Speaker 1: Hm hm hmm.
Speaker 2: Come on, man, goo for dude, it's Friday.
Speaker 3: Day. It is, in fact Friday here on Soccer's morning
Speaker 3: show s D H A M. John Here you there.
Speaker 3: Apparently the laptop has decided that it's not going to
Speaker 3: wake up this morning, so we're gonna go ahead and
Speaker 3: continue to shut it down for like the fourth time already,
Speaker 3: and we'll see if it wants to behave by the
Speaker 3: time the show is over. John, hear you there. It's
Speaker 3: a weekend whip around Friday free for all. Everything's on
Speaker 3: the table, whatever you guys want to talk about, it's
Speaker 3: all there. Our number two. Obviously we can whip around
Speaker 3: patent pending, trademark coming center. Hopefully rather than later, we'll
Speaker 3: break down everything from the weekend and look at Major
Speaker 3: League Soccer, look at Landy United, look at FC Dallas,
Speaker 3: look at all points in between and all of the
Speaker 3: matchups that are there, and we can run through all
Speaker 3: of that at our number two. If our friends from
Speaker 3: beyond Goals menoring Michael Parkhurst and Greg Garza are not
Speaker 3: globe trotting or mentoring or benefiting humanity on the whole,
Speaker 3: hopefully we get the chance to catch up with them
Speaker 3: at nine thirty and go through the Friday free kick
Speaker 3: and see what's going on there in between all of
Speaker 3: that stuff. We got a lot of news and we can,
Speaker 3: I guess we can. We'll go ahead and we'll go
Speaker 3: ahead and use this moniker. Why not? Kevin de Bruna
Speaker 3: not returning to Manchester City statement was released on social media.
Speaker 3: Pep Guardiola has come out with a statement on his
Speaker 3: own and you were kind of wondering when this might happen,
Speaker 3: considering health issues and all of the things that have
Speaker 3: been going on with Kevin de Bruna. Obviously he's not
Speaker 3: happy with how his injuries have held him back. Nowast
Speaker 3: he's leaving Manchester City at the end of the season.
Speaker 3: Contract runs out in the summer, and then it was
Speaker 3: disclosed he's not going to be extending his deal beyond
Speaker 3: this campaign. Writing on the two hundred and eighty character
Speaker 3: app seeing this, you probably realize where this is heading.
Speaker 3: So I'll get straight to it. Let you all know
Speaker 3: that these will be my final months as a Manchester
Speaker 3: City player. Nothing about this is easy to write, but
Speaker 3: as football players, we all know this day eventually comes.
Speaker 3: That day is here and you deserve to hear it
Speaker 3: from me. First Telegraph had reported back in December. Clubs
Speaker 3: in Saudi Arabia are likely to show interest. CEFG want
Speaker 3: to keep him within their stable of clubs around the
Speaker 3: world and such as his standing so Speaking in the
Speaker 3: pre match presser ahead of the Manchester Darby Pep Guardiella said,
Speaker 3: it's a sad day, happy day for the fact that
Speaker 3: the pleasure I personally lived with him gave all of
Speaker 3: us with his humility. He gave all of us with humility, humility,
Speaker 3: not humidity, John humility and his influence in our success
Speaker 3: in the last decade that would have been impossible to
Speaker 3: imagine without him, when Vincent left or Sergio left or
Speaker 3: David Silva. It's a sad day. We still have ten games,
Speaker 3: hopefully eleven that we can enjoy our fans and he'll
Speaker 3: still get the love and recognition he deserves. I think
Speaker 3: I read today he's been involved in two hundred and
Speaker 3: eighty goals and assists in the Premier League. You always
Speaker 3: have to be careful for respect for players in the
Speaker 3: last time one of your thirty years, but come on,
Speaker 3: there's no doubt he's one of the greatest. For sure.
Speaker 3: His consistency, except for the last year when he had
Speaker 3: injury problems in important games and being there all the time.
Speaker 3: Signed in twenty fifteen for fifty four and a half
Speaker 3: million pounds, Regarded as one of the club's greatest players.
Speaker 3: After winning six Premier League titles, two FA Cups, five
Speaker 3: League Cups in the Champions League, Guardiola continued his assists,
Speaker 3: his goals, His vision in the final third is so
Speaker 3: difficult to replace. Everyone can make actions, but over how
Speaker 3: many years in games is what makes him unique. His
Speaker 3: performance during this decade has been outstanding. We've won a
Speaker 3: lot of trophies and he's been involved in every single one.
Speaker 3: He's part of the club. Club has said to do him.
Speaker 3: The door is open for the rest of his life,
Speaker 3: whatever he wants to do. He's part of the family
Speaker 3: for the club. Cities said that they plan on delivering
Speaker 3: a fitting tribute and a farewell. Four hundred and thirteen matches,
Speaker 3: one hundred and six goals, one hundred and seventy four assists.
Speaker 3: So Kevin de Bruna is ending his time at Manchester
Speaker 3: City as a player at the end of this year.
Speaker 3: So that is uh, that is where I guess the
Speaker 3: The earliest piece of news this morning involving Kevin de
Speaker 3: Bruna and no real surprise. His artistry is out there.
Speaker 3: I mean, his artistry is out there, up there and
Speaker 3: ready to roll. And so it's uh, it will be fun, intriguing,
Speaker 3: and uh we're all gonna sit there and go, hmm,
Speaker 3: where where where? Where? Where is the next step in
Speaker 3: Kevin de Bruna's career. That's gonna be the biggest question
Speaker 3: going forward. So, uh, morning, David, Morning, Ricky. Yes, five
Speaker 3: stripes Friday in four oh four day? M Yes, well
Speaker 3: you know what you could do Abby, Abby's wondering what
Speaker 3: shirt to wear today? What you could wear? Want you know,
Speaker 3: once you wear both, start one, start like up and
Speaker 3: through like middle of the afternoon, and then change because
Speaker 3: I think it's supposed to be like in the mid eighties,
Speaker 3: so uh, you know that's knowing somebody like me, it'd
Speaker 3: be end up something like well, yeah, I'd probably end
Speaker 3: up having to wear both at some point anyway, So
Speaker 3: we'll see, we'll see what rolls there. But where in both?
Speaker 3: Why not five stripes day four or four day? So
Speaker 3: that's your rundown for the morning. Once again, if we
Speaker 3: can catch up with our friends from Beyond Goals windering.
Speaker 3: We will we can whip around an hour. Number two.
Speaker 3: Yesterday Open Cup came up with their matchups in the
Speaker 3: next round. And now this is when we get into
Speaker 3: like the group stage deal, and you know it's like
Speaker 3: you've got to get out of your group and then
Speaker 3: they reach and then they get everything all squared away
Speaker 3: again you have the draw and the studio and all
Speaker 3: those kinds of things. And so yesterday you now know
Speaker 3: what the next go round is in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: Third round schedule Crew and riverhounse sorry Crew two and
Speaker 3: River Hound silly me, Crew two and Riverhounds. That's at
Speaker 3: six o'clock at lower dot Com on the fifteenth, lou
Speaker 3: City in Louden, United Charlotte Independence North Carolina FC. So
Speaker 3: that was a USL Championship matchup, then it was a
Speaker 3: League one matchup, but now they're in split leagues and
Speaker 3: that's at Matthews p Hop and Rhode Island FC. That
Speaker 3: one's gonna be a fun one. That one's gonna be
Speaker 3: a fun one. So that one will be fun. So
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens with that. Also on the board,
Speaker 3: Battery and Tormenta. Battery and Tormenta. That one doesn't scream
Speaker 3: or anything like that with rivalries, So Battery and Tormento
Speaker 3: on the fifteenth, Union Omaha and San Antonio FC on
Speaker 3: the fifteenth, avy Alta, Orange County at av Alta. That
Speaker 3: one's gonna be on the fifteenth to come at Affiance
Speaker 3: in Oakland Roots on the sixteenth Detroit City in Westchester
Speaker 3: sc that one's gonna be at Keyworth FC, Naples and
Speaker 3: the Rowdies, that one's gonna be in Naples. That one's
Speaker 3: gonna be a fun one. Indy eleven and the MIAMIFC,
Speaker 3: Tulsa and Phoenix Rising switchbacks and one Knox so one Knox. Basically,
Speaker 3: because there there are too many teams in the Southeastern
Speaker 3: United States that are doing well in open Cup, someone
Speaker 3: had to take the someone had to end up getting
Speaker 3: the short straw in this one, and it's one Knox,
Speaker 3: So one Knox gets to travel to Widener Field and
Speaker 3: Beautiful Downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado on the sixteenth, New Mexico
Speaker 3: United It'll pass the locomotive, go ahead, line up a derby,
Speaker 3: why not Sacramento and El Fadolito. That one's gonna be
Speaker 3: a fun one for different reasons, And then you really
Speaker 3: want to talk about a short straw Red Wolves. After
Speaker 3: knocking off Chattanooge FC, they have to travel to Vegas
Speaker 3: Lights and go play at Cashman on the sixteenth. So
Speaker 3: that's your rundown of the third round. Crew two Pittsburgh,
Speaker 3: Blue City, A Louden, Charlotte Independence, North Carolina FC. That's
Speaker 3: what we need, Dean Linky, p Hop Rhode Island FC,
Speaker 3: Battery and Torment to Union, Omahon, San Antonio, Avy, Alta,
Speaker 3: Orange County to come, a defiance out of Next Pro
Speaker 3: and Oakland Roots. That's its Starfire Detroit City, Westchester, Naples,
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay, Indy eleventh, the MIAMIFC, Tulsa, Phoenix, Switchbacks one Noox,
Speaker 3: New Mexico United, El Paso, Sacramento Republic, El Faedalito and
Speaker 3: Vegas Lights in Chattanooga Red Wolves. So that's your rundown
Speaker 3: in Open Cup that is on the fifteenth and the sixteenth.
Speaker 3: All of them are going to be on Paramount Plus
Speaker 3: in some manor way, shape, form or fashion. Handful of
Speaker 3: them are going to be on Colossal Network. Another handful
Speaker 3: of them, including Sacramento and El Fadalito, are going to
Speaker 3: be on CBS Sports Network. So that's the rundown there.
Speaker 3: Everything's on Paramount Plus. CBS Sports Network gets LU City
Speaker 3: in loudon Glosso gets p Hop and Rhode Island FC,
Speaker 3: Galosso Late gets Avy Alta Orange County. Then on the sixteenth,
Speaker 3: Naples and Rowdies is on GLOSSO. New Mexico United and
Speaker 3: El Paso is on Glosso. Sacramento Republic, El Fa Delito
Speaker 3: is on CBS Sports Network. So that's your Open Cup
Speaker 3: matchups for the next round. Should be fun, should be fun,
Speaker 3: should be fun. Well, Ricky, you know you need to
Speaker 3: get to a If Ricky needs to get to a
Speaker 3: brewery at some point today, you know what you could
Speaker 3: do if you are, sir, in fact, a fanatico, you
Speaker 3: could join and be a fanati coo here at SDH.
Speaker 3: And then if you joined and were a finatico, you
Speaker 3: could check the list of those establishments and those kinds
Speaker 3: of establishments and you could see if there was a
Speaker 3: discount that was tied to any of the those particular establishments,
Speaker 3: that is a that is tied to the being a
Speaker 3: fanatic How do you become a fanatico? You may ask, Well,
Speaker 3: here's what you do. Ten bucks a year, ten dollars
Speaker 3: a year, and what you can do for ten What
Speaker 3: do you do for ten dollars? Seriously, what do you
Speaker 3: do for ten bucks? Abby is Abby? I know is
Speaker 3: a fanatic, and I know that we have some fanaticos,
Speaker 3: but this is where I sit there and I ask,
Speaker 3: why aren't you a fanati co? Get discounts all over
Speaker 3: basically North Georgia and Chateau arnall in Costa Rica, exclusive
Speaker 3: access to the group on the chant app to keep
Speaker 3: an eye on everything that we do here at SDH.
Speaker 3: You sign up, you get a group dot chant dot
Speaker 3: fan group dot chant dot fan slash soccer down here,
Speaker 3: slash join if I could spell the word join, and
Speaker 3: that's with two ends, so just disregard the last in
Speaker 3: group dot chant dot fan slash soccer down here, slash
Speaker 3: join group dot chant dot fan slash soccer down here,
Speaker 3: slash join with one in, not with two. So that's
Speaker 3: what you do. You become a finati co for ten
Speaker 3: bucks a year. You get a bunch of discounts, You
Speaker 3: get to hang out in our chant, you get to
Speaker 3: hang out in our chant section, and you get all
Speaker 3: these discounts to all these cool places. And Ricky, you
Speaker 3: needed a Brewery. I needed to talk about Finati COO's.
Speaker 3: It seemed like a natural transition. So there you go.
Speaker 3: That was that was an easy one. All right, What
Speaker 3: else is going on this morning? I know that we've
Speaker 3: got to get into and we got an update from
Speaker 3: our buddy Greg Garza. Greg is on a train and
Speaker 3: if he can get if he can get to if
Speaker 3: he can get inside piers at airport, we'll catch up
Speaker 3: with Greg and find out what's going on with everything
Speaker 3: involving our friends at Beyond Goals menering Messrs Garza and Parkhurst.
Speaker 3: So that would be that would be fun if we
Speaker 3: ended up with Greg inside Pearson International Airport to discuss
Speaker 3: everything that's going on there, that would be pretty funny.
Speaker 3: But like I said, ten o'clock, we can whip around
Speaker 3: pat and Pending. That's when we catch up with Major
Speaker 3: League Soccer. That's when we get into major everything else,
Speaker 3: all right, the other promos. Since Ricky went down the
Speaker 3: promo road, I'll go ahead and wrap up the other promos.
Speaker 3: I think he said Pearson in Toronto because he sent
Speaker 3: us an email and he said he's on a train
Speaker 3: to the Toronto Airport, and I'm guessing it's Pearson, because
Speaker 3: if it's the one on the island, that'd be a
Speaker 3: heck of a train. If he's the one on the
Speaker 3: island that that's right next to downtown, that's a heck
Speaker 3: of a train ride. But I think he's on TTC
Speaker 3: and I think he's heading to Pearson so that if
Speaker 3: he can get through security in time. He has he
Speaker 3: has said if he can get through security, he'll join
Speaker 3: us and we can up with him for a couple
Speaker 3: of seconds. So I think it's I think he's ttceing
Speaker 3: on the way to Pierson. So we'll find out what's
Speaker 3: going on in the life of Greg Garza, the Globe
Speaker 3: trotter that is Greg Garza, and find out what's going
Speaker 3: on in the world of mentoring this time of year.
Speaker 3: Also all the other promos once again, Kickoff Coffee and
Speaker 3: Kickoff Coffeeco dot com. And what you can do there
Speaker 3: is hit that QR code. See what I did. You
Speaker 3: hit that QR code and you go to Kickoff Coffee
Speaker 3: and Kickoff Coffeeco dot com and you buy out the store.
Speaker 3: You help out our friends at Kickoff Coffee and Kickoff
Speaker 3: Coffeeco dot Com. Use the code soccer down here fifteen
Speaker 3: when you check out, they in turn take ten percent
Speaker 3: reinvested in the youth games, youth initiative. Stuff that they
Speaker 3: think is cool brought to us. Buy our friends at
Speaker 3: Kickoff Coffee and Kickoff Coffeeco dot com. Now, uh, you
Speaker 3: can do that. You can go to our friends at
Speaker 3: Gradybaby and Gradybaby Co. I just realized that I need that.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of in the in betweens myself. Abby was
Speaker 3: talking about being five stripes in four or four day
Speaker 3: here in the studio. I'm kind of caught between temperatures,
Speaker 3: and I realized I need more soccer based sweatshirts because
Speaker 3: I've got you. You know that I have all the
Speaker 3: T shirts and the jerseys, but I don't have a
Speaker 3: whole lot of soccer sweatshirts. I should have worn the
Speaker 3: SDH one today, but I'm kind of in between temperatures,
Speaker 3: and so I just I know that I need more sweatshirts,
Speaker 3: and so the you can get a sweatshirt or a
Speaker 3: T shirt over at our friends at Gratty Baby and
Speaker 3: Grady Baby Co. The soccer is just better in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Ones black red SDH network logo here on the sleeve
Speaker 3: Grady Baby logo on this on the right sleeve. Really
Speaker 3: comfortable stuff. The Boss can't wear red of any kind,
Speaker 3: so she has stolen the black one and it is
Speaker 3: a you know, sweatshirt T shirt kind of a deal.
Speaker 3: And you get Soccers Just Better in Atlanta Golden Boss
Speaker 3: on the front, and you get to help out middle
Speaker 3: school socker programs attached to the Atlanta Public School system
Speaker 3: by picking up the soccer is Just Better in Atlantic
Speaker 3: gear from our friends at Grady Baby and Grady Baby Co.
Speaker 3: Also Olivi and York. And if you have a question
Speaker 3: about personalization, consult Abbey because you can get the Olivi
Speaker 3: New York jersey and Kaiser Permanente on the front. Thanks
Speaker 3: to them for everything that they do all the time
Speaker 3: here at SDH. And then what you get there is
Speaker 3: Kais of Permanente on the front, floppy collar, very very
Speaker 3: eighties soccer for good on one sleep beyond goals entering
Speaker 3: on the other, sleep personalized on the back. You have
Speaker 3: your choice on the Navy jersey to go either one
Speaker 3: of two ways. You can go white letters and numerals
Speaker 3: or lighter blue letters and numerals. Michael Parkers went white
Speaker 3: because he couldn't go lighter blue because he went to
Speaker 3: Wake Forest and that'd be kind of like crossing the
Speaker 3: streams in the acc. So go to Olivi and York
Speaker 3: pick up those. Pick up the SDH jerseys here for
Speaker 3: this year. Helps out our twenty twenty five Soccer for
Speaker 3: Good campaign and what you can do once again personalize
Speaker 3: it either in white or in a lighter blue on
Speaker 3: the back. When it comes to all of your personalization
Speaker 3: and your jerseys and such, you can have about the
Speaker 3: Marshall Islands Soccer Federation. Like I said, I got about
Speaker 3: ten scarves left before I have to go make another order,
Speaker 3: have to send them one to Brooklyn. And if you
Speaker 3: have not helped out the Marshall Island Soccer Federation, they've
Speaker 3: got about six weeks to close the eighty percent that
Speaker 3: they're missing on the Kickstarter campaign. They're at about four
Speaker 3: thy out of twenty and so if you are inclined,
Speaker 3: please help out our friends at the Marshall Islands so
Speaker 3: they can have that first ever competition there in August
Speaker 3: in Springdale, Arkansas, John Brown University with themselves eleven to
Speaker 3: eleven Guam's, US Virgin Islands Turks and Kikos. They're trying
Speaker 3: to get everybody there for the week. So Kickstarter campaign,
Speaker 3: you can go to Kickstarter. You can help out the
Speaker 3: Marshall Islands folks however you wish if that that is
Speaker 3: something that you are inclined to do, and you can
Speaker 3: also pick up the scarves. You can buy everything else
Speaker 3: that comes from England. Player layer jerseys and everything else
Speaker 3: comes from England. Scarves come from us the other side
Speaker 3: of this door. So you can help out with the
Speaker 3: Kickstarter project. You can help out picking up your Marshall
Speaker 3: Islands gear and pushing everything forward that way, and you
Speaker 3: can help out them with their particular project and help
Speaker 3: them grow their program from absolute zero. And it's been
Speaker 3: fun to be able to watch their program from absolute
Speaker 3: zero be the way that it is and help out
Speaker 3: in that way. So Marshall Islands Grady Baby Olive in
Speaker 3: New York. You can also go to soccerdown Here dot
Speaker 3: net and you can pick up the SDH gear. It's
Speaker 3: the new logo plus some stuff that Jason has created
Speaker 3: from teams of the past that's there as well. So
Speaker 3: that new logo, where is it there? It is? I
Speaker 3: have to figure out where my wrist is. That new
Speaker 3: logo is up in the black and white designs. You
Speaker 3: can go to Soccer down here dot Net. You can
Speaker 3: go to the shop and you can pick up your
Speaker 3: SDH gear there across the board, mugs, sweatshirts, the whole shmear.
Speaker 3: You can go ahead and pick that up right there
Speaker 3: at Soccer down here dot Net. I'm trying to think
Speaker 3: what else have I missed? Let's see Finati coos, Olive
Speaker 3: New York, Marshall Islands Kickoff Coffee. I think that's all
Speaker 3: the promos at the moment. But once again, speaking of
Speaker 3: Soccer down here dot Net, yesterday we had two matches
Speaker 3: or two match days going on on both the channels
Speaker 3: on our mixler app. So it was craziness involving Dutchtown
Speaker 3: and Trinity Christian. That was with Maddie and Jason. Then
Speaker 3: I was at Hebern Christian for the matchups with Toombs
Speaker 3: County making the long road trip and they were coming
Speaker 3: north to take on Hebren Christian. Two good friends and
Speaker 3: Jeremy More, the head coach at Toombs and Chad Griffin,
Speaker 3: the head coach for both programs, and they coach both
Speaker 3: programs at Hebren Christian County came north to take on,
Speaker 3: you to take on Hebrew and Christian. And by the way,
Speaker 3: on the way home, they're going to go play Eatonton.
Speaker 3: I imagine, I don't know this for sure, they're going
Speaker 3: to play Putnam County in Eatonton today. I imagine that
Speaker 3: it was not going to be a long ride. It
Speaker 3: was going to be a long ride home and then
Speaker 3: pick up and then drive to Eatonton and drive back.
Speaker 3: I imagine that they're staying someplace tonight, that they stayed
Speaker 3: someplace last night on their way to Eatonton today. I
Speaker 3: do not have independent confirmation to that, but it is
Speaker 3: one of those where you want to challenge yourself in
Speaker 3: the non region schedule. Jeremy Moore wanted to do that,
Speaker 3: and so he paired up with the Chad who he
Speaker 3: knows from his time at Calvary Day on the Coast
Speaker 3: and so spring break for Toombs County. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we want to keep we want to keep sharp. You
Speaker 3: want to play okay, fine, And so obviously traffic held
Speaker 3: Toombs County up a little bit. I think the match
Speaker 3: started a whole five minutes late yesterday, but we had
Speaker 3: Tombs County and Hebren Christian on the Deuce and we
Speaker 3: had Dutchtown and Trinity Christian on the mothership. Today it
Speaker 3: is Mariston Pious at the Maris School five thirty and
Speaker 3: seven thirty. Maddie and I will have the calls for
Speaker 3: you on that one. I'll be calling the girls match
Speaker 3: and Maddy will be calling the boys match at Stadler
Speaker 3: Field on the campus of the Marris School, so we'll
Speaker 3: be it's our first visit to Marist, so that's going
Speaker 3: to be really cool. And thanks to Derek Wall and
Speaker 3: the coaching staff for letting us come by and hang
Speaker 3: out there this afternoon, And thanks to both Pious and
Speaker 3: Marist for the intel and all of the info getting
Speaker 3: us ready for the matches tonight. And remember we had
Speaker 3: the Marist girls on earlier this week in their non
Speaker 3: region action against Walton. It was a learning experience for
Speaker 3: them from that and so it'll be really cool to
Speaker 3: catch up with the Merror School. Mariston Pious a great
Speaker 3: rivalry in all sports here in the city of Atlanta.
Speaker 3: And that will be tonight five thirty and seven thirty.
Speaker 3: Remember tomorrow, I guess we're all going to be a
Speaker 3: Mercedes Benz for at Land United and FC Dallas. Then
Speaker 3: on Sunday here on the network once again Action at
Speaker 3: the Fraction at Landy United two taking on Inner Miami
Speaker 3: CF two. That's at seven thirty, seven thirty three kicks
Speaker 3: seven o'clock pregame here on Soccer down here and our
Speaker 3: mixler app and you get to follow along there. Remember
Speaker 3: Messi and Friends too, they played in Open Cup early
Speaker 3: in the week they lost to the MIAMIFC. So how
Speaker 3: did they look coming out of the weekend playing in
Speaker 3: the midweek and then having to travel up here to
Speaker 3: Atlanta to take on at Landy Nighty too. We'll find
Speaker 3: out with at Lanty United two and Messi and Friends too.
Speaker 3: That is Sunday Action at the Fraction seven o'clock pre game,
Speaker 3: seven thirty three kick on the network. Jason will have
Speaker 3: the call for you there and I will roll you
Speaker 3: through pregame and Maddie will be there as well with
Speaker 3: Jason and with all of us at SDH. Then on Monday, see,
Speaker 3: now I'm on a roll with the schedule. I've got
Speaker 3: the schedule figured out in my head, all right. So
Speaker 3: Monday it is one Matt Girls match at Coahola Creek.
Speaker 3: Fort Payne crosses over into the Eastern time Zone to
Speaker 3: take on cohola Creek. I think it's a six o'clock kick.
Speaker 3: That'll be at Soccer down here dot Mixlore dot com.
Speaker 3: Then it is on Tuesday. Drew Dickinson will have West
Speaker 3: Forsyth and river Ridge. River Ridge boys rank nationally West
Speaker 3: for Syth's girls rank nationally number two or number three,
Speaker 3: depending on the poll that you pay attention to. So
Speaker 3: we'll have the West Forsyth river Ridge doubleheader. That's on Tuesday.
Speaker 3: Wednesday the ninth, Jason will come in and host SDHAM
Speaker 3: because I am out of pocket. I'm in a place
Speaker 3: where they don't allow cell phones, not even to take pictures.
Speaker 3: So it'll be uh, it'll be Jason hosting a soccer's
Speaker 3: in session. By the way, will be Tuesday at noon
Speaker 3: and so we'll orchestrate the guests for that there. So Wednesday,
Speaker 3: Jason's hosting SDH to return to the past, so back
Speaker 3: to the future, and then that sets us up for Thursday,
Speaker 3: and that will be our first remote broadcast of the
Speaker 3: year at Landay United two at Philadelphia Union two and
Speaker 3: so we'll have that for you coming up pregame and
Speaker 3: then it is kick with Atlanta United two in Philadelphia
Speaker 3: Union two on the network. That is a think a
Speaker 3: seven thirty three kick as well. I think pregame is
Speaker 3: at like seven point fifteen. And then next Friday, we've
Speaker 3: got a game circled as the regular seasons winding down
Speaker 3: in the state of Georgia when it comes to high
Speaker 3: school soccer. But we're gonna be pretty much we're gonna
Speaker 3: be pretty busy from one end of this week to
Speaker 3: the end of next week. Matchups. Tonight, everybody's at Mercedes Benz,
Speaker 3: including hopefully a lot of you. On Saturday. Sunday it's
Speaker 3: the twes. Monday it's high school. Tuesday it's a high
Speaker 3: school doubleheader. Wednesday it's an off day. Thursday, I mean,
Speaker 3: we do do AM but we're not doing any live
Speaker 3: matches Thursday twos on the road. Next Friday, high school
Speaker 3: matchup to be determined. So that's what we're up to
Speaker 3: coming up here SDH in the next week. So yeah,
Speaker 3: we're gonna be We're gonna be pretty busy. We're gonna
Speaker 3: be pretty busy. David's asking, uh, if you could on
Speaker 3: a train or could you in the rain? Uh? Nothing
Speaker 3: like Doctor Seuss at nine thirty in the morning on
Speaker 3: a Friday Abby has decided the four oh four shirt
Speaker 3: for there you go, half and half a four oh
Speaker 3: four shirt for the first half of the day, then
Speaker 3: the four oh four kit later morning Alex, Morning Jordan.
Speaker 3: So Jordan's four oh four. Wow. So all right, So
Speaker 3: here here's the deal. We're gonna talk Open Cup first
Speaker 3: and foremost, whether whether with our mogul and training coming
Speaker 3: up in a second. So uh, We're gonna pull back
Speaker 3: the curtain and ask about how these things come together.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we're gonna bring in Michael Parker's and find out
Speaker 3: first and foremost, how was vacation, sir, Hey, John, Yeah,
Speaker 3: vacation was great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we made it. Yeah, I will say it was,
Speaker 4: of course, not without its little complications, but we made it.
Speaker 4: You know, you have to adjust sometimes and that's the
Speaker 4: name of the game. But the time we spent in
Speaker 4: South Carolina was great. We had good weather. The team
Speaker 4: did well well enough in some of the games that
Speaker 4: my daughter, as a freshman, got to play a little
Speaker 4: bit here and there, so that was great. And yeah,
Speaker 4: and the rest of us enjoyed the beach here and there.
Speaker 4: Didn't get in the water, it was freezing.
Speaker 3: But to take your time, do you take your clubs.
Speaker 4: I did not take the clubs. No room in the
Speaker 4: car for such things.
Speaker 3: John, not not even on the luggage rack on the top,
Speaker 3: and you sit there and cover it with a tarp
Speaker 3: or something, and people sit there and go he's repairing
Speaker 3: a house. Obviously.
Speaker 4: The wife wanted to take the tarp on top, and
Speaker 4: I was like, no, we can stuff it all in
Speaker 4: the car. I don't want to drive with that thing
Speaker 4: on top. So we crammed it and we made it so. Yes,
Speaker 4: I had to sacrifice the clubs. I still have not
Speaker 4: yet swung a club in twenty twenty five. It's depressing.
Speaker 3: We'll get there, all right. So you mentioned adventures in travel,
Speaker 3: so go ahead, lay them all out, get them off
Speaker 3: your chest. I don't know. I don't want you to.
Speaker 3: I don't want you to just hold it within. I
Speaker 3: want you to. I want you to cleanse from the
Speaker 3: adventures of travel.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, we missed an opportunity to stop by Wake Forest
Speaker 4: for a few hours. We planned on breaking up our
Speaker 4: trip and stopping at Wake for a while, but the
Speaker 4: two out of the four of us had the stomach
Speaker 4: bug overnight into the morning of travel day, so we
Speaker 4: canceled all plans and drove straight home and thankfully we
Speaker 4: had no episodes in the car, so that that's you know,
Speaker 4: a big positive there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. See, episodes in the car would be bad because
Speaker 3: you know, literally and you don't know if it's a
Speaker 3: false alarm or not. It's like, you know, pull over, stop, stop, stop,
Speaker 3: you know I'm gonna do something. We got a couple
Speaker 3: of those. Oh, you had a couple of false starts.
Speaker 4: We had a couple of false alarms. But I rather
Speaker 4: pull over and have a false alarm than not pull
Speaker 4: over and have a real alarm.
Speaker 3: Yes, that is always good. So is uh was Deacon
Speaker 3: happy to see you when you got home? Oh?
Speaker 4: Deacon made the trip?
Speaker 3: John? Oh, no, Deacon made.
Speaker 4: The trip as terrified as she was in the car
Speaker 4: for all eleven hours of it.
Speaker 3: Uhally, Deacon's terrified of the car.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't like it.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we didn't do well enough taking her out and
Speaker 4: about as a puppy apparently, so she doesn't She doesn't
Speaker 4: like the car, but she'd rather be with us in
Speaker 4: the car than not with us.
Speaker 3: So, yes, that is absolutely true.
Speaker 4: I can she's still sleeping things off, John.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh wow, I just have this vision of Deacon
Speaker 3: being out past curfew when you're on the beach and
Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, the door opens at like one point
Speaker 3: thirty in the morning, Deacon's trying to sneak in. You're
Speaker 3: you're looking out and Deacon's like, oh, I thought you
Speaker 3: were asleep, Well I was till you open the door exactly.
Speaker 3: I just I just have this vision of Deacon partying
Speaker 3: on the road with the family Parkers.
Speaker 4: She was loving it. Came to all of our dinners. Thankfully.
Speaker 4: It's very dog friendly down there, beaches, restaurants and everything,
Speaker 4: so yeah, she got to experience everything.
Speaker 3: And she's still crashed out, as she should because the
Speaker 3: rowdy man is absolutely crashed out right down here on
Speaker 3: the table. Oh. It's like literally when the boss leaves
Speaker 3: and I'm getting ready for the show every morning, he'll
Speaker 3: come down. He'll be on whatever level he's on, and
Speaker 3: he wants to make sure that he is in his
Speaker 3: poofy bed right down here, and he's crashed out and
Speaker 3: he's making sure that he's guarding everything and even with
Speaker 3: his eyes closed. Let's see. So Greg was on his
Speaker 3: way to Pierson on a train, and how did that
Speaker 3: conversation go? Yo, dude, I don't think I'm gonna make it.
Speaker 3: Can you sub for me?
Speaker 4: I saw the email and I texted him. I was like, dude,
Speaker 4: don't worry about.
Speaker 3: I could have on okay, all right. I didn't know
Speaker 3: if this was like a like a oh my god,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do a quick tag it kind of a thing.
Speaker 4: I was like, no, no stress, I'm stress all right.
Speaker 3: So then my first question has to do with detaching
Speaker 3: and taking it easy when it comes to your mentees
Speaker 3: and parents and such. Do they find it easy to
Speaker 3: unplug because they need the time to unplug, or because
Speaker 3: they're so wired into wanting to be successful. You have
Speaker 3: all of these type a's that you kind of have
Speaker 3: to talk away from being on the field and being
Speaker 3: attached to the sport all the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the higher level athletes and families definitely
Speaker 4: have a little bit more of a challenge sometimes unplugging.
Speaker 4: The fear of getting behind or missing a practice or
Speaker 4: missing a game, or just not working out for a
Speaker 4: few days. I really can get to people. So I
Speaker 4: definitely see that, especially the higher the higher up you go,
Speaker 4: you know, there's some obviously that's you know, have no
Speaker 4: problem taking breaks and understand it and see it and everything.
Speaker 4: But yeah, there's definitely some that we work with where
Speaker 4: we have to encourage things and let them know, hey,
Speaker 4: it's going to be all right. You know. I I
Speaker 4: played seasonally when I was growing up, right, I mean
Speaker 4: I kicked the ball around the house constantly and all
Speaker 4: the time. But you know, as far as team structured stuff, yeah, seasonally,
Speaker 4: so you'll be just fine.
Speaker 3: I have this, I just have this vision of you
Speaker 3: kicking the ball around the house off season and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, smashing garage doors and going up against you know,
Speaker 3: like we have the hockey players that are always in
Speaker 3: the basement and they're always sitting there and shooting pucks
Speaker 3: and hitting posts and the steel the steel poles that
Speaker 3: are in the basement. How did you how did you
Speaker 3: deal with that indoors off season?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we did play a fair share of indoor soccer,
Speaker 4: so you know, I guess there was more than just
Speaker 4: you know, one or two seasons. There was a lot
Speaker 4: of indoor soccer. But inside my own house, yeah, there
Speaker 4: is a step from the porch into the actual house.
Speaker 4: You know, the porch is covered, but a step into
Speaker 4: the actual house. And that step got abused with a
Speaker 4: size three soccer ball. And thankfully my parents never gave
Speaker 4: me a hard time about hearing a constant thud, thud thud.
Speaker 4: My aunt was a different story. Anytime she was over,
Speaker 4: it was like, can you stop kicking the ball?
Speaker 3: And you're like, no, yeah, what else am I supposed
Speaker 3: to do? It's like, well, well, do you want me
Speaker 3: to come in there and hang out with you?
Speaker 4: Who I Actually, I've thought about it, John, And next
Speaker 4: time I'm home, I'm going to try and take like
Speaker 4: a picture and video of these two areas right at
Speaker 4: my house that I put in hours and hours and
Speaker 4: hours of kicking a soccer ball against. So that's it
Speaker 4: to give other people a you know, just a vision
Speaker 4: of what it is. And you know, kids these days
Speaker 4: think they need to have you know, this net, that net,
Speaker 4: this bounce back. You know, I have to be at practice.
Speaker 4: Oh there's every excuse in the book as to what
Speaker 4: they need in order to get better. And I had
Speaker 4: a step and a concrete little wall underneath the siding
Speaker 4: of my house and that was it, and it was
Speaker 4: just enough for.
Speaker 3: Me back in my day, exactly one of those kind
Speaker 3: of arguments.
Speaker 4: Start the video with that quote.
Speaker 3: Back in my day, I walked uphill in the snow
Speaker 3: both ways to play ninety minutes of outdoor soccer in
Speaker 3: the middle of February. I just had that Yeah. Absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 3: And I know, I know you walked uphill both ways
Speaker 3: going to and from when you and I still want
Speaker 3: to stick to the detachment idea and what it's like.
Speaker 3: So the higher the level, obviously there's always fomo and
Speaker 3: you're you know, sitting there going oh my god, oh
Speaker 3: my god, oh my god, I'm falling behind. But when
Speaker 3: you have the talk, the talk with those higher level
Speaker 3: aspiration or levels of success folks, after you say it's
Speaker 3: okay to detach, does it sink in or do you
Speaker 3: have to kind of sit there and poke at them
Speaker 3: a couple of times and go, No, it's okay, I've
Speaker 3: done it, and here are my examples. Why or do
Speaker 3: they sit there it is it a one and done
Speaker 3: with them? Or do you have to kind of sit
Speaker 3: there and hammer at them a little bit? No, it's cool,
Speaker 3: it's okay to lay out.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think rarely messages are a one and done,
Speaker 4: and I think it helps, no doubt right to get
Speaker 4: a perspective of someone that's been in their shoes and
Speaker 4: had higher level success. But you know, I think that
Speaker 4: they always think we all times are different now and
Speaker 4: you know I have to be, you know, keeping up
Speaker 4: with the joneses or otherwise I'll fall behind. Or they
Speaker 4: just don't. You just don't get it what my coach
Speaker 4: is like or this and that that. You know, that
Speaker 4: may all be well and true, but yeah, I wish
Speaker 4: I could talk to some coaches out there as well
Speaker 4: and let them know, Hey, you know, if a kid's
Speaker 4: going to miss a game or this or that, or
Speaker 4: a training session or whatnot, or you know, it's not
Speaker 4: the end of the world, like figure it out, you know.
Speaker 3: So so then what would you tell What would you
Speaker 3: tell these coaches who are as high wired as everybody else?
Speaker 3: It's like, because they I think they are just as
Speaker 3: driven toward championships and success and things like that, and
Speaker 3: then that feeds to wanting more championships and more success,
Speaker 3: and that that ending hamster wheel that's there. What would
Speaker 3: you tell coaches in these situations?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just remember with my son when he was
Speaker 4: how old was he eight? Maybe nine? Max? Playing in
Speaker 4: Atlanta and he was doing baseball and soccer, you know, soccer,
Speaker 4: you know, the academy level soccer and baseball, and both
Speaker 4: coaches were like, yeah, we're you encourage multiple sports and
Speaker 4: it's okay, da da da. But both of them were
Speaker 4: basically like, you know, we encourage it, just don't miss
Speaker 4: my practice, don't miss my game essentially, right, yeah, And
Speaker 4: so yeah, it's just such a challenge, right, you know,
Speaker 4: you tie and tell them like, yeah, we're going to
Speaker 4: do the best we can to manage both, but there's
Speaker 4: overlap here and we're going to miss some stuff here
Speaker 4: and there. And I get that from a coaching perspective, Hey,
Speaker 4: you can't have six players miss a game because you know,
Speaker 4: then we can't play the game, you know, but there's
Speaker 4: got to be a better way where we can still
Speaker 4: allow children to play multiple sports, especially under the age
Speaker 4: of eleven or twelve. It's just it's just crazy, uh,
Speaker 4: And so I just let him know that, Hey, you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's not the end of the world. And you
Speaker 4: know you want a happy, healthy, excited player, right. I
Speaker 4: don't care if this kid shows up to every training,
Speaker 4: If he shows up because he's forced to and doesn't
Speaker 4: want to be there, you know, what good is that doing?
Speaker 4: Anyone including the player? And the family. So yeah, it's
Speaker 4: I think they get a little bit too wrapped up
Speaker 4: in it and you know, too focused on results and
Speaker 4: winning and too much of it and for themselves, and like, hey,
Speaker 4: what's best for the athletes here? What's most important? Because
Speaker 4: you know, we're not winning the World Cup here at
Speaker 4: you know, nine U, ten U, eleven U, right, but
Speaker 4: could we help develop a player that might help us
Speaker 4: win a World Cup in the future. Maybe, but not
Speaker 4: if they don't love the game.
Speaker 3: So you know, when you have these talks with adults,
Speaker 3: and you know, if you have those talks with those
Speaker 3: kinds of those kinds of adults, hopefully it would sync
Speaker 3: in and when you you're trying to impress upon them
Speaker 3: that it's okay to miss a couple of things. Are
Speaker 3: you the are you the parent slash mentor that is
Speaker 3: encouraging playing multiple sports or are you a a one
Speaker 3: person you know sport mentor activist. How are you as
Speaker 3: a dad and how are you as a mentor when
Speaker 3: it comes to playing more than one sport and being
Speaker 3: seasonal about things.
Speaker 4: I love it, don't get me wrong. I love it
Speaker 4: and I encourage it, but I also know it's so
Speaker 4: difficult it's so so difficult, and it's challenging, and it's expensive,
Speaker 4: and it's a lot on families. So I honestly don't
Speaker 4: know how realistic it is. And I hate even saying that, right,
Speaker 4: because yes, it's possible, you know, if you're only doing
Speaker 4: rec to do seasonally, right, But even with my own son,
Speaker 4: we had to move on from rec baseball, especially here
Speaker 4: in Ohio. Rec baseball down in the South is much different, yea,
Speaker 4: but here it was you know, he was playing with
Speaker 4: kids who couldn't catch a ball, and you know, he's
Speaker 4: trying to really develop and get better and things, and
Speaker 4: so it was like, this isn't really helping him. He's
Speaker 4: not having fun going to practice doing this stuff. So
Speaker 4: we had to move on. And then when you get
Speaker 4: to a travel team, it's so difficult to play another sport.
Speaker 4: So as much as I encourage it, it's so unrealistic.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately that's the way it is right now, and so
Speaker 4: you know, I don't want to, you know, yeah, you
Speaker 4: should play multiple sports, and when it's so challenging, and
Speaker 4: there are some players in high school that play multiple sports,
Speaker 4: which is great, and I see that. I even see
Speaker 4: it here locally, which is fantastic, but for high level
Speaker 4: athletes who are trying to get better, it's just so challenging,
Speaker 4: even from an age of like nine or ten. And
Speaker 4: so I feel for parents, and I feel for kids
Speaker 4: that wanted to play multiple sports but feel like they can't.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, and is this an opinion that
Speaker 3: you've developed over time more as a father to understand, Okay,
Speaker 3: it probably needs to be just locked down into one
Speaker 3: sport or was this something that has become something that
Speaker 3: you've discovered over time. Was it was there a moment
Speaker 3: where you're like, yeah, it probably needs to be just
Speaker 3: one sport, or was it something that you've kind of
Speaker 3: just figured out.
Speaker 4: I think down in Atlanta when we were trying to
Speaker 4: do NASA soccer and what was it east side baseball
Speaker 4: from my son, you know, we were trying to have
Speaker 4: him play multiple sports, and the commitment just from the parents,
Speaker 4: right driving him to one practice, getting him taking him
Speaker 4: straight to the other practice, like having dinner in the
Speaker 4: car in between. You know, like, that's a lot. It's
Speaker 4: a lot on us, it's a lot on him, and
Speaker 4: you know, it's just challenging as much as he loved
Speaker 4: playing both. And I want him to play both. It
Speaker 4: was just a lot, and it only gets tougher as
Speaker 4: they get older. And so yes, I'm still a proponent,
Speaker 4: and I think it's great for athletes to play multiple sports.
Speaker 4: I really do believe that. Number one, it's you're less
Speaker 4: likely to get these injuries at a younger age from overuse.
Speaker 4: And number two, I really do believe that there's so
Speaker 4: many things from multiple sports that you can learn and
Speaker 4: use in your main sport that it's so beneficial. But
Speaker 4: it's tough. It's tough, and maybe as the second sport,
Speaker 4: you can play it recreationally and that's the that's the
Speaker 4: way you can do it. But it's impossible to play
Speaker 4: two travel teams or two you know, higher level sports.
Speaker 3: Is there a sport that you would recommend? Abby's mentions
Speaker 3: that you know her son continued with dances as a
Speaker 3: sidebar to help out with soccer and skills and fuxuly such,
Speaker 3: and that's a wild card that I would have never pictured.
Speaker 3: But it makes a whole lot of sense if there
Speaker 3: was a sport that you could pair with soccer, and
Speaker 3: like if soccer was your a number one, you know,
Speaker 3: it's like, okay, this is where my bread's buttered. I'm
Speaker 3: going down this road. What sport do you think would
Speaker 3: compliment soccer the most when it comes to what you
Speaker 3: want to carry with you, whether it's skill set, mental,
Speaker 3: all of those different aspects. If you want soccer to
Speaker 3: be your number one, what sport do you think would
Speaker 3: be a good compliment, at least recreationally to help things
Speaker 3: out so you can still be number one in soccer,
Speaker 3: but still widen your skill set, be strong in other areas,
Speaker 3: those kinds of things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's a great question, John, and I think that, honestly,
Speaker 4: there's probably ten sports that could help out, right, Because
Speaker 4: I played baseball growing up, and you think, like, oh,
Speaker 4: how could baseball help soccer?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: But I truly believe because in baseball I learned before soccer,
Speaker 4: what are you going to do with the ball when
Speaker 4: it comes to you? Right? Every pitch, every pitch, guys
Speaker 4: on base different things. Right. Where am I on the field?
Speaker 4: What am I going to do if the ball comes
Speaker 4: to me? What am I going to do if it's
Speaker 4: hit short, if it's hit to my left, it's hit
Speaker 4: to my right, Does that change what I'm going to
Speaker 4: do with the ball when I get it? Like all
Speaker 4: those little mental things that I'm thinking about, and then
Speaker 4: in soccer you start thinking about the same thing. Okay,
Speaker 4: thinking ahead, right, what am I going to do with
Speaker 4: the ball if if it comes over to me? And
Speaker 4: so now I'm reading the field a little bit more
Speaker 4: and seeing things. And so this is just one small example. Right,
Speaker 4: swimming could be so great for cardio, right if you
Speaker 4: have to do a winter sport. Right, even even karate
Speaker 4: you know jiu jitsu right for discipline and dance for flexibility.
Speaker 4: There's so many different sports that can have a benefit
Speaker 4: on your soccer play on or off the field, that
Speaker 4: it's there really is so many different ones. And I
Speaker 4: think that you can find something within every sport that
Speaker 4: can help you in another sport, including soccer.
Speaker 3: And well then you know there's golf to help you
Speaker 3: out with you know, geometry and you know things like that. Well,
Speaker 3: and no, this was no lie. I had a conversation
Speaker 3: with Molly McCarty and she's the girls head coach at
Speaker 3: Jefferson High School and it hit me she's a geometry
Speaker 3: teacher on campus and I'm thinking to myself, it it
Speaker 3: hit in my head. I'm like, wait a minute, you've
Speaker 3: got a geometry teacher teaching soccer, and so you know,
Speaker 3: a soccer coach teaching geometry and it's triangles and angles
Speaker 3: and approaches and all the and I'm like, my head
Speaker 3: basically exploded during the high school show because you had
Speaker 3: a geometry teacher who's focused on Okay, well, if your
Speaker 3: angle is this and this and this, then you have
Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty degrees and all this. And I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, it didn't quite hit me that it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter what you think might not be there to
Speaker 3: help affect you on the field or off. You mentioned
Speaker 3: as many as ten different sports and talking about ten
Speaker 3: different ways to do things. You don't know what class
Speaker 3: is going to help you out, you know, mentally to
Speaker 3: figure things out, whether it's geometry, it's like, oh, angles
Speaker 3: here and being in triangles and passing drills and things
Speaker 3: like that. You never know where you're going to get
Speaker 3: hit with something that you think is going to help you.
Speaker 3: And so having an open mind about all these things
Speaker 3: I think is just as important as figuring out what
Speaker 3: complimentary sport can help you.
Speaker 4: In soccer totally, because I see the comments on the
Speaker 4: side and yeah, you think about basketball, Okay, how do
Speaker 4: I have success against a player that's a foot taller
Speaker 4: than me? If I'm twelve years old and this kid's
Speaker 4: way developed, then I'm not yet right? How do I
Speaker 4: have success on a basketball court? Same thing in soccer?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Golf? I would think what I would get the most
Speaker 4: out of golf is how to bounce back from mistakes?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: That happened so much on the golf course, right, but
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what just happened. How
Speaker 4: am I going to hit my next shot? Same thing
Speaker 4: in soccer, right, get over your mistakes quick. So it's
Speaker 4: just endless, absolutely.
Speaker 3: Endless, get you know. And that's another thing is just
Speaker 3: kind of the short term memory aspect of it all
Speaker 3: that since you open that door. Short term memory is
Speaker 3: something that I know that we all would like to have,
Speaker 3: and it's probably one of the most difficult things to accomplish.
Speaker 3: How do you have short term memory but long term recall?
Speaker 3: If that makes any sense. It's like get rid of
Speaker 3: the mistake, but don't forget about the mistake. How difficult
Speaker 3: is it to accomplish both of those?
Speaker 4: Yeah, very very you know. I think that what we
Speaker 4: try to encourage is forget it momentarily right, and allow
Speaker 4: yourself afterwards to go back and say, what can I
Speaker 4: learn from that? Right? Why did this occur? And how
Speaker 4: can I get better from it? So you bank it
Speaker 4: and say I'll come back to it, but refocus right
Speaker 4: now so that I don't make another mistake. And you know,
Speaker 4: things start to snowball here and you're your memory will
Speaker 4: go back to it for sure, right, especially whenever we
Speaker 4: make a mistake, right, it's it's ingrained real quick, so
Speaker 4: we can we can always go back to it after
Speaker 4: the game, right. You can always remember most of the
Speaker 4: mistakes you make, especially right after a game, and you
Speaker 4: can journal them at that point and learn from them
Speaker 4: and figure them out. Right, But you know, in the moment,
Speaker 4: we try to help our athletes definitely have that short
Speaker 4: term memory, that goldfish memory.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Michael Parkhurst at MF Parkers on the two hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty character app and Beyond Goals Menoring Beyond Goals
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Speaker 3: hundred and eighty character app and the reason that And
Speaker 3: so since you've mentioned being a goldfish and being a
Speaker 3: young player out there fort Landy and I did last
Speaker 3: time out, you had Pedro Amador I think it was
Speaker 3: ninety minutes before the match is like, I can't go,
Speaker 3: and he was viewed, I can't go. And so what
Speaker 3: you what you end up doing is you end up
Speaker 3: tapping a seventeen year old and Dominic chong Qui, who
Speaker 3: Ronnie Daila has a lot of faith in, and he's grown,
Speaker 3: you know, incrementally and astronomically in just a handful of
Speaker 3: time that he's spent coming through the Academy, spent time
Speaker 3: with the Academy and the US and the two's and such.
Speaker 3: He's thrown into the pile and literally it is like, okay,
Speaker 3: dom you're starting. And so you have a seventeen year
Speaker 3: old going up against NYC in front of forty two
Speaker 3: thousand people, and yes, he does make a mistake that
Speaker 3: leads to a goal. But one of the things that
Speaker 3: you noticed is that the older players, the veteran players,
Speaker 3: Brad being one of them, you know, first thing they do,
Speaker 3: you know, when mistake happens, you put your arm around
Speaker 3: him and it's like you're you're not yelling Ranning Raving
Speaker 3: sitting there and going you know what the bleepity bleep.
Speaker 3: It is literally a situation where a seventeen year old
Speaker 3: has been thrown into the pile and you've got to
Speaker 3: make sure that that goldfish mentality is there. He banks
Speaker 3: things and he ends up putting up fifty seven minutes
Speaker 3: and Matt Edwards plays his third position at the back
Speaker 3: four that he's done so far this year. You had
Speaker 3: two younger players come and step in a situation like that.
Speaker 3: But the advice that you're getting from a guy like
Speaker 3: Brad in that situation, I think is just as key
Speaker 3: to help bank everything.
Speaker 4: Oh for sure. And that is such a challenging situation
Speaker 4: and such a learning opportunity for him because it's tough
Speaker 4: to find out you're going to start, you know, late
Speaker 4: like that in the first place. It's tough to come
Speaker 4: off a bench unexpectedly and you learn real quick. And
Speaker 4: my pre prayed as as much as I needed to
Speaker 4: be as if I was starting, And I'm not saying
Speaker 4: he was or he wasn't, right, but I know from
Speaker 4: my experience and other guys, right, it's just different when
Speaker 4: you're not starting, right. I even ate more at pregame
Speaker 4: meal when I wasn't starting, because otherwise I'm starving sitting
Speaker 4: on the bench, not playing and get to halftime, I'm
Speaker 4: so hungry, So I just would eat more and maybe
Speaker 4: I wouldn't do as much film if I knew, like, okay,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to play like I don't need to
Speaker 4: know everything right or you know whatever, it might be right,
Speaker 4: and so are you as prepared right? And so you
Speaker 4: learn these lessons and what is my body need? You know,
Speaker 4: to get ready real quick? I was talking to a
Speaker 4: mena the other day that came off the bench and
Speaker 4: had to play right away, and it's like, okay, when
Speaker 4: you've got two minutes to warm up, what does your
Speaker 4: body need? How do you get ready that quick?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: Only you can figure that out through experience. And so
Speaker 4: you know, for for dom like the experience of that
Speaker 4: forget forget the mistake on the field, but just the
Speaker 4: experience of okay, going from not starting to starting to preparation,
Speaker 4: quick preparation, get ready, body change mentally, you know, lock
Speaker 4: in all these types of things, and then obviously the
Speaker 4: the play on the field. Right, this is invaluable for him,
Speaker 4: and I'm glad that you know, it wasn't a a
Speaker 4: moment that we couldn't come back from, you know, but yeah,
Speaker 4: that's I think he's going to be stronger in the
Speaker 4: future because of a day like Saturday, as difficult as
Speaker 4: it probably was for him.
Speaker 3: A handful of minutes left here. And so you got
Speaker 3: a team in Atlanta United that had a seven goal thriller,
Speaker 3: chaos that happened last time out in a home stand
Speaker 3: and where are you looking in the times that you
Speaker 3: get to catch up and see what's going on with
Speaker 3: a Land United, whether it's highlights or three sixty or whatever.
Speaker 3: Now that they've come out the other side on a
Speaker 3: seven goal thriller, you got to learn a lot of things.
Speaker 3: You got to learn how to come back when you
Speaker 3: were down. You got to kind of figure things out
Speaker 3: a little bit on the fly on the field. What
Speaker 3: did your takeaways from it? Lanta United in NYC?
Speaker 4: It was it was fun and exciting to watch. I
Speaker 4: watched the game and yeah, it was awesome. I think
Speaker 4: the Venz was rocking. It was loud, and you know,
Speaker 4: I think that coming back in a game like that
Speaker 4: can really pump a team up more than you know
Speaker 4: if you just go out there and beat them two
Speaker 4: zero three zero, because you know, he just knowing that
Speaker 4: you can come back from deficit is so important. We weren't.
Speaker 4: We weren't very good at that when I was at Atlanta. Honestly,
Speaker 4: I don't you know, especially the first two years we
Speaker 4: just did we didn't come back very often. You can
Speaker 4: look at the stats, the statistics, Yeah, that those things,
Speaker 4: but that's that's a really important thing for a group
Speaker 4: to have to have that mentality of knowing, Okay, we
Speaker 4: can come back here, We'll be all right. And I
Speaker 4: think that's what the front four can give you. The
Speaker 4: front five, you know, I think I tweeted after the
Speaker 4: game that I and I thought this prior to the game.
Speaker 4: I was watching the game prior and I can't remember
Speaker 4: who we played, and I thought, Maggie is not as
Speaker 4: involved as he needs to be. He needs to play
Speaker 4: centrally more. And I don't know what that does to
Speaker 4: the rest of the team or or whatever, but to
Speaker 4: get the best out of Miggie and if he since
Speaker 4: he's your best player, I think he needs to play centrally.
Speaker 4: I get that playing him wide gets the most talent
Speaker 4: on the field, but you know, I think that we
Speaker 4: saw what having Meggie centrally can do.
Speaker 3: And you've now got f CD coming to town, and
Speaker 3: oh it was the two two draw with Sincy at TQL.
Speaker 3: That was the one before that, and then.
Speaker 4: The last home game. Sorry, I don't know who the
Speaker 4: lost home game that was.
Speaker 3: That was Messi and Friends.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: And so the two to one matchup against Messi and
Speaker 3: Friends and they go on the road to play at
Speaker 3: TQL and then they get the four to three. Crazy
Speaker 3: Now they got Luco Acosta coming to town. Uh this
Speaker 3: weekend for FC D. I'd like to ask a question
Speaker 3: to the Mogulan training. You now have your opponent in
Speaker 3: Open Cup and it is p Hop, the Portland Hearts
Speaker 3: a Pine What what is the what's the vibe with
Speaker 3: our i f C and p Hop next round of
Speaker 3: the Open Cup?
Speaker 4: Sir, Yeah, it's exciting, you know. I think it's it's
Speaker 4: great to have another team in New England. We played
Speaker 4: them a couple of times actually in pre season and
Speaker 4: they're a good team. I think we tied both games,
Speaker 4: but they absolutely could have beat us and so they're
Speaker 4: they're a strong squad and so I'm happy for Portland.
Speaker 4: I'm happy they've got a good team and they've got
Speaker 4: a team in general. So yeah, it'll be exciting, it'll
Speaker 4: be fun.
Speaker 3: Okay, David with a question, did the Menace approach you
Speaker 3: to go with the All Star team?
Speaker 4: They did not, And I think that word has gotten
Speaker 4: out there enough to know that I don't partake in
Speaker 4: such things, because I was approached by a few different
Speaker 4: TST teams and guys reaching out and I told them,
Speaker 4: I appreciate it, guys, but no, thank you. So no
Speaker 4: no such thing for me.
Speaker 3: Okay, just jacking all right, what's the latest will beyond
Speaker 3: goals and beyond goals mentering? Now that we're at spring
Speaker 3: break for some folks.
Speaker 4: Uh, yeah, we've also got high school playoffs coming up,
Speaker 4: so you know that's exciting. We've got a bunch of
Speaker 4: athletes that we're trying to help get ready for playoffs
Speaker 4: and yeah, some MLS next tournaments coming up and showcases.
Speaker 4: So a bunch of athletes coming up to some big
Speaker 4: moments here over the next few weeks. So just helping
Speaker 4: them get prepared.
Speaker 3: Two hundred and fifty files of individual mentees that you
Speaker 3: and Greg are juggling and making sure that the world
Speaker 3: is a bunch better place. As always, my friend, it's
Speaker 3: great to see, great to catch up with what's going
Speaker 3: on at Beyond Goals and gets your vibes and your
Speaker 3: input about all of the issues of the day when
Speaker 3: it comes to soccer and applying it to mentoring. Go
Speaker 3: enjoy your weekend and make sure that you leave the
Speaker 3: room quietly so Deacon can continue to sleep. Right.
Speaker 4: Yes, have a great weekend, John, all right.
Speaker 3: That's Michael Parkers everybody beyond Goals Mentoring and at BG
Speaker 3: Mentoring on the twitters, at MF Parkhurst on the twitters,
Speaker 3: and I mean it is Boy do they put up
Speaker 3: with me on a great deal of stuff. I mean
Speaker 3: it's like we'll have a conversation and then that'll stir
Speaker 3: a topic. I mean, honestly, once again, I will show
Speaker 3: you the amount of questions that I have for Michael
Speaker 3: Parkhurst and Greg Garza on a given day. Let me
Speaker 3: see if I can there. It is there, It is.
Speaker 3: So that is the number of questions that I have
Speaker 3: prepared for Parky and Greg Garza and for them to
Speaker 3: be able to answer the bell as much as they
Speaker 3: do and come up with the topics that we do
Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff. Very very cool that
Speaker 3: we get to catch up with them and find out
Speaker 3: what's going on, and that they put up with me
Speaker 3: and all of my wanderings and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: But Michael Parkers beyond goals Menoring, Michael Parkers, Rhode Island FC,
Speaker 3: all of the things that are there with Oh, Abby's
Speaker 3: got to breakfast at La Motelaine, all right, we'll enjoy that.
Speaker 3: You know, you could always just bring us in there
Speaker 3: with you and just have the YouTube up on your
Speaker 3: phone and just to have us be like the Party
Speaker 3: of three. But no, they put up with me a
Speaker 3: great deal with all the questions that I have because,
Speaker 3: like I said, I don't really have anything prepared. Something
Speaker 3: might trigger in my head during the week, and then
Speaker 3: the on the field stuff is something that is a natural,
Speaker 3: but then it'll trigger something. It'll trigger an idea and
Speaker 3: trigger an idea in a conversation, and that's where all
Speaker 3: of that stuff goes. So beyond goalsmenoring dot com if
Speaker 3: you have a student athlete or a parent that might
Speaker 3: need mentoring, assistance and or help, and at BG Mentoring,
Speaker 3: it is at MF. Parkhurst and Greg Garza is on
Speaker 3: Instagram and is not on Twitter. All right, our number
Speaker 3: two and that means it's the weekend whip around Patent
Speaker 3: pending Trademark Comming Center, hopefully rather than later. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go through the odds in the Premier League. We'll go
Speaker 3: through what to watch, where to watch it, how to
Speaker 3: watch it, all those kinds of things, and then get
Speaker 3: you ready for MLS Atlanta United FC Dallas coming up.
Speaker 3: If you missed the conversation that we had with Ryan
Speaker 3: Figured the play by play voice on FC Dallas and
Speaker 3: the FC Dallas app, you can go back and listen
Speaker 3: to that. One of the things that I do want
Speaker 3: to bring up with Jason in his film study is
Speaker 3: the idea of running down that right hand side against
Speaker 3: that left back, the young left back that's going to
Speaker 3: be in because of injury for FCD. So it might
Speaker 3: be run the right, run the right, run the right,
Speaker 3: challenge the kid, challenge the kid, challenge the kid, and
Speaker 3: then when you have insurance come over for FCD. That
Speaker 3: means that somebody else is open, finding that open person
Speaker 3: as you're attacking down the right up against the young
Speaker 3: left back for FC Dallas. That to me is probably
Speaker 3: going to be something to keep an eye on for
Speaker 3: those of you that are going to be a part
Speaker 3: of the forty thousand plus at Mercedes Benz on the weekend.
Speaker 3: All right, So we mentioned what's going on with Kevin
Speaker 3: de Bruna and Manchester City, and so you have teams
Speaker 3: that wrapped up the midweek yesterday with Chelsea and Spurs.
Speaker 3: So you have five on Saturday. It's four on Sunday
Speaker 3: and lester and Newcastle is Monday night football before they
Speaker 3: go back at it again on Saturdays and such. So yes,
Speaker 3: seven to twelve, Yes, okay, early match. It is Everton
Speaker 3: and Arsenal, and it is there's stupidity down here involving
Speaker 3: Jack Tarkowski and his wife in social media, and we'll
Speaker 3: get into it briefly, but once again, it is stupidity
Speaker 3: down here. Everton's a plus three seventy six at home,
Speaker 3: Arsenal's of minus one nineteen ten o'clock's Crystal Palace favored
Speaker 3: at home against Brighton at a plus one forty two.
Speaker 3: Ipswich underdog slightly. This is a must win for them
Speaker 3: because it's a six pointer basically involving Wolves. Wolves favored
Speaker 3: on the road of the plus one fifty two at Ipswich.
Speaker 3: Ipswich is a plus one eighty six. West Ham is
Speaker 3: a dog at home at a plus one ninety nine
Speaker 3: against Bournemouth with all their injuries at a plus one
Speaker 3: thirty one noon kick The twelve thirty is Aston Villa
Speaker 3: and Nottingham Forest Villa even money plus one hundred, Nottingham
Speaker 3: Forest a plus two sixty four and your draw option
Speaker 3: a plus two fifty four in the composite courtesy of
Speaker 3: our friends at Odds Portal Sunday Brentford and Chelsea at
Speaker 3: the g Tech Brentford to plus two eleven. Chelsea having
Speaker 3: played yesterday. There is a plus one sixteen. Fulham a
Speaker 3: plus three thirty seven hosting Liverpool and minus one twenty
Speaker 3: three and Spurs a minus two sixty three. Southampton a
Speaker 3: plus six hundred. Your draws A plus four thirty two.
Speaker 3: And this is the weekend that they go through the
Speaker 3: time change in England, and so it's nine o'clock starts
Speaker 3: on Sunday morning. Ten o'clock starts on Saturday morning eleven thirty.
Speaker 3: The Manchester Derby Manchester City's a plus one ten Manchester
Speaker 3: United at plus two thirty five, Your draws A plus
Speaker 3: two fifty four. Monday Night Football Leicester hosting Newcastle. Newcastle
Speaker 3: of minus two hundred Leicester a plus five forty five
Speaker 3: and the draw option is a plus three thirty four.
Speaker 3: The stupidity down here, if I can find it, is
Speaker 3: having to do with just stupid stuff and honestly, and
Speaker 3: I think it was in the I think it was
Speaker 3: in the Guardian, but it's literally it's over a foul
Speaker 3: call and you end up with the PGUMO while sitting
Speaker 3: there and saying that, yeah, it should have been there
Speaker 3: should have been a red card on Tarkovsky. Andy Hunter
Speaker 3: at the Guardian. Everton condemned threats aimed at Tarkovsky after
Speaker 3: the Merseyside Darby pledged work with social media companies and
Speaker 3: police on any investigations in the online abuse. Tarkovsky's wife,
Speaker 3: Samantha said the defender received death threats after the defeated
Speaker 3: at Liverpool and that the family had also been the
Speaker 3: target of abuse. Booked for an eleventh minute tackle on
Speaker 3: Alexis Howard, Webb has admitted that the Liverpool the challenge
Speaker 3: was worthy of a red. Tarkovsky apologized to McAllister after
Speaker 3: the game on a slut to welcome the admission of
Speaker 3: an error by the PGMO wel but that hasn't stopped
Speaker 3: Tarkovsky and his family from getting abused on social media
Speaker 3: and statement from Everton. David Moyes came out with a
Speaker 3: statement earlier today. Samantha Tarkovski wrote on Instagram said she
Speaker 3: had no choice but to call out the abuse following
Speaker 3: the Darby, even though quote we usually just laugh it off.
Speaker 3: The level my abuse a level of abuse. My husband
Speaker 3: is receiving, wishing death on him by all comments about me,
Speaker 3: about us as a couple, about him as a person,
Speaker 3: is beyond disgusting. Yes it is. And it even got
Speaker 3: to the point to where Samantha Tarkovsky dropped an S
Speaker 3: bomb on the gram So it's paragraph three. But the
Speaker 3: pure ish messages, the threats, that's intentional. That's on you.
Speaker 3: Football is a sport, but the way some so called
Speaker 3: fans behave is disgraceful. The abuse, the threats, it's not
Speaker 3: passionate'spathetic where real people on This goes be far beyond football.
Speaker 3: And yes, she did use the S words. She did
Speaker 3: not use the word ish, So yeah you got that. Yeah, yea,
Speaker 3: So stupidity down here. Find out who they are and
Speaker 3: make sure that those individuals have no business doing anything
Speaker 3: involved with an Everton match. Ever ever ever again, Oh well,
Speaker 3: there you go. Speaking of one of the individuals we've
Speaker 3: been talking about this morning, it's official. Dominic chog Qui
Speaker 3: signed it to a homegrown contract and the first team
Speaker 3: Aiden Torres has been put on season long loan to
Speaker 3: the twos. So Dominic chong Qui is now officially officially
Speaker 3: signed to a different kind of deal now, So very
Speaker 3: very cool stuff there that we've seen involving dom and
Speaker 3: Dominic chong Qui officially official when it comes to the
Speaker 3: deal that has now been signed. So Dominic, we've seen
Speaker 3: what DCQ has been able to do on the field,
Speaker 3: and so now according to a lot of folks, including
Speaker 3: Doug Robertson of the AJAC, DCQ signed to a homegrown
Speaker 3: contract and the first team Aiden Torres has been put
Speaker 3: on a season long loan to the twos. Yesterday Sleisian
Speaker 3: Mulliam Bah had made practice Togasheen is a blonde. So
Speaker 3: there you go. DCQ gets a deal, well deserved. Next
Speaker 3: steps looking forward to seeing it. But DCQ got his a.
Speaker 3: DCQ gets a deal. Very very cool stuff there, involving
Speaker 3: a very very talented young man and it's been great
Speaker 3: to see his progression and see everything continue to evolve
Speaker 3: in his game to where we are. So once again,
Speaker 3: very very cool stuff there involving Dominic Chong Qui, and
Speaker 3: so now all right, you got the deal, and so
Speaker 3: now it's time to continue to grow and mature and
Speaker 3: evolve the game. So very very cool stuff there with
Speaker 3: dom Chang Kuei. All right, so we mentioned stupidity down
Speaker 3: here and yeah, no real shock. And apparently Alexander Seffron
Speaker 3: doesn't like the sixty four team World Cup idea. Jessica
Speaker 3: Charman news involving her beloved reading the owner has been
Speaker 3: given a sale extension amid the threat of suspending the
Speaker 3: club from all activities in the EFL Barcelona. The Spanish
Speaker 3: Sports Council has upheld Barsa's complaint, said Low in Madrid,
Speaker 3: Danny Olmo and Po Victor can continue to play till
Speaker 3: the end of the year. After the CSD. The Spanish
Speaker 3: Sports Council upheld Barcelona's appeal against the league's decision to
Speaker 3: unregister them because the club did not meet a thirty
Speaker 3: one December deadline on financial controls. Judgment comes a day
Speaker 3: after La League said Barsa still did not comply with
Speaker 3: the salary limits set and that it would report the
Speaker 3: club's former auditors after one hundred million euro effectively disappeared
Speaker 3: from the accounts. Three month investigation delivered their judgment. Government
Speaker 3: body ruled that the Joint League Federation Commission that had
Speaker 3: announced the players could not be registered lacks the jurisdiction
Speaker 3: to rule on the case, and that they hid incorrectly
Speaker 3: denied the players a license. Olmo and Victor faced having
Speaker 3: the registration removed with the immediate effect, but now can
Speaker 3: continue to play till the end of the fiscal year,
Speaker 3: after which barsa on June thirty, we'll again have to
Speaker 3: meet FFP limits to register them for next year. So
Speaker 3: you had the one, you had the three separate auditors
Speaker 3: thirty one December, A Bowding and cat in Catalonia, Grant,
Speaker 3: Thornton and Crow. So A Boding said, yeah, everything's good. Grant,
Speaker 3: Thornton and Crow were like, no, it's not. They do
Speaker 3: not now include the one hundred million euro deal. Hey
Speaker 3: yea yi okay, and more on that on the morning
Speaker 3: Espresso with Jason. You can catch that in audio video
Speaker 3: or newsletter form and you can find out what's on
Speaker 3: Jason's mind for the for like fifteen minutes every morning,
Speaker 3: and we go deeper and in depth here on SDHAM.
Speaker 3: So you got all that is une pasta coglu out,
Speaker 3: overdone and gone because it appears that he cupped his
Speaker 3: ear to the fans and everybody's like, oh, that's intentional.
Speaker 3: He did what he did to Oh, I don't you know.
Speaker 3: And so there's the standard amount of hue and cry
Speaker 3: involving Pasta coagulo. He denied goating the fans by cupping
Speaker 3: his ears, so this might be, this might be done
Speaker 3: by At the end of this year, Rude van Nisseleroy
Speaker 3: dropped Harry Winks from Lester's squad in a row over
Speaker 3: a one hundred mile commute. Van Miissseleroy wanted Winks to
Speaker 3: spend one night a week at the training ground and
Speaker 3: now he's axed him from the squad after he refused
Speaker 3: to compromise on the commute. Van Misseileroy had a confrontation
Speaker 3: with Winks over the international break after he declined to
Speaker 3: request to stay overnight one day a week at the
Speaker 3: training ground. Understood that the England Internationals wanted three senior
Speaker 3: players to travel more than ninety miles a day to
Speaker 3: the training complex. Van Missileroy, in the article from John
Speaker 3: Percy at the Telegraph, battling to instilled discipline at the strugglers.
Speaker 3: His plea for Winks to stay overnight at the training
Speaker 3: fell flat ten million pounds signing from Spurs in July
Speaker 3: of twenty three. Understood to have his own private reasons
Speaker 3: for commuting every day to training, announced the birth of
Speaker 3: a baby girl on Thursday, and Zomaresca also allowed the
Speaker 3: midfielder to travel from his base without any issues. Van
Speaker 3: Nisselroy reacted angrily, according to Percy, to what he perceived
Speaker 3: as in discipline and excluded Winks from the squad for
Speaker 3: Wednesday night's match at Manchester City Keen for Winks to
Speaker 3: stay overnight to aid preparation, with the squad training in
Speaker 3: the afternoon before a session the following morning. Unclear whether
Speaker 3: Winks will be available for Monday night's match against Newcastle,
Speaker 3: but folks are saying that the Teta tet was pretty heated.
Speaker 3: So you have a vestiguard recently bringing his dog to
Speaker 3: the training ground. Telegraph revealed that he was given permission
Speaker 3: to bring his pet on the one occasion because his
Speaker 3: family were away and no one was there to care
Speaker 3: for it. Vested guard has not appeared in any lester
Speaker 3: squad since a loss at the end of February, fourteen
Speaker 3: losses in the last fifteen matches for Leicester. Sorry, Nicks,
Speaker 3: So it's a rough go in Van Misseleroy, Rude Van
Speaker 3: Nisseleroy is mad at Harry Winks and it's uh, it
Speaker 3: ain't looking good. It is not looking good. All right,
Speaker 3: let's get into the weekend preps in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 3: We'll go through all of the matches. We'll go through
Speaker 3: the standings, we'll lay out everything. We'll give you the
Speaker 3: juice boxes as we go here, and I anticipate Jason
Speaker 3: joining us in about fifteen minutes. We'll see who else
Speaker 3: gets to crash and who wants to crash. We'll roll
Speaker 3: through the matchups, give you the juice boxes. Questions across
Speaker 3: the board. I want to know what you think in
Speaker 3: the twitch pitch. I want to have I want you
Speaker 3: guys to know what is going on there. You go,
Speaker 3: David with a question basically about d c qw ish, So,
Speaker 3: who has the fourteen year old left back academy name
Speaker 3: for all of us to invest in his every three years?
Speaker 3: We have a seventeen year old phenom left back well,
Speaker 3: this is left back you. But that is a question
Speaker 3: for uh. That's a question for UH, that for Jason
Speaker 3: and for Maddie about next up when it comes to
Speaker 3: left back you, who else to keep an eye on?
Speaker 3: So we'll we'll pose that question when they come in.
Speaker 3: So left back you continues, that needs to be a
Speaker 3: T shirt with us. All right, here's your rundown of
Speaker 3: the matchups, complete with juice boxes. Charlotte nashvilleests he's going
Speaker 3: to start things off at two thirty. This is where
Speaker 3: we've got to find out who the officials are as
Speaker 3: well when it comes to all of the pro the
Speaker 3: pro refereeing assignments, and we will get those as well.
Speaker 3: So Charlotte is starting things off in the weekend match
Speaker 3: Day seven assignments. Will go over those once again. Coming
Speaker 3: up in a bit, we'll go over Lucas a Apala's
Speaker 3: in the middle, Corey Parker's your AR one, Kyle Atkins
Speaker 3: is your AR two, Calin Radoslav your fourth, Greg Dapka
Speaker 3: and Tom Supple your VA are and your A V
Speaker 3: A R. In this particular matchup, Charlotte at home even
Speaker 3: money plus one hundred draws A plus two thirty six
Speaker 3: Nashville SC is a plus two seventy seven and apparently
Speaker 3: Dean Smith is none too pleased with the development of
Speaker 3: Wolf Zaha, so it was interesting comments. Apparently Zaha has
Speaker 3: to grow into uh, he's got to grow into what's
Speaker 3: going on wilf If I could spell Wilfrid, wilf Zaha,
Speaker 3: so Wilfrid Zaha. So that there there were press conference
Speaker 3: stuff this week with the latest in Wilf Zaha. But
Speaker 3: obviously we'll keep an eye on that. But you know
Speaker 3: that that Wilf Zaha, it is uh, you know, he's
Speaker 3: out there and he's he is like the main gun
Speaker 3: that folks are looking at for Charlotte, and it's going
Speaker 3: to be up to Zaha to adjust to everything, you know,
Speaker 3: and all you've got to do is look as as
Speaker 3: far back as the matchup against Messian friends. They're gonna
Speaker 3: faul and they're going to be physical, and it's up
Speaker 3: for him to adjust, and it's also up to Charlotte
Speaker 3: to adjust to help see if pet Beel is going
Speaker 3: to help him be that secondary that secondary name, because
Speaker 3: it's you know, hey, wolf, go long and we'll get
Speaker 3: it to you. But when you're being physical and you're
Speaker 3: being fouled and he gets frustrated than who you're gonna
Speaker 3: have step up? So that's the uh, that's the quest
Speaker 3: right now for Charlotte. Charlotte is in the wolf Zaha
Speaker 3: offensive loop. Who's gonna help? And then when they help,
Speaker 3: does that free up Zaha? So right now Charlotte is
Speaker 3: even money plus one hundred Nashville a plus two seventy
Speaker 3: seven in your draws a plus two thirty six forty.
Speaker 3: I look at the times and I just add ten minutes.
Speaker 3: Now RSL hosting Lag RSL at a plus one o
Speaker 3: eight LAG, and the draw basically within the range of
Speaker 3: ERA at about a plus two forty two. Guido Gonzalez Junior,
Speaker 3: the man in the middle, Jeffrey Greeson, Ben Pilgrim, your
Speaker 3: ar's Thomas Snyder is your fourth Jeff Gamble and Cloudy
Speaker 3: you Badea are your VR and your AVAR for the
Speaker 3: other matchups there you're looking at, I mean LAG playing
Speaker 3: in the midweek RSL. You know, safe Haven at home.
Speaker 3: So I'm looking once again at the home side here
Speaker 3: at a plus one oh eight. But once again LAG
Speaker 3: played in the midweek. They're gonna have a quick turn.
Speaker 3: What does the lineup look like, how are they with
Speaker 3: their minutes all those kinds of things. I'm looking at
Speaker 3: RSL here Crew and CF Montreal. We're gonna save it
Speaker 3: Landy United in FC Dolls Crewe and CF Montreal Crewe
Speaker 3: naturally a huge favorite of A minus two thirty eight
Speaker 3: draws a plus three seventy three. Cf Montreal is a
Speaker 3: plus five eight. Alexis Da Silva's demand in the middle.
Speaker 3: Logan Brown is your ar oscar Mitchell Carvallo is your
Speaker 3: ar two. Nabil bin Salah is your fourth as sore
Speaker 3: in Steutschka and Robert Schat your var and your avar.
Speaker 3: Cf Montreal, what are you gonna do? Now? What you
Speaker 3: What are you doing with CF Montreal right now? I
Speaker 3: mean as I said, I will say it again. If
Speaker 3: CF Montreal wins at Crue, you will see me drink
Speaker 3: Diet Mountain Do in the air. That's where we are.
Speaker 3: I don't see a whole lot of promise in this
Speaker 3: matchup for CF Montreal. They ground out a result last time.
Speaker 3: It was not a win. It was a bit of
Speaker 3: a stunner that they that they drew Chicago. I don't
Speaker 3: know if that says more about Chicago or about c
Speaker 3: F Montreal, but it's crue and so we'll see what
Speaker 3: happens at a minus two thirty eight at seven forty
Speaker 3: Cincinnati and the Revs. Cincinnati minus one seventy nine. Your
Speaker 3: draws a plus three twenty one. The Revs are a
Speaker 3: plus four thirty seven. Pierre Loucals airs in the middle,
Speaker 3: Lee is Arfa Diego bloss your ars, Marcus Deliveri your
Speaker 3: fourth Advanderissevich and Tom Supple your var and your avar
Speaker 3: so Supple will be on his second match of the
Speaker 3: day as an avar Ava R and Charlotte Nashville Ava
Speaker 3: R and Cincinnati and the Revs. Once again, the Revs
Speaker 3: got they were fortunate last time out. The Revs were
Speaker 3: fortunate set piece from Carlos Hill. Once again. They've only
Speaker 3: scored three goals this year, not a whole lot of
Speaker 3: goals for for the Revs to have been scored this season.
Speaker 3: Going to Cincinnati as a decided underdog, We'll see what
Speaker 3: happens here, but obviously I'm leaning to the home side.
Speaker 3: One of the more intriguing matchups outside of Atlanta. Early
Speaker 3: starts at seven point forty Red Bulls in Chicago, fire
Speaker 3: at SI Stadium Red Bulls of minus one twenty eight
Speaker 3: fire or a plus two or plus three forty nine
Speaker 3: in your draw is a plus two fifty nine in
Speaker 3: that matchup. Jyra Marufo is in the middle. Corey Rockwall,
Speaker 3: Adam Winkowski your ars. J C. Griggs is your fourth.
Speaker 3: Jeff Gamble and Craig Lowry are your var and your avar.
Speaker 3: This one's going to be an interesting one. It's going
Speaker 3: to be an interesting one for a couple of different reasons.
Speaker 3: Is Chicago on the road or what are they like
Speaker 3: on the road? Are they for real or do they
Speaker 3: still have things to figure out on the road? Red Bulls,
Speaker 3: they need to get back onto the winning side. They
Speaker 3: get the chance to do it at home to minus
Speaker 3: one twenty eight. Defense really let him down last time out.
Speaker 3: They really let me down in fantasy. By the way,
Speaker 3: fix your fantasy teams if you have not in whatever
Speaker 3: league you're in. But yeah, how did Red Bulls respond
Speaker 3: after last week? How to fire respond on the road
Speaker 3: after what happened last week with CF Montreal? I'm thinking
Speaker 3: draw here. I think they cancel each other out or
Speaker 3: if it is going to be a Red Bull win
Speaker 3: it's going to be a tight one. Philadelphia and Orlando
Speaker 3: Purple team is a plus two to fifteen on the
Speaker 3: road draws a plus two to seventy one. Philadelphia is
Speaker 3: a plus one ten is mayor pec Mitch is in
Speaker 3: the middle, Gerrard Carder, Lebieu or le buis sorry, is
Speaker 3: your ar along with Eduardo Jeff Luis Diego Arroyo is
Speaker 3: your fourth units Morocci and Brian done your var and
Speaker 3: your avar. Philadelphia the Bradley Carnell to Philadelphia Union going
Speaker 3: up against the Orlando City team. By the way, conversations
Speaker 3: this week. Now again we went through this two years
Speaker 3: ago about the contract situations involving Oscar Pereja and Luis Moosey.
Speaker 3: So what happens there. That's a decision for the the
Speaker 3: hierarchy in Orlando to figure out what they want to
Speaker 3: do involving Oscar Pereja teams getting older. What resources is
Speaker 3: Luis Moosey going to have going forward? Do they wait
Speaker 3: till the end of the year, do they try and
Speaker 3: come up with some kind of a decision to lock
Speaker 3: him in that kind of a thing. So keep an
Speaker 3: eye on the Purple team off the field. On the
Speaker 3: field Philadelphia at a plus one ten. I think what
Speaker 3: we've seen now that Ty Barbo is back from international duty,
Speaker 3: we'll see what Philadelphia looks like offensively. I'm leaning Philly
Speaker 3: here seven forty five, which is seven fifty five, so
Speaker 3: that's a big fox. In pregame show, Austin hosting Portland
Speaker 3: at Q two, Austin a big favorite of a minus
Speaker 3: one forty one Portland scoring goals, they're to plus three
Speaker 3: sixty eight. Your draws at a plus two to eighty.
Speaker 3: Drew Fisher's in the middle. Chris Elliot, Ricardo Ocampo are
Speaker 3: your ar's, John Freeman as your fourth no relation, Ory
Speaker 3: Gonzales and Might camp Minor are your var and your
Speaker 3: avar in that one. Austin at home, got to get
Speaker 3: some work done Portland's scoring, so maybe the play here
Speaker 3: is a total if you want to avoid Austin at
Speaker 3: that minus one, or if you want to chase after
Speaker 3: Portland at the plus two to eighty. For the draw
Speaker 3: in ninety minutes, the totals over under two and a
Speaker 3: half is the over two and a half a minus
Speaker 3: one twenty eight. Over three is a plus one thirty three.
Speaker 3: Over three and a half is a plus one eighty seven.
Speaker 3: I like that one, so over under three and a
Speaker 3: half a plus one eighty seven. Keep an eye on
Speaker 3: that one in that matchup with Portland on the road
Speaker 3: at Austin, Helen Michelle. Houston hosting LAFC once again, LAFC
Speaker 3: in the midweek, going up against Messi and Friends. Houston
Speaker 3: favored at home, but it's on the plus side of
Speaker 3: the plus one forty two your draws a plus two
Speaker 3: thirty one. LAFC is a plus one eighty nine. Philip
Speaker 3: Duyitch is the man in the middle. Corey Richards and
Speaker 3: Justin Howard are your ars. Matt Thompson is your fourth.
Speaker 3: David Barry. We remember David Barry as a var in
Speaker 3: Atlanta against LAFC, but it was against Matti Bogus now
Speaker 3: at Krusos Soul and Claudio Badea is your avar in
Speaker 3: that particular matchup. So it's a test for Houston. Houston
Speaker 3: right now desperately looking for a win at the bottom
Speaker 3: of the West and LAFC coming off of playing Messi
Speaker 3: and Friends winning a grinder one nil in the midweek.
Speaker 3: Does Houston get it? We've been talking about who they lost,
Speaker 3: Ace Acha and Kataskia and you really didn't replace him.
Speaker 3: So maybe the draw here at plus two thirty one,
Speaker 3: just saying I seventy one Derby Sporting in Saint Louis
Speaker 3: City SC and with all of the problems that we've
Speaker 3: seen involving Sporting Kansas City, and we've talked about him
Speaker 3: a lot all week. Tory Penso, Catherine Nesbitt Brook Mayo,
Speaker 3: by the way, refing your ar segig Demianchuk is your fourth,
Speaker 3: Michael Radchuck and Meghan Mullen your your var and your
Speaker 3: avar with Sporting. Where are you going? Carrie's a Wagnin's
Speaker 3: going to be your interim going forward? Don't know for
Speaker 3: how long, don't know if there's going to be a
Speaker 3: big name named chief soccer officer. Don't know if you're
Speaker 3: going to have someone who's going to be brought in.
Speaker 3: Don't know what that whole process is going to be like.
Speaker 3: Catch the interview that we had with Daniel Sperry from
Speaker 3: the Kansas City Star on the network, and Sporting has questions,
Speaker 3: the time frame in which they answer them is going
Speaker 3: to be part of the palace intrigue here going forward.
Speaker 3: You're not going to have low and I believe if
Speaker 3: you're Saint Louis, so maybe it's another total match. I
Speaker 3: don't know if I want to go after somebody who
Speaker 3: wants to pick a winner in this one with Sporting
Speaker 3: and City, but that one's at eight forty at Children's
Speaker 3: Mercy Park. So we'll go ahead and we'll dive into
Speaker 3: the totals. Two and a half a minus one thirty
Speaker 3: six three a plus one twenty seven. Three and a
Speaker 3: half is a plus one eighty. Under three and a
Speaker 3: half is a minus two fifty. So if you're looking
Speaker 3: at two and a half over two and a half
Speaker 3: a minus one thirty six, under two and a half
Speaker 3: a plus one oh three, and that's when things start
Speaker 3: to shift. So if you're looking at uh goalkeepers standing
Speaker 3: on their head. Ten million retiring, by the way, uh
Speaker 3: that was announced by Sporting yesterday. I believe. So it is.
Speaker 4: UH.
Speaker 3: It is going to be a ten millionals Sporting Kansas
Speaker 3: City going forward. I mean it had been already this year,
Speaker 3: but ten million officially retiring one of the great penalty
Speaker 3: kick stoppers in the history of this planet or any
Speaker 3: other planet. White Caps in Colorado at nine thirty or
Speaker 3: nine forty Vancouver at home at BC Place A minus
Speaker 3: one twenty they went through pumas. They went through it
Speaker 3: with Pumas in the midweek, so you've got that to
Speaker 3: come around from from Conca caf Colorado draw plus two
Speaker 3: eighty one and Colorado to win a plus three twenty four.
Speaker 3: Catcha Coraleeva, Stefan Tanaka front and Chris Wadam. You're ref
Speaker 3: and your ars photos bezakas your fourth, Timothy Ford is
Speaker 3: your VR, Joshua Patlack is your ab a var Vancouver
Speaker 3: traditionally tough place to play. Literally, that's the first conversation
Speaker 3: piece you should have in any of this. Tough place
Speaker 3: to play, and so Vancouver playing in the midweek, probably
Speaker 3: gonna try and grind this down to a halt. Colorado
Speaker 3: might have to do a lot of the leg of
Speaker 3: the legwork here, So maybe it's a draw. Maybe take
Speaker 3: the under on a total somewhere. Not anticipating a whole
Speaker 3: lot of goals in this one. The late game on
Speaker 3: Saturday night, San Diego FC hosting Seattle, our conversation with
Speaker 3: Nico Moreno caught up with him about it. You can
Speaker 3: catch that conversation either on the SDH YouTube channel late
Speaker 3: in the conversation yesterday and Yesterday show the last half hour,
Speaker 3: or you can listen to it on your favorite podcatcher
Speaker 3: because we pull that segment and post it separately. When
Speaker 3: we do Thursdays with Nico San Diego at home at
Speaker 3: snap Dragon, A plus one on a quarter draws a
Speaker 3: plus two thirty five. Seattle is a plus two to eleven,
Speaker 3: and so the crew for that one, Malik Badawi, Jason White,
Speaker 3: Felicia Mariskal will send a Mendosa is your fourth Armando
Speaker 3: via ray Al and Mike camp Miner or your VR
Speaker 3: and your avar. That's the second match of the day
Speaker 3: for camp Minor. He's literally going from Austin and Portland
Speaker 3: into the next room to get ready for San Diego
Speaker 3: and Seattle at ten thirty, so he sleeps in. Make
Speaker 3: sure he's got his red Bull or his caffeine or
Speaker 3: whatever with him because he's going from one booth to
Speaker 3: the next, back to back avars. So we'll keep an
Speaker 3: eye on stuff like that. A couple of matches on
Speaker 3: Sunday to look at NYC and Minnesota United. Let me
Speaker 3: see which I want to see which, let me see
Speaker 3: if this is actually going to be at the U
Speaker 3: twelve pitch in the Bronx or if they're moving it
Speaker 3: to Queens. So when the schedule pops up, I'll be
Speaker 3: able to tell you nothing like clicking on buttons and
Speaker 3: not having them behave all right, So it is on
Speaker 3: Sunday at Yankee Stadium, so it is in the Bronx.
Speaker 3: So it is a three ten start, three five and
Speaker 3: seven on Sunday on Apple TV MLS Season Pass Sunday
Speaker 3: Night Soccer. We'll get to that one in a bit.
Speaker 3: So NYC hosting Minnesota on the U twelve pitch at
Speaker 3: Yankee Stadium. Sergey Boyco, the man in the middle, Adam Garner,
Speaker 3: Johnny Facchini, Luis Diego Arroyo, the rest of your crew,
Speaker 3: your ars, and your fourth. Timothy Ford is your VAR.
Speaker 3: So he goes from being the nine thirty VAR to
Speaker 3: catching a flight first thing in the morning to go
Speaker 3: to Yankee Stadium. Actually, no, he's still VR, so he
Speaker 3: just goes over the room. Okay, remember I thought he
Speaker 3: was the fourth for a second, but Timothy Ford your VR.
Speaker 3: Jonathan Johnson is your av R. So Timothy Ford gets
Speaker 3: to sleep in a little bit, but he's there for
Speaker 3: the first match for VR on Sunday. I've got to
Speaker 3: go NYC here just on premise, just because of how
Speaker 3: difficult it is to play at Yankee Stadium. Plus one
Speaker 3: fourteen Minnesota United A plus two eleven your draws A
Speaker 3: plus two fifty seven in the composite five o'clock or
Speaker 3: five ten San Jose and DC United. And I think
Speaker 3: this was just one where the juice boxers were just like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 3: because literally the numbers are the same except for the
Speaker 3: draw option in the composite with all the juice box purveyors.
Speaker 3: NYC Minnesota odds and San Jose DC United odds are identical.
Speaker 3: Plus what fourteen and plus two ten draws a little
Speaker 3: bigger for San Jose and DC at a plus two
Speaker 3: sixty six early afternoons start on a Sunday, DC having
Speaker 3: to travel. I can see what why San Jose's a
Speaker 3: plus one fourteen. I would lean the home team here.
Speaker 3: Sunday Night soccer Messi and Friends hosting Toronto FC. It's
Speaker 3: part of your life that you won't be able to
Speaker 3: get back, but you're probably gonna watch it anyway. Messi
Speaker 3: and Friends of Mine is two fifty six. Robin Fraser
Speaker 3: runs into the erector set buzzsaw to plus six twenty
Speaker 3: seven draws A plus three eighty six. San Jose's crew,
Speaker 3: Victor Reevos, Jeremy Keiso, Stephen McGonagall, Joe Dickerson is your fourth,
Speaker 3: David Barry is your VR, and Matthew Rodman is your avar.
Speaker 3: Rubiol Vasquez the man in the middle with Jeremy Hanson,
Speaker 3: Mike Nickerson, and Chris Penso, Daniel Radford, Jonathan Johnson. So
Speaker 3: Jonathan Johnson goes from the three o'clock game Yankee Stadium
Speaker 3: to get a game off to go to the Erector
Speaker 3: set game is the avar in Dallas Vasquez, Jeremy Hanson,
Speaker 3: Mike Nickerson, Chris Penso, Daniel Radford, Jonathan Johnson. So those
Speaker 3: are your matchups with You're with your teams there. But
Speaker 3: once again, Miami minus two fifty six in this one.
Speaker 3: Going over the standings just so we've got the four
Speaker 3: knowledge going into the weekend. In the East, Miami five
Speaker 3: matches thirteen points, Philadelphia Columbus both twelve points out of
Speaker 3: the blocks in six. Philadelphia's got the better goal difference
Speaker 3: by one. Of course, we're six matches into a thirty
Speaker 3: four match schedule. Chicago at eleven points. Charlotte, Nashville, Orlando
Speaker 3: each with ten. Cincinnati with ten gots five, six, seven, eight.
Speaker 3: Charlotte has more goals scored one the Nashville and their
Speaker 3: equal on goal difference. Orlando is third in goal different
Speaker 3: Cincinnati is fourth with a minus. Red Bulls right now
Speaker 3: at eight points along with NYCFC and Atlanta. Everybody's at
Speaker 3: two two and two goal difference means Red Bulls, NYC
Speaker 3: Atland United in that order. That gets you to twelve
Speaker 3: six point six matches for d C New England with
Speaker 3: their win last time out, first win of the year,
Speaker 3: four points ahead of Toronto and Montreal. Toronto and Montreal
Speaker 3: by the way four and two. Toronto has scored six
Speaker 3: given up twelve. Montreal has scored three given up ten.
Speaker 3: Western Conference Vancouver is on the top through six matches
Speaker 3: at thirteen point. Austin FC is at twelve. San Diego, Minnesota,
Speaker 3: Colorado each at three one in two goal difference being
Speaker 3: San Diego, Minnesota, Colorado, Portland and Dallas each with ten
Speaker 3: points at three to two and one better goal difference
Speaker 3: in Portland eight to nine. Right now is LAFC with
Speaker 3: nine points. Saint Louis City sc with eight San Jose
Speaker 3: at seven points. Once again, you don't know which one
Speaker 3: you're gonna get. RSL and Seattle each with six points,
Speaker 3: Lag with two points, Houston with two point wh's they're
Speaker 3: both at four and two, and that's why we've been
Speaker 3: saying kind of keep an eye on if once again
Speaker 3: you're looking at folks that might be looking for changes
Speaker 3: of address. We've already seen it with Laurent Curtwi, which
Speaker 3: was ridiculous, and now we've seen it with Peter Urmes.
Speaker 3: But Houston at oh four and two, LA at O
Speaker 3: four and two, LA has scored one more goal, so
Speaker 3: we're to the second tiebreaker. Kansas City one point oh
Speaker 3: five and one six goals scored, giving up two on average,
Speaker 3: and it's only scoring one on average O two and
Speaker 3: one O three and oho at home and away this season.
Speaker 3: So that's where things stand going into the match that
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about here with it Landy United
Speaker 3: and FC Dallas at Lanty United minus one fifty two
Speaker 3: at home against FCD. FC Dallas is a plus three
Speaker 3: sixty one draws a plus three twelve. If you get
Speaker 3: into the other numbers you want to get into totals
Speaker 3: and things like that. The over under over under two
Speaker 3: and a half of minus one eighty five three and
Speaker 3: a half a plus one thirty one, So they're kind
Speaker 3: of under selling it a little bit. They're thinking something
Speaker 3: too oneish four and a half a plus three hundred
Speaker 3: considering what happened last time. Just for giggles, if it
Speaker 3: ended up four to three again, the over hundred and
Speaker 3: six and a half is a plus fourteen to fifty.
Speaker 3: Once again, that's in the composite courtesy of our friends
Speaker 3: of odds Portal. And the question that we have is
Speaker 3: once again the conversation that we had with Ryan Figurret,
Speaker 3: where you have a young left back who has made
Speaker 3: his way up through the academy and he's been getting minutes,
Speaker 3: but it looks like he's going to be getting the
Speaker 3: start coming out of the blocks at left back. So
Speaker 3: then the attack that we know with Atlanta United down
Speaker 3: the right is right in the cross hairs of that replacement.
Speaker 3: Quoting the boss when she's referring to someone who is
Speaker 3: trying to either have fun in the house and have
Speaker 3: Zuomi's or needs to go outside and visit the uh,
Speaker 3: visit the trees and the bushes run run un run,
Speaker 3: run run run. Okay, he's still asleep. He didn't trigger that.
Speaker 3: But anyway, that's what's That's what I'm looking at. I'm
Speaker 3: looking at the left side of the defense for FC Dallas,
Speaker 3: the right side of the attack for at Lanty knight
Speaker 3: and how FC Dallas will help in the defense in
Speaker 3: that particular pattern of offense for at Landey knighted and
Speaker 3: then once again adjusted the adjustment. I figured it's going
Speaker 3: to be down the right hand side of the attack, Brooks, Saba, Midanchuk, Miggy,
Speaker 3: all of that down the right hand side, going up
Speaker 3: against a young left back for FC Dallas. How does
Speaker 3: Dallas then adjust to that adjustment? How does Atlanta adjust
Speaker 3: to that? So you figured there's gonna be some shading,
Speaker 3: there's gonna be some protection over there. Then how does
Speaker 3: Atlanta sit there and adjust to that protection and the
Speaker 3: shading from FC Dallas. So there you go. There, It
Speaker 3: is ricky looking at the schedule disappointing. The league had
Speaker 3: an opportunity to have a replaying of the first MLS
Speaker 3: match on Sunday Night soccer, and they picked miying me
Speaker 3: in Toronto morning. Look though I was everybody this morning.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so you get Sunday Night soccer and you're
Speaker 3: going with the you're going with Messi and Friends, And
Speaker 3: I guess I should look at the Did I look
Speaker 3: at the total on this one already? Because if you
Speaker 3: look at the the I know we looked at the numbers.
Speaker 3: Let me look at the total and see what the
Speaker 3: totals are in this particular matchup on Sunday Night soccer,
Speaker 3: uh over under Messi and Friends in Toronto two and
Speaker 3: a half of minus one eighty four, three and a
Speaker 3: half a plus one five. So if it gets to
Speaker 3: two two and you've cleared the plus one thirty five
Speaker 3: at the erector set, you're looking for four goals, you
Speaker 3: can get that at the plus one thirty five. Four
Speaker 3: and a half is a plus three fifteen. So if
Speaker 3: you think it's gonna go to three to two, you
Speaker 3: can get it at a plus four fifteen. Yeah, a
Speaker 3: plus three fifteen in the composite, so plus three fifteen
Speaker 3: at four and a half, uh it is three and
Speaker 3: a half a plus one thirty five and two and
Speaker 3: a half of minus one eighty four. Sometimes I just
Speaker 3: think they just throw numbers up there to throw them
Speaker 3: up there. But anyway, So not a surprise, everything kind
Speaker 3: of shifts around three and Messi and friends of the
Speaker 3: minus two fifty six in that one. In that matchup
Speaker 3: once again, folks in the middle, Ruby Elvaskiez, Jeremy Hansen,
Speaker 3: Mike Nickerson, Chris Penso, your VR, Daniel Radford, Jonathan Johnson,
Speaker 3: your AVA R for Atlanta it is Ricardo Fierro in
Speaker 3: the middle, Ryan Graves, Kevin Klinger, Benjamin Meyer your ars
Speaker 3: and your fourth Armando v Arials your VAR. Your AVA
Speaker 3: R is Jeff Mushik. So Armando v a Raal is
Speaker 3: your VAR in this matchup with Ricardo Fieriro on the
Speaker 3: board for uh being the man in the middle in
Speaker 3: this particular matchup, but for it Landy United. For me,
Speaker 3: once again, it's that first matchup going down the right
Speaker 3: hand side of the attack up against a young left back.
Speaker 3: What does FCD do to help shade and help with
Speaker 3: numbers and what does it Landy United to do when
Speaker 3: they find that numerical advantage and then find the open man.
Speaker 3: So that's what I'm That's what I'm staring at here.
Speaker 3: Hit it early, hit it often, and we'll see what
Speaker 3: happens when folks Sudjust that's what I'm staring at with
Speaker 3: that particular matchup. Let me know what's on your mind
Speaker 3: when it comes to this one as well. Other news
Speaker 3: in and around, Like I said, we talked about the
Speaker 3: MLS juice boxes. We talked about the Premier League juice
Speaker 3: box that are there, and all of the other issues
Speaker 3: that are attached with m Yeah, and all the other
Speaker 3: silliness and stupidity that's attached there as well. Let me
Speaker 3: go through the other news that is that is in
Speaker 3: and around this morning. Once again, we talked about Kevin
Speaker 3: de Bruna and there's a concern or just a wonder
Speaker 3: if he would be available for the Club World Cup
Speaker 3: or if he would be available for someone else in
Speaker 3: the Club World Cup. So that that to me is
Speaker 3: one of the larger points. So if it's at the
Speaker 3: end of the season to Bruna, where does he go
Speaker 3: and does it end up being someplace else that you're
Speaker 3: that you could end up playing for if you transfer
Speaker 3: in the extraordinary transfer window. That's the uh That is
Speaker 3: the other elements in all of this. Speaking of Manchester City,
Speaker 3: details of the clubs and this is from a PA
Speaker 3: media details of the club's legal challenge to the prems
Speaker 3: updated rules on commercial deals have been shared with their rivals.
Speaker 3: City launched the arbitration proceedings back on January twenty against
Speaker 3: the validity of the amended Associated Party Transaction rules, which
Speaker 3: seek to ensure that deals struck between clubs and entities
Speaker 3: link to the ownership or fair market value. The League
Speaker 3: is understood to have emailed clubs on Thursday to inform
Speaker 3: them of a statement of claim from City dated March
Speaker 3: twenty seven. The claim sets out the details of cities
Speaker 3: arguments against the rules. The Times reports that it criticizes
Speaker 3: the Premier League's treatment of shareholder loans under the new
Speaker 3: APT rules, saying that it is quote distorting economic competition
Speaker 3: between clubs. Times reports claims names Arsenal, Brighton, Everton and
Speaker 3: Lester of clubs who have had an unfair advantage as
Speaker 3: a result of how shareholder loans have been treated. APT
Speaker 3: rules originally introduced back in December twenty one following the
Speaker 3: Saudi takeover Newcastle rules successfully challenged by City last year.
Speaker 3: A tribunal found them unlawful on multiple grounds. The rules
Speaker 3: not City, including the fact that they excluded shareholder loans
Speaker 3: from fair market value assessments. Premier League consulted with clubs
Speaker 3: on amendments, sixteen teams voting on favor of the amended
Speaker 3: rules at a meeting last November. City launched a challenge
Speaker 3: to the amended rules. Statement of claim on Thursday linked
Speaker 3: to the challenge City in the Premier League of decline
Speaker 3: comment and so that's where that's where we are with
Speaker 3: Manchester City in the sport's highest court. And then I
Speaker 3: guess this is technically breaking rule and breaking news. It's
Speaker 3: going to hold fast track appeals next month as Leone
Speaker 3: tries to overturn the FIFA decision to expel them from
Speaker 3: the Club World Cup. Ass has said that Leon and
Speaker 3: Pachuca have separately filed appeals against FIFA's ruling that barred
Speaker 3: Leon from the Club World Cup because the clubs have
Speaker 3: the same owner. Club Laon has filed and this is
Speaker 3: the quote from the court. Club Leon filed an additional
Speaker 3: appeal against the decision by the FIFA Secretary General to
Speaker 3: be reinstated in the competition. No target was given for
Speaker 3: a verdict in the case. FIFA revealed plans this week
Speaker 3: for the one game qualification playoff between LAFC and Clubamedica
Speaker 3: if the ruling is upheld by cass alaw Alenze, once
Speaker 3: again still arguing their case that they should be Team
Speaker 3: thirty two cases being heard on appeal April twenty third
Speaker 3: in Madrid, though it is listed by the Guardian that
Speaker 3: its importance is secondary to the Leone appeal. Leon included
Speaker 3: by FIFA in the tournament draw in December, despite the
Speaker 3: pending multi club ownership issue drawn in with a group
Speaker 3: of Chelsea esperance of Tunisia and Flamingo. Whichever club wins
Speaker 3: the spot opens the tournament with a game against Chelsea
Speaker 3: in Atlanta. So I guess you know what that means.
Speaker 3: I guess that means we should probably check ticket Master
Speaker 3: and find out what the Club World Cup tickets are
Speaker 3: going for and if things have changed or if they
Speaker 3: are any different. Once again sliding down into a oh
Speaker 3: it was promoted. I was wondering why a Jim Gaffigan
Speaker 3: event was in the Club World Cup section. So we'll
Speaker 3: see what happens here, once again, finding tickets for the
Speaker 3: opener right now listed as Chelsea and Club Leone. Yes,
Speaker 3: I agree, and so get in price still at eighty
Speaker 3: three sixty five, so that has not changed, even though
Speaker 3: we're still trying to figure out who the opponent may
Speaker 3: or may not be. Let's bring in Jason here with
Speaker 3: twenty minutes to go. How much time? How much time
Speaker 3: we got your partner, as as much time as you need. Okay,
Speaker 3: just we'll go through the end of the show here.
Speaker 3: When you look at I guess the first thing is
Speaker 3: the news about Dominic chong Qui. Dominic chong Qui gets
Speaker 3: his deal and once again left back you is showing
Speaker 3: up for Atlanta United another contract.
Speaker 5: Crazy George Bellow, Caleb Wiley, and now Dominic chong Qui
Speaker 5: in a team that is in its ninth season, has
Speaker 5: already produced three youth internationals for the US and three
Speaker 5: players out of your academy in the same position. And
Speaker 5: it's not like, you know, there's something in the water
Speaker 5: about playing left back in Atlanta. It's a position it's
Speaker 5: actually kind of hard to develop. It's crazy, it's very
Speaker 5: very cool. It's awesome for dom a player that you know,
Speaker 5: I remember seeing with the U six teams when they
Speaker 5: won a national championship and he jumped off the screen
Speaker 5: watching those games and their run to that MLS Next
Speaker 5: Tournament title. And then last year, you know, you start
Speaker 5: to see him around the twos earlier in the year,
Speaker 5: and you never know, and sometimes you know, everybody's on
Speaker 5: different pathways. Sometimes guys make that connection really quick. Sometimes
Speaker 5: guys are able to handle it physically but maybe not emotionally.
Speaker 5: Sometimes guys have the composure and the technical skill but
Speaker 5: don't handle the physicality well. I think Dom is one
Speaker 5: of those guys that has been able to combine all
Speaker 5: of it. And once he kicked in the door with
Speaker 5: the twos last year, came off the bench a couple
Speaker 5: of times, was impactful every time he got on the field.
Speaker 5: Once he started to do that, he took the job
Speaker 5: and he never gave it back. And then this preseason, look,
Speaker 5: it's another opportunity. He signed to a pro deal in
Speaker 5: the off season, with the homegrown kicking in next year,
Speaker 5: and with the injury to Pedro Amador in preseason, Dom
Speaker 5: gets a lot of play time and he just fits
Speaker 5: right in, you know, like that's the thing is. You
Speaker 5: see him play with the first team in preseason, and
Speaker 5: Ronnie Dila talked about it all preseason. He just looks
Speaker 5: like he belongs. And it's something that Steve Cook mentioned
Speaker 5: last season consistently when he went up the next rung
Speaker 5: in the ladder. He didn't look overwhelmed, and he adjusted
Speaker 5: and adapted really well, really quickly, and it was kind
Speaker 5: of a matter of time, you know, with Pedro being
Speaker 5: a little bit slower to get back into the flow
Speaker 5: of things. The season, Dom kept getting opportunities and he
Speaker 5: kept doing everything that he could with them. And look,
Speaker 5: people can say whatever they want about last week. He
Speaker 5: made a mistake. He's a young player making his first start.
Speaker 5: Team gets punished for it. It happens he was very
Speaker 5: good before that. He was not the Dom that we've
Speaker 5: seen with the twos in the academy in that it's
Speaker 5: his first start. He's figuring it out the pace of
Speaker 5: the game. He wasn't prepared to start. All the different
Speaker 5: things that happen with that, but that moment is a moment,
Speaker 5: and it's one that I think back to. Caleb Wiley
Speaker 5: made that kind of a mistake in the Red Bulls
Speaker 5: game during twenty twenty two, and Gonzala Pineda said, He's
Speaker 5: going to be better off for making that mistake now
Speaker 5: than making it at twenty one. At twenty two years old,
Speaker 5: Dom's going to be the same way. So I thought
Speaker 5: the fact that he spoke to the media afterwards says
Speaker 5: a lot about who he is and his confidence level
Speaker 5: and what he's going to be, and that that was
Speaker 5: maybe what impressed me the most so far about Dominic
Speaker 5: chon Kui is on a night like that with the
Speaker 5: mistake that he made, he didn't run and hide. He
Speaker 5: spoke to the media, and that says a lot about
Speaker 5: his character. I was really impressed.
Speaker 3: Fifty seven minutes too, total tackles. It was winning two
Speaker 3: duels on the day on the ground, thirty two touches,
Speaker 3: sixty nine percent passing, and then Matthew Edwards comes in
Speaker 3: and runs the other thirty three minutes. And so now
Speaker 3: Matthew Edwards is I think one position away from filling
Speaker 3: out the Bengo card on the back line this year.
Speaker 5: And matt continues to impress. Yeah, he's played, I mean
Speaker 5: all across the back line. He hasn't played on either
Speaker 5: side of center back, but he's played right back, he's
Speaker 5: played center back, he's played left back. He came up
Speaker 5: as a six, and maybe we see him as a
Speaker 5: six at some point. You're really lucky with the guys
Speaker 5: that you're developing out of the academy, and I think
Speaker 5: it goes back to the original investment that Arthur Blank
Speaker 5: made to start the academy a year early and you've
Speaker 5: seen it pay off consistently. And now what you want
Speaker 5: to see as this club continues to grow and especially
Speaker 5: grow its depth, and not just depth in the first
Speaker 5: team roster, but depth as a club. You want to
Speaker 5: see more homegrowns come up, and you want to see
Speaker 5: more homegrowns play, and you want to see more homegrown
Speaker 5: show quicker that they're able to play at this level
Speaker 5: and contribute to the first team, because we've seen it
Speaker 5: around MLS over this last decade or so. Plus the
Speaker 5: clubs that are able to increase their depth and get
Speaker 5: contributions from guys they develop, and that's homegrowns, that's guys
Speaker 5: that they draft, that's guys that they sign and come
Speaker 5: through the second team. In a cap league, you have
Speaker 5: to have those kinds of contributions. You're not asking them
Speaker 5: to be MLS best eleven at times. I think, you know,
Speaker 5: Caleb Wiley showed that he was at that kind of level.
Speaker 5: I think Dom has that kind of potential that you'd
Speaker 5: love to see that, but you can't guarantee that you
Speaker 5: want guys to be able to come in and contribute
Speaker 5: and do like what you're seeing with Matt. You know,
Speaker 5: Matt is another one who signed the twos last year,
Speaker 5: wasn't guaranteed anything. That's something that he told us when
Speaker 5: he signed his first team deal middle of the last season.
Speaker 5: He didn't walk into the twos with that guarantee of
Speaker 5: a first team deal. It was we're gonna sign you,
Speaker 5: We're gonna pay you. We want to see what you
Speaker 5: can turn into. He's turned into a really dependable player
Speaker 5: at the MLS level. It's very very cool to see,
Speaker 5: and he's just one of the good guys. I hope
Speaker 5: he saw the clip that we shared from this week
Speaker 5: in training where this is a guy who, long term
Speaker 5: in his life, is going to contribute a lot to
Speaker 5: the sport. He's going to be a coach, he's going
Speaker 5: to end up having a long professional career, and you're
Speaker 5: already seeing him be a mentor in ways to a
Speaker 5: guy like Dom.
Speaker 3: So that's very very cool to see. What has study
Speaker 3: Hall been like for you getting ready for FC Dallas.
Speaker 3: What have you seen at the Children's South Care of
Speaker 3: Atlanta training ground this week? What are you expecting from
Speaker 3: Atlanta United coming off the seven goal car crash that
Speaker 3: ended up full points by the end of it.
Speaker 5: All, hopefully a fewer goals conceded. That's one thing that
Speaker 5: I hope that we see because that was not fun.
Speaker 5: The outcome was fun. The chaos was fun for people
Speaker 5: who aren't sweating through it the way that we were
Speaker 5: trying to call that game because it was a nuts
Speaker 5: Dallas is a team we saw in the preseason finale.
Speaker 5: You know, we got to see them up close in Mariatta.
Speaker 5: I think a team that plays in a very very
Speaker 5: similar way to Atlanta United. You've got different personnel, so
Speaker 5: there's a different flavor to it, but a lot of
Speaker 5: similar ingredients, and you're trying to get to the same
Speaker 5: kind of a dish in the way that you want
Speaker 5: to play. You want the ball, you want to play
Speaker 5: in a four to three three. You want to be
Speaker 5: very good with your counter pressure. You want to be
Speaker 5: you want to play a very high line. You want
Speaker 5: to make it very difficult for the opponent to feel comfortable.
Speaker 5: You'd go about it different ways. I mean, Luciano Acosta
Speaker 5: is a very different kind of player than Alexi Moranchuk.
Speaker 5: Both are maestros. Both are very talented on the ball.
Speaker 5: Alexi gives you more on the defensive side, Luco doesn't,
Speaker 5: so you have to make up that ground. I think
Speaker 5: at Land and center backs are better on the ball
Speaker 5: than Dallas's center backs, but Dallas's center backs maybe more athletics,
Speaker 5: so that high line they can do it and they
Speaker 5: cainge back and recover. We'll find out how athletic they are.
Speaker 5: And chasing a latte a lot, that's going to be
Speaker 5: an interesting battle. It's a game that you got to
Speaker 5: take control and I want to see a little bit
Speaker 5: more of that in this game. I think that's the
Speaker 5: next step for this Atlanta United team is and watching
Speaker 5: training sessions over the past few weeks, I think you're
Speaker 5: seeing Ronnie Diila and his staff really hone in on
Speaker 5: wanting to be better with the ball. Because if this
Speaker 5: team's better with the ball, you don't get into the
Speaker 5: weird games like you had last week. You don't have
Speaker 5: some of those moments where the opponent wins the ball
Speaker 5: from you, gets forward quickly and you're unbalanced. You don't
Speaker 5: have those breakdown moments, and you've got to be better
Speaker 5: in possession, and that's when we talk possession. I'm not
Speaker 5: saying just keep the ball. I'm talking about what you
Speaker 5: do with it. So how you build up, how you
Speaker 5: get past lines of the opponent, how you get through
Speaker 5: that first line of pressure, how you eliminate guys, how
Speaker 5: you make the wingers and the strikers say, man, I
Speaker 5: don't want to chase these guys all day and you
Speaker 5: break them. You want to do that, And when you
Speaker 5: start to do that, then you can do more and
Speaker 5: more and more in terms of controlling the I don't
Speaker 5: think we've seen enough patience from Atlanta United at times
Speaker 5: with the ball, and that's one of the next steps
Speaker 5: for me, is being able to pick your spots of
Speaker 5: putting your foot on the gas and going and put
Speaker 5: your foot on the ball and keeping it to work
Speaker 5: it into a better spot. I think that's the next
Speaker 5: step for this group and maybe we'll see some elements
Speaker 5: of that and that growth tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: What other matchups, Not that you're looking at nineteen matches
Speaker 3: at one time, but when you look at the rest
Speaker 3: of the schedule in Major League Soccer, what sticks out
Speaker 3: to you This.
Speaker 5: Weekend, I want to see Philadelphia and Orlando. Philadelphia went
Speaker 5: to Central Florida and smacked Orlando around earlier this year.
Speaker 5: Do you see some revenge from the Purple folks in
Speaker 5: that one? I want to see what Miami and LAFC
Speaker 5: look like with a massive second leg in concer CAF
Speaker 5: looming next week. How much rotation do you see from
Speaker 5: those teams? What do they look like? Are they looking ahead?
Speaker 5: Do they get caught in that regard? Same for Vancouver
Speaker 5: in La Galaxy for that matter. Austin in Portland is
Speaker 5: an interesting game to me. I want to see if
Speaker 5: Portland is for real, for real, or if it's just
Speaker 5: been a couple of good games. I still don't know
Speaker 5: how to feel about Austin. I think a lot of
Speaker 5: people have talked about, you know, what Atlanta's spent and
Speaker 5: how they're looking and where it is. I think Austin
Speaker 5: has spent a lot of money as well, and it's
Speaker 5: a very different conversation about them because I haven't seen
Speaker 5: as many of the positives. They've been better defensively, which
Speaker 5: than I expected, but they didn't spend their money defensively
Speaker 5: expect they spent the money to score goals, and they're
Speaker 5: not scoring a lot, and they're being kind of wasteful
Speaker 5: at times in front of goal. So let's see what
Speaker 5: that ends up looking like. But also, you know, I
Speaker 5: think when you look around the league this weekend, you
Speaker 5: have to look at San Jose and DC and the
Speaker 5: reason why it's history. You know, it's Sunday, late afternoon,
Speaker 5: it will be the It's the thirtieth season of Major
Speaker 5: League Soccer, and on April sixth in nineteen ninety the
Speaker 5: league started in San Jose. It was the Clash at
Speaker 5: that point, it wasn't the Earthquakes. Bruce Arena was there.
Speaker 5: He was coaching on the other sideline for DC. So
Speaker 5: that's actually really cool. I think you'll you'll see a
Speaker 5: lot of cool elements with that. That's one that I
Speaker 5: definitely want to watch. I haven't had a chance to
Speaker 5: sit down and watched the mini documentary that came out
Speaker 5: yesterday on Apple TV. I definitely want to spend some
Speaker 5: time with that because, you know, I remember that day
Speaker 5: I was in college at Uga, drove back home to
Speaker 5: watch the game with some of my soccer play and
Speaker 5: friends from high school because it was that big of
Speaker 5: a deal to us that now we were going to
Speaker 5: have a real big league of our own, you know,
Speaker 5: we had. We'd started going to Atlanta Ruckus games the
Speaker 5: season before, we had, you know, started to have a
Speaker 5: little bit of exposure to professional soccer in this country.
Speaker 5: That day changed everything for the game in this country.
Speaker 5: So it's very cool that the league put DC and
Speaker 5: San Jose on that date. I'm glad that they acknowledged it.
Speaker 5: It's very cool and it'll be cool to look back
Speaker 5: at it, because you know, like, I'm not doing what
Speaker 5: I do if that game doesn't happen, if this league
Speaker 5: doesn't happen, We're not hosting a World Cup next year,
Speaker 5: We're not hosting Club World Cup, we don't have Mercedes
Speaker 5: Benz Stadium with soccer in mind, all those things. It
Speaker 5: starts from April sixth, nineteen ninety six, when everything kicked
Speaker 5: off and everybody said that it wasn't going to work,
Speaker 5: And well it's worked pretty.
Speaker 3: Well, I think. So where did you end up watching
Speaker 3: the match? By the way, Oh, at home?
Speaker 5: Just watched it home, Okay, had friends over and watched
Speaker 5: it at my parents' house on Stockbridge. Man, Look that
Speaker 5: that was what we were you know that summer we
Speaker 5: of oh, we went to Damon's in Stockbridge and begged
Speaker 5: them to turn their satellite dishes to whatever sports channel
Speaker 5: Dallas at a game on on a weekend or on
Speaker 5: a midweek. We got to know all the satellite coordinates
Speaker 5: and all the different regional sports networks that Damon's could
Speaker 5: pick up, and we beg them to put it on
Speaker 5: one of the big TVs and uh watch games and
Speaker 5: they hated to see us coming. Wow. We gave them
Speaker 5: some of our money, so it was all good. Uh.
Speaker 3: It's it's been cool to see it grow.
Speaker 5: I mean you think back to that and you always
Speaker 5: have these flashbacks of how things were and you get
Speaker 5: thrown back into a moment. That will be one that
Speaker 5: I will definitely remember sitting and watching that game and
Speaker 5: being so excited to see teams representing US cities in
Speaker 5: a stadium that was full with national team players playing
Speaker 5: and what you dreamed that it could be and it
Speaker 5: surpassed every single bit of it.
Speaker 3: Yes, Damon's a place for ribs, David, Damon's was great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Damon's had like it was the first like gigantic
Speaker 5: sports bar ish kind of thing like in Atlanta. I
Speaker 5: mean we were on the south side of town in Atlanta.
Speaker 5: You had Jocks and Jill's at that point, but you
Speaker 5: didn't have the gigantic screens that Damon's had. I mean,
Speaker 5: I think most of them had the same kind of format,
Speaker 5: like the one a Stockbridge had four giant screens and
Speaker 5: you had a little audio box at your table and
Speaker 5: you could pick which screen you wanted the audio from.
Speaker 3: Like that was amazing.
Speaker 5: In nineteen ninety six, You're like, what is this technology?
Speaker 3: This is unbelievable. Yeah, it was cool. Yeah, and then the
Speaker 3: food was pretty good. It was pretty good. Yeah, I went.
Speaker 3: I spent a lot of time at the Damon's at Underground, Yes,
Speaker 3: doing the same exact thing.
Speaker 5: Did they have the four giant screens at Underground?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay we had. We had, and we had the
Speaker 3: dial where you could, you know, change it to wherever
Speaker 3: you wanted to. And yeah, we were hounding. We were
Speaker 3: hounding the folks at Damon's Underground trying to get things
Speaker 3: watched on the satellite that everybody else was looking at us.
Speaker 5: Like, here's the satellite coordinates. You're showing two games on
Speaker 5: that on different screens. Put us put the game on
Speaker 5: this one. What is this league? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 5: Just please?
Speaker 3: Absolutely true? Yeah, we got the twos this weekend after
Speaker 3: Atlanta United and FC Dallas. It's MESSI and Friends to
Speaker 3: coming to the fraction on Sunday night.
Speaker 5: MESSI and Friends too is not coming. MESSI will not
Speaker 5: be there. He is not sending his kids, He's not
Speaker 5: sending anybody from Messy Land.
Speaker 3: Maybe his bodyguard can come since he's banned from games
Speaker 3: these days sidelines at Kennesaw. It would be great. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's not. I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's not a good look when the bodyguard is doing media.
Speaker 5: Don't you normally want to be low profile in that
Speaker 5: situation you kind of do. Just saying that seems weird.
Speaker 5: It's all seemed weird. I've kind of stayed away from
Speaker 5: that whole story because of that. But no, it's the
Speaker 5: two's have had a couple of good results but haven't
Speaker 5: gotten enough to show for it, with two two draws
Speaker 5: the last two times out, and there were a lot
Speaker 5: of good things in the game last time against Chattanooga.
Speaker 5: Potential to see some first team guys again who aren't
Speaker 5: getting time. Now that you're getting more guys healthy, I
Speaker 5: think you'll see, you know, guys like came in to
Speaker 5: Gushi or Jamal Tira get runouts with the twos and
Speaker 5: then look that I means Georgie Gonari is going to
Speaker 5: have to produce from the bench or produce in more
Speaker 5: limited minutes, and he did against Chattanooga with a couple
Speaker 5: of good goals. I thout Cooper Sanchez playing next to
Speaker 5: Will Riley. That was very good for Cooper and good
Speaker 5: step in his development. You'll get some of the academy
Speaker 5: guys back in the mix. Had a chance to see
Speaker 5: a little bit of training yesterday. Brandon Dunham, who's got
Speaker 5: off to a great start this season. He was back
Speaker 5: training with the group, John o'ransom and goal. I think
Speaker 5: we'll see him get some games a little bit this
Speaker 5: summer as you rotate guys around. But yeah, looking forward
Speaker 5: to it as always. I mean, if you're excited about
Speaker 5: the Dominic Chong Queen news, you should be paying attention
Speaker 5: to the twos because you'll see the next doms, the
Speaker 5: next Riley's, the next Brennan's.
Speaker 3: You might see Brennan in this one.
Speaker 5: You'll see those next guys coming through this Atlanta United
Speaker 5: two team. And I like to look so far of
Speaker 5: this team. You just want to see it come together
Speaker 5: and get some wins. And get three points instead of
Speaker 5: one and going into a shootout.
Speaker 3: For a second, you mentioned Chattanooga f C. I can't
Speaker 3: let you go without talking about Open Cup and the
Speaker 3: magic of said Open Cup and the absolute craziness of
Speaker 3: this past go around. We now have the round three matchups.
Speaker 3: We talked about them at the beginning, but twelve thousand
Speaker 3: showed up at Fort Finley for Chattanooga Red Wolves and
Speaker 3: Chattanooga f C. El Father Alito was an upset. What'd
Speaker 3: you think about Round two? That's fun?
Speaker 5: I mean the Chattanooga match was a lot of fun
Speaker 5: to watch. You're talking about something that we hadn't seen
Speaker 5: yet and something that one side of it has fought
Speaker 5: against from day one and the other I think is
Speaker 5: just kind of doing their own thing. It's been very
Speaker 5: funny to see how people feel about it, and very
Speaker 5: funny to see what's the socially acceptable way to feel
Speaker 5: about things when you talk about this matchup, which is
Speaker 5: if you know more of the deep dives behind the scenes,
Speaker 5: maybe those things change.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Red Wolves one look, you can be romantic about everything
Speaker 5: as much as you want. It was a great crowd
Speaker 5: and full credit to Chattanooga FC.
Speaker 2: For that.
Speaker 5: Finley Stadium is a great place to watch a game.
Speaker 5: I've seen a ton of them there. I've seen a
Speaker 5: ton of Chattanooga FC games. I've been on the opposing
Speaker 5: side of a lot of those games seeing Chattanooga play.
Speaker 5: This is a club that has done a lot of
Speaker 5: really special things, and they created a market that was
Speaker 5: desirable enough for somebody else to come in and want
Speaker 5: to start a team. That's a credit to Chattanooga FC.
Speaker 5: Open market and building markets to build the game. You
Speaker 5: want to see that, and the best teams are going
Speaker 5: to survive. And I think in these situations, and I
Speaker 5: think at times people run from this too much. These
Speaker 5: are the moments that take get to another level. And yes,
Speaker 5: a city like Chattanooga can support two teams at this level.
Speaker 5: Neither one is going to be at a first division
Speaker 5: level in terms of and I know USL, and I
Speaker 5: know promotion, relegation and I know all these things.
Speaker 3: They're not going to be.
Speaker 5: At a first division level of business in terms of
Speaker 5: revenue and potential loss of revenue of having another team
Speaker 5: in their city. As in Atlanta United as an LA
Speaker 5: Galaxy as an LA, Chattanooga is not as big of
Speaker 5: a market, So the dollars and cents are going to
Speaker 5: look different no matter what the certificate on the wall says.
Speaker 5: In terms of the level you're playing at, you can
Speaker 5: support two teams.
Speaker 3: And especially the way that it's set up.
Speaker 5: You've got what the Chattanooga Red Wolves have built in
Speaker 5: East Ridge, literally built it. They built the stadium. It's
Speaker 5: a great stadium to see games. We've been there, really
Speaker 5: enjoy what they've built. In a separate area of that metro,
Speaker 5: Chattanooga FC playing at Finley Stadium, a stadium built for Tennessee.
Speaker 5: Chattanooga Stadium built to host one Double A Football Championship games,
Speaker 5: which they've got plaques on the wall. A stadium that
Speaker 5: is a great asset to the city. I love that
Speaker 5: you have both, and I love that you had both
Speaker 5: represented on this night. You had a lot of red
Speaker 5: Wolves fans there, you had a lot more Chattanooga FC
Speaker 5: fans there. It's one of the biggest attendances that Chattanooga
Speaker 5: FC's ever had, one of their biggest attendances they've had
Speaker 5: in a long time. And you got a great spectacle
Speaker 5: and you got all the stuff in the Shenanigans afterwards,
Speaker 5: and it's great. You know, like that stuff's fun. It
Speaker 5: didn't get out of hand, it didn't get ridiculous. It's
Speaker 5: good that you had friction. It's good that you had
Speaker 5: fans running on the field waving flags. And I mean
Speaker 5: you can't literally plant a flag on a turf field,
Speaker 5: by the way, like that doesn't happen. But the symbolism
Speaker 5: of it, you had fans run out there and nobody
Speaker 5: did anything, and you had Red Wolves players run out
Speaker 5: there with a flag, and everybody wants to push and
Speaker 5: shove and make their statements and do their thing and
Speaker 5: all that, and you know, it is what it is,
Speaker 5: teams moving on and one team's not. And frankly, like
Speaker 5: when you start to get really down to the soccer
Speaker 5: element of it, I think at times and this is
Speaker 5: something that I really really stress and I get a
Speaker 5: little frustrated in the grassroots side of the game in
Speaker 5: that we get so hung up on being trendy or
Speaker 5: being what some people say is cool, or having a
Speaker 5: great logo or having a great T shirt or having
Speaker 5: a great slogan or doing cool social media. I get
Speaker 5: it all that part. It's an element of branding. It's
Speaker 5: very important. You gotta win, you gotta win games. You
Speaker 5: gotta win championships, you gotta win trophies. Why is Atlanta
Speaker 5: united with the expectations that they have because they won
Speaker 5: quickly and now they haven't won in a while and
Speaker 5: people are antsy. Chattanooga has had opportunities to get close
Speaker 5: to winning things. Chattanooga FC, they've had the opportunity to
Speaker 5: get close and they haven't enough. They need to win.
Speaker 5: They're at levels where they can win. You know, we
Speaker 5: have this conversation about forward Madison in US League won
Speaker 5: a lot. They do amazing stuff with their branding. The
Speaker 5: Flamingo stuff is fun, it's great. They do cool jerseys.
Speaker 5: Sometimes they're not so cool, but they do a million
Speaker 5: of them. Yes, they have more jerseys than wins. Like,
Speaker 5: what are we doing with that? Like, it's got to
Speaker 5: be about the soccer and it's not about the posturing.
Speaker 5: It's not about the branding. To me, that's part of
Speaker 5: it that can get you off the ground. You're soccer club.
Speaker 5: The soccer has to back it up. And we go
Speaker 5: back to the beginning of the conversation. There is no
Speaker 5: reason why you shouldn't see more players being developed in
Speaker 5: these markets outside of costs and outside of resources. And
Speaker 5: that's real. But when you're building a club, you have
Speaker 5: to think about building players, building teams and winning trophies.
Speaker 5: That's why you do this, not to sell t shirts.
Speaker 5: You want to sell some along the way, but that
Speaker 5: can't be the priority. It can't be the we're better
Speaker 5: than you, because we are whatever we say we are,
Speaker 5: we're authentic, Whe're this where that no no, no, no, win
Speaker 5: win stuff. That's what's going to determine it. And if
Speaker 5: you come in and you win this game, you get
Speaker 5: to talk for a little while. And there was a
Speaker 5: lot of talk for a lot of years about one
Speaker 5: club being inferior to the other.
Speaker 3: Well, the first time.
Speaker 5: They met, the red team won. So now the Blue
Speaker 5: team pick themselves up, go have a great season in MLS,
Speaker 5: next pro, make the playoffs, make a run, try to
Speaker 5: win a trophy, develop some players, continue planting your roots
Speaker 5: that you've been doing since two thousand and nine. And
Speaker 5: time you play in a game that matters against the
Speaker 5: red team from East Ridge, beat them and then you
Speaker 5: can talk and talk and do it. And then the
Speaker 5: Red team's got to pick themselves up and we continue
Speaker 5: and that's that's the beauty of it, right.
Speaker 3: But it's about the soccer.
Speaker 5: Too often in the lower divisions, we get too hung
Speaker 5: up on having a cool brand, selling a cool T
Speaker 5: shirt but now a nice scarf, having a crazy jersey. Win,
Speaker 5: develop players and grow the game, not grow the T shirt.
Speaker 5: Grow the game. That's what I want to see more of.
Speaker 5: And Chattanooga is a prime example where they've grown the game.
Speaker 5: But at times it gets a little too hung up
Speaker 5: on posturing about what's cool and what's not cool, and
Speaker 5: it just needs to be about You got two teams
Speaker 5: that are both at the third division level in a
Speaker 5: great soccer market that yes, one's been there longer than
Speaker 5: the other, and you had an amazing spectacle with so
Speaker 5: many eyeballs on it from around the country. Capitalize on that.
Speaker 5: Go get better players, go build better teams, Go win trophies.
Speaker 3: That's it. Our weekend starts later today. As a matter
Speaker 3: of fact, when it comes to.
Speaker 5: It, never stops. John, weekend is week It's all the same.
Speaker 5: At this point, Yes, my weekend already started. I was
Speaker 5: I've already been to the Bens and back. That's true.
Speaker 3: You were there for you were doing some really cool
Speaker 3: stuff with the Premier League side.
Speaker 5: I met a mascot. Literally, we got pictures to shoot
Speaker 5: to prove it. Okay, there is a mascot now the
Speaker 5: SDH Network and nineteen nine a game good interview with
Speaker 5: Carlton Cole west Ham legend. You're going to see some
Speaker 5: clips from that. You're going to see stories from that
Speaker 5: over the next few days. Network member Sophia Coopertino, Nico
Speaker 5: Leafy also working with that. You'll see their handy work
Speaker 5: throughout the weekend as well. Really cool to see west
Speaker 5: Ham coming to pay us a visit. Of a lot
Speaker 5: of people are coming to pay us a visit over
Speaker 5: the next few years, with a World Cup coming, with
Speaker 5: a Club World Cup coming, with Premier League Summer series coming,
Speaker 5: just like what Chattanooga's building and being a great soccer
Speaker 5: town in the United States, and no offense Chattanooga. I'm
Speaker 5: not saying that in a derogatory way. Please don't do it.
Speaker 5: Atlanta's bigger.
Speaker 3: It just is.
Speaker 5: But Chattanooga has shown that you can build a lot
Speaker 5: of really cool things in soccer in the Southeast, and
Speaker 5: Atlanta has done the same, different scale. But yes, so
Speaker 5: Atlanta is going to get a lot of visits, and
Speaker 5: I think Chattanooga's going to get a lot of visits
Speaker 5: off of that too, just like I think Dalton's going
Speaker 5: to get a lot of visits, and Gainesville is going
Speaker 5: to get a lot of visits, and Greenville is going
Speaker 5: to benefit from me. You got Ronald Daniel hanging out
Speaker 5: in Greenville. I mean, come on, these things are cool.
Speaker 5: So you're going to have a lot of people come
Speaker 5: in to pay visits. And west Ham is the one
Speaker 5: today and you're gonna see a lot of west Ham
Speaker 5: stuff throughout the weekend around Atlanta, which is very, very cool.
Speaker 5: So talk to Carlton Cole Meta mascot. Fun start to
Speaker 5: the day going to Merriston one of the Actually what's
Speaker 5: funny is one of the first places that soccer was
Speaker 5: ever played in this city was at the original mayrist
Speaker 5: School downtown, go way back to I believe nineteen oh seven. Yeah,
Speaker 5: one of the first places was at the Merris School.
Speaker 5: So we are they've moved their campus and we're going
Speaker 5: to the new campus and it's a place that I
Speaker 5: played back in my career in high school. And we're
Speaker 5: going to see one of the oldest rivalries in high
Speaker 5: school soccer in Atlanta with Saint Pias visiting Marist. We're
Speaker 5: doing doubleheader tonight. You'll hear John Nelson, you'll hear Madison
Speaker 5: Cruz on the call for both of those games. I
Speaker 5: will be there contributing as well. Then we got academy
Speaker 5: tomorrow morning. Myself and Joe Fryhoffer will have the U
Speaker 5: eighteen game as Atlanta hosts inter Miami, and In Madison
Speaker 5: and Jarrett Smith will have the U sixteen game at noon.
Speaker 5: Make our way down to the Benz six thirty pregame show, Abe, Gordon,
Speaker 5: Madison Cruz. At six point thirty, you will hear myself
Speaker 5: and Mike Conti for the game, and you'll hear us
Speaker 5: with Garth Loggerway just before seven o'clock nine game Odyssey
Speaker 5: app Full time Report, you'll hear John and Abe and
Speaker 5: who knows what else depending on what happens. Hopefully not
Speaker 5: seven goals unless they're all for Atlanta in this one. Oh,
Speaker 5: I might not have a voice if we have seven goals.
Speaker 5: And then we go to Kennesaw on Sunday for Atlanta
Speaker 5: and Miami.
Speaker 3: It is the the spring of soccer, which will turn
Speaker 3: into the summer of soccer, which is.
Speaker 5: It's just the NonStop of soccer Like let's just forget it.
Speaker 5: We're around the corner from everywhere at all times. That's NONO,
Speaker 5: the NonStop of soccer, the non stop of soccer. That's
Speaker 5: the SDH network. That's soccer in this region. And it's
Speaker 5: a lot of fun, if not tiring at the same time.
Speaker 3: That too. Thank you, partner, and I'll catch up with
Speaker 3: you offline a little bit. We're going to have a
Speaker 3: catch up with coaches and then I'll see you later.
Speaker 5: Sorry, not sorry for anybody I offended with my statements today.
Speaker 3: There you go, all right, thank you partner. Bye, there
Speaker 3: goes Jason. So it's a chance to wrap things up
Speaker 3: here as we always do at the end of the week.
Speaker 3: Once again, he told he laid it all out for
Speaker 3: you as to what the week is and what the
Speaker 3: weekend is going to be, and I told you what
Speaker 3: it's gonna be like. Starting next week with Monday, we
Speaker 3: gotta match Fort Payne and Coahola Creek Tuesday. Drew Dickinson
Speaker 3: has West Roscyth and river Ridge both matches up at
Speaker 3: river Ridge Wednesday. Jason's hosting SDHAM Tuesday. Soccer's in session.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have Kaye Chimura on the head coach from
Speaker 3: Druid Hills on the girls side. Then coming back Thursday,
Speaker 3: it'll be our first road match of the year with
Speaker 3: Atlanta United two in Philadelphia Union two. And then next Friday,
Speaker 3: we've got a high school doubleheader that we have earmarked
Speaker 3: and we're just waiting to hear approvals on that. So
Speaker 3: that's another week of SDH. Thanks for coming byes. You
Speaker 3: always do. And since it is the end of the
Speaker 3: week when it comes to SDH, thank you. Michael Valverdi
Speaker 3: has always you know, we gotta let it go. We
Speaker 3: gotta let you know what's on our minds. Lay safe.
Speaker 3: Everybody will see around the world this weekend. Enjoy your time,
Speaker 3: enjoy each other, put plato plate safe. It's the end
Speaker 3: of the show on a Friday, which means we get
Speaker 3: to do this. The war was.
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Speaker 2: sticking into our fingers. The dictating equipment started asking us questions,
Speaker 2: and our beepers cent electric shocks just through our body
Speaker 2: like a cattle prod out in the warehouse. The trucks
Speaker 2: kept banging into the docks, not even thinking about stopping.
Speaker 2: Our frail bodies were strapped to the chairs, and our
Speaker 2: chairs were chained to the desks. Our please for justice
Speaker 2: were ignored, and the.
Speaker 3: End seemed near.
Speaker 2: But we busted our save driver's little bitty balls. We've
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Speaker 2: cats Friday, Friday, Friday