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Speaker 1: It's game day on the station.
Speaker 3: Game five of the NBA Finals tonight, Paycom Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
Speaker 3: where the Oklahoma City Thunder will host the Indiana Pacers
Speaker 3: series of deadlock to two games apiece. We're gonna say
Speaker 3: good night at six o'clock and then we're gonna send
Speaker 3: you to coverage of that game, and we'll have the
Speaker 3: Stanley Cup Finals resuming tomorrow. We got Tom Haberstrow for
Speaker 3: some NBA SMIDI Live and studio voice the Youth's Bill Riley.
Speaker 3: But we'll start things off in a Monday afternoon talking
Speaker 3: a little soccer as RSL gets a much needed win
Speaker 3: over the weekend to nil over DC United, and Kurt Schmidt,
Speaker 3: chief roster constructor on the program on a Monday.
Speaker 1: Kurt, Happy Monday, sir, How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good?
Speaker 1: How are you good? Bud?
Speaker 3: Thanks for the time. So, I don't know what adjective
Speaker 3: you would like to use. Relieved, excited?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: You tell me what sort of emotion or whatever did
Speaker 3: that win on Saturday give you? Guys after going seven
Speaker 3: matches without a dub?
Speaker 2: How about hungry?
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 2: It's one of those where it's like, hey, that was
Speaker 2: you know, that was necessary and now we got to
Speaker 2: focus on the next one.
Speaker 3: For sure, and one of the one of the players
Speaker 3: you acquired during the primary transfer window, Johnny Russell h
Speaker 3: opened his bank account soccer terms kid, no big deal.
Speaker 3: So how pleased were you in his I believe that
Speaker 3: was his first start to see Johnny find the back
Speaker 3: of the net.
Speaker 2: No, it's fantastic. And obviously when when players score goals,
Speaker 2: you know, gives them confidence and and helps them repeat
Speaker 2: that performance and and and even improve. So you know,
Speaker 2: for Johnny to get that goal in his first start
Speaker 2: is huge for the team because obviously it helps us
Speaker 2: win the game, but it's huge for him as well.
Speaker 3: Tell me about the process, Kurt of bringing him along.
Speaker 3: So for our listeners, Johnny is a long time not
Speaker 3: just MLS VET, but he's played UH all over the world.
Speaker 1: And the goal he.
Speaker 3: Scored on Saturday was his sixty first goal UH in
Speaker 3: Major League soccer.
Speaker 1: So he's had a long career.
Speaker 2: UH.
Speaker 1: He was a sporting case.
Speaker 3: UH A lot of people thought he was going to retire,
Speaker 3: did not have a preseason. So you sign him, and
Speaker 3: I would imagine it took a minute for him to
Speaker 3: get in in form and fit. So tell us about
Speaker 3: this process and what can what sort of like can
Speaker 3: you shed on it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, he's still still rolling into it.
Speaker 2: I mean he was he's a discipline professional, and he
Speaker 2: was certainly keeps himself ready and fit and working out
Speaker 2: while he was looking for his next club. But that's
Speaker 2: you know, that's different than obviously playing at a high
Speaker 2: level every day training day and day out and having
Speaker 2: that match fitness and that mass sharpness. So he's definitely
Speaker 2: starting to get his legs under him in that in
Speaker 2: that respect, I mean the match fitness still still isn't
Speaker 2: isn't quite there. Obviously he came out at the half
Speaker 2: and you know building him up is going to help
Speaker 2: us a lot. But he his sharpness is getting back
Speaker 2: to where it needs to be and you know saw
Speaker 2: that with the quality when I finished.
Speaker 3: Tell me about because it was interesting to listen to
Speaker 3: Johnny post game where he talked about how grateful he
Speaker 3: was for this opportunity and even kind of pontificated on
Speaker 3: the possibility of walking away, wasn't sure if he was
Speaker 3: going to get another team, said he's here to score goals,
Speaker 3: create goals and also help some of these younger players.
Speaker 3: So throughout the course of your conversations with Johnny during
Speaker 3: the primary transfer window, what sort of kind of details
Speaker 3: did you guys share back and forth and what essentially
Speaker 3: was your ask of him before bringing him into the club.
Speaker 2: That's a great question. Yeah, I mean the conversations with
Speaker 2: him were about, yeah, definitely extending his career, but also
Speaker 2: what he could bring to our group. And we have
Speaker 2: a very very young team, you know, before Johnny came in,
Speaker 2: Rafa was the only player we had over thirty essentially
Speaker 2: on the roster. So one of the things that we
Speaker 2: talked to him about was just coming in and being
Speaker 2: a bit of a leader and a mentor and an
Speaker 2: experienced guy within the group, you know, just to help
Speaker 2: group through some things, some things that he'd seen before
Speaker 2: and some of the younger guys, despite their talents or
Speaker 2: their quality in that moment, just haven't seen. So I
Speaker 2: think that that's something that manifested right away from day one,
Speaker 2: is how he integrated with the group and his ability
Speaker 2: to you know, just to talk to players on the field.
Speaker 2: You know, Pablo says this all the time, but to
Speaker 2: have you know, your teammate kind of make a point
Speaker 2: to you. It's sometimes a little bit different than the coach, right,
Speaker 2: especially when the veteran player puts his arm around you
Speaker 2: and is like, hey, next time, you know, do it
Speaker 2: like this, not like that, or next time playing me
Speaker 2: here and not there. You know, it brings a little
Speaker 2: more true for those guys, and so that little bit
Speaker 2: of experience in the group has been very helpful. And
Speaker 2: then obviously you know, just about setting expectations for him
Speaker 2: and his performance. And he's a high level player. He
Speaker 2: wants to, you know, play all the time. He wants
Speaker 2: to score goals every game, he wants to do all
Speaker 2: those things. He's very hungry, and it's just about setting
Speaker 2: his dissertations of how you've been out for a bit,
Speaker 2: like let's let's get you fit, let's get you into it,
Speaker 2: and when you're ready, you know, you'll go.
Speaker 3: You know, I had a chance when I was with
Speaker 3: the club on the road in San Diego, I had
Speaker 3: a chance to meet him and talk to him, and
Speaker 3: his intensity really just shines through. And that's always interesting,
Speaker 3: and it is player by player. I can remember the
Speaker 3: first time I met Will Johnson, I thought he was
Speaker 3: going to shank me with a knife.
Speaker 1: I'm like, chill out, dude, It's okay.
Speaker 3: And Johnny kind of has that same intensity just as
Speaker 3: a person when you just.
Speaker 1: Kind of meet him and talk to him.
Speaker 3: I wonder what sort of expectation you guys have moving
Speaker 3: forward now that he is fit and he has started
Speaker 3: and he has scored a goal. I mean, it's safe
Speaker 3: to say that he's a piece, But do you think
Speaker 3: we're going to see him in starting elevens and what
Speaker 3: sort of expectations do you have for him now that
Speaker 3: we've seen what he can do when he's fit and
Speaker 3: Pablo gives him the start.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I mean, I don't want to be in the
Speaker 2: business right now saying this guy will play every game
Speaker 2: that way. You know it's going to be sub or
Speaker 2: any of that stuff, because the reality is where we're at,
Speaker 2: you know, and we're not you know, we're not clueless.
Speaker 2: We know where we're at in the season, and there
Speaker 2: there's no consideration other than form and performance on the day.
Speaker 2: And you know, for probably he's just got to make
Speaker 2: those decisions on the day. If it's Johnny, it's Johnny,
Speaker 2: if it's done, if it's go though, if it's Aiden Hether,
Speaker 2: Konni or whoever it could be in that white midfield spot.
Speaker 2: You know, it's got to be who's going to put
Speaker 2: in the best performance on the day. So when that's Johnny,
Speaker 2: you know, he obviously brings something different than some of
Speaker 2: the other guys, you know, being left footed, having a
Speaker 2: little more experience in quality in the box. You know,
Speaker 2: he's a little more of a goal scorer than kind
Speaker 2: of the rest of the options out there. So he
Speaker 2: has a little bit different, which you know is a
Speaker 2: fantastic change of pace, whether it's from the start or
Speaker 2: it's off the bench later in the game.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I want to pan back here and talk
Speaker 3: about the club from kind of a thirty thousand foot
Speaker 3: view as we're sitting here, you know, more or less
Speaker 3: past midway. And you know, it seems like every time
Speaker 3: I have Pablo On and it's been more or less
Speaker 3: weekly unless the other are travel issues. He often talks
Speaker 3: about how there have been moments in every game that
Speaker 3: he's very pleased with, and ultimately this can be a
Speaker 3: really really cruel sport where you get cold with a
Speaker 3: counter or there's a deflection and somebody scores a dumb
Speaker 3: goal or you get a red card or a PK
Speaker 3: or whatever. So eighteen games played, five ten and three
Speaker 3: eighteen points. As you said, you guys know where you're
Speaker 3: aut in the standings. PO kind of laid the math
Speaker 3: on us last week of what you need to do
Speaker 3: to make the postseason. But what I wanted to get
Speaker 3: from you is, as you're watching your club, what do
Speaker 3: you feel like you can say that you're very good
Speaker 3: at and what you feel like you can say that
Speaker 3: you very much need to improve on with this club.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about additions. I'm talking about what you
Speaker 3: see with the group.
Speaker 2: You have another good question, Spence. I think I think
Speaker 2: we've been pretty good in our in our ball progression,
Speaker 2: our build up most games this year, with maybe a
Speaker 2: few exceptions, and so some of that that piece of
Speaker 2: our identity that that we established last year has carried through.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think Rafa has been a huge help.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously he's the goalkeeper, so defense first, but
Speaker 2: he's added a lot of calmness and composure to our
Speaker 2: buildout process. So I think we've seen good, good build
Speaker 2: out and ball progression from back to middle and and
Speaker 2: I think from middle to to front middle to final third.
Speaker 2: I think it's been a little more hit or missed.
Speaker 2: I think it's been good, but I think we need
Speaker 2: to be a little more consistent where I think last
Speaker 2: year we needed fewer chances of score goals to be
Speaker 2: quite honest, and this year we need we need some more.
Speaker 2: We need you know, we're volume finishers, you know, Like
Speaker 2: again you saw in this game this weekend, Goes was
Speaker 2: a young guy. He's working, he's getting chances and you
Speaker 2: know he needs two or three good chances and he
Speaker 2: got his goal. But we need to keep giving them
Speaker 2: those chances to make sure he gets those goals. And
Speaker 2: you know, Will he's the same, are He's going to
Speaker 2: be the same. You know, all those guys up top
Speaker 2: that we put in there, they need chances to score.
Speaker 2: So I think we've been creating those chances. We've been
Speaker 2: getting the ball in the good spots. Our movement in
Speaker 2: the box sometimes is an ideal. Our finishing obviously needs
Speaker 2: to improve with this group, but yeah, I think those
Speaker 2: those things are still there for us to improve upon.
Speaker 2: But I think we've put together some really good games.
Speaker 2: You know, back to middle and then you know, middle
Speaker 2: to to final third is where you know, I think
Speaker 2: he just needs to improve a bit, and I think
Speaker 2: we've focused on that in the last few weeks. And
Speaker 2: there's been some games. You know, when we started the
Speaker 2: Vancouver game, I thought it was you know, it was
Speaker 2: obviously really good early in the game, and then the
Speaker 2: defense wasn't able to sustain it and against a really
Speaker 2: good team that was playing with a lot of confidence.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but I think I think those aspects on
Speaker 2: the ball are where we're looking right now.
Speaker 3: Eight games played, six starts, two subs, one goal for
Speaker 3: Willy so far. Williagatta your other addition during the primary
Speaker 3: transfer window? I'm gonna ask the same thing about Willy
Speaker 3: that I asked you about your club, because you reference
Speaker 3: movement off the ball in the box and you can
Speaker 3: see I mean, obviously, he is a striker that has
Speaker 3: played significant time in MLS and he has goals in
Speaker 3: him that we've seen and it's probably more experience as
Speaker 3: if you juxtapose him to Ari, but his movement stands
Speaker 3: out to me.
Speaker 1: But we have not seen a ton of goals so far.
Speaker 3: So what have you liked from Willy in his eight
Speaker 3: games played and what are you hoping to see moving forward?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think Willy is sometimes it's hard to catch,
Speaker 2: but he is an incredibly strong player, and so his
Speaker 2: hold to play can be a strength of his I
Speaker 2: don't I don't think it. You know, it's not always
Speaker 2: there right, which which is something consistency can Even though
Speaker 2: he's a little more experienced in Ari, he's still relatively
Speaker 2: on the younger side, so but he's someone who can
Speaker 2: hold the ball up for us, and when he plays
Speaker 2: simple and gets back on the highest line, that can
Speaker 2: be very effective. I think this last week he got
Speaker 2: away from that a little bit and it was a
Speaker 2: little too many touches getting caught in possession in those moments.
Speaker 2: But when he does play one in two touch, he
Speaker 2: can hold the defender off and he can keep possession
Speaker 2: for us and get back on the highest line, which
Speaker 2: just gives us more time to get our team forward
Speaker 2: and get our numbers into the final third and hopefully
Speaker 2: into the box when the chance does come. And I
Speaker 2: think he's also someone that you know, he gets his chances,
Speaker 2: and I think there are specific moments when you know,
Speaker 2: again his movement, any any player's movement can improve in
Speaker 2: the box, but he finds a way, whether it's instinct
Speaker 2: or you know, whatever it might be. He finds a
Speaker 2: way to get chances in front of goal each game.
Speaker 2: But again, he's you know, I think like Gozo. Like
Speaker 2: I mentioned with Gozo, I think he's going to be
Speaker 2: a volume finisher, and you know, he's not a guy
Speaker 2: that can stand around for the whole game and we'll
Speaker 2: give him a chance and we'll score a goal. I
Speaker 2: think he's got to be engaged in the entire game.
Speaker 2: We got to keep feeding him chances, getting them the
Speaker 2: ball in the final third, and he'll get his goals.
Speaker 3: So you reference Gozo, and maybe I buried the lead,
Speaker 3: but I wanted to start with Johnny because it was
Speaker 3: his first goal. But you do have a second leading
Speaker 3: score now officially with Gozo Italian his second. And I
Speaker 3: don't know, Kurt, maybe it was three weeks ago, a
Speaker 3: month ago when you hopped on the show, when I
Speaker 3: said to you, Okay, I feel like you've got something
Speaker 3: with this young kid. And we'll get to Diego and
Speaker 3: his experience with a goal cup in a minute. But
Speaker 3: just for our listener's sake, what sort of insight can
Speaker 3: you shed about his growth and the process, what you're
Speaker 3: seeing so far that you like and what he needs
Speaker 3: to do to keep it going.
Speaker 2: So gozo like you know, like I think any successful
Speaker 2: young player, the real differentiator is is in his head
Speaker 2: and his mentality, his work rate, his work ethic, his
Speaker 2: his ability to you know, refocus is maybe a word
Speaker 2: that I would use where you know, it's like, hey,
Speaker 2: something happens to distract him or take him out of
Speaker 2: his game, and he's he's able to refocus back in
Speaker 2: on the game and and get get back to it
Speaker 2: is really really good. And his adaptability from level to
Speaker 2: level has been really really good. And so what's gotten
Speaker 2: him these opportunities is that aspect his mentality, continuing to
Speaker 2: come back, continuing to try the next one. You know,
Speaker 2: he's like I said, he you know, he had a
Speaker 2: couple of chances early, didn't score them, made it, you know,
Speaker 2: had another chance, put it away, right, And so his
Speaker 2: ability to kind of you know, set those those prior
Speaker 2: instances aside and just take the next one as it
Speaker 2: is and and do his best with that opportunity is
Speaker 2: is really you know, elite from that standpoint, and his
Speaker 2: ability to do that is what's gonna do him serve
Speaker 2: him the most well as he and progress the suaker,
Speaker 2: because as long as he has those things in his head,
Speaker 2: you know, he's going to do the extra work. The
Speaker 2: coaches will work with him. He's going to get the
Speaker 2: rets and the experience, and he sees these situations more
Speaker 2: and he's going to learn from those situations and you know,
Speaker 2: all of that will will come along with it, and
Speaker 2: his ability to just continue to work and go and
Speaker 2: try the next one and the next one and the
Speaker 2: next one is with you know, relentless, I guess is
Speaker 2: a word he could use. Is what's going to keep
Speaker 2: him developing and becoming a better and better player for us.
Speaker 3: Help me understand, because he's not I don't think he's
Speaker 3: a nine, right, but he can clearly finish with a
Speaker 3: couple of goals when it's fully baked.
Speaker 1: When Gozo is completely developed.
Speaker 3: What sort of position slash role do you think will
Speaker 3: allow him to magnify his talents the best?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's played both, you know, I obviously when he
Speaker 2: was you know, wins with the youth fifteens, which is
Speaker 2: kind of crazy to say or think about, but was
Speaker 2: with you fifteens. He was all right when you replayed
Speaker 2: up top as well, and he's sort of served his
Speaker 2: time in both roles as he's moved his way through
Speaker 2: the pipeline, so he's he's certainly done both for us,
Speaker 2: and he can do it. I mean, he's playing probably
Speaker 2: more of like a nine and a half or a
Speaker 2: second striker role right now, where you know he's looking
Speaker 2: to stretch the defense and get in behind from a
Speaker 2: little bit of a deeper starting position. But if you
Speaker 2: look at us when we build right now, it's almost,
Speaker 2: you know, a two strikers set up with an attacking
Speaker 2: midfielder coming underneath. You know that was maybe Luna before
Speaker 2: he left, and you know the other night it was
Speaker 2: Diogo coming in underneath and getting on the ball. So
Speaker 2: I think he's he makes give us a bit of
Speaker 2: a different look than we had last year or even
Speaker 2: earlier this year, where we in possession and we were
Speaker 2: sort of two attacking Mitchell he gined one striker. Now
Speaker 2: it's almost one one attacking Mitchiellder behind two strikers when
Speaker 2: we're trying to attack.
Speaker 1: So your reference Diego.
Speaker 3: He's credited with the assist on Johnny's goal. That was
Speaker 3: kind of an individual effort from Johnny, but nonetheless he
Speaker 3: gets the credit. And as I talked, to you about
Speaker 3: prior to Diego Lee, it felt like this could be
Speaker 3: an opportunity for Diogo maybe to shut some people up
Speaker 3: and fill up or live up to expectations. We all
Speaker 3: know he's the only designated player on the roster. Technically,
Speaker 3: you guys were pretty dominant on Saturday, and he was
Speaker 3: intertwined in most of the you know, attacking plays that
Speaker 3: led to anything substantial. Give me an update on how
Speaker 3: he's doing and his progress and what you're hoping to
Speaker 3: see from him as Diego's with the US men's national team.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, look, I think he's putting his head
Speaker 2: down and he's working hard, and he knows there's there's
Speaker 2: responsibility that he needs to take with Diego out and
Speaker 2: I think he did a good job of taking that
Speaker 2: on Saturday. And you know, the ball he played to
Speaker 2: Johnny for his goal with a phenomenal through ball. But
Speaker 2: even more than that, it's his ability to maintain possession
Speaker 2: under pressure in the middle of the field and then
Speaker 2: and then spin out with some good technique and find
Speaker 2: that ball. And I think he finds those balls maybe
Speaker 2: more than we realize, just because we have had some
Speaker 2: trouble finishing them. You know, but when you look at
Speaker 2: some of the more advanced metrics, you know, I think
Speaker 2: he shows that he had a pretty good game on
Speaker 2: the day, So you know, I think if he comes
Speaker 2: at it with that mentality and brings that level of
Speaker 2: work and quality to the game, because he has quality,
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be real, real interesting as
Speaker 2: we get in these next couple of games.
Speaker 3: We've talked about the depth you have centrally with the midfield,
Speaker 3: and of course, you know, I have a two part
Speaker 3: question here because a Mecca is unavailable for now, so
Speaker 3: I'm wondering what the update is for Mecca and then
Speaker 3: how nice is it? And certainly Nelson is part of
Speaker 3: this equation too, but I don't know. Man like for me,
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, before Ruiz hurt both knees,
Speaker 3: he was one of the better players on the entire
Speaker 3: team on a number of different levels, not just centrally,
Speaker 3: but he would take corners, he would take free kicks,
Speaker 3: and it's hard to expect him to look the same
Speaker 3: after two devastating injuries. So update on a Mecca and
Speaker 3: then tell me what you're seeing when Pablo Ruiz steps
Speaker 3: in and what you like and maybe what you're hoping
Speaker 3: he can it continue to try and find after those
Speaker 3: devastating injuries.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit different, you know, Pablo and
Speaker 2: Nelson is a much different look than than the Mecca
Speaker 2: and Ojeta. You know, I think I'm not going to
Speaker 2: I hate to do a phenomenal job of chewing up
Speaker 2: ground and recovering, recovering balls, recovering second balls, and then
Speaker 2: keeping the game, taking over and playing the next path.
Speaker 2: I think. You know, Pablo, his game is a little
Speaker 2: bit different, right because he can close guys down defensively
Speaker 2: and recover balls, but that's not really the main part
Speaker 2: of his game. You know. What he really brings to
Speaker 2: the team is is quality in our build up and
Speaker 2: our progression, and especially in our ability to open the
Speaker 2: game and change the point of attack. He does a
Speaker 2: great job with that. And Nelson is you know, even
Speaker 2: though he's a younger player, but he's a good balance
Speaker 2: of the two. His physical gifts are are fantastic. He
Speaker 2: covers so much ground so quickly, he's so athletic. But
Speaker 2: you know he also has the ability to hit that bag,
Speaker 2: you know, you know, as Pablo does. So those types
Speaker 2: of balls really open open the game for us and
Speaker 2: allow us to get behind the defense a little bit
Speaker 2: quicker maybe than otherwise when we're not able to hit
Speaker 2: that ball.
Speaker 3: So are we getting close with a mecca or is
Speaker 3: it a situation where he's going to need some time?
Speaker 2: Look, he he needs time because it's certainly something that
Speaker 2: you know, I think if it's if if we worse
Speaker 2: than it, the prognosis becomes much worse. So you know,
Speaker 2: we want to make sure we take take care with
Speaker 2: it and and make sure we get him back when
Speaker 2: he's ready to get back.
Speaker 1: Ten for all.
Speaker 3: Right, before I set you loose, I thought Diego was
Speaker 3: the best player on the pitch yesterday. You know, he
Speaker 3: has the assist after a brilliant steel where he just
Speaker 3: was able to read the play and then probably should
Speaker 3: have had the goal. But yes, it deflects off his teammates,
Speaker 3: so technically, Diego ends with two assists and a five
Speaker 3: zero win for the US men's national team over Trinidad
Speaker 3: and Tobago. Tobago excuse me after losing five straight matches,
Speaker 3: of course, a lot of noise because we're one year
Speaker 3: away from the World Cup.
Speaker 1: So give me your.
Speaker 3: Thoughts as you watched Diego perform with US men's national team.
Speaker 3: What you hope he's able to learn and do with
Speaker 3: them and bring back to you when the Gold Cup
Speaker 3: is finished.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's. I mean, he's been playing really well for him.
Speaker 2: I think every time he's gotten the chance, and credit
Speaker 2: to him, you know, grabbing those opportunities is massive, and
Speaker 2: I think he what he's brought to that group is
Speaker 2: more than his individual quality as a team first mentality,
Speaker 2: and I think he's you know, he obviously has those moments,
Speaker 2: you know, reading that back pass, picking it up. You know,
Speaker 2: I know they gave him an assist for that, but
Speaker 2: I really think that probably should have been his goal.
Speaker 2: But you know that that play was fantastic, even the
Speaker 2: I think it was the first goal. You know, his
Speaker 2: activity and movement, I think is what creates a little
Speaker 2: bit of space in the defense for the goalscorer Tillman
Speaker 2: to to finish his chance and to find a little
Speaker 2: more space when he when he receives the ball. So again,
Speaker 2: I think he's he's making that team take a little
Speaker 2: bit right now, which is great for him, and you know,
Speaker 2: I hope it keeps happening. And I'm sure, but I
Speaker 2: also hope the coaching staff sees it as well as
Speaker 2: I do, or certainly seems like the majority of the
Speaker 2: fans do.
Speaker 3: All right, my guy, I appreciate the time today. Congrats
Speaker 3: on the three over the weekend. Let's keep it rolling, Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, we'll do all right. Kurt Schmid, chief roster
Speaker 3: constructor for Alsa Lake RSOL hits the road coming up
Speaker 3: on the twenty eighth. Geez, another week off, only two
Speaker 3: matches all month. They're going to be at Children's Mercy
Speaker 3: Park in Kansas City on the twenty eighth to take
Speaker 3: on Sporting k C, who was the team that had
Speaker 3: both Williagatta and Johnny Russell, so that'll be interesting. And
Speaker 3: then they're back home for two straight games against Saint
Speaker 3: Louis and Houston before hitting the road at Providence Park
Speaker 3: to take on Portland. As we talked about with Pablo
Speaker 3: last week, this is a team badly in need of
Speaker 3: getting all three points pretty much every time they're at home,
Speaker 3: hoping it's still some on the road, and then keep
Speaker 3: that ship afloat while Diego Lune is with the US
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