damn. They
Speaker 3: should be in position to win the West.
Speaker 1: They should be in position. So here's the deal. Going
Speaker 1: into the last day last days of the regular season. Remember,
Speaker 1: LAFC has the makeup game this weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, never mind.
Speaker 1: Well but LA, so LAFC if they win this weekend
Speaker 1: and it's against Vancouver, so there, I think they're the
Speaker 1: Sunday game LA and Vancouver. LAFC Vancouver is the makeup
Speaker 1: game in the Western Conference on Sunday. If Vancouver wins,
Speaker 1: then they're in the mix. They move up to the
Speaker 1: seven and out of the play in Minnesota drops down.
Speaker 1: If LAFC wins, they go to sixty one points eighteen
Speaker 1: wins with a game to go in the regular season.
Speaker 1: So all LAFC needs really is a point on decision Day.
Speaker 1: But LAFC has something to play for here heading into
Speaker 1: the last two weekends of the regular season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'll give that. I'll give Vanny Moore credit
Speaker 3: in that, Like we've seen coaches been given like big
Speaker 3: money pieces and the Galaxy and fall on their faces
Speaker 3: and he might win the West with it. I'll give
Speaker 3: him more credit. I think he deserves more credit for that. Van.
Speaker 3: He was also great in Toronto, and look, Toronto was
Speaker 3: like a super team, not just on the field when
Speaker 3: they were great in the late twenty teens, but you
Speaker 3: also had like leadership that was outstanding up there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he was part of that, and then you know
Speaker 3: Vespachenko was part of that. But then goes to Columbus.
Speaker 3: If you're sensing a pattern here, yeah, Armises good, Armists
Speaker 3: deserves to have Alt post Man. What he's done in
Speaker 3: Colorado has been outstanding. And again reiterated, I don't think
Speaker 3: I've ever heard a cross word about Chriss Harmis like comes.
Speaker 3: He has always come across like a very pleasant guy
Speaker 3: and one of those guys that people want to succeed.
Speaker 3: So I'm happy for him on that front. Nanci's gonna
Speaker 3: get those votes as well. Yeah, uh oh, it's a
Speaker 3: d Gram's point. The financial decision for Wolf, I agree.
Speaker 3: I think I think it is a financial decision. With
Speaker 3: the fan showing up the last home game, I think
Speaker 3: they should have done it like the last window. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's not that I don't think they should have fired
Speaker 3: Josh Wolf, And I think that's what people took away
Speaker 3: from it when I said the other night, I'm not
Speaker 3: saying you shouldn't have fired him. I'm saying, either wait
Speaker 3: one more game and let him have his walk off,
Speaker 3: even if he's boot I guess and maybe you're sparing
Speaker 3: him that, but then firing before. Because even if you,
Speaker 3: like I said, if you have set the stipulation of
Speaker 3: do you have to make the playoffs or you're fired,
Speaker 3: you've already made your decision that you want to move on.
Speaker 3: Have you made your decision for Christ?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Like you you you you're where you want to be.
Speaker 3: You have a choice that you have made at that point.
Speaker 1: Yes, you might not.
Speaker 3: Be saying it out loud, but you know how you feel.
Speaker 3: So just move on from him and spare us all
Speaker 3: of it. Just fire him in the last window. Nobody
Speaker 3: thought he was gonna make it to the end of
Speaker 3: the year anyway. Yeah, and yeah, like if it if
Speaker 3: it's toxic over there even more if it if it's
Speaker 3: toxic and it's got ugly, even more reason not to
Speaker 3: make it last Because what are you gonna be doing then?
Speaker 3: Are you gonna sit there and say, well, damn, he
Speaker 3: got us to the playoffs if he had won games?
Speaker 3: Are you gonna say he got us to the playoffs.
Speaker 3: We gotta sit here and just kind of grin and
Speaker 3: Barrett with this coach who, well, we don't want to keep. No,
Speaker 3: you're still possibly gonna move on. If the relationship is shattered,
Speaker 3: just fire him before now and then you don't pick
Speaker 3: a weird ass time to do it?
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: I d A attention interest decision action? Do I have
Speaker 1: your attention interest? Are you interested? I know you are
Speaker 1: because it's blank? Or walk you close or you hit
Speaker 1: the bricks?
Speaker 2: Decision?
Speaker 7: Have you made your decision for christ and action? A?
Speaker 7: I D A get out there. You've got prospects coming in.
Speaker 7: You think they came in here to get out of
Speaker 7: the rain. A guy don't walk on the lot lest
Speaker 7: he wants to buy in this case, coach, Yes, they're
Speaker 7: sitting out there waiting to give you their money.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna take it? Are you man enough to
Speaker 2: take it? What's the problem? Pal?
Speaker 3: You've watched way too many times, That's what I'm taking
Speaker 3: away from this, or seem to play way too many
Speaker 3: times and then just watch the movie internalized.
Speaker 1: This A always BBC Crewton always be Cruton always.
Speaker 3: Well there's well there's that too, and someone should tell
Speaker 3: Chip Kelly and Dan mullen about that. But I digress.
Speaker 3: Boy yeah, man, like, yeah, my beef isn't with firing. Well,
Speaker 3: it's that y'all, picked a weird time to do it,
Speaker 3: and if you felt if he was already dead in
Speaker 3: the water, why'd you wait so long? Just do it.
Speaker 3: The fans wanted you to do it, And I know,
Speaker 3: I know. It's the thing that fans can't dictate the
Speaker 3: entire club because then it gets tricky and the same
Speaker 3: since you can't let players dictate everything the club does,
Speaker 3: because then that will get really messy and really problematic.
Speaker 3: But man, it's just the timing was really weird on it.
Speaker 3: We'll see who else gets If anybody else gets fired
Speaker 3: at the end of the season, I don't know anybody.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'd have to look at it because
Speaker 3: we have so many midseason firings this year. It's kind
Speaker 3: of like turned the idea of black Monday into nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way, uh, Jared, our friends at Apathios will
Speaker 1: be returning to Silverbacks Park for the next NPSL season,
Speaker 1: announced today on social media as season tickets go on sale.
Speaker 3: In NSL Southeast with a rock fight last year below
Speaker 3: the playoffs to way too many Carolina teams that wanted
Speaker 3: to murder each other at all hours of the day.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful, yes, Below the playoff Bar currently Herdman,
Speaker 1: curtin Atlanta, Nashville, New England, Caleb Porter, and Chicago who's
Speaker 1: probably going to be naming Greg Burholter as their coach?
Speaker 1: Below the playoff bar, Josh Wolf, you have an interim
Speaker 1: in Dallas, You've got Hackworth in Saint Louis?
Speaker 2: Does he stay?
Speaker 1: Do they bring in somebody full time? Peter Vermes, I
Speaker 1: think is the larger question in Kansas City? And then
Speaker 1: what do you do in San Jose? So I think
Speaker 1: that that's what you're staring at, at least below the
Speaker 1: playoff bar.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Well, Vermes controls his own faith. That's kind of
Speaker 2: the problem.
Speaker 3: Yes, every time a manager gets fired, the most fun
Speaker 3: thing is to do is to go on Reddit or
Speaker 3: to go on the comments of any other social media
Speaker 3: and find the Kansas City fans that are just in
Speaker 3: the deepest depth of hell being like, how come everyone else?
Speaker 2: Mm hmm?
Speaker 3: Is uh is able to do this? Oh? Altorios dropping news?
Speaker 1: Yes, according to Tunorio, shock of shocks, it's going to
Speaker 1: be three gb who will be hired.
Speaker 2: Oh he's going to get the dual title.
Speaker 3: Yes, that that's I'm convinced that's why he was That's
Speaker 3: that's I'm convinced that's that's why he was that guy
Speaker 3: for them, because he's going to get the dual title.
Speaker 3: I don't know where else he would get the dual title.
Speaker 2: Three G It's going to be three GB hired as
Speaker 2: director of football and head coach, according to sources briefed
Speaker 2: on the decision. Official announcement expected on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Of course, if you had just seen the two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty character app in Chicago Fire's account to tell
Speaker 1: him telling you to set your notifications, I'm guessing this
Speaker 1: is the reason why.
Speaker 3: So Jason Nick's no. Three Gston to Chicago. That's just
Speaker 3: that's that was his answered to out like a week
Speaker 3: or two ago, three G two Chicago as the coach
Speaker 3: and technical director, taking the Pert Peter Burmes role.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, So Joe Joe Man is gonna give give
Speaker 2: him the keys.
Speaker 3: Because the Jason also says your thoughts on Wolf to
Speaker 3: Atlanta Airpan all the mentioned yesterday when they were talking
Speaker 3: about his firing. I don't think about it, and it's
Speaker 3: not a shot at Wolf. It's that I think Atlanta
Speaker 3: is going to aim at a bigger name because I
Speaker 3: think there's so much pressure too to nail every aspect
Speaker 3: of this off season. I don't like, you know, it's
Speaker 3: kind of like the the the shine has certainly buffed
Speaker 3: out of Josh Wolf at this point in his coaching setup.
Speaker 3: So yeah, well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we will see what the story is there. Uh
Speaker 1: As we're let's see and I got a bookmark this,
Speaker 1: all right, So Steph Yang's article at the Athletic, I
Speaker 1: got a bookmark this.
Speaker 2: We got to talk about this before we go.
Speaker 1: Since we're in the MLS discussion right now, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put I'm gonna let you know what the story is.
Speaker 1: We'll bookmark it and talk about it on the other side.
Speaker 1: According to staph Yang at the Athletic, the Angel City
Speaker 1: salary cap violation was revealed by a former player. According
Speaker 1: to NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman, so we'll get into that
Speaker 1: later on.
Speaker 2: But it exists. It's over there, Okay.
Speaker 1: So MVP voting in Major League Soccer, ninety seven players
Speaker 1: were named, and you can sit there and look at
Speaker 1: him and this is probably going to be fairly wide open,
Speaker 1: and you look at it and you sit there and
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, Messi and Suarez are named on it.
Speaker 1: For Messi and friends, and I would put Suarez ahead
Speaker 1: of Messi in that race on that club, considering that
Speaker 1: Lionel Messi was out of half of the matches. I
Speaker 1: understand why it was named. I understand why it was nominated,
Speaker 1: but I would have others as a part of the discussion,
Speaker 1: and we'll probably bring this up with Nino as well.
Speaker 3: On I can understand why he was named. I can
Speaker 3: understand why he was part of the list. I can
Speaker 3: still like say, I disagree with absolutely. I don't don't.
Speaker 3: I don't really care, nor do I want like Messi
Speaker 3: to be on that Messi is a very he kind
Speaker 3: of that's with the bell of like important players because
Speaker 3: you know, because of his production. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: they put up numbers without him. It's not like Miami
Speaker 3: collapsed like a like you know, like a su FLA
Speaker 3: without him. Correct, they were fine, Wally, Miami was the
Speaker 3: team I'm miss hardest one in preseason. I went back.
Speaker 3: I had to go back and find a tweet about
Speaker 3: something where it's like the treatment with the ever the
Speaker 3: ever loving joke on never wrong. Just early dude, I
Speaker 3: was I was like Turbo wrong about MEPhI and Miami
Speaker 3: because I was like, there, I don't know if I
Speaker 3: didn't think they were gonna win the field. I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't think they can just know they're gonna they're
Speaker 3: gonna have to rest guys. Then they just went and
Speaker 3: outfitted the rest of that roster so beautifully and just
Speaker 3: won their games even without Messing didn't matter. I thought
Speaker 3: they were gonna arrest too many key guys during the
Speaker 3: season and they finished like third in the East. But no, man,
Speaker 3: they killed it. But like you have cucco mm hm,
Speaker 3: Frank frankly uhand out in Portland their Vander like Vander
Speaker 3: was just setting people up in like King style.
Speaker 1: Well and if you and how do you And then
Speaker 1: it goes to your definition of what do you refer
Speaker 1: to as a most valuable player? Is how this club
Speaker 1: would function without that player as a part of that roster.
Speaker 2: And then in Portland, you know.
Speaker 3: Yes, And also like me just being grumpy about and
Speaker 3: turning kind of a side eye to like MLS digital
Speaker 3: media like them propping up MESSI even more like, I
Speaker 3: don't know how you can have anyone, but miss I'm
Speaker 3: like I do. I got multiple bodies I can throw
Speaker 3: in there who actually played more than half the games. Yes,
Speaker 3: Messi is electric. He is incredibly fun and incredibly good.
Speaker 3: He had the best player we've ever seen, most of us. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but as far as guys this year, like have a
Speaker 3: bunch of guys who played more games, who made huge impacts.
Speaker 3: And yeah, you want to stretch Messi's numbers out thirty games,
Speaker 3: that's fine. If he played thirty games, you'd have done this. Yes,
Speaker 3: And if frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their ass
Speaker 3: when they.
Speaker 2: Jumped morning hand.
Speaker 3: He didn't. He didn't play, didn't play thirty games. You
Speaker 3: play you know, five games?
Speaker 2: I think it was what seventeen he had fifteen goals
Speaker 2: and said what teams or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he was, he was amazing. But there's
Speaker 3: the guys here.
Speaker 2: Yes, there are other guys. There's a lot. There are
Speaker 2: a lot of us. Yeah, that's where I yes understood. Uh.
Speaker 1: Newcomer of the Year defined as a player with previous
Speaker 1: professional experience who made his MLS debut in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Eligible must have played at least five hundred minutes during
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four regular season. Gabriel Peck and both
Speaker 1: both he and Paintsil the other two killer pees are are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's funny, Graham. Any team with two nominees
Speaker 3: eliminates both. For me, the Galaxy might be the extension
Speaker 3: to that rule when it comes to newcomer because paintfil
Speaker 3: and Peck they might eliminate each other by stealing votes. True,
Speaker 3: but man, those two like you brought both of those
Speaker 3: guys in like spending ten million, like we're just gonna
Speaker 3: there are some money and see what we can do.
Speaker 3: And you brought them in and both of them contributed
Speaker 3: to burning everyone's house down. It was beautiful. That offense
Speaker 3: is terrifying.
Speaker 1: Yes, uh so your nominees Abata from Charlotte, uh gjerme
Speaker 1: Biro from Austin, who.
Speaker 3: I thought has got similar problems that yeah, he had
Speaker 3: in Glasgow, which is staying health on the field. He's healthy.
Speaker 1: He showed you that, Yes, uh Biro, who probably eliminated
Speaker 1: himself from competition after what he did to Ricky Pooge
Speaker 1: uh Buca and Cincinnati Omar compos and l A FC,
Speaker 1: Matt Crook's at RSL Kuiper's with the fire, Dela Vega
Speaker 1: with Seattle, did de la Vega actually.
Speaker 3: La Vega camp sting on the field, and I don't
Speaker 3: want to hear everybody's losing the ship about the tackle
Speaker 3: on Pooge. If he comes in like that to Jay Fortune,
Speaker 3: no one says shit. But because it's Ricky Pooge, because
Speaker 3: it's a guy we know who was on the receiving
Speaker 3: end of that, it's gonna become this pearl clutching. We
Speaker 3: can't have tackles like that. Oh God, he comes in
Speaker 3: on just like a dude who's a death piece. We're
Speaker 3: not gonna get the pearl clutching that comes with it.
Speaker 3: Is it the worst tackle in history? God?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Was it reckless?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: We don't have to like we don't have to do
Speaker 3: this thing like where we put him in a glass box,
Speaker 3: because we put him in a box and like put
Speaker 3: him on trial, tie some stones to him and throw
Speaker 3: him in the river to see if he sinks or floats,
Speaker 3: just because he did a dumb challenge on a guy
Speaker 3: whose name you recognize on the back of the shirt.
Speaker 2: Let's see who else.
Speaker 3: I don't drink coffee. Actually, don't I just spise coffee?
Speaker 2: I I.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't do coffee, man.
Speaker 2: No, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 1: Forstburg Gregorson was put on the list, Marcel Hartel from
Speaker 1: All Caps, Catranis Hugo Larisse, Kevin Long and Matty long
Speaker 1: Staff from Toronto, Aeronon Lopez from San Jose, Peter Mussa
Speaker 1: from FCD, Augustine Oheeda from n y CFC or Giano
Speaker 1: Paintsil Peck Pellegrino from San Jose, Matti Peltala from DC United,
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Ponse from Houston, Jonathan Rodriguez from Portland, Matias Rojas
Speaker 1: from Messian Friends. Bart Sleash is on the list. Suarez
Speaker 1: is listed as new in Newcomer of the Year, Cedric
Speaker 1: Tukert from All Caps, Bjorn inga Utvik from White Caps,
Speaker 1: Hannas wolfrom NYC, and Kelvin Yeboa from Minnesota United.
Speaker 3: So I'm still on either the pain Solar Peck wagon personally,
Speaker 3: that's just me. Figure it out yourselves, let the throw
Speaker 3: down the broken pool Q and let them fight it out.
Speaker 1: Yes, play a little, play a little sleeper, get it
Speaker 1: figured out. Young Player of the Year nominees must have
Speaker 1: played at least five hundred minutes during the twenty four
Speaker 1: regular season and be born on or after January first
Speaker 1: of two thousand and two, So basically, you can be
Speaker 1: twenty two and a half or younger byreck Terrevich, Chris Brady, Compost,
Speaker 1: Jake Davis from Sporting Edelman, Jay Fortune, Diego Gomez, Nick
Speaker 1: Soon Gomes from Toronto, FC Tevon Gray, Brian Gudierrez, Aliju
Speaker 1: Ibrahim from Houston, mitcha Elenitch from NYC, Kevin Kelsey from
Speaker 1: FC Cincinnati, Ted Kudi Pietro from DC United, Luna from
Speaker 1: RSL McGlenn Peyton Miller from REVS, Juan Musqueta, Christian Olivetta,
Speaker 1: Federico Rodondo, Jason Russell Rowe, Nathan Saliba from Montreal, Quinn
Speaker 1: Sullivan Child please sorry, I'm thinking Cavin Cosey, Thompson, Nico.
Speaker 3: Quin Solovon was fine, you're thinking of You're thinking of
Speaker 3: the fourteen year old.
Speaker 1: I was Dotty Valenzuela from Cincinnati, Kerwin Vargas, Obed Vargas,
Speaker 1: no relation, Pedro vite Owen Wolf and Darren Yappi. Those
Speaker 1: are your new comers, all right. Sorry, young player of
Speaker 1: the Year. So Young Player of the Year is that group?
Speaker 1: Give me Jay Fortune.
Speaker 3: Even it's it's it's it's kind of you, but Dia
Speaker 3: is gonna Diegoloda is standing over there staring at you
Speaker 3: with a picture of Diego Luna being angry and distrusting.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: McGlenn National team for.
Speaker 1: Christian Olivera, uh, probably in that group as well. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so Christian Olivera probably Defender of the Year once again.
Speaker 1: North of five hundred minutes to be elijule A Cappo,
Speaker 1: Jordi Alba, Thomas Aviles, Lucas Bartlett, Rudy Camacho, Mikyle Dos, Santos,
Speaker 1: Noah Ala. I don't think he's gonna get nominated now
Speaker 1: or get wins now, Justin Glad Damargomos Andrage Gomes, Gray,
Speaker 1: Aaron Herrera, Brendan Hines, Ike, Robin Johnson, No Brooks, Lennon,
Speaker 1: Aaron Long, Kevin Long, no relation, Adelson, Milanda who really
Speaker 1: did improve this season under Dean Smith, Jiago Martinez, Andreas
Speaker 1: Maksu in Colorado, Morera Palencia, Jackson, Reagan, Miles Rodriguez in
Speaker 1: San Jose, Rosenberry, Thorholsen in Orlando City, Totland with all
Speaker 1: Caps Vesselnovitch, Waterman, Miky Yamane, Jedlin Yeshida, and Zuper Rich.
Speaker 1: So that's Uh, that is that grouping. I would think,
Speaker 1: uh that, you know, if it's me, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: Jamay and Yoshida. Jared just went from one cell to
Speaker 1: the next. Uh the og Jared says, a reckless tackle
Speaker 1: on a star player from LA any reckless tackle on
Speaker 1: a star player from a team like Atlanta then pro
Speaker 1: starts targeting said player for diving.
Speaker 2: That is also true, he's a diver.
Speaker 3: He's a diving happens as far as the defender side
Speaker 3: of it, Like I thought that award could arrested in
Speaker 3: Charlotte in the first half of the year, and their
Speaker 3: defense kind of collapsed a bit in the back half
Speaker 3: that they built. They built. Charlotte did exactly what I
Speaker 3: tell people to do and what I ask for out
Speaker 3: of teams, which is build yourself a nice cushion. Show
Speaker 3: that when you beat yourself on stage, you don't fall
Speaker 3: out of the playoffs. Charlotte built themselves a nice cushion.
Speaker 3: Win a month without a win, and they were still
Speaker 3: in a playoff spot. You know why, because they built
Speaker 3: themselves a cushion by winning their early games.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 1: Just do that, yes, Keeper of the Year five hundred
Speaker 1: minutes minimum. Bono Brady Burkey, Calendar, Celentano, Steve Clark, Coronel
Speaker 1: Crey Poe, Daniel, Matt Freeze, Stephen Fry, Galsse, Brad Ivacic,
Speaker 1: Sean Johnson, Colleena, Laurie McMath, McCarthy, Shelty Sirawa, Dane Saint
Speaker 1: Clair's ex Stefan Steuver, and Yohey taka Oka in Vancouver,
Speaker 1: Brad Beby Brad Betterby invited to the Downtown Athletic Club
Speaker 1: for this one. That's all I can say.
Speaker 3: I hope Brad gets down ballot on it. I don't
Speaker 3: think you'll win. Brad deserves down ballot at the Bayramimal. Yeah,
Speaker 3: save one of the best seasons of his career in
Speaker 3: one in the twilight of his career. I'm very happy
Speaker 3: for Brad. For me, it's yeah, I think he's outstanding. Yeah,
Speaker 3: save Charlotte's ass. And you know, we need to ask
Speaker 3: Jess about this particular category and find out what she says.
Speaker 2: But no, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I think it's Kaleina or somebody like Matt Freese who
Speaker 1: finally got the chance to start in Major League soccer
Speaker 1: instead of being a number two in Philly and ended
Speaker 1: up getting a lot of solid results in NYC, So
Speaker 1: that that's where I'm staring. Kaleina Brad Freeze probably shilty
Speaker 1: because of crew, you know, something like that, and maybe
Speaker 1: Drake Callendar considering that defense that's in front of him.
Speaker 1: You know, I could I could definitely see something like
Speaker 1: that for for Keeper of the Year, uh, Comeback Player
Speaker 1: of the Year, Dobbydayalla, Brandon by lay On Flock, Ian Fray,
Speaker 1: Chi Lorea who just fell down again, Robin Leood, Maxi Morales,
Speaker 1: Lewis Morgan, surgeon Goma Eddie Segura might be Maxi Morales
Speaker 1: overcome a severe injury and or adversity missing a significant
Speaker 1: portion of the twenty three season. So Maxi Morales, Lewis
Speaker 1: Morgan probably Audi Goals Drive Progress Impact Award nominees honors
Speaker 1: an MAST player who showed outstanding dedication to charitable efforts
Speaker 1: and serving the community during the twenty four season. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: when you have an award like this, Jay Fortune is
Speaker 1: the Atlanta United nominee, by the way, legitimately, what I
Speaker 1: would do is I would have each And I know
Speaker 1: this is kind of like the Walter Payton Award for
Speaker 1: a Major League soccer but Seriously, every club means to
Speaker 1: nominate somebody and they all get a significant donation to
Speaker 1: a charity of their choice. And then maybe you come
Speaker 1: up with someone who is above and beyond, and then
Speaker 1: they're the number one, and then they end up getting
Speaker 1: a super ceding donation to a charity of their choice. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, Jay Fortune's the nominee for Atlanta United,
Speaker 1: Kellen Acosta, Sebastian Burhalter, Brett Bronico Calendar, Celentano Crooks, Griffin, Dorsey,
Speaker 1: Andrew Ferrell, Filippe, Jay Fortune, Matt Frees, Hector, Jimenez, j
Speaker 1: T Marsenkowski, Eric Miller, Jordan Morris, Jaylen, Neil Driver, Darlington
Speaker 1: n Agby for Columbus, Assorio, Johnny Russell, Illier, Pedro Santos, Sirwas,
Speaker 1: Stephan Kai, Wagner, Taylor Washington, Josh Arrow, Give them all,
Speaker 1: give them all a donation to their favorite charity, and
Speaker 1: then then they can figure it out who your top
Speaker 1: dog is and then they get a and one over
Speaker 1: the top of that. Refs of the Year Best performing
Speaker 1: head referee of the twenty twenty four MLS season Drew Fisher,
Speaker 1: Guito Gonzales, Lucas Apala.
Speaker 2: I'm reserving comment.
Speaker 1: I'm really reserving comment, and frankly it should be somebody else,
Speaker 1: probably like an Ismail el Fat There's somebody like that,
Speaker 1: Drew Fisher, Keeto Gonzalez, Junior Lucas Sopala. How about choice
Speaker 1: Dan No of the above? AR the Year, Kyle Atkins,
Speaker 1: Logan Brown, Jeremy Hansen. I do not have an informed
Speaker 1: enough opinion. Of course, for me, it would be probably
Speaker 1: like Corey Rockwell and maybe Tory Penso would be Referee
Speaker 1: of the Year for me. But Corey Rockwell would be
Speaker 1: my AR and I'd like to go off the board
Speaker 1: for five hundred in naming my referee of the year.
Speaker 2: So, uh, that's your nominees.
Speaker 1: I think we've got another five days to figure it
Speaker 1: out and find out who is part of the naming
Speaker 1: process and all of those awards. By the way, did
Speaker 1: you know, speaking of awards, did you know that SDH
Speaker 1: was up for an award?
Speaker 2: Did you know? Did you know? Did you know?
Speaker 1: You have until Sunday dinner time to vote. If you
Speaker 1: have not, or tell others to do so, go to
Speaker 1: Football Content Awards Calm backslash voting and you can vote.
Speaker 2: For us as the twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Best Media Organization Broadcaster rights Holder, And you go to
Speaker 1: voting and there's like nineteen different categories you can just vote.
Speaker 1: You can vote in all the categories if you want,
Speaker 1: but the category that matters where as DH is concerned,
Speaker 1: is Broadcaster rights Holder Best Media Organization. Going up against
Speaker 1: a crazy amount of folks around the planet, and very
Speaker 1: very humbled that all of you folks are letting everybody
Speaker 1: know on social media and all that kind of stuff
Speaker 1: about to vote and how to vote, and your backing
Speaker 1: of us as a network is very very humbling across
Speaker 1: the board Best Media Organization. Just so you know, here's
Speaker 1: who we're going up against, Amazon, Prime, BBC, Golossal, Network, Design, ESPNFC, ITV,
Speaker 1: Sky Talk Sport and what used to be BT Sports
Speaker 1: which is now TNT in the UK and US. That's
Speaker 1: Best Media Organization Organization finalists in twenty twenty four. Go
Speaker 1: to Footballcontentawards dot Com backslash voting, vote for us, or
Speaker 1: find people who can vote for us if you have
Speaker 1: not been able to find a separate IP address and
Speaker 1: be like nineteen different people and stuff the ballot box
Speaker 1: because up until the thirteenth fifty percent of the vote
Speaker 1: is fan vote, fifty percent is judging by judges with
Speaker 1: include Peter Drury this year.
Speaker 2: Very cool by.
Speaker 1: The way, So you end up with all of these folks.
Speaker 1: There are three here in the US. We are one
Speaker 1: of the three ten on the planet. We're one of
Speaker 1: the ten. Get at your sling shots and your stones people.
Speaker 1: So here's what they said about us, and is very humbling.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the Soccer Down Here Network offers
Speaker 1: a unique mix of football content, including my broadcast, talk
Speaker 1: shows and in depth interview specializing in all levels of
Speaker 1: the sport, from professional to high school. SDH has expanded
Speaker 1: its offerings with the launch of SDH two, a new
Speaker 1: platform for live event distribution. The network's commitment to covering
Speaker 1: all aspects of football, combined with its growing audience, makes
Speaker 1: it a standout content provider in the US market. I'll
Speaker 1: be damn, that's very very humbling to have something like
Speaker 1: that happened. So Footballcontent Awards dot Com backslash voting. You
Speaker 1: have until dinner time. Oh no, you can stuff the
Speaker 1: ballot box og. You just got to do it from
Speaker 1: different IP addresses.
Speaker 2: That's the thing.
Speaker 1: You can't do it from the same device, like go
Speaker 1: to the library and maybe go to different computers or
Speaker 1: go to like go to like Best Buyer something and
Speaker 1: log in and do it that way. No, this is
Speaker 1: Cook County politics here, by the way, speaking of Cook County,
Speaker 1: anticipating Greg Burhalter to be duly titled d U a
Speaker 1: l Y later today, So set your notifications chief of
Speaker 1: soccer and head coach. Now you can stuff the ballot
Speaker 1: box between now on the thirteenth, So you can do
Speaker 1: it off your phone, do it off a laptop, do
Speaker 1: it off of a desktop.
Speaker 2: Just make sure that your IP addresses are different.
Speaker 1: And that's why I think, speaking humbly, that we can
Speaker 1: stuff the ballot box. And I think the other nine
Speaker 1: might cancel each other out because they're going to be like,
Speaker 1: ooh do I vote for here, this one, this one,
Speaker 1: this one. I think the other nine cancel each other out.
Speaker 1: But the SDH audience is of singular focus. So stuff
Speaker 1: the ballot box. Did I say that my out loud voice, Yes,
Speaker 1: I damn well did. Uh don't know if after the
Speaker 1: thirteenth there's going to be like a final finalists deal,
Speaker 1: but we'll find out. And as I've said previously, the
Speaker 1: boss said. If we're one of the finalist finalists, we're
Speaker 1: going finals are announced at Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium November twenty first,
Speaker 1: so basically a week before Thanksgiving here in the States.
Speaker 1: So stuff the ballot box as best you can. Tell
Speaker 1: your friends, go into the discord, tell your friends to vote.
Speaker 2: Vote, vote, vote vote.
Speaker 1: And apparently the Jets have fired Robert Sala. Guess we
Speaker 1: know who runs that club. Don't hug me, it's too early.
Speaker 1: And apparently the hugging is not gonna happen, so they'll
Speaker 1: be no hugging of Aaron Rodgers if he doesn't want
Speaker 1: you to hug him, and Robert Sala is not gonna
Speaker 1: hug him. Nix, I love you, but how it's gonna
Speaker 1: be bad enough trying for us to afford it. Nick says,
Speaker 1: if we make the finals, the entire Twitch Pitch should
Speaker 1: make the trip across the pond.
Speaker 2: That'd be great.
Speaker 1: But tickets to just get in the door at the
Speaker 1: awards ceremony at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on the twenty first
Speaker 1: of November, or two hundred bucks just to walk in
Speaker 1: the door. Two hundred pounds to walk in the door. Literally,
Speaker 1: you can be two hundred pounds or three hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: I think that's I think it's a rising scale. But nevertheless,
Speaker 1: to get in price to sit down in the awards
Speaker 1: bank with his two hundred pounds at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Speaker 1: on the twenty first of November. So, like I said,
Speaker 1: we'll find out. Like I said, I don't know if
Speaker 1: they do finalists finalists after October thirteenth or not, but
Speaker 1: we have until Yes see if Uncle Arthur sponsored as
Speaker 1: that'd be epic, But I don't know if Uncle Arthur
Speaker 1: listens to the show for the network. Yeah, plus airfare,
Speaker 1: you know, we probably could points out the hotel and
Speaker 1: the key going to London is to fly through JFK.
Speaker 1: Don't go direct, go from here to JFK JFK over
Speaker 1: it's cheaper. Nick knows this with his cheap airfares dot com.
Speaker 1: But yeah, apparently the Jets have fired Robert sal so
Speaker 1: we know where, we know where that's going. Yeah, see,
Speaker 1: Abby's got friends she can stay with. But still the
Speaker 1: whole thing about I looked at the price tags. Literally
Speaker 1: I get sticker shocked for this banquet at totenhahotspurre Staium.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if it's like on the ground,
Speaker 1: if it's on the surface, or if it's like in
Speaker 1: one of the restaurants or something, or if they're trying
Speaker 1: to control the audience amounts. So yeah, nothing like a
Speaker 1: bunch of rowdy Americans coming over and charging Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Nix Rogers steps in as coach players FU could go wrong?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you have until the thirteenth dinner time, our time,
Speaker 1: because I think when Big Ben strikes midnight that's when
Speaker 1: the fan voting stops, so that would mean dinner time,
Speaker 1: our time, Sunday.
Speaker 2: You have until then to get it all squared away.
Speaker 1: So once again, very very humbled that they have us
Speaker 1: in the final ten on this or any other planet
Speaker 1: as a part of the FCAS. And also the sports
Speaker 1: podcast awards run by the same organization are up and
Speaker 1: running there as well.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 1: But now very very humbling and stunned when they announced
Speaker 1: that a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 2: So vote Vote, Vote, Vote Vote.
Speaker 1: Also on the board this morning, I know that I
Speaker 1: needed to talk about what was going on with the
Speaker 1: Angel City situation.
Speaker 2: Once again.
Speaker 1: According to Steph Yang, League announced the discovery on Thursday
Speaker 1: about Angel City remember a conducted investigation found violations of
Speaker 1: capitals and side letters. Agreements outside the standard contract between
Speaker 1: Angel City and five players not disclosed to the league.
Speaker 1: League found Angel City exceeded the salary cap by approximately
Speaker 1: fifty thousand bucks for four weeks during the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four season, got the points deduction. The fine suspended the
Speaker 1: president and CEO, Julie Yerman, and GM Angela Huclus Mungano
Speaker 1: for all duties relating to player transactions for the rest
Speaker 1: of the year. Jessica Berman spoke to The Athletic before
Speaker 1: the Shield presentation in Orlando, didn't share the specific so
Speaker 1: what the side letters entailed or in which categories meaning
Speaker 1: Bonus's childcare or relo Angel City had spent the money
Speaker 1: on to put him in violation and cap rules. The
Speaker 1: revelation by one of the team's former players prompted the
Speaker 1: league to follow up questions about compliance. Berman told The Athletic,
Speaker 1: we have very clear rules that require all agreements with
Speaker 1: players to be.
Speaker 2: Disclosed to the league.
Speaker 1: Any agreements that are not disclosed are by definition a
Speaker 1: violation of our rules.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: NWSL players signed their contracts or standard player agreements directly
Speaker 1: with the league as part of the single entity structure.
Speaker 1: Berman said some of what had been in the side
Speaker 1: letters was simply repeating the contents of the SPA, but
Speaker 1: some of it was new and so Steph Yang.
Speaker 2: Steph Yang writes in her article. In an early anonymous
Speaker 2: survey of gms, some gms said they found the leagu's
Speaker 2: rules complicated or hard to understand. Berman disagreed with the
Speaker 2: survey results, saying, quote, the rules are very clear. Berman
Speaker 2: said the.
Speaker 1: League routinely asks teams about their salary cap compliance. Angel
Speaker 1: City investigation triggered by receiving new information. Going forward, however,
Speaker 1: the league will conduct more team audits, has communicated in
Speaker 1: the press release announcing disciplinary action against Angel City. Berman
Speaker 1: didn't say if any clubs were already being audited, or
Speaker 1: what the timeline might be for concluding an audit. Terms
Speaker 1: of consequences, financial, competitive individual and club so Berman said
Speaker 1: the league reviews its entire operations and competition manual in
Speaker 1: the off season, will continue with its rules analysis, including
Speaker 1: financial regulation.
Speaker 2: So that is.
Speaker 1: That is the rundown of what happened involving Angel City.
Speaker 2: So it was a player, a former player.
Speaker 1: That came forward to discuss everything involving the issues involving
Speaker 1: Angel City. Ryan Mason is in line to leave Spurs
Speaker 1: for his first management gig. It looks like it's going
Speaker 1: to be he could be the new manager at Anderlecht,
Speaker 1: according to Talk Sport, one of the club's leading names
Speaker 1: to succeed Brian Reemer after Mark van Bommel dropped out
Speaker 1: of the running. Mason, who had a stint as the
Speaker 1: interim back in twenty one after the dismission of Jose Mourinho,
Speaker 1: could be set to land his first managerial role six
Speaker 1: and a half years after hanging up his boots. Became
Speaker 1: the youngest manager to take charge of a Premier League
Speaker 1: game age twenty nine in the twenty one to twenty
Speaker 1: two campaign, and elect Or fourth and the Belgian Air
Speaker 1: Divisi parted ways with Rymer last month, so possibly Ryan
Speaker 1: Mason heading over to Anderlecht to continue going there with
Speaker 1: his managerial progress. West Ham star Lucas Pocatok had faced
Speaker 1: a lifetime ban over betting offenses after his old phone
Speaker 1: reportedly led to two new FA charges. Three letter paper
Speaker 1: take the information at your own peril, nicks good to
Speaker 1: see it three letter paper says he handed in his
Speaker 1: mobile to the FA twelve months ago used a replacement
Speaker 1: handset for the eight weeks that his call log, messages
Speaker 1: and bank records were analyzed. The report adds pocket Tod
Speaker 1: discarded his original phone upon its return, which has only
Speaker 1: added to his rap sheet. Thats is courtesy of our
Speaker 1: friends at talkSPORT. That's because the FA was said to
Speaker 1: have requested more access to the device to examine further details,
Speaker 1: only for Pakata to admit it had gone. That led
Speaker 1: the playmaker to be accused of obstructing their probe, with
Speaker 1: the charges issued in May two aggravated breaches for non
Speaker 1: cooperation and understood to have been accused deliberately by booked
Speaker 1: being booked during four Premier League matches. Should the twenty
Speaker 1: seven year old be found guilty of spot fixing, he
Speaker 1: could be set for a lengthy band potentially six months
Speaker 1: to a lifetime verdict unlikely to be reached until the summer,
Speaker 1: so he's free to play for west Ham for the
Speaker 1: remainder of the season. Obviously, there's a meeting today involving
Speaker 1: Drew and his Manchester United, so we'll see what happens there.
Speaker 1: Involving the future of Eric ten Hog, no extra punishment
Speaker 1: for Nico Jackson after being accused of slapping Morato during
Speaker 1: the one one draw with Nottingham Forest. Both clubs have
Speaker 1: been charged with failure to control their players after what
Speaker 1: the FA term a mass confrontation. So the club's mass confrontation,
Speaker 1: nothing else involving nothing else involving any other players specifically,
Speaker 1: So is it officially official? Did they not waste any time?
Speaker 1: Because Stephen Goff is now reporting that things are officially
Speaker 1: official involving Greg Burholter, It is as of seventeen minutes ago,
Speaker 1: So there we go, So it is officially official. Greg
Speaker 1: Burholter is now the new double boss man at Chicago Fire.
Speaker 1: He has both. He has both titles, So good for
Speaker 1: Greg Burholt Chicago Fire FC. No, I don't want twenty
Speaker 1: percent of single match tickets. Chicago Fire FC today announced
Speaker 1: Greg Burholter has been named club's Director of Football and
Speaker 1: head coach, tenth full time head coach in club history.
Speaker 1: Will oversee all aspects of the Fires sporting operations, including
Speaker 1: the first team, Fire two and the academy, reporting directly
Speaker 1: to owner and chairman Joe Mansweato. Current head coach Frank
Speaker 1: Klopez will step down from his position following the team's
Speaker 1: final regular season match on Saturday, October nineteen, will transition
Speaker 1: to a new role as vice president of football. I
Speaker 1: feel like I need a thunderclap or something quote from
Speaker 1: Joe Mansweto. After a thorough and detailed search that included
Speaker 1: a number of exceptional candidates, it became clear that Greg
Speaker 1: Burholter was the right choice to lead our sporting operations.
Speaker 1: His previous success in MLS, where he thrived in a
Speaker 1: dual role, and his experience leading the US men's national
Speaker 1: team over the last six years make him an ideal
Speaker 1: fit for our vision for the club going forward. Another
Speaker 1: paragraph from Mensweto quote from Burholter, continuing to go through
Speaker 1: Burholter's numbers. Quote from Klopas going through the Burholter resume
Speaker 1: playing their final match of the twenty four regular season
Speaker 1: against Nashville Soldier Field October nineteen, beginning at five o'clock
Speaker 1: Central Time, match broadcast globally on Season Pass. So officially official,
Speaker 1: Greg Burhalter, Director of football and head coach.
Speaker 2: Or Chicago Fire.
Speaker 1: Not really a shock, mind you, but nevertheless and officially announced.
Speaker 1: So it's officially official.
Speaker 2: So Greg Burholter now has a dual role double title,
Speaker 2: probably two business cards for the.
Speaker 1: Head of soccer operations and to be the new head
Speaker 1: coach for Chicago Fire.
Speaker 2: So that's the.
Speaker 1: News involving Greg Burholter this morning. One of the worst
Speaker 1: kept secrets known to mankind. All right, gossip, Brumer Nenuanda,
Speaker 1: what to watch, where to watch, how to watch.
Speaker 2: It, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow Standard Show and it is going to be Tyler
Speaker 1: at nine to fifteen if we can track down Dylan
Speaker 1: Butler at ten o'clock will do that. Then Marion Crowder
Speaker 1: at ten thirty to two discuss super League and her
Speaker 1: show that's on Sirius XM by the way, with Anna
Speaker 1: Whitty discussing super League and SEC soccer.
Speaker 2: So there's that, all right.
Speaker 1: Future Verk ten Hogg decided at a club meeting on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Rudvan Nisselroy favored to take.
Speaker 2: Over if a chain is made.
Speaker 1: No updates yet on any of the media that is
Speaker 1: social involving Eric Tenhog. I'm checking before we leave to
Speaker 1: see if there's any kind of an update. Nothing as
Speaker 1: of this morning. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you've got all.
Speaker 1: The fancy folks that want to sit there and say hey, look,
Speaker 1: and Thomas Tuckle is also apparently a part of the
Speaker 1: discussion as well. So right now, keeping an eye on Tuckle,
Speaker 1: keeping an eye on Van Nisselroy, keeping an eye on
Speaker 1: tin Hog. Nothing officially official yet involving Eric ten Hogg
Speaker 1: and Manchester United can't wait to hear what Drew Dickinson
Speaker 1: has to say about it. Tenhogg believes he retains the
Speaker 1: faith of the man Chester United bosses. Heading into the
Speaker 1: international break, Liverpool are interested in I track Frankfurt striker
Speaker 1: Omar Marmouche Forrest and Villa wanted to sign him last summer.
Speaker 1: City considering a January move for Martin Zubamandi has covered
Speaker 1: for the injured rodri that's from Relevo West Hamil Price
Speaker 1: Mohammed Kudus out of a move away from the club
Speaker 1: next summer despite interest from Liverpool, Arsenal, man City and
Speaker 1: Chelsea Newcastle pushing to sign Leroy Sane when his contract
Speaker 1: expires at Byron Munich. Byron Munich are ready to make
Speaker 1: Jamal Mucila their joint best paid player along with Harry Kane,
Speaker 1: on about four hundred thousand pounds a week.
Speaker 2: Not thought to be in talks with Roha Majudor.
Speaker 1: Manchester City Wolves are maintaining their full support for head
Speaker 1: coach Gary O'Neil after sacking set piece coach Jack Wilson.
Speaker 1: Barcelona are tracking Jonathan David. So that's where we are, Yeah, Abby,
Speaker 1: exactly just what he wants, full control, and I think
Speaker 1: that's what you're gonna get. A lot of these days
Speaker 1: you're gonna get. You're gonna get coaches going into these
Speaker 1: situations saying I want I want it all, and I
Speaker 1: want it now.
Speaker 2: It's like Faruka Salt. He's left alone.
Speaker 1: That's the key. He's left alone. Let the man operate.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens, all right, What to watch,
Speaker 1: where to watch it, how to watch it? You've obviously
Speaker 1: got all the college soccer that's today. Keep an eye
Speaker 1: on your friends in Florida. Please tell them to leave
Speaker 1: low lying areas. If not the entire state of Florida,
Speaker 1: bring them north shoot and there are folks that are
Speaker 1: on social media offering up farmland, places to stay with
Speaker 1: generators and all that kind of stuff. And don't wait
Speaker 1: too late if you're in central Florida. We do have
Speaker 1: an update with our friends in western North Carolina. By
Speaker 1: the way, do have some updates there. Get into the
Speaker 1: college soccer in a bit the Zone Women's Champions League
Speaker 1: double header twelve forty five, Romo Volsburg, Leon galatass three,
Speaker 1: Chelsea Real, Madrid Celtic and FC twentye ESPN plus as
Speaker 1: USL Championship Louden and in the eleven. College Soccer Today.
Speaker 1: College Soccer Today, a lot of stuff on the men's side,
Speaker 1: starting at six o'clock and it's mostly men's. There's one
Speaker 1: women's matchup at three o'clock high point in Winthrop. On
Speaker 1: the plus six o'clock. You've got soccer in the northeast.
Speaker 1: You have an IVY League on ESPN plus Gardner, Webb
Speaker 1: and Winthrop. Keep an eye on Scott Wells and his
Speaker 1: group with what they're doing. I've got an update from
Speaker 1: Scott as well with what we've been seeing with our
Speaker 1: friends at the universities that we've been keeping an eye on.
Speaker 2: Also at seven o'clock. Once again, stuff in the Northeast.
Speaker 1: It is IVY League, it is Big South, it is
Speaker 1: Conference USA ACC Extra has James Maddison and in Virginia,
Speaker 1: so ACC has activity going on. You've got the you've
Speaker 1: got maction going on you have, Oh, what's Cleveland State
Speaker 1: in these days?
Speaker 2: In soccer?
Speaker 1: The Midwest Conference that they're in ACC network once again,
Speaker 1: Michigan and Notre Dames at seven o'clock on the ACC network.
Speaker 1: Charleston and North Carolina's on extra Stetson in South Florida.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they might be raising the clock
Speaker 1: to get that one in into Land and then get
Speaker 1: everybody North Wafford and Wake on ACC extra. Butler and
Speaker 1: I U p U I at seven o'clock Mercer, Georgia
Speaker 1: State seven o'clock on ESPN plus Harvard and BU Covenant,
Speaker 1: Belmont and Central Arkansas and Tulsa. So that is that's
Speaker 1: what to look at with all of all of all
Speaker 1: of them, So keeping keeping an eye out for all
Speaker 1: of them in college soccer. Oh, the updates from our
Speaker 1: friends up, up and down the line. Tried to catch
Speaker 1: up with some folks yesterday and it appears that unc
Speaker 1: Asheville the soccer has been moved to unc Charlotte all
Speaker 1: Fall sports men's soccer, women's soccer, volleyball to train and live.
Speaker 1: There are pictures yesterday of folks leaving the unc Asheville
Speaker 1: campus and they're heading to their various places and major
Speaker 1: props by the way to everyone that is reaching out
Speaker 1: to help out when it comes to everything on campus
Speaker 1: involving UNC Asheville and where they're heading and where they
Speaker 1: could be going that kind of stuff. So hang on
Speaker 1: Ashville men's soccer, where's the so where's the Ashville Athletics
Speaker 1: twenty four schedule has been readjusted so it appears and
Speaker 1: it's SAW so Asheville Athletics started moving and it's unc
Speaker 1: AVL Bulldogs. So Ady Cone posted a letter a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago with an update that's attached. So now
Speaker 1: the way that it is, men's and women's soccer and
Speaker 1: volleyball are being hosted.
Speaker 2: This is unc Asheville.
Speaker 1: Unc Asheville Men's and women's soccer and volleyball are now
Speaker 1: at UNC Charlotte Cross Countries at Wafford. Men's and women's
Speaker 1: hoops are being hosted by the Charlotte Hornets. Women's swimming
Speaker 1: by Gardner Webb, men's and women's tennis by High Point.
Speaker 1: Baseball moved to UNC Greensboro Track and Field training remotely
Speaker 1: until further notice. Women's golf residing in Kiowa, then hosted
Speaker 1: by Wafford College. So that is your Asheville update. Biggest
Speaker 1: thing from Scott Wells and our friends at Gardner Webb
Speaker 1: is that he has redirected their efforts when it comes
Speaker 1: to helping folks out, and it was in a text,
Speaker 1: So hang on just a second, let me. Biggest thing
Speaker 1: that Scott wanted to say was that there's a lot
Speaker 1: of aid and right now no power or water in
Speaker 1: his section of Asheville. Move their efforts to Swannanoa and
Speaker 1: Black Mountain as well as Old Fort difficult because there's
Speaker 1: almost too much food now and the Bears are being
Speaker 1: able to get to it. Churches can't give enough away
Speaker 1: and are literally begging people to come and collect it.
Speaker 1: So Scott Wells and his efforts are now looking more
Speaker 1: into families that have lost homes, having to.
Speaker 2: Move and needing things for their houses, et cetera.
Speaker 1: So with your favorite charities or groups that are trying
Speaker 1: to help out folks western North Carolina and Middle Georgia,
Speaker 1: what have you.
Speaker 2: Check ahead see what they need?
Speaker 1: My question was to all of our coaches that we've
Speaker 1: been in touch with, what do you need? And so
Speaker 1: that's why if you're going to hook up with Scott
Speaker 1: Wells and what he wants to do. It's about families
Speaker 1: that have lost their homes and trying to re establish
Speaker 1: just being in a home environment. So it might be
Speaker 1: things like furniture, gift cards, those kinds of things to
Speaker 1: help these families rebuild. Unc Asheville once again as an entity,
Speaker 1: has relocated to a bunch of different campuses. Mentioned the
Speaker 1: conversation that we had, I want to say with Leees
Speaker 1: McCrae where it's been moved to Fareham and into Virginia
Speaker 1: and access there as well. But we'll keep you posted
Speaker 1: on what those folks need from a high school perspective
Speaker 1: here in the state of Georgia. Been able to do
Speaker 1: some reading and some writing at GPB and literally right
Speaker 1: now in Hazlehurst and jeff Davis County, which seems to
Speaker 1: be kind of a central point. It is the idea
Speaker 1: that they're going to play high school football this weekend.
Speaker 1: Seventy percent of the county does not have power, but
Speaker 1: they're going to play and use it as a celebration
Speaker 1: as Bacon County comes comes to Hazlehurst this weekend. But
Speaker 1: check with your local high schools and all of your
Speaker 1: contacts and all your people find out what they need.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it might just be something as a
Speaker 1: roof over their head, might be a gift card, might
Speaker 1: be something to try to sit there and dust themselves
Speaker 1: off on a daily basis, a place to get quiet.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's some Wi Fi access or something like that.
Speaker 1: But before you send something outbound, check locally and see
Speaker 1: if something is specifically needed to attach to where you're
Speaker 1: looking to give aid. So we don't have a situation
Speaker 1: where folks are giving a boatload of food and nobody
Speaker 1: comes and gets it and then the bears get to it.
Speaker 1: You're helping the bears out, but families not so much.
Speaker 1: So check ahead of time and check and see what
Speaker 1: you're staring at.
Speaker 2: With all of the folks that are trying to help
Speaker 2: out here.
Speaker 1: And it's fantastic that everyone is trying to lift each
Speaker 1: other up. But just right now, since we're a week
Speaker 1: plus in, just double check to make sure that folks
Speaker 1: need specific things or what Check to see what they
Speaker 1: need before you send.
Speaker 2: So just do things that way.
Speaker 1: Also on on the board this morning, let me see
Speaker 1: before we try and get out here, let me go
Speaker 1: and check and see what is going on around the
Speaker 1: planet and see if there's anything that I have missed.
Speaker 1: Oh abby on looking at Instagram with Brad yesterday. Yes,
Speaker 1: continue as me. Come on now, let me see if
Speaker 1: I'm within the twenty four hour limit. And see I
Speaker 1: don't five nine seven eight eight. If anybody wants to
Speaker 1: be me, they can just log into my computer now
Speaker 1: on Instagram. Yes, save the login info. Goodness, gracious alive.
Speaker 1: Brad and Uncle Arthur on the course. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: And was that Brooks so it Land United and about yeah,
Speaker 1: so Brooks, Brad and Uncle Arthur on the fairway.
Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. All right.
Speaker 1: So, and this is what happens when you're trying to
Speaker 1: get into everything else. I don't want you to create
Speaker 1: my account. I just oh Manchester, Manchester City, and we
Speaker 1: got to get into that. Manchester City is threatening further
Speaker 1: legal action and rubbish the Premier League victory claims, and
Speaker 1: apparently there's also now a civil war breaking out.
Speaker 2: Tom Morgan from the Telegraph.
Speaker 1: Manchester City have accused the Premier League of misleading clubs
Speaker 1: and warned of more potential legal action. Amid bitter recriminations
Speaker 1: after the APT tribunal. Battle escalated as the champions accused
Speaker 1: the League of several inaccuracies and its peculiar.
Speaker 2: Summary of the tribunals findings.
Speaker 1: Further legal disputes could ignited clubs now pushed through swift
Speaker 1: amendments to rules on apts. The club's head of legal
Speaker 1: council is now suggesting the General Council for Manchester City,
Speaker 1: Simon Cliff, outlining the club's dismay and a letter sent
Speaker 1: to all other top tier clubs on Monday evening after
Speaker 1: both sides declared victory.
Speaker 2: Well, of course you're both going to declare victory.
Speaker 1: Earlier, the League had categorically rejected cities claim of a
Speaker 1: seismic triumph, conceding only that the ruling showed a small
Speaker 1: number of discreete elements do not comply with competition law.
Speaker 1: Cliff wrote the other nineteen clubs in an effort to
Speaker 1: dismantle the lengthy League statement, saying its summary of the
Speaker 1: Panels award was not correct. The Telegraph Sport reported how
Speaker 1: the further tension summering of a meeting next week of clubs,
Speaker 1: with City opposing plans to rule out applying fair market
Speaker 1: value tests to shareholder loans retrospectively in the three years
Speaker 1: since APT was introduced, so if you have the telegraph.
Speaker 1: That is your requested required reading of the day. When
Speaker 1: it comes to.
Speaker 2: How folks in the Premier League, the owners.
Speaker 1: Of a lot of the clubs are going to be
Speaker 1: mad at each other and they're going to continue being mad.
Speaker 1: Also trying to see if I've missed anything when it
Speaker 1: comes to.
Speaker 2: Anyone else.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm scan I'm scanning copy here, trying
Speaker 1: to see if there's anything else. So nothing in the
Speaker 1: Times and nothing in that so we mentioned the club.
Speaker 1: Anderseniesta did announce his retirement after a twenty four year career,
Speaker 1: by the way, so that is official. Comos Kurto has
Speaker 1: been banned after and this is from PA media, player
Speaker 1: who racially abused Wang Yi Chong in a preseason friendly
Speaker 1: has been given a ten match banned by feet of
Speaker 1: five of those suspended for two years. Marco Kurto, who
Speaker 1: is then playing for Como now on loan to Chisana,
Speaker 1: found guilty of abusing Huwang during a friendly match in Marbella.
Speaker 1: Spokesperson for the football governing body said the player Marco Kurto,
Speaker 1: has found responsible for discriminatory behavior sanction with the ten
Speaker 1: match suspension, and he defended the Jackie Chan common after
Speaker 1: the Wolves complain of racism in a friendly South Korea
Speaker 1: players National Football Association contact at FIFA in July to
Speaker 1: express serious concerns about the incident. Matt Wilde said at
Speaker 1: the time they welcomed the investigation. He COMO insisted at
Speaker 1: the time the incident had been blown out of proportion.
Speaker 1: Miran Suwarso, a spokesperson for the club's owner, said Kurto
Speaker 1: had told the club he told a fellow defender ignore Huang,
Speaker 1: he thinks he's Jackie Chan, and that was where that
Speaker 1: went from there. So yeah, that didn't go over well.
Speaker 1: DAMNL shouldn't have either, all right. So I think we're
Speaker 1: up on the news and everything. But obviously the biggest
Speaker 1: thing was that we now have a new two title
Speaker 1: man in charge in Chicago and his name is Greg
Speaker 1: Burholter with the Chicago Fire. So tomorrow once again Tyler
Speaker 1: Pilgrim joining us at nine point fifteen, it is hopefully
Speaker 1: Dylan Butler joining us at ten and see if we
Speaker 1: can track down Mary and Crowder to talk about Super League,
Speaker 1: her show on the Super League with Anna Whitty, Jupileague
Speaker 1: and everything going on in the SEC, and don't forget.
Speaker 1: We're also going to catch up with some new friends
Speaker 1: in the NPSL on Wednesday as well. That interview will
Speaker 1: get posted to the network. And also Thursday, our number
Speaker 1: one is our number one for Thursday thoughts, and then
Speaker 1: it's the Power Hour with Nino and Nico and the
Speaker 1: ten o'clock trying to catch up with some of our
Speaker 1: friends in western North Carolina see if they can hop
Speaker 1: on in that Thursday ten o'clock slot, just to kind
Speaker 1: of update as to how things are. And also Friday
Speaker 1: is gonna be Friday, see if Jason can join us
Speaker 1: to size up everything that's been going on across college
Speaker 1: and pro and everything that is going on with him,
Speaker 1: see if we can catch up with our friends at
Speaker 1: Beyond Goals Entering. And also we're going to be catching
Speaker 1: up with our friends at Ozark United on Friday, off
Speaker 1: the offline, We're going to tape a piece with Chris
Speaker 1: Martinovich and find out what's going on at Ozark United
Speaker 1: because they are now no longer USLNWA, they are Ozark United,
Speaker 1: and so that is up as well. Plus remember today
Speaker 1: two o'clock, three o'clock MLS Next Pro Pick your Dance
Speaker 1: Partner in the East and the West. I think the
Speaker 1: East will have your chaos. I think the West will
Speaker 1: be chalk. We'll talk about that as well tomorrow. So
Speaker 1: we went long because it was worthy of going long,
Speaker 1: and we'll do that every single day once again. Thanks
Speaker 1: to Will Jarrett at Land United and Communications Department for
Speaker 1: letting Steve Cook come on and hang out with us
Speaker 1: this morning.
Speaker 2: A very very cool interview.
Speaker 1: That we got to have with Steve and find out
Speaker 1: about MLS next pro at Landy United too, and we'll
Speaker 1: see where all of it goes from there and Steve
Speaker 1: can come in and talk about anything he wants to
Speaker 1: do at any given time. Also, let me get to
Speaker 1: say hi to everybody and see what's up with North
Speaker 1: Carolina answer doing what they can to help each other.
Speaker 1: A great band togetherness with Waken and c State this
Speaker 1: past weekend. KI was gonna need to get out of
Speaker 1: there with Milton, you know, no kidding, So let me
Speaker 1: say hi to everybody before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: and I will go and try and figure out how
Speaker 1: to get this splinter out of my foot. Morning d
Speaker 1: Graham Morning, Alex Morning, Dell Morning, Abbey Morning, Wiley, Morning
Speaker 1: to Us Morning, David Morning, Nicks, Morning Pars, Morning Hutch
Speaker 1: doing Sdhlfresco, well done, Morning four Card and let's see
Speaker 1: Morning d Graham, Morning David, everybody, and Abby saying hydrogen peroxide.
Speaker 1: So we'll start there. Let's see. I'm trying to see
Speaker 1: who else I might have missed, Hutch, Alfresco, Nixon, Abby,
Speaker 1: d Graham with a great question that you really challenged,
Speaker 1: Steve Cook on well done, Morning Og. Let's see Morning Hutch,
Speaker 1: Morning Harry. Harry came in for hour number two. Morning
Speaker 1: to the Og and Abby and I think that'll do it.
Speaker 1: So thanks for all of you guys for coming in
Speaker 1: this morning. We'll be back at it again in a
Speaker 1: little less than twenty two and we will discuss anything
Speaker 1: and everything going on on the planet. Tyler Pilgrim from
Speaker 1: Scarves and Spikes kicks it all off, Bat.
Speaker 2: And lead off on Wednesday at nine to fifteen.
Speaker 1: So for everybody here at SDH, thanks for dropping by
Speaker 1: as you always do. Back at it again tomorrow, so
Speaker 1: played safe, everybody, move your platy all and sentence end
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Speaker 1: fancy clothes instead of a fancy open, because if we
Speaker 1: ran a fancy open. That would mean that the show
Speaker 1: is going to continue, but it's not. We'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Thanks again for being a part of SDH. Played safe everybody.
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