Thursday Thoughts on MLS, UCL, Europe, South America, Messi Signs: SDH AM 10.23.25

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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Bass dropped a new round of Sdham John, hear you there,
Thursday thoughts. We got a lot of juice boxes to
get into today. It is a busy day overseas because
you've got Europa League and Europa Conference League. We've got
to get into what happened last night in Major League Soccer.
The wildcard round started and it gave us more questions

(00:47):
I think on some clubs than it did answers. We'll
get into that. We've got highlights and we'll go through
all the numbers and get you ready for the weekend
coming up as well. In Nico Moreno joining us at
ten thirty. We do have if you remember last week
I wrote down last Thursday, Nico's supposed there. We go
supposed one through nine and we'll see how accurate he was.

(01:10):
Let's see, he was half accurate in the East and
he was half accurate in the West, and so we'll
find out what he thinks about it. We'll preview the
opening round and get his thoughts. Coming up at the
last half hour of the show. Neino touris from Gold
TV comes in fully loaded at ten o'clock and we
will tour the planet. I imagine we're going to be
talking Leberta Doris and what happened there last night. Santi

(01:33):
Sosa was the victim of friendly fire last night at
the end of their match. But we'll go into whatever's
on Nino's mind coming up at ten o'clock. Fully loaded,
we'll go into Portugal, we'll go into Europe, going to
South America, we'll go in Too Cup, competitions, all the things.
So that's our number two. Like I said, our number one.
We got a lot of stuff to catch up on
just to get you ready for the day, and we'll

(01:55):
go over what happened in Champions League yesterday, get you
set for Europa League and Conference League today, and then
we'll get you ready with Major League Soccer and preview
all that stuff. So it's up. That's the morning for us. Morning, Alex.
It's good to have you here as always, good to
have all of you here as always. So here's the
rundown today. That's the rundown for today tomorrow. We're stacked

(02:17):
because obviously we've got to get into a lot of
the stuff on the weekend in Major League Soccer. So
Lucas Panzeka is going to join us from a one
O four or five to the zone in Nashville. He's
going to bat lead off for us tomorrow. We'll see
if we can catch up with our friends at Beyond
Goals Menoring at nine point thirty, and well, we are
still waiting to find out who our guest is going

(02:37):
to be in the ten o'clock segment from Major League
Soccer and Will Pologic, play by play voice for Charlotte FC,
is going to join us at ten thirty to talk
about his series and the absence of one gentleman in
particular because his engine runs a little hot. And so
we'll find out about what's on Willie Pea's mind. We'll
catch up with Lucas, we'll find out what's going on
Major League Soccer wise, and we'll see if we can

(02:59):
catch up with our friends at being on Goals Menering.
Keep an eye out on the weekend for the Roots
powered by our friends at No Faux Brewing, and we
go to Prague, Czechoslovakia or Chechi. So we go to
a Prague Chech you and find out what's going on
with the progue Raptors as we get to add that
story coming up in a bit. And we're also once

(03:19):
again efforting our friends from Yalbe in Sweden after they've
won the title and the Alceinskin. They won the title,
and you know then they've got i think one more
match left and that's this weekend. They got one more
home match left this weekend, and so we're gonna we
are efforting trying to catch up with our friends from Yalba.
They know that we're coming in the door and we've
already knocked and they've answered, and so we just have

(03:40):
to figure out the win and when we can tape that,
and that'll be in the Roots as well, catching up
with our friends and Sweden as they've won the als
fenscuin let me see if I've missed any other interview
opportunities de dead deda The answer is no. Okay, So
that is tomorrow. That is Roots. When you have a
Red Clay soccer report, We're gonna tour state and gets
you ready for all the stuff that's going on in

(04:02):
like the seven different conferences that have soccer attached to
it on the collegiate ranks. So busy weekend on a
bunch of fronts, college pro, busy week for US domestic international,
all the things. So that is the Rundown for the
next couple days and Abby coming in this morning. Morning Abby,

(04:23):
by the way, and yes we will be getting into this,
Abby says for those of you who are watching on
the video side of things, So glad that ofyo lost
nothing like a loss from Orlando. Yes, of course, so
that is like you said, we'll get into that. We'll
get into the numbers. We've got the two wildcard games
to get into. We've got some highlights there as well,

(04:45):
and so we'll get you ready for all of that
coming up in a little bit. So opening Kickoff brought
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of there and we go to opening Kickoff, which was yesterday,

(05:49):
and I think probably what we'll do here because like
I said, we can go to a bunch of different directions.
But I think what we'll do here is we'll talk
about what happened in Champions League BECA because there's a
new marker, there's a new there's a new record, the
new the new track record from our friend Tom Carnegie
that used to be at Indianapolis Motor speed Butt, you know,

(06:11):
tail Fobby, a new track record, you know, one of
those kind of things like the Indy five hundred. The
dude goes around the circuit and you'd always have Tom
Carnegie sets there anything a new track record, tail Fobby.
So new record goals in a match day seventy one
and that's a that's a there's a lot of goals
and uh so you had a massive amount of offense.

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And I don't know if this speaks to the good
teams being that good, the matchups being that off the wall,
or just in general, where it was luck of the
draw and you had that that collision of things happening yesterday.
So yesterday in the league phase they call it the
league phase. It's no longer group stage, it's league phase

(06:56):
where since it's open competition and everything. So yesterday get
this galatasar I beak Bodo Glint three to one bill
Bao after being down in the first couple of minutes
to Carabag, ends up coming back to win that one
three to one. Sporting over Marsea two to one. They
were down one nil in that one too, Ray Oliver.
You've a one nil to minus two thirty eight Spurs

(07:17):
and Monaco goalless draw and from all reports the fans
of uh Spurs were less than pleased. Spurs got boot
off the pitch in Monaco and a goalless draw. Then
Liverpool put five on nine track Frankfurt. They were easily
favored at minus one seventy nine. Chelsea did the same thing,

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but they were at home to IACS at of minus
three twelve Chelsea. By the way, this might even be
a sub opening kickoff to the opening kickoff. I don't
know if we've ever had like an opening kickoff inside
opening kickoff, but yesterday, and I've got to find the
story because I want to get the number right. But
I think I saw that there were thirty three Academy

(08:02):
players that were registered for that matchup against IACS. I
didn't even know that you could do that, just to
that extent, I mean thirty three players, thirty three Academy
players that were registered the entire you know, for this
matchup against IACS. I mean, yes, you were a massive favorite.

(08:23):
That that goes without saying, but just the idea that
you could register almost three dozen, that you could register
almost three dozen players that were Academy players attached into
this matchup, and it was just it was crazy. When
that number came across the board, You're like, yeah, we're
registering thirty three Academy players and you're like, well, okay then,

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and so you know, it was it was an easy
day for an easy day for Chelsea as they made
their way through. So then you had the other matchup
where it was Byron Munich put fourign Club Bruges and
Atalanta and Slavia Prague. Goal is straw. That was the
end of league phase and so seventy one goals in

(09:08):
a match day and it was just big numbers across
the board. And then uh, most Slaw apparently since he
was benched, decided to remove all references to Liverpool off
of his social media. Take that for what it is.
Obviously someone is angry. And now Arnes Slott has to
figure out what his best lineup is and you know

(09:30):
it wasn't. It wasn't when mosalav Mosala got benched, and
so Mossalaw is not happy. And so that to me
means one thing, and that means that I've got to
change my fantasy lineup and shift my focus to erling
Holland as opposed to most Sala, because they're in the
fantasy league that I'm in. You've got like two players
that are massively expensive and then everybody else most Ala

(09:51):
in the midfield. Aerling Holland is a forward, and so
I went Sala thinking it was going to be a
little tougher for Manchester City to start things off this season.
I was wrong. So Erlyn Holland already got like eighty
points in fantasy after a handful of matches, and Salad
does not. So I'm gonna have to try and figure
out a way that I can do two transactions and

(10:12):
trade out Salah for Holland going forward. But yeah, most
Salla is not happy, and so now you've got to
figure out benching most Slaw, Estock pulled at halftime, Cody
gakpo E kat K and Florian Verts were there, and
you're trying to figure out, now what your best lineup
is going forward. Gravin Bear, Alexis Soba Sly, Curtis Jones,

(10:33):
frim Pong injured, So you got to keep an eye
out for that. What does it mean for Essock going forward?
So you had seventy one goals in a match day
and you had a very very busy day if you
took totals when it came to Champions League, and then
you go back two days ago once again, remember Arsenal
big Win, PSG put up seven, Dortmound put up for

(10:54):
Newcastle put up three, PSV put up six, Inter put
up four, Manchester City put up two. How pedestrian of
them and then Barcia put up six on Olympiacos and
then you had the draw for the seventeen hour plane
ride from Pafos from Cyprus to Kazakhstan to play on
Kiro helmet Tea. But seventy one goals on a match day.

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That is insane when you think about the numbers, and
so you're looking at three six nine, three six eighteen
matches seventy one goals, So that's just under four goals
on average a match. So if there was a goal,
if there was a match that didn't have any, then
that means you had like seven and a half or
eight in the others and it's not too far from
being off. So it was just absolutely nuts, absolutely nuts.

(11:39):
So you have you had that going on in Champions
League yesterday. So that was just the craziness of Champions
League and all the offense in general. That's opening Kickoff
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Soccer last night it was the Wildcard Round and it
was a couple of games involving teams that faded into

(12:23):
the nine. I was looking at you, Orlando and your
your trek to Bridgeview to take on Chicago. So they
couldn't even use Soldier Field because of this thing called
the National Football League. So they go to Bridgeview and
from all indications, it looked like it was a packed house.
I don't know what the attendance figures were in the
matchup itself, so I will be intrigued as to how

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many folks were there. I mean, it looked like it
was full, except like in the end zone on the
on the one camera shot where you look and you
turn thirteen thousand and seven eighty three, so they kind
of looked like they pushed everybody into that one section
behind the goal. I don't know what the camera with
the cameras had underneath them, but the registered attendants last
night in Bridgeview thirteen seven eighty three. I mean, you're

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an hour outside of Chicago. I get it. You have
to be a diehard to want to go down and
see an eight nine matchup in Bridgeview, southwest of the
city of Chicago downtown in the midweek. But thirteen thousand
and seven eighty three, they were pretty loud and it
ended up as a dominant win by Chicago. And I
think that what it does is it gives us more

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questions involving the Purple team. I think it does, And
so obviously we'll get into that here as we go
and we talk about it. But this was the goal.
And I'll say this, the first half, I swear to God,
I was having problems keeping interest in the match because Orlando,

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and this is something that's Orlando, and this is something
that we've talked about over the last handfully with Orlando,
sorry Orlando, where they kind of hit a number and
they fade into the postseason. Well, like I said, we'll
talk about a little bit more in depth with this
with Nico when he comes in in the last half hour.
But Orlando, Orlando goes in with the slow fade, they

(14:19):
hit that number and then they just all the air
goes out of the balloon and you tires and you're
sitting there and you're going down the road. And it
happened again this season. Let's get into your highlights and
your stats, or your highlight and your stats. Well once again,
first half was just dreadful goal US at the break

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and then Chicago after the halftime talk, they come out,
they take care of business. It starts here, Callum and
Laurie lindsay in the call courtesy of Apple TV and
Major League Soccer Savingtations will play its cons in this one.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Can go.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
It's a wait some seat down the line, angle full
plate and it fills with Kotiers in front of section
h ok eight years in the Viking for Chicago firms.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
But how smooth is this first touch middle of your
screen just stays out of it, and then just the
calmness from Zinkernagle to find the wide areas allowed for
that first time ball to come across, and then Kutiers
just finding that little bit of space. No one tracks them.
But that first touch is this magnificent, takes it down,
cushions it, and then the second touch in the back
of the net to put Chicago fire at home up

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one zero.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
And of course it comes from the boy from down
the lay, Bryan Kuccierres.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Fran Gudierrez gets the first goal on the board forty
eighth minute, and then then Oscar Pereja decides to go
to his bench, bringing in Tyree Spicer. Spicer would score
the lone goal for Orlando. Later, you goo Kuiper's would
score two goals in nine minutes, one of them. You
got to give Kuiper's full credit for sticking with the

(16:10):
play in and of itself and making sure that Pedro
Gallesse had to think about where he was trying to
distribute the ball. He goes with a decision off to
his left, Kuiper basically just blocks the pass as it's
inside the six and slam dunks it into the net.
So three nil at that point and you end up
with a three to one final, Spicer scoring in the
eighty ninth minute. Looking at the numbers in this one,

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it wasn't that close. Really was not that close at
all in this one possession fifty three to forty seven
yet whatever, okay, fine, More like fifty two to forty eight,
twenty five shots, twenty five, twenty five shots, for Chicago
in this one, compared to seven for Orlando. Orlando. Orlando

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literally Orlando was trying to Lullis to sleep and it
almost worked for me. And I think what they were
attempting to do offensively was try to force turnovers short field,
be clinical and finish, but that wasn't even working. It
was it was just it was a painful watch in

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the first forty five. I'm not gonna lie so you
didn't miss anything in the first forty five. All the
goals happening in the second half shots on target ninety four,
six blocks, by the way for Chicago on the evening,
and it was a six corners three each side, thirteen
total crosses, nine for the Purple team, three off side,

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two of them for Chicago x G. If you're into
this kind of stuff, three point five to point three,
three point five to point three all Chicago. Nine saves
of the night, six of them to uh Pedro Gallesse,
seventeen clears nine to Orlando. Twenty two fouls were called
in the match, eleven each side, four yellows so and honestly,

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there were times in the second half where I was
wondering why Rodrigo Schlegel did not pick up a second yellow.
There was some chippy stuff going on from the back
line for the Purple team, and Schlegel continued and I
don't know why he didn't get a second one for
descent after one of those moments, But I know you
don't want to make a playoff game down to ten

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or what have you. But h eleven fouls called on
the Purple team, three yellows, one yellow on eleven fouls
for Chicago. On the day passing break down, we mentioned
the shooting breakdown nine shots on target to four in
a twenty five to seven shooting gallery for Pedro Glesse,
five off target for Chicago, two off target for the

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Purple team. Open play passing percentage eighty five percent to
eighty four. Set piece crosses two out of five on
average for Chicago. Open play crosses one out of four
for Chicago. You look at the control by interval, and
what Major League Soccer will do is sit there and go,
uh control by interval, you know, possession and what have you,
and they'll go by minute chunks. And it literally was

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two four, six, eight nine. It was just slightly more
than half of the control was by Chicago. In the match.
But when they needed to score, they certainly did that.
Three point five to point three, twenty five shots to seven,
nine shots on target to four, nine shots on target
to four. And now once again you're raising the question

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about Oscar Pereja, and I mean this, you know, knowing
that Oscar is a very very good coach, I legitimately
thought over the last couple of seasons that they had
skipped that notion of you know, Okay, we're gonna be
more even keeled and we're gonna sit there and we're
gonna we're gonna have an even distribution of our energy

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throughout the season. The last couple of years, you saw
that going into the playoffs. This past year, they reverted
to form and you end up with all the air
goes out of the balloon. Ohjeita a seven to zero
Gallesse seven to five, with all the numbers that he
had to put up last night. Obviously he was the
player of the match for the Purple team. But you

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had a bunch of sixes across the board, starting lineup
for Orlando Breccelo Johnson who was back in the lineup.
Remember we talked to Mike Gramajo and that was one
of the questions is what's the backline going to look like? Breccolo, Johnson,
Schlegel and Freeman and Gulo Arujo a twista and Passily
a twista. He's another one who got a yellow card.
And there were a couple of other rough challenges that

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were there. Rohita and McGuire with the other two up
top and starting lineup for Chicago. Chris Brady was in
net Gutman, Elliott Waterman Joel Waterman, who has survived being
yelled at by Joey Supputo, got a new leash on
life in Chicago. Johnny Dean, the Little Ball I Hate
from Wafford got a seven point eight. Gudiera is an

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eight point seven, Davila a six y nine or a
hell of six nine. Zinkernagle on the Night a nine
highest rated player four the Chicago on Night, Hugo Kuiper's
an eight point five, Jonathan bomba seven three. Just to
give you an idea, Zinkernagle played the full ninety and
he had his own XG of a quarter point three

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total shots one on target, one hit the woodwork, and
two shots were blocked for Zinkernagle on the Night, thirty
nine of forty eight passing, two crosses on the night,
seven key passes for Philip Zinkernagle, two big chances created
one assist in the the x A at a point
twenty nine, So basically his x A plus his x
G was a point five to four thirty two of

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forty six thirty two of forty six passing in the
Orlando Orlando half, nine of ten in his own half.
One had one long ball completed as well on the
dribble four unsuccessful touches, but he was four or five
on the dribble three times he was fouled as well.
Phillips incernagle a nine point zero on the night for

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Chicago as they advance, and they're gonna take on Philly
in the next round, and so we know what the
start time is for that, and we'll get into that
after we talk about the late match. And the late
match last night was RSL and Portland. This one was
far more exciting. So of course, you know you're sitting
there and you're thinking, you know, how do I after

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that first match? That first forty five almost put me
to sleep. I guess it kind of saved your energy
for the second forty five, and so Portland, they go
and at home take care of RSL. RSL didn't seem
to have a whole lot of a whole lot of
energy attached to themselves and Portland. You don't know really
with Portland. You don't know which Portland you're gonna get

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on a daily basis, You really don't. And RSL just
seemed kind of hamstrung for most of the evening. Felipe
More had two goals on the board. It was two
nail at two nail going into the thirty ninth minute,
justin glad scores to make it to one, that your
score at the break, that your score. As there were
a couple of moments where you're sitting there and you're wondering,
is RSO gonna get that equalizer? Are they gonna get

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the equalizer? Are they gonna get the equalizer? There was
a moment in the second half where Willia Gotta on
a bicycle kick hit the crossbar and you're kind of thinking,
maybe if that doesn't go in, then it's probably going
to be or it's gonna be Portland's night. And as
they're chasing after that goal and chasing after that goal,

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meaning RSL Portland gets this moment late from Kamal Miller
once again, Tony Husband, Ross Smith on the call. Thanks
to our friends at Apple TV and Major League Soccer.
How's a gono with a head to it jumps for Salmon?

Speaker 5 (23:43):
Loss it an owl chips in by post on March
an in from Kamel Mana.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
It's not the goal that ends him through. Credit to the.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
Timbers because they fight for that second opportunity. Watch Siermon
and Cruise Shuler shoulder, Cruise wants a foul. He's gotta
be stronger than that, and that allows the ball from
Losita into Miller has he crept into an all side position.

Speaker 7 (24:17):
As Clad is the deepest man.

Speaker 6 (24:22):
Along that RSL doc lying, well, that will be tight,
but it's Thunder's from Miller out of the box.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Stick Tony Husband, Ross Smith on a MLS season pass
and Apple TV. And yeah it was three one. If
you look at the play, particularly with Kamal Miller off
of the corner. Miller is at the near post and
he loses the joust with I think it was justin

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glad as a matter of fact, and so the ball
goes outside the eighteen and it gets recycled. Miller kind
of linger there at the far post. He didn't really
move a whole lot. He might have moved like five
or six feet, and he put himself in a position
where he kind of got lost in traffic. Everybody was
kind of focused on the ball and the possible entry,

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and Miller was right there at the far post on
the recycle, and Justin Glad was maybe you know, two
or three yards away from him, and so Miller, who
was slightly onside. They but there was the one shot
from the slash. You sit there and you look at
Miller and you're like, okay, initial thought, is he offside?
Is he not? No, he was on side, you know,
good half a body length. And so he slams it

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home and it's three to one, your final. So Portland
moves on, and the UH in Chicago moves on into
the round of eight coming up this weekend. And so
the schedule when it comes to the matches in and
of themselves once again tomorrow, it's MESSI and Friends in Nashville.

(25:55):
That's at eight o'clock. And in the South, you're going
up against you're going up against high school football, but okay,
and some college football as well. But eight twelve, I'm
gonna go ahead and say eight twelve Eastern because I
think there's been another two minutes of pregame added for
the postseason, so eight twelve and or actually no, this

(26:17):
would be no. This is on f S one and Fox,
so it's probably eight twenty or eight twenty five. So
f S one, Fox deport this is Apple Season Pass.
That's the the FS one game, so it's probably eight
twenty eight twenty five ish instead, So Messy and Friends
in Nashville that's tomorrow. Then on Sunday, because you want,
once again, you don't want to mess with college football

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on Saturday, and so you get most of the matches,
you get most of the games out of the way
for pro on Sunday. Philadelphia Chicago, that one is listed
five thirty, but it's on FS one, Fox Toporto, So
that means probably ten to six or five to six
Eastern time at subar Ru Park. Then the others you
get your twelve minutes added. Vancouver and Dallas at seven

(26:59):
forty two Eastern time, with Vancouver hosting a BC place,
they're opening the upper deck, and then San Diego and
Portland you're one eight. That's gonna be at nine forty
two at the Murf Dragon and that'll be on MLS
Season passing Apple TV. So that's on Sunday, nothing Saturday.
The Marquee matchup on FS one Fox deport This Apple.

(27:20):
That's on Friday night at eight twenty twenty twenty five
ish somewhere in there on Friday night. So that's that's
the rundown getting us into the weekend and the four
matches that are there, because then you have on Monday,
you have the one matchup at six forty five, which

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at six forty five is that is at a true
six forty five because it's FS one and Fox to
port this or are they carrying it over to six
fifty six fifty five or six forty five airtime and
you go another twenty minutes. I'm thoroughly confused. So that
makes it like seven oh five ish if it's at
nine o'clock six forty five nextally be the true time.
Minnesota Seattle's the late game and that's gonna be at

(28:04):
like nine to twenty maybe if it's FS one Fox
toport this there too. So you've got two FS one
double headers, now two matches FS one double header. Monday,
you've hit the one match on Tuesday. You've hit the
one match on Wednesday, and then everybody picks up with
their match day twos on November first, where it is
five matches on Saturday, November first, two of them simultaneously

(28:25):
out West. But you navigate the week one on Wednesday,
one on Tuesday, two on Monday, three on Sunday, nothing
Saturday in the one Tomorrow night where it is at
the Erector Set in South Florida. So now that's your
rundown of everything in a Major League soccer. And now

(28:47):
with all of that done, we got to get you
into today. And like I said, coming up ten o'clock,
Nino Torres, Goal TV fully loaded. We're gonna tour South America.
We're gonna tour we're gonna tour Europe as well. We'll
get you there the European stuff in the South America.
We'll get that with Nino, and then we'll go over
MLS in depth with Nico Moreno coming up last half
hour of the show. So let's get you prepared for today.

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And traditionally, the Thursday activity is Europa and Europa Conference League,
which means you've got like nine gazillion games going on
and it's not you know, I'm not I don't think
I'm far from the truth here. So Europa League, you've
got eighteen matches going on, all all of them today.

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I'm not kidding. You're in the league phase in Europa League.
So let's see if we can go through these in
a decent amount of time. So we're not like talking
about this and conference League going all the way into
like ten twenty eastern. So here we go. Let me
give you just favorites here. Half of them are at
twelve forty five. This is Europa League. Braga minus one

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aweight hosting Red Star bron plus one h six hosting Rangers.
Rangers is a mess. We know this, Danny Rohll. I
think this is his first match as new manager. His
hair will probably remain tall and perfect. Bolognia minus one
sixty one at fcsby then, but they, by the way,
are a plus four sixty three. Fenerbach slight favorite at
home plus one forty seven on a hosting Stuttgart aston

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Villa minus two sixty three on the road at GA Eagles.
Then it is gink an underdog at home to rail
Bettis at a plus one eighteen. Genka plus two eleven,
Leon big favorite minus one eighty nine. Hosting Basel Salzburg
slight favorite at home at a plus one twenty, Hosting
ferns VARs three o'clock it is Roma minus three oh three,

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Hosting Victoria pills In at a plus seven sixty one,
Celta Devigo minus one thirty five, hosting Knees Celtic minus
two seventeen, hosting Storm Graz fian Oord minus one ninety six,
hosting Panathonikos Freiburg minus two oh four, hosting U trekt
Leo minus one eighty five, hosting Pouke Maccabee tel Aviv
and at Mitchelan mitch Land is favored on the road

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at a plus one twenty four, and the and Macabe
tel Aviv is playing their home matches at a different
stadium TSC Arena. By the way, Malmo Dog at home
to Dinamo Zagreb but a plus one thirty seven. Nottingham
Forest slight favorite at home. Welcome on, Welcome nut Onge.

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Who's the new coach at Forest? I'm blanking out here
all of a sudden, Oh sean dish sean diys should
plus one sixty three. That changed while I was trying
to figure out Shan Dish's name. Favorite at home against Porto,
I'm going against that. I'm going draw to plus two eighteen.
And then Young Boys minus one twenty at home hosting
Ludigarettes at a plus three twenty one. So that's the

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eighteen matches in Europa League. So now in Conference league
once again, you've got how many you got three six,
so you've got ten at twelve forty five eight at
three o'clock. So let's see if I get through these
just as quickly. Ak Athens favored a big favorite against
Aberdeen and minus three forty five ozited Alkmar minus three

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thirty three hosting slov On Brady Slava Bredeblic at a
plus one ten hosting KuPS. Different stadium is hosting that match.
Ammonia Ammonia Nicosia out of Cyprus favored on the road
at Drita. It is a hacking a dog at home
to Rye Vakana at a minus one nineteen Fiorentina plus

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one fourteen at sk ropet VNN Sparta Prague plus one
sixteen at Rieka shaq Tardnetsk is playing in a different stadium.
Obviously stadium Mijeski in Poland, Henridko Raimana hosting Leasia Warsaw.
Interesting subplot there home match in a stadium in Poland
going up against Lasia Warsaw the Natska minus one twenty two.

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Schchrenia is a minus one oh one hosting Shelbourne at
a plus two seventy four at the National Arena toshe
Presky Strasbourg a minus two thirty three hosting yug Yelonia
Bielostock Crystal Palace, big favorite of minus five to fifty
six against ae K Larnica Cyprus once again plus fourteen
fifteen Lasan a minus one fifty two at ham Run

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Lapos non a minus four to seventeen at Lincoln Red
Imps And I think they get to play in the
stadium at Gibraltar, which is really really cool. Mines minus
five hundred hosting Zirinsky Samsung Spoor even money hosting dinum
O Kiev, Shamrock rovers a dog hosting Selgia at a
plus one zero eight sigma olamuk a dog against rockoches
to Covid a plus one forty three and University Crayova

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minus one fourteen hosting Noah so that wasn't too bad,
all right. So basically, you've got nineteen matches at twelve
forty five, you've got seventeen matches at three o'clock, thirty
six matches Europa League, Conference League. Catch your breath and
make sure that you enjoy all of that stuff, because
that's going to be a very very very very busy
day for those of you that want to be in

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your homes and you're just kind of like Chi, I
would probably just go to Golosso. Basically, just go to
what Nico Contour is going to be doing on Golosso network,
because there's no way to keep up with nineteen at
twelve forty five and seventeen at three o'clock. That's your numbers.
Just watch Golosso. They'll do it. They'll they'll, they'll take
care of it. They will take care of it. Thursday,

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once again being being Espanol suit Americans at six, WHENI
versa dud de Chile and Lenouse, guess what we're going
to be talking to Nino about l Juquito and Paul
Marris and the Labertador Semis and that one's a thirty
being an Espaniol Simulcaste. You can get that at Finantis
FNTZ dot co slash Soccer down here. Last night in Rossing.

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In Rossing's match, Santi Sosa and the pictures out there
ruled out for the second leg against Paul Maris after
getting a facial fracture in a late collision with Marcus
Rojo and Glosso Argentino, a huge blow for Rossing, aside
from the goals of Madavia Martinez, Lacademia's most important play.

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There's a picture of Santi Sosa from last night after contact,
and they're trying to make sure that you know that
he is going to how do we phrase this, that
he is gonna hang with us, because you look at
you look at Santi Sosa and if you were to

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ask him what his name is, he would tell you Purple.
You look at that picture, you know, gloss of Argentina
has it on on Twitter. Santy looked like after the
contact with Marcus ro he got knocked into next week
and so facial fracture and he looked and Jason had
mentioned it in our in our production chat last night

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that after the collision, Santi got absolutely wrecked. And the
answer is yes, he did so. We obviously you wish
the best for Santi Sosa, but that was a nasty
collision with Marcus Rojo and the still from the photographer
on the pitch pitch side at the match for Rossing
last night got the money shot. It's uncomfortable. It is
an uncomfortable shot staring at staring at Santi Sosa after

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he collides with Marcus Rojo. But a facial fracture is
now what has been diagnosed for Santi Sosa and he
is out for leg number two now. Like I said,
obviously we'll catch up with Nino Torres and find out
more about that coming up in a bit. Fox Deportees
has the league that we neither can do, endorse nor promote.
Two o'clock pair themount plus you can pick your match
once again. All thirty six of them are available. Nineteen

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at twelve, forty five, seventeen at three o'clock. Just watch
colosso you'll be fine. International Friendly for the US is tonight,
USA and Portugales at seven o'clock. It's on T and T, HBO,
Max and Peacock. That is the biggest item on the
board on the women's side tonight. Looking at college pretty

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like night. On the men's side, everything's out West, Big West,
and Whack Women's Action. It's a very very busy day.
On the women's side of things, Florida State and Virginia's
at six o'clock on ACC Network. Into that. You've got
a couple of matchups in the MAC and you've got
some of the Missouri Valley. Also, you've got more maction.
You've got the American, you have the A ten, You've

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got more in the ACC. ACC Extra is going to
be very very busy. Iowa State and West Virginia on
the women's side is at seven o'clock. You've got more
in the sun Belt. You've got more in the Missouri Valley.
You've got more in the A ten. You've got more
in the ACC. Carrying you into the eight o'clock hours,

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Southland is there, Ohio Valley is there? Big twelve is
the UAC is there? Southland is there? Division two is there?
Back to the American at eight o'clock on ESPN Plus.
Big West is available at nine o'clock. Big twelve is
available at nine o'clock. More Big West, More Big Twelve,

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More stuff out West once again through nine to ten o'clock.
Cur late starts, so it's on the women's side. It
starts at three, goes all the way to ten o'clock
kicks and it's from one end of the country to
the other, just the two matches out west. On the
men's side, that's at nine o'clock and ten o'clock. So
ESPN Plus, ACC Network, ACC Extra, and I'm trying to
see if there's anything on the mothership of ESPN or

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if it's just on the plus ACC networks. Back into
the double header is Notre Dame in Virginia Tech that
is at eight and so doubleheader ACC Network, a lot
on ACC Extra, and then there's a lot on ESPN Plus.
Now we mentioned the women's friendly that is going on
once again Subaru Park. Alex Morgan is going to be

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honored in advance of the friendly against Portugal, and obviously
that'll be a big night for Alex Morgan. And it
was two World Cup titles, NWSL Championships, gold medal, and
you had her time with the USWNT, proven goal scorer
at cal twenty eight U twenty Women's World Cup one
in the final and began her run in the USWNT

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in front of twenty five hundred folks at PPL Park
August sixth to twenty ten, one one drawl at China.
So everything comes full circle for Alex Morgan tonight in
that matchup with the US and Portugal, and you had
in that lineup Wambach, Lily Rampone, Shannon Box, Morgan Rapino,
Lauren Cheney, Amy Rodriguez, and so you had that crossover,

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and so it's a full circle moment for Alex Morgan
tonight if you are in front of your television and
you can watch there as well. A couple of retirements
in USL Championship. Rodrigo Lopez is retiring after a twenty
one year pro career at the end of this season
with Szach Republic and Leo Fernandez thirteen years in the
US Sorry in the USL Championship, he's retiring after this

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season with his time with Tampa Bay Rowdy. So very
very cool stuff there. Let's see Underwomen USA cruise to
a knockout Stage five two win over China and catching
us up there. It was two goals from Lauren Malsom.
We are efforting Lauren Malsom, by the way. We thought
we wanted to do this before the season before the
tournament started, but she was already over over in Morocco,

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so we're having to track her down and we are
still in the process of doing so. Two goals from
Lauren Malcolm, Florida state midfielder Yanya Toure, and one from
Maddie de Maria, Gatorade National Girls soccer player the year
as a sophomore at Missouri's CORJESU Academy, and so five
to two on the board, and the US continues to
roll in the tournament in Portugal. In the U seventeens

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Women's World Cup, Let's see, I'm trying to look at
see if there's anything else that I've missed. Oh, I
don't know if we covered this or not. Fox is
going to be airing sixty nine World Cup matches in
the tournament next year, so it was more than doubling
the number of matches they showed on linear television back
in twenty twenty two. The remaining thirty five games are

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going to be on FS one, streaming live on both
of their apps. Three hundred and forty hours of first
run programming around the tournament expanded to forty eight teams,
US and Canada Mexico hosting June eleven through June nineteen,
draw December fifth, and we're going wall to wall for that.
But it looks like Fox is going to be going,
you know, all over the place when it comes to

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airing the tournament in twenty twenty six, sixth World Cup
for Big Fox men in twenty eighteen, and in twenty
two Women's tournaments fifteen, nineteen and twenty three. So last year.
This is the last year the Fox deal with FIFA.
This is also something to keep in mind. No announcement
has been made about American media rights for the tournament
twenty thirty in Spain, Portugal and Morocco, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay

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hosting one game in the tournament as well. Since it's
the centennial, Netflix has secured the rights to the next
two FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments twenty seven and thirty
one Brazil in twenty seven US and thirty one Mexico,
Costa Rica Jamaica will be having matches there as well.
Expected to be approved once again in Vancouver in April

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of twenty six, and so you wonder if Netflix would
partner with an over the air broadcaster for that one
don't really know. But right now you gotta wonder what
Big Fox is gonna do with the with the tournament.
Are they gonna are they gonna continue to bid, bid

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and bid, or are they gonna pull back? And is
it going to be is it going to be something
for Netflix and another one of those providers that is
one of those folks that you got to pay for
it and then you might have to pay something else
on top of it. So we'll see what happens there.
But that is the that is the official rundown of

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what Fox is going to be doing. They're gonna be
blowing up their coverage showing a lot of games over
the air TV, the others on FS one, but a
lot of their activity over the air coming up in
twenty and twenty twenty six for the tournament. So looking
forward to seeing how that continues to grow and involved
as well. Let me say hid everybody morning, Alex, morning Abby, Michael,

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If I remember, let me hydrate here for a second.
Hang on, Michael says, if I remember correctly that Landy
and I played the first of three game series last
year on one day rest. Why do Chicago and Portland
get three days rest? Because the TV. If so let's

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see a three game series. Let me go back to
the twenty four schedule. Let me let me go back
to the twenty four. But the twenty four was last year, John,
twenty twenty four MLS playoff schedule. Let me see. But
I mean, the bottom line is, Michael, it's television. If
the if the folks that are the networks that are

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in charge, if they are the ones that want to
see it, then they're gonna be the ones to figure
out when when it's gonna be done. So let's see.
So wild card, you had Atlanta beating c F Montreal.
Then you go to the matchup in round one involving

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see now we need okay, so here we go. So
they played on the twenty second, then they go to
twenty fifth. So it was two days rest. You were,
you were, you were, you were right there, So two
days rest for game number one when it came to
Messi and Friends in Atlanta United. So you play in

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Montreal on the twenty second, you come home the twenty third,
you fly down the twenty fourth, you're playing on the
twenty fifth. But the bottom line is television. If the
TV partner wants to run something and they have their
window they're gonna and the fact that it was going

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up against Messi and Friends. That's the other part of this.
It's that you want that marquee matchup, you want that
team that's attached to it, and so wherever you can
slide them in and to have them as your priority
viewing doesn't matter really what the I mean the opponent
had to go through the wildcard round. You kind of
knew what you were getting into. But it was two

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days rest and really most of it was traveled because
I think if I remember correctly, Mike and Jason and
the team flew back after the match. They got in
very early in the morning of the twenty third, maybe
some region, maybe some you know, work in the weight
room or what have you, like practice, maybe you kick
about in the afternoon, and then you're hopping on a
flight the twenty fourth to go down to Fort Lauderdale

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for the matchup. But if the TV partner legitimately wants
Messy and Friends on the tube, then they're gonna get
Messi and Friends on the tube, and whoever the opponent
is is just going to kind of have to sit
there and go, well, that's what we signed.

Speaker 8 (46:01):
Up for.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
And you know, so, I mean it's you're looking for ratings,
you're looking for ratings, you're looking at matchups, and so
it was two days rest, most of it was on
a plane, and you end up going down to Fort
Lauderdale and losing two to one after being tied at
one and then Geordi Albo scored with thirty minutes to go.

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But yeah, two days rest technically, and most of that
was on plane. So but yeah, it's all up to
the TV partners and trying to determine their matchups. Because
in the Eastern Conference, the matchup on the twenty fifth
was the only matchup that night, because then you had
LA and Colorado on the twenty sixth, you had LAFC

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and Vancouver on the twenty seventh, you had Orlando and
or Sorry, Orlando and Charlotte on the twenty seventh, You
had Cincinnati and NYCFC on the twenty eight and then
you had Crew and Red Bulls on the twenty ninth.
So that's kind of where you are. It's like you're
filling out a grid and you want Messi and Friends

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as your primary as much as humanly possible, we want
to start things off October twenty fifth at eight thirty
Eastern time, and you're you're coming around from one end
to the other. That's your primary and you plug them
into the slot. It's what the TV partner wants. That's
what the TV partner gets. That's why they pay all

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that money in the first place. But so that was
where it was. That's why it was. It was because
literally two days rest, most of it on a plane
and then playing three calendar days later twenty second to
the twenty fifth. That it's because of the TV partner. Yeah, Alex,
let mean Alex says, it looked like it was cold
last night. Yes, space heaters in the end now, yeah,
section eight they were having fun. And Alex, you are correct.

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It should have been eight too. It should have been
eight too. It was that bad. And to the point,
like I said, to the point Morning Doctor D that
you're like, okay, you're going man, it's just you win
one of your last eight if you're Orlando, Orlando, if

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you're one of your last eight, you fade into the
playoffs and you get bounced. It was three to one.
It should have been worse. It really should have been worse.
I wonder what the conversations are going to be, like,
is this going to be a conversation they have in
Central Florida about the future of Oscar Pereja. We all

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know he is a good coach, that is, that is
not that is without that is, without fear or parallel.
He's a good coach in Major League Soccer. But is
losing one of eight and being taken out to the
wood shed in the eight nine game? Is that enough
to try and figure out how to retool things in

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Central Florida. That's the question I have. And I'm fairly
certain that we probably would have had the same discussion
in Portland if Portland had lost last night. But Portland
took care business and they advanced the eights advance at home.
But now the slow fade that you had with the
with the Purple team, I got questions, And I don't

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know if I'm the only one or not. Uh Will,
and then Andrew Gutman got a yellow last night. Yeah,
he was, he was. He was trouble for the Purple team.
And uh, I mean Will Geo's on the list. Will
was wondering about the next, uh next manager for Atlanta United.
I mean Geo should be on that shortlist. Geo should

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be on the short list, and it's you know you've
got you know, how adventurous do you want to go?
Do you chase after somebody like an Apasta Coglu? Do
you kick the tires on somebody like that? Do you
go after a Hugo Petez? Do you go after you
know you said you? Geo to me is on the list.
Vanny Sartini with what he was able to do in Vancouver,

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I mean the the list. It depends on what direction
you want to go. And you know that Landa United
is not going to sit there and pin everything down
into just okay, we're gonna go down this aisle of
the store. We're just we're here to shop for one
thing and one thing only. No, that's not that's not
how at Lanta Knight. It's gonna work. They're gonna work
the whole They're gonna work the entire grocery store. They're

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gonna go down the frozen food aisle, they're gonna go down.
Then they're gonna go into the produce section. They're gonna
go to the Delhi they're gonna go and you know
they're gonna go down and get sodas and things like that.
They're not just looking for the one thing that's that
they came to get on the shopping list. Now they're
gonna go down whatever aisle they think they need to
go down. If they're gonna go for the big swing,

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they go for the big swing. Like I said, Apasta
Coglu is out there. Do you go for someone who's
more knowledge and in with major league soccer and go
for a Sartini or a sever essay or something like that.
You know, those are the those are the those are
the questions out there. I don't think that you can
hold yourself into, you know, just one idea of what

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you want for a for a head coach. What does
that person bring to the table. What do they want
to do when it comes to philosophy, how do they
want to do things when it comes to academy. All
the three dimensional questions that you've got to ask. But
I don't think you're going to pin yourself down to
like one type of coach, just one one guy. You know,
we we need someone with X number of years of experience.

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We need someone who knows how to do this, and
knows how to do this, this, this, this and this.
That's the person that we're looking for. You can't, you
can't pin yourself into that particular idea. So I don't
think they're going to so so that was that's that's
what you're that's what you're hunting for, and just you know,
keep an open mind in this timeline. Will, I don't

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know Will's asking about the timeline, and I mean do
you want to do you want to see what happens
through the playoffs? I mean, remember that Ronnie Diland was
named in December. He was named in early to mid December.
So is that what you're looking for so you can

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go in and have a runway into training camp because
of the the deadlines when it comes to players and
you know, free agents and things like that, do you
want to have them in place by that timeline so
you can sit there and look at everything. I would
imagine you know, then you know right after MLS Cup

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you want to do something there. I don't think you
want to even if you have your coach in line.
I don't think you want to sit there and do
anything yet because you I mean literally season just ended
and we're now in the post and so give yourself,
give yourself a little bit of time to sit there.
Maybe take the month of November, sit there and look
and see if the people that you're interested in are

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gonna knock on your door. Maybe you have a zoom
call or something with them and there and their representation.
But remember it was after MLS Cup at Ronnie Dielala
was named, So you try to do something there, get
you ready for you know, training camp is six weeks
later and things like that. I would that would be
my baseline somewhere in that, so you know, keep it

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six weeks You're you're gonna be kicking the tires on folks.
You're gonna be asking folks for availability, you know, or
is this individual do you want to be interviewed? So
I would probably say six weeks or so, and it'll
be something that will be talking about a lot, don't
get me wrong, but who's interested, who might be interested,

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who's not interested? Someone turned them down? Someone said yes,
is there a second interview? When are they coming in?
Are they coming in? Is it gonna be virtual? What
have you? You know, you're gonna want to tour the facility.
You're gonna want to sit there and take the take
the walk and go, Okay, here's what's going on here's
our here's our new edition, all the things. So I
would use six weeks as a baseline. Just after MLS Cup.

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Maybe you want to make an announcement like they did
last time. So that that that, to me, is what
you're looking at something in that timeline. But you're gonna
hear a lot of names. I mean, Jason on a
st had a list of eleven I want to say,
and I mean the the list that he had. Let

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me let me resor let me let me see if
I can find that list from a s T really quickly.
So let me see if I can go back to
Tuesday and see if I because he had the list
and it was where are we shares? So I'm trying

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to figure out what day we're in, So today Thursday,
so we need to go back to Tuesday. Okay, So
here was Jason's list. Martinez sell me who's at Porto
go Severesi, Pellegrina Matarazzo, Ante Rosov, who is right now
the number two at LAFC. And you don't know if
you're Anty Rosov, if the new guy who's gonna come

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in is gonna want to keep you. So Rosov might
be looking for a first for for a gig. Lauren
Courtois who was let go at c F Montreal, Jorge
almi Ron from Colo Colo Hugo Petez L Salvador National
team twenty one to twenty three, Vanni Sartini, Josh Wolf, Tata,
and Rob That was Jason's short list that he had

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on Atlanta Soccer Tonight a couple of days ago. So
that is you know, that that's kind of what you're
staring at. That that would be that is a that
is a list that was Jason's list looking at the
landscape for Atlanta United and what to look at going forward.
Like I said, you're gonna have you know, Ange is

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probably gonna to be added to the list in some manner. Hey,
would you want to come over here to the United
States and run a major league soccer team? And obviously,
you know Robin Tata would be on a list for
obvious reasons. And so you're probably gonna have a list
of maybe fifteen sixteen names if you take those eleven
from Jason, add some guys that would be interested down

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the line, some folks that might be out of work,
you know, would you take a flyer on an Oscar
pere Hive. Orlando had said that we've had enough. So
I think you're probably gonna end up with sixteen names
something like that. If you take Jason's eleven, you add
a couple and maybe a couple more, so you might
be somewhere from twenty on a on a short list

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slash wish list. So that would be my thought is
you take Jason's list, you're gonna add some wild cards
that you're gonna have. They're gonna be mentioned in the
in the in the papers and in the rumors and
on all the rags and things like that, all the
all the dailies, the three in the four letter, I'm

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sure that they'll probably have there. They'll probably have their
versions of what you're looking at for Landa United and
their new manager. But yeah, I would say baseline six weeks.
Then go from there and work forward and you'll have
your list from now. You might add some folks, you
might pull some folks off, some folks won't be interested,

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they'll say so publicly, and you go forward. So I
would say six weeks as a baseline. If you said November,
if you said December tenth, considering that was the last hire,
then that you know, that's what you're looking at. And
Abby is you know, discussing the UH, the the ideas

(57:49):
of you know, the viewers and viewership, and it sucks.
It still seems to be what's best for Messy. I mean,
he's he's driving it right now. I mean, if you
have one of the top talents in the world, and
I know that that it does get tiresome. But right
now a lot of folks are gravitated to it. A
lot of folks want to watch them, a lot of

(58:09):
folks want to sit there and go, here's the deal.
You know, you have the last ride for some of
the greatest talents that have been across the planet and
Sergei Bisquets and Geordie Albo. You're you're naturally going to
be gravitated to that storyline, Morning David. So a lot
of folks are going to be gravitated to that storyline.
You're trying to draw on the people for the first
time and keep them in, keep them under the tent.

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So I understand the I understand the programming aspect of it.
But yeah, it's going to be you know it are
is is, the is, the UH is MESSI and friends,
what are the and friends going to get their trophy
that they've been trying to search for all of this time.
You said, he we can write it right now, you know?
Is this is this the year finally that Messi and

(58:52):
Friends break through and they win MLS Cup. I don't
think so. I still think it's gonna be ye AFC.
But it's gonna be a hell of a final if
it ends up that way. Bow Wanga song, Messy Alba bousquetes. Brother,
that could be that could be some heavyweight stuff you know,

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coming up in a bit. All right, it is our
number two, our number two, our number two, hour number two,
which means we go, oh, he's got his artwork. Okay,
I see all right, so it's time to go fully loaded.
We waste no time. We go down to Lima Perune
and find out what's going on with our buddy Nino
Torres and gold TV. Yello, Yello, Yello. How are you?

Speaker 8 (59:36):
I'm so happy as you can tell.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
Brother.

Speaker 8 (59:37):
Look at that, I mean, look at this hard work.
Isn't that beautiful?

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Brother?

Speaker 7 (59:41):
Isn't that beautiful?

Speaker 1 (59:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (59:43):
I love it, man, I love I'm absolutely happy with this.
And when you start is coming in today.

Speaker 8 (59:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (59:49):
So we're gonna have that one on here. I got
united on this side when you're studying on the other side.

Speaker 8 (59:55):
And in complete, Man, the circle is complete. So ready
to roll here on pointloaded baby, mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
And now I have the topics, I have not seen them.
It's uh, you know, that's what we do, so that
way we can have fun and we can go through everything.
And I know a couple of topics. I figured we
would be discussing one of the topics that I have.
Once again, I haven't seen your list, and so if
it's on the list, we'll we'll, I'll go to the
front of the line. The because of what happened with

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ross Ing and what happened last night, we're keeping an
eye on Santi Sosa because his collision with Marcus Rojo
and the picture is out. It was a nasty collision.
So Santi Sosa out for the second leg because of
a facial fracture. I know that was nasty, man, But yeah,

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and so that was that was crazy stuff. But once
again you're chasing after a cup, no surprise.

Speaker 8 (01:00:48):
And uh again it's it's of course it's in the topics.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
You know, libert dois dark arts, got it? Right there
Topic number two.

Speaker 8 (01:00:55):
Yea, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I watched the
game and its crazy because I watched the game here
at home.

Speaker 9 (01:01:02):
They gotta got my my high my high school reunit
reunion last night, so I watched the second half on
the taxi on the cap.

Speaker 8 (01:01:10):
I was watching watching the second half on the cap
and it's just nobody.

Speaker 9 (01:01:18):
I mean, it's rare the for for teams in coming
well to walk out out of the Madcap with that
little small margin that they walk out yesterday, rassing and
they're gonna close it at the Cylinder and Buenos Aires,
and I think my prediction, I'm not thinking. I'm certain

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now that my predictions of the dark Horse Rushing Club
will be playing in the finals of the Couple lit Artists.
They have all the weapons I know, Santisos, I know,
but all the weapons that this is the only team

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that they could take down the Brazilians, that the other
only team there's two teams only right lea Quito, but
the best defense in the tournament and russ and Club
because they have the the X factor, they have the badge,
they have the the people, they have the inspiration, they
have Madavia Martinez and leading in the offense they have

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the power, enough power to take down the Brazilians and
not considering more than one goal. Last night at the
American Cambasie was superb.

Speaker 8 (01:02:36):
He was superman last night. Then he was superman.

Speaker 9 (01:02:38):
He stopped those shots from Samulino, and you know when
he stopped that was like, nothing's gonna go in.

Speaker 8 (01:02:45):
But in the end, you know, all the.

Speaker 9 (01:02:47):
Pressure they keep coming and coming in Flamingos, so they
walk out.

Speaker 8 (01:02:51):
With only one goal, and that might be that might
be the the.

Speaker 9 (01:02:57):
Achilles issue here for for Flamenngo not getting more than
one goal, I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:03:05):
I think you're gonna get I don't think they're gonna.

Speaker 9 (01:03:07):
Get more than one in Buenos Aires. I don't think
they're gonna get more than one goal in Buenos Aires.
I'm almost guaranteed that I can't guarantee. You can't guarantee
things in life, right, but I can almost guarantee the
Flamingo won't score more than one goal in Cilindro and
Russing Club is gonna advance, probably in a penalty shootout.

Speaker 8 (01:03:30):
I'm thinking too to one.

Speaker 9 (01:03:31):
In Buenos Aires for rushing going to penalties and UH
and Rushing, advancing into the finals his second final in
Coming Bo, winning this American last year and winning the
Come Deliver Talents this year.

Speaker 8 (01:03:45):
It's gonna be the for the ages, brother, for the ages.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
This run.

Speaker 8 (01:03:52):
Costas and you love it a Russian club in in
Coming Ball.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
Amazing Tonight is the other playoff with Legadi Quito and Palmettras.
Paul Mayras, give me.

Speaker 8 (01:04:05):
The numbers, Give me the numbers, Give me the numbers, please, right,
And this.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
Is just the match number, this is not the series number.
Paul Mayras is a plus one forty seven. H Lygidi
Quito a plus two seventeen. So they were a dog
at home and your draw is a plus one ninety
three in the composite.

Speaker 8 (01:04:26):
He's so tight, you see, He's so tight.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
Brother.

Speaker 9 (01:04:28):
It's not like Palmas is no, no, no, no, it's
right there. Last night Roussin was Russian was at eight
eight what's mean eight? Of course I put money down and.

Speaker 8 (01:04:41):
I lost, but I don't care. I don'tkay, because that's
like I was one of one of those guys. I
was like, all right, I'm gonna go for it, because
then you know you're not game.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
You're gonna.

Speaker 8 (01:04:55):
Found yourself because why you didn't do why didn't put
money on? I was, okay, I'm gonna put money down today.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
You know, well I lost it.

Speaker 8 (01:05:02):
It is what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
It's part of the game, you know. I mean last night,
Flamingo was a minus two seventy eight, so you know,
you figured they were going to be a heavy favorite.
They were rossing, was a plus eight sixty seven to
win in ninety minutes last night when I.

Speaker 8 (01:05:16):
Put the money down, nine fifty.

Speaker 9 (01:05:18):
Wow, nine to fifty because it was only like five
minutes into the game, so oh nine fifty damn because
and then we're a couple of options there for last night.

Speaker 8 (01:05:28):
Really, okay, this is gonna happen. They're close, they're close,
but they were.

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
Close ye ninety minute draws of plus three forty one.
So that's uh, that was what we're staring at. Uh. Okay,
So we've got a couple of Universititario things. Let's go
to topic number one. Let's go to South, Let's go
to Portugal mm ben Fica. Yeah, and uh, let's see.
So traditionally, they're they're their their coach, their their their

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current coach. He's he's he's known for one particular number
and he always likes to mention that number three three
three three titles. I win three titles. So uh I
mentioned that because you have here he is over three
in champions What needs to be done? The answer might
come this Saturday. So please, sir, coma what what in

(01:06:16):
the wide world sports are you talking about?

Speaker 9 (01:06:19):
H First, there's a there's a lot of concern in
Melphica because you know, Marina arrived. They're supposed to, uh,
you know, get things better for uh for the Eagles,
but uh, things are not going that well. And then
on the under Jose, the special one, Uh, he's yet
to figure out the the best formation or the best

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uh the best players to play in in which position.

Speaker 8 (01:06:44):
But that's not the issue here. There's a big, big, big.

Speaker 9 (01:06:47):
Situation in Benfica with records of the president because elections
are this Saturday, election days, election day in Benfica this Saturday,
and there's a lot but a lot of people not
happy will record that, so they are that might change.

Speaker 8 (01:07:11):
It might change. I think that the new the new
president is gonna is gonna change the coach right away.

Speaker 9 (01:07:21):
Right, you just hire a new coach, you just you
don't fire another coach, you're gonna get another coach and
then three coaches in one season. It usually doesn't work.
When you get three coaches in one season, he usually
doesn't work, all right. So and but I don't know,
I don't know if if if Marino is gonna throw
things around, but he needs to do it quick. He

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needs to do it quick, because this is not only
about the losses in the Champions League, Johnny. It's about
the Yeah, the priorities that they're losing, right because the
more games you lose in the Champions League, you go
into the charge and you keep losing spots for Champions League,

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all right, So they used to there.

Speaker 8 (01:08:08):
Used to be three. The lost one, so there's only
two two spots, uh for for Portugal. Of course the playoff.

Speaker 9 (01:08:16):
Whoever gets wins the playoff gets the third one, but
they don't get three. They get two now they lost
it to the Area Divs. But the good news is
the what's the I think it's a on the you
got the you got the what is it? The the
Champions League ranking right now at the bottom is Benfica.

Speaker 8 (01:08:38):
I think it's a phanom mistaken. Probably well, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
I'll take it keep going.

Speaker 9 (01:08:47):
So so that's the thing, right, you need to still
keep winning games and advancing is for for Portugal is
crucial to advance into the knockout stage and the team
from the VC to stay in the in the in
the group stage, group stage, ship the first round of
the competition in the Champions League. So it's that they're

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going toe to toe and and if you lose games,
you lose your spot and then the it's it's crazy,
it's crazy.

Speaker 8 (01:09:18):
Hopefully the they bounce back, but.

Speaker 9 (01:09:22):
You gotta play real Nad. You gotta play Chelsea, you
gotta play Liverpool. I don't know how many points are
they're gonna get. I don't and I don't know if
they're gonna if they're gonna crack the top twenty four
in in in this Champions League edition, because the teams
that are winning, they're.

Speaker 8 (01:09:41):
Winning bay, I mean, they're blowing out rivals. You're seeing
games like four goals, five goals, six goals. It's insane.

Speaker 9 (01:09:49):
So not getting a single point in you in your
first three rounds are not facing yet the top dogs
of the competition that takes those chances a it will be.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
Down you know. Right now they are in this. I
didn't until you mentioned this, I didn't realize this. I
as is below them at thirty six. There you go,
I ax one goal in their first three matches. They
got a goal difference of minus ten. Kiro Almaty has
a point, Papos of Cyprus has two points, Slavia Prague

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has two points. Mine you know, Boto Glimpse got two points.
Royal got the win in round number one, so they
got I mean, you got some work to do right now.
First three matches right now, three points is the marker
for twenty fourth, and goal difference is minus six.

Speaker 9 (01:10:44):
And those other teams that you gotta beat, you know,
Slavia Prag, you gotta beat all those, but you still
gotta phase ten. So that's ten games they probably you
won't get. I don't know thirty bonds. I would say
they get ten.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
Yeah, and so you gotta wonder what twenty fourth is
gonna look like. But yeah, the next matchup for Benfica,
by the way, November fifth against bayer Levercus and it's
at home, so you know, bayer lever Cues.

Speaker 8 (01:11:15):
I'm wanna say this.

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
It is.

Speaker 8 (01:11:17):
It is successible. It is, it is, and it's not
scary no, it's not scary.

Speaker 9 (01:11:22):
It would have been a different story if they planning
in in Germany, because they're not won in Germany.

Speaker 8 (01:11:27):
But when playing in least one, it's it's uh, it's
it's doable, it's doable.

Speaker 9 (01:11:32):
They might get the first three points of the season
in the Champions League in that game.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
Okay, uh, let's go. Let's go to Peru. And you
got two topics here Ontario and Christall the title decider
classical tonight. Wait what we got a title decider tonight tonight?

Speaker 9 (01:11:50):
It's tonight tonight. Well not technically not not title decider yet,
but but if they win, if we study for this wins,
they will get ten ten points clear off Costco ten
with four.

Speaker 8 (01:12:10):
With three to go. I think it's three to go.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
Yes, nine points to go, so binnaci now knock them
out eighteen to seventeen, so you'd have seventeen, you'd have
three to go.

Speaker 8 (01:12:20):
Yeah, three to go, ten points with three to go.

Speaker 1 (01:12:24):
And got kids eat, they've got grow this weekend.

Speaker 9 (01:12:29):
We I mean in order four started to not win
this club stud up, they'll have to lose all three.

Speaker 1 (01:12:36):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:12:36):
And they haven't lost a single game in like whatever
there's sixty six games in a row that they just
won six games in a row.

Speaker 8 (01:12:46):
So in that span, in that span of.

Speaker 9 (01:12:48):
Six victories in a row, fort report is Corisco dropped
it three times, three times, Alima loss, Crystal loss, everybody
got he lost.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
They were not.

Speaker 9 (01:13:01):
At one point they were three undefeated teams in the competition.
It was in your studio Garcillas and Cuzco and then
Cousco and Garcilaso play against each other, so they knock
each other out, and it was just everything was lining up,
everything has been lining up for when your studio to
to win this unprecedented second repeat. No one has two

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three peats in the history of through and soccer. And
the story reports is on the birch of getting that one.

Speaker 8 (01:13:35):
And uh if you and this is.

Speaker 9 (01:13:39):
This is not delusional, This is not when your study
report is found me talking. It's not delusion, all right,
but uh if, if, if things keep going the way
they're going, and when your study is only getting stronger,
yes there might be a four title in on road

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next year.

Speaker 8 (01:14:03):
Okay, it's the chances. I want to say, they have.

Speaker 9 (01:14:10):
Eighty seven point chances of winning seven eight chance yeah,
of winning the next year, and and and and everybody
improved their their the presence of Crystal of Alma. There
say no, no in your cell house, all line up
because Ferrati is now in them, proving so of confederation

(01:14:31):
that they're they're they're getting their calendar fixed.

Speaker 8 (01:14:34):
Or they're playing three games in one week.

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
Hmm.

Speaker 9 (01:14:37):
They're playing on Monday, Monday night, they're praying Thursday night
to night, and they're playing on Sunday.

Speaker 8 (01:14:43):
So three games in seven days.

Speaker 9 (01:14:46):
In the media, right, the media, because I've watched all
the media, I watch everything, read everything, and they're like,
oh so there were no Sunday night one of.

Speaker 8 (01:14:55):
The primetime shows are here improved? And oh so reporters
spent two games in one week.

Speaker 9 (01:15:03):
That's a lot, said one of the one of the
pundits who is a former player, and then the main
guy said, really is that much?

Speaker 8 (01:15:11):
I don't think so.

Speaker 9 (01:15:15):
Okay, brother, All right, okay, maybe that's why you you
you quit playing soccer.

Speaker 8 (01:15:21):
You were you were you weren't just an average center
back back in the day that you never played. You
never played that many games in a row. So maybe
that's why it's not that much for wow.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
Uh so their favorite tonight at Sporting Crystal, they are
a plus one twenty seven, so you get a favorite
on the road on a plus at a plus one
twenty seven tonight, Sporting Crystal is a dog. They were
the plus two forty five Sunday. By the way, the
four thirty Eastern match at eighty Tarma, they're a dog.

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Yes we are, Yes we are.

Speaker 9 (01:15:59):
Tarma is the toughest, the toughest destination in the Legia.
We don't know why exactly. I think because they're they're
staying seat in the valley, is more humid, the altitude,
the oxygen. I don't know, because there's many other many
other places improved. Because remember out of the nineteen now seventeen,

(01:16:21):
because of the one of the teams were relegated, So
twelve cities in the altitude, you've gotta make twelve trips
to the mountains ten thousand and twelve thousand and thirteen
thousand feet up about the sea level.

Speaker 8 (01:16:38):
But this one here, Tarma, for some reason, gets takes
the toughest tall on players.

Speaker 9 (01:16:48):
It's everybody who goes there, you know, you know, it
feels different, it feels heavier than other cities are even
higher than Tarma. But this one, for some reason, he
had an impact on players. They're coming from the coast
big time. So when when Tama gets there, you see

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second halves man. But sixty ad minutes, everybody say, can.

Speaker 8 (01:17:16):
I get announsage in tank here? Please? I don't have
I don't have anymore. I don't have any more of
my tank. So yeah, it's in.

Speaker 9 (01:17:24):
And the last time that they underst went there the loss,
and every time that we go there, it's it's rough.
It's is absolutely rough. So we'll see what happens there
in Tima. But oh my, there's a there's a game
right nineteen eight, nineteen ninety eight, there was another team

(01:17:50):
from the mountains on Young Minus.

Speaker 8 (01:17:52):
That was that one was the toughest of all of
the cities in Peru.

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
That was the c Pasco.

Speaker 8 (01:18:00):
That's the altitude. It's with muddy, rainy, with hail. And
this guy.

Speaker 9 (01:18:10):
Made a run forty five yards carrying the ball, scores
the goal winner and then lays flat on the ground.

Speaker 8 (01:18:22):
At tag and then it was he was asking.

Speaker 9 (01:18:25):
The cameras were on him, yes, score, yes you did yeah,
ki me nothing yes score, yes you did yeah. And
that day when I started Reporters won the championship, the
first of the repeat of that ninety eight, ninety nine,
two thousand titles for a new studio in the altitude.

Speaker 8 (01:18:45):
One more time, let's get it done.

Speaker 1 (01:18:48):
And uh, if you find the photos of a studio
on you on Tarma, it is gorgeous. It is beautiful,
yes it is, but it's a pain in that you
know what to go play there?

Speaker 8 (01:18:58):
It is insane?

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
What what what is this about? The Mariano Rivera, the closer?
What's this? What's going to the pen? What's this about?

Speaker 9 (01:19:08):
It's because it's not Mariano Riveta, of course, but it's
a Jossea, okay, which is our striker who sits on
the bench. He is the best twelve men in the legua.
All right, he's our closer.

Speaker 8 (01:19:24):
He's our Maria, our Mariano Rivera. All right, he's a
Maria Riveda.

Speaker 9 (01:19:28):
He comes in the sevente inning, you know, the games
on the line, and heaches closest. He's scored eleven goals
this season, right yeah, Well, I'm I'm gonna give you
the insights of this in in ninety seven games he
scored twenty five goals.

Speaker 1 (01:19:45):
Right, but h.

Speaker 9 (01:19:48):
Seventeen of those ten goals, seventeen of those twenty five
that he scored. He's gone from the bench, all right,
coming off the bench. Look at this one. Ten of
those seventeen from the minute eighty fifth and over between

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the eighty fifth and the ninety fifth minutes, this guy
scored Tingles decision closing games, winning games like this one
a Monday night against a culture who's fighting for survival
in the league will not And they were putting players down.
Everybody was having cramps at the same time, Johnny. You

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see the players laying down on the ground.

Speaker 5 (01:20:32):
Four players for Oh, I got a crampy, I did
a crap two, Hey you too, Yeah, okay, And the
referee was like, oh so you got cramps, okay, one, two, three, four.

Speaker 8 (01:20:42):
Two minutes each Wow, maybe eight minutes of injury time.

Speaker 1 (01:20:46):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (01:20:47):
And our closer it's scoring a minute ninety fourth ninety
four of those eight minutes of injury town that they
gave because apparentum they were all coming crimes.

Speaker 1 (01:21:02):
But yeah, uh two topics, two topics to go, yeah,
and this one we probably should have put like music
and italics and things. Is this when or like an
echo like in the old DJ days when Nino Damas
was right, right, right, right, you know, when Nino Damas
was right. The Real Madrid edition, Real Madrid is brilliant

(01:21:26):
against you. Ageue Bellingham gets a goal, is belling him
an artic gu lair the pivot to make them going
into El Classico.

Speaker 8 (01:21:35):
Yes, but it's not about the actual team. It's about
a player from Real Madrid.

Speaker 9 (01:21:40):
Okay, do you remember when this kid Endric right Andrek
the kid a an eighteen year old from Pamenas and
La La the show fifty million dollars for the kid
and all that thing. Right when they ask him, who's
your favorite player? Like you said, Bobby Robson. Ooh, brother,

(01:22:01):
not even your dad watched Bobby rob some pray. So
don't tell me that you like Bobby Robson because you
never saw Bobby robs some pray. Brother, all right? That
was that was something that for me, that's a red flag.
By there, that's a red flag. You you want to
pretend to be someone that you're not. And when you pretend,

(01:22:21):
when you're not real, when you you're not true to yourself,
you might have issues.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
And I was like I didn't.

Speaker 9 (01:22:27):
I mean, of course it was just one of those
Amos moments, right, it's just my god feeling talking to
me and the feeling that this kid he's not gonna
make it in Real Madrid. And I said it, and
I said, he's not gonna be playing for Real Madrid
for long. Okay, he's not gonna succeed at Real Madrid.
I guess what just happened? Shabby alone, soo, head coach

(01:22:51):
of Real Madrid, he just get he just gets the
bad news to the kid.

Speaker 1 (01:22:56):
Kid.

Speaker 8 (01:22:57):
I don't have you on my plans. You know my
plan for the year.

Speaker 9 (01:23:00):
So uh, you better get you better find another place
to play because you're not gonna get playing time here
in REALMA the first team. And they said, okay, all right,
so they want to see probably him playing in I
don't know, Geron Alevante Castilla, which is the second team
for for for Real Madrid.

Speaker 8 (01:23:23):
I don't know. I don't know where he's gonna play back.
He's not playing a Madrid.

Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
He's not playing. I gotta figure out how he's unless
he's watching a bunch of YouTube with Bobby robson. I
know topic last United a Marim. The turning point finally arrived.
So that's what the question mark. We were talking about
it on Monday night on Soccer over there with Ruben
Amerim and the notes that with Manchester United kind of

(01:23:50):
turning the corner a little bit, we think they're turning
the corner. So what do you think are they turning
said corner? Sir?

Speaker 9 (01:23:58):
For the first time since Amory is in charge, they
went back to back games for the first time.

Speaker 8 (01:24:05):
Uh And and people might say, you know, there's there's
just two games, but there's not just two games.

Speaker 9 (01:24:12):
It's it's it's not that it's about getting the job
done against Liverpool. It's not about that they beat the walls.
It's not about the mid not in forest, no, no, no, no,
the beat Liverpool. All right, it's a classic because the
biggest classical in the Premier League. And coming from another
victory and it seems like finally things are working out

(01:24:36):
for for for for Rubin And it's it's not about
just amorym right, It's it's it's the players aren't issues.

Speaker 8 (01:24:44):
They need to step up, right. You see in Boomeo
playing you know you got that well, Harry, you.

Speaker 1 (01:24:50):
Know I did not have that one on the Bengal
card Man. Yeah, Harry is or didn't not have Harry
McGuire winner on the Bengo kurt I did not no one,
no one.

Speaker 8 (01:25:05):
But he he's a lionheart man, He's a lionheard that
that's what that's what he see.

Speaker 9 (01:25:10):
You might have many many bloopers from him, many right,
but when it comes to the big moments, he steps up.

Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
He steps up.

Speaker 8 (01:25:19):
So we'll see, we'll see, we'll see what happens.

Speaker 9 (01:25:21):
Hopefully hopefully I'm right, I really, I'm really hoped on
I'm right, But uh, I think it is the turning points.
I think it's uh they finally going to turn the
ship in the right direction from my beloved Red Devils man.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
Hopefully so. Yes, it is evidenced by what's going on
over your shoulder. What matches are you calling, sir on
Gold TV this weekend? How how crammed and jammed are you? Are?
They giving you the day night flip doubleheader where you've
got to call the last night in the first one
in the morning.

Speaker 8 (01:25:50):
No, no, no, it's gonna it's gonna chill wicked. It's
gonna chill wicked Friday Night.

Speaker 1 (01:25:55):
We got you do?

Speaker 9 (01:25:56):
Why defends Services City Turkey got the feet gum Saturday
on the same day of the elections. Oh okay, yeah,
and we got sporting on Sunday, so oh I forgot
about this is this is all they went down here?
I know your realplay has got nine pm on Sunday night.
I don't have a game of Monday. So I like

(01:26:17):
this week and it's chill, chill.

Speaker 1 (01:26:20):
Just because you know, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta
keep an eye out of here. You know, we gotta
make sure that they stay in prime condition. Because doing that,
doing that last one at night and in the first
one of the Breakfast, the Breakfast and Uruguay matchup, I'm like, no, fam,
that's not gonna play.

Speaker 9 (01:26:35):
Brother and I and Johnny and I have a big
story for you. But that that's gonna it's gonna be
for next week. Because it's gonna be for next week.
Because in my high school reunion last night, I got
got a friend of mine who was married to one
of the coaches in the Programs Soccer Federation, and she

(01:26:55):
gave me some serious insights for her m serious out. Well,
we'll talk about next week. I won't forget just sputting
down on that because I've run on off topics here,
and this is gonna take probably a good ten minute
conversation because it's.

Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
Uh yeah, okay, yeah, what I'm doing right now in
our in our chat, don't forget the reunion intel from
the wife. Yes, it's big, all right, big there it is,
so don't forget the reunion intel from the wife for
next week. I love you very much, my friend. We
will catch up with you soon. May the pipe stay

(01:27:32):
solid and golden. As always, We'll be watching, we'll be listening.
We having conversations with you from thousands of miles away
through the magic of television. It's always, my friend, great
to see it. We'll catch up with you next week.
Thank you, Jennys here next week, there goes in Atari's
he's fully loaded and uh, I gotta see. Now that's
a tease. Don't forget the reunion. It's like, don't forget
the reunion intel. The wife of one of the coaches

(01:27:54):
in the fed she told me stuff at a reunion.
That that is stuff that you get at a reunion.
I'm not kidding. That's some good the let's see last
half hour here on a Thursday. We'll bring Jared in
as we wait for our friend Nico moreno from Seattle.
So I know we're going to talk playoffs, and did
you want to start west to east or did you

(01:28:14):
want to start east to west? Or do you what
other general thoughts do you have before we bring Nico
in here in a bit, No, we can we can.

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
Start either one. Do you want to start chronologically or
do you want to start geographically where the sun sets?

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
Let's let's let's go geographically because of well, let's start
with you, meaning you, because the late night, because I
will start out west with what we saw at Portland
and ARSL because I think the Pereja question, I brought
it up an hour number one, but I think it's
just as important, and we'll have the two of you
talk about it coming up in a bit when Nico
drops in. But yeah, Portland, I didn't know what Portland

(01:28:50):
I was going to get, and we got the one
that had got kamal Miller on the Bengo card, did not.

Speaker 2 (01:28:58):
Have got caamal Miller. And you've got you got more
of scoring goals. Yeah, if if Moura is going to
wake up and do that then and obviously, like I
don't know if we probably I don't know if you've
talked about the potential drama the ton novela that is

(01:29:19):
unfolding in San Diego.

Speaker 1 (01:29:21):
No, I have not yet.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
Yeah, the San Diego has their player related telenovela unfolding,
which is a great time to do it before the
playoffs time in San Diego.

Speaker 10 (01:29:32):
Yeah, if MOA's gonna be doing that kind of stuff
and then and obviously not scoring like two goals a
game kind of thing, But if he's gonna be causing problems.

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
Then Portland becomes They're not the best team. I think,
I like annoying real quick man, Like that's that team
is an absolute pain in the ass to play if
if they're going to they're going to give you a
couple of you know, a couple of chances a game.
And I mean they generated like two and a half

(01:30:05):
extek and I think most of last night was I
think most of it was just first half and the
second half like the RSL put god I think twenty
two shots twenty three shots on frame. But it was
also kind of like a kind of late to the
party in the game State dictates a lot of that.
The RSL's got questions they got to answer in the offseason.

(01:30:30):
But yeah, man, maybe maybe Portland. Uh, maybe Portland has
an interesting three games.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
Set ahead of them. Let's see.

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
Ooh that that that reminded me. It's like if he
can get high, was it? I think it was Kevin
Malino for twenty twenty Minnesota. Twenty twenty Minnesota, which made
the Eastern Conference made the Western Conference finals. Uh and
uh and as Nico will be happy to recount to,

(01:30:57):
I am sure Minnesota absolutely like spit the bit in
one of the most heartbreaking ways humanly possible. Yes, and
lost to Seattle, who've been lost to Columbus final. But
I think it was Kevin Malino in that playoff who

(01:31:17):
just like was possessed And I don't know that he
ever hit those heights again. But yeah, you can get
We talked about this all the time. We talk about
in a hockey John, somebody hop between the pipes and
you get somebody on offense who hits like a purple patch.

Speaker 8 (01:31:36):
You can do. Damn.

Speaker 1 (01:31:37):
It's that's true. That is absolutely true. Since it is
the last half hour of the show, it is time
we go from Lima to Utah to Seattle. So we
got the Mountain time zone, the Eastern time zone, and
the Pacific time zone. Nico, we got a special guess.
Jarrett dropped in from Utah this morning to hang out

(01:31:57):
with you in the segment.

Speaker 7 (01:32:00):
Okay, what a Jared long time. How's it going, my guy.

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
It's going.

Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Moved out, moved out to the mountains and and and
was greeted by watching RSL Peter out of the playoffs
last night, UH at the hands of Mora and UH
and Phil and the Phil Nevil Revenged tour.

Speaker 8 (01:32:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:32:23):
I was surprising, for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:32:25):
Mm hmmm. I did not have I didn't have kamal
Miller on the Bengo card at all, scoring a goal
and then getting justin glad losing kamal Miller at the post.
I did not have that on the card at all.
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
I actually put at a shot on frame and scored
the first time of two years.

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
So there's that too, Yes, that too, Hey, I'll race you.

Speaker 7 (01:32:45):
H Philippe Moore brace after twenty plus games of no goals.
I mean, he seemed like everything went right for the
Portland Timbers. I think that's what he took to get
him out of this round. And on the same sentence,
everything went wrong for ourselves. I mean it fell for
you know, twenty minutes of that second half that they

(01:33:07):
were gonna score a couple of goals and they just
they just couldn't do it. You know, there was mistake
after mistake. I have no idea what Cruz was thinking
on that free kick by who was it that took it?
Why is he escaping? My name the Colombian defender?

Speaker 8 (01:33:30):
We know, we know we gotta Yeah, well, the free
kick is perfect.

Speaker 7 (01:33:34):
It was gonna clear the He was going to clear
the wall, and I don't know why he just all
of a sudden decides to do some sort of moving
screen and just pushes the wall. I mean, it was
completely unnecessary. And I thought that he was a no show.
You know, gossip comes out and he comes in and

(01:33:56):
and I thought he was irrelevant and he ended up
doing more are bad than good for Irissel? Uh So, yeah,
it was definitely a combination of things that led to
Portland moving on to the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (01:34:09):
Yeah, I was now it was just oh my god,
uh that that moment where why why you're going into
the wall? That that blew my mind? Why why you
decide on a kick that was going in and it
was gorgeous it and you decide you're gonna go in
and crash the wall and try to compress it and

(01:34:32):
try and sit there and make a distraction everything, and
you violate the spacing rule and everything. So it was
just it's like, dude, what are you doing?

Speaker 7 (01:34:41):
Yeah, Brian Vera, Brian Vera is going yeah, and look,
I thought that Brian Vera was very good. I thought
that Oheita was excellent at the Luna had a lot
of moments quite honestly. You know when you look at
the stats, when you look at you know, if you
are uh, you know someone that that that goes into
the x G factor. I mean, our Cell should have

(01:35:02):
won that game. It's just it wasn't there for them
to have and they allow the Timbers to stay in
this game. And like you said, Kamal Miller there at
the end completely unmarked. He does a good job at
staying on site. I mean, you know, he sees the line,
he checks himself and then goes finds that header. But
Glad went from hero to zero there, right because he

(01:35:26):
gets that beautiful header. Great job of getting that goal,
you know, the two to one. That kind of gave
our cells some momentum and some life. But then, man,
that last play is just unacceptable.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
When how often do we see that though in these games,
especially a playoff game, where a team where an RSL's case,
they're pushing, they're creating chances, they're forcing saves, they could
not find the breakthrough, and then after a few minutes
of that, you get one situation the other way and

(01:36:03):
it's the killing blow from Portland where the RSL had
chances you're right to tie it up, they didn't take
advantage of it, and they Portland went down, only needed
one shot and they put the game away. Man, you
gotta take those chances.

Speaker 7 (01:36:18):
I'm yeah, totally agree.

Speaker 1 (01:36:20):
Legitimately. I think if the Willie A got a bicycle
kick in the crossbar, I think we're talking about an
entirely different game with momentum and such. But you figured
that one when a goddess kick hit the crossbar instead
of going in, you figured it just wasn't going to
be their night.

Speaker 7 (01:36:39):
No, Altunji, you know that that there is an easy
tap and that he just doesn't get to He doesn't
anticipate that pass was clear where he was going to go,
and he just doesn't get to it at all, Like
just not quick enough there was just a lot of
moments for our cell where he just felt like it
wasn't gonna happen, you know. I mean those two just
allowed goals, you know, both fair, both fair, but one

(01:37:02):
very unnecessary and and and just dumb to be quite
on a lack of better word. But yeah, you know,
I thought I was self deserved a little bit better.
And as much as the Timbers army and the atmosphere
was there, I continue to think that the Timbers are very,
uh sporadic and irregular in their play. I mean, look,

(01:37:26):
I'm happy for Philippine warr and I've always thought that
he should be the nine. And I think that one
of the problems that field Nevil's had in Portland has
been that rotating door of people at certain positions, including
the nine. But look, the goals were there was a
little bit of luck involved, man. I mean, I don't

(01:37:48):
know if because he just had, you know, a daughter,
I believe he had and it was just the moment,
but there's a ricichet on both of those goals. He
just felt like he had a magnet stuck to his
foot that just kept will end the ball his way.
But yeah, man, I mean I think that we can
all agree that it wasn't impressive from the Portland Timbers,

(01:38:08):
but hey, sometimes that's what it takes to get into
the playoffs and sometimes that makes you dangerous.

Speaker 1 (01:38:14):
Yep. Jarrett found the quote from ksl's Caleb Turner from
Pablo after the match quote, Brian Vera is a free
kick waved off quote That is not something we work on.
That was ad lib, man, and it was a bad
moment to add lib, especially when the ball hit the
back of the net. And if there's one guy you
don't need to really move the wall for the wall

(01:38:36):
is gonna move, it's Brian Vera. So you end up
with Pablo with one and done. I want to I
want to go to the east a little bit. And
like I said, it was something we talked about in
hour number one, but I want to get both of
your thoughts on this as well. Nicole. Let me start
with you, Oscar Pereja, and I know this is something

(01:38:56):
that your friends at Pulso Sports were lighting up in
the teas with you coming in. Oscar Pereh went back
to old Oscar Pereh for the Purple team at the
worst possible time this season, instead of doing that even
keeled thing where everything's cool and you make your run.
In the postseason, you go back to how it was
you hit a marker and then you just kind of

(01:39:19):
do the slow fade and it's just kind of like
one of these you can just kind of see everything
just fading away in the sunset, and the Purple team
wins one out of eight to wrap up the season.
Then you have the moment that you had or the
match that you had last night in bridge View, which
was a clunker, And we went over the stats there
as well, where I think Chicago had like seventy eight

(01:39:41):
shots and fifty nine of them were on target last night.
Does this mean that Oscar has worn out his welcome
in Orlando? Because I imagine there's going to be a
lot of thought about Oscar and the future where you
have that fade, you come crashing in, you were fourth,

(01:40:03):
you come into the playoffs at the nine, and you
put up a clunker in bridge View. What do you think?

Speaker 7 (01:40:12):
This is a very touchy subject because I feel like
there have been a lot of shots fired towards Oscar
Pereh and rightfully, so, look, I was the first one
to say as I'm watching this game, a game that
I thought that Oscar was going to plan differently, a
game where I thought that Martine Haite was going to

(01:40:34):
step up and be that MVP that he is, that
maguire was going to be a guy that we all
know what he can do when he's on. But the
reality is that it was an embarrassing performance by Orlando City.
They never had control of the game, they'd have possession,
They weren't creative, There wasn't transition moments. There wasn't even

(01:40:58):
fight or character or spawns. That's what you at least
expect that of an Oscar perea team. It almost feels
like the team gave up on him at a certain
point of this game in Chicago, just took advantage of
it and never let him get up. But two things
can be true. Do I believe that Oscar Pereja has
been unsuccessful to put Orlando City where they want to

(01:41:22):
be or take the next step. Absolutely, But you know,
I've heard comments about him being a fraud and all
of these things, But Oscar pere has Oscar Perera, and
Oscar has never sold himself as this genius tactician that's
going to make your franchise. This entertaining soccer. Oscar Prera

(01:41:43):
has specialized this on lifting programs from the ground and
making them relevant. And I thought he did that in Orlando,
give them their first trophy, right, Sure, it's a US
Open Cup, but he did it. I think he did
it in Dallas. I think he's a guy that eventually
will be in a Ring of Honor or a Hall
of Fame for Dallas shoot maybe even for Orlando City.

(01:42:07):
But the reality is is that he has always been
true to his form, to his ideology, to his way
of handling teams. So the word fraud, to me is
unnecessary and inaccurate. But I do think that there is
a clear criticism of Oscar Pere had just been unabled

(01:42:28):
to create a team, regardless of how good it is,
because I think this comes into the picture, right. Orlando City,
on paper is a great team, and you know, Oscar
had all the resources that he possibly want. He got Moodiel,
and he got a politic, and he kep maguire and

(01:42:48):
went and got on Gulo, went and got a Twista.
I mean, everything he's wanted, he's kind of got. He's
called this his most talented team, and you're unable to
not just reach the mountain, but you go on a
ten game winning winningless streak, or I think you get
one win in those ten ten games, and then you

(01:43:09):
dropped from fourth to ninth, and you have to play
this game, and now in this game, your team doesn't
come out and perform. I think that his job is
under line. I think that the criticism is fair, But
I wouldn't go so far into at calling Oscar names

(01:43:30):
or saying that he provided something that he did not reflect,
because I thought that he did a good job at
getting Orlando City back to relevancy.

Speaker 1 (01:43:41):
Here I go for it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:45):
I agree, it's if I don't know if people truly remember,
and I don't know if this is just recency biased
because we're just used to Orlando being a functioning franchise.
Oscar got there, and up until Oscar got there, they
were just a series of wildly coyote cartoons in just

(01:44:05):
different forms. The Jason Christ era O'Connor comes in for' connor,
the I remain convinced that that a chunk of it
was Nonny when he was there, Who's a brilliant player,
one of the best of our eras growing up as kids.

(01:44:26):
But man, they were just so mentally weak in that era,
and Oscar seemed to change all of that. Maybe Oscar
is not the guy to take them to the next
step entirely. Possibly there are history is littered with those
guys who take a franchise in any sport, in any
league and take it from being a mess to being

(01:44:49):
stable and giving it a solid foundation. They might not
be the one to get you to the promised land,
but that that stuff matters, and maybe you go get somebody,
but I think you have to be careful about it
because if you go get someone, you need to make
sure that they can build on that and that it
doesn't backslide. And that's a scary decision to have to make,

(01:45:09):
and especially for me right now, it would be I'd be,
it'd be kind of. There's a lot of traffic with
MLS teams right now, Like you know, Atlanta is open,
LAFC is opening. After the Cup, there's a lot of
traffic for a lot of big teams that will want

(01:45:30):
to bring in guys and want to court managers, managers
maybe a year after. I don't know, but yeah, I
what Oscar did in Dallas, what he's done in Orlando,
he's been great, and I think he gets too defensive
at times late in seasons and it stinks and I

(01:45:53):
don't like it. Frostcarers. I don't think I've ever heard
a crossword about him. But if you, if you make
that move, I'm can it tell them that they're wrong
if they think they need to hit it to another gear.
But it's just it's a risky decision man.

Speaker 1 (01:46:07):
M hmm.

Speaker 7 (01:46:08):
Yeah. No, I love that you bring that up, jury,
because I mean, that's the reality. Look as someone who
has covered Oscar Pereja, who has sat down and talked
to him countless occasions ever since his early years coaching
at Dallas, and I've sat down with him and Clavijo
rest in peace, and he is always going to be

(01:46:31):
true to his form, and sometimes that's for the better
or for worse. Look, if you're going to come and
tell me that Oscar's too conservative, y'all all agree. If
you come and tell me that he has been unsuccessful
to win major trophies, sure let's do that. If you
want to come and tell me that his tactics at
time are a little antiquated, let's have that conversation. But

(01:46:52):
don't tell me that he isn't a good coach, or
that he was a complete failure in Orlando, because I
would absolutely disagree for everything that you just said. Orlando
had been a mess and Dallas was nothing before Oscar
perej well nothing, but they had been for a long

(01:47:12):
time not quite relevant until he got there and made
him relevant. So I just have a hard time with
people who are way too radical when talking about a
head coach that I know is passionate about the game,
that is extremely qualified, that goes out there and gives
one hundred and ten percent every single time he's leading

(01:47:35):
a team. Whether that works or not, it's fine. Whether
it was a bad decision to let Romer and Rique
walk and you know you were going to depend more
on Muriel, who you thought was at a certain form
but then it wasn't. And you know you were hoping
that Maguire was a certain guy, but then he wasn't
and you had problems with some injuries. I'm not saying

(01:47:56):
that's why he failed this year. I think that there's
more to it than that. But at the end of
the day, Oscar Perez went out there, he did a job,
and he was just unable to reach it. But don't
come and tell me that the guy is a fraud
or that the guy should be put in soccer jail
for absolutely no reason.

Speaker 1 (01:48:15):
Yeah, that's a that's a load of bunk, and that's
that's the terminology that I will use. I know that
we have to discuss the injury to Pedro de la
Vega and what that means. Because you've got a series
coming up against the Loons on Monday, I think is
match number one. Jarrett brought up a topic of a
series that starts sooner than that one. So let me

(01:48:37):
go to this topic and then we'll go to Seattle.
And it has to do with what's possibly going on
in San Diego. And according to Tommy Scoops now that
he is at the Athletic now, the availability of San
Diego s CE star winger Chucky Lozana for the club's
playoff run is uncertain due to an internal situation. Absent

(01:48:57):
from the matchday squad and decision day absence due to
a verbal altercation that took place in the locker room
earlier this Month's sources said summed off at halftime during
the game against Houston October four, unhappy about it. Verbal
altercation takes place. One source said that Losano needs to
prove how committed he is to the locker room in
order to be available to play in the playoffs. San

(01:49:20):
Diego obviously is going to be taking on Portland on
the weekend. Mikey Vera said after the win Saturday, he said,
we had a situation we are dealing with internally, and
so in addition to the idea of possibly signing Luca
de la Torre on a permanent you got Chucky Lozano
and all of this drama. Nico not something that you

(01:49:42):
need heading into your first playoff series as an expansion club.

Speaker 10 (01:49:46):
No.

Speaker 7 (01:49:47):
I you know, said this when I first saw it,
and then later I put it on X. This could
have major implications because when you look at a San
Diego team that depends so much on what those talented
wingers do, and that after deciding not to keep Milan

(01:50:09):
lost key, you lost that firepower and that finishing in
the final third. You need a guy like Losano, a
guy that has the magic that can at any moment
in time finished from mid range and just be another
problem for defenses. And look, no disrespect to Pelagrino, who
you know, he is a good player, and you know,

(01:50:30):
he's played the nine, he's played out wide, and of
course Dryers the MVP of this team. But not having
Losano is a problem, without a doubt for San Diego.
I'm not saying against Portland because Portland I don't know
if they can really put this San Diego team on
their duress enough to make it worth it. But whoever

(01:50:51):
it gets out of Minnesota and the Sounders, you best
believe they're gonna benefit if you have decided to not
keep Losano. Now, I do you know, I know what happened.
I have reached out to some sources and it sounds
like it is something that will be resolved. So my
guess is that after whatever happens, if it's an internal

(01:51:14):
disciplinary action or if it's just a talk, I mean
he's already missed the game, or whatever it is that's
going to happen, I think that it will get resolved
by the time that you need Losano. But the Bibes
are not going to be right no matter what, and
that cohesiveness and that type of identity that we saw

(01:51:38):
from this San Diego team kind of depends on that
kind of depends on that ability for this team to
play get as a collective, So it's an issue. I
think it'll get resolved, but you cannot tell me that,
you know, Corbert, it is what you want there at
the nine with Pelagrino on the side compared to maybe
having Losano on Pelogrino at the nine. I just think

(01:51:58):
that San Diego is kind of playing with fire right now.
But at the same time, I understand that a coach
is not going to be talked to a certain way,
and a coach like mikey Verus is not going to
allow diva ish type of attitudes in his locker room.
So for all accounts, I think that the situation will

(01:52:20):
be handled, but it would be interesting how it affects
the serenity or lack the rough of that locker room.

Speaker 1 (01:52:27):
That's an interesting word, Jared, that Nico uses the serenity
of the locker room. I like that breakdown.

Speaker 2 (01:52:33):
But this is why we talk so much about managers
as not just tacticians, but is man managers of finding
that balance between Yeah, yeah, this is one of the
worst times possible for you to have a player kind
of get out of pocket or perceed to get out
of pocket. However it's being reported, but you can't let

(01:52:57):
this kind of thing go if you're the manager, and
if if it makes this three game playoff against Portland tricky. Now,
but you in doing so, you establish a hard line
in the sand, and you establish a and you are
establishing a culture. Then sometimes you have to take a
half step back to keep moving forward. And it's important

(01:53:21):
to not let a player dictate everything like that. And
if if they're going to cause problems, you have to
you have to treat them all the same. Now that
means that doesn't mean you, you know, you're a hard
ass with everybody. You don't want to be Bud Kilmer
with everybody like every player needs to be. Do you
treat them differently to get the most out of them.
But on the discipline side of things, you can't let

(01:53:41):
somebody rock the boat right before the playoffs. And it's
it's a tricky situation. And it's that that man manager
side of things is one of the reasons you pay
for a good manager.

Speaker 1 (01:53:53):
All right, I've delayed long enough. We have to discuss
the playoff series that is happening on for the start,
and it is the late one. It is nine ish,
so I guess is like nine to twenty Eastern Time, Minnesota, Seattle.
The four to five and news came out late last

(01:54:15):
week Nico about Pedro de la Vega and it's six
to eight months in recovery for a fractured patella. Those
are not words that you really want to have in
any sentence at any time. But the impact of this,
just as as PDV was getting into that rhythm of
that of the offense and the demands that Brian Schmittzer has,

(01:54:37):
that is awful news at the worst time.

Speaker 7 (01:54:40):
It is awful news. I have been on record saying
that this minimizes Sounder's chances to go on a deep
run this playoffs. I think that is undeniable that Pedro
de la Vega was an X factor, was a game changer,
was a guy that made your attack elite. Not that

(01:55:03):
he cannot be good or dangerous With Paul Rothrock playing
that position, not like you don't have dept with guys
like Georgie right behind him, you know, you can do
a lot of things at that winger position, even playing
Colonia a little bit higher. You know, you could play
read Baker Whiteon a little bit higher. But at the

(01:55:24):
end of the day, you are losing a guy that
had been a proven player, that is definitely by far
your most talented attacker, that has a bag deep as
it goes when he comes to just being able to
affect and influence the game, both defensively and offensively, so
it's tough. My mind goes directly into being dishearted for

(01:55:49):
the player. Peter Lavega has put everything in his power
and has turned his life into just rehabit and trying
to figure out how he stays healthy for it to
just go down in flames against New York City FC,
you know, in a game that maybe was low stakes,
but that I felt like he needed to be out there.

(01:56:09):
I felt like it was I felt like it was
important for him to continue to build continuity, continue to
build minutes, continue to build, keep his form. It's just unfortunate.
So he's got surgery. Surgery went well, Brian said, six months.
You know, sixty eight sounds about right. He'd be ready
for April. But I do believe that his base case

(01:56:31):
scenario for the player and for the club had it
been in ACL, which was my first thought, that he
was holding that knee same need that he did in Leannews.
My mind went to ACL, so I was happy to
hear that it was a potella, and I was happy
to hear that the idea on recovery was a lot

(01:56:53):
shorter than he could have been. So we hope that
he gets well. But the Sounders chances are going to
be impacted, even if it's against Minnesota. I feel like
they're going to struggle a bit to break down a
team that look to be honest. Minnesota has fallen off
three or four steps to where they were at at
one point. I think that not having Tenny has been

(01:57:16):
huge for that team. I think that the lack of
Eoboa because of the injury has been big. I feel
like even defensively, they've showed some holes they weren't showing earlier.
So I think the Sounders are still the favorite going
into this one, regardless of what you may see in
the standings and regardless of the three game series. Obviously
benefit in Minnesota, but I feel confident that the Sounders

(01:57:39):
with what they have, they can manage to win at
least Round one of the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (01:57:45):
Right now, looking at juice boxes for this game specifically,
not the series on the hole, Seattle is a road dog,
no real surprise, but it's not a large margin plus
one seventy right now for Seattle to win over ninety
minutes ninety minutes plus two forty seven, and the Loons
are a plus one forty three. Tomorrow, Niko, we have

(01:58:07):
a series. I don't know if you've heard of this, gentleman,
but there's a guy named Messi. Oh yeah, And so
we could have a situation where Nashville and Messi and
Friends could play four times in a row decision day
three game series. And I think the longer the series goes,

(01:58:30):
the more I lean toward Nashville in this one because
of experience and age and knees and joints and all
these kinds of things, and finding out that your speed
on the wings can get behind the back line of
Messi and Friends. They start things off on Friday night.
What's your early vibe on match day one?

Speaker 7 (01:58:49):
Yeah, both you and I are in the same page
when it comes to look, I really believe that this
format benefits Snatchville. And I feel like beating a team
five to two in a game that didn't really look
elect the fight too that if it's not for the
Nahar a handball in the eighteen, Nashville probably does a

(01:59:09):
lot better in that game, but you allow momentum to
shift to Miami. I like Nashville, I really do. I
think that BJ has a real way to influence the
game and keep the ball away from MESSI again, it
all kind of goes out of sorts when one of
the best players in soccer history arguably decides to turn

(01:59:34):
it on. But I do think that because of the
amount of minutes, because of the amount of familiar reality
between these two teams, I really do believe that Nashville
has more weapons to break down and expose Inner Miami
than vice versa. And because of that, and because of

(01:59:56):
what I believe is a more sustainable approach to the game,
I think Nashville is gonna surprise people. I think this
one might go three, but I do believe that Nashville
will come out on top.

Speaker 1 (02:00:10):
But is it a surprise though, if Nashville takes care
of business in three.

Speaker 7 (02:00:14):
I mean, I think you'd say for most right, I
mean everybody who I talked to when it comes to
the pundits, most of them have Inner Miami moving on
obviously the massive factor. And look, as much as I
think Rodrigo de Paul has been underwhelming, Yeah. I mean,
in my opinion, I don't think Hiss came on and
did anything incredibly Differently, I believe that, without a doubt,

(02:00:38):
Nashville is the better team. So to your point, do
I think it's a surprise, I mean, I guess so.
I think anytime that you have Messi on the other
end and the team has pummeled you the week before,
I think that it's fair to call it that way.
But I think we're both in the same page where

(02:01:00):
maybe we should not be a surprised because we know
that Nashville is a good team.

Speaker 1 (02:01:04):
All Right, what's going on? Pulsar Sports sounder at heart,
because I know, once again you're heading to the Providence
in Swedish delicatessen and five minute oil change to find
out what's going on as they get ready for the
series with Minnesota.

Speaker 7 (02:01:16):
Yeah, we got a lot of stuff going on, obviously.
I mean, if you want to find out what Brian said,
what Jordan Morris said to us yesterday who you know, oh,
by the way, told us how important it was for
him to get that goal in New York. One of
the positives that they come out of that game was
Jordan Morris getting that monkey of his back when he
comes to not being able to put the ball in

(02:01:37):
the back of the net after his injury recovery. You
can check that out of Postal Sports. We're gonna be
on Loving's porches later on tonight, I believe it's seven o'clock.
We're gonna do a nice little roundtable with Jeremiah and
Noah and Ari. We're gonna be talking about the playoffs.
We're gonna be talking about the Sounders, so go ahead
and check that out Apples of Sports. I'll be putting

(02:01:58):
out a video about my ballot for the awards ML's
End of the Year Awards, although I don't really have
a ballot because MLS doesn't think I'm good enough to
have a vote, but I'm still gonna go ahead and
do it and I'm gonna put that video out there.
So yeah, a lot of stuff coming up. Of course, Frida,
we're gonna have what we learned this week with Jeremiah

(02:02:19):
Shan breaking down the week that was of training, and
then on Monday, Lobbis Cultures kickoff with Ori little Wall
where we break down what happened during the weekend, and
obviously we have the game on Monday night, so You're
gonna have to wait to see what happens with the
Sounders till later that.

Speaker 1 (02:02:36):
Day, and we will recap it all again when we
reconvene here at the same time again next week. As always,
my friend, great to see it. We'll catch up with
you next week as we are now full blown in
the MLS cut playoffs. Great to see you and have
a safe weekend.

Speaker 7 (02:02:48):
Thank you, John, Jared, my guy's good hearing you, my
man and SDH family. Always happy to be on.

Speaker 1 (02:02:55):
All right. We will catch up with you in a
week's time and there goes, There goes Nico. Nico is
gonna have like a second cup of coffee. I forgot
to ask what a cup of coffee he's on. Let's
put a bow on night number one in the wild
card and what stuck out in your brain in the
overall from this and what to look forward to for
tomorrow when we have Messi and friends in Nashville kicking

(02:03:17):
things off again.

Speaker 2 (02:03:19):
As much as we've talked about Orlando and the issues
with oscre give Greg his flowers first time. It's two
thousand and nine, the Chicago has gotten out of the
first round of the playoffs. There's gonna be a section
of there's gonna be a section of US national team
Twitter that is going to be up in arms and

(02:03:40):
still mad at Greg about I don't know, gesture at everything,
and you'll have it covered. That being said, give Greg
his flowers, Give Chicago their flowers, because it is one
thing to say that Orlando did not play well, that's true,
they did not. Chicago smelled blood in the water and
they were professional about that game. Off probably should have

(02:04:02):
had four or five goals in that game. Really professional
performance from them, Really cool for Chicago. I'm with you
all on Miami in Nashville. I I tend to fall
into the romantic trap with Miami because you have a
couple of legends retiring that they are going to empty
the tank every step of the way, and I could

(02:04:28):
see them getting to the fund, getting to the final
not whether they get it done remains to be seen.
I think they will. I think messy as much as anybody,
will leave literally everything on the table for his boys
to make sure that they get to walk off lifting
a trophy because yeah, man, that's that's the dream. We

(02:04:50):
don't often get our dreams. So Nashville will be a
pain in the ass for them. It's really is a
tricky pitfall for me to not slip into the ah.
But Miami's gonna try and make things happen for their boys.

Speaker 1 (02:05:08):
We'll see, yep. And before we get out of here,
I'm attempting to take care of unfortunate liqueur Rum and
various other sundry characters here so viewer so lisicit Tay
and spell solicitation, John b Ot and of course fat

(02:05:30):
Fingers take care of a bunch of other letters that
don't need to be in And thank you Derek for
letting us know your solicitation about twenty three characters. Reports
submitted and closed. So there we go. All right, So
tomorrow full show and the Yeah, David, the ninety meltdown
era really hurt that team maintained a bit after never

(02:05:50):
gotten back to it. The penalty shootout, red card chaos
with Galless, Yes, Galless and Schlegel and and all of
that was definitely a part of it too. And they struggled. Yeah,
and that that pitch and bridge view that definitely interesting,
uh an issue for years though, yeah, I know, uh
so wait a second, hang on, just a second, we

(02:06:11):
might have now Ricky Ricky being an intrepid producer.

Speaker 3 (02:06:16):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:06:17):
It appears that uh, the the gentleman known as Messi,
he appears to have written with that with that club,
So uh, I believe it is. Let's see. So he is.

Speaker 2 (02:06:31):
Apparently, Oh Derek, you're gonna have to wait two more years,
you're ready for well take it to your net.

Speaker 1 (02:06:39):
Yeah. So all right. So with the video is uh
that is on all the social media is we have
uh Leo looking at a stack of paper and he's
got the pen and it's not the framed photo where
you have the pen over the contract that you haven't signed,
but legitimately he signed it, and he's smiling and they've

(02:06:59):
removed everything from behind wherever he signed it, and it
looks like he's either in a playground or on a
beach or something. We're widening out the shot. Oh, he's
in the middle of Aye, he's in the middle of
Freedom Park. Okay, so he's in the middle of the
new Stadium and they continue to pull out with the
drone shot and they continue to pull out and it's
a pink sunset and it appears that it's another couple

(02:07:21):
of seasons of Leo Messi in his in his new stadium,
so he's going to be hanging around for at least
another season to open the park. Not necessarily a surprise
that that that is the case. But you end up
with Leo Messi and he's staying. He's a stay in,

(02:07:42):
you know, Ray and she's a stay in, so is Messi.
So Messi he's signed. Looks like it's another two and
there you go. So Leo is staying and we are
going because we got stuff to talk about Tomorrow. It
is a Lucas Panzika dropping by baton lead off. He's
going to talk about the National Series against Messi and friends.
Then it's hopefully our friends at Beyond Goals entering at

(02:08:04):
nine thirty, and we'll see who is going to be
joining us from Major League Soccer at ten well Polagic
radio play by play voice Charlotte, he's going to be
joining us at ten thirty to talk about his series
and no Wolf's a hod at least in match number one.
So very very busy day tomorrow to wrap your week,
and we'll put a bow on everything and get you
ready for it all. Jareded, thanks thanks for dropping by

(02:08:25):
and staying past your normal time before you have to
go and report to actual work.

Speaker 2 (02:08:31):
I know, right, that's good.

Speaker 1 (02:08:32):
Yeah, it's fine. Well yeah, but I don't want you to.

Speaker 2 (02:08:35):
Get a bunch of snow in the mountains nearby.

Speaker 1 (02:08:38):
So there's that. Oh well, there you go. So we
end on a contract extension and we're going to be
back at it again here in a little less than
twenty two hours. So for Jared, for Nino, for Niko,
all of you, I'm just John. Thanks for dropping bys
you always do. For another go round of sdh am
back at it again less than twenty two hours since
it's the end of the show, means we get to
do this, which patil Plate safe, we'll be back at

(02:08:59):
it again before you know it, otherwise known as tomorrow
back and then then m

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