Speaker 1: Welcome in for another edition of the Morning Espresso here
Speaker 1: on the SDAH Network, brought to you by Oglethorpe University,
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Speaker 1: Longshore and this is our morning kind of start to
Speaker 1: the day to get you started on all the news
Speaker 1: you need to know about what's going on honestly worldwide.
Speaker 1: As we're getting ready for a Club World Cup, as
Speaker 1: we're getting ready for the final round of matches in
Speaker 1: the Premier League in Saraa, in quite a few other
Speaker 1: competitions going on around the world. So if you check
Speaker 1: in with us on the Morning Espresso, it is your
Speaker 1: opportunity to just basically get caught up and start your
Speaker 1: day with all that knowledge you need to know around
Speaker 1: the water cooler. If you still do that, all right,
Speaker 1: let's start with sarih Ah. The final weekend starts today
Speaker 1: and it's the two teams that are at the top
Speaker 1: of the table, Napoli an Inter and Napoli comes in
Speaker 1: with a one point lead. You could have a playoff
Speaker 1: between these two. That's why this game was moved up
Speaker 1: to Friday between both of them. Napoli is hosting Kaaliari
Speaker 1: and Como is hosting Inter, so remember one point advantage
Speaker 1: for Napoli when you go into these and obviously, as
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a Napoli shirt, I'm a little biased. I
Speaker 1: have a Diego Maradona poster on my wall, so it's
Speaker 1: not really a shock who I'm pulling for in this.
Speaker 1: If Napoli wins, they win the title flat out. They
Speaker 1: have won nine of their last twelve league meetings at
Speaker 1: home Khaliari fourteenth place. They've got nothing to play for.
Speaker 1: They are safe, they're not going to get relegated. They're
Speaker 1: just happy to be there and maybe they're not happy
Speaker 1: to be there because there were fireworks and all kinds
Speaker 1: of chaos going on outside their hotel room in Naples
Speaker 1: last night, so they might not be happy at the moment.
Speaker 1: Como an Inter interer or one point back, have won
Speaker 1: their last eight league matches against Como two zero win
Speaker 1: in the reverse fixture in Milan in this after posting
Speaker 1: eight consecutive away wins with seven clean sheets. Inter since
Speaker 1: then have won just two of their last eight on
Speaker 1: the road. Questions too, because they have the Champions League
Speaker 1: final next week, they have injuries, they're battling too. Simonian
Speaker 1: Zagi is expected to name a rotated side for this
Speaker 1: one just out of necessity. Altaro Martinez David Fratees they
Speaker 1: are expected to be back in the squad for this
Speaker 1: Doubts about Benjamin Pavard and Peter Zielinski according to the
Speaker 1: latest updates, and people aren't really sure how Inzagie is
Speaker 1: going to go with this. Is it going to be
Speaker 1: a super rotated squad just looking ahead to Champions League
Speaker 1: final next week? Is it going to be the best
Speaker 1: team that you can put together? Is it going to
Speaker 1: be maybe saving a few guys to come in off
Speaker 1: the bench if needed. Napoli with the one point advantage.
Speaker 1: Those games kickoff later this afternoon on Saturday. Women's Champions
Speaker 1: League Final Barcelona and Arsenal. Barcelona trying to win their
Speaker 1: third straight their fourth in five years they have dominated
Speaker 1: the women's game in Europe. It's the fifth time these
Speaker 1: teams have met in the competition. Arsenal won both legs
Speaker 1: of around to thirty two. You're going back to twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: In that one, Barcelona won both group stage matches. In
Speaker 1: the twenty one to twenty two campaign. Barcelona have won
Speaker 1: their last nine Champions League matches. Arsenal do have a
Speaker 1: good record against the Spanish teams. They've progressed from all
Speaker 1: four knockout stage setups against such teams from Spain. OPTA
Speaker 1: gives Barcelona and just over fifty six percent chance of
Speaker 1: winning this inside of ninety minutes, they're the better team.
Speaker 1: Arsenal would be pretty big underdog here. The cool story
Speaker 1: on the Arsenal side is last time Arsenal won the
Speaker 1: Champions League, Leo Williamson was one of the escorts, the
Speaker 1: young players you walk players out to the field. Now
Speaker 1: she gets a chance to win it herself. It would
Speaker 1: be a big surprise if they're able to knock off Barcelona,
Speaker 1: but should be a great match on Saturday in the
Speaker 1: UEFA Champions League Women's Final. Let's go to Sunday Final
Speaker 1: day in the Premier League, big event at the Battery.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be there as part of it. Premier
Speaker 1: League NBC Sports hosting a watch party for Championship Sunday.
Speaker 1: It's going to start outside of Truest Park at ten am.
Speaker 1: Games kickoff at eleven. All ten matches you'll be able
Speaker 1: to watch them in one spot. If you're watching from home,
Speaker 1: and you can't make it out to the battery. You
Speaker 1: can watch on NBC Peacock, USA Networks, the NBC Sci Fi.
Speaker 1: This is kind of the kickoff to the Premier League
Speaker 1: coming back here to Atlanta at Mercedes Benz Stadium, final
Speaker 1: leg of the twenty twenty five Summer Series. Bournemouth will
Speaker 1: play west Ham, Manchester United will play Everton. The storylines
Speaker 1: really it's down to the final three Champions League spots.
Speaker 1: Liverpool have theirs, Arsenal have theirs. Three four and five. Remember,
Speaker 1: the Premier League gets a fifth spot because of performance
Speaker 1: in European competitions this year. Three four and five are undecided.
Speaker 1: There's five teams fighting for three spots. Chelsea manager Inzo Maresca,
Speaker 1: he was asked about does his team feel any extra
Speaker 1: pressure because they have this They also have the UAFA
Speaker 1: Conference League Final next week against ral Betty's. He says no,
Speaker 1: he's trying to figure out what his squad's going to
Speaker 1: look like. He's gonna field the best squat available. It
Speaker 1: sounds like for both of those games. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's going to rotate in league to wait for the
Speaker 1: Conference League final. I think he's going to go forward
Speaker 1: in both and just make the decision on who's ready
Speaker 1: to go on that day. He said, we're quite lucky
Speaker 1: in this aspect. If we win, we do our job.
Speaker 1: We don't need to pay attention to the other results.
Speaker 1: Chelsea are visiting seventh place Nottingham Forced, who have to
Speaker 1: win to have any chance of getting back into a
Speaker 1: Champions League spot. They were there not that long ago.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the game that I think most of
Speaker 1: us will really be watching closely. Another one is Newcastle.
Speaker 1: They're facing Everton. Alexander Esak is making good progress. He's
Speaker 1: at a growin injury. He could be available on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I guess would probably be off the bench if he's
Speaker 1: needed as Newcastle faces Everton. After you come to the
Speaker 1: Battery and you hang out and you watch them Premier League,
Speaker 1: then you're gonna make your way down towards the Bends
Speaker 1: and you're gonna join us for a tailgate to celebrate
Speaker 1: International Football Day. It's gonna be at Centennial Yards on
Speaker 1: the Steel Bridge. Myself, Madison Cruz, were hosting a show
Speaker 1: on the SDH network from four to five o'clock. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have our friends from the Georgia Impact who kicked
Speaker 1: off their season in the WPSL last night with their scrimmage,
Speaker 1: their intrasquad scrimmage. Good time up in woods are up
Speaker 1: in Canton for that one. Gonna be very cool to
Speaker 1: hang out with you guys on the Steel Ridge. Come
Speaker 1: see us from four to five. Young soccer players will
Speaker 1: get the opportunity to take part in some little clinics
Speaker 1: and activities with Georgia. Impact is going to be a
Speaker 1: very cool vibe, something you're going to see more and
Speaker 1: more of over the next year and a half or
Speaker 1: so at Centennial Yards. We'll see you from four to
Speaker 1: five on Sunday. Then we'll make our way into the
Speaker 1: Bend Sunday Night Soccer FC Cincinnati and Atlanta United kickoff
Speaker 1: will be at seven to ten Pregame coverage on ninety
Speaker 1: two nine in the game will start at six o'clock.
Speaker 1: Maddie and Abe Gordon will get you started. Mike Continent
Speaker 1: and I will take over. Garth Loggerway will join us
Speaker 1: at about six point thirty. You can listen on the
Speaker 1: Honyessey app. You can listen on ninety two nine the game,
Speaker 1: and you can listen on Apple TV mL Sason Pass.
Speaker 1: Once the game starts. Choose home team radio there. Training
Speaker 1: ground dispatch will come out later this afternoon. We'll all
Speaker 1: be at training in Marietta later today. We'll see what
Speaker 1: Ronnie Diaila has to say, We'll see what players have
Speaker 1: to say, and we'll get you updated on everything that
Speaker 1: we're seeing in training this week. Pounce around the other
Speaker 1: bits of news around the league. Oh one more on
Speaker 1: to add to your calendar, because it's a very busy
Speaker 1: calendar at the moment. On Monday at ten am, myself
Speaker 1: Knox Bardein of ninety two nine in the game. I
Speaker 1: think some others of the SDH network are going to
Speaker 1: make their way up to No Faux Brewing in coming.
Speaker 1: No Faux Brewing is a sponsor of Walsall and Walsall
Speaker 1: is in a promotion final to get into the third
Speaker 1: tier to get into League One next year. In England.
Speaker 1: They're facing AFC Wimbledon, so John Nelson is not allowed
Speaker 1: to come. As a shareholder of AFC Wimbledon, he's not
Speaker 1: allowed to come. This is a Walsaw viewing party at
Speaker 1: No Faux Brewing on Monday morning at ten o'clock. If
Speaker 1: you're looking for something to do to start your Monday,
Speaker 1: Come join us, have a beer. It'll be a good time.
Speaker 1: Walsall and AFC Wimbledon, and we'll be getting a lot
Speaker 1: of content around no faux brewings partnership with Walsall. You
Speaker 1: might be wondering why a brewery based in Coming, Georgia
Speaker 1: is a sponsor with Walsall. Well, you're gonna find out
Speaker 1: when we talk about it on Monday. All right, US
Speaker 1: men's national team. That was a big talking point yesterday.
Speaker 1: Christian Polistic not going to be part of the squad.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have a lot of takes. A
Speaker 1: lot of people might have missed that. ESPN reported that
Speaker 1: Polisic has been dealing with a chronic hip flexer injury. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I say that three times fast. Everybody went nuts about it.
Speaker 1: If he's injured, he doesn't need to be there. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, you know who he is at this point,
Speaker 1: you know what he means to the team, We know
Speaker 1: what the Gold Cup means, and you want to go
Speaker 1: win this thing. But if he's injured or risking further injury,
Speaker 1: you need him a whole lot more next year than
Speaker 1: you need him this year. And you can't guarantee that
Speaker 1: Milan gives him an easy ride into the Areas season
Speaker 1: next year, because Milan's got a lot of pressure on them.
Speaker 1: I think it's the right decision for everybody involved. I
Speaker 1: know it's not a popular one, and I get that,
Speaker 1: but we can't do the thing where on one side
Speaker 1: we complain about too many games for players and guys
Speaker 1: got to get a rest, and then when somebody asks
Speaker 1: for a rest and everybody sits down and says, you
Speaker 1: know what, that's probably the best thing to do right
Speaker 1: here because you can't rest next summer. Cool, let's do
Speaker 1: it now. We can't blow up. Then we can't do both.
Speaker 1: I think Christian Polisic sounds like, especially if he's dealing
Speaker 1: with a hip flexer, he needs the break take it.
Speaker 1: I'd rather lose the Gold Cup and make a deeper
Speaker 1: run in the World Cup as a result. I would.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sorry, conquer Calf. Sorry, I know hot take artists.
Speaker 1: There's just nothing else you can do. If it's for
Speaker 1: some other reason, different conversation. If it's for an injury situation,
Speaker 1: especially something chronic, I think you have to do it here.
Speaker 1: Time will tell if it ends up being the right play.
Speaker 1: Hopefully this will help him have a good season with
Speaker 1: Milan next year and come into the World Cup flying.
Speaker 1: Next year's going to be the key. That's the most
Speaker 1: important thing. None of the rest of it honestly matters
Speaker 1: if he comes in and has a great World Cup. Thursday,
Speaker 1: you got the release of the twenty seven player camp roster.
Speaker 1: A maximum of twenty six players will go to the
Speaker 1: Gold Cup. Pochettino said that, and I agree with this quote.
Speaker 1: He said, many people can say it's really important for
Speaker 1: us to be all together for the last time before
Speaker 1: the World Cup, and J. T. Batson told me that
Speaker 1: before the Atlanta United media game. The whole conversation is
Speaker 1: available on the Off the Woodwork podcast at nineteen ninety game.
Speaker 1: Pochettino said about Polisic, we decided the best for him,
Speaker 1: the best for the team, the best for the national
Speaker 1: team is the decision that we made. Sometimes we give
Speaker 1: too much importance knowing to be together, and sometimes the
Speaker 1: group maybe sometimes doesn't work in this way or building
Speaker 1: this way. I think you would have liked to have
Speaker 1: had everybody together. I think that would have been the
Speaker 1: ultimate goal, is to have an extended period of time
Speaker 1: with this group. This summer, circumstances didn't allow you to
Speaker 1: do that, so you have to pivot and you have
Speaker 1: to move on. You're not gonna have yunus Musa. Pochattino
Speaker 1: described it as personal reasons. It sounds like as late
Speaker 1: as Monday he was still part of the squad. Anthony
Speaker 1: Robinson tendon injury. He hasn't been training consistently with Fulham,
Speaker 1: Pochattino said. The situation is it's still not clear. It's
Speaker 1: another one. You don't need to push it. Five World
Speaker 1: Cup starters plus Gio Orna not at the Gold Cup.
Speaker 1: No Joe Scally, no Cameron Carter Vickers, no Tanner Testaman,
Speaker 1: no Josh Sargent all football decisions. According to Pochettino, nine
Speaker 1: out of twenty two outfield players from the Nations the
Speaker 1: league team picked for the Gold Cup. A lot of turnover,
Speaker 1: a lot of opportunity, Diego Luna, Jack McGlenn, Max Arston,
Speaker 1: Patrick Ogimon, Brian White all seem to be Maricio pochactino favorites.
Speaker 1: They're back from the Nation's league. He gets Serginio dest
Speaker 1: And a full airon Balligan, first time that Pochettino gets them,
Speaker 1: Malik Tillman, Brendan Aarons, Luca del dore Hadji Wright all
Speaker 1: coming back uncapped, Alex Freeman, Sebastian Burhalter, Quinn Sullivan, Damien Downs,
Speaker 1: Burhalter and Freeman really more recent emergencies on the national
Speaker 1: team Radar. Burhlter has been amazing with the Vancouver white
Speaker 1: Caps in the run that they've had to start the season.
Speaker 1: Deserves the call. Freeman deserves the call. If you haven't
Speaker 1: seen him play with Orlando, Well, you're gonna get a
Speaker 1: chance on Wednesday against Atlanta United. A right back who
Speaker 1: can rampage forward, comfortable cutting inside, can stay wide and
Speaker 1: put in crosses, can defend, big body, good in the air,
Speaker 1: all kinds of things that you want out of a defender.
Speaker 1: Alex Freeman gives you that. Does he need experience at
Speaker 1: this level? Yeah he does. He does. This is where
Speaker 1: you get it, and it might be at the Gold Cup.
Speaker 1: We need to come around to the fact that Marizio
Speaker 1: po Chattino knows what he's doing, probably far better than
Speaker 1: a lot of us sitting on the sidelines. He knows
Speaker 1: the kind of players that he wants and he is
Speaker 1: absolutely unafraid to call them up for Major League soccer
Speaker 1: if he feels like they're the best option, big opportunity
Speaker 1: for these players now, and that's what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: Is the doors open. Take it. We'll see what this
Speaker 1: looks like for the Gold Cup. I'm actually really excited
Speaker 1: about the Gold Cup this year because of these changes.
Speaker 1: I'm maybe more excited about the Gold Cup than I
Speaker 1: was going into it. Other news around the world, Casey
Speaker 1: current defender Alana Cook torn acl and mcl and meniscus
Speaker 1: that happened in the Casey Orlando Pride match. She's on
Speaker 1: the season ending injury list. Came to Kansas City middle
Speaker 1: of last season. Helped make Kansas City one of the
Speaker 1: best defensive teams in the NWSL. Ten clean sheets in
Speaker 1: the nineteen games she's played. That's ridiculous. It's going to
Speaker 1: be out for the US women's national team for a
Speaker 1: while as well. She has thirty caps there. French national
Speaker 1: team coach Laurent Bonadet has dropped Wendy Renard, Eugenie Le
Speaker 1: Sommer and Kenza Dali Nations League matches against Switzerland and
Speaker 1: Iceland four hundred and forty four caps between those three.
Speaker 1: Their playing time has declined and it might be the
Speaker 1: end of their international careers at this stage. According to
Speaker 1: Faprizzio Romano, Manchester United former manager Eric Tennagg has agreed
Speaker 1: to take over at Bayer Leverkusen. Final decision rests with Leverkusen.
Speaker 1: They had talked with a few other folks. Ten Hogg
Speaker 1: is excited about this opportunity. It sounds like he had
Speaker 1: an option to go back to Ias, going to Leverickusen
Speaker 1: instead if they sign off on it. Club World Cup updates.
Speaker 1: Luka Modrich he is gonna leave Real Madrid after the
Speaker 1: Club World Cup this summer. Almost six hundred games for
Speaker 1: Real Madrid since joining in twenty twelve. Be curious to
Speaker 1: see where he goes next. He's thirty nine. He might
Speaker 1: still have some time left in those legs. He might not.
Speaker 1: We'll just have to wait and see what that looks
Speaker 1: like for Luca Madrich. But he's going to say audios
Speaker 1: to Real Madrid after the Club World Cup. Raoul who
Speaker 1: you might have forgotten, was the manager with the reserves
Speaker 1: for Real Madrid and he's been there for a minute.
Speaker 1: He's set to leave the club as well at the
Speaker 1: end of the summer. He's been there since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: He's been linked with a few other jobs over the years.
Speaker 1: He's actually been linked with a return to Germany at
Speaker 1: various stages. Forty seven years old. I think he's ready
Speaker 1: for first team management and we'll see where Raoul pops up.
Speaker 1: CONCACAFF they have appointed Brazilian referee Wilton Sampeile to oversee
Speaker 1: the LAFC Clube America play in match for the Club
Speaker 1: World Cup. Forty three years old. He's one of South
Speaker 1: America's most experienced trusted referees. He did referee at the
Speaker 1: last World Cup in Qatar, a lot of high profile games,
Speaker 1: got a lot of praise for his performances as well.
Speaker 1: Always interesting when you see referees from different confederations go
Speaker 1: somewhere else to referee, or you see a referee from
Speaker 1: a different confederation referee teams from other parts of the
Speaker 1: world in a World Cup situation, sometimes styles can clash
Speaker 1: a little bit. We'll be curious to see how this
Speaker 1: one goes. That's a huge match next weekend. LAFC and
Speaker 1: Kloop America. Manchester United, we know they're not going to
Speaker 1: be in Europe next year. We know they are broke, broke, broke,
Speaker 1: just like Rene Zellweger said Jerry Maguire. We know they
Speaker 1: got to figure out the money situation. Al Hilal has
Speaker 1: put a large offer in front of them for Bruno
Speaker 1: for Anauje. Sounds like Manchester United is gonna say no.
Speaker 1: According to give Me sport, Al Hilal want to bring
Speaker 1: him in ahead of the Club World Cup. They're trying
Speaker 1: to load up for the tournament. Doesn't sound like they're
Speaker 1: gonna get Bruno unless that money continues to rise and
Speaker 1: they present an offer to Manchester United that they cannot refuse.
Speaker 1: Considering they lost almost one hundred and fifteen hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars last year and they just lost another
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen hundred and twenty million in not
Speaker 1: qualifying for Champions League, there could be a number that
Speaker 1: they can't refuse. Be very curious to see what that is.
Speaker 1: Last night in Liga MX in the Klausura Final first leg,
Speaker 1: Club America, who will be playing lafc Here very soon,
Speaker 1: scoreless draw in Mexico City against Teluca. Second leg is
Speaker 1: on Sunday at the Estadio Nemesio Diez, one of the
Speaker 1: best stadiums in the world, by the way, very difficult
Speaker 1: place to play. Te Luca will host it. Los Aguls
Speaker 1: are trying to come into that Club World Cup play
Speaker 1: and match with four straight LEGA MX titles. It's been
Speaker 1: a long time since you've had a team dominate Mexico
Speaker 1: the way that Club America have as of late. Can
Speaker 1: he come into Club World Cup at least the play
Speaker 1: in game with momentum. We'll find out on Sunday. Can
Speaker 1: Mamalodi's Sundowns come into the Club World Cup with even
Speaker 1: more momentum? They begin their quest for the African Champions
Speaker 1: League trophy on Saturday. They host Pyramids FC in the
Speaker 1: first leg in South Africa. Next week the second leg
Speaker 1: on Saturday will be in Cairo, Pyramids FC first time
Speaker 1: for them. At this stage of the competition, Mamalodi Sundowns
Speaker 1: they have won another South African League title. They clinched
Speaker 1: that last week. Last one on the board. Patchuka will
Speaker 1: go back to Mexico. Guillermo Almada he is the manager
Speaker 1: of Pachuca, but on Thursday he submitted his resignation, three
Speaker 1: weeks ahead of the Club World Cup. However, Pachuca has
Speaker 1: yet to accept the resignation. Gets complicated. Pachuca said that
Speaker 1: the Uruguayan coach is under contract until twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: If he's going somewhere else, either he or the club
Speaker 1: that he's going to has to pay a buyout clause
Speaker 1: for early termination. Quote. Guillermo has an existing contract with
Speaker 1: this institution until December of twenty twenty six. This contract
Speaker 1: establishes a possible early termination of his professional relationship with
Speaker 1: our team at the time the agreed buyout clause is paid.
Speaker 1: Why does that part matter? Well, according to ESPN Mexico,
Speaker 1: kruz Asul wants Almada to be their next manager, So
Speaker 1: Pachuca wants either Almada or cruz Asoul to cut a check.
Speaker 1: We will see. If Patchuka was to accept the resignation,
Speaker 1: then there would be no need to pay any clauses,
Speaker 1: and that's not gonna happen right now. In Alamada's place,
Speaker 1: Gabrielle Caballero is slated to be the interim for Pachuca
Speaker 1: in the Club World Cup. They're gonna face Red Bull Salzburg,
Speaker 1: Al Hilal and but Real Madrid. Not an easy run
Speaker 1: for Pachuca. Interesting one, though. Those matches with Al Hilal
Speaker 1: and Red Bull Salzburg could be very, very entertaining. All right, Look,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for me. On the morning Espresso
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