Jason Pine: Sportstalk host on Auckland FC losing by 10 to Bayern Munich

Auckland FC has suffered a brutal defeat to Germany's Bayern Munich.

The German side were absolutely ruthless on Monday morning in Cincinnati, with a 10-0 thumping of the amateur National League team.

Sportstalk host Jason Pine explains further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason Pine sports stalk Coasters. If they say Piney, Hello, Heather. So,
Auckland City lose ten nil to this German squad, how
embarrassed should we be? Look, no one wants to lose
ten nil. There's always looked like it was going to
be a mismatch. Someone said to me yesterday Auckland City
against bay in Munich, that'll be that'll be a big score.

(00:20):
I see, Look, yeah, they'll lose, but it might be
like a three or four nil. I didn't expect ten nil.
I don't feel like any team should lose ten nil,
but buying Munich are that would just showed ruthless efficiency
in many ways. I kind of rate the fact that they
didn't ease off. They could have easily done that. It's

(00:40):
a really, really big defeat and Auckland City now have
to turn themselves around and get ready. Remember record, this
is not Auckland FC for people who are confused, that's
Auckland City. They are amateur players. Their hairdressers and real
estate agents and forklift drivers. So you know, perhaps we
should have seen this coming. They've been very good domestically
here for a long time, but up against a team like

(01:01):
Bayern Munich gazillionaires. It was always going to be tough. Okay.
So the question is, so this has come about because
the club, this particular competition has been expanded, hasn't it
from about was it seven teams to thirty two teams?
Isn't that bang on? Yes, that's exactly right. So why
did they do that? Only one reason, Heather, and if
you know FIFA, yeah, you've got it in one. That's

(01:23):
the only reason. It's to further inflate the bank balance
at FIFA. HQ. You're right. Used to be seven teams,
Auckland City normally qualified for it. They'd go off and
play one game against one of the other lower ranked
teams and only the winner of that would go through
and Auckland City more often than not would come home.
They did progress occasionally, but now that it's a thirty
two team, you know, it's a group of four. They've
got to play ben Fica and Boker Junior's, you know,

(01:45):
two big teams from Portugal and from Argentina, so it's
a group of death for them. Look, it's a great experience,
but I'm not sure you want to be losing ten now, Okay.
I looked at him, thought. Finally, if there's a silver
lining in this is that surely we're going to get better.
But how long is that going to take? How many years? Well? Yeah,
I don't know that this is an improvement situation necessarily either.

(02:07):
I don't think that this is you know, Auckland City,
like I say, are an amateur football team who do
well domestically in New Zealand. This would be like this
would be like a club team in the UK, a
club rugby team who have jobs during the day, playing
against the All Blacks. That is what it is like
like it is an amateur team against one of the

(02:27):
best teams in the world. That is what this is.
It's a mismatch. And like I say, even as I'm
saying these words, I don't know why I didn't predict
a higher schooline when I spoke to that person yesterday.
I'll tell you what, okay, Now, not surprisingly that the
Chiefs have made it through. So the Chiefs via the Crusaders,
and where they playing this is in christ Church, where
as we know, the Crusaders have never lost a finals game.

(02:49):
Never ever has a team gone to christ Church for
a knockout game of Super Rugby and won that game.
It's an incredible record, but I don't know that matters
on Saturday night. You know, I'm not sure the chief
series of the game. They're good enough one hundred percent.
And you know what, I The one guy I keep
coming back to when I look at these two teams
and who might run out there on Saturday night is
Damien McKenzie. I keep coming back to him in the

(03:10):
way that he is able to influence the game of
rugby Rivers. Rayhannah for the Crusaders is a decent enough player,
but he ain't Damien McKenzie. I think he might have
the biggest say in this game. A couple of days
before the all Black squads names. So look, it's a
coin flip. Really, the tab can't separate the two teams.
It's going to be a heck of a game, I hope.
But yes, if anyone can do it, the Chiefs can.
Brilliant stuff. Hey Piney, thank you very much, really appreciate it.

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