Speaker 1: It's a new week of sdh AM.
Speaker 2: Here, John here, you there.
Speaker 1: Let me change a quick design piece here so we
Speaker 1: can actually see branding. No, no, not, wasn't it? It
Speaker 1: was this one that's the one. All right, there we go, John,
Speaker 1: here you there. It's another week of sdh AM Soccer's
Speaker 1: morning show. And today, well we'll kind of catch up
Speaker 1: over the weekend. There's a lot of morning news, especially
Speaker 1: going on overseas in England, with coaches shifting and players
Speaker 1: shifting and stuff like that that we'll get into. We
Speaker 1: know a champion chip game from a couple of semi
Speaker 1: finals that happened this weekend. We'll kind of track it
Speaker 1: and let you know what it's going to look like.
Speaker 1: Two teams in Florida playing for a championship in one
Speaker 1: of the women's leagues. We'll have your defining moments from
Speaker 1: those matchups coming up here in our number one. Obviously
Speaker 1: here at our number one, we'll catch up with Abe Gordon.
Speaker 1: Abe is multitasking, so you have if you have multiple
Speaker 1: devices going on right now, you might be hearing Abe
Speaker 1: doing more than one thing. So Abe is on tape.
Speaker 1: We caught up with Abe. We'll play him here in
Speaker 1: just a little bit, get you ready. As a bat's
Speaker 1: lead off on Mondays, Ricky's already jacked up and excited
Speaker 1: about the contract renewal of a particular individual at Al Nasser,
Speaker 1: So Ricky's in this morning very very early with what's
Speaker 1: going on there Nations League. We do have some fun
Speaker 1: math involving our friends from San Marino and qualification for
Speaker 1: the World Cup, which we think was rather unique and interesting,
Speaker 1: and so there's irony that's attached to that. If you
Speaker 1: caught up with morning Espresso, you know that there are
Speaker 1: coaching changes going on and coaching desires that might be happening. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, there's a lot going on in the
Speaker 1: news department. Abes is more philosophical or we get you
Speaker 1: ready for what's going to be going down on Thursday.
Speaker 1: We'll see if we can catch up with our buddy
Speaker 1: Glenn Crooks between now and then and give the NYCFC
Speaker 1: version of preparation for a match up Thursday night in
Speaker 1: the Bronx on ninety two nine in the Game of
Speaker 1: the Odyssey app as everybody tries to race back from
Speaker 1: national team duty, where you've seen a lot of folks
Speaker 1: for at Land United score goals and be active regardless
Speaker 1: of what level they are when it comes to it.
Speaker 1: Landy United, So we'll see what happens there once again,
Speaker 1: is the race is on. You have one more match
Speaker 1: in the international window, mostly tomorrow. Some of them are
Speaker 1: on on tonight, some of them tonight, most of them tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Planes are going to be caught on Wednesday trying to
Speaker 1: figure out, Okay, who do I have, how many minutes?
Speaker 2: Where can I put you?
Speaker 1: Those kinds of things for Ronnie DLAs Atlanta United gets
Speaker 1: ready for the second half of the season, first matchup
Speaker 1: in the Bronx against NYCFC our number two obviously, Bart
Speaker 1: Kieler from the Soccer for US pod, where we will
Speaker 1: discuss what happened over the weekend. We'll hear from Mauricio
Speaker 1: Pochettino as we lead into Bart, and we'll let you
Speaker 1: know what's on Bart's mind. Where the US men's national
Speaker 1: team had won the league till they didn't end up
Speaker 1: losing two to one in East Hartford to Turque, and
Speaker 1: we'll see what Bart's thoughts are. The sky is falling
Speaker 1: from all the feedback that he has been getting. There
Speaker 1: has been a bit of a back and forth involving
Speaker 1: folks who are mad about who is in who is
Speaker 1: not in, and we did get in to that with Bart.
Speaker 1: Leading into the weekend, we'll see how opinions I've either altered,
Speaker 1: changed or been reinforced with what happened with who wasn't
Speaker 1: around for the US men's national team in their matchup
Speaker 1: against Turkey as they get ready for the matchup tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Speaking of tomorrow, in Nashville, we'll hear from our friend
Speaker 1: Lucas Panzica, who along with Jamie Watson, is going to
Speaker 1: be calling the matchup on Westwood One. Lucas will be
Speaker 1: batting lead off tomorrow, so we'll catch up with Lucas.
Speaker 1: We'll try and track down Jamie and see if we
Speaker 1: can catch up with Jamie about it too, but we'll
Speaker 1: get their thoughts about everything leading into the matchup. So
Speaker 1: Lucas Panzica is going to be calling the match for
Speaker 1: Westwood one. We'll catch up with him bat and lead
Speaker 1: off tomorrow as they get ready for the US playing
Speaker 1: at g Otis and so that'll be a really cool
Speaker 1: catch up there on Tuesday for US here at Sdham.
Speaker 1: So that's the rundown and starting at ten thirty, so
Speaker 1: in an hour hour and twenty minutes from now, An
Speaker 1: hour and twenty minutes from now. It is a moment
Speaker 1: at Mercedes been Stadium that folks have been waiting for
Speaker 1: for a while. You're gonna get conversion from turf to
Speaker 1: grass starting at ten thirty, or at least that's when
Speaker 1: they let the media in. So if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: I think Jason and our Caroline Hood are there and
Speaker 1: we'll see if there's anything going on at ten thirty
Speaker 1: with the conversion of the grass. The surface at Mercedes
Speaker 1: bends to grass for the Club World Cup, so I
Speaker 1: know that Jason will be in inside the walls for
Speaker 1: that as we'll see if there's anything going on, maybe Jason.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see Jason rolling the grass out as a
Speaker 1: part of it. So we'll see what happens. But grass
Speaker 1: conversion starts at least for the media at ten thirty,
Speaker 1: so we'll have that in coming up in the final
Speaker 1: half hour of the show as well. So once again
Speaker 1: Abe Gordon coming up on tape here in just a
Speaker 1: little bit. Bart Keeler joining us from the soccer for
Speaker 1: USPOD at the top of our number two to talk
Speaker 1: about the men's national team and all the things. We've
Speaker 1: got all the news in between, coaches that are shifting
Speaker 1: from one team to another, players shifting from one team
Speaker 1: to another, all the news that happened this past weekend
Speaker 1: and all of the things. So let's say hi to
Speaker 1: everybody before we get into Abe Gordon. This morning in
Speaker 1: ninety two nine in the game and the Odyssey app
Speaker 1: So let's see Morning Ricky, Morning Abby, Morning David. And
Speaker 1: those are the early returns, and so let's see. So
Speaker 1: Ricky is quite pleased. I know this will shock you
Speaker 1: with what went down with Christiano Ronaldo at the age
Speaker 1: of two hundred and twenty seven getting a nation's league
Speaker 1: title for Portugal, and Ricky's like, I wish you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have renewed, Morning Abby, And I'm thinking that everybody is
Speaker 1: gassed up in there volunteerism and getting ready for Club World,
Speaker 1: Coppage and all that kind of stuff. Morning David, David's
Speaker 1: in start. Ricky starts his training on Wednesday, so we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens there. David last day of Live Watch
Speaker 1: until he returns from the annual Ohio Michigan family trip.
Speaker 2: So all right, so David, how does that work?
Speaker 1: Are you allowed to mention the state up north when
Speaker 1: you're in Ohio, and then do you mention the state
Speaker 1: the state down south when.
Speaker 2: You're in Michigan. Is that how that works?
Speaker 1: I didn't I don't know where family allegiances are when
Speaker 1: it comes to college football, and I didn't know if
Speaker 1: it was the state up north in the state down south,
Speaker 1: depending on where you are in your summer travels. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: so so it is? So it is the the So
Speaker 1: if your wife's a Michigan fan, as David lets us know,
Speaker 1: and so David's wife is a Michigan fan, So how
Speaker 1: does she respond when you're in Ohio? Is it just
Speaker 1: something that has to be endured? I cannot believe family's
Speaker 1: Ohio state wife is a Michigan fan. Lots of lip biting. Okay,
Speaker 1: I wish you nothing, Yes, I very carefully, very carefully
Speaker 1: worded and progressed through. I wish you nothing but the
Speaker 1: speed from your from your God, sir. Uh, just get
Speaker 1: through it, get through it in one piece.
Speaker 2: And uh.
Speaker 1: Abby's letting us know that she is halfway through her shifts.
Speaker 1: He gets her full uniform tonight. And Abby's letting us
Speaker 1: Snowfief is very disorganized, not necessarily something that you know,
Speaker 1: I think that that's probably a prevailing opinion across the board.
Speaker 2: But we'll see what we'll see what else is going
Speaker 2: on as we go.
Speaker 1: So once again, Abe Gordon coming up here in just
Speaker 1: a little bit, and then it'll be uh, our buddy
Speaker 1: Bart Keeler let us know about anything and everything that
Speaker 1: he saw from the weekend involving the US men's national team.
Speaker 1: Like I said, we're gonna go very very gonna do
Speaker 1: a three dimensional kind of a thing with Bart because
Speaker 1: of where we are. You had folks that were sitting
Speaker 1: at desks who were yelling about folks that were not
Speaker 1: available for friendlies. You had folks in postmatch interviews that
Speaker 1: were somewhat pointed. But we'll get into that. We'll get
Speaker 1: into what happened with the US. We'll get you ready
Speaker 1: for the matchup tomorrow. David Wow response very carefully. Nephew
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see that. I could see that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because part of the posse here at sdh Over
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Speaker 2: So now it's up. But no, trust me, I understand.
Speaker 2: I understand. All right. So I guess that was pretty
Speaker 2: much opening kickoff.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Uh yeah, we'll do it that way because,
Speaker 1: like I said, we got highlights coming up on the
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Speaker 2: Once again.
Speaker 1: Abe is on the air right now at ninety two
Speaker 1: nine in the Game in the Odyssey app. And you
Speaker 1: know what, Abe's going to be on the air right
Speaker 1: now with us, because we already talked about things. It's
Speaker 1: a conversation about at Lanty and I had a conversation
Speaker 1: about the men's national team to get you ready for
Speaker 1: Bart coming up at ten o'clock. So here is our
Speaker 1: conversation with Abe Gordon ninetyeen nine, the Game in the
Speaker 1: Odyssey app. All right, Bett laid off as he always does.
Speaker 1: It's Ab Gordon here in nineteen nine the Game in
Speaker 1: the Odyssey app. So Abe, I mean it's it was
Speaker 1: an international window that we that were in the sprint
Speaker 1: after match day two in the international window. And then
Speaker 1: of course Atlanta United on Thursday is playing at the
Speaker 1: the U twelve pitch in the Bronx, and so I
Speaker 1: will be intrigued to see who makes the race home
Speaker 1: and how many minutes are going to be made available
Speaker 1: to whomever when it comes to Thursday.
Speaker 4: Hopefully a lot of them can get home and get going,
Speaker 4: because they all seem to be in form. Like every
Speaker 4: time I looked up, I was being tweeted at another
Speaker 4: goal from a member of Atlanta United. I mean, what,
Speaker 4: Sleeash had a nice little worm burner. I think I
Speaker 4: saw Jay Fortune score. I think Sava scored. So the
Speaker 4: good news is if they can get back and they
Speaker 4: are rested, it feels like some of these guys are informed.
Speaker 4: I think I saw Niggy had a nice performance as well.
Speaker 4: So if these guys can get back, maybe And we
Speaker 4: talked about this a little bit, maybe not here on
Speaker 4: the podcast, but certainly on the full time report, just
Speaker 4: these guys getting out and going away to their international
Speaker 4: squads and international duty and just kind of gaining confidence
Speaker 4: from strong performances. And I think now the challenges can
Speaker 4: you bring that both the level of performance but also
Speaker 4: the confidence that you have as an individual what it's
Speaker 4: like to win again sometimes can help a little bit.
Speaker 4: Maybe someone should tell the Braves that, But just any
Speaker 4: little boost right now, because I thought there was a
Speaker 4: disproportionate reaction. We're gonna be honest to the loss against
Speaker 4: Red Bulls. It was certainly frustrating. No one's denying that,
Speaker 4: but that one loss didn't mean you lose all six
Speaker 4: of these road games or five left here, and I
Speaker 4: do think it was a little disproportionate. I do think
Speaker 4: there is still the possibility that you have some momentum
Speaker 4: moving forward after those recent home wins, and so I'm
Speaker 4: looking forward to it. I do understand the Little League
Speaker 4: pitch and how it may be adjust what you need
Speaker 4: to do, how you develop and score goals, So I'm
Speaker 4: looking forward to seeing how Ronnie Diler manages that for
Speaker 4: his first time here, but obviously he's very familiar with
Speaker 4: the pitch up there from previous stops. So I'm feeling
Speaker 4: pretty good. If we're gonna be honest, a little break,
Speaker 4: a little bit of a mental step away from the
Speaker 4: disappointing loss, and seeing all these guys play at a
Speaker 4: high level, perform at a high level, and hopefully getting
Speaker 4: back here's got me kind of juiced up for Thursday.
Speaker 1: If we're gonna be honest, Yeah, And I know that
Speaker 1: we're also kind of keeping an eye on the injury front.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be getting interest in William Bob back at
Speaker 1: some point. He's turning the end of that recovery process.
Speaker 1: But you do Los came in Tookashi and the backup
Speaker 1: that you had at the striker position. So there is
Speaker 1: a give and take when it comes to the injury
Speaker 1: element of it all. But you know, you look at
Speaker 1: Lot's a lot who all he has to do is
Speaker 1: fly from Toronto, so you know, as long as he
Speaker 1: can navigate Pierson Airport traffic, then he can get to
Speaker 1: New York and everything is fine there. But no, I
Speaker 1: think that to your point, you're looking at a match
Speaker 1: with NYC where it's not you just have to be
Speaker 1: mentally on for a full ninety minutes just because of
Speaker 1: all of the reverb and the pinball that happens there.
Speaker 1: It's not something where you're focused on build up. You're
Speaker 1: focused on passing and shooting and having all of the
Speaker 1: lineup in its past form with Saba out on the outside.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm intrigued, as are you, for the
Speaker 1: reasons that it's a different approach in New York when
Speaker 1: it comes to playing in the Bronx as it would
Speaker 1: be on a traditional pitch.
Speaker 2: And yes, I did just use air quotes.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And the concerning thing is some of the quality of
Speaker 4: Golden Lane United has given up. How turnovers had led
Speaker 4: to chances. How misplays in the back have led to chances.
Speaker 4: And I do think because of what you face up there,
Speaker 4: it probably gets magnified a little bit, and you have
Speaker 4: to be, as you mentioned, extra tight, extra focused. Every
Speaker 4: bounce has to be yours. The turnovers in the midfield,
Speaker 4: especially in the defensive midfield that is closer to an
Speaker 4: attacking point, you've got to be tight on those. And
Speaker 4: so there's no doubt about it. You're gonna have to
Speaker 4: come and play better than you did against Red Bulls.
Speaker 4: And I don't know how many times throughout the streak
Speaker 4: of losses that I mentioned this to you. Even in
Speaker 4: some of the wins, goals are too easy to come
Speaker 4: by for Landy and iited opponents. You just I mean,
Speaker 4: imagine if this team made opponents work as hard to
Speaker 4: score goals as it Landy and United has to work
Speaker 4: to score goals. I mean, it'd be an immensely different season.
Speaker 4: And I don't think it's because of a lack of quality.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's a lack of talent. I just
Speaker 4: think there have been so many miscues, mistakes and misplays
Speaker 4: that have absolutely cost this team. And there just haven't
Speaker 4: been the other end of that where you're the benefactor
Speaker 4: of some of those. There's been a couple here or there.
Speaker 4: But I just think you got to be buttoned up
Speaker 4: and dialed in. There's no doubt about that. I still
Speaker 4: think there's a season to be had if you can
Speaker 4: clean up.
Speaker 3: I really do.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's such a situation where there's no talent.
Speaker 4: I think we've seen because of some of the wins
Speaker 4: here that if you can just clean up something that
Speaker 4: makes it easy to beat you, that you can go
Speaker 4: on a run. So I'm still confident. Now it needs
Speaker 4: to start, right, I mean, you're past halfway now, this
Speaker 4: is the official past halfway point coming up, and so
Speaker 4: you need to start to turn it around a little bit.
Speaker 4: I think you started to and now you need to
Speaker 4: continue that, especially as the only squad in the East
Speaker 4: that hasn't been able to do much on the road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you look at what it looks like on
Speaker 1: the road at Land United five and two on the
Speaker 1: road and they are the only team not to get
Speaker 1: a full point result on the road this year. You
Speaker 1: do have a couple of folks that only have one
Speaker 1: win on the road, and so on.
Speaker 2: And so forth. But at Land United right now five
Speaker 2: and two in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: All right, so since you are you are optimistic towards
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. This was a question
Speaker 1: that was posed when we were up at Nofaux Brewingen
Speaker 1: coming on Saturday. When it comes to bright spots in
Speaker 1: the first half of the season for it Land United,
Speaker 1: and we and Maddie and Jason and I each had
Speaker 1: our different answers, But I will pose this question to you.
Speaker 1: Who are bright spots for you in the first half
Speaker 1: of the season for it Land United when it comes
Speaker 1: to what you've seen, even though the current win loss
Speaker 1: record does not reflect what a lot of folks would
Speaker 1: have liked to have seen at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I imagine like them, you start immediately
Speaker 4: with the homegrowns in the academy, and it's Matt Edwards
Speaker 4: and Jay Fortune. Those are the first two and we've
Speaker 4: talked about them at length in pregame shows and postgame
Speaker 4: shows here on the podcast as well. I think you
Speaker 4: have to start there, but I actually want to take
Speaker 4: it a step back further. The first bright spot is
Speaker 4: the recognition from Ronnie Dila the development of the formation
Speaker 4: right right, the five in the back, the three center backs.
Speaker 4: I don't think Matt Edwards becomes what he's become without
Speaker 4: the recognition of we're going to switch to this formation
Speaker 4: and see if it works. And likewise j Fortune for
Speaker 4: a lot of the same reasons. I think this formation
Speaker 4: has allowed those two specific guys to really blossom and
Speaker 4: bloom into what they've been the last I don't know,
Speaker 4: five to six match days, whatever the number is. I
Speaker 4: think you go a little bit further back, and I
Speaker 4: know he's been banged up here there. Just Moyaba has
Speaker 4: had the best season that he's had as a member
Speaker 4: of Villady United, and it comes off of some really
Speaker 4: tough moments a year ago where a lot of people
Speaker 4: were really down on his ability and his performance. Mistakes
Speaker 4: got made and sometimes they still do. But I think
Speaker 4: moya Ba has been very good as well. And then
Speaker 4: like the Ages Wonder, like Brad Guzan, really just stays
Speaker 4: at a high level. And you know, I don't know
Speaker 4: what I expected coming off of his injuries. I don't
Speaker 4: know what I expected another year later as he gets
Speaker 4: older and inevitably is one year closer to retirement, but
Speaker 4: he's just playing at a high level, and I just
Speaker 4: I don't know when the falloff is gonna come. I'm
Speaker 4: a little nervous about like continually giving him contracts or
Speaker 4: doesn't seem to be some great succession plan there. But
Speaker 4: he's also playing at a very high level, and I
Speaker 4: think it has to be noted as well recently Moronchuk
Speaker 4: the past three or four matches, so I you know,
Speaker 4: we got to see a little bit more of that
Speaker 4: to continue.
Speaker 3: But he's played very well also.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and those were the common threads you have. You
Speaker 1: had I said, Matt Edwards and the homegrowns, and then
Speaker 1: you had Brad was mentioned, and you had made on
Speaker 1: Chuk mentioned, you had you know, Saba recently with the
Speaker 1: change in formation, with what you were able to do
Speaker 1: on the right hand side. He was another one that
Speaker 1: was part of the the that particular crew that was mentioned.
Speaker 4: And honestly, Tira, I know he hasn't been given a
Speaker 4: ton of play time just because of Latte Lot, but
Speaker 4: he has scored some of the more important and significant
Speaker 4: goals for the club this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: How much of the US national team did you pay
Speaker 1: attention to at or at all this past weekend?
Speaker 4: I watched a minute in twenty and then I tweeted
Speaker 4: out about some nastiness from the Glenn and then I
Speaker 4: watched the rest of the match and was like, all right,
Speaker 4: these guys don't don't know what they're doing yet as
Speaker 4: a unit, and that's not a huge surprise. There's a
Speaker 4: lot of new names, a lot of people probably playing together,
Speaker 4: and I know they had a short camp and all that,
Speaker 4: but this is a kind of a investigation period. It's
Speaker 4: a development period to figure out who are your best
Speaker 4: guys and who do you want to carry that flag
Speaker 4: when the World Cup comes, and so I think there's
Speaker 4: a lot of figuring things out still. Obviously it was
Speaker 4: a great start and then it was all all ugly
Speaker 4: from there and unfortunately a couple of goals that remind
Speaker 4: me a little bit too much of watching Atlanta United.
Speaker 4: Misplays in the back, a deflection gets by the keeper.
Speaker 4: You didn't make Turkey work hard enough to score goals,
Speaker 4: and so that certainly is frustrating and you'll see if
Speaker 4: you can do better. What is that tomorrow night against Switzerland?
Speaker 1: Is that who they got?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So in Nashville, Oh yeah, I'm.
Speaker 4: Not gonna overreact to it, like I know everyone wants
Speaker 4: to be like, you're the United States. You can't be
Speaker 4: losing a Turkey. I'm like, I get it, but at
Speaker 4: the same time we're figuring things out. I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: get too worried about it. But yeah, I'm I'm just
Speaker 4: not an overreactor when it comes to that. I'll worry
Speaker 4: when the games matter.
Speaker 1: Well, And that was my follow up question was that
Speaker 1: you seem to have folks that are bent out of
Speaker 1: shape about not having some of your big guns as
Speaker 1: you get ready for Gold Cup in this camp and
Speaker 1: things like that. So you're of the camp of, look,
Speaker 1: I need to figure out who guys twelve through twenty
Speaker 1: six are. I'm not worried about one through eleven when
Speaker 1: I'm playing turkey in East Hartford and Switzerland and Nashville.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, with respect to the Gold Cup,
Speaker 4: like I don't know who won like the two thousand
Speaker 4: and three Gold Cup or I don't know if they
Speaker 4: held one that year. But but I mean, you get
Speaker 4: the point, like the World Cup is what matters, and
Speaker 4: people are gonna a freak out about pulistic and not
Speaker 4: representing the country.
Speaker 5: And all that.
Speaker 4: All I'm sitting here is asking is is this guy
Speaker 4: gonna be healthy and ready to roll when the World
Speaker 4: Cup comes around, because that's what's most important. And so
Speaker 4: I totally understand it. And he's been carrying the banner
Speaker 4: for this this country practically single handedly for almost a
Speaker 4: decade now half a decade at least in regards to
Speaker 4: pulistic and so he needs some time. He's gonna get
Speaker 4: himself ready mentally, physically and be there for the World Cup.
Speaker 4: I have no doubts about that. So I was talking
Speaker 4: with Maddie about this off air one day, and it
Speaker 4: just the the overreaction to he doesn't want to do
Speaker 4: this or doesn't want to do that, or how could
Speaker 4: you not? And and just like man, I'm just so
Speaker 4: singularly focused on the World Cup. Like I just some
Speaker 4: of these tournaments it's cool to be in, and certainly
Speaker 4: I want to win them, but like, I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: overreact if we don't, nor am I like gonna overly
Speaker 4: celebrate if we do. It's just the World Cup matters
Speaker 4: so much more that all of my focus as soon
Speaker 4: as the World Cup ends is all right, what's the
Speaker 4: plan over the next four years to get the best
Speaker 4: team possible for the next World Cup? Like I would
Speaker 4: have managed US Soccer completely differently over the past, like
Speaker 4: twelve or sixteen years, because I don't think enough attention
Speaker 4: was paid to how do we develop our guys for
Speaker 4: four years from now? I think too much of it
Speaker 4: was here are So, I mean, we can't be running
Speaker 4: thirty six year old guys and thirty seven year old
Speaker 4: guys out there just because they've they've been with the
Speaker 4: program for a while, Like, no, bring out the young guys,
Speaker 4: let them start to develop, because in three years, that's
Speaker 4: who's gonna be on the World Cup team, not some
Speaker 4: thirty seven year old defender thirty eight year old defender.
Speaker 4: I won't use any names midfielders who have been there
Speaker 4: or whatever. I don't think they've really had that singular
Speaker 4: mindset and that that, to me, has been a little
Speaker 4: bit of a failure from US Soccer.
Speaker 1: So you know, you're you're not gonna mention somebody who
Speaker 1: might whose name might sound like skim Cream.
Speaker 3: Well, look this goes back.
Speaker 4: It's not just him, and look maybe he'll he'll be
Speaker 4: there for the World Cup, sure, but like this goes back,
Speaker 4: there have been times we're running guys out there, and
Speaker 4: my mindset is, if you know a guy's not gonna
Speaker 4: be on the next World Cup team. I have no
Speaker 4: need for him at all to be part of the program.
Speaker 5: It's just for me.
Speaker 4: Everything after a World Cup is about building for the
Speaker 4: next three and a half years through World Cup qualifying,
Speaker 4: but to the World Cup ultimately. And if a guy
Speaker 4: is not gonna be there for the next World Cup,
Speaker 4: unless you're in such a bad shape, and the US
Speaker 4: Soccer shouldn't be in this position that you need a
Speaker 4: guy to help you qualify for a World Cup unless
Speaker 4: you really are in that situation.
Speaker 3: I move on.
Speaker 4: Let's bring in some youth in the midfield, or youth
Speaker 4: up top, or youth in the back line and figure
Speaker 4: it all out and get these guys going, because I
Speaker 4: just I feel like you're wasting opportunities to figure out
Speaker 4: who your best guys are for the next three four
Speaker 4: years and the cycle after that.
Speaker 1: All right, broadcast plans for NYC and the U twelve pitch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're looking forward to it again. An odd kickoff
Speaker 4: evening Thursday, But Mike and Jason will be up there
Speaker 4: and join the Big Apple. I will be back in
Speaker 4: studio getting you set with the five straps counting down
Speaker 4: for an hour beforehand and then certainly back with you
Speaker 4: for the full time report afterwards. So looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna remain confident all week. No one could break
Speaker 4: my stride, at least not until kickoff on Thursday.
Speaker 1: And no one can slow you down. Yes, as always
Speaker 1: been friend. Great to see you on Mondays as we
Speaker 1: launch things off, and we'll be catching up with you
Speaker 1: on Thursday as well with NYC.
Speaker 3: Sounds good.
Speaker 1: John, Thanks and there goes Abe Gordon ninety two nine
Speaker 1: in the Game of the Odyssey app.
Speaker 2: And so there you go.
Speaker 1: That's Abes thoughts here on a reaction Monday, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to get his thoughts on the us M and
Speaker 1: t leading into Bart, who's going to be joining us
Speaker 1: in twenty minutes. We will hear from Mauricio Pochettino leading
Speaker 1: into Bart's segment, and we'll go through some of the
Speaker 1: other news notes and everything that is attached to all
Speaker 1: that is going on morning, Dell, Thanks for dropping by. Okay,
Speaker 1: we do have a championship game set in the USL
Speaker 1: and it is an all Florida Super League Final, and
Speaker 1: so it is Tampa Bay and Fort Lauderdale that are
Speaker 1: going to be squaring off in the in the us
Speaker 1: USL Super League Final, and it was a moment in
Speaker 1: the one hundred and twentieth minute in one of them,
Speaker 1: and it was.
Speaker 2: A moment in the sixtieth for the other.
Speaker 1: So let's break down what happened in the USL Super
Speaker 1: League to get you to the championship game involving Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay and Fort Lauderdale. And that's gonna be on the
Speaker 1: fourteenth at seven point thirty. So once again, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Saturday night, seven thirty in Tampa. So it'll be
Speaker 1: the championship by the Riverside or by the Bay, and
Speaker 1: it is Fort Lauderdale and Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay Sun
Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale United, seven thirty Saturday night. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: on Peacock And so yes, you can get your seats
Speaker 1: now as they are there. But for Fort Lauderdale, very
Speaker 1: very busy night for Caro Locklear as they went to
Speaker 1: American Legion Stadium in Charlotte to take on Carolina Ascent.
Speaker 1: It would take a while, but it would be Locklear
Speaker 1: getting both the goals to make sure that Fort Lauderdale
Speaker 1: would get to the title game in USL Super League.
Speaker 1: Here is the one that decided it later than late,
Speaker 1: courtesy of our friends at the.
Speaker 2: USL Super League in Peacock.
Speaker 1: Of Soccer. Here this evening in Charlotte, brooks.
Speaker 6: Over the top Lockleyer's there, she fights the back of
Speaker 6: the neck, the flag stays down, and Kiara Locklear.
Speaker 5: With the go ahead goal in.
Speaker 1: The one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 6: At the minute this entire Carolina team thought she was
Speaker 6: going to be called offside.
Speaker 1: Super League once again, the number four seed Fort Lauderdale
Speaker 1: knocks off the top seed Carolina ascent in Charlotte, and
Speaker 1: so it was two to one final Fort Lauderdale over Carolina.
Speaker 1: They would advance as the four seed and then they
Speaker 1: would get the winner of Tampa.
Speaker 2: Bay and Dallas.
Speaker 1: Dallas traveling to Tampa Bay to take on the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Sun. Here is the decider in that one. It
Speaker 1: happened sixty minutes earlier than the previous one, with Carol
Speaker 1: lock clear, but nevertheless Tampa Bay gets the duke. Here's
Speaker 1: the deciding goal there, once again courtesy of the USL
Speaker 1: Super League and Peacock. Ashley Orcis plays it to Besett Hogan.
Speaker 2: That's been a little quiet today as well.
Speaker 3: About this ball.
Speaker 1: Jemona on the end of it, looping.
Speaker 6: Towards goal like Carly Jamona puts Tampa Bay on top.
Speaker 6: What a three bread here, and it almost seemed like
Speaker 6: it was in slow motion as she was able to
Speaker 6: just chip it over.
Speaker 1: Madison White hit that side netting. So it's the two
Speaker 1: and the four that make it to the final and
Speaker 1: the USL Super League on Saturday once again, that's on
Speaker 1: Peacock two two one wins, two to one win for
Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale, two to one win for Tampa Bay and
Speaker 1: so Tampa Bay Sun will host as the two seeds. So, uh,
Speaker 1: we'll see if we can catch up with some folks
Speaker 1: on this one and later on the later on in
Speaker 1: the week specifically to kind of get the lowdown as
Speaker 1: to what happened this season and find out what the
Speaker 1: the overall vibe is about the USL Super League, and
Speaker 1: we'll find out, uh, we'll find out about the title
Speaker 1: game and we'll send we are we've been efforting all
Speaker 1: season long trying to talk to some folks who are
Speaker 1: the hires up, higher ups, HighRes up, kind of like
Speaker 1: poets laureate the folks in charge. And so we'll see
Speaker 1: if we can come up with either a primo mortem
Speaker 1: or a post mortem when it comes to the season
Speaker 1: here with the USL Super League. But that's your title game.
Speaker 1: It is the two seed Tampa hosting the four seed
Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale, and that is going to be this weekend
Speaker 1: once again courtesy of our friends at Peacock. Carol Locklear,
Speaker 1: by the way, gets the brace in that one, getting
Speaker 1: both goals, and so that is how it ends up
Speaker 1: with the win for Fort Lauderdale. In the one hundred
Speaker 1: and twentieth minute, people, one hundred and twentieth minute, Caroll
Speaker 1: Locklear gets the duke and it ends.
Speaker 2: Up with the win there for Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 1: All right, so let's take the tour and let you
Speaker 1: know what's going on with all the news and everything,
Speaker 1: and there is a lot of news that is going
Speaker 1: on overseas this morning. It appears that Thomas Frank looks
Speaker 1: like he is going to be taking the gig with spurs.
Speaker 1: May your Lord help you, sir, h it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a I hope they give you the resources that you're
Speaker 1: hunting for verbally agreed to terms. According to our buddy
Speaker 1: Bend Jacobs, ongoing discussions over back room staff deals subject
Speaker 1: to Frank's release clause being triggered, but he is expected
Speaker 1: to replace Ajpasterac that comes from Alex Crook, Ben Jacobs
Speaker 1: and others parties now finalizing the appointment.
Speaker 2: As of about an hour.
Speaker 1: Ago, Angelino set to sign for All Hill All after
Speaker 1: agreeing to terms. Offer of up the twenty three million
Speaker 1: euro was made, Roma expected to accept. We do have
Speaker 1: some other news involving Calcio coming up in a bit
Speaker 1: and it's not good. Manchester City have agreed to have
Speaker 1: reached an agreement with Leon to sign Ryan Cherokee for
Speaker 1: forty million euro five year deal. Deals expected to be
Speaker 1: completed in time for the Club World Cup.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: Everton confirmed they've offered new contracts to Seamus Coleman and
Speaker 1: Addrissa Gay, adding they continue to liaise with representatives of
Speaker 1: Michael Keene, Dominic Calvert Lewin, all four players due to
Speaker 1: be out of contract at the end of June. Iacs
Speaker 1: interested in signing Antonio Cordero on loan from Newcastle. The
Speaker 1: eighteen year old Spanish winger also has options in Germany
Speaker 1: in Spain Newcastle. According to our buddy Benji, Jacob's definitely
Speaker 1: going to loan Cordero out next season. The joke that
Speaker 1: I gave Ricky when the show started, where Ricky was
Speaker 1: quite pleased about what happened in the Nations League and Portugal.
Speaker 1: After one hundred and twenty minutes in PK's Christiano Ronaldo
Speaker 1: says he will extend his deal at Al Nasser quote
Speaker 1: my future, nothing will change Al Naser, yes, So Al
Speaker 1: Naser been working on renewing the Al Ronaldo for almost
Speaker 1: a year. Chelsea Confirmamed Usar has joined from Strasbourg an
Speaker 1: eight year contract fee in the region of fourteen million euro.
Speaker 1: The plans for Sar to be a part of the
Speaker 1: club World Cup squad and so it was a five
Speaker 1: to three shootout victory, two to two after extra time,
Speaker 1: Christiano Ronaldo scoring the equalizer, Rubin Neves the game winning penalty.
Speaker 1: Robert Lewandowski don't know if you saw this announced he
Speaker 1: is not going to play for Poland again while Michael
Speaker 1: Probierres is in charge as head coach, so we will
Speaker 1: keep an eye on Lewandowsky Poland and him not playing
Speaker 1: while things are currently going on. Victor Oceman has turned
Speaker 1: down all hill, all travel and medical schedule to complete
Speaker 1: the deal.
Speaker 2: In time for the Club World Cup.
Speaker 1: Seventy five million euro package was in place with Knopoly,
Speaker 1: but formally rejected the offer, and so now that ain't happening.
Speaker 1: Bucci Laba was the first to break that news. Dortmann
Speaker 1: agreed to a thirty eight million euro package with Sunderland
Speaker 1: for Joe Bellingham for britzill Romano. On the top of
Speaker 1: that one, Bellingham is expected to sign a five year
Speaker 1: deal and so now Osceman's all Hill all rejection means
Speaker 1: that it is going to be a race to try
Speaker 1: to figure out Victor o'ceman and what's going on with Galatasarai.
Speaker 1: So Genowa confirmed Patrick Vieira has signed a new contract
Speaker 1: until the summer of twenty twenty seven. The other piece
Speaker 1: of news that we wanted to get into before kind
Speaker 1: of lean into all of the other gossip bermeran and
Speaker 1: innuendo what to watch, where to watch it and how
Speaker 1: to watch it has to do with Brescia, and you know,
Speaker 1: the one the individual who probably could give us a
Speaker 1: better breakdown of context would be Nick. But apparently Brescia
Speaker 1: is struggling to pay their three million euro debt and
Speaker 1: they have filed for bankruptcy. So it now looks like
Speaker 1: they are going to go extinct after one hundred and
Speaker 1: fourteen years, one hundred and fourteen years of play, and
Speaker 1: it looks like Brescia will be no more unable to
Speaker 1: pay a debt, a three million year old declared bankruptcy,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fourteen years of history, and it looks
Speaker 1: like Brescia is going to be facing expulsion from professional
Speaker 1: leagues in Italy. So keep an eye out on that.
Speaker 1: You know, it is a lot of inbounds and outbounds
Speaker 1: for players and such, and so you're talking Debaggio, Pep Guardiola,
Speaker 1: George Haji. No one really knows what is the future
Speaker 1: for Brescia, but it looks like they might be facing
Speaker 1: the end of it all and it might be might
Speaker 1: be heading all the way down to serid might be
Speaker 1: heading out to might be just being completely and totally
Speaker 1: wiped off the planet. So we'll keep an eye on Brescia,
Speaker 1: but it ain't looking good for a club that is
Speaker 1: having a three million euro in debt. You go to
Speaker 1: their official two hundred and eighty character app and back
Speaker 1: on the twenty ninth of May, they had an official
Speaker 1: correspondence they acknowledged the decision of the National Federal Court
Speaker 1: examining reasons also with regard to all the detailed defenses
Speaker 1: brought to the attention of federal judges, reserve the right
Speaker 1: to an appeal of the process. But that was back
Speaker 1: on the twenty ninth of May, and we have heard
Speaker 1: nothing since. When it comes to Brescia's, so it could
Speaker 1: be another historic club that could be completely and totally
Speaker 1: out the door. David Ornstein kind of breaking the news
Speaker 1: that we've been breaking a bit. Ornstein now says that
Speaker 1: Thomas Frank hope they're hoping for an agreement with Frank
Speaker 1: in the next forty eight hours. And so David Ornstein
Speaker 1: once again very very busy. He mentions Ryan Cherokee, He
Speaker 1: mentions Jamie Gittens getting a from Brusha Dortmund, having Chelsea
Speaker 1: submitting an official proposal for Gettens, having agreed to a
Speaker 1: seven year contract with the Ford. But keep an eye
Speaker 1: on the next forty eight hours involving Thomas Frank, and
Speaker 1: when it comes to Thomas Frank leaving Brentford and heading
Speaker 1: to Spurs to be their head coach since Angepasta Coglu
Speaker 1: was told that his services were no longer desired.
Speaker 2: To be head coach.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm just hoping that Thomas Frank gets
Speaker 1: the resources that he is looking in on. But of course,
Speaker 1: knowing what he had to deal with with Brentford, he
Speaker 1: knows about how to deal with things economically, and so maybe.
Speaker 2: It would be just like a larger name.
Speaker 1: And Thomas Frank dealing with the same kind of emo
Speaker 1: economic constraints that he had at Brentford now just doing
Speaker 1: it with a club that has a larger name and
Speaker 1: a longer pedigree than Brentford. Now the big question is
Speaker 1: for Brentford the trickle down effect. They're looking at selling
Speaker 1: Brian and Buomo and who do you bring in along
Speaker 1: the same vein as Thomas Frank, who knows how to
Speaker 1: deal with the budget, have a fantastic recruiting staff, make
Speaker 1: sure that those folks that are looking for talent can
Speaker 1: do so in the same economic constraints that Brentford had
Speaker 1: under Thomas Frank and had the same level of mid
Speaker 1: tables success that they had under Thomas Frank. So keep
Speaker 1: an eye on Brentford and the higher for Thomas Frank.
Speaker 1: Should the next forty eight hours come to pass and
Speaker 1: Thomas Frank become the new head coach at Spurs. So
Speaker 1: how does Brentford follow up Thomas Frank especially selling Brian
Speaker 1: and Bouomo and anyone else that comes knocking on Brentford's door?
Speaker 2: So what does Brentford do for an Encore? That to
Speaker 2: me is the larger question in all of this.
Speaker 1: Liverpool set to make a final offer worth one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighteen million pounds inclusive of add ons for Floyd
Speaker 1: and Vertz after Byer Lever Cusan rejected a one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirteen million pound bid. Four Letter Paper Evertson interested
Speaker 1: in Jack Grealish, but any move might have to be
Speaker 1: a loan deal because of his wages at Manchester City.
Speaker 1: Once again, the Four Letter Paper Real Madrid to make
Speaker 1: one last attempt to sun Ralel Sociod's twenty six year
Speaker 1: old Martin Zuba Mendi close to joining Arsenal. They've yet
Speaker 1: to agree with Arbi Leipzig over Benjamin Seshko, but the
Speaker 1: next round of talks have been scheduled. Rasmus Hoyland says
Speaker 1: he's not thinking about leaving Manchester United despite being linked
Speaker 1: with a move to inter Milan. Miles Lewis Skelly set
Speaker 1: to a new Arsenal deal despite interest from Real Madrid.
Speaker 1: Chelsea's offer of thirty five million euro for Jamie Gittens
Speaker 1: has been rejected by Dortmann, who are demanding fifty to sixty,
Speaker 1: so you're looking at a difference of at least thirteen
Speaker 1: million pounds on the bottom. Chelsea prepared to pay ac
Speaker 1: Milan up to fifteen million euro for Mikey Magnon Verona
Speaker 1: and Diego Coppola has interest from Bournemouth and Como. Once
Speaker 1: again we mentioned Victor Osimhan Jaden Sancho one player amongst
Speaker 1: several who Al Hilal are considering signing this summer, and
Speaker 1: the Italian Football Federation keen for Claudio Ranieri to take
Speaker 1: over after Spiletti has been let.
Speaker 2: Go to be the manager.
Speaker 1: So once again Danny Rust, Ben Jacobs, everybody sitting there
Speaker 1: saying there's a verbal agreement in place with Spurs and
Speaker 1: Thomas Frank that we'll keep an eye on that all right.
Speaker 1: Before Bart joins us here to start our number two,
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do was play the moments that
Speaker 1: kind of led into that are going to lead into
Speaker 1: our conversation with Bart. First and foremost, the US men's
Speaker 1: national team wasting no time, no time, no time, no
Speaker 1: time getting on the board in East Hartford in nasty conditions.
Speaker 1: It's just rainy and bah going up against turkea first minute.
Speaker 1: Here's Jack McGlenn courtesy of our friends at T and
Speaker 1: T and US Soccer. See that is given his.
Speaker 3: First stop with the United States today.
Speaker 5: Here is Richard's at.
Speaker 4: The Palace Stout. He went to the kay a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks ago. Chowman in the midfield, up to on Toughway,
Speaker 4: pushing the roll down the right side.
Speaker 3: Jock mclenns and Strip Bullard might kick it down stops
Speaker 3: just sixty seconds. Job, Hey, you're out of Jack McGlenn.
Speaker 1: And so that was Jack McGlenn scoring for the US
Speaker 1: men's national team. That would be the only goal that
Speaker 1: the US men's national team would score, and Turkilla would
Speaker 1: score two in quick succession. Like I said, we'll get
Speaker 1: into that with Bart and the the context subtext, all
Speaker 1: of the text. You had a one nill lead, then
Speaker 1: you're down to one. You don't get an equalizer, So
Speaker 1: we'll get into that context coming up on the other side.
Speaker 1: Here's Maurcio Pochettino after the match and the two to
Speaker 1: one lost to Turkia and East Hartford once again courtesy
Speaker 1: of our friends at US Soccer.
Speaker 5: The performance I seen was good. I think we faced
Speaker 5: today at the like.
Speaker 7: Turkey, that is a very good team with the sperience
Speaker 7: player player on the top. And I think this group
Speaker 7: of players playing for first time, I think we started
Speaker 7: the game so well. We played twenty minutes. I think
Speaker 7: in a high level. I think we did very good things,
Speaker 7: very posit these things one need last happen for us.
Speaker 7: I think, yes, it was an impact on emotional impact
Speaker 7: when we concede that after we score in the second action,
Speaker 7: after to concede the first we conceded in two minutes,
Speaker 7: we con see two goals. That was was difficult to
Speaker 7: handle for the team. And yes, that we suffer a
Speaker 7: litterally until to the end of the first half. But
Speaker 7: I think the second half with recovery, our and our
Speaker 7: way to perform, and I think the second half was an.
Speaker 5: Even game overall.
Speaker 7: I think maybe we can't say that we maybe we
Speaker 7: served the draw, but we lose. But I think we
Speaker 7: need to be positive because today I think only we
Speaker 7: can talk about only football actions soccer action, but not
Speaker 7: I think the team showed great energy, great mentality, great altitude,
Speaker 7: and then it's this type of game that maybe if
Speaker 7: you made a mistake, you can't lose it.
Speaker 5: But made a mistake because it's it's okay, it's football.
Speaker 7: That is why I think I am so so happy
Speaker 7: about in the way that I think we delivered the
Speaker 7: show and in the way that we.
Speaker 5: Try to play.
Speaker 7: Yes, so positive because I think we have another game
Speaker 7: now to prepare the Good Cup and then to face
Speaker 7: the World Cup in a in a good condition.
Speaker 1: Where's your Botchettino after the two one loss to Torquilla
Speaker 1: in East Hartford, and he thought that they might have
Speaker 1: deserved draw. But once again, you know, you're trying to navigate,
Speaker 1: as we were talking about with Abe, You're trying to
Speaker 1: figure out I guess slots twelve through twenty six or
Speaker 1: twelve through twenty eight. And this is where we bring
Speaker 1: in Bart Keeler as we break everything down on our
Speaker 1: Mondays and we have us, M, ME and T to
Speaker 1: talk about, plus the double dog show that happened in
Speaker 1: Seattle and anything else that popped into Bart's head. But
Speaker 1: first and foremost, sir, we watched what happened, and I
Speaker 1: made a point to play the Mercy Pochatino sound leading
Speaker 1: to your appearance here this morning. Uh, you know, you
Speaker 1: had a one nil lead, and we'll walk through it.
Speaker 1: But you couldn't have asked really for a better start
Speaker 1: going up against TURKIEB where Jack McGlenn decided to drop
Speaker 1: an absolute bomb from about twenty three to get things
Speaker 1: started in the first minute.
Speaker 3: Well, Jack McGlenn did what Jack McGlenn does.
Speaker 1: Hey, and er Leck is interested in it, so now
Speaker 1: we know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I wish he had played better at
Speaker 3: the rest of the game. But you know, I think
Speaker 3: it's also fair to ask why the dude is playing
Speaker 3: on the wing, But that's a whole other Well, actually
Speaker 3: it's a conversation for right now anyway. But I think
Speaker 3: when you look back at this game and Maurico Poccino, now,
Speaker 3: granted he's trying to put a positive spin on things
Speaker 3: because Humboy has lost three matches in a row, but
Speaker 3: it wasn't as bad as I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people want to make this out to be. It just
Speaker 3: truly wasn't. I think there is some perspective that is
Speaker 3: being lost here. Turkey is playing, they're basically their first
Speaker 3: choice lineup. Artic Gouler and others who are playing in
Speaker 3: the Club World Cup chose to plan these friendlies. Now
Speaker 3: this is an indictment on the US stars who are
Speaker 3: too I don't know, tired to play these friendlies. But whatever,
Speaker 3: they're not here, So that means that, especially when you
Speaker 3: looked at the starting lineup John not first choice starting
Speaker 3: lineup at all, but like one position and that was
Speaker 3: one center back right, you could argue Chris Richards is
Speaker 3: your only guy, and that starting eleven who is a
Speaker 3: first choice guy. And so yeah, it makes sense that
Speaker 3: the final fifteen minutes of the first half, maybe final
Speaker 3: twenty was bad, just straight up bad, bad soccer, bad teamwork,
Speaker 3: bad everything. But it wasn't like this is an unexpected
Speaker 3: result when you look at the grand scheme of things
Speaker 3: and then you look at what happened in the second
Speaker 3: half where I felt the team well, yes, they gave
Speaker 3: up some chances that they don't need to be giving up,
Speaker 3: created several chances, and had some half opportunities that they
Speaker 3: need to figure out how do we convert that to
Speaker 3: true full opportunities. Part of that is having a striker
Speaker 3: whose feet aren't made of concrete bricks. Part of that
Speaker 3: is having, you know, your supposed guys who are going
Speaker 3: to lead this team stepping up to play better. Part
Speaker 3: of that is putting a header that you have within
Speaker 3: eight yards inside the goal, not at the keeper's hands.
Speaker 3: And you can look back at this game and see
Speaker 3: a lot of opportunities that were missed, be it flat
Speaker 3: out missed or the last connection was missed. You know,
Speaker 3: it's like a classifieds in a nineteen eighties newspaper over here.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, you know. So you look at.
Speaker 1: Mcclenn, Malec, Tillman, Diego Luna, there were there were folks
Speaker 1: that I know that you know, you have the instant
Speaker 1: gravitation toward when you're sitting there and you're looking at
Speaker 1: shiny objects going up in this match. But you get
Speaker 1: the one Nill lead and then it comes down to
Speaker 1: simple decision making and it was not a good decision
Speaker 1: on the pass that created a quick turnover in an equalizer,
Speaker 1: and then you're trying to from that moment forward figure out, Okay,
Speaker 1: now we're tied, how do we get out of this jam?
Speaker 1: And it creates another opportunity and Torquilla takes advantage of it.
Speaker 1: So it comes down to it came down to I
Speaker 1: think individual decisions and decision making in moments of pressure
Speaker 1: that were created by Turkia trying to create short fields
Speaker 1: and trying to be clinical.
Speaker 3: Well, and one of those by a guy who is
Speaker 3: supposed to be a leader of this team right now.
Speaker 3: I mean, you have several players at his position not here,
Speaker 3: and Johnny Cardoso puts out a flat up stinker. John.
Speaker 3: I mean we're talking, you know, the baby had ribs
Speaker 3: for the first time, stinker and it was I mean,
Speaker 3: looking at his fop operating below five is atrocious, right,
Speaker 3: And in that moment specifically was really bad. But he
Speaker 3: also provided really nothing else. And he's a guy who
Speaker 3: is kareem toward the Josh Sergeant Bro, are you actually
Speaker 3: good question? Because he has yet to put out a
Speaker 3: good performance for this US national team, despite looking pretty
Speaker 3: good at the club level. Now you can argue he's
Speaker 3: not being played in the exact way that he does
Speaker 3: for real the tease. But Bro's still a deep lying
Speaker 3: ish center midfielder, right. This is not like you're asking
Speaker 3: him to be a left back and he's failing.
Speaker 1: So we're talking deep lying ish and there was a
Speaker 1: beat there and I'm like, okay, So does he mean
Speaker 1: deep lying ish or does he mean deep lying ish?
Speaker 1: And so it took me a second to deep dish.
Speaker 1: I know if you meant that space in there for
Speaker 1: deep lying deep deep lying ish or deep lying ish.
Speaker 2: So it took me a second. Okay, it's a munch, but.
Speaker 3: No, that's I mean, that's the thing is like. Okay, well,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry that you're asking you to play a little
Speaker 3: bit more as a sixth than an eight. Figure it out, man,
Speaker 3: This is not that different. You know, Jay Fortune can
Speaker 3: figure out how to play left back for a terrible
Speaker 3: Atlanta un out of team. You could figure out how
Speaker 3: to play center mid in a slightly different space. Sorry,
Speaker 3: your coordinates on the field aren't exactly the same as
Speaker 3: you're used to figure it out, and he's not doing it,
Speaker 3: and that repeatedly has been the problem for him to
Speaker 3: the point where I don't want to see him at
Speaker 3: all during this Gold Cup because what has he shown me?
Speaker 3: If I see him against Trinidad and Tobago and he
Speaker 3: looks fine, okay, good Haysus Ferrera, did that? Look where
Speaker 3: he is right now? Ask Seattle about that. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: probably sure we will get Seattle about.
Speaker 2: That in a little bit.
Speaker 3: It's real, So that is you're right, John, I mean
Speaker 3: the individual moments. Look, we have to say at Miles
Speaker 3: Robinson was just also bad this game. He is not
Speaker 3: necessarily to blame for that goal, second goal, but he
Speaker 3: had a chance to clear the ball and completely fails
Speaker 3: to do so. He also was not great working with
Speaker 3: Richards for the rest of the match. He's not an
Speaker 3: Atlanta guy anymore. So we don't have to claim him,
Speaker 3: but you know, we still want him to do well
Speaker 3: and he didn't. And he's had some really bad performances
Speaker 3: for the US national I mean, he looked bad in
Speaker 3: January camp, right, remember that going back to that, he
Speaker 3: was not the guy you expected him to be in
Speaker 3: a January camp roster. It's kind of sad to see,
Speaker 3: to be quite honest. But John, Yeah, and that's the thing,
Speaker 3: is like you're going to remember these two goals because
Speaker 3: within this ban of what four minutes, everything floaded. But
Speaker 3: the rest of the match was okay enough, especially the
Speaker 3: second half.
Speaker 1: Yes, and so let's roll through the numbers as it's
Speaker 1: presented by our friends at Soccer America. Seven players getting
Speaker 1: their first opportunity in this window to represent their country
Speaker 1: Matt Freeze, three saves, two clears, and then the two
Speaker 1: goals in four minutes. They give Freeze in his first
Speaker 1: cap of five.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think any of the goals were
Speaker 3: his fault. Sure, sure he still gave up two goals,
Speaker 3: but you know, I don't think any of them were
Speaker 3: his fault.
Speaker 2: Right defenders.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Chris Richards central defense, and this is once
Speaker 1: again what we always do for a baseline is go
Speaker 1: to our friends at Soccer America Mike way Tala responsible
Speaker 1: for this one. Central defender Chris Richards seemed to reach
Speaker 1: all Turkish high balls with his head, but when the
Speaker 1: Turks kept the ball on the ground, the US back
Speaker 1: line became vulnerable, even had midfield help. While failing to
Speaker 1: intervene before Turkulu's go ahead to make it two one.
Speaker 1: During the build up, Miles Robinson and Alex Freeman both
Speaker 1: tackled left back Max Arston had moved to the middle
Speaker 1: when Ogu's i Den fired from the right wing. The
Speaker 1: ball that deflected off of Robinson to Turkulu's feet. Right
Speaker 1: back debutant Freeman out of position on Turkey's first big
Speaker 1: chance when Kenan Yieldez served up artegoulair for a wide
Speaker 1: open chance he had high over the bar. Debutant fared
Speaker 1: okay under plenty of pressure without risking forward movement. Richard's
Speaker 1: block shot steadied the back line during Turkeya's second half
Speaker 1: counter attacks.
Speaker 2: This is harsh.
Speaker 1: Alex Freeman of three miles also gets a three from
Speaker 1: Lloyd Talla. Chris Richards is six, Max Arston a four.
Speaker 3: I think it's hardest on Max Arsten. I thought he
Speaker 3: was better than a four, but he also only you know,
Speaker 3: didn't play as much, so that's gonna factor him that now.
Speaker 3: I did not think Freeman played well. John Sorry, I know,
Speaker 3: I know the whole point of this camp is to
Speaker 3: prop up MLS guys who have had a decent season.
Speaker 3: But Freeman did not show the promise that I think
Speaker 3: he brought in to camp with and certainly didn't show
Speaker 3: the hype that a lot of MLS dudes have have
Speaker 3: said about him. And look, like I said, I haven't
Speaker 3: watched them extensively, but he hasn't looked great. Against he
Speaker 3: didn't look great, and against Atlanta nined in a one game, uh,
Speaker 3: and then the other game was kind of a non
Speaker 3: factor because our team is unable at that point to
Speaker 3: create any type of offense, So you know, that's pretty important,
Speaker 3: and I just don't think he did anything worth remembering
Speaker 3: to quote honest one of three on dribbles, which is
Speaker 3: kind of the thing he's supposed to bring is some
Speaker 3: slightly more offensive juice. But this is debut. You get
Speaker 3: one bad chance and hopefully you can put it behind
Speaker 3: you and you learn from it, because it is I mean, look,
Speaker 3: the conditions were not great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: You're gonna play in rain, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 3: are got to figure it out. Yes, that that's where
Speaker 3: we're at. You gotta figure it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Midfield, A false sense of comfort came over the five
Speaker 1: man midfield in the early going when they easily pass
Speaker 1: this together after Jack mcglenn's well it's more it was
Speaker 1: more than eighteen Mike, but he's his eighteen yard Golosso
Speaker 1: that cohesion waned midway through the first half when the
Speaker 1: Turk shifted into an attacking gear.
Speaker 2: He mentioned Johnny. Johnny took two.
Speaker 1: Lazy touches near the USA's penalty spot for banging the
Speaker 1: ball in Artigulaire's leg, from which it rolled into the
Speaker 1: US net at one one lost the ball shortly afterward
Speaker 1: in his own half for another Turkey chance, replaced at
Speaker 1: halftime in a planned move. Tilman won more balls in
Speaker 1: midfield than Cardoso, but after being part of the McGlenn
Speaker 1: given go on the USA, early goal infrequently sparked promising attacks.
Speaker 1: Besides a good cross that Luca Delatori's skied over the crossbar.
Speaker 1: In the second half, still Delatori was the most capable
Speaker 1: of the midfield core in progressing play forward for the USA,
Speaker 1: Diego Luna initiated a counter attack that led to a
Speaker 1: McGlenn block shot and a six yard headed that Tilman
Speaker 1: headed into Burke User's hands. Tilman's weak effort came after
Speaker 1: a strong US start to the second half that included
Speaker 1: Arsten shooting high from insight the penalty area. McGlenn gets
Speaker 1: a seven, now like Tilman gets a five, Johnny a two.
Speaker 1: I think that's the first time I've ever seen a
Speaker 1: two from Soccer America. Luca Dilatoria six, and Diego Luna
Speaker 1: got a five.
Speaker 3: I think that was really generous to McGlenn. I think
Speaker 3: we're factoring in his goal a little too much. Look,
Speaker 3: you score a banger like that, you get an extra
Speaker 3: point maybe to your rating. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: I don't think he who is particularly effective the rest
Speaker 3: of the game. To the fact that I think I
Speaker 3: think his former union teammate out shown him when he
Speaker 3: came on in the second half. But Deleatoria I actually
Speaker 3: thought was one of those guys that pleasantly surprised me
Speaker 3: as someone who I don't know looked competent. I'm not
Speaker 3: saying he looked great, looked like he knew what he
Speaker 3: was doing both individually and within the team. Didn't really
Speaker 3: amount to a whole whole lot. But comparing Cardoso to
Speaker 3: till A Tory, he was great, and again I think
Speaker 3: Tilman again just a slightly disappointing performance. Yes he gets
Speaker 3: the assist heavy air on the air quotes there, John,
Speaker 3: but he was again just not the dude we need
Speaker 3: to see. I mean, if you're going to play in
Speaker 3: that attacking midfield role and have the come in with
Speaker 3: the season you had with PSV, the last two seasons
Speaker 3: you've had with PSV, the production you've you've given that team,
Speaker 3: and every single time he come to this national team
Speaker 3: it's just meh. Again, he has yet to score for
Speaker 3: his for the the USA again, another one who's kind
Speaker 3: of careening into the maybe not Kreening, but you know,
Speaker 3: the the a little bit of sleep of the wheel
Speaker 3: and kind of moving toward that Josh Sargent camp of
Speaker 3: what's the point of bringing you in when you don't produce?
Speaker 3: And unfortunately for him, he is in a position where
Speaker 3: production goal production is necessary. An assist is fine, but
Speaker 3: again that assist was not necessarily some magical stroke of
Speaker 3: the brush. That was a pass to a dude who
Speaker 3: did a lot of heavy lifting after it. It just
Speaker 3: hasn't been there for Tillman and that's the frustrating part
Speaker 3: again for him and Cardoso. We are as fans. You
Speaker 3: look at them play week in and week out for
Speaker 3: their club teams, especially a guy like Cardoso who plays
Speaker 3: at Real Batist, who made a conference league final and
Speaker 3: you know, lost to a team that shamefully isn't playing
Speaker 3: in the tournament. You know, I mean, it's not clicking
Speaker 3: for some reason at the national team. And Tillman same thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, he lights at at PSV, comes here and
Speaker 3: it's like, bro, where is that, especially when you compare
Speaker 3: him to his PSV teammates. Right, Peppy shows up to
Speaker 3: the national team regularly scores, right, dust, although we haven't
Speaker 3: seen him in it what feels like a decade when
Speaker 3: he has played for the national team. You go, oh,
Speaker 3: that dude's special, right, And so it's just really frustrating
Speaker 3: that Tilman is not able to do that, especially in
Speaker 3: the game that we needed him to do that.
Speaker 2: Big Pat got a four.
Speaker 1: Patrick Ajimung wrestling with Turkey's defenders produced a couple of
Speaker 1: layoffs and corner kicks. When he finally had room to
Speaker 1: Unleasha's shot from Luna's fifty third minute pass, it flew
Speaker 1: straight to the keeper.
Speaker 2: So Big Pat just got four on the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, homeboy, welcome to actual defending. It's not MLS anymore.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry to say it, but MLS you know this.
Speaker 3: Let me look at landing Atti center backs. Lord knows
Speaker 3: they can't defend a sneeze in a paper bag.
Speaker 2: But for cowboy, careful, cowboy.
Speaker 3: Okay, a lot of MLS defenders cannot defend a sneeze
Speaker 3: with a tissue, and some of them play for Atlania.
Speaker 3: But Pat had to kind of have a wake up call,
Speaker 3: and I don't think he really ever woke up to it.
Speaker 3: But it's you know, because I even think with Nations League,
Speaker 3: it was like, okay, well, yeah, you're playing some Panamanian
Speaker 3: or Canadian defenders that are decent, but there's a level
Speaker 3: of defending the Turkish players, right and a lot of
Speaker 3: these very savvy, heady European players have that just we
Speaker 3: don't have in this hemisphere, and they know how to
Speaker 3: defend a big, strong, physical dude, and they they defended
Speaker 3: it pretty well, not the showing I think he would want.
Speaker 3: The problem here is John, we don't really have a
Speaker 3: guy that is screaming to come off the bench behind
Speaker 3: him because Brian White, if you want to get when
Speaker 3: we get it to him, we'll talk about him. But
Speaker 3: Brian White wasn't The answer is Damian Down's the answer.
Speaker 3: I don't know. The dude's twenty and has like a
Speaker 3: year and a half of professional underneath his belt, same
Speaker 3: as Arguming. So it's just it's tough right now because
Speaker 3: the striker selection in this particular camp is dismal. And
Speaker 3: that's no offense on those guys. It's just we're talking
Speaker 3: about like five six seven on the depth chart compared
Speaker 3: to even a guy like you know, Ricardo Peppy or
Speaker 3: possibly even a guy like Brandon Vazquez being here where
Speaker 3: you just feel slightly more comfortable because you've seen them
Speaker 3: do it for the national team.
Speaker 1: I just haven't seen him do it for Austin FC.
Speaker 1: But that's another.
Speaker 3: They Hey, listen, Austin scored against US. He scored against US.
Speaker 3: I can't tell you another time that Austin scored.
Speaker 1: Does except for our buddy og Yeah, Og, Yeah. He
Speaker 1: was at one point the second leading goal scorer for Austin.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he can is eligible for national
Speaker 1: team caps, and it doesn't matter what team we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Tyler Adams limited to forty five minutes because fitness issues,
Speaker 1: being a major improvement over Johnny no doubt, contributed to
Speaker 1: a lively start to the second half. USA managed to
Speaker 1: get the ball deep into the Turkish half often, but
Speaker 1: had limited ideas on how to capitalize.
Speaker 2: In the end. Keeper Uzer made two saves.
Speaker 1: Quinn Sullivan managed to cross after some nifty moves, but
Speaker 1: mis hit a shot from Hodgie Wright's most impressive service.
Speaker 1: So Tyler Adams gets at six, Mark McKenzie, Hodgi Wright
Speaker 1: get five's. Nathan Harriel, in his first cap, got a
Speaker 1: four Quinn Sullivan his first cap get a five.
Speaker 2: Ryan White got a five as well.
Speaker 1: What did you say that McKenzie got, Uh, McKenzie got
Speaker 1: a five according to Waytala, I.
Speaker 3: Think that's harsh. I I think what we learned of
Speaker 3: this game, John, most importantly is McKenzie. Now, granted, I
Speaker 3: will say that they had Tyler Adams in front of them,
Speaker 3: so maybe that is it, But McKenzie and Richards looked
Speaker 3: best together.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Again, I don't think Miles had a great game. Now
Speaker 3: in Miles's defense, Johnny Cardozo was doing I don't know
Speaker 3: what he was doing.
Speaker 1: He was.
Speaker 3: Creating chances. John, You're right, here's creating chances, not Varan
Speaker 3: tam And So either a, you learned that these center
Speaker 3: backs are really good and probably need to be the
Speaker 3: pairing you see going forward, which is still my belief.
Speaker 3: But also maybe we learned be that Tyler Adams is
Speaker 3: just another level of invaluable when he's on the field,
Speaker 3: because not only did he mop up a lot clean
Speaker 3: up a lot, but he also because of that was
Speaker 3: able to then turn that into offense very quickly, mainly
Speaker 3: by himself. I think Tyler, this was the best obscene
Speaker 3: and play offensively for the US national team. He was inside.
Speaker 3: He was inside the opponent's box creating chances John that
Speaker 3: is like, I mean, welcome, but like that's just not
Speaker 3: what he usually does because that's not where his positioning
Speaker 3: on the field was. But I think that was the
Speaker 3: result of him and other defenders. I thought, again, I
Speaker 3: thought Dalatry played really well this game, but I thought
Speaker 3: Tyler and Dealatori on that second have did a great
Speaker 3: job of keeping Turkey from being able to truly break
Speaker 3: out unless it was a long ball long right. That
Speaker 3: seemed to be the only time they were able to
Speaker 3: really break out of pressure. And I think that in
Speaker 3: itself is another good thing to take from this game
Speaker 3: is well, Yes, Tyler Adams being probably the best player
Speaker 3: on the field for the US national team is not
Speaker 3: a surprise, but it's nice to see. And if you
Speaker 3: can get him with a guy like de la Torre,
Speaker 3: who is a very good kind of clean up dude
Speaker 3: as well both and you can add the quick transition
Speaker 3: to offense, that is a good sign. As you got
Speaker 3: to the Gold Cup where you're going to be playing
Speaker 3: a team like Haiti and trinidadam Tobago who aren't great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then but at the same time, you know
Speaker 1: that you have an idea as to what they may
Speaker 1: do defensively and it's going to be up to you
Speaker 1: to try to work around that. Yep, when it comes
Speaker 1: to Gold Cup and they start actually against Trinidad and
Speaker 1: Tobago and San Jose on the weekend.
Speaker 3: So that's again why I think it's positive to see
Speaker 3: Tyler playing such great attacking soccer. I mean, I think
Speaker 3: that was good and he and Luca did really well
Speaker 3: in that phase of game. So to answer your point John,
Speaker 3: of how trend adam Haiti are most likely going to
Speaker 3: put I don't know, seventeen people a brick house and
Speaker 3: possibly an Orca or two and in front of the net.
Speaker 3: You know, having those guys show some offensive prowess was
Speaker 3: really nice this game.
Speaker 1: The US has a seven game winless streak against the
Speaker 1: European team since beating Bosnian Herzegovina back in December twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, five game losing streaks since their twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two World Cup ties against Wales in England, and that
Speaker 1: sets up obviously the friendly Tuesday in Nashville. So shots
Speaker 1: five to three for Turkey, shots on target thirteen to eleven.
Speaker 1: That's got to be reversed. Now, that's not shots on target.
Speaker 1: Thirteen shots.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well that is reversed. But the US had
Speaker 3: more shots.
Speaker 2: Yeah than Turkey.
Speaker 1: Yes, sure, thirteen shots to eleven and three on three
Speaker 1: to five on target the target. Yeah, Soccer America has
Speaker 1: the numbers flipped. Yea, they just yeah, they put the
Speaker 1: wrong Yes, three saves for Matt Freeze, two on the
Speaker 1: Turkish side, nine corners five for Turkey. Twenty two fouls,
Speaker 1: fourteen of them called on the United States, just the
Speaker 1: one off side, and then sixty forty in possession for
Speaker 1: the US. Of course, when you have a two to
Speaker 1: one lead, it's just like, nah, don't want it.
Speaker 2: It's all good.
Speaker 1: You can, you can, you know, you can do with
Speaker 1: it whatever you want.
Speaker 2: And then you end up where you are.
Speaker 1: So now you have the second you have the second
Speaker 1: friendly coming up tomorrow up in Nashville.
Speaker 2: Do we know what the ticket prices are?
Speaker 3: First and foremost, Well, I paid fifty five dollars a
Speaker 3: ticket for my ticket, and now they're not twenty five
Speaker 3: dollars because it's running a special for walkers and and
Speaker 3: playing in Nashville. So thanks you as soccer for.
Speaker 2: Doing that to me.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, there's plenty of tickets available if you I
Speaker 3: want to make the trip up. I'm leaving tonight, getting
Speaker 3: on a Greyhound at four thirty and heading on up
Speaker 3: to Nashville.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So expectations in this matchup for you are.
Speaker 3: What, well, I expect to add Swiss to a Turkey sandwich.
Speaker 3: That's my bad joke about that this morning. I'm sorry, John,
Speaker 3: I don't know, John. I mean, look, I think that
Speaker 3: stat line you just laid out about European competition and
Speaker 3: our lack of success against said the European competition is
Speaker 3: really disheartening. You mentioned that game.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, does it matter
Speaker 1: considering Yeah, John, because you got.
Speaker 3: To beat them on occasion in a World Cup. I
Speaker 3: mean you got to, right, I mean that was the
Speaker 3: problem where.
Speaker 1: You're kicking When you're kicking tires, Does it matter in
Speaker 1: the context the beach matchhup though, is my point?
Speaker 3: I mean, John, we've been kicking Dan tires on this
Speaker 3: team for what feels like five years now, and that's
Speaker 3: the problem is eventually these guys got to show up
Speaker 3: and do it. So yes, it does matter because again.
Speaker 3: You got to show up and do it now again.
Speaker 3: If you I think when you look at Oh, if
Speaker 3: you don't loot beat Switzerland, is the sky falling? No,
Speaker 3: because this is, as I laid out earlier, not your
Speaker 3: first cheer choice team, not your You know, you're not
Speaker 3: putting a lineup out there to necessarily say, Okay, this
Speaker 3: is the best eleven I have, right even within the
Speaker 3: second choice squad. For the most part, that said yes,
Speaker 3: that's said you gotta start getting results. And and you
Speaker 3: mentioned BOSSI John, that Bosnia game was a December friendly
Speaker 3: outside of a FIFA window, So you gotta start getting something.
Speaker 3: And I think more importantly, the vibes are way off
Speaker 3: off with this team right now. And you had thirty
Speaker 3: four thousand. I could go on to a long die
Speaker 3: tribe about that. Thirty four thousand in East Hartford, Connecticut
Speaker 3: in the rain. Good for them who are ready to
Speaker 3: support you. You're gonna have twenty five is thousand here
Speaker 3: in Nashville maybe less you know tomorrow you're rapidly losing
Speaker 3: support from the fan base. That's just got to call
Speaker 3: it what it is, John, And I hate to me
Speaker 3: how much have we gone through that for the past
Speaker 3: two years, three years, four years. It's our local club
Speaker 3: right where you can't just keep selling people on promise.
Speaker 3: You can't just keep selling people on oh well, we
Speaker 3: have talented players. You got to win on occasion. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: and furthermore, you could possibly looking up four losses in
Speaker 3: a row heading into a Gold Cup. That's not great
Speaker 3: at all either. And again you can say they're friendlies,
Speaker 3: and are, but we know better than anyone that in
Speaker 3: the United States friendlies aren't just seen as exercises. We
Speaker 3: do expect to win, especially when US Soccer is charging
Speaker 3: the amount of the prices charging for tickets. And I
Speaker 3: mean that sincerely. I mean that sincerely.
Speaker 1: With soccer you don't up charging that much frankly, but no, I.
Speaker 3: Mean that's but that's the problem is you have a
Speaker 3: lot of people paying a lot of money to support
Speaker 3: this team. People are paying more money for these daggum
Speaker 3: Gold Cup tickets because they pretend like they are paying
Speaker 3: for two matches, which is the biggest scam in the
Speaker 3: Northern Hemisphere. And and that is the problem is especially
Speaker 3: you know, I I even was like, why am I
Speaker 3: going up? I can watch this from home, I mean
Speaker 3: at the bar. But you know, for a heck of
Speaker 3: a lot cheaper than whatever had cost me to get
Speaker 3: there to tend the match. So I mean we're teetering on.
Speaker 3: We might already be there, to be quite honest, because
Speaker 3: the results since last summer have just been dismal and
Speaker 3: it's not great, John, Sorry.
Speaker 2: It's just not.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 1: Before we get into repping down here and activity with
Speaker 1: the seattle that one of them involving new who who
Speaker 1: you know, I was waiting for him to get the
Speaker 1: new Who hat trick, you know, foul car injection goal,
Speaker 1: you know. So we'll get into the new Who hat
Speaker 1: trick in a second. But apparently Mark Polisik decided to
Speaker 1: go on to the media that is social and chase
Speaker 1: after don Ovan and his comments about not playing in
Speaker 1: certain tournament situations, and so landed Donovan goes on television,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to play it, considering the network that
Speaker 1: it was attached to, in the situation that's attached to
Speaker 1: and trying to sit there and say things in a
Speaker 1: studio situation.
Speaker 2: I get that.
Speaker 1: So Mark Polisik then goes on social media and says,
Speaker 1: this guy is talking about commitment.
Speaker 2: Look in the mirror.
Speaker 1: Plus grow a pairer and call names out or are
Speaker 1: you afraid next time you want an interview you'll get
Speaker 1: rejected again?
Speaker 3: Oh right, well yeah sure, call him out, put on
Speaker 3: blast publicly that Christian Polistic needs to show up and
Speaker 3: stop belly aching, right, because that's the consensus here. As
Speaker 3: you are, you committed to this national team and you
Speaker 3: can look. I understand that there are some optic issues
Speaker 3: with the messenger of being Landon Donovan who famously took
Speaker 3: a sabbatical from this team, right, and that caused him
Speaker 3: to be left off of the twenty fourteen World Cup roster.
Speaker 1: And apparently the coach at the time has come out
Speaker 1: publicly and said that, yes, that sabbatical did lead to
Speaker 1: the decision of yeah, being a part of the.
Speaker 3: Club, yeah, which is a fair question of commitment. However,
Speaker 3: that was not something that was how do I put
Speaker 3: this nicely? That was well known, well documented and well explained.
Speaker 3: And I think that is the issue right now is
Speaker 3: Christian Politic. I ain't said nothing. He himself has not
Speaker 3: said a damn thing he has said to you Wes Soccer,
Speaker 3: who then reported to us the things he has maybe
Speaker 3: possibly said or his team or the club or whatever.
Speaker 3: Has said, possibly to media about maybe a lingering issue
Speaker 3: of an injury. So if you're tired of getting called out,
Speaker 3: bro say something. Don't have your dad, So go on
Speaker 3: an Instagram story and say something when you're mad, because
Speaker 3: you're mad that they said that your son isn't committed
Speaker 3: to the natural team when homeboy has not played in
Speaker 3: a Gold Cup since twenty nineteen. Okay, and again, the
Speaker 3: last time we saw you, Christian Polistic, you were losing
Speaker 3: two games in a nation's league final, and the time
Speaker 3: we saw you before that, you're failing at the Copo America,
Speaker 3: first host nation to ever get grouped at a Copo America.
Speaker 3: So why don't you look at yourself in the mirror,
Speaker 3: Christian Polistic, mister Captain America, captain of this national team,
Speaker 3: and ask yourself what are you doing to make this
Speaker 3: team better? Sorry, I'm over it. I don't y'all need
Speaker 3: to stop y'all meeting these players. Y'all need to stop
Speaker 3: acting like we're not. We're asking something monumental of you
Speaker 3: to be committed and win for this national team. With
Speaker 3: a talent as much talent as you claim to have
Speaker 3: in the career that you've.
Speaker 2: Had, you see there you go.
Speaker 1: That's why I figured, Uh, I figured bringing up the
Speaker 1: topic would get get an answer this morning. I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: Catalucci says that so policit can't handle a cold, rainy
Speaker 1: day in Connecticut.
Speaker 2: I mean it's he.
Speaker 3: Probably would have, you know, heard his left toe playing
Speaker 3: on this field, and then he would have been out
Speaker 3: for it. I mean that's oh, but again I could
Speaker 3: understand if he said, hey, look, for example, Jedi Robinson
Speaker 3: saying I had have some knee probably you know, I
Speaker 3: had a procedure to make sure my knee was better. Right,
Speaker 3: that makes sense. Okay, now is the time to do
Speaker 3: it now again. My other issue is we got guys
Speaker 3: on Turkey whose teams are playing in the Club World Cup.
Speaker 3: Who they're going to be playing with those teams? Arda
Speaker 3: Guler is playing in the Club World Cup with real
Speaker 3: frickin Madrid.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, but he's here mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: Poltic, you ain't got an excuse. Your club ain't doing
Speaker 3: crap this summer? Where are you, bro? You couldn't even
Speaker 3: make it for these friendlies?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean that's uh what well? And yes,
Speaker 1: Milanicaly is a nice place for exile. Uh, let's get
Speaker 1: into some of the the the reffing down here moments
Speaker 1: of the weekend. And really we only have to go
Speaker 1: to one place, and and it is Seattle, and it
Speaker 1: was technically Vancouver. Yes, involve it, Yes, thank you, involving
Speaker 1: involving Seattle and our and our man knew who, and
Speaker 1: he wasn't the only one.
Speaker 2: But nevertheless, when was the last time you saw a
Speaker 2: literally a back to back.
Speaker 1: Red like we had for Seattle where they go from
Speaker 1: eleven B eleven to eleven B nine rather quickly. And
Speaker 1: we start, we start with our We start with our
Speaker 1: our buddy knew who and in the fifty late fifty.
Speaker 3: First, yeah, I need to look up what they did.
Speaker 3: Do you have the report of what they actually listed?
Speaker 5: This?
Speaker 2: Hang on just a second.
Speaker 3: So I've never been able to find this because you
Speaker 3: can obviously you document what type of yellows and red
Speaker 3: cards you give?
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, so let me find knew who read card?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: So yeah, I go, knew who red card is probably
Speaker 1: like ninety eight different things. I know, that's a lot
Speaker 1: violent conduct.
Speaker 3: Apparently, that okay, good, because I want That's what I
Speaker 3: wanted to talk about here, John, This is not dog
Speaker 3: So so I'll let you run through the thing, but
Speaker 3: I'll explain why the red card was given for what
Speaker 3: it was given for.
Speaker 2: So knew who sent off for violent conduct?
Speaker 1: Well wait a second, let me see if this is
Speaker 1: in fact the correct match first and foremost, because God
Speaker 1: knows knew who.
Speaker 3: Yeah, knew who's had his fair share.
Speaker 1: Knew who is knew who is a Oh no, this
Speaker 1: is like old Okay, so knew who red card?
Speaker 3: Hang on, I need to figure out how to find
Speaker 3: these match reports literally, because again, when a referee reports
Speaker 3: this both writes it in his book and reports it
Speaker 3: to the league, there is a okay.
Speaker 1: So so all right, so I have one report saying
Speaker 1: that it was foul as the last defender, which I
Speaker 1: don't think it was.
Speaker 3: It wasn't, and that's why I want to talk about it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is the talking point of the morning with it.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at trying to figure out why knew
Speaker 1: who got sent off and.
Speaker 2: It is literally.
Speaker 1: So everyone is sitting here saying that it was last
Speaker 1: defender in references and I am not seeing anything to
Speaker 1: the contrary about it being something other than last defenders.
Speaker 1: So let's go through the play. We can't show it
Speaker 1: because we get dinged from the official police type folks.
Speaker 1: But so as we as we walk through the play,
Speaker 1: as we are wont to do, as we do these things,
Speaker 1: so long pass. It's a big switch going from left
Speaker 1: to right, and it is this is this beautiful past
Speaker 1: late late in the fifty first minute, so Long up
Speaker 1: the right hand side and Laborda heads it down to
Speaker 1: himself Knew who basically grabs Laborda and it's almost to
Speaker 1: the point to where it is a it is a
Speaker 1: hog caller. Literally, you're you're you're grabbing and Knew who
Speaker 1: grabs Laborda on his near shoulder, left shoulder, and Base
Speaker 1: rips and pulls and spins Laborda down and it's an
Speaker 1: easy call. But they're saying from there are reports that
Speaker 1: say that it was because Knew, who was the last
Speaker 1: defender between Laborda and the net, it's given the call.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, no, it's he's not.
Speaker 3: And that's the problem that I have with this is
Speaker 3: I do think it's fair to say that at the
Speaker 3: time of the foul there aren't many defenders back. But
Speaker 3: I'll tell you why. I don't think this is dog sell.
Speaker 3: But it is still a red card.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, yeah, that is true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to me, it's not dog soo because I think
Speaker 3: when you look at the defenders, I think it's fair
Speaker 3: to say knew who was the last defender, right, but
Speaker 3: there are other defenders in the area and the reason
Speaker 3: there are other defenders in their area who have a
Speaker 3: playable chance on the ball. Right, that's not the official terminology,
Speaker 3: but we're looking at like, can can you in theory
Speaker 3: defend this play right, not even with in theory, in
Speaker 3: realistic expectation within this play the distance and direction toward
Speaker 3: goal or why I don't think this is dog so
Speaker 3: because this is he is still far out in the
Speaker 3: far right channel about twenty five yards from the touch
Speaker 3: line or excuse me, from the goal line, possibly at
Speaker 3: that point. I'm not good at math, but that's at
Speaker 3: least thirty five yards from goal itself. If I'm looking
Speaker 3: at trit econometry, there you know sign co signed tangent.
Speaker 3: I I don't think this is dog so for those reasons,
Speaker 3: and I don't even think you could say that even
Speaker 3: in those reasons, he's the last defender. I think there
Speaker 3: are two other defenders who again are in a reasonable,
Speaker 3: reasonable position. Especially is it roll Don who's playing in
Speaker 3: that left center back role for them, maybe is making
Speaker 3: a recovery run that in my opinion.
Speaker 2: That was not rolled on.
Speaker 3: It's the other one who if knew, who doesn't make
Speaker 3: this play. It's probably going to be based on how
Speaker 3: we're moving making a play on the ball, or at
Speaker 3: least within reason and able to get there. So I
Speaker 3: do not agree that this is dog. So, however, John,
Speaker 3: this is serious foul play. Yes, this is a red card.
Speaker 3: You cannot horse collar tackle someone like this. I mean,
Speaker 3: how many times have you seen that in a high
Speaker 3: school or college or pro game on the high on
Speaker 3: the foot on the American football side of things, mister foot,
Speaker 3: mister Georgia high school football.
Speaker 5: And you know, the.
Speaker 3: Back judge, side judge, line judge, all would have had
Speaker 3: their flags out on this one because this is this
Speaker 3: is this is penalty, this personal foul penalty, right, and
Speaker 3: so from that standpoint, this is absolutely a red card.
Speaker 3: I just disagree slightly that it's dogs. So I do
Speaker 3: think though that it's serious foul play, possibly violent conduct.
Speaker 3: But I'll give him serious foul play because it's within
Speaker 3: the realm of trying to play soccer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, some folks might sit there and say that
Speaker 1: there are times when knew who doesn't, But well, yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: the only thing I'm seeing, literally the only thing I
Speaker 1: am seeing.
Speaker 3: It's possible they wrote it that way. It is because
Speaker 3: this is the thing, John, This red card is not
Speaker 3: going to go to var No, because this is on
Speaker 3: multiple counts of red card, Like, this is not a
Speaker 3: clear and obvious error. No, So I'm sure the referee
Speaker 3: wrote dog.
Speaker 2: Sell was not for anybody else.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, the referee may have wrote in his book
Speaker 3: dogs or foul as elastpin or whatever their code is,
Speaker 3: and that probably is what made it to the match report.
Speaker 3: I think had you had a chance to look at this,
Speaker 3: they would agree that it's not dog sew. But it's
Speaker 3: still a red card worthy. But still it's still violent conduct,
Speaker 3: serious play, some of those things. And to be fair,
Speaker 3: sometimes you kind of have to combine a lot of things.
Speaker 3: It's at least stopping a promising attack, and it's at
Speaker 3: least a reckless foul. And while you don't necessarily put
Speaker 3: those together an equal red, it's it's all red. You know,
Speaker 3: it all comes out red in the wash, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a bad foul. John, This is this is bad.
Speaker 3: I I would not be surprised if there is a
Speaker 3: fine coming his way because of the nature of this foul.
Speaker 3: H I don't I don't know if it's worthy any
Speaker 3: more suspension. I don't know. That's up to the Disco
Speaker 3: committee because again, it's not violent conduct. I don't think
Speaker 3: it's sad. It's within the realm of playing soccer. This
Speaker 3: is literally a soccer play. Yeah, but I mean this
Speaker 3: is at least a flight a flagrant too.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 3: So he'll get suspended his match, maybe maybe two uh,
Speaker 3: whatever the penalties are. And then and I would imagine
Speaker 3: he'll get a fine. I don't know if there'll be
Speaker 3: more than that, because again it's not like he threw
Speaker 3: a punch or play with stopped and he did this.
Speaker 2: If that makes sense, No, it does. It absolutely sound.
Speaker 1: And then, of course, though I haven't seen one like
Speaker 1: this in a very long time. Yeah, And so three
Speaker 1: minutes later, three minutes later, Jonathan Bell.
Speaker 3: By the way, a lot happened within those three minutes
Speaker 3: in the match too, which is kind of the fun part.
Speaker 3: It's like it wasn't like, oh well and they did
Speaker 3: it again. No, there was stuff that happened within the match. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Vancouver mounted like at least two attacks and then yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll let you walk through it because it's yeah.
Speaker 1: And so legitimately you're like, yeah, knew, who gets the
Speaker 1: red And then you have activity in the middle. Then
Speaker 1: you have a shot just why to the target in
Speaker 1: the fifty fourth and so Stephen Fry is getting ready
Speaker 1: to go. Now then you end up with once again
Speaker 1: another long ball over the top and then just contact from.
Speaker 3: Bell and Bell's minimal contact. I hate it for him, but.
Speaker 1: Belle's like no, no, no, no no, and then it's it.
Speaker 1: It's like literally John Bell just like he grabs briefly
Speaker 1: and it's almost like a clicking. It's almost like a
Speaker 1: clicking of the boots. And then Priso goes down and
Speaker 1: then you see Bell go no no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: and then it goes red card and literally it's yeat
Speaker 1: the well. And the thing is is that it is
Speaker 1: clicking of the boots one each and then Preso worse
Speaker 1: by contact with himself and makes it. Then his own
Speaker 1: contact with himself is what makes him go down. Now,
Speaker 1: so clicking of the boots and then hits himself goes
Speaker 1: down just outside the eighteen and then that's a red.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I do hate this for Bell. This is a soft
Speaker 3: red card in the sense that, look, the foul is
Speaker 3: minimal at best, but he clearly trips them. I mean
Speaker 3: you can see it. He very clearly trips them. He
Speaker 3: very clearly makes contact with him. But he is in
Speaker 3: the position here where while there may be other defenders
Speaker 3: in the realm, right, they are on the field in
Speaker 3: a generally same area. This the reason why this is
Speaker 3: definitely dogged so is because you're looking at the distance
Speaker 3: to goal and the direction of play, and he is
Speaker 3: pretty much going in on goal. The foul happens. I
Speaker 3: don't know, would you say that nineteen yards out?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's sorry, it's Emmanual Sobby. It's not
Speaker 1: rough priso, but yeah, it is on Emmanuel Sabby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just outside the eighteen.
Speaker 3: It's it's very close to I mean, he's lucky that
Speaker 3: he didn't take another step or two and that could
Speaker 3: have possibly just been a penalty, which means he wouldn't
Speaker 3: have got a red card, by the way, but it's
Speaker 3: dogged so unfortunately for him, and that's why he gets
Speaker 3: in off. It's not a particularly bad foul. It's maybe clumsy,
Speaker 3: but you know, it's not a bad foul. This would
Speaker 3: have This happens a lot in soccer where you just
Speaker 3: catch someone's ankle and that, yeah, that's a foul. But
Speaker 3: because of the distance, the direction of goal, of the
Speaker 3: distance that the I mean, the player is very clearly
Speaker 3: in control of the ball, it's dog.
Speaker 1: So for all those reasons, Okay, so explain why it
Speaker 1: would not be a red in that situation, because I
Speaker 1: know a lot of folks will sit there and they'll
Speaker 1: go dog so red when it's either one or the
Speaker 1: other and not both, so.
Speaker 3: Dog so red and dog so yellow. We really only
Speaker 3: reserve dog so yellow for fouls inside the penalty area
Speaker 3: that are denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity. But the
Speaker 3: fouls have to be in some way, shape or form
Speaker 3: within a natural soccer play. So this would have been
Speaker 3: I think in that conversation it is tripping. It's not
Speaker 3: like he yanked him down from behind or just ran
Speaker 3: into him right he is with There is nothing and
Speaker 3: again we're not judging intent, but there's nothing serious about this.
Speaker 3: There's nothing cynical about this. There's nothing to the point
Speaker 3: of like, oh, well, he clearly didn't have a chance.
Speaker 3: He's just trying to run and catch up with the
Speaker 3: dude and he clips him from behind. Right, So in
Speaker 3: that case, this is a natural soccer play, if that
Speaker 3: makes any sense, Like this is something we see all
Speaker 3: the time in the game where people are running next
Speaker 3: to each other. It's fine. He just happens to be
Speaker 3: half a step slower and clips him on the heels.
Speaker 3: So if that happens inside the penalty area, yes it's
Speaker 3: still dogs. So but because we give a penalty kick,
Speaker 3: we do not want to punish the team more than
Speaker 3: already giving them a penalty kick, which in today's day
Speaker 3: and age, is very much likely going to result in
Speaker 3: a goal. I think the actually a penalty kick is
Speaker 3: still like point seventy three, so you know, the chances
Speaker 3: are you're scoring that even with Stephan frying goal. And
Speaker 3: so we don't want to what be called put them
Speaker 3: in double jeopardy where they are now down a goal
Speaker 3: and down a man. So, oh, I don't even know
Speaker 3: how long it's been, maybe ten years now they removed
Speaker 3: that aspect of the dog. So inside a penalty area
Speaker 3: for a common foul, if that's the best way to
Speaker 3: put it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that was that was why I wanted to
Speaker 1: because folks will sit there and they'll wave at one,
Speaker 1: and they'll sit there and go, well, why wasn't it both?
Speaker 1: And that was why I wanted to walk through that
Speaker 1: because there are times where you'll you'll see literally you
Speaker 1: will see fans who might be watching a match or
Speaker 1: they'll be at a match and they'll sit there and look, well,
Speaker 1: why wasn't it you know, A and B as opposed
Speaker 1: to A or so.
Speaker 3: For example, John, a handball inside the penalty area for
Speaker 3: denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity. That's a red card
Speaker 3: because duh, that's not an actual soccer Player're not allowed
Speaker 3: to use your hands on the sport. Another one could
Speaker 3: be so for example, maybe not quite what new Who did,
Speaker 3: but grabbing someone by the shoulder and pulling them down
Speaker 3: could be seen as not a soccer play, right that is,
Speaker 3: especially from behind like that you could still give a
Speaker 3: red card for that, but like you know, just slightly
Speaker 3: being off on your on your challenge shoulder to shoulder,
Speaker 3: that slightly miss, not really tripping from behind, and this
Speaker 3: instance not really so again, common fouls that are still
Speaker 3: dogs o. And this is a perfect example, right, this
Speaker 3: is John. Look, this is a common foul. I don't
Speaker 3: think again, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Look,
Speaker 3: you trip them, it's fine, But you happen to be
Speaker 3: the last defender on a goal scoring opportunity, and therefore
Speaker 3: the foul to not the obvious goal scoring opportunity. It's
Speaker 3: dog soa it's red card. If that happens in the
Speaker 3: penalty area, it's probably just yellow. It should be just
Speaker 3: too yellow and get the penalty kick.
Speaker 1: So okay, all right, so you are heading north? So
Speaker 1: when are you heading north and getting everything?
Speaker 3: My greyhound bus leaves at four thirty eight, a very
Speaker 3: precise time. So I'm taking a grand Hound up and
Speaker 3: then I'm coming back tomorrow after the game with some
Speaker 3: of the friends who are going up tomorrow. They you know,
Speaker 3: must be nice to not real jobs. They can drive
Speaker 3: up and back. I'm kidding. They have real jobs.
Speaker 2: They just have the.
Speaker 3: Ability to drive up and back the same day. I don't.
Speaker 3: I gotta work tomorrow. I saw I'm working from Nashville tomorrow.
Speaker 1: There, don't tell my boss that you're working from Nashville.
Speaker 3: No, I've I've got it cleared. I was like, I'm
Speaker 3: working from home on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm working from home on Tuesday. Yes, absolutely true.
Speaker 1: It's just a home happens to be wherever the laptop. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I'm right there with you, all right. So the most
Speaker 1: recent episode of the Soccer for US pod is out.
Speaker 2: What else do we need?
Speaker 3: We may record Wednesday, depending on what my energy levels
Speaker 3: are to recap these friendlies and look at the Gold Cup.
Speaker 3: I think our goal is to get an idea of
Speaker 3: who we think are starting eleven should be for the
Speaker 3: Gold Cup. But as we discussed in the last episode,
Speaker 3: that's even still tricky because are you putting your best
Speaker 3: eleven out against Trinidad when probably the most important game
Speaker 3: is that game against Saudi Arabia Or do you just say, look,
Speaker 3: we got to get all points that we can. We're
Speaker 3: putting our best eleven out there as best as possible,
Speaker 3: as many times as possible. That's the kind of the
Speaker 3: balancing act. Now, if you remember John, the Gold Cup
Speaker 3: schedule fields compressed. You go Sunday, Thursday, Sunday, but then
Speaker 3: you get a whole week off because the quarterfinals don't
Speaker 3: start until Saturday, the twenty eighth yeah, twenty eight, and
Speaker 3: so we'll either play the twenty eighth or twenty ninth
Speaker 3: for a semi final, and then you play a quarter
Speaker 3: excuse me, a quarterfinals. Then you have semi finals midweek
Speaker 3: final on a Sunday, So it's like two compressed schedules,
Speaker 3: but you get a whole week off in between them.
Speaker 3: So that's the question of how much do you put
Speaker 3: out there in that group stage to beat Trinidad, to
Speaker 3: beat Haiti. I would argue, John, you need to run
Speaker 3: up the score as much as possible against Trinidad because
Speaker 3: Saudi is a good team and you can't guarantee you're
Speaker 3: gonna win that game. So if you go out there
Speaker 3: and put ten on Trinidad hopeful that puts you in
Speaker 3: a good position even if you don't beat Saudi Arabia
Speaker 3: but still don't lose. If you tie them, you know
Speaker 3: you're still feeling good, especially Haiti on the last match
Speaker 3: day as well to possibly get some more goals. So
Speaker 3: it's just tricky, John, I think that's the hard part
Speaker 3: about this, these two friendlies with the not having the
Speaker 3: first choice guys, is if you're using these friendlies to
Speaker 3: learn about Gold Cup positioning, great if you're using these
Speaker 3: friendlies to learn about who can and can't compete at
Speaker 3: a World Cup later, possibly also good. But it's just
Speaker 3: kind of tough because I feel like you got a
Speaker 3: lot of goals that aren't necessarily How do we get
Speaker 3: the best twenty six together next summer?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so obviously we're going to be watching and keeping
Speaker 1: an eye and following along as we go through.
Speaker 3: I do have a question, John, if you'll let me sure,
Speaker 3: Planet John, Sorry, Planet John, not you John, Planet John.
Speaker 3: In the chat, what where is the link to this
Speaker 3: Athletico Dallas stadium plans Because the only thing I've seen
Speaker 3: regarding them is the training facility plans, which look great,
Speaker 3: and the you know, the big multi million dollars soccer complex.
Speaker 3: So I'd love to see where you're seeing the stadium
Speaker 3: plan discussion, because that's been one of my harp the
Speaker 3: things I've harped on is a lot of USL teams
Speaker 3: who claim they're going to somehow massive, magically be better
Speaker 3: than MLS teams when pro rel gets instituted don't have
Speaker 3: stadiums of their own. And I think that's a vital
Speaker 3: piece of the pie here that no one's really factoring
Speaker 3: in but I would love to see that because I
Speaker 3: think Athletico Dallas fantastic crust. I'd love to see what
Speaker 3: they're going to do with it.
Speaker 1: Yes, and so obviously keeping on all of that, we
Speaker 1: know what our title game is going to be in
Speaker 1: USL Super Zigue, and we will see what it looks
Speaker 1: like elsewhere in and around everything. Just be safe going
Speaker 1: up there, have fun, and make sure that you take
Speaker 1: a lot of notes, and this is going to be
Speaker 1: your busy time, a lot of notes. Yes, Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: it's going to be your busy time with us involving everything,
Speaker 1: involving the national teams, involving Gold Cup, and we're we're
Speaker 1: going to budget you with the actual paying gigs as
Speaker 1: best we can as always.
Speaker 3: John can, I can I also share a conspiracy theory? Sure,
Speaker 3: USL Super League? Sure, where is the us L headquarter?
Speaker 2: I believe it is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.
Speaker 3: Okay, And both of these teams that made the final
Speaker 3: are from which.
Speaker 2: State I believe that would be Florida.
Speaker 3: So yes, couldn't have written a better script for him? Yeah, well,
Speaker 3: I mean it's I'm joking they earned it, but yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just kind of it's coincidental, ain't it?
Speaker 1: And where is the where is the championship game being played?
Speaker 3: I believe that will be in the great city, mildly
Speaker 3: good city of Tampa, Florida.
Speaker 1: See, I'm actually and it's and it's and it's at
Speaker 1: that that constructed beautiful riverfront, bayfront medium that that that
Speaker 1: hosts the the Tampa Bay Sun.
Speaker 3: So yep, uh yeah, so four be good for them.
Speaker 3: I think this has been fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be fun. So we'll keep an
Speaker 1: eye on it as we go. Enjoy the rest of
Speaker 1: your day, my friend. Obviously, we'll keep an eye on
Speaker 1: you and what's going on with everything going on with
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Speaker 1: Yeah, at soccer for USPOD all right, be good. But yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, there goes bart and so Rich. Good to
Speaker 1: see you popping in to say hi, as always, nice
Speaker 1: to have you here. All right, so let's get into
Speaker 1: all of the other news. Apparently, as it is laid
Speaker 1: out the code, the the release clause for Thomas Frank
Speaker 1: has laid out to about ten pounds and so that
Speaker 1: is the that is the the check that has to
Speaker 1: be cut for Thomas Frank to be going from Brentford to.
Speaker 2: Spurs.
Speaker 1: And so keep an eye on the the ten million,
Speaker 1: the ten million dollars that goes from one place to
Speaker 1: the next. And so we will see, we will see
Speaker 1: what the latest is there when it comes to that
Speaker 1: particular matchup. Souh, ten million, that's what we were, That's
Speaker 1: what we're staring at. So ten million is the it
Speaker 1: is the number for Thomas Frank to be laid out
Speaker 1: to go from one place.
Speaker 2: To the other.
Speaker 1: So that's that's what we'll keep an eye on when
Speaker 1: it comes to that particular matchup and that particular new
Speaker 1: line on his new line on his dossier, his CV.
Speaker 1: And so that's where uh, that's that's where we are
Speaker 1: when it comes to that. Let's see, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of what other stuff I had that was listed.
Speaker 1: Oh oh oh oh oh, yeah, we got to talk
Speaker 1: about that, all right.
Speaker 2: So we know that it looks like.
Speaker 1: The wages for the Club World Cup are a bit
Speaker 1: of an issue at the moment, and you have players
Speaker 1: for Major League Soccer who are less than pleased with
Speaker 1: the layout of how much, who's getting what and where?
Speaker 1: So you've got.
Speaker 2: Where is it? Where is it? Where's where is it?
Speaker 2: Where's it? It's in the news section. Where's my news section? Here?
Speaker 1: I don't need I need headlines, but I don't need Uh.
Speaker 2: Where was it?
Speaker 1: And so it's like I go to the one place
Speaker 1: where I thought I could find it, and then of course, uh.
Speaker 2: Where is it? Where is it? Where is It's?
Speaker 5: Not?
Speaker 2: There? Not there?
Speaker 1: Not there Portugal beating Spain third straight loss. Nations League reaction.
Speaker 1: That was not what I was looking for. But okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so what if we did this? So if
Speaker 1: we go here and get that? Okay, so here we go.
Speaker 1: This is from Lizzie Bescherano. At all, discussions between MLS
Speaker 1: and the pa up prize money and player compensation remain
Speaker 1: on going, two sides failing to agree so far on terms.
Speaker 1: In a newly revised section of the CBA Seattle Players
Speaker 1: once again we mentioned that with the t shirts, MLSPA
Speaker 1: initially released a statement and supported the player's actions two
Speaker 1: parties demanding a fair share of the Club World Cup
Speaker 1: prize money team secured and qualified for the international tournament.
Speaker 1: Original CBA stated players received fifty percent of the money
Speaker 1: from outside tournaments with a cap of a million dollars.
Speaker 1: Source with knowledge of the discussions told the Four Letter
Speaker 1: that a revised proposal from MLS committed to grant players
Speaker 1: on the three participating teams twenty percent of the performance
Speaker 1: related payments for wins, draws, and round advancement. Players collectively
Speaker 1: would receive a million dollars for participation, in addition to
Speaker 1: any money earned for victory's draws around callification throughout the tournament. Separately,
Speaker 1: LAFC earned a quarter of a million dollars collectively for
Speaker 1: the victory against Clubamerica in the playoff May thirty first
Speaker 1: to secure a spot in the tournament. MLSPA received the
Speaker 1: proposal back on Friday. Source with knowledge of the discussions
Speaker 1: added MLSPA demanded a larger percentage, but has not formally
Speaker 1: responded to the league's proposal. In a statement, however, MLSPA
Speaker 1: called the actions taken by MLS as quote, retaliatory, end quote,
Speaker 1: and unsatisfactory quote. In the statement, the timing, substance and
Speaker 1: retaliatory nature of the proposal sends a clear message MLS
Speaker 1: does not respect or value players' efforts with regard to
Speaker 1: this tournament. Although not surprised, the players in MLSPA deeply
Speaker 1: disappointed by this message. MLS's refusal to negotiate in good
Speaker 1: faith has created a major distraction for the players who
Speaker 1: should be focusing on preparing for a major international competition. However,
Speaker 1: players will not be silenced by threats from MLS. Players
Speaker 1: remain united in using their collective voice in demanding a
Speaker 1: fair share of the rewards earned for their hard work.
Speaker 1: End Quote organization later added that MLS introduced quote back
Speaker 1: end compensation of twenty percent, an amount that remains below
Speaker 1: the international standard end quote and also Quote did not
Speaker 1: add a single dollar for players from the twenty eight million,
Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty thousand dollars win fall that MLS
Speaker 1: will be paid by FIFA. According to the MLSPA, the
Speaker 1: player's share of that amount remains at barely ten percent.
Speaker 1: Two sides have yet to agree on new terms, making
Speaker 1: the current CBA the standard of work. Stoppage by MLS
Speaker 1: players over the bonus dispute isn't possible due to provisions
Speaker 1: in the CBA. Under the current CBA, players have agreed
Speaker 1: not to strike over issues that fall within the scope
Speaker 1: of the agreement, but they still have the right to
Speaker 1: engage in protected actions under federal labor law. And once
Speaker 1: again that is from Jeff Carlisle and Lizzie Bescherano when
Speaker 1: it comes to the latest involving all of those numbers,
Speaker 1: and trust me, it's a lot of numbers that are
Speaker 1: attached to all of it. I'm trying to see if
Speaker 1: there is anything else that.
Speaker 2: Would be attached to the latest.
Speaker 1: It's like so nothing there, nothing there, nothing there. Edward
Speaker 1: of Tansley at the Athletic as of the overnight once
Speaker 1: again best clubs in the world. What do I need
Speaker 1: to know about the lesser known teams? Auckland City the
Speaker 1: only reps from Oceania have won the Champions League there
Speaker 1: eleven times in fourteen years. Botha Fogo ad E and
Speaker 1: f groups only have one European team, so teams from
Speaker 1: another continent will progress to the Round of sixteen from
Speaker 1: these groups. In group H Al Hilal and Pachuca should
Speaker 1: challenge Salzburg for second behind Real Madrid. Obviously, the favorites
Speaker 1: are PSG, who once again demolished Inter Milan five mil
Speaker 1: in the Champions League final. Real Madrid obviously attached Manchester City.
Speaker 2: That's attached.
Speaker 1: You've got a lot of the big names that are
Speaker 1: attached as well. Real Madrid will have Shabi Alonso in
Speaker 1: the dugout and former Liverpool defender Trent Alexander Arnold set
Speaker 1: to make his Madrid debut after they paid the fee
Speaker 1: for him to join for the tournament. Liam d Lapp
Speaker 1: could make his debut for Chelsea. Inter Milan will have
Speaker 1: a new manager, expected to be former defender Christian Chievu
Speaker 1: after Inzagi left for Al Hilal. Other deals could see
Speaker 1: Jonathan Toff feature for Bayern Munich and Georgino for Flamingo.
Speaker 1: So that is that's what you're that's what you're looking at.
Speaker 1: But remember right now, you've got grass being installed at
Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz Stadium. Grass grass, grass, grass, So we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. We'll see what happens there. What to watch,
Speaker 1: Where to watch it, how to watch it. It's a
Speaker 1: light day today. World Cup qualifying Italy and Moldova's at
Speaker 1: two forty five and International Friendly coming up at noon
Speaker 1: Eastern Liechtenstein and Scotland. Both of those are on FS two.
Speaker 1: Fox deport As is in the middle of a broadcast
Speaker 1: the U twenty tournament, the Maurice Riveo, Panama and France
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour of Fox Soccer, plus
Speaker 1: as World Cup qualifying Kazakhstan and North Macedonia going on
Speaker 1: right now, should be started the second half and at
Speaker 1: two forty five it is Estonia and Norway. And speaking
Speaker 1: of qualifying, I saw this and this was kind of
Speaker 1: like a really cool h This was a really cool
Speaker 1: stat from our friends at I want to say it
Speaker 1: was at the sweeper Pod, but it has to do
Speaker 1: with our friends at San Marino. And the wild thing
Speaker 1: about this is you have the possibility and this came
Speaker 1: out yesterday of San Marino having a thirty four percent
Speaker 1: chance to reach the World Cup playoffs. And you know
Speaker 1: how we are about our friends from San Marino. Their
Speaker 1: most probable semi final opponent if they make it of
Speaker 1: this weekend would be Italy first and foremost sixteen percent chance,
Speaker 1: and then Turquilla at eleven percent. Then it would be Ukraine, Denmark, Croatia, Belgium,
Speaker 1: Switzerland and France. That's your top eight and most probable
Speaker 1: semi final opponents. To reach the playoffs, San Marino needs
Speaker 1: both Romania and Sweden to finish top two in their
Speaker 1: World Cup qualifying groups. The list of most likely playoff
Speaker 1: opponents for every European team is once again available for
Speaker 1: our friends from our friends at Football Meets Data. But
Speaker 1: the fact that San Marino of all countries has a
Speaker 1: thirty four percent chance of reaching the World Cup playoffs
Speaker 1: and our friends at sweeper Pod san Marino versus Italy,
Speaker 1: and it would be the first time I think that
Speaker 1: you have a completely and totally landlocked playing another.
Speaker 2: Nation to be a part of the tournament. So you
Speaker 2: got that, You've got that to hang on to.
Speaker 1: Other news just to kind of wander around before we
Speaker 1: get out of here today. And once again we've mentioned,
Speaker 1: We've mentioned Thomas Frank. We mentioned Thomas Frank once again.
Speaker 1: That's about another forty eight hours. Keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: Newcastle is stepping up their pursuit of Pedro after missing
Speaker 1: out on Brian and Buomo and apparently also according to
Speaker 1: Newcastle and our friend Luke Edwards at the Telegraph, the
Speaker 1: club's deals are being blocked by prices and restrictions because
Speaker 1: of PSR. Newcastle growing increasingly frustrated by rival clubs putting
Speaker 1: a Saudi tax on transfer Saudi taxing quotation marks and
Speaker 1: refusing to be held to ransom over key targets. Telegraphs
Speaker 1: Port have been kind of privy to the negotiations for
Speaker 1: players of mid warnings there's not enough money to spend
Speaker 1: large amounts on each of the four players they want
Speaker 1: to sign. Senior club sources believe a so called Saudi
Speaker 1: tax has plagued the club since to take over the PIF.
Speaker 2: As a result, they're.
Speaker 1: Trying to explain to rival clubs that there is a
Speaker 1: warped perception of their spending power. They remain heavily restrained
Speaker 1: by PSR profit and sustainability. New contract for Esach also
Speaker 1: in the pipeline. Talks are expected to start in next month.
Speaker 1: Newcastle can't spend upward of sixty pounds on players when
Speaker 1: wages are also a consideration. Although the sale of Mickey
Speaker 1: and Lloyd Kelly brought in around twenty five and has
Speaker 1: given Newcastle some flexibility, there isn't a lot of headroom.
Speaker 1: According to Luke Edwards, Newcastle targeting a keeper looks like
Speaker 1: it's Burnley's James Trafford, center back, right sided forward and
Speaker 1: a striker, depending on player sales and other midfielder could arrive,
Speaker 1: especially if long staff is expected to depart, so an
Speaker 1: example of the whole Saudi tax thing comes within Boomo
Speaker 1: as an example, Cameronian was identified as a leading target
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, but once again the wage demands as
Speaker 1: well as the transfer fee of more than sixty million
Speaker 1: pounds proved to be too expensive a deal to pursue,
Speaker 1: and Boomo would have likely been their highest earner if
Speaker 1: he had signed. That would have inevitably prompted others at
Speaker 1: the club to ask for parody, which moves your wage
Speaker 1: bill up.
Speaker 2: And then if you don't sign folks.
Speaker 1: To match what Brian and Buomo would have been making,
Speaker 1: then you got pissed off people that are playing for you,
Speaker 1: that are on your roster. Negotiations with ESAC will what
Speaker 1: will be difficult, according to Edwards, bringing in new players
Speaker 1: on significantly more money than that. Once again it's fraught
Speaker 1: with danger. Semeno and Ilanga have been discussed extensively, born
Speaker 1: with the Nottingham Forest. Jew Pedro another player who's been
Speaker 1: repeatedly scouted, seen as a strong potential signing, but Jeel
Speaker 1: Pedro's price tag could be upward of seventy million pounds. Then,
Speaker 1: once again, the mount outbound plus the wage bill could
Speaker 1: make it difficult for you, and so that's where your
Speaker 1: cycle is. James Mcattee is liked by Eddie how could
Speaker 1: be available for twenty five not getting in a first
Speaker 1: team minutes under Pep Guardiola at City. Mohammed Kudus is
Speaker 1: another player that they're looking at at west Ham. Mark
Speaker 1: gay Hee is valued at around forty million. Crystal Palace
Speaker 1: of explored a deal involving Usban Diamande if gay He goes,
Speaker 1: and so that Luke Edwards article over at the Telegraph
Speaker 1: kind of breaks down what it looks like right now
Speaker 1: for folks to chase after things inside the walls at
Speaker 1: Newcastle and they have to be very very careful about
Speaker 1: how they're going to be spending their money so they
Speaker 1: don't fall in line and violate PSR. So that's the
Speaker 1: largest element there involving our friends at Newcastle. Then in mckail,
Speaker 1: Antonio is nearing an exit as apparently he and west
Speaker 1: Ham cannot agree on terms. We've mentioned Robert Lewandowski before
Speaker 1: we get out of here. Lewandowski says, as long as
Speaker 1: Probierre's is the coach, he ain't gonna play. He's been
Speaker 1: left feeling betrayed and very hurt by Probierres after quitting
Speaker 1: the setup because of a row over losing the captaincy,
Speaker 1: stripped of the armband on Sunday by Probierres, who is
Speaker 1: appointed midfielder Peter Zelinsky as captain instead. Lewandowski then announced
Speaker 1: he was quitting the national team, citing a loss of
Speaker 1: trust in the coach, refusing to return to play for
Speaker 1: his country as long as the coach remains in charge.
Speaker 1: It's been in charge since twenty three. Lee led the
Speaker 1: team at the Euros last summer quote, I hope I
Speaker 1: will still have another chance to play again for the
Speaker 1: best fans in the world. Lewandowski was scathing in his
Speaker 1: criticism of how Probierres handled the situation, quote, I haven't
Speaker 1: been captain for a year or two. I've been wearing
Speaker 1: the armband for eleven years. I've been playing for the
Speaker 1: national team for seventeen. Seemed to me that such matters
Speaker 1: should be handled differently. Everything was communicated over the phone.
Speaker 1: Really shouldn't be like this. The coach betrayed my trust.
Speaker 1: The national team has always been the most important thing
Speaker 1: to me. At the same time, I'm very hurt by
Speaker 1: what has happened. It's not even about the decision regarding
Speaker 1: the armband, but about the way it was communicated to me.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: Press conference Monday, Probier said he called Lewandowski Sunday night
Speaker 1: from Finland or Poland play on Tuesday. Robert replied, the
Speaker 1: armband means nothing and it won't change anything in the team.
Speaker 1: According to Probier's about a second call later that evening,
Speaker 1: Probiers said, quote, he told me to make it sound
Speaker 1: like he had given up the armband. I replied that
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that. Later I learned from the media
Speaker 1: that Robert had given up playing for the national team.
Speaker 1: No one is closing the door on him, but I
Speaker 1: wish him luck. There are situations in life when you
Speaker 1: get offended and then you move on. In football, you
Speaker 1: can't get offended. When I asked whether he considered retiring
Speaker 1: from international football altogether, Lewandowski also accused Probiers of caving
Speaker 1: into media pressure and breaking agreements. Lewandowski said, I want
Speaker 1: to sit down and think about it all calmly. You
Speaker 1: need to catch my breath and I will be able
Speaker 1: to say more about my thoughts and what's next.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: There is regret and anger. I've always cared a lot
Speaker 1: about the national team. Nothing has changed in that respect.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: So one hundred and fifty eight appearances, forty nine more
Speaker 1: than a Yakablajakowski pull in face Finland and Helsinki Tuesday night,
Speaker 1: trying to get their one hundred percent record and keep
Speaker 1: that intact for qualifying for the World Cup for twenty six.
Speaker 1: So that's your rundown of everything going on today. I'm
Speaker 1: sure we've left some news on the table, and I
Speaker 1: apologize for that, but we'll be back at it again
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning at nine oh five. Lucas Panziku's going to
Speaker 1: be calling the match for UH Westwood one along with
Speaker 1: Jamie Watson going to join us bat and lead off.
Speaker 1: We'll see if Jamie can join us too. We'll get
Speaker 1: you through your Tuesday. We'll talk about what happened in
Speaker 1: the weekend in Major League Soccer outside of the Double
Speaker 1: Reds in Seattle. Get you ready for Club World Cup,
Speaker 1: get you ready for Gold Cup, get you ready for
Speaker 1: all the things. Wednesday, once again, traditionally it is Tyler,
Speaker 1: it is Dylan, and we'll get you ready there. Thursday
Speaker 1: it's Nino and Nico. Friday will get you ready for
Speaker 1: the weekend, very very busy weekend across the board. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of ish going on, and I mean that
Speaker 1: in the most official way possible. There's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: Gold Cup, Club, World Cup, MLS, it's all happening all
Speaker 1: at once, and we'll talk about it here the whole
Speaker 1: time before we get out of here, David, is the
Speaker 1: spending PSR issue just new or more of an issue now?
Speaker 2: Or is this more like the other things in the
Speaker 2: news coverage? Is that much better than before? Huh h?
Speaker 1: I mean I think that it's probably more vigilant now,
Speaker 1: So it might be the latter where spending in PSR
Speaker 1: you just kind of were like, okay, well and then
Speaker 1: when something happened, you're like, oh, it happened. But now
Speaker 1: with everybody keeping an eye on things, I'd like to
Speaker 1: attribute it to journalism and chasing after things and making
Speaker 1: sure that folks are kept abreast of all the situations.
Speaker 1: But we'll see, so, yeah, we'll see, we'll see what
Speaker 1: it is. But i'd like to attribute it to journalism
Speaker 1: being somewhat self serving in all that where you've got
Speaker 1: a lot of folks who are trying to get stories
Speaker 1: and that's the other thing in this. Make sure that
Speaker 1: the stories and the sourcing that you see in these
Speaker 1: kinds of things are accurate. Check your sources, check your sources,
Speaker 1: check your sources. But I'd like to attribute it to journalism.
Speaker 2: That's just me.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, and yeah, David, all these well poor rich
Speaker 1: people seem to want a salary cap. Yeah, because it
Speaker 1: controls their bottom line and it's not spending out of
Speaker 1: control that you find in the championship in the second
Speaker 1: division in England. That's another story for another day for
Speaker 1: everybody here at SDH. I'm just John. Thanks to Bart,
Speaker 1: thanks to Abe, thanks to y'all for dropping bys you
Speaker 1: always do. Back at it again tomorrow once again we'll
Speaker 1: talk about we'll get the table set for the men's
Speaker 1: national team. We'll talk about what happened in MLS on
Speaker 1: the weekend, anything else that crosses our desk. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about it all and gets you ready for a very
Speaker 1: very busy week. Across the board, there installing grass at
Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz people. At least we'll be able to see
Speaker 1: it for the next twenty minutes. So they're installing grass.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye out on SDH socials. Jason will probably
Speaker 1: have all the pictures of them rolling out the grass
Speaker 1: for you and what the conversations are like as they're
Speaker 1: rolling out the grass getting ready for the Club World Cup,
Speaker 1: which we will be covering for you across the board.
Speaker 1: So for everybody here at SDH, I'm just John seeing
Speaker 1: a little less than twenty two much of plots. Y'all
Speaker 1: play it safe and since it is the end of
Speaker 1: the show means I get to do this see you
Speaker 1: again tomorrow morning.