Speaker 1: Welcome in for another edition of the Morning Espresso on
Speaker 1: the SDACH Network. I'm Jason Longshore and this is brought
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Speaker 1: and soccer powerhouse. Vancouver white Caps. They've become a soccer powerhouse,
Speaker 1: especially the season under Yesper Sohwordnson. They lead Miami to
Speaker 1: nail after the first leg of the CONCA CAF Champions
Speaker 1: Cup semi finals. Goals from Brian White and Sebastian Berhalter
Speaker 1: have given the white Caps that lead going to Fort
Speaker 1: Lauderdale next week. Jasper Shortensen's team, playing in front of
Speaker 1: fifty three, eight and thirty seven at BC Place, put
Speaker 1: on an incredible performance keeping Miami off the board. Crowd
Speaker 1: was rocking the whole time. Brian White gets the goal,
Speaker 1: his tenth and fifteen games for Vancouver in all competitions
Speaker 1: this season. That's your starter right now for the US
Speaker 1: men's national team. Sebastian Burhalter, he set up the first goal,
Speaker 1: he scored the second. That should be a player in
Speaker 1: the US men's national team right now. Incredible work from
Speaker 1: Jasper Sorenson the Vancouver white Caps Miami can't count them out,
Speaker 1: not with all that talent, not in the second leg
Speaker 1: at home, but the white Caps have a great advantage
Speaker 1: going on the road for leg two. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: MLS This weekend. Atlanta will head down to Central Florida
Speaker 1: for a match against Orlando City. Pregame coverage will start
Speaker 1: at six o'clock on ninety two nine the game and
Speaker 1: The Odyssey app a Gordon Madison Cruz from the Colony
Speaker 1: Square Studios, Mike Contia and I will take over in Orlando.
Speaker 1: Kickoff is set for seven twenty five PM, a little
Speaker 1: bit earlier start time. Game is also being broadcast on
Speaker 1: FS one, so a little bit different setup here. Seven
Speaker 1: to fifteen for the broadcast, start seven to twenty five
Speaker 1: for the kick. Will we see goals? Atlanta hasn't scored
Speaker 1: in their last two. Orlando hasn't scored in their last three.
Speaker 1: Three straight scoreless draws for Orlando. Pedroc aless has been
Speaker 1: great Atlanta. We've got to see a response. It's been
Speaker 1: the word of the season so far, is response. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen it enough in side of matches. We need
Speaker 1: to see it here in a response to a poor
Speaker 1: performance in Philadelphia last week, Will we we will all
Speaker 1: find out together on the radio. Hopefully you can join us. Miami.
Speaker 1: Coming off of the two Nino loss of Vancouver, they're
Speaker 1: still unbeaten in league play. They'll return home to host
Speaker 1: Dallas on Sunday. What do they have left in the tank?
Speaker 1: Dallas very good on the road this season two oho
Speaker 1: and three. They have not lost away from Frisco Texas Vancouver.
Speaker 1: They got to go to Minnesota to face the Loons
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Minnesota is unbeaten at home so far this season.
Speaker 1: I wonder if Vancouver heavily rotates. They've rotated a lot
Speaker 1: this season, so it's not crazy for them to do that,
Speaker 1: but I wonder if they heavily rotate to be as
Speaker 1: fresh as possible for the Conka CAF semi final next week.
Speaker 1: LAFC they host St. Louis in the Sunday night soccer
Speaker 1: match in LA four points in their last two matches
Speaker 1: for the Black and goal Denny Bwanga has scored in
Speaker 1: both of them. Olivia shar Rude has finally scored for LAFC.
Speaker 1: Now Saint Louis haven't won in their last five. They've
Speaker 1: been great defensively this season. They've only conceded six goals,
Speaker 1: but they've only scored five. Does that change in this one?
Speaker 1: Can their defense keep them in It is going to
Speaker 1: be really the question, And can they steal something? I'm
Speaker 1: thinking no. With the form that LAFC is in right now.
Speaker 1: Evander for Cincinnati, He's going to try to score in
Speaker 1: his fourth straight match. They host Kansas City in one
Speaker 1: of the early games on Saturday. Kansas City did win
Speaker 1: their first road match last week in San Jose. In
Speaker 1: their last twelve attempts, they won a crazy five to
Speaker 1: three game out in California. Tied with Cincinnati. At the
Speaker 1: top of the East is Charlotte. They host New England
Speaker 1: Saturday night. Charlotte's five and zero at home this season.
Speaker 1: They've won eight straight at home dating back to last September.
Speaker 1: Incredibly confident team right now. They should be able to
Speaker 1: keep that confident train rolling on against the Revolution. Columbus
Speaker 1: they host San Jose on Saturday night. San Jose's trying
Speaker 1: to bounce back from conceding five goals at home to
Speaker 1: SKC last weekend. One other thing to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on Andre Blake. If he gets a clean sheet against
Speaker 1: DC United on Saturday, he would become the second fastest
Speaker 1: goalkeeper to reach eighty career shutouts in MLS history, trailing
Speaker 1: only Brad Guzanne, who reached the milestone in his two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty first career regular season match. Blake would
Speaker 1: be the ninth goalkeeper in league history to get to
Speaker 1: eighty clean sheets. DC's coming in after a really good
Speaker 1: win last week. Philadelphia's coming in after a really good
Speaker 1: win last week should be a fun one on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Other news from around the world, The New World Seven's
Speaker 1: Football Series got your first four entrants. We've talked about
Speaker 1: this the Espresso before. IAKS, Bayern, Benfica, and Manchester United
Speaker 1: will participate. The first event is going to be May
Speaker 1: twenty first through the twenty third in Portugal. Games will
Speaker 1: be seven aside, two fifteen minute has on fields half
Speaker 1: the size of a regulation pitch. You guys, a lot
Speaker 1: of you have played seven aside, so you kind of
Speaker 1: know what that'll look like. Eight women's teams are going
Speaker 1: to compete in this. You've got four already with IAX, Bayern, Benfica,
Speaker 1: Manchester United. It's not exactly the same as Unrivaled, which
Speaker 1: was a huge success in its first season, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of along those lines in terms of a smaller
Speaker 1: sided version of the game outside of normal league competition.
Speaker 1: I think the difference in this is you have your
Speaker 1: established teams and brands that are participating in this. I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of potential to it. It's going
Speaker 1: to be fascinating. Dezone will stream the tournament globally. I'm
Speaker 1: very intrigued. I will want to check in on this
Speaker 1: and see how it looks. For more women's teams to
Speaker 1: be announced joining that term, and then there's going to
Speaker 1: be more events all over the world. The Friedkin Group,
Speaker 1: which owns Everton, they've added and new investor Jason Kidd,
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks head coach, huge Premier League fan, was previously
Speaker 1: involved in a bid to buy Crystal Palace. He's now
Speaker 1: part of the ownership group at Everton, Liverpool and Byron.
Speaker 1: They can clinch their league titles this weekend, as has
Speaker 1: been expected for a while. Maybe the bigger surprise in
Speaker 1: teams that can clinch a trophy this weekend is Auckland
Speaker 1: f C. They only need a point to win the
Speaker 1: A League regular season title in their first season and
Speaker 1: will be the first New Zealand side to do that
Speaker 1: the league does have a playoff structure, and we have
Speaker 1: seen teams come in in their first year and win
Speaker 1: the regular season, but then they didn't win the grand final.
Speaker 1: Can Auckland f Se get that done? We watching I'm
Speaker 1: intrigued by this one. Games this weekend Copa del Rey
Speaker 1: final Barcelona and Real Madrid is going to be at
Speaker 1: four o'clock on Saturdays. Won the super Cup earlier this year.
Speaker 1: They beat Real Madrid five to two in the final
Speaker 1: of that one. They're in charge with a four point
Speaker 1: lead at the top of La Liga over Madrid. Real
Speaker 1: Madrid have lost their last three meetings with Barcelona in
Speaker 1: a competitive competition, so everything pointing towards Barsa. With that
Speaker 1: in mind, Carlo Ancelotti his name keeps coming up about
Speaker 1: other jobs. He's once again the front runner for the
Speaker 1: Brazilian national team job. According to ESPN Brazil. We've been
Speaker 1: talking about this for weeks now. He's the number one candidate.
Speaker 1: The federation is not ruling out Jorge j Zeus as
Speaker 1: a contender either, though formerly at Flamingo, he is now
Speaker 1: at Al Heilal. He has a contract until after the
Speaker 1: end of the FIFA Club World Cup, but he could
Speaker 1: leave early to take Brazil. Brazil wants somebody in place
Speaker 1: for their qualifiers in June. They've got a cushion in
Speaker 1: terms of qualification for the World Cup, but it's not
Speaker 1: a big one. They want somebody in place for those
Speaker 1: June games. They're trying to get Ancelotti or Hey, Jazus
Speaker 1: is the backup plan. FA Cup semi Finals this weekend.
Speaker 1: Crystal Palace and Aston Villa Palace enter the fixture with
Speaker 1: a four game winless run, but they're unbeaten in four
Speaker 1: against Villa. Villa have won five of their last six,
Speaker 1: but they have lost six of their last eight trips
Speaker 1: to Wimbley. I have no idea what those numbers tell you.
Speaker 1: That game sounds very strange because of those streets. Nottingham
Speaker 1: Forest in Manchester City is the other match. The first
Speaker 1: ones on Saturday, City and Forest is on Sunday. City
Speaker 1: are on a six game unbeaten run in the Premier League.
Speaker 1: They've only lost one of their last six league encounters
Speaker 1: against Nottingham Forest, but that loss was last month. So
Speaker 1: we shall see if Nuno Espirito Santo's interesting style that
Speaker 1: we talked about earlier this week, a different way of
Speaker 1: playing low possession but not high pressing football that has
Speaker 1: been working. Can it work against City did last month?
Speaker 1: We'll see if it works again this time around to
Speaker 1: get to an FA Cup final. Also UEFA Women's Champions
Speaker 1: League semi final second legs this weekend. Chelsea trailing Barcelona
Speaker 1: for one going into the second leg in London. Barsa
Speaker 1: are trying to get to their fifth straight final and
Speaker 1: win their third straight title. Leone, who has been to
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of finals. They host Arsenal. They are
Speaker 1: leading to one. They got a late winner in London
Speaker 1: last time out. Looks like it will be Barcelona and Leon,
Speaker 1: which would be an epic final. If you get an
Speaker 1: epic comeback from either Chelsea or Arsenal, that would add
Speaker 1: to the drama for that upcoming final next month. Looking
Speaker 1: forward to all of it this weekend, looking forward to
Speaker 1: heading down to Orlando with Atlanta United again. Broadcast starts
Speaker 1: at six o'clock on ninety two nine. The game in
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