Speaker 1: The welcome in. It's time for another edition of the
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Speaker 1: you need to know from Monday, March twenty fourth, and
Speaker 1: typically on Mondays, We're going to start with Atlanta United,
Speaker 1: but in light of the Concacaffe Nations League, we're going
Speaker 1: to start with the US men's national team and their
Speaker 1: loss in the third place game to Canada. Started really well.
Speaker 1: Didn't get enough out of the good start, the response
Speaker 1: to Canada standing up and taking the game away from
Speaker 1: the US. It wasn't great. Matt Turner's distribution wasn't great.
Speaker 1: Patrick Gogimond, he got a goal to be the best
Speaker 1: of the number nine options lately. Diego Luna, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: needs to be on the field as much as possible,
Speaker 1: and what he brings on the field is really good.
Speaker 1: He has the assist in this one, but I think
Speaker 1: the attitude, then the spark that he brings on and
Speaker 1: off the ball is so needed with this group. Canada
Speaker 1: was really good, even maybe especially after they lost Alfonso
Speaker 1: Davies to injury. Alistair Johnston was outstanding, put Fosse in
Speaker 1: his pocket in the second half trying to get forward.
Speaker 1: Jonathan David was that clinical number nine when needed. Canada
Speaker 1: was relentless. They never backed down, they never lost their confidence.
Speaker 1: They played with a chip on their shoulder, and I
Speaker 1: think it highlighted something that frustrates me about where this
Speaker 1: US men's national team is and something that kind of
Speaker 1: highlights the challenge of this group right now. They're in
Speaker 1: this weird spot where they're good enough to make teams
Speaker 1: like Panama sit back, defend deep, dare you to try
Speaker 1: to find a way through a five to four to one.
Speaker 1: They're good enough to do that, but they're not good
Speaker 1: enough to intimidate a team that's on the same level
Speaker 1: like Canada, and Canada was not intimidated by any stretch.
Speaker 1: So you're good enough to force teams to sit back
Speaker 1: and defend deep, which makes it hard for you, but
Speaker 1: you're not good enough to outplay teams that are on
Speaker 1: your same level. And the question going into the World Cup,
Speaker 1: because you're going to see teams that are above your level,
Speaker 1: how do you handle those games? Because the team's less
Speaker 1: than your level, which you will see. They've shown they
Speaker 1: can sit back and defend against you and make life difficult.
Speaker 1: The teams that are at your same level have shown
Speaker 1: they're not afraid of you. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: can be the underdog darling against a team that's better
Speaker 1: right now, I don't know if this team has that personality.
Speaker 1: Five shots in a game like this is just flat
Speaker 1: out not good enough. Two on target. Canada doubled you
Speaker 1: up in shots on target and almost doubled you up
Speaker 1: in shots in total. What's the big picture for this
Speaker 1: usmn's national team, Because, look, there's a lot of talk.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people going into the drafts on
Speaker 1: their social media platforms of choice and pulling out things
Speaker 1: that have been written before, reheating things that have been
Speaker 1: said before. There's lots of that. Look, it's time to
Speaker 1: make your statements and get the script writers out and
Speaker 1: do your performance to get attention and get clicks. That's
Speaker 1: what people are going to do right now. Let's get
Speaker 1: real here on the morning espresso, rather than look for
Speaker 1: clicks and yell and scream and stop my feet. What
Speaker 1: has Marito Pochattino learn from this, he's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: These two games have to force a response, whether that's
Speaker 1: from the players, whether that's from him, whether that's a
Speaker 1: combination of both. There has to be a reaction to this.
Speaker 1: There really wasn't a lot said afterwards, and Pochatino says
Speaker 1: all the right things about this is over a year
Speaker 1: out from the World Cup. The goal is the World Cup.
Speaker 1: We've seen this happen before with host teams, where you
Speaker 1: don't go through qualifying, you don't look great a year out,
Speaker 1: and then things turn around as you go into the
Speaker 1: World Cup. That's very true, and that happens, and it's
Speaker 1: not new to this US team. In the situation. You
Speaker 1: want to see a reaction to this though, the first
Speaker 1: big set back for Poa Chattino, and you want to
Speaker 1: see better performances. You've got the Gold Cup in the summer,
Speaker 1: you've got friendlies between now and then, and then you've
Speaker 1: got friendlies afterwards to get ready for the World Cup,
Speaker 1: and you've got to get players in the best form possible.
Speaker 1: The Gold Cup just became a whole lot more important,
Speaker 1: and you're not going to be at full full strength
Speaker 1: because you're going to be missing players to the Club
Speaker 1: World Cup the summer, that doesn't matter. Like for the US,
Speaker 1: winning the Gold Cup has to be the goal. And
Speaker 1: any thought about using it as an opportunity to see
Speaker 1: more of the player pool that's gone. Now you've got
Speaker 1: to go and try to win that tournament. You've got
Speaker 1: to show that in games that matter and knock out
Speaker 1: games that you can get the job done. Look, I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people in this reaction again talking
Speaker 1: about going back into the drafts of old messages. You're
Speaker 1: gonna go back to that, and you're gonna yell about
Speaker 1: pay to play, and you're gonna yell about more kids playing,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna yell about we want our best athletes
Speaker 1: playing and all these different things that are real conversations
Speaker 1: to have. They didn't affect this game. If you want
Speaker 1: to get into a big long spiel and try to
Speaker 1: find a way that it did, sure, whatever, have fun,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it will get attention. But what affected this game?
Speaker 1: What affected this performance in these two games? The group
Speaker 1: has too much talent to have these kind of results.
Speaker 1: It's unacceptable. It's not tactics to me, it's not coaching
Speaker 1: to me, it's not about caring enough. These guys care.
Speaker 1: It's about two things that I keep coming back to.
Speaker 1: It's the quality of the performance when it matters it
Speaker 1: wasn't good enough, and the ability to rise above the
Speaker 1: pressure to perform. And what is a little concerning is
Speaker 1: it feels like that pressure is suffocating these players and
Speaker 1: you're not getting Sometimes when you see a team that's
Speaker 1: feeling pressure, they act kind of crazy there running around,
Speaker 1: they get stuck into tackles, they're too over the top
Speaker 1: dealing with that pressure. This team went the other way.
Speaker 1: They turned within themselves and they looked very unbothered by it,
Speaker 1: but in a bad way. Like you want to see
Speaker 1: a team that can handle pressure, but you want to
Speaker 1: see a team that understands it's dealing with pressure. I
Speaker 1: don't think we saw that in this tournament. Look big
Speaker 1: picture with soccer in this country. Of course, we want
Speaker 1: to see more access for kids to play. Of course,
Speaker 1: we want to see better coaching to develop those kids.
Speaker 1: We want to see more professional environments. All of those
Speaker 1: are valid. That's not why the team lost to Panama
Speaker 1: and Mexico. If you want to try to draw that map,
Speaker 1: have fun, go at it. Whatever, the team had enough
Speaker 1: talent to win against Panama and Canada. Sorry, the team
Speaker 1: had enough talent to win, they didn't. It's down to
Speaker 1: that group. Is there another group of players somewhere hidden
Speaker 1: within this country that would have been better? No, that's
Speaker 1: not true. Don't believe that anymore. That was maybe true
Speaker 1: back in the eighties, it's not true now. Are there
Speaker 1: good players out there who are not part of the system. Yes,
Speaker 1: there are, and that needs to change, But that's not
Speaker 1: why this team lost. That is not the issue at
Speaker 1: the current moment. We want to see the pool get
Speaker 1: bigger it has. We want to see it get even bigger.
Speaker 1: We want to see more kids develop to their highest potential.
Speaker 1: That's gotten better, it can still improve. Stop calling this
Speaker 1: a golden generation as well because others have won more
Speaker 1: and accomplished more. This is a very talented group with
Speaker 1: players playing at some of the highest levels that we've
Speaker 1: seen US players play at. That's true, but that doesn't
Speaker 1: make you a golden generation. What makes you a golden
Speaker 1: generation with a national team is what you achieve, and
Speaker 1: this group hasn't achieved enough. It hasn't been as bad
Speaker 1: as some will lead you to believe. Getting out of
Speaker 1: the group in twenty twenty two, was an accomplishment. Getting
Speaker 1: to the knockout round was an accomplishment based off the
Speaker 1: level that this team has. That is an accomplishment. You
Speaker 1: achieved what you should have achieved. Okay, that's good, that's good.
Speaker 1: Winning nations leagues in the past, that's good. These are
Speaker 1: good things. You haven't went above that. That's the next step.
Speaker 1: And right now, this group hasn't met in this current iteration,
Speaker 1: hasn't met The level has to change. And if that
Speaker 1: means you got to see things different in the summer,
Speaker 1: if that means you got to see different players, that's
Speaker 1: where you are right now. You can't sit back and
Speaker 1: cross your fingers and hope that performance has changed. You
Speaker 1: saw two games where there were major issues in both
Speaker 1: in terms of how the team performed under pressure. It
Speaker 1: wasn't good enough. What's different? Number nine is it? Patrick
Speaker 1: Adjumon Right now, he's the guy who's performing, He's the
Speaker 1: guy who's putting the ball in the back of the net.
Speaker 1: I'm rolling with him at the moment. Didn't see anything
Speaker 1: from Josh Sargent to change my mind. Ricardo Peppi is
Speaker 1: hurt fulerin Balagan hasn't really done anything different either, right
Speaker 1: now it's Patrick Ajumon. He at least gives you the
Speaker 1: ability to go be a wrecking ball up top if
Speaker 1: things aren't going well. And he's shown enough he's putting
Speaker 1: the ball on the back of the debt. So what
Speaker 1: else do you want from the number nine? Center back
Speaker 1: was a huge issue in these games. That's gotta change.
Speaker 1: You gotta figure out your center back pairing. You gotta
Speaker 1: find two guys who could play together, and you gotta
Speaker 1: find two guys who don't fold under pressure. Get your
Speaker 1: fullbacks back in Sergenio Desk and Anthony Robbinson. That's going
Speaker 1: to help things a lot. Fullback was an issue in
Speaker 1: this tournament. I thought Max Arsten looked pretty good yesterday.
Speaker 1: Matt Turner's got to be playing regularly to be sharp.
Speaker 1: Where everybody's saying, it's true, he didn't look great. The
Speaker 1: goal that he conceded in the Panama game was an issue.
Speaker 1: His distribution in the Canada game was an issue. It's
Speaker 1: got to be better. He's got to play consistently for
Speaker 1: that to happen. Okay, let's move over to the final
Speaker 1: and we can sit here and complain and talk about
Speaker 1: the US men's national team. All we want, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't change that they weren't good enough in these two games.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the final of the
Speaker 1: Conka Caffe Nations League. Panama fought very bravely against Mexico,
Speaker 1: but couldn't get it done. They conceded first really early.
Speaker 1: They tied it before halftime from the penalty spot. Just
Speaker 1: a crazy, inexplicable mistake from Jose Cordoba to concede a
Speaker 1: penalty with a handball that I have no idea what
Speaker 1: he was thinking. Raul Jimenez puts it away, his fortieth
Speaker 1: goal for the Mexican national team that wins the tournament.
Speaker 1: For Mexico, they looked better than they have lately in
Speaker 1: the tournament, but they didn't look great. They didn't look convincing.
Speaker 1: Panama took them to the limit in this It's a
Speaker 1: shame for Panama who's been so close so many times
Speaker 1: to getting into that elite group and they just haven't
Speaker 1: quite been able to do it. It's also a shame
Speaker 1: that we saw the game stopped in the eighty fourth
Speaker 1: minute due to the discriminatory chanting that happens when Mexico
Speaker 1: isn't playing well. And that's how this is getting used
Speaker 1: now and that point has to be made because this
Speaker 1: is not the same conversation that it used to be about. Well,
Speaker 1: it's tradition and this is what we do. And no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not what's happening now. It's not happening on the
Speaker 1: first goal kick of the game. It's not happening all night.
Speaker 1: It's happening when things aren't going well for Mexico or
Speaker 1: for your club. Because we've seen it in CONCA CAF
Speaker 1: games as well, we've seen it in others. It's not
Speaker 1: acceptable and it's even more not acceptable in the way
Speaker 1: that it is currently being used. It is used as
Speaker 1: a way to punish your own team, which is so
Speaker 1: incredibly stupid. First off, in this game, look, it didn't
Speaker 1: end up making a difference. Panama had a chance to
Speaker 1: read group, they didn't quite take it. The handball ends
Speaker 1: up taking them out of this thing. But it is
Speaker 1: a reaction to poor play or being upset with your
Speaker 1: team and weaponizing the chant which people and this is
Speaker 1: what is so frustrating. That means that the all the
Speaker 1: education that has been done to say this is not acceptable,
Speaker 1: this should not happen, has worked because it doesn't happen
Speaker 1: all the time. It happens to try to punish your
Speaker 1: own team, and it's so stupid, and it's got to stop.
Speaker 1: And you've got to see, in my opinion, a better response,
Speaker 1: because now it's become a performative thing. Now it's become
Speaker 1: a oh, we got the game stopped. He look at us, Hey,
Speaker 1: look at this. We really showed them. We're not happy,
Speaker 1: We're stupid, stupid, And I don't know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel bad for the Mexican players. I feel bad for
Speaker 1: the Mexican coaching staff. I feel bad for the Mexican federation.
Speaker 1: They've tried, They've done everything. Liga or Lega MX has
Speaker 1: done this, They've tried all of these things. They've put
Speaker 1: in the work. Again it's worked. It's not happening all
Speaker 1: the time, but it can't happen ever, And it still
Speaker 1: happened again last night in the CONCACAFFE Nations League final,
Speaker 1: and it's just so so frustrating, and I don't exactly
Speaker 1: know what to do about it at this point. If
Speaker 1: you are Mexico and if you are trying to get
Speaker 1: this out of the game, players have talked, federations have talked,
Speaker 1: clubs have talked, coaches have talked. I don't know what
Speaker 1: else can be done at this stage. It's very very
Speaker 1: very very upsetting, and I don't know, but it has
Speaker 1: changed in terms of how it's being used and that
Speaker 1: doesn't need to be recognized and makes it a little
Speaker 1: bit harder to eradicate. All Right, we normally start these
Speaker 1: things on a Monday with Atlanta United. Let's get to
Speaker 1: Atlanta and Cincinnati. It was a draw on the road.
Speaker 1: Atlanta opened the scoring after losing Tristan Welliam about an injury.
Speaker 1: No update yet. We'll find out more this week, but
Speaker 1: Ronnie Daila say that he felt better about it after
Speaker 1: the game than he did initially, that it might not
Speaker 1: be a cruciate ligament. You mentioned meniscus as a possibility,
Speaker 1: so that's that's good news. It was a huge blow
Speaker 1: to lose Muyambah in this match because you've been playing
Speaker 1: really well. He had a good tackle on the play
Speaker 1: where he ended up getting injured, and you didn't have
Speaker 1: a lot of depth in that central midfield position because
Speaker 1: of the international call ups. We talked about five center backs,
Speaker 1: but you were also missing two central midfielders in Barto
Speaker 1: Schlish and Jay fortune. Alexei Moranchuk had to drop deeper,
Speaker 1: came in, Togashi came on as a pseudo number ten,
Speaker 1: and it worked. Togashi helps earn a throw, takes it quickly,
Speaker 1: so the ar and the referee can't think about did
Speaker 1: the ball go off with Togashi. He takes the throw
Speaker 1: very quickly since saba In finds Latte a lot, great finish,
Speaker 1: great cross, great goal. Kind of lost your way a
Speaker 1: little bit in the second half. Fortunate for Cincinnati, a
Speaker 1: deflection off of a free kick that beats Gazan from Evander.
Speaker 1: Then you get a second in quick succession. It's to one.
Speaker 1: Atlanta created an own goal to draw it, and moran
Speaker 1: Chuk was involved in it. He sent saba In. Saba's
Speaker 1: cross deflex off of Alvis Powell, it would have found
Speaker 1: Latte lot on the backside. To to final felt about right. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think Atlanta could have won. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I would say they should have won, but they could
Speaker 1: have won. And it's gonna feel like a good draw
Speaker 1: on the road, but also two points possibly kind of
Speaker 1: sort of dropped. Will Riley was outstanding. I thought he
Speaker 1: was going to get subbed at halftime because of the
Speaker 1: yellow card situation, but you didn't really have any depth
Speaker 1: of the position is one and two. Ronnie Diler was
Speaker 1: really clear afterwards and how much he believes in will
Speaker 1: Riley and how good he was playing, which I completely
Speaker 1: agree with you. I said he was my man of
Speaker 1: the match. I thought the moment was going to be
Speaker 1: too big for him after getting that yellow and after
Speaker 1: getting the talking to, I thought he was going to
Speaker 1: have to come off. But Mateo's click couldn't go forty
Speaker 1: five and it ends up being where Riley stays on.
Speaker 1: And wow, was he great in the second forty five
Speaker 1: playing on a yellow and dealing with Evander as well
Speaker 1: as anybody could, and it wasn't really on him on
Speaker 1: the two goals. Matt Edwards was also very good. Yes,
Speaker 1: he commits the foul that leads to the free kick,
Speaker 1: but he was very very good playing at center back.
Speaker 1: Saba was excellent. Saba looked more I think connected in
Speaker 1: this game, which was very good to see. Hopefully he
Speaker 1: can continue to kick on from here. It was a
Speaker 1: gritty performance. There's a lot of good things about it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't easy being down the players that you were down.
Speaker 1: It was not an easy day at the office, but
Speaker 1: you found a way to get something out of it
Speaker 1: on the road against a tough place to play against,
Speaker 1: a tough team to play in, a tough place to
Speaker 1: play to two draw. Atlanta comes back home next week.
Speaker 1: We'll be out at the training ground tomorrow. We have
Speaker 1: a training ground dispatch to fill you in on all
Speaker 1: the updates. Quick things around MLS this week. Nashville they've
Speaker 1: won three straight after two bad first weeks, but they've
Speaker 1: rebounded very well under Baj Callahan. Chicago's won three straight
Speaker 1: under Greg Burhalter. They defeated previously unbeaten or untied Vancouver.
Speaker 1: Charlotte is off to their best start with three wins
Speaker 1: at home. Austin also has three wins, even if they
Speaker 1: were really wasteful in front of goal and allowed San
Speaker 1: Diego to hang around yesterday afternoon to the point that CJ.
Speaker 1: Dosanto's had a chance for an equalizer at the end
Speaker 1: nearly would have scored the goal of the day if
Speaker 1: the goalkeeper gets it, he doesn't and San Diego ends up.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a situation where they should feel
Speaker 1: like they should have won this or should have gotten
Speaker 1: some out of it. Austin should have scored five. Brandon
Speaker 1: Vasquez got a goal that he was very wasteful in
Speaker 1: front of goal. Austin was good enough, but man, they
Speaker 1: almost got punished for throwing goals away. All right, a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of other stuff. We're gonna try to get
Speaker 1: to these quickly. This is a very long morning espresso.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you are enjoying all the caffeine on a Monday morning.
Speaker 1: New Zealand they're enjoying their caffeine. This morning they won
Speaker 1: overnight three zil over New Caledonia. New Zealand are the
Speaker 1: second team to book their spot in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six World Cup. Japan did last week. They win the
Speaker 1: Oceania Qualifying tournament, first time a direct qualifying spot has
Speaker 1: gone to the region Australia. They left the region for
Speaker 1: Asia because of how hard it was to get in.
Speaker 1: They kept losing in the inter Confederational playoff. New Zealand
Speaker 1: hasn't qualified since twenty ten. They drew all three group
Speaker 1: games in South Africa, but they didn't get to the
Speaker 1: knockout rounds. New Caledonia still has an opportunity. They will
Speaker 1: go into that inter Confederational playoff early next year. Mexican
Speaker 1: club Clube Leon. They have been removed from the summer's
Speaker 1: Club World Cup violating FIFA's multi club ownership rules. Leon
Speaker 1: was supposed to play Chelsea in their opening match in
Speaker 1: the tournament. Leon majority owned by Grupo Pachuca, who also
Speaker 1: controls Pachuca, who's in the Club World Cup. FIFA regulations
Speaker 1: state that quote no individual or legal entity may have
Speaker 1: control or influence over more than one club participating in
Speaker 1: the competition. Both clubs have rejected the ruling and planned
Speaker 1: two appeal, so we'll see. There are other situations where
Speaker 1: you have ownership between the same group and multiple clubs,
Speaker 1: and I don't know exactly how you ensure that they
Speaker 1: don't have control or influence over more than one club.
Speaker 1: I'm not positive on that. It's a little hard to understand,
Speaker 1: and I don't own multiple clubs, so I don't have
Speaker 1: access to those rules. Alow Linzei from Costa Rica. They
Speaker 1: demanded that FIFA enforced the multi club rules. They think
Speaker 1: they could get in and replace Leone because of their
Speaker 1: continental club ranking. FIFA has not announced to or replace
Speaker 1: it yet and again there are still appeals waiting. Reading
Speaker 1: they're running out of appeals. They could be thrown out
Speaker 1: of the English Football League if their owner Diejong does
Speaker 1: not sell the club before April fifth. The Chinese businessman
Speaker 1: was disqualified as an owner under the League Owners and
Speaker 1: Directors tests in February and action made public at Commercial
Speaker 1: Court in London on Friday, April fifth. Isn't very far away.
Speaker 1: There have been efforts to buy Redding and I don't
Speaker 1: have all of the information on where they stand at
Speaker 1: the moment, but something's got to get done here. And
Speaker 1: I don't understand why he wouldn't sell if he's up
Speaker 1: against this wall at this point, because he's not going
Speaker 1: to make money by the club being thrown out of
Speaker 1: the EFL. He's only going to make money by selling
Speaker 1: it to somebody. Good luck Redding fans. Sorry, Jess Charman.
Speaker 1: I feel very bad for your Redding team. I went
Speaker 1: through this back in the day with the Atlanta ruckus
Speaker 1: Andy Atlanti Silverbacks on are they going to stick around?
Speaker 1: Are they going to survive? Are they going to be back? Ope?
Speaker 1: Owner's gone now the league's running it. Oh boy, here
Speaker 1: we go. I've been through it. Those were very young clubs.
Speaker 1: Redding is not and they should not be in the situation.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they can find a way out of it. Quick
Speaker 1: update on the twenty thirty one Women's World Cup bid.
Speaker 1: Henry Bushnell of Yahoo Sports had a great article that
Speaker 1: might have flown under the radar this weekend with everything
Speaker 1: going on, US Soccer formulating a bid for the twenty
Speaker 1: thirty one World Cup that would include or could include
Speaker 1: proposals to stage some games in other countries throughout CONCA CAF.
Speaker 1: The US will definitely bid to host the tournament, whether
Speaker 1: they bid jointly with regional partners or take control of
Speaker 1: the bid but then divvy up some games, we'll see
Speaker 1: deadlines are coming up to formally express and a firm
Speaker 1: interest to FIFA that's going to happen. The US led
Speaker 1: bid is gonna more than likely loop in multiple nations
Speaker 1: from CONCA CAF. Initially, US Soccer was gonna bid with
Speaker 1: Mexico for the twenty twenty seven Women's World Cup. They
Speaker 1: withdrew it. They said that they would be willing to
Speaker 1: or they would be focusing their bidding on twenty thirty one.
Speaker 1: That was an interesting whole situation, and maybe the political
Speaker 1: climate within FIFA kind of manufactured the way things played out.
Speaker 1: Over the past year since they withdrew the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: seven bid, the plans have evolved. It's not going to
Speaker 1: be just a joint country bid. It's looking more like
Speaker 1: new kinds of proposals where a few games could end
Speaker 1: up in say Costa Rica Jamaica. The BID's going to
Speaker 1: be the favorite with FIFA because it's only going to
Speaker 1: be between Concacaffe nations and African nations to host the
Speaker 1: twenty thirty one Women's World Cup. Twenty thirty five will
Speaker 1: be either in Europe or in Africa. It's more than
Speaker 1: likely that any kind of bid from the US is
Speaker 1: going to get this. Sources said that they expect South
Speaker 1: Africa to launch a bid, but that could be twenty
Speaker 1: thirty one, or that could be twenty thirty five twenty
Speaker 1: thirty five. It looks like a joint United Kingdom bid
Speaker 1: is going to be heavily favored. FIFA wants the tournament
Speaker 1: in the US and twenty thirty one there's just no
Speaker 1: way around. It might not even go up for a challenge.
Speaker 1: So then that gives FIFA US soccer cities around the
Speaker 1: United States, stadiums around the United States, our parts and
Speaker 1: other CONCA Caffe nations, they'll all get to figure it out.
Speaker 1: What it sounds like is you have to express your
Speaker 1: formal interest and in your bid you have an idea
Speaker 1: of what it's going to look like. But then that
Speaker 1: could evolve after the deadline, So you could it could
Speaker 1: be US in Mexico for example, that bid and then
Speaker 1: after you get it say hey we're gonna give some
Speaker 1: games of Costa Rica. Hey we're going to give some
Speaker 1: games to Jamaica. And then you got to work with
Speaker 1: FIFA to get that done. But that can happen, so
Speaker 1: stay tuned. It looks like the Women's World Cup is
Speaker 1: coming in twenty thirty one, but it also looks like
Speaker 1: not all the games are going to be in the
Speaker 1: United States, which I don't think is a bad thing.
Speaker 1: I think it really helps grow the women's game around
Speaker 1: concor CAF. Speaking of the women's game, Kansas City current
Speaker 1: huge win at or on the road at Audi Field
Speaker 1: over the Washington Spirit nineteen two hundred and fifty four.
Speaker 1: Fans on hand case won two nil in that one.
Speaker 1: Real Madrid, their women's team won the Classico against Barcelona
Speaker 1: for the first time ever eighteen match losing streak. Madrid
Speaker 1: won three to one in front of thirty five thousand
Speaker 1: fans in Barcelona. Caroline Weirs scored the decisive goals in
Speaker 1: the eighty seventh minute and in stoppage time. Madrid is
Speaker 1: four points off of Barcelona through twenty three rounds of
Speaker 1: La Liga F Newcastle United in the Women's Championship Second
Speaker 1: Division in England. They smashed the attendance record thirty eight thousand,
Speaker 1: five hundred fans for their game. Their derby match against
Speaker 1: Sunderland more than doubled the previous league record, which Sunderland
Speaker 1: set in October. Newcastle won the match one nil. They
Speaker 1: move into sixth place in the English Second Division to
Speaker 1: move to the USL Championship. Oakland Roots their first game
Speaker 1: at the Oakland Coliseum twenty six thousand, five hundred seventy
Speaker 1: five fans, second largest in USL Championship history, but Oakland
Speaker 1: dropped their third game in a row to start the season.
Speaker 1: They lost to San Antonio to one. San Antonio is
Speaker 1: the only remaining team in the us Second Division with
Speaker 1: no losses or draw so record is three oh and oh.
Speaker 1: Get to know this name. Noel Urbaniak. He is a
Speaker 1: fifteen year old who served as a ballboy in Germany
Speaker 1: for their Nations League match against Italy, and he has
Speaker 1: been given an honorary assist. In this one. Germany advanced
Speaker 1: to the semi finals five to four on aggregate. It
Speaker 1: was a three to three draw, all kinds of chaos
Speaker 1: in this one. Germany scored three in the first half,
Speaker 1: Italy scored three in the second half. But the second
Speaker 1: goal in this one crazy situation, and the ball boy
Speaker 1: was a huge part of it. So it's a corner
Speaker 1: after a save from gian Luigi Donna Ruma. He's yelling
Speaker 1: at teammates. Maybe they're yelling at the referee. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Everybody's yelling. They're not paying attention. And Urbaniak, the ballboy,
Speaker 1: noticed that this was happening quickly through the ball to
Speaker 1: Joshua Chimmick. He took the corner quickly. Musilla put the
Speaker 1: goal away from inside the six uncontested and that ends
Speaker 1: up deciding this And it's a really big goal for
Speaker 1: Italy to concede as well, not just because of the
Speaker 1: tie here, but that means Italy instead of going into
Speaker 1: a four team World Cup qualifying group with the highest
Speaker 1: ranked nation being Slovakia, where you should win that group
Speaker 1: in advance. Now you go into a five team World
Speaker 1: Cup qualifying group and you got to deal with Norway,
Speaker 1: Arling Holland, Martino de Gore, quite a few really good
Speaker 1: players with Norway who hasn't qualified for the World Cup
Speaker 1: in a long long time and are hungry to do so.
Speaker 1: That goal, that moment, that ball boy ends up really
Speaker 1: potentially changing the World Cup qualifying scene in Europe. Craziness.
Speaker 1: Let's go to World Cup qualifying in South America to
Speaker 1: close things out here on a super jam packed morning
Speaker 1: Espresso Rafina, he's the front runner for the ballindor in
Speaker 1: my opinion, he kicked things off between Brazil and Argentina.
Speaker 1: They meet Tuesday night at El Monumental in Buenos Aires.
Speaker 1: Jumped onto Ro Mario's TV show in Brazil, which is
Speaker 1: always a dangerous thing to do, but he did it.
Speaker 1: He said Brazil would beat Argentina quote without a doubt unquote.
Speaker 1: He added that they would beat them quote on and
Speaker 1: off the pitch if necessary unquote. He also said that
Speaker 1: he would score, and he also said that Argentina quote
Speaker 1: can go to hell unquote. And I think there were
Speaker 1: other things that were said that maybe get lost in
Speaker 1: translation or maybe don't, depending on your understanding of four
Speaker 1: letter words. Argentina hasn't beaten Brazil in Argentina and A
Speaker 1: World Cup qualifiers at two thousand and five. Juan Roman
Speaker 1: Riquelme had an incredible match there. They did win the
Speaker 1: Monikaana in Rio earlier in disqualification process. You know it's
Speaker 1: already gonna be spicy between Argentina and Brazil. You add
Speaker 1: in a few things that Raffina has to say here
Speaker 1: and things will get very, very interesting tomorrow night. I
Speaker 1: would not be surprised if Rodrigo de Paul goes in
Speaker 1: flying for a tackle on Rafina at some point early
Speaker 1: in the match. Stay tuned to that one. That's gonna
Speaker 1: do it for us on the Morning Espresso. Thank you
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