WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:35.560 Yah, yaps. 2 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:47.479 Oh hm hmm, come on, man helps alps scoop for dude. 3 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:51.600 Gets Friday Day. 4 00:00:53.159 --> 00:01:04.840 Yeah, you ain't kidding. It is definitely one of those days. 5 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:10.840 This is it's yeah, welcome to SDHAM. What's left of it? Yeah, 6 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:13.680 it is going to be. It is one of these days. Literally, 7 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:19.959 Alex Alex for the third time is saying good morning. Yeah, 8 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:24.680 so morning, Michael Valverdi, four card, everybody who's been drifting 9 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:27.879 in and out with us, all okay, So sticking to 10 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:30.200 our timetables, Bart Keeler is going to join us now 11 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:34.120 in fifteen minutes to discuss what we wanted to discuss. 12 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:36.959 Let's see how long the internet hangs out with us 13 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:43.040 this time. All right, So here's the deal. Leagus Cup changes, Club, 14 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:47.359 World Cup groups. Apparently the schedule's coming out later today. 15 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:50.879 Bart's going to join us over a couple of topics 16 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:55.359 and then we'll get you ready for the weekend. So yeah, 17 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:59.040 take three. Let's see what happens here, all right, So 18 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:02.920 John here, you there and hold your breath, so we'll 19 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:09.759 see what happens once again. Good lord. All right, So 20 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:13.000 here's the deal. Uh, I couldn't even get through the 21 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:14.879 damn promo. So let me go through the promo on 22 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:17.360 the short version and we'll lay it all out for 23 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:21.840 you once again. Open and Kickoff, Kickoff Coffee, Kickoff Coffeeco 24 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:24.840 dot Com, Soccer down here fifteen When you check out, 25 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:27.319 you get fifteen percent off your purchase. They in turn 26 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:30.520 take ten percent reinvested youth games, youth initiatives, Kickoff Coffee 27 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:39.439 and Kickoff Coffeeco dot Com. 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All right, 79 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:39.120 So let me get into League's Cup because that's probably 80 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:42.079 gonna be a shorter discussion than hanging out with Bart. 81 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:44.959 When Bart comes on in ten minutes with Bart. Once again. 82 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:49.000 Tom Russo had a reffing down here moment involving Everton 83 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:52.879 that he wished to have discussed the article that Steph 84 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:55.160 Yang had out at the Athletic where apparently we have 85 00:05:55.240 --> 00:06:00.079 a corporate overlords overseeing var in Major League Soccer and 86 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.839 officials and officials are kind of getting creeped out about it, 87 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:07.360 and it adds to the attention of credibility when it 88 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:09.839 comes to folks in the booth. And then JT. Batson 89 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:12.839 had an interview with Amanda Davis at seen an International 90 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.639 discussing coach sharing. I wanted to get into that with Bart, 91 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:19.720 and I also want you to pay a when episode 92 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:23.160 CV one oh five pops up, it'll probably be a 93 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:25.240 review of the window. We'll talk about Bart. We'll talk 94 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:29.279 to Bart about that and get into that discussion. Monday, 95 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:32.519 Bart's back in his normal time slot. I'm saving my 96 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:37.199 most of my women's national team questions for then, and 97 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:39.839 then reughing down here from the weekend, because once again, 98 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:43.279 before we go this morning, it'll be looking at things 99 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:46.480 that are going on across the planet moments from the 100 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:48.759 weekend and going from there. But one of the questions 101 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:51.639 that I'm going to warn Bart about on Monday, is 102 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:57.000 the goalkeeping situation now that the listen there is done internationally. 103 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:01.000 If I remember the stat correctly, as it was broadcast 104 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.839 on TNT Max and all the other places it was 105 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:07.600 broadcast in the last match of a Listenaire the subsequently 106 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:19.920 four keepers in line. Hi, Bart, Hello, So I'm going 107 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:22.319 to try and piece this together, so we'll see what 108 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:25.800 happens here now that you've wandered up to your particular location. 109 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:30.120 Apparently the signal didn't die and thanks to the diehards 110 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:32.399 that have been hanging out with us this entire time. 111 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:37.560 So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to 112 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:41.000 let's see if we could start the show all over again. 113 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:44.199 I'm going to start the show all over again. So 114 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:50.480 let's do that because I'm mad as a hornet right now. So, 115 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:59.560 as we're back after a sixteen minute delay, strategic retreat. 116 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:09.600 Strategic retreat, Alex says, bite your tongue, sir, Yeah, So 117 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.120 all right, after eleven minutes, all right, so we'll tell 118 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.759 you what. Since we're here at the beginning of our 119 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.079 number two, almost close to ten oh five, how about this. 120 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:22.720 And I know that a lot of you are just 121 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:24.480 kind of watching to see what else is gonna go 122 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:29.600 wrong because it is a Friday. So uh yeah, all right, 123 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:33.440 here we go. Let's let's uh, let's do let's do 124 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:36.720 let's do things like this, shall we you know, let's 125 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:50.639 go ahead and run this, all right? So our number two, 126 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:55.200 which is really our number one, and we'll see where 127 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:57.879 we go. Let's see all right, So what's the what's 128 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:01.000 the clock? Yeah, we're live now, four card, Yeah, we're 129 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:05.799 apparently we're alive. I guess. So what's the time? All right, 130 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:12.559 So let's let's take bets on the juice boxes. A fourth. 131 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:15.519 Good morning. Yes, in this economy, we we like spreading. 132 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:21.120 We like spreading good mornings. So, uh, all right, how 133 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:23.600 long do you think the internet signal is gonna hang out? Now? 134 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:27.279 How long do you think it's gonna hang out? Now? 135 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:31.759 Just asking, I'm taking bets. How long do you think 136 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:34.159 the Internet signal's gonna hang up? It's gonna be with 137 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:38.480 us because it's been one of those damn mornings. Literally 138 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:44.559 three dumps in the first hour of the show, Nixonian 139 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:49.080 gaps that would make the Watergate investigation proud. And so 140 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:50.879 now we're going to start our number two, which is 141 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.039 really turning into our number one. And for this, we're 142 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:59.440 gonna bring Bart in and we're gonna talk things. And 143 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:05.639 if you could hearn your device sideways, sir, sorry, because 144 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:06.799 I'm there. 145 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:07.000 We go. 146 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:09.240 I wanted to fill up the screen. I wanted to 147 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:12.519 fill up, all right, So yeah, we had to hear me. 148 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:14.600 By the way, I'm not on my normal audio. 149 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:17.360 You you you sound like you're in the room. You're 150 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:20.720 not on your headset. Okay, So as he fixes his 151 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:26.399 audio setting to hook up, oh there it is, all right? 152 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:27.559 Does that matter? 153 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:30.440 Well, yeah, I mean it's I thought you were hooking 154 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:31.720 up your headset to the device. 155 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:34.879 Well that was the headset was the issue, Okay. 156 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:39.159 All right, all right? So uh, yes, we are. So 157 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:41.200 a couple of things that I wanted to bring you 158 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:46.480 in this morning to discuss, and I don't want to 159 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:50.960 steal from our Monday appearance, so I'm gonna save most 160 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:54.039 of my women's national team talk to Monday. And I 161 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:57.480 also want folks to go listen to episode CV of 162 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:01.080 the Soccer for us P O D and and go 163 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:03.559 through all of what was going on in your collective 164 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:07.360 brains over there as we go. But the goalkeeping question 165 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:10.960 in conundrum. I'm saving that to Monday, okay. So, and 166 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:12.879 I imagine that you guys are talking about it, and 167 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:13.480 you're over there. 168 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:16.799 We are, you know, we we're just refusing to accept 169 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:18.559 a listener's request for retirement. 170 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:21.480 Yeah, that's what we've decided. Yes, you're you're stomping your 171 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:24.399 feet and saying this is not allowed. No, it's not allowed. 172 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.039 A couple of things I wanted to get into with 173 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:32.799 you this morning is Tom Russo had requested a review 174 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:36.360 of an egregious off side call in an Everton match. 175 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:38.879 Areous? Okay? 176 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:43.519 And so I've got to find the context of said 177 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:46.879 event and then we can get into what. 178 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:51.320 Yeah, I think it was. I watched this on the 179 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:57.000 highlights for the Premier League Highlights and okay, let's think 180 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:02.399 about this. So I forget the player's name, but there's 181 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:05.879 an attacker who you know, John how if you can, 182 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:07.399 if you pull it up and see it, it's great. 183 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:09.639 But you know, there's a set piece, a free kick 184 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:15.240 from basically five yards from the touch line, about parallel 185 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:21.600 with the top of the the goal arc, you know, 186 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:25.240 so with the penalty arc it so not close to 187 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:29.960 the goal, but not a shooting opportunity. Everton has lined 188 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:32.600 up with who is they playing? 189 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:38.360 Oh, Everton and Wolves are lined up, you know, and 190 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:41.600 like a lot of times happens, Everton puts a couple 191 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:44.039 of players, specifically one in particular. 192 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:47.960 Offside, because that's what a lot of teams do. They 193 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:52.120 have one player that kind of stands offside. That player 194 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:59.679 then basically sets a pick for the Tchaikovsky I don't 195 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:07.120 know how to Tarkowski to come in behind him and 196 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:08.240 when the header that ends up. 197 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:09.679 Going in the back of the net. 198 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:12.039 The reason this was called off side is because the 199 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:14.799 player was in an offside position, so they obviously review 200 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:19.679 it and they deemed that he interfered with active play. Now, 201 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:24.559 I think why this was deemed interference with active plays 202 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:27.639 because one of the considerations to be involved in active 203 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:31.000 play is as we've talked about a lot of times. 204 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:33.200 You know, we talked about the interference of a goalkeeper, 205 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:37.799 but you can also interfere with defenders. And in this case, 206 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:42.799 he basically moves back onside after the ball is kicked 207 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:49.559 and puts hands on an opposing defender, stopping that defender 208 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:53.080 from defending the aerial free kick. Right, And I do 209 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:55.679 think this was Unfortunately, Tom, I do think this is 210 00:13:55.679 --> 00:14:01.919 a correct call because he makes an active play in 211 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:06.440 uh the on on the free kick, right. He is 212 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:10.399 not just standing there, you know, he doesn't just happen 213 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:13.080 to run into someone. There is a physical force of 214 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:18.840 contact with his hands into the defender who's trying to 215 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:21.120 get to the attacker who's making the header. And and 216 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:25.440 to me, that is an offside. Sorry, you got involved 217 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:32.200 in active play, Okay, So sorry Tom. Yeah you came 218 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:34.200 out all right, you know you still won? 219 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:34.440 What? 220 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:35.960 Yeah? 221 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:38.600 Yeah, you went you won fifteen miil. It was the 222 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:40.720 second goal in the sixteenth minute. They were up one 223 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:44.200 mill at the point Tarkowski scores on a header from 224 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:47.320 Dwight McNeil, and then you get the offside check from 225 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:51.559 var So Dale. Johnson's description goes like this, what incidents 226 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:53.799 like this happened? We always hear comments such as why 227 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:57.200 aren't goals ruled out for blocking on every set on 228 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:58.159 every set piece? 229 00:14:58.559 --> 00:14:59.519 Yeah, fair question. 230 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.600 The key factor is this isn't a foul, it's offside. 231 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:04.600 Correct. 232 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:07.279 For a foul, the blocking has to be of a 233 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:12.240 sufficient nature and not the normal football contact. Correct for 234 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:15.480 offside any contact, meaning it doesn't have to be a 235 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:19.000 foul which prevents an opponent from being able to challenge 236 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:21.320 for the ball is an offense. As the ball is 237 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:27.240 in flight to Tarkovski, oral Mongala holds Lamina and prevents 238 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:31.240 Wolves from attempting to prevent across from the goals. So 239 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:34.000 Dale Johnson says, you don't have to think Lemina will 240 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:36.399 win the ball, meaning the player for Wolves, only that 241 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:41.440 his ability to challenge for it has been effected. Had 242 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:44.399 Mangala been on side, the goal would have stood. Had 243 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:46.679 Mangala and Lamina not been in the direct flight of 244 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:49.919 the ball to Tarkovski, the goal stood. And a couple 245 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:52.759 of other examples in this and Dale Johnson goes back 246 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:56.679 to Carabout Cup in twenty two against Chelsea Liverpool and 247 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:59.440 then in February of this year, Virgil van Dyke scores 248 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:02.039 but var steps in as Indo had stopped the run 249 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:05.519 of Levi Calwell. So it's an offside of fence and 250 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:08.240 it happened directly in front of the run of the score, 251 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.759 and so it is a bar intervention that actually did 252 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:13.720 work and it was a. 253 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:19.200 Positive and I think that is a good indication or specification. 254 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:20.799 This is not a foul. We did not call this 255 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:23.720 back for a fout. This was offside similar. It's very 256 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:27.120 similar to you know, a defender being in the line 257 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:29.639 of sight of a goalkeeper affecting their ability to see 258 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:34.240 or play the ball. In this case, had the defender 259 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:38.039 or the attacker just been in the way, right, I 260 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:39.799 don't think that would have been called. But as Dale 261 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:43.679 points out, it is physical contact. No, it's not a 262 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:47.159 foul that happens all the time. That's fine, But when 263 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:49.759 you start offside and then do your little pick setting, 264 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:54.240 that's going to be the problem. It's very much John 265 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:59.919 off as a pass interference when normal hand fighting is 266 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.399 one thing, right, but when you inotentially make a route 267 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:05.599 to get in front of a defender and prevent them 268 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:09.559 from them getting to play defense, that's going to be 269 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:12.000 an office. So that's basically what the plus was. Office 270 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:14.519 past aperits you know, no goal. 271 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:28.559 Go back to where you were standing, Bart, Yeah, take 272 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:32.400 number four eighty two minutes in or eighty well seventy 273 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:36.400 seven minutes in I think hour and seventeen. Sure, okay, 274 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:39.720 all right, so let's try this. It's take number four, 275 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:42.200 and now people are going to come storming back in. 276 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:46.720 Hopefully John's here Bart's there. Like I said, we got 277 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:49.160 juice boxes on how long the signal's going to hang out? 278 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:51.599 I don't know what it is, I really don't. 279 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:54.599 It's just besting with my snarky comments here. 280 00:17:54.480 --> 00:18:00.960 John, Well your starting comment. You're a snarky man, sir. 281 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:05.240 I you know it's like, get to be a part 282 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:09.000 of the snarky brigade. So all right, So that's done 283 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:12.519 so really quickly. Once again, welcome back Kickoff Coffee and 284 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:15.599 Kickoff Coffeeco dot com soccer down here fifteen get your coffee. 285 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:18.359 They take ten percent reinvested. Very cool stuff. Bart's got 286 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:20.319 his coffee. I don't know if it's Kickoff coffee or not. 287 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:21.039 What's the mug? 288 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:25.039 If Britney survived two thousand and seven, you can handle today, 289 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:27.680 which is probably a good motto for you this morning, John, you. 290 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:30.319 Ain't kidding brother, all right, Grady baby, Grady baby, co 291 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:32.400 You can get the sweatshirt and the T shirt to 292 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:35.440 help up middle school soccer programs at APS. Soccer is 293 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:37.119 just better in Atlanta. Get it in the red, get 294 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:39.400 it in the black, and you can help out middle 295 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:42.880 school soccer. Also, once again, our friends at Olive and 296 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:46.480 York and Olive and York. 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We can always 306 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.279 check and see, but they're gonna send us all to 307 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:17.599 the poorhouse and you can get your Marshall Island scarf 308 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:21.079 that Maddie modeled when she was an intern. How many 309 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:25.519 interns can you say started an international marketing campaign and 310 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:27.440 we're a part of it. I think the answer is 311 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:28.880 one Madison Cruise. 312 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:31.400 So that's international, yes. 313 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:34.880 And so Maddie is a part of that. So now 314 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:37.319 that we're relatively caught up, you got your snark out 315 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:42.079 of the way. Involving the moment with Everton and everything, 316 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:44.480 a couple of other things I wanted to get into 317 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:47.400 this morning with you, Jack Batson and coach Sharing and 318 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:50.319 the Steph Yang article at the Athletic before we get 319 00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:56.960 into things. But I do want to tease something in particular, absolutely, 320 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:06.720 and so we've got to do it this way. I 321 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:10.200 know this will shock all of you, but Major League 322 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:16.160 Soccer has named their MVP for the season, the twenty 323 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:23.400 twenty four Landon Donovan, the don Ovan MLS Most Valuable Player, Leo. 324 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:24.799 Messi, Ricky Poage. 325 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:30.279 Oh, now Leo Messi. According to MLS Communications as of 326 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:32.759 twenty four minutes ago, which we would have broken had 327 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:36.640 the internetwork, the Argentine becomes the first player in club 328 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:39.039 history to earn the league's highest individual honor after leading 329 00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:42.079 Inter Miami to an MLS single season points record supporter shield. 330 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:45.599 More on that later. So I know that you're all shocked. 331 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:49.799 You're all shocked about that. That's why I stopped the 332 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:53.480 breaking news because we're all shocked about it. Okay, So 333 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:55.880 more into that in a bit, all right, Steph Yang 334 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:57.680 at the Athletic, And we kind of got into this 335 00:20:57.880 --> 00:21:02.119 yesterday when the article came out, and as we continue 336 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:04.960 our reffing down here kind of a sidebar this morning 337 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:07.599 and I wanted to get into discussion with you. Headline 338 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:11.839 from Steph Yang MLS refs claim in game interference means 339 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:17.119 they are no longer in control and it was a 340 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:21.400 wild headline in the first place. And it goes back 341 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:24.680 to a routine check during Crew and Red Bulls during 342 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:28.519 this past season. And so after Var completes the check 343 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:30.400 rule a collision with a keeper in the box was 344 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:33.799 not a foul, a pro manager on site, who was 345 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:38.640 not a match official, told him to take a second look. 346 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:46.880 Transcription of the conversation was given to Steph Yang. Pro 347 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:51.720 manager dips into the conversation involving Var and the on 348 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:58.759 field refs to intercede in a call and have him 349 00:21:58.759 --> 00:22:03.440 take another look. Quote. The structure encompassing the officiating of 350 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:06.839 North American soccer matches sometimes dizzy in combination of acronyms 351 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:09.920 and intermingled bodies pro overseas refereeing as it relates to 352 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:14.839 professional leagues. The Professional Soccer Referees Association the PSRA is 353 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:18.039 a certified labor union representing the rights of the refs themselves. 354 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:21.000 IFAB is an inn organization upholding rules of soccer around 355 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:25.880 the world. So IFAB regulations mandate VAR decisions must be 356 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:28.720 made by only the on field officials, the video ref 357 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:33.720 and their aforementioned assistant, meaning the interaction above from an 358 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:38.119 interceding official not on the game sheet. Was it odds 359 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:41.079 with the accepted global standards for the use of global replay. 360 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:44.400 According to multiple sources familiar with pro policy and refereeing 361 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:47.319 at the top level men's and women's soccer, interference from 362 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:52.640 pro has become an habitual problem in MLSNNWSO games. While 363 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:54.559 the presence of a pro manager listing in at a 364 00:22:54.599 --> 00:22:57.920 game would be normal as part of their end analysis 365 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:01.680 and oversight, actual participant patient in the in game decision 366 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:08.640 making process extends beyond their remit So Athletics. If youang 367 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:10.960 expect to several referees, all of whom have several years 368 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:12.920 of experience, claimed the incidents like the one and Crew 369 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:16.880 Red Bulls game were part of a pattern of interference, 370 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:21.119 and two referees who remained unnamed obviously because of job security, 371 00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:26.839 requested anonymity and a reprisal. So now you have referees 372 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:29.000 saying that there are bigger issues at stake, the need 373 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:31.759 for viewing public to have faith in their officiating performance, 374 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:35.640 and that the VAR process is conducted with transparency. You 375 00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:40.039 have supervisors coming into the pods at halftime of matches, 376 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:44.160 according to one referee, communication headset where they can listen 377 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:47.559 and talk and talk in and in, and they've come 378 00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:49.359 on during the course of the game to help point 379 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:53.440 us in a different direction. Second referee, there's a concern 380 00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:55.960 that the protocols in place are not being upheld as 381 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:59.160 they have been previously enforced. There have been suggestions which 382 00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:02.160 fall outside the strict protocol that we've been asked to 383 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:09.039 carry end quote. PRO responded this way two six hundred 384 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:12.119 and forty nine checks in twenty twenty four, of which 385 00:24:12.559 --> 00:24:16.319 six two one thousands of one percent prompted comment from 386 00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:20.440 a supervisor to a video match official. PRO conducted internal 387 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:22.559 review when this was brought to our attention, and improvements 388 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:26.119 were immediately made to PROS processes as a result. What 389 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:28.000 say you about that? 390 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:35.000 Yeah, this is I don't want to say unacceptable, because 391 00:24:35.079 --> 00:24:40.720 I understand why PRO would feel compelled to want to 392 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:49.400 intervene in particularly contentious situations. However, however, that's not their job. 393 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:53.599 That is not in the job description, that's not in 394 00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:56.519 the writer, that's not in the trip manifest, that is 395 00:24:56.559 --> 00:25:00.039 not what they're there for now. If they want to 396 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:07.039 have these conversations after the game, fully fine, But I 397 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:13.680 definitely dislike pro officials being in tune with the headsets. 398 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:16.400 I think that is a problem. I think that is 399 00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:24.079 not something that functioning professional referees should have to deal with. 400 00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:29.799 I do believe that, you know, I understand how at 401 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:34.079