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Speaker 2: Ben Solac from ESPN stops by to talk NFL. Max
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Speaker 2: three o'clock hour today we'll do a little RSL. The
Speaker 2: club is back in action coming up this weekend on
Speaker 2: the road against Charlotte, a tough result after taking the
Speaker 2: lead against New York over the weekend. A couple of
Speaker 2: new additions to talk about. The head coach of our
Speaker 2: local soccer club, Pablo Master. Johnnie hops on on Tuesday Afternoon,
Speaker 2: Pop's Happy Tuesday.
Speaker 4: How we doing happy to do this well? Buds?
Speaker 3: Are we really doing well? Are we really doing well.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, frustrating series of events against New York
Speaker 2: after taking that one no lead is gozo tallied really
Speaker 2: early on? Uh, now that we're a couple of days away,
Speaker 2: where you at with what I perceived to be some
Speaker 2: And I'm not a blame the officials, guy.
Speaker 3: I really am not.
Speaker 2: But when it appears to be egregious and honestly what
Speaker 2: it appears to be like the same dude, it's hard
Speaker 2: to entirely ignore. So which target on a Tuesday afternoon,
Speaker 2: are you still most fired up about after a really
Speaker 2: really tough series of events that went against you guys
Speaker 2: against New York?
Speaker 4: Yeah? You know again, I think the way I always
Speaker 4: look at these things in reflection is like, what could
Speaker 4: we have done differently from from our standpoint? Obviously in
Speaker 4: the in the short term, which is the game, which
Speaker 4: is the thing that matters the most, is about getting
Speaker 4: the result. And obviously, when those calls are to your points,
Speaker 4: agree just as they were and left everyone really confused
Speaker 4: as to how you know, the processes work with within
Speaker 4: the league, you know, and those those decisions obviously affect results,
Speaker 4: and that's that's the hardest thing to swallow. And then
Speaker 4: obviously afterwards, I think through three days later, we're talking
Speaker 4: about different phases of the game that we can improve
Speaker 4: upon to have more control of the ball, to play
Speaker 4: the game more on our terms. But the other part
Speaker 4: of that too that you didn't touch on was the field.
Speaker 4: And you know, I talked to their head coach before
Speaker 4: the game and he says, I don't think we should
Speaker 4: play this game based upon the field conditions. I mean,
Speaker 4: it was it was unplayable. And so you put all
Speaker 4: that together and it is one of those where you
Speaker 4: just had to find a way to get out. But
Speaker 4: again the two penalty calls. You know, here, here's here's
Speaker 4: my biggest disappointment with with the process of of how
Speaker 4: the ar works. Right, the two operative words and how
Speaker 4: they're pitching this to all the clubs and all the
Speaker 4: coaches is clear and obvious, right, There's got to be
Speaker 4: a clear an obvious mistake by the official, not a technicality,
Speaker 4: not maybe not if right, And so what ends up happening,
Speaker 4: Spence is our stadiums are not staffed to have camera
Speaker 4: angles from every possible angle to make sure that it's
Speaker 4: clear and obvious. That's the first problem, and so on
Speaker 4: Var's bk it looks like he gets the piece of
Speaker 4: the ball. You could argue maybe you did get it.
Speaker 4: Depending on the angle, it leads you to two different results.
Speaker 4: And so then it goes back to their statement about
Speaker 4: clear and obvious. And so my whole thing is, if
Speaker 4: there's an official standing underneath the monitor for more than
Speaker 4: thirty seconds, it is no longer clear and obvious, right.
Speaker 4: And so each one of those instances and then the
Speaker 4: off side's called a whole different bag of chips, right
Speaker 4: because the line's been called it offside, and our cameras
Speaker 4: are from midfield, and so you know how the angle
Speaker 4: of the view to the ball is not going to
Speaker 4: be as clear as a professional who's beamed it off sides.
Speaker 4: And so when when when both of these plays affect
Speaker 4: exactly what they what they speak to us about is
Speaker 4: we're not going to re referee the game. We're just
Speaker 4: going to make sure that the call wasn't an egregious
Speaker 4: non caller or an egregious call. And and so they're
Speaker 4: they're basically re refereeing the game using bar and and again. Again.
Speaker 4: When when it leads to uh drop points is the
Speaker 4: moment where everyone's shaking their heads and so tomorrow, I'm
Speaker 4: on a call with uh, you know, Kurt and and
Speaker 4: then the competition head at MLS along with the head
Speaker 4: of of pro referees to get down to the the
Speaker 4: nitty gritty as to why these decisions were made. And again,
Speaker 4: they're not going to give us any points back, but
Speaker 4: if they can improve processes for for everyone moving forward,
Speaker 4: I think it. At least we didn't lose points in Vain.
Speaker 2: So there's a small part of me that believe Diego
Speaker 2: needs a little time off. Okay, small part of me
Speaker 2: that believes he's just a little bit on fumes.
Speaker 3: And we talked about that.
Speaker 2: So I suppose, you know, not having him this weekend
Speaker 2: might be beneficial for the stretch run.
Speaker 3: But you got to help me understand.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Kyle Duncan kid pulled him down and
Speaker 2: it looked pretty obvious in real time.
Speaker 3: The assistant ref had the correct.
Speaker 2: Call, correct right, and and and so ultimately, you know,
Speaker 2: Diego sent off and then they send Kyle off upon review.
Speaker 2: I'm just confused, man, Like, help me understand that series
Speaker 2: of events. How did you digest that from your vantage point.
Speaker 4: The same way you did Spence? The linesman had it right,
Speaker 4: He blew a foul against this guy, so and the
Speaker 4: way he grabbed him around his neck, Diego had no
Speaker 4: choice but the fall on the guy. There's no other
Speaker 4: there's no other place for him to go. He's dragging
Speaker 4: him on his hip. So and again like, this is
Speaker 4: what I want to know from from tomorrow's chat with
Speaker 4: these guys as as the how they're doing these things
Speaker 4: and how these decisions like it. You know, because Diego
Speaker 4: got a yellow card for talking to the ref earlier on,
Speaker 4: so I don't know if it was personal between the
Speaker 4: ref and Diego and he wanted to, you know, and
Speaker 4: he wanted to make a point, but like it's just,
Speaker 4: you know, you lose one of the most you know,
Speaker 4: important players on our team and obviously and one of
Speaker 4: the guys in our league that's doing really well by
Speaker 4: not owning that moment as a center ref and saying, hey, listen,
Speaker 4: is this is this you know, going to talk to
Speaker 4: the linesman. What happened to those days when you'd have
Speaker 4: dialogue with the lignsmen and say, hey, listen, what did
Speaker 4: you see? And he's like, well, I saw him put
Speaker 4: his arm around his next so we have nowhere to go, Okay, great.
Speaker 4: So it's a foul our way. So there's a lot
Speaker 4: of these instances that I think could be dealt with
Speaker 4: if their processes are improved and the communication is improved.
Speaker 4: Because all of this led to and what was really
Speaker 4: disappointing is they went back and reviewed after they had
Speaker 4: a free kick up a man right because they sent
Speaker 4: Diego off but they didn't send Duncan off. And then
Speaker 4: they have free kick of a man, which if they
Speaker 4: would have done everything right and said, hey listen, he
Speaker 4: put them in the choke hold before the playton started,
Speaker 4: none of this would have even happened. So, you know,
Speaker 4: and I we talk about all the time is we
Speaker 4: got to control the controllables, and unfortunately the uncontrollables for
Speaker 4: us impacted the way that game finished and the result.
Speaker 2: One more thing on the officials, and then we'll move
Speaker 2: off of it because other things to get to for sure.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, maybe around two thousand and eight,
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine thereabouts when our team started to
Speaker 2: get a little bit better and the club started to
Speaker 2: play better, and you know, we would always have these
Speaker 2: conversations about how the sport and how the league is evolving.
Speaker 2: Is the talent better, Is the coaching better, are the
Speaker 2: facilities better, more soccer specific stadiums, And it seemed like
Speaker 2: the one thing that wasn't improving was the officials.
Speaker 3: And I don't know how you would articulate that, but.
Speaker 2: For a league that is adding uh, you know Sunny,
Speaker 2: Thomas Mueller, Lionel Messi, I mean some real international powerhouses
Speaker 2: and you know owners that are coming in with deeper
Speaker 2: pockets and valuations for teams that are through the roof,
Speaker 2: and soccer specific stadiums being built all across the country,
Speaker 2: does it feel like the officiating from a macro viewpoint
Speaker 2: is keeping up with the progress that every other facet
Speaker 2: of this sport in this league seems to be kind
Speaker 2: of manifesting right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's a good question, and I would
Speaker 4: say I would say it's it's it's pretty inconsistent, you know.
Speaker 4: I think a well reffed game is a game where
Speaker 4: you don't even realize who the center f is, you know,
Speaker 4: and it's and everything's calm. Everything is like the fouls
Speaker 4: er fouls and not no fouls or no fouls, and
Speaker 4: there's consistency in the way the game is. The game
Speaker 4: is refed, and sometimes you need to blow to us
Speaker 4: a little bit more because the games chip yer, but
Speaker 4: it's understandable from both sides. I think what what the
Speaker 4: straining part is is is the lack of consistency and
Speaker 4: within the one game. Right within the one game, it
Speaker 4: just feels like it's really one sided. And so I
Speaker 4: think a big thing that would help this and more,
Speaker 4: you know, is the var and the implementation of how
Speaker 4: we're going to utilize that and how it's used. I
Speaker 4: think it you know, we're given the ref so much
Speaker 4: to do by going over to the video and spending
Speaker 4: four or five minutes underneath this camera the game. Meanwhile,
Speaker 4: the players and the fans come to see the players,
Speaker 4: not the referee underneath the video. So if we can
Speaker 4: improve that, and then as far as the off sides is,
Speaker 4: if we want to be a top league, I think
Speaker 4: we have to invest in getting these lines that other
Speaker 4: leagues in the world have so where it's not it's
Speaker 4: not subjective. It's not like looking down a bad camera
Speaker 4: angle and guessing if these off sides and it's a
Speaker 4: red line and a blue line, and if the blue
Speaker 4: lines over the red line, then it's off. And it's
Speaker 4: really really clear and I think, because what you don't
Speaker 4: want is the conversation to be about the inconsistency and refereeing.
Speaker 4: If you're gonna, you know, if you're gonna bring in
Speaker 4: talent from abroad, you want that to be the last
Speaker 4: thing these guys are considering. So I think there there's
Speaker 4: got to be some some some improvements and and it's not. Again,
Speaker 4: it's not like they're not working hard every day because
Speaker 4: I know, I've seen the protocols to be a ref
Speaker 4: and it's daunting the amount of physical work, the amount
Speaker 4: of reviews they do. But it comes down to the
Speaker 4: presence in the game, you know, you know, having this
Speaker 4: presence where it's going to be. If it's a little
Speaker 4: bit hectic, I'm gonna bring it down a little bit,
Speaker 4: but I'm going to keep it both ways so that
Speaker 4: the game is intact. At times, I feel like the
Speaker 4: game is actually compromised at times by some of the
Speaker 4: decisions that are being called.
Speaker 2: All right, moving off that topic, and let's just talk
Speaker 2: about the game. I don't let's start with the goal.
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite goals. You guys have scored
Speaker 2: all year. I don't know how many passes, maybe eleven
Speaker 2: twelve thirteen Diego's left footed ball. It's just like, that's
Speaker 2: so wild that he was able to find Willie who
Speaker 2: laid it off and Gozo finishes. So give me your
Speaker 2: thoughts on the start, the build up that led to
Speaker 2: a one to lead, and then a tenant to the
Speaker 2: question is do you guys think you were Do you
Speaker 2: think you guys were dangerous enough after that sands all
Speaker 2: the officiating stuff that we've talked about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's a great point.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: I think again, going into this field, I think there's
Speaker 4: two different two different ways of operating. One we can
Speaker 4: play to the field or we can play true to
Speaker 4: who we are right and so we're a team that
Speaker 4: again we want to pull teams. We want to build
Speaker 4: from the back, not just to be arrogant in the
Speaker 4: way we play, but there's actually a tactical application where
Speaker 4: if you bring a team forward right to pressure goalkeeper,
Speaker 4: that means you're you're The whole thought process in playing
Speaker 4: short close to goal is to exploit the space behind
Speaker 4: the back line because then it becomes dangerous. So we
Speaker 4: call those fasts attacks and that play I think it
Speaker 4: was like a twelve thirteen past combination. It goes out left,
Speaker 4: it comes inside of Mecca, Mecha finds our ten, and
Speaker 4: Luna finds our forward, and William finds our second forward
Speaker 4: and Gozo and so I think that that is like
Speaker 4: textbook training ground application, and the guys did it really well.
Speaker 4: I think after the goal a couple things started happening. One,
Speaker 4: we couldn't get enough pressure on the ball from our
Speaker 4: guys up front, and that was the first part. And
Speaker 4: when we didn't, when we did win the ball back
Speaker 4: closer to our goal, we weren't dynamic enough in our
Speaker 4: transition to attack to be able to beat their repress.
Speaker 4: In other words, there's a rule that most pressing teams
Speaker 4: use was six seconds after you lose the ball, you
Speaker 4: got to get pressure on the ball, right. So the
Speaker 4: opposite of that is we need six seconds of extra
Speaker 4: movement and angles to be able to beat that press.
Speaker 4: And what happened was we found ourselves defending quite ait
Speaker 4: it and that six seconds has to be a switched
Speaker 4: on and we were late to every one of those
Speaker 4: transition to attack moments, which then compounded we're now deep
Speaker 4: defending again, right. And I think a lot of that
Speaker 4: had to do with the field and those little short passes,
Speaker 4: the balls hoping everywhere it's going, and so we weren't
Speaker 4: really clean and then you start losing a bit of
Speaker 4: confidence in your ability to play out and so I
Speaker 4: would say not until the second half, and probably fifteen
Speaker 4: minutes in the second half we regain our footing and
Speaker 4: a big part of that was Pablo Luis coming into
Speaker 4: the game and calming the game and being that outlet
Speaker 4: pass that found the next pass that allowed the team
Speaker 4: to move forward and breathe, and then from there we
Speaker 4: were able to create two or three really good attacks
Speaker 4: on goal and if not for the crossbar, found the
Speaker 4: second goal to win it. So you know, today's session
Speaker 4: was really focusing on our transition to attack and making
Speaker 4: sure that we're moving six seconds after we win the
Speaker 4: ball in order to make sure that we're able to
Speaker 4: keep it and not get stuck in this tidal wave.
Speaker 4: But defending close to our goal.
Speaker 2: Help me understand how in a professional setting a field,
Speaker 2: because it was interesting. I didn't know you felt the
Speaker 2: way you felt until postgame, but I'm watching the match,
Speaker 2: I'm like, that looks like a local muni field in
Speaker 2: like you know, West Valley that hasn't been watered in five, six,
Speaker 2: seven weeks or whatever.
Speaker 3: How is that allowed?
Speaker 2: How are conditions like that allowed when it comes to
Speaker 2: a professional league in the biggest major metropolitan area in
Speaker 2: our country by the way, you know, like it is
Speaker 2: New York, like bef, Like, how is this allowed? And
Speaker 2: what sort of benchmarks or you know, guardrails are in
Speaker 2: place to kind of keep this from happening again?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think, Well, here's the thing is,
Speaker 4: obviously every every club is trying to maximize the revenue.
Speaker 4: They had a concert on that field a few days
Speaker 4: before the game, and you know, I talked to the coach,
Speaker 4: like I said, before the game, and he actually commented
Speaker 4: after the game and said that game shouldn't have been played.
Speaker 4: The field was not in any kind of standard to
Speaker 4: be played. At one point, Spence, I had the fourth
Speaker 4: official step onto the field because I'm not a lot
Speaker 4: of step on the field, but there was a one
Speaker 4: and a half foot by one and a half foot
Speaker 4: plot of sod that just lifted up and there was
Speaker 4: like probably an eight inch pivot. And so again, like
Speaker 4: this is the one sport where you're using your feet
Speaker 4: and the most important part of any stadium is the
Speaker 4: actual turf. That you're playing on right, So it's not
Speaker 4: like it's American football and you're running routes. The ball
Speaker 4: needs to roll on something. And and if we're going
Speaker 4: to be a team that that prides himself on playing
Speaker 4: with the ball on the ground and combination play, well,
Speaker 4: this is obviously not conducive to any of that. And
Speaker 4: and to be fair to Red Bull that they're a
Speaker 4: team that wants to play too and in a lot
Speaker 4: of different facets, but they're aware that the field isn't
Speaker 4: that way, and you know that they're they're a more
Speaker 4: direct team where they're where they're playing balls for it
Speaker 4: and knocking it down and so you know, but to
Speaker 4: be fair that their own coach said the same thing
Speaker 4: I did. It's not safe, especially when you have these
Speaker 4: million million plus players, you know, dollar players on the field.
Speaker 4: Our biggest asset as a league are the players themselves,
Speaker 4: and we're putting them in harms way by by playing
Speaker 4: on you know, fields that are that are in that
Speaker 4: type of condition.
Speaker 3: Let me go back to Diego for a moment.
Speaker 2: Is there a part of you that does kind of
Speaker 2: feel like he might need a weekend off to kind
Speaker 2: of decompress and rest and get his legs on it.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, you he's probably your best player, so
Speaker 2: of course you want him in the lineup, and you're
Speaker 2: a better team with him. I'm not saying you're not,
Speaker 2: But is there a part of you that's like, all right,
Speaker 2: I could take the weekend off and let's get you
Speaker 2: back ready, you know, with fresh legs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and yes, yes, one hundred percent agree with that.
Speaker 4: I think the toughest thing to do with, especially a
Speaker 4: young player, you know, in in Diego Luna, because we
Speaker 4: oftentimes forget that he's only twenty one years old and
Speaker 4: is rise to where he is now almost seems like
Speaker 4: it's you know, it's in the last eight months, what's
Speaker 4: been it's been brewing, but like the last you know,
Speaker 4: four months, really he's shot up in the you know,
Speaker 4: the stratosphere. As far as recognition, we don't go to
Speaker 4: one stadium where he doesn't have fifty to one hundred
Speaker 4: people waiting for him after games, you know, people waiting
Speaker 4: for him at the hotels, and the amount of media
Speaker 4: that he does. Right, so all these things are parlane
Speaker 4: into like performance, you know, because you went from not
Speaker 4: having it to all of a sudden, how do you
Speaker 4: deal with this kind of stuff. And so that's one
Speaker 4: thing that we're talking about internally, is how do we
Speaker 4: take some of the weight off of them? And that's
Speaker 4: one area that we can definitely do it. The other
Speaker 4: areas on the field, and you know, for a young player,
Speaker 4: he's not he doesn't have enough experience in his career
Speaker 4: to be like, yeah, I need a break here, and
Speaker 4: like he's open and honest about needing a break, right,
Speaker 4: he wants to keep proving because what got him to
Speaker 4: this point wasn't taking a break. It was put is
Speaker 4: put your foot on the on the gas and pressed
Speaker 4: as hard as you can, right. And so I think
Speaker 4: this moment is is a is a great, a great
Speaker 4: way that the universe has has allowed for us to
Speaker 4: give him a break in a way that he can't
Speaker 4: resist because it's it's already happened, right, And so I
Speaker 4: think it's critical. I think he needs a bit of
Speaker 4: a reset. He's been going hard since the beginning of
Speaker 4: June without a break. And you know, I think I'm
Speaker 4: giving him a break by not starting him against Sam
Speaker 4: Luis and what he Okay, so he didn't play fifty minutes,
Speaker 4: but he's still doing all those other things. So I think,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe giving him after tomorrow, giving them the weekend,
Speaker 4: a good four or five day break where he can
Speaker 4: kind of reset, be with his his his son in
Speaker 4: Texas and get away from it all so that he
Speaker 4: charges his batteries back and and when he's when he's
Speaker 4: recharged and he's you know, dialed in, there's no doubt
Speaker 4: that Diaga Luna makes us a great team.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: So we've seen Rowan Cruz a couple of different i'ms
Speaker 2: and you know, de truncated moments. In League's Cup Player
Speaker 2: final match, we saw him for a minute and then
Speaker 2: he came on in the second half against New York.
Speaker 2: Things like this take time, and this is a process.
Speaker 2: So let's start with Rwan. What have you made of
Speaker 2: the performances as you put him in as a sub
Speaker 2: over the past couple of games, And probably more importantly, Pablo,
Speaker 2: what are you seeing in training that indicates when this
Speaker 2: thing kind of gets rolling, he could be a good addition.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I would say he's got a really really good
Speaker 4: understanding of the game, and I think that soccer i
Speaker 4: Q in that part of the field is really really important.
Speaker 4: You know. I think he's he saw in the New
Speaker 4: York game where he did really well receiving the ball
Speaker 4: with his back to goal, so his hold up play
Speaker 4: was solid. Decisions from that were really solid. And then
Speaker 4: there's also a moment or two where he made runs
Speaker 4: behind the back line and was able to stretch it.
Speaker 4: And so I think when you have a player with
Speaker 4: a high soccer intelligence that's comfortable with the ball at
Speaker 4: his feet, with his back to goal, and then also
Speaker 4: running into space, it really allows us to be more
Speaker 4: diverse than the way we attack. And so he's he's
Speaker 4: been awesome, you know, looking towards this week, I think
Speaker 4: it's a great opportunity to start him. You know, physically,
Speaker 4: we still don't know exactly where he's at. He's had
Speaker 4: a start, stop and preseason with the team that he
Speaker 4: came from in Brazil. But I think this is as
Speaker 4: good as opportunities ever to kind of get him in there,
Speaker 4: gain some minutes, gain some confidence, and to continue sharpening
Speaker 4: those those those actions that I think will be really
Speaker 4: really good for us down the stretch.
Speaker 3: I asked Kurt this last week, I'm curious to get
Speaker 3: your take. As a player.
Speaker 2: One of the things I've always had a difficult time
Speaker 2: really grasping as somebody who tries to analyze the game
Speaker 2: and analyze the league is how players that come from
Speaker 2: other parts of the world are prepared to play in
Speaker 2: MLS juxtaposed to the league they were just in. Okay,
Speaker 2: So help me understand Rwan's level prior to landing with
Speaker 2: you and whether or not you think that's the right
Speaker 2: type of prepper to acclimate to MLS quickly, because let's
Speaker 2: be honest, you need him tacklimate quickly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think the only the best metric
Speaker 4: we can use is the fact that he's played abroad
Speaker 4: before and so his acclamation to a new environment won't
Speaker 4: be shocking to him. And that's about where it ends
Speaker 4: suspense because every league plays different. The weather is different,
Speaker 4: Like there's not too many leagues in Europe that are
Speaker 4: playing in the summertime, and so like the heat thing
Speaker 4: is real. You know, the distance and travel right, so
Speaker 4: that for four and a half hour flight to New York,
Speaker 4: that's not common in any league in the world. So
Speaker 4: there's a lot of things that you just don't know
Speaker 4: how they're going to assimilate, and that's why it takes
Speaker 4: a lot longer. And then here we have you know,
Speaker 4: we have it. We have it. We have a nice
Speaker 4: stadium here at AFF. Then we go to New York
Speaker 4: and we're playing on a sand lot with a little
Speaker 4: bit of grass, and then this weekend we're going to
Speaker 4: Charlotte and playing on turf. So there's so many variables
Speaker 4: that you can't prepare for and you won't know, and
Speaker 4: that's why I think it takes time to acclimate, not
Speaker 4: to mention the tactics for our team are going to
Speaker 4: be different than the tactics at his club. The asks
Speaker 4: for the forward positions and in Brazil where he was
Speaker 4: just currently at will be different than what we're asking
Speaker 4: given our group. And then it's also understanding your teammates.
Speaker 4: And you know, what's the difference between when Brian o'heeda's
Speaker 4: on the ball versus Pablo Reluis on the ball, Well,
Speaker 4: Pablo reice is always going to find passes between the
Speaker 4: lines and find passes beyond. Oheita's going to be a
Speaker 4: guy that just you know, dribbles and breaks lines with
Speaker 4: the dribble. And so there's that there's that acclamation phase
Speaker 4: where you're starting trying to understand the team tactics. But
Speaker 4: within that understand the different abilities of the different players
Speaker 4: who will be feeding you the ball. So I think
Speaker 4: that's the toughest thing. And and and some some players
Speaker 4: assimilate real quickly, some take a little bit of time.
Speaker 4: But but I think, given his soccer intelligence and acumen,
Speaker 4: I think Ron will adapt to our league rather quickly.
Speaker 2: All right, before segul loose, let's get an update on
Speaker 2: the Olatunji kid. I know we're working on his work visa,
Speaker 2: so where are we at in that process? And just
Speaker 2: kind of same question, what have you learned about him
Speaker 2: in a few days and weeks he's been on the ground.
Speaker 4: Now, Yeah, so again what I've what I've noticed is
Speaker 4: a real propensity to score goals. Uh you know, his
Speaker 4: his left foot, his power, his right foot, his power
Speaker 4: and placement great in the air. He's been finishing some
Speaker 4: unbelievable crosses and we haven't really had that presence, uh
Speaker 4: in front of goal as far as just fall in
Speaker 4: and he makes it happen. So and again, he's a
Speaker 4: he's a player that more threatens the back line. He's
Speaker 4: a willing runner to where you know, I think Ron
Speaker 4: likes to come defeat. Uh, you know, vigor like a stretch,
Speaker 4: and so having that balance would be really really important
Speaker 4: for our group. And you know what I've seen in
Speaker 4: you know, in the five or six training sessions we've
Speaker 4: had with him, is he's a real threat in front
Speaker 4: of goal, which is awesome. And then again, what does
Speaker 4: that do to our opposing defenses. They might have to
Speaker 4: man mark, they might have to double team, which then
Speaker 4: opens up space for the guys underneath to do their thing.
Speaker 4: And so when you have guys like you know, run
Speaker 4: on the field, you have a victor on the field. Diego, diego.
Speaker 4: I mean it feels like, you know, they're gonna have
Speaker 4: to pick and choose where they want to double up
Speaker 4: and where they want to go man to man. And
Speaker 4: and if teams do go man to man, I'll put
Speaker 4: I'll put my money on on on the guys that
Speaker 4: we have on the field to be able to break
Speaker 4: them down and make plays. So I think we've improved
Speaker 4: our frontline drastically in this window, and we're just still
Speaker 4: awaiting the clearance for as far as VISA is concerned.
Speaker 2: All right, buddy, Well, now, as you know, you can't
Speaker 2: exist in the past, So go get three at Charlotte
Speaker 2: and pulling for you as always.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the time.
Speaker 4: Let's go all right, I appreciate it.
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