Speaker 1: We are live today out at Smith's. It's our Smith's
Speaker 1: Football Fridays. We're the Smith's on night to night. Come
Speaker 1: on by and say hi. We've got tailgate passes for
Speaker 1: the Utah football game coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Arizona's in town.
Speaker 1: We've got a nice Modello cooler. Now it's empty, but
Speaker 1: it is branded as Modello. But there's no ice inside
Speaker 1: the cooler. There are no Modelos inside the cooler. Our
Speaker 1: next guest, I think if there were Modelos inside, Donny,
Speaker 1: I could have convinced you to come down to Smith's.
Speaker 3: I was right around the corner. I mean I almost
Speaker 3: turned around and once you said you had a cooler
Speaker 3: Modello cooler. But yeah, I'm proud I made the right
Speaker 3: decision by getting on the freeway.
Speaker 2: No, that's smart.
Speaker 1: No, And that's my favorite thing about you. You make
Speaker 1: good decisions, Donny. So I've always appreciated that about you, buddy.
Speaker 1: All Right, So I asked Jason, I asked Kurt, I
Speaker 1: asked Pablo a question that I haven't asked you because
Speaker 1: it's been a little bit. The question generally is this, Doney, like,
Speaker 1: did you give the potential for something special right now
Speaker 1: to make a little cash and then play the long game.
Speaker 1: And look, if that's the deal, that's the deal, right,
Speaker 1: There's so many different ways to do this. I'm not
Speaker 1: even judging, But what do you think about the decision
Speaker 1: making process? That certainly brought in a lot of good
Speaker 1: young talent that may pay off in the long run,
Speaker 1: But did they sacrifice the opportunity to make a run
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 3: Absolutely not. I think the outlier in this conversation with
Speaker 3: the goals and assists and Andres Gomez put up and
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's ever going to be more
Speaker 3: valuable to be truthful and transparent than he is right now.
Speaker 3: And I hope he has an incredible career over at
Speaker 3: Ren and internationally for Columbia. But I can remember a
Speaker 3: time in which need Grabovoy had like eight goals in
Speaker 3: twelve assists, and that was the one year that you know,
Speaker 3: he topped out. I think Dominic Marchuk is going to
Speaker 3: be as important for Rial Salt Lake over the next
Speaker 3: couple of years, and quite honestly have a more immediate
Speaker 3: impact than what ponders Domas did, because remember Andres for
Speaker 3: that first year really struggled to adapt. Dominic Martschuk looks
Speaker 3: like he's been a part of this club for eighteen months,
Speaker 3: not a month and a half. The problem isn't losing
Speaker 3: under his doma. The problem is that Chijo Rongo, since
Speaker 3: that game in Portland in the subsequent suspension, has been
Speaker 3: nowhere close statistically to the player that he was. And
Speaker 3: then the bear on his truth is that they've got
Speaker 3: two number two goalkeepers, neither of which want to become
Speaker 3: the number one goalkeeper based on performances, errors, and inability
Speaker 3: to hold onto the starting position.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm glad you brought up the keepers because
Speaker 1: for our listeners, my man's a center back, so he's
Speaker 1: about to get sensitive. I've learned, Brian, through people like
Speaker 1: you and Jason and Pablo, that when it comes to
Speaker 1: certain goals allowed, you cannot just crack on the keeper,
Speaker 1: and you can't just crack on the back line.
Speaker 2: And Pablo often talks.
Speaker 1: About defending as a group, and so I get all that,
Speaker 1: but dude, what is it like nine goals conceded in
Speaker 1: three games and two keepers that look really skittish? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't And I asked Kurt prior to the window opening,
Speaker 1: are you looking for a keeper?
Speaker 2: And he said, no, we like what we have.
Speaker 1: But to your point, neither of those two have taken
Speaker 1: advantage of the opportunity to make the job theirs. And
Speaker 1: there have been some rough moments from Jay Glad and
Speaker 1: Philip Quinton. So as a former center back, and I
Speaker 1: always feel bad that you guys are punished so punitively
Speaker 1: because goals change everything. What do you most attribute to
Speaker 1: what I perceive to be a really leaky defense with
Speaker 1: only four matches left.
Speaker 3: Well, you're right, it is. It is. It is a
Speaker 3: group effort. But I would actually dumb it down that listen,
Speaker 3: the goalkeepers to make the save or don't make the
Speaker 3: save based on the shots that they're based and I
Speaker 3: would agree with you in moments real saw Lake is
Speaker 3: giving up way too many shots. That being said, the
Speaker 3: shots that they're giving up aren't worldies. I mean, these
Speaker 3: aren't These are savable goals. And I mean, listen, I
Speaker 3: go back to the days of Nick Romando, and if
Speaker 3: Nick Romondo, one of the best goalkeepers, if not the
Speaker 3: best goalkeeper historically in Major League Soccer, would give up
Speaker 3: a goal that compromised his team that he felt that
Speaker 3: he could have stopped, you would have been able to
Speaker 3: tell by his body language. You would have been able
Speaker 3: to tell by his facial expressions, and the moment that
Speaker 3: he retired it opened up the door for David Ochoa.
Speaker 3: And you saw Zach McMath come down from Vancouver where
Speaker 3: he's a backup goalkeeper, and he was supposed to be
Speaker 3: kind of the conduit of, you know, short terms success
Speaker 3: but the long game being a show. A chow takes
Speaker 3: from the Western Conference finals the next year, ownership change,
Speaker 3: some things go sideways. He's been sent off. He's now
Speaker 3: currently I don't know if you know this, the backup
Speaker 3: goalkeeper to Huge Larisse at LAFC. So he's going to
Speaker 3: be the airpay and goalkeeper once Larise is gone at LAFC.
Speaker 3: I think they've tried to bude their time and understanding
Speaker 3: that Gavin Beavers' is upside is extraordinary. But I would
Speaker 3: say that the weakest position on this team has been goalkeeper,
Speaker 3: and it has been goalkeeper for the past couple of seasons.
Speaker 3: Even so much so is that I thought that either
Speaker 3: Maxine Kroppo or John McCarthy, who were both going to
Speaker 3: be moved on from LAFC, were absolutely the right goalkeepers
Speaker 3: to take a runout So that's just my humble opinion.
Speaker 3: I don't do the numbers, I don't make the decisions,
Speaker 3: but I'll double down in saying that for whatever hope
Speaker 3: Real Salt Lake has in these Western Conference playoffs and
Speaker 3: the identity of trying to lift an MLS Cup trophy,
Speaker 3: it'll be determined by goalkeeping. And right now, goalkeeping is
Speaker 3: the weakest fascet in terms of consistency of what we've
Speaker 3: seen for Rielsa Lake for the better part of the
Speaker 3: last five months.
Speaker 1: Hugo Lauris reference. Come on you, Spurs, thank you, Donny.
Speaker 1: I believe is there a match this weekend that you
Speaker 1: and I need to discuss real quick, non sequitor?
Speaker 3: Are we gonna do? Are we gonna do hot sauce?
Speaker 3: Are we gonna do? The loser?
Speaker 1: Well, we did it, we did it, We did it,
Speaker 1: and for once in a generation, my Spurs beat your
Speaker 1: proud man you and you never paid up.
Speaker 2: So is it a double or nothing situation this weekend
Speaker 2: or what?
Speaker 3: Either way, let's do it this way. Next time. I'll
Speaker 3: come into the studio and we'll do it live on air.
Speaker 3: We'll see how you have love it?
Speaker 2: Love it? Okay? Fair enough? That still feels like a
Speaker 2: bet I lose even though I won.
Speaker 1: Anyway, moving on, okay, So one more keeper question for you, okay,
Speaker 1: and then I've got a lot that I need to
Speaker 1: give from you today.
Speaker 2: Before I set you loose in a few minutes. So
Speaker 2: it's it's go time.
Speaker 1: Do you go with the vet, Do you go with
Speaker 1: the guy who has the experience, Do you go with
Speaker 1: the guy who appears to be a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a front facing communicator because he's older, or do
Speaker 1: you go with the youngster because you like the upside?
Speaker 1: At this point, Donny, they've got to pick a lane.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Unfortunately you have to pick a lane. But
Speaker 3: I don't think it's necessarily the present versus the future.
Speaker 3: I think it's just based on this last week and
Speaker 3: in these last weeks, what you've seen with the cools
Speaker 3: that have been given up. Listen, this is Gavin Bieber's
Speaker 3: position to lose, and I think he lost it again.
Speaker 3: And I think, quite honestly, this is going to be
Speaker 3: what the fifth time there's been a back and forth
Speaker 3: between it's your job, it's his job, it's your job,
Speaker 3: it's his job. Now it's back to your job. So
Speaker 3: I just think from a psychological perspective. Gavin hasn't been
Speaker 3: through this, and you have to be patient and you
Speaker 3: have to understand young goalkeepers are going to make some
Speaker 3: silly mistakes. So I wouldn't be surprised. I really wouldn't
Speaker 3: if tomorrow night down in Austin, when Max Brado's steel,
Speaker 3: Max and I get to starting eleven. Uh that exactly
Speaker 3: Math is back between the posts.
Speaker 1: Had Max on yesterday. What a delightful guy. Man, you
Speaker 1: guys do a great job. So excited to have you
Speaker 1: on the call. All Right, we got we gotta talk
Speaker 1: chi Cho because you know, I don't know, and Max
Speaker 1: obviously being you know, with his la gig, so he
Speaker 1: has an understanding of chi Cho the person in a
Speaker 1: way that I don't. I guess Mercurial strikers are pretty commonplace.
Speaker 1: We've had him here with Sabo and Eurah. And when
Speaker 1: that suspension went down, yes, the best example, thank you sir.
Speaker 1: When the suspension went down, Man, I talked to guys
Speaker 1: over there, and you know, there's just this concern like
Speaker 1: could this be the thing that spoils a special season
Speaker 1: for both the player and the club. And you can't
Speaker 1: spin it any other way than he hasn't looked the
Speaker 1: same since.
Speaker 2: Uh. If they're gonna do anything special, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: on Nine's back.
Speaker 1: It just is so your thoughts on all that where
Speaker 1: we stand right now with Chicho, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I thought the link to the suspension was ridiculous. The
Speaker 3: fact of the matter that he took him out of
Speaker 3: the All Star Game, he took away from the starting eleven,
Speaker 3: and he took him away from potentially being the captain
Speaker 3: of the All Star team. It has certainly affected him,
Speaker 3: as have injuries and suspensions, multiple suspensions to the yellow
Speaker 3: card warning situation, as well as the injury that he
Speaker 3: picked up on the backside. We thought that it would
Speaker 3: be Diogo underneath Chicho and this team would jump to
Speaker 3: another level, and at times it has shown what it's
Speaker 3: certainly capable of doing, and at other times we haven't
Speaker 3: seen nearly. The goal that he forced Siatchenko into an
Speaker 3: own goal at Houston shows how dangerous he is. That
Speaker 3: ball he hit off the half skip from the hut
Speaker 3: bounce against Portland Timbers was inches wide and I would
Speaker 3: suggest that he's still the same chi Cho. He just
Speaker 3: needs that goal because I think it's been like maybe
Speaker 3: three of the last nine games is being able to
Speaker 3: take a part of and that's just devastating. So this
Speaker 3: was at a time where he's whatt seventeen goals thirteen
Speaker 3: assists of the break Savos record for season single season
Speaker 3: goal scoring records. So I'm of the personal belief he
Speaker 3: just needs to get one, and if he gets one,
Speaker 3: I think the weight of the pressure of being deviates,
Speaker 3: because I think he's been stretching a little bit to
Speaker 3: get back into the form that he was in.
Speaker 1: How much, and this was Max's point yesterday, how much
Speaker 1: of Chico's dip in production is because Andress is not
Speaker 1: out there, you know, giving him service, providing opportunities, taking
Speaker 1: pressure off of him.
Speaker 2: How much of that is there?
Speaker 3: I don't. If I say zero, that's probably not correct,
Speaker 3: because I do think there was. I do think there
Speaker 3: is a freestyling characteristic to the way that those two
Speaker 3: teams are. Those two players played within the team concept
Speaker 3: because there was still structure. But I think Pablo also
Speaker 3: understood there is a connectivity an intuition between those two players,
Speaker 3: and they made each other better, and I do think
Speaker 3: that's part of the equation. But Chicho's good enough to
Speaker 3: play in so many different versions of that position that
Speaker 3: I think it's I think it's more about finding his
Speaker 3: rhythm and his fitness and his sharpness again as opposed
Speaker 3: to just laying it at the feet of Andres Gome's departure.
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's move over into the space of
Speaker 1: how they're trying to replace not just the production of
Speaker 1: Andres Gomez, but simply that position.
Speaker 2: And kids, let's learn a little soccer term. On a Friday.
Speaker 1: It's called like for like, right, So, Donny, this is
Speaker 1: not like for like soccer knowledge everywhere because the players
Speaker 1: they're asking a fill in for Andres don't play like him, right,
Speaker 1: So give me your opinion on how the progress is
Speaker 1: going to try to replace what Andres brought out on
Speaker 1: the wing.
Speaker 3: I think Lachlan Brooks showed industry of getting up and
Speaker 3: down and showed a level of commitment on both sides
Speaker 3: of the ball that Diego Orcum that Andres had a
Speaker 3: little bit more freedom from, if that makes sense, because
Speaker 3: he was so good in the attacking phase of play
Speaker 3: and scoring so many goals that there was less of
Speaker 3: a structure for him to defend as much. And I
Speaker 3: also think, listen, you've gone through four right backs right,
Speaker 3: You've gone through Brody, You've gone through Body, you've gone
Speaker 3: through Clinton, and you've gone through Jervaine Brown. So I
Speaker 3: think that's another part of this conversation in terms of
Speaker 3: and Vera picking up injuries and suspensions. So there's a
Speaker 3: defensive component to this too. But I really, really really
Speaker 3: like Dominique Marchuk. I love the way he gets back
Speaker 3: and he gives you the hust. He's got the final product,
Speaker 3: and I think in these two, these last two appearances,
Speaker 3: he's certainly shown what he's capable. Now I'm not trying
Speaker 3: to get out over my skis, but the potential is
Speaker 3: there to be as effective as on dress, but more
Speaker 3: of an immediate effectiveness, as opposed to the eighteen months
Speaker 3: that it took for Andres to be in the form
Speaker 3: he was to be sold over to Red.
Speaker 1: So we've seen really bright moments from Diogo for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can see what Kurt and Jason and
Speaker 1: everybody saw on him, and you can see why they
Speaker 1: wrote the check to bring him over.
Speaker 2: It's still early, so there's.
Speaker 1: A lot of like observation, not conclusion going on, But
Speaker 1: like I said, four matches left in its playoff time,
Speaker 1: so there's not a ton of time to be, you know,
Speaker 1: messing around.
Speaker 2: What have you seen so far that stands out?
Speaker 1: Most five games played, three starts and that goal when
Speaker 1: you watch Diogo and how do you see the kind
Speaker 1: of the interchange synergy between he and Chicho working out
Speaker 1: so far well?
Speaker 3: So this one will hit home a Manchester United fan
Speaker 3: because he was at Copenhagen when they beat Manchester United
Speaker 3: and had incredible performances not only against Manchester United but
Speaker 3: against Bayern Munich as well. And previously going to Copenhagen,
Speaker 3: he was at Benfica and played against Arsenal in Europe
Speaker 3: as well. So I've seen what Diogo is capable of
Speaker 3: doing at a higher level than Major league soccer. I'm
Speaker 3: not surprised. I think he's continuing to adapt both on
Speaker 3: and off the field. I think the guys have taken
Speaker 3: him in immediately and recognized what a player he is.
Speaker 3: And I think that even though statistically Matt Crooks hasn't
Speaker 3: been putting up crazy numbers, there's a work ethic that
Speaker 3: goes unnoticed in the system and they're two completely different players.
Speaker 3: But you also have to make sure that the system
Speaker 3: and the structure matches the players on the field, right,
Speaker 3: So I think the biggest miss book, I don't know
Speaker 3: how to say this correctly, not that I think there
Speaker 3: was a mistake and the timing of not getting Diogo
Speaker 3: into market in a similar way that they got Chicho
Speaker 3: in the market, meaning that two and a half weeks
Speaker 3: before Chicho was even available to be registered, he was
Speaker 3: already training with the team. Whatever the delay was to
Speaker 3: get Diogo here, I think was a mistake because you
Speaker 3: missed out on the better part of him, probably about
Speaker 3: six to seven games, where that would have had him
Speaker 3: in his prime form and understanding what's necessary at this
Speaker 3: stage of the season. So I could see him starting tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I would also remind people that it's a three game
Speaker 3: window once again ahead of the international break, So if
Speaker 3: he doesn't start this week this weekend in Austin, I
Speaker 3: would assume that he starts the next two matches. For ourselves.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about Anderson Julio, who I
Speaker 1: think deserves as the kids would say, done, he deserves
Speaker 1: his flowers this year.
Speaker 2: I think he deserves a lot of credit.
Speaker 1: For because you know, I was told his best friend
Speaker 1: on the team was Andrew Gomez, and so you lose
Speaker 1: your buddy, you know what that's like.
Speaker 2: You played for different clubs.
Speaker 1: And sometimes he's coming off the bench with Chicho's stuff.
Speaker 2: He's had to start.
Speaker 1: And I never thought Anderson Julio could be a double
Speaker 1: digit goal scorer in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 2: He gets one more. He's at ten, which is pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: So what's your take on what we've seen from Anderson
Speaker 1: as the both the player and just kind of the
Speaker 1: teammate through these turbulent a few weeks or so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Listen, I think when you lose somebody that you
Speaker 3: hang out with off the field, for you and your
Speaker 3: wife or your partner, you know, it's it's stings, but
Speaker 3: it shouldn't affect your performance on the field because you're
Speaker 3: a professional athlete. For Anderson, if you look at his
Speaker 3: goals per minute ratio, he's actually extremely high in Major
Speaker 3: League Soccer. But the reality is that because he has
Speaker 3: a certain profile and a certain proficiency for stretching back lines,
Speaker 3: he's looked at more so as an impact player off
Speaker 3: the bench, and his historically he hasn't really lasted physically
Speaker 3: past the seventy fifth minute mark. If you go back
Speaker 3: and you look at his records, I would, I would.
Speaker 3: I would probably be a betting man and say he
Speaker 3: hasn't had a full ten games of ninety minute performances
Speaker 3: underneath his belt since he's been here. So knowing that
Speaker 3: Chicho is available, he's always going to start. You can
Speaker 3: always double up he and Chico, and now with Croaks
Speaker 3: and Diego and Luna, you have multiple options. So either way,
Speaker 3: I think he's he has been much much more effective
Speaker 3: than previous years with the minutes that he's had on
Speaker 3: the field, whether that's from a starting slaught or coming
Speaker 3: off the bench.
Speaker 1: All right, I want to get a preview with the
Speaker 1: Austin match coming up. But before we do that, one
Speaker 1: more question here. As you're putting together, you know your
Speaker 1: board for the call and you're you're you're doing the
Speaker 1: eleven for RSL, which is if you had to pick
Speaker 1: one spot where there's the most competition, which spot is
Speaker 1: it and why?
Speaker 3: CON's a good question.
Speaker 2: Right back.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm going through it. Yeah, you know, there's a
Speaker 3: part of me that one would want to say that
Speaker 3: Nelson Pelacio playing in that central part of the midfield
Speaker 3: with Amataelli and Brian o'heada. I don't. I don't think
Speaker 3: Nelson gets enough credit because I think he's a really
Speaker 3: good player. But the problem is the consistency between Oheita
Speaker 3: and Annelli has been extraordinary this year. I would say
Speaker 3: probably the number ten positions because Crooks, Diogo and I
Speaker 3: would throw Diego Luna into that conversation. All can be
Speaker 3: incredibly effective if given the keys to the Ferrari, but
Speaker 3: in completely different ways. There are three completely different players
Speaker 3: right now. The two challenging positions are right back and goalkeeper.
Speaker 3: I would say that's the toughest to choose from because
Speaker 3: maybe they are the most competitive without either position having
Speaker 3: a clear cuss breakthrough.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move over to Austin. That's the next opponent.
Speaker 1: Really cool city, really cool venue. Was there a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago when Austin actually beat RSL in the playoffs?
Speaker 1: It was a heart wrenching loss. Josh Wolf has phenomenal hair.
Speaker 1: He's also a good friend of yours. But I'm not
Speaker 1: going to sit here and tell you I've been smashing
Speaker 1: Austin tape all year, Donny, But I will say when
Speaker 1: I was down there for that match where they got
Speaker 1: RSL pretty good after a dream start, I was really
Speaker 1: impressed with their form. From my vantage point, it looked
Speaker 1: like that a lot of talent. So why hasn't it
Speaker 1: worked out for your buddy this year? And what's RSL
Speaker 1: up again? Says they traveled down to Austin coming up
Speaker 1: on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a couple of things here. Number one, I
Speaker 3: think we have to acknowledge. Claudia Arena Georeana's dad was
Speaker 3: a general manager and after the World Cut twenty twenty two,
Speaker 3: he was let go from his position as general manager
Speaker 3: at Austin FC. There was a lot of heavy contracts
Speaker 3: that that club was carrying for players that weren't nearly
Speaker 3: good enough that were signed from Claudio Rodolpho Verrell, who
Speaker 3: was an assistant coach for Pep Guardiola has taken over
Speaker 3: the sporting director role. A little bit wet and green
Speaker 3: behind the ears with understanding the MLS, the MLS rules
Speaker 3: and regulations of signing players. I think they missed out
Speaker 3: on some important players at the beginning of this season.
Speaker 3: They were quite light heading into the year because they
Speaker 3: had to get out of some certain contracts. They signed
Speaker 3: guys like Jader Obrion, Giosi Zardez, Diego Rubio, guys with
Speaker 3: MLS experience to tie them over in some positions, and
Speaker 3: then signed Osman Bukhari, the Ghanaian international, Mikhael Dessler, the
Speaker 3: right back from Finland, and then a Svatsko who was
Speaker 3: the Ukrainian center back who finally just got his debut
Speaker 3: at LAFC the other night. They haven't matched expectations, but
Speaker 3: that year you watch them, in my humble opinion, they
Speaker 3: were better than LAFC. And in that offseason they ended
Speaker 3: up losing a couple of players that they didn't think
Speaker 3: they were going to lose, and it threw their project
Speaker 3: into complete disarray. What I will say is if anybody
Speaker 3: wants to see what or what Austin's capable of doing,
Speaker 3: go watch that LAFC game. They walked out of there
Speaker 3: with a one to one tie and they probably should
Speaker 3: have won that game, and they were missing Dreusi, so
Speaker 3: Sebastian Jerusi, their number ten, will be their most dynamic player.
Speaker 3: Rubio is gonna really piss every RSL player and RFL
Speaker 3: fan off because of his manipulation of the game. And
Speaker 3: then they've got a really strong goalkeeper in Stuver, so
Speaker 3: they're not going to turn over because their fan base
Speaker 3: is up in arms with where they're at right now
Speaker 3: on the Western Conference table.
Speaker 1: All right, Donnie, last thing, I'll set you loose on this.
Speaker 1: You know, we had a cool night for Kyle Kyle
Speaker 1: Beckerman a couple of weeks back since you and I
Speaker 1: last spoke. He's now a Hall of Famer. He was
Speaker 1: inductive into Utah Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: You saw firsthand, obviously how everything changed.
Speaker 2: When he landed here.
Speaker 1: What's the Brian Dunn set summary on what Kyle Beckerman
Speaker 1: means to RSL.
Speaker 3: Yeah? First off, maybe I can get an invite next
Speaker 3: time you get the Voice together every night.
Speaker 2: Don't. I'm the wrong guy to talk to you about that.
Speaker 2: As you know, I'm just saying, yeah I was.
Speaker 3: I was envious and jealous seeing all your Instagram posts. Listen,
Speaker 3: Kyle Beckerman. I'm not sure I'll ever come across another
Speaker 3: one like him. I met him as a young, precocious
Speaker 3: teenager coming through the under seventeens. I played with him
Speaker 3: at Miami Fusion when he got his you know, his
Speaker 3: first deal before he Spiral francehurt his ankle. I watched
Speaker 3: him become one of the best central midfielders in Major
Speaker 3: League Soccer. In Colorado Rapids. I watched him go from
Speaker 3: maybe he and Pablo the most hated duo in Salt
Speaker 3: Lake City history, from on RSL fan base to the
Speaker 3: most beloved duo from or a couple of the most
Speaker 3: beloved duo in the RSEL fan base history. The fact
Speaker 3: that he gave everything every single time he stepped on
Speaker 3: the field for Claireton Cobalt. His desire, his innate desire
Speaker 3: to win, is something that I don't think he'll ever
Speaker 3: get enough credit for, because it was every day in
Speaker 3: training that he rode the level of everybody around him,
Speaker 3: and he held himself at such a high standard. His
Speaker 3: technical ability, the way he read the game, the way
Speaker 3: he would jow people with crunching tackles, He'd take a
Speaker 3: piece out of you. He was dude. He was an
Speaker 3: MF for Nobody wanted to play against him, and I
Speaker 3: to this day I talked to my boys about Kyle
Speaker 3: of the guy like you want to mimic somebody who
Speaker 3: took a little and turned it into a lot. That's
Speaker 3: Kyle Beckerman to be a World Cup veteran, to be,
Speaker 3: in my humble opinion, no disrespect, the most iconic RFL
Speaker 3: player in history. I'm happy to see he and his
Speaker 3: family be rewarded with the recognition that he so rightfully deserves.
Speaker 1: Well said, And after I let you go, I'm going
Speaker 1: to send you my location and wherever I'm at, you're invited.
Speaker 2: Just roll up. You don't have to tell me. I'm
Speaker 2: just going to share my location.
Speaker 1: Just show up, like, hey, you know where you will,
Speaker 1: because you know you're always invited when I when i'm
Speaker 1: you know, when I'm involved in the situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be like, oh, gunny, what are you doing here?
Speaker 2: All right? Brother, have a great call tomorrow, man, good
Speaker 2: chat with you.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you, all right.
Speaker 1: Brian Dunsat, former RSL player, now on the broadcast side
Speaker 1: with Apple TV.
Speaker 2: He'll be on the call for tomorrow's match against Austin