Colin Cowherd talks about the USA’s disappointing 4-1 loss to Belgium ending their World Cup run. He explains why America ultimately met their fate against Belgium despite so much promise in the early stages of the tournament.
Colin discusses US star Christian Pulisic missing time again due to injury and why it’s time to accept he may never live up to his generational expectations.
Plus, former USMNT goalkeeper Brad Friedel joins the show to explain how Team USA can improve their goalkeeping situation and why it’s fair to state Pulisic was disappointing in this World Cup.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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for listening to The Herd podcast. Oh, it's the day
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after SI the World Cup still going strong. We're not
part of it, Mauricio Pochettino. That's the hand he was
dealt a week back.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Line. It's Chicago, it's the Herd.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Let's talk. Here's where all sports are the same, men's
and women. The further you go in the playoffs, the
more your flaws are exposed against better teams.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
NFL, NBA, March madness. We knew going in.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Matt Freeze, the goalkeeper was our weakest ever. Tim Howard
played thirteen years in the English Premier League, Brad Friedel
sixteen years in the EPL, Casey Keller thirteen years in
top European leagues. Matt Freese is an MLS goalie and
looked the part. Sorry but it's true. He gave up
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one embarrassing goal. And another one here tim Reem at
thirty eight. Again, we were concerned about athleticism and age
was physically overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We saw it against Germany and the Friendly.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Our defense when exposed to elite playmakers and strikers was
shockingly overwhelmed. When pressure was applied last night we folded
like wet cardboard. And against Germany and the Friendly, and
against Belgium it was ninety seconds in Belgium had so
much space, never rushed so much time right out of
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the shoot. Paraguay, Australia, Bosnia didn't have dynamic enough playmakers
to expose us. But Belgium's front five, several of those
players are top guys in the top European leagues. They
didn't even start two of their more talented guys, so
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they were ranked eighth coming in FIFA rankings, we were seventeenth.
It felt worse than that Belgium was passing, moving through
our defensive formations with ease. It had a practice feel. Again,
they were never rushed. Initially Stu Holden said, it's nervy.
I bought that for about four minutes, but it was
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in Seattle. These guys that played in European leagues let's
be honest. There was a next level technical skill for
Belgium and against our week back end, which we all
knew was our weakness, it was exposed. I mean the
fifty to fifty balls, did we win fifteen percent of those?
I mean, I'm being totally honest. We got timid, cautious.
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Polisic just bailed. He would get out of the play
very quickly. We got frantic. We were overwhelmed. And Polisic,
let's be honest, he's helped get us to this level.
He is a very good playmaker. But health now is
a real thing. He was hurt during his club years.
He has now four the last nine World Cup games
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he's missed with an injury or left early. It is
a real problem in a tournament where great players messy.
You look around, Look around what we're seeing from England,
Jude Bellingham. They're rising, they're elevating, and Polisic look pedestrian.
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Last night against Belgium's top players, he was just a
guy again. They're ranked eighth, were seventeen. I do believe
if Tim Howard was in goal, we would have lost
two to one. We would have been outclassed, out, possessed,
out cornered. I don't doubt that. I'm not delusional, but
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a couple of those goals we just generally historically are
so good in goal.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
We don't give those up.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
And you can go back to Tony Maoli, Casey Keller,
Brad Friedel, Tim Howard Polissic. It's just become a trend
now in the World Cup. He's not one hundred percent.
It had a big brother taking on a little brother
in the driveway.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Feel it's not the end.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
There are things to put your arms around, but here
was Tyler Adams afterwards.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I think football can be cool to sometimes. Let's not
get it twisted. I think the better team one today.
I don't think our performance was great. Overall that being said,
I don't think we can take away what we accomplished
in the rest of the tournament and the type of
football that we.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Were playing and trying to play.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I think tonight the goals that we conceded were too easy.
When you give good players opportunities goals, they're going to
score goals, and that's what happens as you progress in
the tournament, normally the teams get better and better, and
we face the good Belgian.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Side today all right.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Let me add some perspective if I may. This is
just my perspective. I would be viewed as a casual
but winning at the highest levels. The World Cup of
Soccer is very hard. England has the number one league
in the world. It is their national sport. They haven't
won a World Cup in sixty years. Brazil is in
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a long World Cup drought. Italy's got four Cups. They
haven't made the last three World Cups. Italy America is
great at anything. It truly wants to be tech, filmmaking, cinema, finance, AI,
our educational system, our democracy. We are flawed but great
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when it matters. Hell, even in hockey, we won the
goal for men and women. But hockey's global revenue globally
is about six billion dollars. You know what, Soccer is
closer to forty five to fifty billion annually. Everybody's in
and everybody spending big money. Our best league, the MLS,
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is at best fifth to sixth best.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
In the world. It was only formed.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
In ninety six and our academy system is less than
twenty years old.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
That's our feeder system.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
If you go to Spain, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal.
They have deep infrastructure advantages. Real Madrid began in nineteen
oh two, Manchester United's been.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Around since the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Belgium's league began in eighteen ninety five. Hell, we don't
have a beer that old. That is the reality of this.
Now I hear this. What's different from the last time
we got this far?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You didn't notice the passion, the ratings, the relevance, the bars,
the attendants. I've never seen anything like this from America.
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, timber Sounders college programs.
I like soccer. Mom was British. We didn't care about
it like this. You know, it was a hobby. It
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wasn't really our vocation. It was a hobby we got
into occasionally. America is in and loves it. And secondarily,
obviously our skills better watch. We are a more skilled
nation passing, dribbling, But this is the weakest we've ever been. Strangely,
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on the back end, I've always laughed we're.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
A hands country.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
We've been great at goal and we've always been athletic.
So the passion is now deeply embedded in the country.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You see the price of these tickets.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, yeah, you probably did, because you couldn't buy any
unless you were paying twenty five hundred bucks and they're
all selling that thing in Seattle. You couldn't have gotten
in there if you walk up with a bag full
of hundreds. And the reality is we are more skilled,
but it is hard. Spain has a World Cup, England
hasn't won one in sixty years, and so we put
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a lot of pressure on this team to.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Solve all the issues.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Let's solve everything now, and it's incremental. It is much
easier to win a gold in hockey, a six billion
dollar annual revenue sport, than in soccer. We're good at
what we want to be good at, but it's hard.
In twenty two World Cups, we'd won one knockout game.
Can we equal that in this World Cup alone?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Take a deep breath.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
As the cliche goes, two things can be true. We're better,
but you should be discouraged. It looked really ugly in
the end. Here was Alexi lawless.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Was this a success? Look?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I think that this team did win hearts and minds.
I think this team did bring people into the tent
and they should be incredibly proud. For that, but also
there's a part of me that says the time for
moral victories is over and so we've left something on
the table here, and.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That to me is disappointing.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I also know it's going to be disappointing to the
players and to Mauricio Pochettino when they look at this game,
because again the goals that they gave up at times
were self inflicted against a better team. But this US
team has beaten better teams in the past.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Listen the reality of what you watched last night. Your
eyes don't lie. We played Belgium in a friendly and
got housed, and last night we got housed.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It looked uglier.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I mean giving up four goals, especially the ugly goal
in the last one. It feels really lobsided. We would
have been outclassed and out played, but we came into
this World Cup. Mauricio Pochettino, this is the hand he's
been dealt. He would love to have a Tim Howard,
a Brad Friedel, a case Keler twelve thirteen years in
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the English Premier League. That's not where we are, that's
not what we have. The one encouraging thing I shouldn't say,
the one thing. But the one thing I always defended
our coaches who had to play a counterattacking style. The
one thing I'm going to defend Pochatino on is nobody's
blaming him today, just like I don't think it was
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fair to levy all the criticism in earlier generations, in
earlier decades on our managers, on our coaches. Like the
reality and we sought against Germany and a friendly within
ninety seconds and we saw it here under two minutes.
What happens in a football game in America in the
first series of a game, because in the NFL you
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win sixty five percent of the games, you take a lead.
Everybody's trying to score early, so teams attack your weakness.
Go to the Germany game, the friendly the first two minutes,
and go to the first two minutes of this What
did they do aggressively attack.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Our back end?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
A thirty eight year old defender and an MLS goalie.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
They saw.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
These coaches know what they're doing, and there's only so
much Pochactino could do. All right, Jmac, everybody's freaking out.
I understand disappointment, I absolutely do, But I think if
you and I would have been sitting together. I think
about six seven minutes in you probably had the same
feeling I did, which is, boy, we can't offensively generate
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like three four five. We couldn't beat anybody one on one.
The reality is everything we tried was muted very quickly.
We could not get shots on goal, and they on
the other end, it was effortless.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
They had time, they weren't rushed.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I mean it just it looked they made it look
so easy, and we everything we tried, we just got stonewalled.
We just could not string passes together.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Yeah, listen, there's no shame in losing to Belgium. Okay,
They're a world class program, excellent team, great players, and
we waited to the round of sixteen.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
That's great. It's how you lost.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Coin.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
We watch Mexico put up a fight against England. They
refuse to die. Mexico played till the very end. We
roll over in the first minute. I mean, Christian Polisic Colin,
I can't call him Captain America anymore.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
He was terrible.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
My guy, I've hyped up desk forever. He got pulled
at halftime. He was like embarrassed, he was crying.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I will say this, I will say this Balligan is
very promising, till how about Sebastian Burholter. I thought he's
got something. I think Weston McKinney remains very strong. We've
got an upgrade on the back end. I would say
this too, and sometimes we get into this. I wish
our athletes are biggot. We don't have an earling holland
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I do think we could use somebody of size on
corner kicks. It is great to have a six for
Belgium striker as a target. I think we have to
get better in goal. We've got to get better, stronger
on the back end, maybe younger, and I think it
would be great if we had a player of size
to assist us in the corner kicks. I think that's
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a reasonable ass Let me just.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Ask you the last thing, Like all this hype that
we had around, we crushed Paraguay, which looked good in
beating Germany and push France, you know, and we beat
up on Australia, we dispatch Bosnia, we look good and then.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
We look totally different than we saw the rest.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Of the whole world.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Couple, okay, now reverting to what we used to be
the crap teams that we.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Used to have.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
No think about this. Think about another global sport, tennis.
Tennis is global Serena for fifteen years, dominated like Martina,
like Steffie Graff, like you know, like the great players did,
like McEnroe did, or maybe Samprist did, or you know
the recent Federer did. The reality is in global sports,
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even though the globe is counted, right, it's usually a
very small elite group of people or teams at the top.
How many great global leagues are there? There must be
forty leagues, but we all know there's about five to
six really elite leagues. And just like in the English
Premier League, go to the Bundesligan, go to every elite
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league in Europe, every single one. There are two teams,
Real Madrid Barcelona that dominate that league. Soccer, like everything else,
is incredibly top heavy. The NFL is very rare where
you can go to the fifteenth team in the league
and there's not that big of a gap between Seattle
and the Chargers based on whether they're playing in the health.
That's not the way it work. NBA top heavy baseball,
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say what you want. The Dodgers feel like it's a
different cut of cloth. If you go to the top
European leagues, it's always one or two teams. In fact,
I think we were talking about this recently. The team
that's won the German League has won I think thirteen
or fourteen years. The team that's won the French League
it's something like nine out of ten. It is the
reality of this stuff, and it's hard. Italy can't even make.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
The World Cup.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Brazil is sliding.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
They don't feel nearly as as relevant as they did.
So this is the best England chance and over six decame.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
We gotta start rooting for England, right, I mean that's
a side I'm backing from here on out right. Oh yeah,
but everybody loves Holland. You know, my family's like, oh Holland,
we got a root for Earling Holland.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
I'm like, guys, we got to back England here.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
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Speaker 1 (16:10):
I can appreciate Christian Poolistic, I think is our best
playmaker ever, but we also have to have a real
grown up conversation. Sorry soccer die Hard. I know you're
an expert, but he came into this World Cup in
a scoring drought. He had one goal in twenty twenty
six between club and country, and now in his last
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nine World Cup games he's either missed it four times
or left four of nine times. That's who he is.
He is not physically durable. He took the Gold Cup
off to rest his body. It didn't help. This is
his resume, this is his reality. He got us to
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this point, but he listen. I'm not asking him to
be Earling Hall and physically that's Gronk he's not in
that he didn't have that body composition. But even tiny
Messi has never missed a World Cup game. I do think,
I do think we could use some size. Polisic is fragile,
that is not debatable. He is not physically reliable. We
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are a big country in an athletic country. I would
like to see us. I think we're fast, I think
we're athletic. We're not terribly big. I think it really
hurts us on the back end. That Belgium striker at six'
four looked. Monstrous i've got a producer on my staff
who's taller than six,' four but he. Looked monstrous What
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Would early holland look LIKE? Against us gronk against the
Junior high we need, some SIZE so, i mean if
you Look At harry Kane And jude Bellingham, for england
they just feel, like, big long. Athletic guys so we,
tend to, you Know Whereas earling holland, is big, tactically
(18:02):
excellent excellent finisher check, check check we tend to have
like one or two of. Those boxes wouldn't it be
Great if polisic was six' four with, his technical excellence
it absolutely would be so he's, a bit small he's.
A bit fragile. That's a reality he's gotten us. To
THIS point but i do think we, need to Find
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along With baaligan, and weston McKinney somebody that may be
more reliable. In these spots stuhlden. Was brutally honest you
can't hide the Fact That this world cup has Been
About the harry canes and the messies delivering and separating
from other. Really Good players but polisic was. Invisible At Times.
(18:47):
Here's stu holden.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
We just didn't get big games from our.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Big players tonight polistic had a, really tough night.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Really tough night even from the first minute.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Of the game polistics, first, five touches turnovers first.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Three of them he looks like.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
The moment was too.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
BIG for him i thought this was going to be
a big game for him and.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
It just wasn't, and you know whatever happened with The
injury and. TILLMAN was good i thought McKenny did.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
What he could but to beat A, TEAM like belgium
o you need every single one of your top players
playing at, a high level. And they weren't and some
of it is their top players are better than. Our
Top players the seahawks top players were Better than the. Patriots.
Top Players right the knicks older veteran top players were
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better Consistently than the spurs excellent but. Really young players
so much of this is are your players? In their
prime do they have the experience? In big games you.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Can blame nerves the.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
ANNOUNCERS used nervy i think that was fair for a,
couple of minutes but then it was just being overwhelmed
and not physically reliable for pulistic you, Can like somebody
but the reality is this has. Become a Trend what did?
Mike tomlinoways say once? Is a problem two. Is a
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trend four of The Last nine world Cup games for
polisic can't play.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Or left early. THAT'S forty percent i don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
WHAT to do i don't know where to, go with
it but it feels. Like It now if i'd have
told you before last night one of our top, players gets.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Hurt who would? You have guessed.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Keep?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
It one hundred who would? YOU Have guessed j mack, With, The,
news no no turn. On the news this is.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
The herdline.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
News tough, one tough one also.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
A Tough One for Cristiano ronaldo colin portugal was Eliminated.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Yesterday by spain pretty glorious.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Goal there in the ninety First minute And, spain eliminates
Portugal Thus ending Cristiano Ronaldo's sterling. WORLD cup career a
brilliant player, loved by fans did not Have A.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
GREAT world cup a lot of the.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Analysis, was his essentially he, shouldn't be, starting you know
he just He.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Doesn't have belgium belgium had older players sat them last
night to elevate, their young players and their young players
proved it was.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
The, right call yeah it's a tough Call.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
TO bench, Ronaldo i mean colin dig put him on the,
screen in stadiums. People go crazy he makes a pass
in warm ups and people are like.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Losing their minds that's just. How it is. He's a phenomenon.
EVERYBODY loves him i will.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Point this Out The next world cup twenty Thirty. Is
in portugal it's a Good Joint. Effort portugal spain could
he play at forty five as? A super sub i.
Don't see it you know there will be a, push
FOR it but.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
I don't know what are Your? Thoughts on, ronaldo you
know calling.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
It, A career yeah i.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
THINK it's Time I mean tom brady still. COULD have
Played i think lebron's got about. A year left he,
could play, longer OF course but i mean so much
of it is if you're a Country like a Spain
or a Germany or a Portugal, or a belgium you
have this infrastructure where you, have golden generations you have other,
excellent YOUNG players and i, think you know it's hard
for successful men, to, exit anything right like they Just
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they love brady could. Have played forever but you get
to A point now portugal's got, excellent young players they
need to be.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
On, the pitch.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Yeah it's weird i'm not Comparing Him.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
To carmelo anthony he's obviously a way better player.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
In His Sport but carmelo.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Anthony was, asked about hey can you come off the
bench and, he was like are?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
You kidding, Me NO.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Way and i think that was The, vibe with ronaldo
like don't. Even ask me i'm. Not doing that, i'm
a starter and he just he wasn't A. Factor against spain,
he did, Nothing. Literally nothing colin so that's The end
for Ronaldo and now messi is trying not To Have
his world cup end Right. Now against, egypt all right
let's move ON. To, THE nfl yeah i gotta Say Thank.
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The world cup we haven't had To Talk, about aaron
rodgers your, guy In, Weeks But colin aaron rodgers is
gonna be playing With his guy Mike. McCarthy in Pittsburgh
here's a rogers talking.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
About the familiar.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
With the system i've spent thirteen years and he's. Changed
some stuff when He was In Dallas with dak it's
stuff that we, used to run but he's just called it.
Something DIFFERENT now so i think from a, real fundamental level.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It's you know it's all about.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
The quarterbacks timing so there's been good detail, on you
know all the route concepts of when you need to
be open and how important.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
The, Depth is yeah i'm.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
A very, exciting you know we HAVE, NOT talked nfl
i would say.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
In a month.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
What's so cool about that is it's all going to be,
fresh to, Us you know so you got to brush up,
Over the weekend COLIN.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
On your nfl so we start HAMMERING it, NIXT i
know i know it's gonna be a.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Lot of bears the producers Already tell me colin wants
To do Heavy bears our.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Bears, a day.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Yeah What, about the jets, by THE way to, usa
soccer fans That's.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
How the jets.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Feel, every year okay getting your, doors blown off it's,
over no, Chance, Final story colin HOW about this. Nba
Breaking news donovan mitchell has signed a big Extension With
the cleveland, cavaliers four years two hundred and. Seventy three
mil that is a lot Of Cheddar. For donovan mitchell
(24:12):
he had, a great season average twenty seven. Points, A,
game interestingly colin everybody instantly, wants to know how Does?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
This Impact Lebron so james.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Harden had opted out by design to restructure His.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Deal Around lebron now.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Mitchell gets paid are the dominoes Setting Up for donovan
mitchell To play with?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Lebron, here shortly.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Well it's, still it's listen it It works Because. Lebron's
from cleveland, if he wasn't it Doesn't really Fit Harden.
And donovan mitchell don't defend it would be a, little
bit like to be, honest with you It's got a
laker feel Where You had Luca austin and lebron. None
elite defenders all Play, Initiators Will, Harden, donovan mitchell lebron
(24:51):
all play. Initiators all excellent none of them really, want
to defend so it. Had Beaten out now cleveland's got.
BETTER rim protection i. Won't Deny that With, ALLAN and
mobley i. WON'T deny That i think mobiley's a really.
GOOD defensive player i don't know, where he RATES but when,
I watch it I feel that. ALLEN same way i
FEEL like when, i watch him he's a. GOOD defensive
player i, Have NO idea, so i mean my take
is this is a Better fit for lebron because he's
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got support on the. Back end defensively but this is
a lot of play initiators who don't. Want to defend,
NONE of, them I mean Like harden and lebron are
not in. Their Athletic prime donovan mitchell is. Close to it,
he's late prime but. He's STILL prime but i think
this Works, BECAUSE it's. CLEVELAND i, don't i mean THE
place That i think lebron could really Elevated. TEAM is
Detroit i Think Detroit with kate cunningham Being a score
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lebron would be. Great with him he would get THEM
into Plays i think detroit is A place where lebron could.
IMPROVE a team i don't know, about total wins but
absolutely make them. More lethal offensively lebron's not going to
go And, play in detroit so That's.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
All, the let's say a better chance you Moved back
to california than He. Goes To, Detroit, but colin interestingly
our staff put together highest paid players twenty seven.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
To twenty eight look. At Those numbers donovan mitchell sixty. Eight,
Million dollars hey i'm, happy for.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Him enjoy it how many of those do you feel
good about?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
That should Be.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
I'm Gonna I'll say jason tatum because he's only, at
sixty two he'll still be, in his Prime and the
celtics have a system that's, tried and.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
TRUE it works i would feel good. About That, number
for yokich.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
He's waiting to.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Get, His DEAL yeah but i mean.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
THERE'S very few i, always say this pay. Huge money
infrequently NOW, in the nba, you get trapped you kind
of have, to, Pay SOMEBODY right BUT i mean i
look at these Contracts and the Joel mb clip sixers
would love to be out. Of that, SPACE you know sga.
Has EARNED it and i think they're happy. With his,
performance good. Guy Very, reliable jason tatum you know you
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cross your fingers on. THE durability stuff i don't think.
It's a problem that's a Big, number for jason who
sometimes in big spots has not.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Been as aggressive. As WE like BUT i know i.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Would be comfortable an't making that. YOKICCH making, That i mean,
I'll Be. Honest jalen, Brunson these days i'd. BE more
comfortable i Mean again that.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
RUMSON knows that i don't want sixty eight mil because
then We can't Have kat and og and all these, players.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Around me and we're not going. To win anything.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
That's. A good point jmak, With, the news.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Well, that's the news and thanks for stopping by.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
The line, news you know sometimes when, a story happens
we sometimes on the air immediately, react to it but
you don't have a ton of time to add. Context
or Nuance But The Jalen brown, jason tatum story now
we've had four or five days and a lot of
stuff has been Leaked from the celtics and a lot
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of sources, saying, This this this it really got really
simple Yesterday when the celtics. Talked about it it got,
really Really simple and i'll discuss that on.
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A Great hour rad friedel arguably the greatest goalie in
the history. Of This country united states men's national team
Played In the. Premier league, forever in fact at one
point started three hundred and ten straight Starts In, the
premier league best league. In The world bruce arena will stop.
By as well argentina three To. Two over egypt they
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scored a. Flurry Of goals late messi had a couple
wild that there's going to be a lot of controversy
about One of the egyptian goals.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Being taken away there's going to be a great.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Deal of controversy when you only have a tournament every
four years and, it's knockout, stage sudden death you're.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Gonna have it you got to just kind of. Build
It in and.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I'll SAY this the. Us was eliminated it was ugly
four to One.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Lost to belgium and.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
This is true when, the postseason begins your greatest flaws
is any. Team are exposed and it was evident that
our biggest weaknesses. Was The, Goalkeeper matt freese Sorry It
was tim howard played thirteen Years In The, english Premier
league had friedel sixteen YEARS, In The epl casey keller
thirteen Years in. Top European leagues matt FREESE is an
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mls goalie and.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Looked the part sorry.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
But it's true he gave up one embarrassing goal and
Another one here tim reem. At, thirty eight again we
were concerned about athleticism and age. Was physically overwhelmed we
Saw it against germany. And the friendly our defense when
exposed to elite playmakers and strikers. Was shockingly overwhelmed when
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pressure was, applied last night we folded. Like wet Cardboard
and against germany, and the Friendly and against belgium it
was Ninety seconds in belgium had, so much space never
rushed so much time right out. Of, The, Shoot paraguay
australia bosnia didn't have dynamic enough playmakers. To Expose us but,
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belgium's front five several of those players are top guys
In the. Top european leagues they didn't even start to
with their, more talented guys so they were ranked EIGHTH coming.
In fifa rankings. We were seventeenth it felt. Worse than that,
belgium was passing moving through our defensive. Formations with ease
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it had. A, practice feel again they. Were Never Rushed initially,
stu holden. SAID it's nervy i bought that for. About
four minutes but It. Was in seattle these guys That played.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
In european leagues. Let's be honest there was.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
A next level Technical skill for belgium and against our,
week back end.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Which we all knew. Was our weakness.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
IT was exposed i mean the fifty, to fifty balls
did we win fifteen? PERCENT of, Those i mean i'm.
Being totally honest, we. Got timid cautious. Polisic just bailed
he would get out of the. Play very quickly. We
got frantic. We Were, overwhelmed and polisic, Let's be honest
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he's helped get us. To this level he is a.
Very good playmaker but health now is. A real thing
he was hurt during. His club years he has now
four of The Last nine world cup games he's missed
with an injury. Or left early it is a real
problem in a tournament where. Great players messy, You look
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around look around what We're, Seeing From. England jude, bellingham they're,
rising They're elevating and. Polisic look pedestrian Last night against, belgium's.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Top players he was. Just.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
A guy again, they're ranked. EIGHTH we're seventeen i Do
Believe if tim howard, was in goal.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
We would have lost.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Two to one we would, have.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Been outclassed. OUTPOSSESSED out cornered i. Don't doubt that, i'm
not delusional but a couple of those those goals we
just generally historically are so.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Good in goal we don't.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Give those up and you can Go Back, To Tony,
Meoli Casey, Keller Brad Friedel. Tim howard polisic it's just
become a trend Now In. The world cup he's not.
One hundred percent it had a big brother taking on
a little brother. In the driveway feel it's. Not the
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end there are things to put, your arms around But
Here was.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
TYLER adams afterwards i.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Think football can be. Cool to sometimes let's not GET
a twisted i think the better. TEAM one today i
don't think our. Performance was great overall, THAT being said
i don't think we can take away what we accomplished
in the rest of the tournament and the type of
football that we.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Were playing and.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
TRYING to play i think tonight the goals that we conceded.
Were too easy when you give good players the opportunity,
to score goals they're going, to score goals and that's
what happens as you progress, in the tournament normally the
teams get, better and better and we Face a good.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Belgian side, today all right let me add SOME perspective.
If i may this is.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
JUST my perspective i would be viewed, as a casual
but winning at the Highest Levels the World cup of soccer.
Is very hard england has the number one league. In
the world it is. Their national sport they Haven't Won
a world cup. In sixty years brazil is In A long.
World cup drought Italy's. Got four cups they haven't made
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The Last. Three World cups italy america is. Great at
anything it truly wants, to, be, tech, FILMMAKING, cinema finance ai,
our educational. System our democracy we are flawed but great. When,
it matters hell, even in hockey we won the goal for.
Men and women but hockey's global revenue globally is about.
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Six billion dollars, You know what soccer is closer to
forty five to. Fifty billion annually everybody's in and everybody.
Spending big money, our BEST, league the mls is at
best fifth to sixth best.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
In the world it was only formed.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
In ninety six and our academy system is less than.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Twenty years old that's.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Our feeder system if You, Go, to Spain, England, The,
netherlands germany portugal they have. Deep Infrastructure advantages real madrid
began in. Nineteen Oh two manchester united's been around since.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
The eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Belgium's league began in. Eighteen, ninety five hell we don't
have a. Beer that old that is the. Reality OF
this now. I hear this what's different from the last
time we?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Got this?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Far what happened you didn't, notice the, passion the, ratings the,
relevance the. Bars the attendants i've never seen anything Like.
THIS from america i grew Up In, the Pacific northwest timber.
SOUNDERS college programs. I like Soccer. Mom was british we
didn't care about. It like, this you know it. Was
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a hobby it wasn't. Really our vocation it was a
hobby we. Got into occasionally america is in. And loves,
it and secondarily obviously our. Skills better watch we are
a more, skilled, Nation passing.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Dribbling but this is the weakest.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
We've, ever been strangely on, The back end i've always
laughed we're. A hands country we've been great at goal
and we've. Always been athletic so the passion is now
deeply embedded. In the country you see the price, Of, these,
tickets yeah yeah, you probably did because you couldn't buy
any unless you were paying twenty five hundred bucks and
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they're all selling That. Thing in seattle you couldn't have
gotten in there if you walked up.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
With a bag.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Full of hundreds and the reality is we, are more
skilled but. It is hard Spain Has, A world cup
england hasn't won one, in sixty years and so we
put a lot of pressure on this team to solve.
All the issues let's, solve everything now. And it's incremental
it is much easier to win a, gold in hockey
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a six billion dollar, annual revenue sport. Than in soccer
we're good at what we want to, be good at.
But it's hard In Twenty two world cups we'd won.
One knockout game can we equal That In this? World
cup alone take. A deep breath as, the cliche goes
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two things. Can be, true we're better but you. Should
be discouraged it looked really ugly. In the End here.
Was alexi lawless was?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
This?
Speaker 4 (38:47):
A success look i think that this team did win.
HEARTS and minds i think that this team did bring
people into the tent and.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
They should be incredibly.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Proud for that but also there's a part of me
that says that for moral victories are is over and
so we've left something on the table here and that to.
ME is disappointing i also know it's going to be
disappointing to the Players And to mauricio pochettino when they look,
at this game because again the goals that they gave
up at times were self inflicted against. A better TEAM
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but this us team has beaten better teams.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
In the past and By the, way argentina advances we
have a shot of the. Game winning goal they trailed
two nothing in the seventy eighth minute and Largely, driven
by messi had three goals. In thirteen minutes they advanced.
To the quarterfinals they'll play The winner Of. SWITZERLAND and
COLOMBIA i Think i like columbia. In that, one you
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know Co. FAVORITES with, france i mean this tournament has
just been bonkers and there was a controversial Foul. Called
on egypt the bar system. Didn't love It This Is.
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Let's Bring in brad friedel and we. Talked about, this
you know we we should be encouraged.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
By.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Some things discouraged we have got to improve. In Certain
areas so i'm sure you saw The.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
FOUL on, egypt i mean let's just. Talk about that
what did you.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
MAKE of that.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
I think it. WAS a mistake.
Speaker 11 (40:38):
I think it WAS very very i think it was
Very very SOFT colin AND i think i think they're
GOING to have i think they're going. TO be upset
i think they'll. Be really upset but let's also not
take away, From This. Guy lionel messi we talk about him.
ALL the, time i mean being down two nil against
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seventy EIGHT minute and i don't know if you watched.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
All the, game call him but he's.
Speaker 11 (41:04):
At his age he it was A Header that, latoro
MARTINEZ missed but i mean he blew by guy. AT
his age i MEAN he get i skedat sports once,
THERE they were i was around them and They.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
WERE at, barcelona i said? WHAT'S he got i know
he's great and the skill.
Speaker 11 (41:19):
And all that what's he got and they said he
gets up to full pace and about a step and
a half.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
TO two, steps i mean it's just.
Speaker 11 (41:25):
It's remarkable this guy and, he's a leader, and he's
humble and he's.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
A driven, winner i mean it's just.
Speaker 11 (41:33):
Remarkable watching it right when you think they're out and
you think it's Going to Be.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Columbia against egypt here we Got To.
Speaker 11 (41:39):
Possibly columbia argentina just In This entire world cup, has
been brilliant.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Really really, BRILLIANT you know i was SAYING in The.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Nba eight champs in eight, years in soccer we Haven't
On a world cup repeater since it's like. Seventy plus
years it's so difficult.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
To age out.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
There's INCREDIBLE pressure and i Said, this about Polisic is
that messi is. A small player He Doesn't miss. World
cup games i'm not asking for everybody To be earling
holland And. Looked like gronkowski i'm not. Asking FOR that
but I do think brad it's a reasonable criticism to
say he had nagging injuries overseas The Last nine, world
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cup games four of them he's either missed. Or left
early that there is, a DURABILITY concern and i think that's.
A fair CRITICISM i think i would love to have
him On The next. World cup team but can we
be driven by him and? Depend on HIM why can't?
I say that why is? That overly critical.
Speaker 11 (42:34):
It's, Not being critical you're. Just stating, Fact you know christian's.
A wonderful player but there's an asterisk. When fully fit
but you know it's not a personal. Attack on, him
you Know In this world cup he played forty five minutes.
Of exhilarating soccer he was great in the First. Half
against paraguay and when you Play. Teams like BELGIUM last
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time i was on, YOUR show, Calling i said belgium
worries me a little bit because if you play a
team that has pace, on the wings And They Played
luca bakio doku was, on The bench but trosar also.
Has some pace that's Going to make, Freeman stay back
it's Going to make, robinson stay back it's Going To
isolate Christian Polistic And Sir junior desk and you're going, up,
against big fast strong guys that are as technical as
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you and we Need someone like christian, in full fitness,
in full form in full mind to be able to
compete against. Teams like, THIS and listen I Think the
united states team did some remarkable things. In this tournament
they've we've, galvanized some fans, created some fans, and you
know one of the greatest things is they're a media
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outlets now colin that are given the team grief and
debating and some of them praising them and stuff that
would never have even mentioned the word Soccer In.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
The united, states, We're growing man. We're getting there.
Speaker 11 (43:48):
Like it's, a big process AND, WE, Have Nfl Nba, MAJOR,
league baseball nhl all these things, to compete against and.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
It's just not going.
Speaker 11 (43:57):
To happen overnight, and you know When, We, Played, Belgium,
spain france england these guys. We can lose we can
beat them if all, the stars aligned but we can
also we. Can Also lose and belgium also had a
little bit more of an impetus is what happened twenty
four hours, before the game and they were. Up for
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it that's The most Intensity i've seen belgium play with in.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Over. Two, Years, YEAH wow well i mean We drew
With England, last WORLD cup so i mean it said
the reality. Is you know and, By the way netherlands
soundly beat us. And LOOK better So i Mean. Netherlands
in belgium I've said this belgium their soccer. League started
before we don't have a beer as old as. THEIR
soccer league I mean that the reality is. The infrastructures
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overseas are? You know? This it's incremental The passion. In
america check and THE other thing i said about this
IS listen and I Mentioned you tim.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Howard Thirteen Years.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
English, premier League, BRAD you brad i think it's, six
ten years three hundred and. Ten Consecutive starts casey keller
thirteen Years In top european we came into this knowing
WE had an mls, goalie the best but that was
The hand po chatino WAS dealt And i thought matt was.
A bit overwhelmed he wasn't. Quite as aggressive when you
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couple that with our age. In the back it WAS
the weakness i saw in A friendly AGAINST germany and
i saw It. Immediately, with belgium listen our. Flaw got
exposed where do you get The Next, Great brad friedel
where do you get the?
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Next?
Speaker 11 (45:33):
Great goalie well the big pressure like when you have,
the technical goods you've got to go to. The best
league so if you're a basketball player and You're playing
in europe.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
And, you're good enough you COME.
Speaker 11 (45:47):
To, the nba well if you're a goalkeeper and YOU'RE,
playing in mls you need to go over to one
Of the top european leagues because that's.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Where, you learn that that's where you learn.
Speaker 11 (45:58):
The little nuances there's a there's a really fine line
between being good and being great and.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Then being phenomenal and you can.
Speaker 11 (46:06):
Talk about all these guys work hard and, all that
stuff but none of these guys THAT play in mls
understand what it's like to get abused by a billion
people when you.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Make a mistake and.
Speaker 11 (46:19):
That's what happened when you play it when You, play
at liverpool when You Play. At manchester UNITED so if
i made A, mistake At Liverpool if tim howard made
a mistake when he Was, at man united we, heard
about it and we heard about, It at restaurants we
heard about it, at our car we heard about it.
Anywhere we walked and what happens is you get better
and you learn and you develop this skin of leather
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that can get through adversity and you learn to, do
things better and you learn to do, them more often
and you also learn how to deal with all the
mistakes and all, the negative criticism and THE guys.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
In mls they just don't.
Speaker 11 (46:53):
Have that yet it'll get there again the thirty years,
of the league and that's got to. Build as well
the fan base has. Got to build we got the
people that watch the games and, all the, comments the
criticisms the opinions that goes part and, parcel with sports
and that's what makes that's what makes. The game great
but you have to play colin at the highest of
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level and under the highest amounts of pressure to continuously better.
Yourself in sport complacency is, the worst adjective the worst
tool that you can have as a professional athlete. In
ANY sport and mls unfortunately still at this, moment in
time breeds that that there's not a ton of pressure on.
The players there and whether you think a league somewhere else,
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is better technically that's a. Completely different debate the pressure
is much Bigger in the european leagues And in, the brazilian, League, for.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
Instance poachettino if you, asked him privately. OBVIOUSLY he's, discouraged
i mean he'll say the right thing publicly and he.
Feels very authentic but do you think when he goes
to bed and wakes, up this, morning he THINKS what
did i?
Speaker 2 (47:59):
Get? Myself, into, no, No.
Speaker 11 (48:02):
NO no mauricio I know how mauricio. Will be thinking, mauricio
loves challenges. WITHOUT a doubt i would love to see
him stay on for four more years and continue to
change in the mentality of the players. AT the team
i have no idea if he's going to but he
knows the quality of players. That he has he knows
exactly what, level THEY'RE at and i think he would
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if he.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
Chooses to stay that's.
Speaker 11 (48:28):
Because he thinks that he can mold this team. Into
true competitors he doesn't want to just take a job
because it's another nice little livelihood. For four years he
would continue to stay on if he thinks that there's
other players coming, in the pipeline the current players that
he bring, along with them so he. Can lift trophies
that's that's what and make. And make history that's why.
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He would stay and by NO means do i think
he thinks WHAT what did?
Speaker 2 (48:55):
I get into i think he really. Enjoys the challenge
you saw him kick over.
Speaker 11 (49:01):
The water bottle there that was on, the second goal
because he knows at this top level football column and right,
after you score we are against the. Run of play
we get it, to one one you've got to have five,
to ten minutes even, if it's.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Ugly of just.
Speaker 11 (49:17):
Not conceding again and they conceded within sixty one seconds
and it set the Tone again that belgium was.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
In The, Ascendancy all right i'm going, to you know take.
A deep, breath i said this is.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
THAT criticism's, healthy i mean, We criticize, Quarterbacks Pro bowlers
super Bowl quarterbacks every monday on every show in the country.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
Every four years if we, stink it up you're going to.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
Get some heat you'd get twice That Much, in buenos
aires twice That. Much IN london and i do think
today in the, Pushback, TO me, brad i, KNOW you
know i would be viewed by a soccer purist as
a casual and might take is you you know what
everybody should be. Under the tent today's a day to
you know it hurts and, criticisms fair well.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
It's a big. Difference to today.
Speaker 11 (50:04):
Just in, life you know criticism is tough for, people
to handle and they always feel like when you're looking
at a technical or tactical criticism that it's a personal,
hit on you and that's not that's. Not the, case
you Know, YOU mentioned christian i mean he has been injured's.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
That's a.
Speaker 11 (50:20):
Fact you know the fact Is that LIKE western McKinney
i think is, A wonderful player weston knows himself that
he didn't really turn up yesterday and he's much better than.
What he showed that's not a personal Attack. ON on
Wes i think wes is one of the best players
to ever COME out. Of us soccer but unfortunately it
didn't it. Didn't show yesterday but that doesn't mean that
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he's bad and it doesn't mean that he should. Take
it personal but today call him A lot And i'm
sure i'm sure you get hit with. It, allten that
yeah that people, take it personally, and you know that's
just the way that the world works at this.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
Moment in time.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Brad friedlan as good as any goalie in the history.
For this country it's been an absolute. PLEASURE to talk
i would love next time you're in. THE same city
i am to go to a SOCCER match if, I
ever go i got to get YOUR number because i
would pay to sit with You at. A, liverpool.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Game well le, seeing those guys they.
Speaker 11 (51:14):
Have my number if you're OVER, in the uk just
just hit me up.
Speaker 2 (51:18):
Then, we'll go brad thank. You so much great talking.
To you again. YOU gotta come.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
I mean just that, would be like that would be
better than ANY college class i ever went to To
Sit with brad friedel, for three Hours and then i'd
come back and taunt jmack on how little he.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
Knows about soccer, I'd, be like.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
Eh sat with friedel and talked about, the great ones.
Speaker 6 (51:39):
The, teams football oh.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Here We go here's Messi's goal for argentina that tied it.
Speaker 2 (51:45):
Up at two Two On.
Speaker 12 (51:47):
Fox leonel messi deflex you there on the way through.
Until my line something up, Here On. You tita foxley But.
SAVIOR for argentina i comeback when, they needed it engine
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it pad the man recarded. By so many that's the
tritest of the ball from the Tips. Of despair argentina
celebrace for.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
A guy that weighs one hundred. And fifty, Pounds The,
power oh god everything. Is hit cleanly everything's. Got immense, power.
Speaker 5 (52:31):
So uh You Remember the super Bowl where the patriots
came back from being down twenty eight to Three. Against
the falcons there people online, are, Now saying hey Egypt
Is the atlanta falcons, in THIS game and messi Just
orchestrated A brady like.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Look at the way you hold ON and didn't i
just watch THIS for.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
A tv audience it's as if he. Brushed, the kick
yeah he kind of like he wanted to Put a little.
English on it he, brushed the kick and you got this.
Speaker 2 (52:59):
TOTAL line, drive i.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
Mean it's just the ability to get these little tiny
crevices and yet.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
He sees it, look at this there's, virtually nothing.
Speaker 6 (53:10):
THERE no, space i mean the guys. Just wax it
so They would.
Speaker 5 (53:14):
Play columbia next switzerland has a major injury to. Their
leading scorer he just got, hurt at practice so. He's
Out tonight columbia argentine. Is a rematch they had an
epic game. Two, Years ago listen i'll, Just say this
columbia is. Gonna fight them they're not. Gonna back down
that'll be an amazing game. Assuming it happens and Then of,
course you Know we have England. Left in france they got,
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some great stuff Even though the world cupp rebounced
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after SI the World Cup still going strong. We're not
part of it, Mauricio Pochettino. That's the hand he was
dealt a week back.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Line. It's Chicago, it's the Herd.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Let's talk. Here's where all sports are the same, men's
and women. The further you go in the playoffs, the
more your flaws are exposed against better teams.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
NFL, NBA, March madness. We knew going in.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Matt Freeze, the goalkeeper was our weakest ever. Tim Howard
played thirteen years in the English Premier League, Brad Friedel
sixteen years in the EPL, Casey Keller thirteen years in
top European leagues. Matt Freese is an MLS goalie and
looked the part. Sorry but it's true. He gave up
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one embarrassing goal. And another one here tim Reem at
thirty eight. Again, we were concerned about athleticism and age
was physically overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We saw it against Germany and the Friendly.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Our defense when exposed to elite playmakers and strikers was
shockingly overwhelmed. When pressure was applied last night we folded
like wet cardboard. And against Germany and the Friendly, and
against Belgium it was ninety seconds in Belgium had so
much space, never rushed so much time right out of
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the shoot. Paraguay, Australia, Bosnia didn't have dynamic enough playmakers
to expose us. But Belgium's front five, several of those
players are top guys in the top European leagues. They
didn't even start two of their more talented guys, so
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they were ranked eighth coming in FIFA rankings, we were seventeenth.
It felt worse than that Belgium was passing, moving through
our defensive formations with ease. It had a practice feel. Again,
they were never rushed. Initially Stu Holden said, it's nervy.
I bought that for about four minutes, but it was
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in Seattle. These guys that played in European leagues let's
be honest. There was a next level technical skill for
Belgium and against our week back end, which we all
knew was our weakness, it was exposed. I mean the
fifty to fifty balls, did we win fifteen percent of those?
I mean, I'm being totally honest. We got timid, cautious.
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Polisic just bailed. He would get out of the play
very quickly. We got frantic. We were overwhelmed. And Polisic,
let's be honest, he's helped get us to this level.
He is a very good playmaker. But health now is
a real thing. He was hurt during his club years.
He has now four the last nine World Cup games
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he's missed with an injury or left early. It is
a real problem in a tournament where great players messy.
You look around, Look around what we're seeing from England,
Jude Bellingham. They're rising, they're elevating, and Polisic look pedestrian.
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Last night against Belgium's top players, he was just a
guy again. They're ranked eighth, were seventeen. I do believe
if Tim Howard was in goal, we would have lost
two to one. We would have been outclassed, out, possessed,
out cornered. I don't doubt that. I'm not delusional, but
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a couple of those goals we just generally historically are
so good in goal.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
We don't give those up.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
And you can go back to Tony Maoli, Casey Keller,
Brad Friedel, Tim Howard Polissic. It's just become a trend
now in the World Cup. He's not one hundred percent.
It had a big brother taking on a little brother
in the driveway.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Feel it's not the end.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
There are things to put your arms around, but here
was Tyler Adams afterwards.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I think football can be cool to sometimes. Let's not
get it twisted. I think the better team one today.
I don't think our performance was great. Overall that being said,
I don't think we can take away what we accomplished
in the rest of the tournament and the type of
football that we.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Were playing and trying to play.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I think tonight the goals that we conceded were too easy.
When you give good players opportunities goals, they're going to
score goals, and that's what happens as you progress in
the tournament, normally the teams get better and better, and
we face the good Belgian.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Side today all right.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Let me add some perspective if I may. This is
just my perspective. I would be viewed as a casual
but winning at the highest levels. The World Cup of
Soccer is very hard. England has the number one league
in the world. It is their national sport. They haven't
won a World Cup in sixty years. Brazil is in
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a long World Cup drought. Italy's got four Cups. They
haven't made the last three World Cups. Italy America is
great at anything. It truly wants to be tech, filmmaking, cinema, finance, AI,
our educational system, our democracy. We are flawed but great
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when it matters. Hell, even in hockey, we won the
goal for men and women. But hockey's global revenue globally
is about six billion dollars. You know what, Soccer is
closer to forty five to fifty billion annually. Everybody's in
and everybody spending big money. Our best league, the MLS,
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is at best fifth to sixth best.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
In the world. It was only formed.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
In ninety six and our academy system is less than
twenty years old.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
That's our feeder system.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
If you go to Spain, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal.
They have deep infrastructure advantages. Real Madrid began in nineteen
oh two, Manchester United's been.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Around since the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Belgium's league began in eighteen ninety five. Hell, we don't
have a beer that old. That is the reality of this.
Now I hear this. What's different from the last time
we got this far?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You didn't notice the passion, the ratings, the relevance, the bars,
the attendants. I've never seen anything like this from America.
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, timber Sounders college programs.
I like soccer. Mom was British. We didn't care about
it like this. You know, it was a hobby. It
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wasn't really our vocation. It was a hobby we got
into occasionally. America is in and loves it. And secondarily,
obviously our skills better watch. We are a more skilled
nation passing, dribbling, But this is the weakest we've ever been. Strangely,
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on the back end, I've always laughed we're.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
A hands country.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
We've been great at goal and we've always been athletic.
So the passion is now deeply embedded in the country.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You see the price of these tickets.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, yeah, you probably did, because you couldn't buy any
unless you were paying twenty five hundred bucks and they're
all selling that thing in Seattle. You couldn't have gotten
in there if you walk up with a bag full
of hundreds. And the reality is we are more skilled,
but it is hard. Spain has a World Cup, England
hasn't won one in sixty years, and so we put
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a lot of pressure on this team to.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Solve all the issues.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Let's solve everything now, and it's incremental. It is much
easier to win a gold in hockey, a six billion
dollar annual revenue sport, than in soccer. We're good at
what we want to be good at, but it's hard.
In twenty two World Cups, we'd won one knockout game.
Can we equal that in this World Cup alone?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Take a deep breath.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
As the cliche goes, two things can be true. We're better,
but you should be discouraged. It looked really ugly in
the end. Here was Alexi lawless.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Was this a success? Look?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I think that this team did win hearts and minds.
I think this team did bring people into the tent
and they should be incredibly proud. For that, but also
there's a part of me that says the time for
moral victories is over and so we've left something on
the table here, and.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That to me is disappointing.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I also know it's going to be disappointing to the
players and to Mauricio Pochettino when they look at this game,
because again the goals that they gave up at times
were self inflicted against a better team. But this US
team has beaten better teams in the past.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Listen the reality of what you watched last night. Your
eyes don't lie. We played Belgium in a friendly and
got housed, and last night we got housed.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It looked uglier.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I mean giving up four goals, especially the ugly goal
in the last one. It feels really lobsided. We would
have been outclassed and out played, but we came into
this World Cup. Mauricio Pochettino, this is the hand he's
been dealt. He would love to have a Tim Howard,
a Brad Friedel, a case Keler twelve thirteen years in
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the English Premier League. That's not where we are, that's
not what we have. The one encouraging thing I shouldn't say,
the one thing. But the one thing I always defended
our coaches who had to play a counterattacking style. The
one thing I'm going to defend Pochatino on is nobody's
blaming him today, just like I don't think it was
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fair to levy all the criticism in earlier generations, in
earlier decades on our managers, on our coaches. Like the
reality and we sought against Germany and a friendly within
ninety seconds and we saw it here under two minutes.
What happens in a football game in America in the
first series of a game, because in the NFL you
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win sixty five percent of the games, you take a lead.
Everybody's trying to score early, so teams attack your weakness.
Go to the Germany game, the friendly the first two minutes,
and go to the first two minutes of this What
did they do aggressively attack.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Our back end?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
A thirty eight year old defender and an MLS goalie.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
They saw.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
These coaches know what they're doing, and there's only so
much Pochactino could do. All right, Jmac, everybody's freaking out.
I understand disappointment, I absolutely do, But I think if
you and I would have been sitting together. I think
about six seven minutes in you probably had the same
feeling I did, which is, boy, we can't offensively generate
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like three four five. We couldn't beat anybody one on one.
The reality is everything we tried was muted very quickly.
We could not get shots on goal, and they on
the other end, it was effortless.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
They had time, they weren't rushed.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I mean it just it looked they made it look
so easy, and we everything we tried, we just got stonewalled.
We just could not string passes together.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Yeah, listen, there's no shame in losing to Belgium. Okay,
They're a world class program, excellent team, great players, and
we waited to the round of sixteen.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
That's great. It's how you lost.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Coin.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
We watch Mexico put up a fight against England. They
refuse to die. Mexico played till the very end. We
roll over in the first minute. I mean, Christian Polisic Colin,
I can't call him Captain America anymore.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
He was terrible.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
My guy, I've hyped up desk forever. He got pulled
at halftime. He was like embarrassed, he was crying.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I will say this, I will say this Balligan is
very promising, till how about Sebastian Burholter. I thought he's
got something. I think Weston McKinney remains very strong. We've
got an upgrade on the back end. I would say
this too, and sometimes we get into this. I wish
our athletes are biggot. We don't have an earling holland
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I do think we could use somebody of size on
corner kicks. It is great to have a six for
Belgium striker as a target. I think we have to
get better in goal. We've got to get better, stronger
on the back end, maybe younger, and I think it
would be great if we had a player of size
to assist us in the corner kicks. I think that's
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a reasonable ass Let me just.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Ask you the last thing, Like all this hype that
we had around, we crushed Paraguay, which looked good in
beating Germany and push France, you know, and we beat
up on Australia, we dispatch Bosnia, we look good and then.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
We look totally different than we saw the rest.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Of the whole world.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Couple, okay, now reverting to what we used to be
the crap teams that we.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Used to have.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
No think about this. Think about another global sport, tennis.
Tennis is global Serena for fifteen years, dominated like Martina,
like Steffie Graff, like you know, like the great players did,
like McEnroe did, or maybe Samprist did, or you know
the recent Federer did. The reality is in global sports,
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even though the globe is counted, right, it's usually a
very small elite group of people or teams at the top.
How many great global leagues are there? There must be
forty leagues, but we all know there's about five to
six really elite leagues. And just like in the English
Premier League, go to the Bundesligan, go to every elite
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league in Europe, every single one. There are two teams,
Real Madrid Barcelona that dominate that league. Soccer, like everything else,
is incredibly top heavy. The NFL is very rare where
you can go to the fifteenth team in the league
and there's not that big of a gap between Seattle
and the Chargers based on whether they're playing in the health.
That's not the way it work. NBA top heavy baseball,
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say what you want. The Dodgers feel like it's a
different cut of cloth. If you go to the top
European leagues, it's always one or two teams. In fact,
I think we were talking about this recently. The team
that's won the German League has won I think thirteen
or fourteen years. The team that's won the French League
it's something like nine out of ten. It is the
reality of this stuff, and it's hard. Italy can't even make.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
The World Cup.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Brazil is sliding.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
They don't feel nearly as as relevant as they did.
So this is the best England chance and over six decame.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
We gotta start rooting for England, right, I mean that's
a side I'm backing from here on out right. Oh yeah,
but everybody loves Holland. You know, my family's like, oh Holland,
we got a root for Earling Holland.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
I'm like, guys, we got to back England here.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Come on, I want to talk about Polisic coming up.
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Speaker 1 (16:10):
I can appreciate Christian Poolistic, I think is our best
playmaker ever, but we also have to have a real
grown up conversation. Sorry soccer die Hard. I know you're
an expert, but he came into this World Cup in
a scoring drought. He had one goal in twenty twenty
six between club and country, and now in his last
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nine World Cup games he's either missed it four times
or left four of nine times. That's who he is.
He is not physically durable. He took the Gold Cup
off to rest his body. It didn't help. This is
his resume, this is his reality. He got us to
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this point, but he listen. I'm not asking him to
be Earling Hall and physically that's Gronk he's not in
that he didn't have that body composition. But even tiny
Messi has never missed a World Cup game. I do think,
I do think we could use some size. Polisic is fragile,
that is not debatable. He is not physically reliable. We
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are a big country in an athletic country. I would
like to see us. I think we're fast, I think
we're athletic. We're not terribly big. I think it really
hurts us on the back end. That Belgium striker at six'
four looked. Monstrous i've got a producer on my staff
who's taller than six,' four but he. Looked monstrous What
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Would early holland look LIKE? Against us gronk against the
Junior high we need, some SIZE so, i mean if
you Look At harry Kane And jude Bellingham, for england
they just feel, like, big long. Athletic guys so we,
tend to, you Know Whereas earling holland, is big, tactically
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excellent excellent finisher check, check check we tend to have
like one or two of. Those boxes wouldn't it be
Great if polisic was six' four with, his technical excellence
it absolutely would be so he's, a bit small he's.
A bit fragile. That's a reality he's gotten us. To
THIS point but i do think we, need to Find
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along With baaligan, and weston McKinney somebody that may be
more reliable. In these spots stuhlden. Was brutally honest you
can't hide the Fact That this world cup has Been
About the harry canes and the messies delivering and separating
from other. Really Good players but polisic was. Invisible At Times.
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Here's stu holden.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
We just didn't get big games from our.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Big players tonight polistic had a, really tough night.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Really tough night even from the first minute.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Of the game polistics, first, five touches turnovers first.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Three of them he looks like.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
The moment was too.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
BIG for him i thought this was going to be
a big game for him and.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
It just wasn't, and you know whatever happened with The
injury and. TILLMAN was good i thought McKenny did.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
What he could but to beat A, TEAM like belgium
o you need every single one of your top players
playing at, a high level. And they weren't and some
of it is their top players are better than. Our
Top players the seahawks top players were Better than the. Patriots.
Top Players right the knicks older veteran top players were
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better Consistently than the spurs excellent but. Really young players
so much of this is are your players? In their
prime do they have the experience? In big games you.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Can blame nerves the.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
ANNOUNCERS used nervy i think that was fair for a,
couple of minutes but then it was just being overwhelmed
and not physically reliable for pulistic you, Can like somebody
but the reality is this has. Become a Trend what did?
Mike tomlinoways say once? Is a problem two. Is a
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trend four of The Last nine world Cup games for
polisic can't play.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Or left early. THAT'S forty percent i don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
WHAT to do i don't know where to, go with
it but it feels. Like It now if i'd have
told you before last night one of our top, players gets.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Hurt who would? You have guessed.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Keep?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
It one hundred who would? YOU Have guessed j mack, With, The,
news no no turn. On the news this is.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
The herdline.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
News tough, one tough one also.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
A Tough One for Cristiano ronaldo colin portugal was Eliminated.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Yesterday by spain pretty glorious.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Goal there in the ninety First minute And, spain eliminates
Portugal Thus ending Cristiano Ronaldo's sterling. WORLD cup career a
brilliant player, loved by fans did not Have A.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
GREAT world cup a lot of the.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Analysis, was his essentially he, shouldn't be, starting you know
he just He.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Doesn't have belgium belgium had older players sat them last
night to elevate, their young players and their young players
proved it was.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
The, right call yeah it's a tough Call.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
TO bench, Ronaldo i mean colin dig put him on the,
screen in stadiums. People go crazy he makes a pass
in warm ups and people are like.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Losing their minds that's just. How it is. He's a phenomenon.
EVERYBODY loves him i will.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Point this Out The next world cup twenty Thirty. Is
in portugal it's a Good Joint. Effort portugal spain could
he play at forty five as? A super sub i.
Don't see it you know there will be a, push
FOR it but.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
I don't know what are Your? Thoughts on, ronaldo you
know calling.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
It, A career yeah i.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
THINK it's Time I mean tom brady still. COULD have
Played i think lebron's got about. A year left he,
could play, longer OF course but i mean so much
of it is if you're a Country like a Spain
or a Germany or a Portugal, or a belgium you
have this infrastructure where you, have golden generations you have other,
excellent YOUNG players and i, think you know it's hard
for successful men, to, exit anything right like they Just
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they love brady could. Have played forever but you get
to A point now portugal's got, excellent young players they
need to be.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
On, the pitch.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Yeah it's weird i'm not Comparing Him.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
To carmelo anthony he's obviously a way better player.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
In His Sport but carmelo.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Anthony was, asked about hey can you come off the
bench and, he was like are?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
You kidding, Me NO.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Way and i think that was The, vibe with ronaldo
like don't. Even ask me i'm. Not doing that, i'm
a starter and he just he wasn't A. Factor against spain,
he did, Nothing. Literally nothing colin so that's The end
for Ronaldo and now messi is trying not To Have
his world cup end Right. Now against, egypt all right
let's move ON. To, THE nfl yeah i gotta Say Thank.
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The world cup we haven't had To Talk, about aaron
rodgers your, guy In, Weeks But colin aaron rodgers is
gonna be playing With his guy Mike. McCarthy in Pittsburgh
here's a rogers talking.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
About the familiar.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
With the system i've spent thirteen years and he's. Changed
some stuff when He was In Dallas with dak it's
stuff that we, used to run but he's just called it.
Something DIFFERENT now so i think from a, real fundamental level.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It's you know it's all about.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
The quarterbacks timing so there's been good detail, on you
know all the route concepts of when you need to
be open and how important.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
The, Depth is yeah i'm.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
A very, exciting you know we HAVE, NOT talked nfl
i would say.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
In a month.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
What's so cool about that is it's all going to be,
fresh to, Us you know so you got to brush up,
Over the weekend COLIN.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
On your nfl so we start HAMMERING it, NIXT i
know i know it's gonna be a.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Lot of bears the producers Already tell me colin wants
To do Heavy bears our.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Bears, a day.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Yeah What, about the jets, by THE way to, usa
soccer fans That's.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
How the jets.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Feel, every year okay getting your, doors blown off it's,
over no, Chance, Final story colin HOW about this. Nba
Breaking news donovan mitchell has signed a big Extension With
the cleveland, cavaliers four years two hundred and. Seventy three
mil that is a lot Of Cheddar. For donovan mitchell
(24:12):
he had, a great season average twenty seven. Points, A,
game interestingly colin everybody instantly, wants to know how Does?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
This Impact Lebron so james.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Harden had opted out by design to restructure His.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Deal Around lebron now.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Mitchell gets paid are the dominoes Setting Up for donovan
mitchell To play with?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Lebron, here shortly.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Well it's, still it's listen it It works Because. Lebron's
from cleveland, if he wasn't it Doesn't really Fit Harden.
And donovan mitchell don't defend it would be a, little
bit like to be, honest with you It's got a
laker feel Where You had Luca austin and lebron. None
elite defenders all Play, Initiators Will, Harden, donovan mitchell lebron
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all play. Initiators all excellent none of them really, want
to defend so it. Had Beaten out now cleveland's got.
BETTER rim protection i. Won't Deny that With, ALLAN and
mobley i. WON'T deny That i think mobiley's a really.
GOOD defensive player i don't know, where he RATES but when,
I watch it I feel that. ALLEN same way i
FEEL like when, i watch him he's a. GOOD defensive
player i, Have NO idea, so i mean my take
is this is a Better fit for lebron because he's
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got support on the. Back end defensively but this is
a lot of play initiators who don't. Want to defend,
NONE of, them I mean Like harden and lebron are
not in. Their Athletic prime donovan mitchell is. Close to it,
he's late prime but. He's STILL prime but i think
this Works, BECAUSE it's. CLEVELAND i, don't i mean THE
place That i think lebron could really Elevated. TEAM is
Detroit i Think Detroit with kate cunningham Being a score
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lebron would be. Great with him he would get THEM
into Plays i think detroit is A place where lebron could.
IMPROVE a team i don't know, about total wins but
absolutely make them. More lethal offensively lebron's not going to
go And, play in detroit so That's.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
All, the let's say a better chance you Moved back
to california than He. Goes To, Detroit, but colin interestingly
our staff put together highest paid players twenty seven.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
To twenty eight look. At Those numbers donovan mitchell sixty. Eight,
Million dollars hey i'm, happy for.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Him enjoy it how many of those do you feel
good about?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
That should Be.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
I'm Gonna I'll say jason tatum because he's only, at
sixty two he'll still be, in his Prime and the
celtics have a system that's, tried and.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
TRUE it works i would feel good. About That, number
for yokich.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
He's waiting to.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Get, His DEAL yeah but i mean.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
THERE'S very few i, always say this pay. Huge money
infrequently NOW, in the nba, you get trapped you kind
of have, to, Pay SOMEBODY right BUT i mean i
look at these Contracts and the Joel mb clip sixers
would love to be out. Of that, SPACE you know sga.
Has EARNED it and i think they're happy. With his,
performance good. Guy Very, reliable jason tatum you know you
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cross your fingers on. THE durability stuff i don't think.
It's a problem that's a Big, number for jason who
sometimes in big spots has not.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Been as aggressive. As WE like BUT i know i.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Would be comfortable an't making that. YOKICCH making, That i mean,
I'll Be. Honest jalen, Brunson these days i'd. BE more
comfortable i Mean again that.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
RUMSON knows that i don't want sixty eight mil because
then We can't Have kat and og and all these, players.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Around me and we're not going. To win anything.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
That's. A good point jmak, With, the news.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Well, that's the news and thanks for stopping by.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
The line, news you know sometimes when, a story happens
we sometimes on the air immediately, react to it but
you don't have a ton of time to add. Context
or Nuance But The Jalen brown, jason tatum story now
we've had four or five days and a lot of
stuff has been Leaked from the celtics and a lot
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of sources, saying, This this this it really got really
simple Yesterday when the celtics. Talked about it it got,
really Really simple and i'll discuss that on.
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A Great hour rad friedel arguably the greatest goalie in
the history. Of This country united states men's national team
Played In the. Premier league, forever in fact at one
point started three hundred and ten straight Starts In, the
premier league best league. In The world bruce arena will stop.
By as well argentina three To. Two over egypt they
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scored a. Flurry Of goals late messi had a couple
wild that there's going to be a lot of controversy
about One of the egyptian goals.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Being taken away there's going to be a great.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Deal of controversy when you only have a tournament every
four years and, it's knockout, stage sudden death you're.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Gonna have it you got to just kind of. Build
It in and.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I'll SAY this the. Us was eliminated it was ugly
four to One.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Lost to belgium and.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
This is true when, the postseason begins your greatest flaws
is any. Team are exposed and it was evident that
our biggest weaknesses. Was The, Goalkeeper matt freese Sorry It
was tim howard played thirteen Years In The, english Premier
league had friedel sixteen YEARS, In The epl casey keller
thirteen Years in. Top European leagues matt FREESE is an
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mls goalie and.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Looked the part sorry.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
But it's true he gave up one embarrassing goal and
Another one here tim reem. At, thirty eight again we
were concerned about athleticism and age. Was physically overwhelmed we
Saw it against germany. And the friendly our defense when
exposed to elite playmakers and strikers. Was shockingly overwhelmed when
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pressure was, applied last night we folded. Like wet Cardboard
and against germany, and the Friendly and against belgium it
was Ninety seconds in belgium had, so much space never
rushed so much time right out. Of, The, Shoot paraguay
australia bosnia didn't have dynamic enough playmakers. To Expose us but,
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belgium's front five several of those players are top guys
In the. Top european leagues they didn't even start to
with their, more talented guys so they were ranked EIGHTH coming.
In fifa rankings. We were seventeenth it felt. Worse than that,
belgium was passing moving through our defensive. Formations with ease
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it had. A, practice feel again they. Were Never Rushed initially,
stu holden. SAID it's nervy i bought that for. About
four minutes but It. Was in seattle these guys That played.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
In european leagues. Let's be honest there was.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
A next level Technical skill for belgium and against our,
week back end.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Which we all knew. Was our weakness.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
IT was exposed i mean the fifty, to fifty balls
did we win fifteen? PERCENT of, Those i mean i'm.
Being totally honest, we. Got timid cautious. Polisic just bailed
he would get out of the. Play very quickly. We
got frantic. We Were, overwhelmed and polisic, Let's be honest
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he's helped get us. To this level he is a.
Very good playmaker but health now is. A real thing
he was hurt during. His club years he has now
four of The Last nine world cup games he's missed
with an injury. Or left early it is a real
problem in a tournament where. Great players messy, You look
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around look around what We're, Seeing From. England jude, bellingham they're,
rising They're elevating and. Polisic look pedestrian Last night against, belgium's.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Top players he was. Just.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
A guy again, they're ranked. EIGHTH we're seventeen i Do
Believe if tim howard, was in goal.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
We would have lost.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Two to one we would, have.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Been outclassed. OUTPOSSESSED out cornered i. Don't doubt that, i'm
not delusional but a couple of those those goals we
just generally historically are so.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Good in goal we don't.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Give those up and you can Go Back, To Tony,
Meoli Casey, Keller Brad Friedel. Tim howard polisic it's just
become a trend Now In. The world cup he's not.
One hundred percent it had a big brother taking on
a little brother. In the driveway feel it's. Not the
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end there are things to put, your arms around But
Here was.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
TYLER adams afterwards i.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Think football can be. Cool to sometimes let's not GET
a twisted i think the better. TEAM one today i
don't think our. Performance was great overall, THAT being said
i don't think we can take away what we accomplished
in the rest of the tournament and the type of
football that we.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Were playing and.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
TRYING to play i think tonight the goals that we conceded.
Were too easy when you give good players the opportunity,
to score goals they're going, to score goals and that's
what happens as you progress, in the tournament normally the
teams get, better and better and we Face a good.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Belgian side, today all right let me add SOME perspective.
If i may this is.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
JUST my perspective i would be viewed, as a casual
but winning at the Highest Levels the World cup of soccer.
Is very hard england has the number one league. In
the world it is. Their national sport they Haven't Won
a world cup. In sixty years brazil is In A long.
World cup drought Italy's. Got four cups they haven't made
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The Last. Three World cups italy america is. Great at
anything it truly wants, to, be, tech, FILMMAKING, cinema finance ai,
our educational. System our democracy we are flawed but great. When,
it matters hell, even in hockey we won the goal for.
Men and women but hockey's global revenue globally is about.
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Six billion dollars, You know what soccer is closer to
forty five to. Fifty billion annually everybody's in and everybody.
Spending big money, our BEST, league the mls is at
best fifth to sixth best.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
In the world it was only formed.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
In ninety six and our academy system is less than.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Twenty years old that's.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Our feeder system if You, Go, to Spain, England, The,
netherlands germany portugal they have. Deep Infrastructure advantages real madrid
began in. Nineteen Oh two manchester united's been around since.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
The eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Belgium's league began in. Eighteen, ninety five hell we don't
have a. Beer that old that is the. Reality OF
this now. I hear this what's different from the last
time we?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Got this?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Far what happened you didn't, notice the, passion the, ratings the,
relevance the. Bars the attendants i've never seen anything Like.
THIS from america i grew Up In, the Pacific northwest timber.
SOUNDERS college programs. I like Soccer. Mom was british we
didn't care about. It like, this you know it. Was
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a hobby it wasn't. Really our vocation it was a
hobby we. Got into occasionally america is in. And loves,
it and secondarily obviously our. Skills better watch we are
a more, skilled, Nation passing.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Dribbling but this is the weakest.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
We've, ever been strangely on, The back end i've always
laughed we're. A hands country we've been great at goal
and we've. Always been athletic so the passion is now
deeply embedded. In the country you see the price, Of, these,
tickets yeah yeah, you probably did because you couldn't buy
any unless you were paying twenty five hundred bucks and
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they're all selling That. Thing in seattle you couldn't have
gotten in there if you walked up.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
With a bag.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Full of hundreds and the reality is we, are more
skilled but. It is hard Spain Has, A world cup
england hasn't won one, in sixty years and so we
put a lot of pressure on this team to solve.
All the issues let's, solve everything now. And it's incremental
it is much easier to win a, gold in hockey
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a six billion dollar, annual revenue sport. Than in soccer
we're good at what we want to, be good at.
But it's hard In Twenty two world cups we'd won.
One knockout game can we equal That In this? World
cup alone take. A deep breath as, the cliche goes
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two things. Can be, true we're better but you. Should
be discouraged it looked really ugly. In the End here.
Was alexi lawless was?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
This?
Speaker 4 (38:47):
A success look i think that this team did win.
HEARTS and minds i think that this team did bring
people into the tent and.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
They should be incredibly.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Proud for that but also there's a part of me
that says that for moral victories are is over and
so we've left something on the table here and that to.
ME is disappointing i also know it's going to be
disappointing to the Players And to mauricio pochettino when they look,
at this game because again the goals that they gave
up at times were self inflicted against. A better TEAM
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but this us team has beaten better teams.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
In the past and By the, way argentina advances we
have a shot of the. Game winning goal they trailed
two nothing in the seventy eighth minute and Largely, driven
by messi had three goals. In thirteen minutes they advanced.
To the quarterfinals they'll play The winner Of. SWITZERLAND and
COLOMBIA i Think i like columbia. In that, one you
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know Co. FAVORITES with, france i mean this tournament has
just been bonkers and there was a controversial Foul. Called
on egypt the bar system. Didn't love It This Is.
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Let's Bring in brad friedel and we. Talked about, this
you know we we should be encouraged.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
By.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Some things discouraged we have got to improve. In Certain
areas so i'm sure you saw The.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
FOUL on, egypt i mean let's just. Talk about that
what did you.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
MAKE of that.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
I think it. WAS a mistake.
Speaker 11 (40:38):
I think it WAS very very i think it was
Very very SOFT colin AND i think i think they're
GOING to have i think they're going. TO be upset
i think they'll. Be really upset but let's also not
take away, From This. Guy lionel messi we talk about him.
ALL the, time i mean being down two nil against
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seventy EIGHT minute and i don't know if you watched.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
All the, game call him but he's.
Speaker 11 (41:04):
At his age he it was A Header that, latoro
MARTINEZ missed but i mean he blew by guy. AT
his age i MEAN he get i skedat sports once,
THERE they were i was around them and They.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
WERE at, barcelona i said? WHAT'S he got i know
he's great and the skill.
Speaker 11 (41:19):
And all that what's he got and they said he
gets up to full pace and about a step and
a half.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
TO two, steps i mean it's just.
Speaker 11 (41:25):
It's remarkable this guy and, he's a leader, and he's
humble and he's.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
A driven, winner i mean it's just.
Speaker 11 (41:33):
Remarkable watching it right when you think they're out and
you think it's Going to Be.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Columbia against egypt here we Got To.
Speaker 11 (41:39):
Possibly columbia argentina just In This entire world cup, has
been brilliant.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Really really, BRILLIANT you know i was SAYING in The.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Nba eight champs in eight, years in soccer we Haven't
On a world cup repeater since it's like. Seventy plus
years it's so difficult.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
To age out.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
There's INCREDIBLE pressure and i Said, this about Polisic is
that messi is. A small player He Doesn't miss. World
cup games i'm not asking for everybody To be earling
holland And. Looked like gronkowski i'm not. Asking FOR that
but I do think brad it's a reasonable criticism to
say he had nagging injuries overseas The Last nine, world
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cup games four of them he's either missed. Or left
early that there is, a DURABILITY concern and i think that's.
A fair CRITICISM i think i would love to have
him On The next. World cup team but can we
be driven by him and? Depend on HIM why can't?
I say that why is? That overly critical.
Speaker 11 (42:34):
It's, Not being critical you're. Just stating, Fact you know christian's.
A wonderful player but there's an asterisk. When fully fit
but you know it's not a personal. Attack on, him
you Know In this world cup he played forty five minutes.
Of exhilarating soccer he was great in the First. Half
against paraguay and when you Play. Teams like BELGIUM last
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time i was on, YOUR show, Calling i said belgium
worries me a little bit because if you play a
team that has pace, on the wings And They Played
luca bakio doku was, on The bench but trosar also.
Has some pace that's Going to make, Freeman stay back
it's Going to make, robinson stay back it's Going To
isolate Christian Polistic And Sir junior desk and you're going, up,
against big fast strong guys that are as technical as
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you and we Need someone like christian, in full fitness,
in full form in full mind to be able to
compete against. Teams like, THIS and listen I Think the
united states team did some remarkable things. In this tournament
they've we've, galvanized some fans, created some fans, and you
know one of the greatest things is they're a media
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outlets now colin that are given the team grief and
debating and some of them praising them and stuff that
would never have even mentioned the word Soccer In.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
The united, states, We're growing man. We're getting there.
Speaker 11 (43:48):
Like it's, a big process AND, WE, Have Nfl Nba, MAJOR,
league baseball nhl all these things, to compete against and.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
It's just not going.
Speaker 11 (43:57):
To happen overnight, and you know When, We, Played, Belgium,
spain france england these guys. We can lose we can
beat them if all, the stars aligned but we can
also we. Can Also lose and belgium also had a
little bit more of an impetus is what happened twenty
four hours, before the game and they were. Up for
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it that's The most Intensity i've seen belgium play with in.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Over. Two, Years, YEAH wow well i mean We drew
With England, last WORLD cup so i mean it said
the reality. Is you know and, By the way netherlands
soundly beat us. And LOOK better So i Mean. Netherlands
in belgium I've said this belgium their soccer. League started
before we don't have a beer as old as. THEIR
soccer league I mean that the reality is. The infrastructures
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overseas are? You know? This it's incremental The passion. In
america check and THE other thing i said about this
IS listen and I Mentioned you tim.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Howard Thirteen Years.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
English, premier League, BRAD you brad i think it's, six
ten years three hundred and. Ten Consecutive starts casey keller
thirteen Years In top european we came into this knowing
WE had an mls, goalie the best but that was
The hand po chatino WAS dealt And i thought matt was.
A bit overwhelmed he wasn't. Quite as aggressive when you
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couple that with our age. In the back it WAS
the weakness i saw in A friendly AGAINST germany and
i saw It. Immediately, with belgium listen our. Flaw got
exposed where do you get The Next, Great brad friedel
where do you get the?
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Next?
Speaker 11 (45:33):
Great goalie well the big pressure like when you have,
the technical goods you've got to go to. The best
league so if you're a basketball player and You're playing
in europe.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
And, you're good enough you COME.
Speaker 11 (45:47):
To, the nba well if you're a goalkeeper and YOU'RE,
playing in mls you need to go over to one
Of the top european leagues because that's.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Where, you learn that that's where you learn.
Speaker 11 (45:58):
The little nuances there's a there's a really fine line
between being good and being great and.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Then being phenomenal and you can.
Speaker 11 (46:06):
Talk about all these guys work hard and, all that
stuff but none of these guys THAT play in mls
understand what it's like to get abused by a billion
people when you.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Make a mistake and.
Speaker 11 (46:19):
That's what happened when you play it when You, play
at liverpool when You Play. At manchester UNITED so if
i made A, mistake At Liverpool if tim howard made
a mistake when he Was, at man united we, heard
about it and we heard about, It at restaurants we
heard about it, at our car we heard about it.
Anywhere we walked and what happens is you get better
and you learn and you develop this skin of leather
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that can get through adversity and you learn to, do
things better and you learn to do, them more often
and you also learn how to deal with all the
mistakes and all, the negative criticism and THE guys.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
In mls they just don't.
Speaker 11 (46:53):
Have that yet it'll get there again the thirty years,
of the league and that's got to. Build as well
the fan base has. Got to build we got the
people that watch the games and, all the, comments the
criticisms the opinions that goes part and, parcel with sports
and that's what makes that's what makes. The game great
but you have to play colin at the highest of
(47:14):
level and under the highest amounts of pressure to continuously better.
Yourself in sport complacency is, the worst adjective the worst
tool that you can have as a professional athlete. In
ANY sport and mls unfortunately still at this, moment in
time breeds that that there's not a ton of pressure on.
The players there and whether you think a league somewhere else,
(47:38):
is better technically that's a. Completely different debate the pressure
is much Bigger in the european leagues And in, the brazilian, League, for.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
Instance poachettino if you, asked him privately. OBVIOUSLY he's, discouraged
i mean he'll say the right thing publicly and he.
Feels very authentic but do you think when he goes
to bed and wakes, up this, morning he THINKS what
did i?
Speaker 2 (47:59):
Get? Myself, into, no, No.
Speaker 11 (48:02):
NO no mauricio I know how mauricio. Will be thinking, mauricio
loves challenges. WITHOUT a doubt i would love to see
him stay on for four more years and continue to
change in the mentality of the players. AT the team
i have no idea if he's going to but he
knows the quality of players. That he has he knows
exactly what, level THEY'RE at and i think he would
(48:27):
if he.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
Chooses to stay that's.
Speaker 11 (48:28):
Because he thinks that he can mold this team. Into
true competitors he doesn't want to just take a job
because it's another nice little livelihood. For four years he
would continue to stay on if he thinks that there's
other players coming, in the pipeline the current players that
he bring, along with them so he. Can lift trophies
that's that's what and make. And make history that's why.
(48:51):
He would stay and by NO means do i think
he thinks WHAT what did?
Speaker 2 (48:55):
I get into i think he really. Enjoys the challenge
you saw him kick over.
Speaker 11 (49:01):
The water bottle there that was on, the second goal
because he knows at this top level football column and right,
after you score we are against the. Run of play
we get it, to one one you've got to have five,
to ten minutes even, if it's.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Ugly of just.
Speaker 11 (49:17):
Not conceding again and they conceded within sixty one seconds
and it set the Tone again that belgium was.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
In The, Ascendancy all right i'm going, to you know take.
A deep, breath i said this is.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
THAT criticism's, healthy i mean, We criticize, Quarterbacks Pro bowlers
super Bowl quarterbacks every monday on every show in the country.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
Every four years if we, stink it up you're going to.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
Get some heat you'd get twice That Much, in buenos
aires twice That. Much IN london and i do think
today in the, Pushback, TO me, brad i, KNOW you
know i would be viewed by a soccer purist as
a casual and might take is you you know what
everybody should be. Under the tent today's a day to
you know it hurts and, criticisms fair well.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
It's a big. Difference to today.
Speaker 11 (50:04):
Just in, life you know criticism is tough for, people
to handle and they always feel like when you're looking
at a technical or tactical criticism that it's a personal,
hit on you and that's not that's. Not the, case
you Know, YOU mentioned christian i mean he has been injured's.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
That's a.
Speaker 11 (50:20):
Fact you know the fact Is that LIKE western McKinney
i think is, A wonderful player weston knows himself that
he didn't really turn up yesterday and he's much better than.
What he showed that's not a personal Attack. ON on
Wes i think wes is one of the best players
to ever COME out. Of us soccer but unfortunately it
didn't it. Didn't show yesterday but that doesn't mean that
(50:40):
he's bad and it doesn't mean that he should. Take
it personal but today call him A lot And i'm
sure i'm sure you get hit with. It, allten that
yeah that people, take it personally, and you know that's
just the way that the world works at this.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
Moment in time.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Brad friedlan as good as any goalie in the history.
For this country it's been an absolute. PLEASURE to talk
i would love next time you're in. THE same city
i am to go to a SOCCER match if, I
ever go i got to get YOUR number because i
would pay to sit with You at. A, liverpool.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Game well le, seeing those guys they.
Speaker 11 (51:14):
Have my number if you're OVER, in the uk just
just hit me up.
Speaker 2 (51:18):
Then, we'll go brad thank. You so much great talking.
To you again. YOU gotta come.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
I mean just that, would be like that would be
better than ANY college class i ever went to To
Sit with brad friedel, for three Hours and then i'd
come back and taunt jmack on how little he.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
Knows about soccer, I'd, be like.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
Eh sat with friedel and talked about, the great ones.
Speaker 6 (51:39):
The, teams football oh.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Here We go here's Messi's goal for argentina that tied it.
Speaker 2 (51:45):
Up at two Two On.
Speaker 12 (51:47):
Fox leonel messi deflex you there on the way through.
Until my line something up, Here On. You tita foxley But.
SAVIOR for argentina i comeback when, they needed it engine
(52:09):
it pad the man recarded. By so many that's the
tritest of the ball from the Tips. Of despair argentina
celebrace for.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
A guy that weighs one hundred. And fifty, Pounds The,
power oh god everything. Is hit cleanly everything's. Got immense, power.
Speaker 5 (52:31):
So uh You Remember the super Bowl where the patriots
came back from being down twenty eight to Three. Against
the falcons there people online, are, Now saying hey Egypt
Is the atlanta falcons, in THIS game and messi Just
orchestrated A brady like.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Look at the way you hold ON and didn't i
just watch THIS for.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
A tv audience it's as if he. Brushed, the kick
yeah he kind of like he wanted to Put a little.
English on it he, brushed the kick and you got this.
Speaker 2 (52:59):
TOTAL line, drive i.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
Mean it's just the ability to get these little tiny
crevices and yet.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
He sees it, look at this there's, virtually nothing.
Speaker 6 (53:10):
THERE no, space i mean the guys. Just wax it
so They would.
Speaker 5 (53:14):
Play columbia next switzerland has a major injury to. Their
leading scorer he just got, hurt at practice so. He's
Out tonight columbia argentine. Is a rematch they had an
epic game. Two, Years ago listen i'll, Just say this
columbia is. Gonna fight them they're not. Gonna back down
that'll be an amazing game. Assuming it happens and Then of,
course you Know we have England. Left in france they got,
(53:37):
some great stuff Even though the world cupp rebounced
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