March 27, 2025 • 33 mins
The Union posted another victory this past weekend and have now won 4 out of their first 5 games on the season! Never a dull day in the UNIONVERSE! Press play & hear how the gang is feeling after te 1-0 win over St Louis!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ex president of the Sons of Ben Matt Gantastic ax
had Capo, Adam Booth, ex player and forever a Union
legend Sebastian Latoo. These may be exes, but they're the
experts when it comes to the Philadelphia Union. This is
exes in the U.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Welcome back everybody to Xes in the you everyone. This
is episode number thirty one, and I have to say
everything is good in the universe. I am joying with
Adam Booth and club legend Sebastian Latoo.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Gentlemen, how are we doing today?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
It's good. It's good day, you know, feeling feeling pretty
pretty snazzy after a result like that.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah. Yeah, major League Baseball starts today and the Union
are what's the number on, Sebastian? What's the Union's record again?
Speaker 5 (00:51):
We are full and one, baby, I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Four and one the table, best in the East. Yeah,
it's It's been a very nice time being a Union fan.
So let's get into the match review. The Union helped
Bradley get revenge against Saint Louis probably the stingiest team
in Major League soccer. One nothing the good guys, guys
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who wants to take it? I mean Sebastian. You did
the radio, what we what were your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I mean, it was a lot of questioning before that
game because we are missing a lot of guys, so
we're kind of like, ah, are we going to be
able to you know, rebound after a tough loss against
Nashville and you know, almost kind of a similar weather,
you know, windy, But yeah, all the guys you know,
came in step up and you can see that we
have a little bit of death you know, in our
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in our roster. So it's I think it's positive for
the rest of the season. And it was a it
was a big win. You know, Saint Louis was undefeated.
They didn't get one goal against them, and the bait
like good teams, a bit galaxy in LA, you know,
so you feel like the team really put a big
performance defensively cleanch it for a rake Gladness, you know,
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I think that a great game coming back from from
like a tough one against Nashville. But you know, we
went back to his level. Glavinovich is getting a goal,
no first start, you know, you can see that. Okay,
we have another good guy in the center backs. So yeah,
it was a it was you know, great to see
you know, Area playing as a white miatfilder and ever
playing in his life but kind of handle his own
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as well and you know, pulling the work. So yeah,
it was I think very positive to to see that
we can still get a resort.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
When maybe we don't have all our starter in a team.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
But that's that's great for the Union and nights, you know,
I think good for the coaching stab in the same
time as they know that okay, we need to make
choices and everybody push push each other.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
So very positive and.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Hopefully you know, they kind of keep surfing on this
good wave and now it's another good one and fun
one to watch on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, yeah, Adam, you were you were at home with
the Bambino. It was this Leo's first Union latch to
watch with dad on TV.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
We did watch portions of it, but for the most
part we were entertaining relatives, so I was kind of
listening in my pocket, you know, air pod and listening
to the game of old school style. But look, this
was you know, this was an Ernst Tanor masterclass only
in the sense where all of what he was talking
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about in terms of depth, in terms of development. This
was it completely one hundred percent on display. You were
missing the better part of your starting roster, your head,
your captain slash goalkeeper. You know, this is an easy
game against a very stingy, like you said, very stingy
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team like Saint Louis. This has been an easy game
to drop points in and I'm not even sure that
many people would have been that confused on how it happened,
but to go in there and to not only get
the result. Yes, it's one nothing, but I think a
lot of times one nothing matches don't necessarily paint the
picture of a dominant match just because you've only scored
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one time. You know, if you look at the statistics
of the previous match, you dominated possession, you dominated in
terms of shot song, goal. You know, it was one
of these situations where there's only a handful of times
where you truly felt Saint Louis had an attack, you know,
something truly sustainable to put on Rick in the first place,
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and when it did happen, Andrew Rick rose to the occasion.
One of the things that I don't think we talk
about enough is we can talk about the mid we
talk about the midfield players, the Aaronson brothers, the Sullivan brothers,
you know, Mark McKenzie, Elston, Trusty, all these guys who've
come through the Union system. But I gotta say right now,
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Mike McCarthy, Matt Freeze, you know, Andre Blake. We have
a lot of premium goalkeepers have come through this system.
And Andrew Rick looks like he's poised to add himself
into the lexicon as he gets older, as he gets
more of these matches under this belt. You see the
confidence in the young man, and it's really encouraging to see.
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But no, but this was one of these situations where
the Union again could have folded across the board. This
is a very easily droppable points game and to come
in here to get a result, and to get a
result on what I hate more than anything, which is
the early goal. I hate teams scoring the early goal
unless it's followed up by a second early goal, because
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if not, people relax, people get oh, we're just going
to do this the whole game, and then they fall
into that false sense of security and games are lost
all the time. There. The Union ended up with nineteen shots,
nine of them getting on goal, you know, and they
held and maintained that composed or even win. Saint Louis
went down to ten men, which is another thing that
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if you've been a Union fan over the years, you've
known that the Union going up a man isn't always
the best case scenario for the team. So across the board,
you know, if you were skeptical about Ernst Tanner, I'm
not saying you're gonna put all of those fears and
all of those thoughts to rest, but you saw the
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moves that he made and what those players made an
impact in this match, and it's just you know, that's
real depth that the Union have right there.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah. Yeah, And I'll tell you what you can talk
about Ian getting his first goal, you could talk about
Glassness looked like twenty twenty Glassness. He was flying all
over the field. But for me, Nate Harriel, he had
to play two different positions coming off the injury. I
mean for me, Nate was like man of the match
or underrated man of the match. And like Sebastian's been
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saying this whole time, guys have to fight for their positions,
but they can get an opportunity, which is making everybody
hungry across the board, which makes it for these international
windows when we're losing six seven guys due to international
or red card. We didn't really miss a beat. I mean,
like you, Adam, I was a little nervous scoring with
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an eight minutes. You're like, okay, but I think scoring
against Saint Louis, they were like, oh no, what do
we do? This hasn't happened. Now. One other thing happened,
Adam at this game, which is starting to prove you
wrong a little bit. We got free nugnugs again. You
keep saying how difficult it is, but good god, we
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got free nuggets again.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Sometimes these soccer gods don't enjoy hubris.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, I think I was humbled and I want to
explain to everybody because I had to talk to the
Union to find out. Download the chick fla app allow
your location on. So you're in the Philadelphia region and
you get the nug Nugs. You have to redeem it
before ten thirty am on Monday for a Saturday or
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Sunday game. So it's just download the app and make
sure you do it before Monday morning. You get your
nuggets and you get like three days to redeem them.
Same thing with the Sixers. Just let everybody know. That's
the nugget news.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
You know this is for a company that doesn't open
on Sundays.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Well you get them on Monday, man, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Fair enough today and nuggies. I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Ten thirty. I already picked mine up for the Sixers game.
I wasn't even there.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You know they got two of them last night. I
didn't know if you saw that.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I did not. I guess that's why I get more
more two.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I mean, they still lost the game for the fiftieth
loss of the season, but two three Chick fil A
nugget packages. I think it's now up to eight nuggets
they get. I think it was five to eight to twelve.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I think it's the Sixers need to do whatever they
can to get another Cooper in town, so keep some
people keep losing. But now the only other thing I
can report on I got the opportunity to sit in
the new seats.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Mm hm.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I was I was gifted. You know, I make it
that kind of money, but I was gifted the opportunity
to have me and three other people sit in the
new seats. And let me tell you, if you can,
you should a little TV screen the refrigerator the server
coming out the little the speakeasy isn't ready. There's a
little room up in the Prime Port Club or whatever.
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But you know, all in all, a nice experience, and
the barricade kind of blocked the wind a little bit.
But you have to keep your head on a swivel
because if somebody hits a line drive, your head's getting
taken off. I mean, but the seats are good. I
kind of enjoyed it. I think we should all, you know,
as a pod, I think we should all sit and
get those seats. At some point, we just have to
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get Subashian out of the booth.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I just can't wait until they implement the same netting
that has to go around like a best baseball stadium. Now.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Oh yeah, like hockey.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yeah, someone's little girl is going to take a ball
directly to the face and we're going to change policy
real quick.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah but no, like we said, great game against Saint Louis.
Everyone's feeling good. Let's keep this train going. Union news.
We are now in first place. Ian got his first
ever Team of the match day honors and the big news.
I don't know if you saw this, guys, I hope
you did. August second, The Germans are coming. The Germans
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are coming. I'm track. Frankfurt is coming to play the
Union for probably the first game I'm actually interested in
for one of our freebies in a long time. And
it looks like it's the return of Paxton Aaronson. His
loan is up in June, and they believe he's going
to travel with the team. So what are the chances
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we're gonna see Aaronson on Sullivan Crome August?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Second, it better be. What's the point otherwise? I mean, like,
I love you, and aren't we partners with them? Like,
isn't there like a weird relationship we have with them
or something?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm not sure about the Union, But Frankfort is a
sister city of Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Okay, cool? So I mean so is Kobe and I
haven't seen them show up yet, you know, so, like,
but hey, cool, I'm here for this. I'm very excited.
But at the same time, you know, look, I like
these friendlies too because MLS is and Sebastian can tell
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me I'm wrong in an instant, but I from my feelings,
MLS is getting a little bit more legitimate over across
the pond, mainly because they can bet on it, and
it's really nice for them to bet on something at
like in the middle of the summer. But you know,
I think these matches kind of help us. I kind
of wish we would go over there more often, to
be honest with you, you know, I think like spreading
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the Gospel of Eintrach Frankfort in America is one thing,
but spreading the Gospel of the Union in Frankfurt would
be another thing. And I kind of wish we would
do that more often. But I'm here for it, you know,
I'll be there if I can get away from the Bandbina.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah, so passion. How did you feel when you played,
you know, these friendlies against European clubs coming in What
was it like you as a player, It was more
like this is a pain in my ass because it's
one other game middle of the season. Or is it like, hey,
we get to measure ourselves against the Bundesliga team or
something like that.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Yeah, it was mostly the second one, you know, measure
africanst you know, English team like we play.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
You know Bone Moon's Stoke City, you know, when I
was there, and then we had the chance to play
Real Madrid Manchester United, which was a kind of a
great game to play. You know, it's kind of those
team you're looking for when you're a kid, so it
was a kind of exciting, you know to play, like
especially at the link. But when we play at Subau
and he was a beginning, you can see that he
was a lot of fan of those teams not coming
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as well, and yeah, you know that usually you know,
as they play forty five minutes, everybody play, you know,
in those games, so you can see everybody as well.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
So if you are we want to see you know,
some young guys. It's a it's a game to to
be at. And you know, August second, which is you
know close to almost know the beginning of the season
for them, so you might see you know, probably not
you know, just their young guys, but probably some good
players were from Frankfurt. So yeah, if you if you
like soccer and you want to see what's you know
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level and German team can be, it's definitely a good
game to be at.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, and Frankfurt right now fourth in the Bundesa so
they're fighting for championship champions league, so that that's impressive
and I know a lot of Frankfurt guys from New
York City are coming down. They're gonna be with friend
of the pod Brahl Schmidts, and we're going to see
who else is there. So I think we will announce
at some point, like just different events and people want
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to meet the Frankfurt people that kind of stuff. Well,
we'll let you know. But speaking of trips, adam Nashville
July fourth, the two we're starting to get some momentimum sales.
I am your trip coordinator, so that's gonna be a
good time. But so fourth of July, go to Philly
sports trips dot com. We're gonna see what's going on.
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But you get to see Sebastela too in Nashville as well.
As it is the revenge tour. That's the only loss
we have. We're coming for blood, right, Sebah, I.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Love you as a revenge too. I didn't even think
about it, but yeah, I guess so, yes, yeah I don't.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I don't. I don't forget the slights that people make
against the Philadelphia Union and Nashville. Right now is the
top of the list. Last year was Columbus. So yeah,
I've got a list of enemies mile long. All right,
let's go into the League, speaking of Nashville is looking
really good, speaking of and Uh and speaking of opposite
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of looking really good, Adam. We talked about this a
little bit. See if Montreal has parted ways with their
head coach, you have many thoughts on the way Montreal
is managed.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
There at a disgrace to major League soccer.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I always thought Thaticago Fire where, but I'm starting to
think Montreal is the disgrace of Major League soccer.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Look, if you followed us from one pod to another,
from the original Suns of Bend pod to this one,
You'll know that I've had a contempt for Chicago for forever,
because there is no greater market that would love to
have a team that was operated properly than the third
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largest media market in the United States, the quote second city.
They would be hugely appreciated with the Chicago Fire got
their act together, the Chicago Fire refuses to and here
we are. Same thing applies here. And the thing about
this is there is an apathy now in Montreal for
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these boys, where they're not even upset, They're just kind
of used to this, Like this is the thing that
I find interesting. And I will always say that the
Union fans can hold this team in this organization to
whatever standard they deem fit, and I support that. But
when I hear about sometimes the complaints about what the
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union don't do, and then I team see a team
like CF Montreal just exist. I'm thankful that I have
an Ernst Tanner because at least, even if the innovation
isn't a fifteen million dollars striker from the second division
of France, it is people are coming in and change
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is happening, and innovation is being taken. People are caring.
I don't know if anyone is caring right now in Montreal,
and are we about to have a major league situation
where the ownership is hoping this team bottoms out so
they can just move them to Vegas and call it
a day, Because right now it just looks like a
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similar situation to the Oakland Athletics or you know, the
Sacramento Kings at one time. They're just not trying to
do anything to compete.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I've got a point on that, But I want to
get former Major League Soccer Apple TV French consultant Sebastiana too.
You you spent a lot of time in Montreal correct
last year covering them.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I didn't go too much in Montreal, but I did
in a few few traits. But I mean Montreal it's
a it's a talker city. I think they have probably
more money and more you know, a good investor to
do something. They just I guess didn't choose the right
person to lead.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
You know. It's it's tough and you can see a
lot of people in this league. I don't think it's
just Montreal, but like yes, people who decide to who
they want to bring into their team as coach, as players.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
It's a big influence, you know.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
So yeah, it's definitely the point from Montreal. But I
know a player, you know, it's kind of like the
lot like Montreal here. For a long time, I used
to play against the in USL. It's a big team.
You know, if you are showing a good entertainment, they
will come.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
You know.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
They was an okay stadium. You know, they kind of
read it a little bit, kind of like the Philly Union.
You know, they can of course be better, but it's
a great area right above you know the Olympic. You know,
flame in nineteen seventy eight if I'm correct in my history.
But yeah, it's a.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I love the city.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
It's a great city for so occur you know, of
course the a lot of hockey. It's Knada, but in
the summer time, you know, if they deliver a good
product and finac sally to kind of see them in
the top of the standing, this place will be like working.
But right now, yeah, he has been like struggling for
a long time. And since they arriving a in the MLS,
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we didn't see really them a lot on top where
the white extarding is.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
When theybe is that drug bar.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
You know, it was kind of the time where you're like, okay,
Montreal drug bar, we'll.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
See some fun stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
But since then we don't really see a lot from
austral So yeah, maybe the wing till that time. You know,
it took what fifty years for the Eagles to get
a super board, so maybe you know he was the
same for Montreal. But it's okay for me, you know,
holp Pavili Union to be on top instead of that.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah, and Adam you mentioned, you know the Major League reference,
which a lot of people are thinking, there's the conspiracy
theory that Montreal would like to be in Vegas because
we know MLS wants to be in Vegas. I don't
know how to break this to Montreal. None of the
owners are gonna let you move because they're gonna get
a billion dollar franchise fee for a Vegas team. So
unless you're willing to pay another franchise fee to move
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to Vegas, it ain't gonna get approved. So you might
want to start sticking around and you know, do something
with yourself's, like Spashion said, not a good fan base.
It's a great city, but they have no game plan.
And as much as people want to, you know, trash
about the uh, you know what the Union do and
how they do things. They have a game plan. They
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tell you what the plan is, they try to execute it.
And right now we're four and one, so careful what
you wish for because we could end up being you know,
you could be like Montreal, or you could be like
the Eagles from forty seven years ago, like Sebastian said.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
And you know, the craziest thing is Matt Like I
work in Ultimate Frisbee. These guys are showing up for
Ultimate Frisbee matches like they sometimes even play in the
stadium that see if Montreal plays it, and like Montreal
has proven itself a great sports city. If you've ever
seen the Canadians play in the Bell I'm not sure
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it's called the Bell Center anymore, but when it was,
you saw easily one of the best sport fan bases
in North America period, down right. So it's to me
very disappointing to see the direction they're going in. And
it's also in a sense where to me, it's similar
to when you know the Flyers fire Tortorella and all
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these guys. I'm like, you're not giving these coaches full
guns to play with, so why are you upset that
they can't fire enough bullets? Like what are you You're
not giving them enough to compete and then firing them
because they can't compete. And I'm just like, I don't
know what the plan is there. If it is the
bottom out and move to Vegas, Just move to Vegas,
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just do it, you know, Like I love you know,
what I hate is the Oakland Athletics ownership, But I
do love the gangsterness of just saying, yeah, we don't care,
We're just gonna do it. Like we're just gonna do it.
It's gonna be the least popular thing of all time,
We're gonna turn off the comment section to all of
our social media posts and no one can just rag
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on us. And we're just gonna move to Vegas. So
much so we're gonna put Las Vegas on the sleeve
whilst we're playing in Sacramento. And I'm just like, all right, cool.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Well, you're you're giving me a good segue, because we're
talking about disappointment. We're talking about having enough bullets or
the coach not knowing how to fire the gun. I
guess we have to address the US men's national team.
Holy disaster. How bad is this? I mean, we lose
the Panadama, we lose the Canada. Up next, we got
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Turkey in Switzerland and June for friendlies. This can't look
any worse before the World Cup coming in, can't look
any worse. It's so bad. I feel like the US
men's team has taught them. That's how I feel. Sebastian,
you want to talk about the US men's national team
and any impressions you have before Adam goes on a
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ten minute rant.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Yeah, I mean this done.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I leave here since a long time, so I'm, you know,
definitely a fan of the US but.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
I don't get excited. It's the only thing.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
It's just like whatever team you play or like even
a competition like this, it's not you know, on TV
for everybody to watch. It's not you know, I don't know,
like there's a team I don't see like this coming
up in to the World Cup, Like I would love
to be more excited, but I don't see it. So
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it's out like I still of course you know from
friends to look at the French. I didn't watch your game,
but I was more excited for them to beat Croatia
in pick and pretty far for my finals and oh
I'm going to watch you know, the US game, which
I didn't watch again. So yeah, it's kind of this.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
You know, I'm missing and I don't know how to
get it.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
But you need to come from the player and you know,
from the federation and you know, helping I guess the
fans to really like start throwing this team.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, listen, you're not the only one that was disinterested.
The players looked like they didn't want to be there. Adam, go,
we put the we put the ball on the tee
hit it. Look.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
I hate to say, I told you so, No, you
don't no, I don't. Actually, I told you so. I've
been telling you this for since the twenty twenty two
World Cup. I've been telling you this since they literally
left Quitar. This was the most important World Cup in
the history of American soccer. That's it. There's no other
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And this was the most important. This coming up is
the most important soccer tournament in the history of this nation.
And you had it set up. You told me the boys,
We're gonna send the third youngest team in the world
to Katar And why are we doing this? Why are
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we saying goodbye to all of the legends and all
the Star Wars players and the Clinton Dempseys and all
these Why are none of these people making the roster
in twenty twenty two? Because this team is going to
grow together. This team is going to blossom into a
Golden generation, and when it hosts a World Cup, it'll
be ready to compete possibly quarterpot finals, maybe even a
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semi final, and finally solidify locally and internationally men's So
in the United States, and after what I saw against
the in the Nations leagues, against Panama, against Canada and
all parts in between, the legacy of the US women's
soccer team is completely intact. They're going to be the
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greatest team still who's ever graased the stage in American soccer.
And it's not even going to be close. These gentlemen,
by every stretch of the imagination, are just not good enough.
There's no world where I'm playing Joe Scally and I'm
playing Josh Sargent up top, and I'm hoping these will
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compete against Spain, against France, against Germany, against any club
in South America. We can't beat Panama PanAm No disrespect
to the Panaminians, but if we're supposed to be the
soccer nation that we claim to be, we should win
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at home. Again, it's Panama in Los Angeles. Look it
to me right now, if the US wasn't an automatic
qualifier because they were a host, I would be concerned
they would not qualify for the twenty twenty six World Cup,
authentically concerned. You're not better than Mexico, You're not better
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than Canada. You might not be better than Panama. You
might be the fourth best team in your own continent,
which normally would get you not even a seat at
the World Cup. So right now you have to look
yourself in the mirror, and it comes from the very top.
I have known they moved the Federation from Chicago, but
it came from when they were in Chicago. When you
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did Bruce Arena for the second time, when you did
triple g for the second time, you were an unserious organization.
You've been an unserious organization. And Sebastian can tell you
there's a reason Didier Deschamps is there. He has his
guys and they've made something beautiful in France, where in
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America it is dysfunction one oh one. And it led
to the pitch shocker.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Yep. Well, I don't know if those were your words
or you were quoting Jesse Marsh, but it sounds pretty
much the same.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Who who should have been the coach of the United
States And we all know this, And because of the
incompetence of the US Soccer Federation is what we're into
right now. The reason we have pay to play in
the United States means we're never gonna discover the best
talent in our country. And that's just a fact. Well
that's just a fact. So until we figure that out,
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we're gonna keep telling us that Weston mckennie is the best,
that we got. We're gonna keep telling you that Christian
Polistics the best they got. And look, they play at Juventus,
they played ac Milan. Doesn't that mean something. I would
love for you to play at freaking pol Aermo. I
would love for you to play in Sheshuan as long
as you can compete. I don't give a crap what
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your badge is when you play club. Where is your
energy when it's a red, white and blue badge?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Well, Adam, I don't want to cut you off, but
I got to put my Garrett Stubbs Chief vibes to
get the vibes going. We've got Miami guys. I'm going
to start this off. You know, we are number one.
We're battling Miami, who is technically because they had a
week off, number three. But this is the battle for
first place in Miami. Sabashian, I know you just did
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the show on PHL seventeen, which airs on Friday nights.
Give us a preview of what we're seeing. I mean,
we may not even.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
See MESSI yeah, I mean I don't really care about Miami.
I'm about the Union. I mean it's definitely going to
for me, just a great game to just watch and enjoy.
You know, I think what I say in the show today,
it's you know, we always say, you know, it's a
it's a game where you have nothing to lose, But
I always say you have everything to win about that game.
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It's it's a game I think, with not too much
pressure for the team. You know, they are first in
the league, they play Miami, We're supposed to be the
best in their stadium. So I feel like it's kind
of like I just want them to be able just
to play the ways I've been playing in the first
five games, especially when they were away, you know, kind
of being aggressive, you know, attacking and not kind of
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like thinking how we play and all the Missy team
or the Buskit or the Alba and we're going to
be shy, you know, like which could happen, And it
happened to me when I play Tyrry on it the
first time. You know, you're like kind of like not
just watchings and you know, playing your own game. So
I kind of just want them to pass that and
just be like, hey, we are first in the East.
Let's plays the number one in the East and make
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it difficult for Miami to beat us and maybe you know,
get to get a win and maybe make a little
statement after six you know game in a league. So
for me, just a fun game for the guys to play.
There is a win, fantastic, There's a tie fantastic. There's
a lose fantastic too, you know, because they will still
be second you know or certain league whatever still on top.
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And uh and then we come back home against Orlando.
But it's definitely a good, you know thing for the coach.
He has the a lot player to choose from. You
can choose the best line up, and if he doesn't
work out, the guy you are on the bench would
be hungry to come and help. So I'm just really
excited to to kind of just sit down, watch the
game and uh and enjoy you all kind of a
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good soccer game and hopefully, yes I'm not going to
get shy and play them the same way as an
Orlando is being aggressive and trying to score and win
the game.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, I mean I'm excited for the game. Side note,
I'm going down that all last minute trip, so gonna
gonna watch it in person. Haven't been in that stadium,
so I'm looking forward to crossing that off the list. Adam,
how are you feeling about Miami. I mean, Will Smith
just got his street by Overbrooks, so I mean, this
is Philly Miami. It's all over the.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Place, party in the city, where the heat is on.
I look, I'm excited. I think this is a great matchup.
I think, you know, Miami is more than messy. I
think we really need to stress that, and they are.
They have a great academy, they have a lot of
great talent in there, and not to take them lightly
in any capacity, It's going to be a battle. I
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like our chances, though I don't know. I think we're
five games in, right, and first two three games we
can all say, all right, they're getting their sea legs together,
or they took advantage of opponents, or the other teams aren't.
But like at this point to be five and one
and the one game to be lost to a Nashville
team that we all think is a good Nashville team,
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and circumstances being half the league believes you were robbed
in that Nashville game. So look like, I think we
can go compete, you know, And I think that's really
the only thing you can ask for in these situations,
especially going on the road into that type of an environment.
I think you can compete with inter Miami, you know.
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And again, if you lose this game, do I believe
this is an indictment on the Union? Absolutely not. If
you win this game, do I believe this solidifies the
Union as a contender. Quincidentally enough in might you know?
And And that's the thing about it is, this is
a situation where in our modern society we love to
do the there's no wins, there's only loss of scenarios
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where if you win it doesn't matter, but if you lose,
it's the worst thing ever. But I think it's literally
the exact opposite here. If you win, if you go
into Miami and you win this game, and you win
this game with any definitive nature, you solidify that you
are trying to compete this year and that you're force
to be reckoned with That's just it. If you lose
this game, you're four and two, You're still probably in
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the top three at minimum, and you can go on
and build from there and see what the next steps are.
It's a win win for me on this one. And
I think we're playing with the proverbial house money here, So.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, no, I am excited for this game. We come back.
We have Orlando at home. I know we're getting on
in the wire for our timing that we already had
because we all have some things we got to get done.
So I want to thank you both for coming on. Seba,
thank you so much. We will We saw some of
the socials that the soccer camp happening. We'll keep everybody
informed about that. Adam, we know the Phoenix are coming soon,
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so we will keep everyone informed about that. But hey,
go Union. Let's try to beat Miami and then we
will see everybody at Subaru Park against Orlando. So thanks
a lot everyone that was episode number thirty one. Have
a great day.
Ex president of the Sons of Ben Matt Gantastic ax
had Capo, Adam Booth, ex player and forever a Union
legend Sebastian Latoo. These may be exes, but they're the
experts when it comes to the Philadelphia Union. This is
exes in the U.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Welcome back everybody to Xes in the you everyone. This
is episode number thirty one, and I have to say
everything is good in the universe. I am joying with
Adam Booth and club legend Sebastian Latoo.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Gentlemen, how are we doing today?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
It's good. It's good day, you know, feeling feeling pretty
pretty snazzy after a result like that.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah. Yeah, major League Baseball starts today and the Union
are what's the number on, Sebastian? What's the Union's record again?
Speaker 5 (00:51):
We are full and one, baby, I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Four and one the table, best in the East. Yeah,
it's It's been a very nice time being a Union fan.
So let's get into the match review. The Union helped
Bradley get revenge against Saint Louis probably the stingiest team
in Major League soccer. One nothing the good guys, guys
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who wants to take it? I mean Sebastian. You did
the radio, what we what were your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I mean, it was a lot of questioning before that
game because we are missing a lot of guys, so
we're kind of like, ah, are we going to be
able to you know, rebound after a tough loss against
Nashville and you know, almost kind of a similar weather,
you know, windy, But yeah, all the guys you know,
came in step up and you can see that we
have a little bit of death you know, in our
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in our roster. So it's I think it's positive for
the rest of the season. And it was a it
was a big win. You know, Saint Louis was undefeated.
They didn't get one goal against them, and the bait
like good teams, a bit galaxy in LA, you know,
so you feel like the team really put a big
performance defensively cleanch it for a rake Gladness, you know,
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I think that a great game coming back from from
like a tough one against Nashville. But you know, we
went back to his level. Glavinovich is getting a goal,
no first start, you know, you can see that. Okay,
we have another good guy in the center backs. So yeah,
it was a it was you know, great to see
you know, Area playing as a white miatfilder and ever
playing in his life but kind of handle his own
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as well and you know, pulling the work. So yeah,
it was I think very positive to to see that
we can still get a resort.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
When maybe we don't have all our starter in a team.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
But that's that's great for the Union and nights, you know,
I think good for the coaching stab in the same
time as they know that okay, we need to make
choices and everybody push push each other.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
So very positive and.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Hopefully you know, they kind of keep surfing on this
good wave and now it's another good one and fun
one to watch on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, yeah, Adam, you were you were at home with
the Bambino. It was this Leo's first Union latch to
watch with dad on TV.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
We did watch portions of it, but for the most
part we were entertaining relatives, so I was kind of
listening in my pocket, you know, air pod and listening
to the game of old school style. But look, this
was you know, this was an Ernst Tanor masterclass only
in the sense where all of what he was talking
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about in terms of depth, in terms of development. This
was it completely one hundred percent on display. You were
missing the better part of your starting roster, your head,
your captain slash goalkeeper. You know, this is an easy
game against a very stingy, like you said, very stingy
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team like Saint Louis. This has been an easy game
to drop points in and I'm not even sure that
many people would have been that confused on how it happened,
but to go in there and to not only get
the result. Yes, it's one nothing, but I think a
lot of times one nothing matches don't necessarily paint the
picture of a dominant match just because you've only scored
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one time. You know, if you look at the statistics
of the previous match, you dominated possession, you dominated in
terms of shot song, goal. You know, it was one
of these situations where there's only a handful of times
where you truly felt Saint Louis had an attack, you know,
something truly sustainable to put on Rick in the first place,
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and when it did happen, Andrew Rick rose to the occasion.
One of the things that I don't think we talk
about enough is we can talk about the mid we
talk about the midfield players, the Aaronson brothers, the Sullivan brothers,
you know, Mark McKenzie, Elston, Trusty, all these guys who've
come through the Union system. But I gotta say right now,
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Mike McCarthy, Matt Freeze, you know, Andre Blake. We have
a lot of premium goalkeepers have come through this system.
And Andrew Rick looks like he's poised to add himself
into the lexicon as he gets older, as he gets
more of these matches under this belt. You see the
confidence in the young man, and it's really encouraging to see.
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But no, but this was one of these situations where
the Union again could have folded across the board. This
is a very easily droppable points game and to come
in here to get a result, and to get a
result on what I hate more than anything, which is
the early goal. I hate teams scoring the early goal
unless it's followed up by a second early goal, because
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if not, people relax, people get oh, we're just going
to do this the whole game, and then they fall
into that false sense of security and games are lost
all the time. There. The Union ended up with nineteen shots,
nine of them getting on goal, you know, and they
held and maintained that composed or even win. Saint Louis
went down to ten men, which is another thing that
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if you've been a Union fan over the years, you've
known that the Union going up a man isn't always
the best case scenario for the team. So across the board,
you know, if you were skeptical about Ernst Tanner, I'm
not saying you're gonna put all of those fears and
all of those thoughts to rest, but you saw the
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moves that he made and what those players made an
impact in this match, and it's just you know, that's
real depth that the Union have right there.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah. Yeah, And I'll tell you what you can talk
about Ian getting his first goal, you could talk about
Glassness looked like twenty twenty Glassness. He was flying all
over the field. But for me, Nate Harriel, he had
to play two different positions coming off the injury. I
mean for me, Nate was like man of the match
or underrated man of the match. And like Sebastian's been
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saying this whole time, guys have to fight for their positions,
but they can get an opportunity, which is making everybody
hungry across the board, which makes it for these international
windows when we're losing six seven guys due to international
or red card. We didn't really miss a beat. I mean,
like you, Adam, I was a little nervous scoring with
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an eight minutes. You're like, okay, but I think scoring
against Saint Louis, they were like, oh no, what do
we do? This hasn't happened. Now. One other thing happened,
Adam at this game, which is starting to prove you
wrong a little bit. We got free nugnugs again. You
keep saying how difficult it is, but good god, we
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got free nuggets again.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Sometimes these soccer gods don't enjoy hubris.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, I think I was humbled and I want to
explain to everybody because I had to talk to the
Union to find out. Download the chick fla app allow
your location on. So you're in the Philadelphia region and
you get the nug Nugs. You have to redeem it
before ten thirty am on Monday for a Saturday or
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Sunday game. So it's just download the app and make
sure you do it before Monday morning. You get your
nuggets and you get like three days to redeem them.
Same thing with the Sixers. Just let everybody know. That's
the nugget news.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
You know this is for a company that doesn't open
on Sundays.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Well you get them on Monday, man, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Fair enough today and nuggies. I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Ten thirty. I already picked mine up for the Sixers game.
I wasn't even there.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You know they got two of them last night. I
didn't know if you saw that.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I did not. I guess that's why I get more
more two.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I mean, they still lost the game for the fiftieth
loss of the season, but two three Chick fil A
nugget packages. I think it's now up to eight nuggets
they get. I think it was five to eight to twelve.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I think it's the Sixers need to do whatever they
can to get another Cooper in town, so keep some
people keep losing. But now the only other thing I
can report on I got the opportunity to sit in
the new seats.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Mm hm.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I was I was gifted. You know, I make it
that kind of money, but I was gifted the opportunity
to have me and three other people sit in the
new seats. And let me tell you, if you can,
you should a little TV screen the refrigerator the server
coming out the little the speakeasy isn't ready. There's a
little room up in the Prime Port Club or whatever.
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But you know, all in all, a nice experience, and
the barricade kind of blocked the wind a little bit.
But you have to keep your head on a swivel
because if somebody hits a line drive, your head's getting
taken off. I mean, but the seats are good. I
kind of enjoyed it. I think we should all, you know,
as a pod, I think we should all sit and
get those seats. At some point, we just have to
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get Subashian out of the booth.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I just can't wait until they implement the same netting
that has to go around like a best baseball stadium. Now.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Oh yeah, like hockey.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yeah, someone's little girl is going to take a ball
directly to the face and we're going to change policy
real quick.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah but no, like we said, great game against Saint Louis.
Everyone's feeling good. Let's keep this train going. Union news.
We are now in first place. Ian got his first
ever Team of the match day honors and the big news.
I don't know if you saw this, guys, I hope
you did. August second, The Germans are coming. The Germans
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are coming. I'm track. Frankfurt is coming to play the
Union for probably the first game I'm actually interested in
for one of our freebies in a long time. And
it looks like it's the return of Paxton Aaronson. His
loan is up in June, and they believe he's going
to travel with the team. So what are the chances
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we're gonna see Aaronson on Sullivan Crome August?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Second, it better be. What's the point otherwise? I mean, like,
I love you, and aren't we partners with them? Like,
isn't there like a weird relationship we have with them
or something?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm not sure about the Union, But Frankfort is a
sister city of Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Okay, cool? So I mean so is Kobe and I
haven't seen them show up yet, you know, so, like,
but hey, cool, I'm here for this. I'm very excited.
But at the same time, you know, look, I like
these friendlies too because MLS is and Sebastian can tell
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me I'm wrong in an instant, but I from my feelings,
MLS is getting a little bit more legitimate over across
the pond, mainly because they can bet on it, and
it's really nice for them to bet on something at
like in the middle of the summer. But you know,
I think these matches kind of help us. I kind
of wish we would go over there more often, to
be honest with you, you know, I think like spreading
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the Gospel of Eintrach Frankfort in America is one thing,
but spreading the Gospel of the Union in Frankfurt would
be another thing. And I kind of wish we would
do that more often. But I'm here for it, you know,
I'll be there if I can get away from the Bandbina.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah, so passion. How did you feel when you played,
you know, these friendlies against European clubs coming in What
was it like you as a player, It was more
like this is a pain in my ass because it's
one other game middle of the season. Or is it like, hey,
we get to measure ourselves against the Bundesliga team or
something like that.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Yeah, it was mostly the second one, you know, measure
africanst you know, English team like we play.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
You know Bone Moon's Stoke City, you know, when I
was there, and then we had the chance to play
Real Madrid Manchester United, which was a kind of a
great game to play. You know, it's kind of those
team you're looking for when you're a kid, so it
was a kind of exciting, you know to play, like
especially at the link. But when we play at Subau
and he was a beginning, you can see that he
was a lot of fan of those teams not coming
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as well, and yeah, you know that usually you know,
as they play forty five minutes, everybody play, you know,
in those games, so you can see everybody as well.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
So if you are we want to see you know,
some young guys. It's a it's a game to to
be at. And you know, August second, which is you
know close to almost know the beginning of the season
for them, so you might see you know, probably not
you know, just their young guys, but probably some good
players were from Frankfurt. So yeah, if you if you
like soccer and you want to see what's you know
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level and German team can be, it's definitely a good
game to be at.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, and Frankfurt right now fourth in the Bundesa so
they're fighting for championship champions league, so that that's impressive
and I know a lot of Frankfurt guys from New
York City are coming down. They're gonna be with friend
of the pod Brahl Schmidts, and we're going to see
who else is there. So I think we will announce
at some point, like just different events and people want
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to meet the Frankfurt people that kind of stuff. Well,
we'll let you know. But speaking of trips, adam Nashville
July fourth, the two we're starting to get some momentimum sales.
I am your trip coordinator, so that's gonna be a
good time. But so fourth of July, go to Philly
sports trips dot com. We're gonna see what's going on.
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But you get to see Sebastela too in Nashville as well.
As it is the revenge tour. That's the only loss
we have. We're coming for blood, right, Sebah, I.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Love you as a revenge too. I didn't even think
about it, but yeah, I guess so, yes, yeah I don't.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I don't. I don't forget the slights that people make
against the Philadelphia Union and Nashville. Right now is the
top of the list. Last year was Columbus. So yeah,
I've got a list of enemies mile long. All right,
let's go into the League, speaking of Nashville is looking
really good, speaking of and Uh and speaking of opposite
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of looking really good, Adam. We talked about this a
little bit. See if Montreal has parted ways with their
head coach, you have many thoughts on the way Montreal
is managed.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
There at a disgrace to major League soccer.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I always thought Thaticago Fire where, but I'm starting to
think Montreal is the disgrace of Major League soccer.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Look, if you followed us from one pod to another,
from the original Suns of Bend pod to this one,
You'll know that I've had a contempt for Chicago for forever,
because there is no greater market that would love to
have a team that was operated properly than the third
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largest media market in the United States, the quote second city.
They would be hugely appreciated with the Chicago Fire got
their act together, the Chicago Fire refuses to and here
we are. Same thing applies here. And the thing about
this is there is an apathy now in Montreal for
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these boys, where they're not even upset, They're just kind
of used to this, Like this is the thing that
I find interesting. And I will always say that the
Union fans can hold this team in this organization to
whatever standard they deem fit, and I support that. But
when I hear about sometimes the complaints about what the
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union don't do, and then I team see a team
like CF Montreal just exist. I'm thankful that I have
an Ernst Tanner because at least, even if the innovation
isn't a fifteen million dollars striker from the second division
of France, it is people are coming in and change
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is happening, and innovation is being taken. People are caring.
I don't know if anyone is caring right now in Montreal,
and are we about to have a major league situation
where the ownership is hoping this team bottoms out so
they can just move them to Vegas and call it
a day, Because right now it just looks like a
(16:52):
similar situation to the Oakland Athletics or you know, the
Sacramento Kings at one time. They're just not trying to
do anything to compete.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I've got a point on that, But I want to
get former Major League Soccer Apple TV French consultant Sebastiana too.
You you spent a lot of time in Montreal correct
last year covering them.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I didn't go too much in Montreal, but I did
in a few few traits. But I mean Montreal it's
a it's a talker city. I think they have probably
more money and more you know, a good investor to
do something. They just I guess didn't choose the right
person to lead.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
You know. It's it's tough and you can see a
lot of people in this league. I don't think it's
just Montreal, but like yes, people who decide to who
they want to bring into their team as coach, as players.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
It's a big influence, you know.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
So yeah, it's definitely the point from Montreal. But I
know a player, you know, it's kind of like the
lot like Montreal here. For a long time, I used
to play against the in USL. It's a big team.
You know, if you are showing a good entertainment, they
will come.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
You know.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
They was an okay stadium. You know, they kind of
read it a little bit, kind of like the Philly Union.
You know, they can of course be better, but it's
a great area right above you know the Olympic. You know,
flame in nineteen seventy eight if I'm correct in my history.
But yeah, it's a.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I love the city.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
It's a great city for so occur you know, of
course the a lot of hockey. It's Knada, but in
the summer time, you know, if they deliver a good
product and finac sally to kind of see them in
the top of the standing, this place will be like working.
But right now, yeah, he has been like struggling for
a long time. And since they arriving a in the MLS,
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we didn't see really them a lot on top where
the white extarding is.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
When theybe is that drug bar.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
You know, it was kind of the time where you're like, okay,
Montreal drug bar, we'll.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
See some fun stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
But since then we don't really see a lot from
austral So yeah, maybe the wing till that time. You know,
it took what fifty years for the Eagles to get
a super board, so maybe you know he was the
same for Montreal. But it's okay for me, you know,
holp Pavili Union to be on top instead of that.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah, and Adam you mentioned, you know the Major League reference,
which a lot of people are thinking, there's the conspiracy
theory that Montreal would like to be in Vegas because
we know MLS wants to be in Vegas. I don't
know how to break this to Montreal. None of the
owners are gonna let you move because they're gonna get
a billion dollar franchise fee for a Vegas team. So
unless you're willing to pay another franchise fee to move
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to Vegas, it ain't gonna get approved. So you might
want to start sticking around and you know, do something
with yourself's, like Spashion said, not a good fan base.
It's a great city, but they have no game plan.
And as much as people want to, you know, trash
about the uh, you know what the Union do and
how they do things. They have a game plan. They
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tell you what the plan is, they try to execute it.
And right now we're four and one, so careful what
you wish for because we could end up being you know,
you could be like Montreal, or you could be like
the Eagles from forty seven years ago, like Sebastian said.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
And you know, the craziest thing is Matt Like I
work in Ultimate Frisbee. These guys are showing up for
Ultimate Frisbee matches like they sometimes even play in the
stadium that see if Montreal plays it, and like Montreal
has proven itself a great sports city. If you've ever
seen the Canadians play in the Bell I'm not sure
(20:32):
it's called the Bell Center anymore, but when it was,
you saw easily one of the best sport fan bases
in North America period, down right. So it's to me
very disappointing to see the direction they're going in. And
it's also in a sense where to me, it's similar
to when you know the Flyers fire Tortorella and all
(20:54):
these guys. I'm like, you're not giving these coaches full
guns to play with, so why are you upset that
they can't fire enough bullets? Like what are you You're
not giving them enough to compete and then firing them
because they can't compete. And I'm just like, I don't
know what the plan is there. If it is the
bottom out and move to Vegas, Just move to Vegas,
(21:17):
just do it, you know, Like I love you know,
what I hate is the Oakland Athletics ownership, But I
do love the gangsterness of just saying, yeah, we don't care,
We're just gonna do it. Like we're just gonna do it.
It's gonna be the least popular thing of all time,
We're gonna turn off the comment section to all of
our social media posts and no one can just rag
(21:39):
on us. And we're just gonna move to Vegas. So
much so we're gonna put Las Vegas on the sleeve
whilst we're playing in Sacramento. And I'm just like, all right, cool.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Well, you're you're giving me a good segue, because we're
talking about disappointment. We're talking about having enough bullets or
the coach not knowing how to fire the gun. I
guess we have to address the US men's national team.
Holy disaster. How bad is this? I mean, we lose
the Panadama, we lose the Canada. Up next, we got
(22:12):
Turkey in Switzerland and June for friendlies. This can't look
any worse before the World Cup coming in, can't look
any worse. It's so bad. I feel like the US
men's team has taught them. That's how I feel. Sebastian,
you want to talk about the US men's national team
and any impressions you have before Adam goes on a
(22:33):
ten minute rant.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Yeah, I mean this done.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I leave here since a long time, so I'm, you know,
definitely a fan of the US but.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
I don't get excited. It's the only thing.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
It's just like whatever team you play or like even
a competition like this, it's not you know, on TV
for everybody to watch. It's not you know, I don't know,
like there's a team I don't see like this coming
up in to the World Cup, Like I would love
to be more excited, but I don't see it. So
(23:05):
it's out like I still of course you know from
friends to look at the French. I didn't watch your game,
but I was more excited for them to beat Croatia
in pick and pretty far for my finals and oh
I'm going to watch you know, the US game, which
I didn't watch again. So yeah, it's kind of this.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
You know, I'm missing and I don't know how to
get it.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
But you need to come from the player and you know,
from the federation and you know, helping I guess the
fans to really like start throwing this team.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, listen, you're not the only one that was disinterested.
The players looked like they didn't want to be there. Adam, go,
we put the we put the ball on the tee
hit it. Look.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
I hate to say, I told you so, No, you
don't no, I don't. Actually, I told you so. I've
been telling you this for since the twenty twenty two
World Cup. I've been telling you this since they literally
left Quitar. This was the most important World Cup in
the history of American soccer. That's it. There's no other
(24:08):
And this was the most important. This coming up is
the most important soccer tournament in the history of this nation.
And you had it set up. You told me the boys,
We're gonna send the third youngest team in the world
to Katar And why are we doing this? Why are
(24:29):
we saying goodbye to all of the legends and all
the Star Wars players and the Clinton Dempseys and all
these Why are none of these people making the roster
in twenty twenty two? Because this team is going to
grow together. This team is going to blossom into a
Golden generation, and when it hosts a World Cup, it'll
be ready to compete possibly quarterpot finals, maybe even a
(24:53):
semi final, and finally solidify locally and internationally men's So
in the United States, and after what I saw against
the in the Nations leagues, against Panama, against Canada and
all parts in between, the legacy of the US women's
soccer team is completely intact. They're going to be the
(25:14):
greatest team still who's ever graased the stage in American soccer.
And it's not even going to be close. These gentlemen,
by every stretch of the imagination, are just not good enough.
There's no world where I'm playing Joe Scally and I'm
playing Josh Sargent up top, and I'm hoping these will
(25:34):
compete against Spain, against France, against Germany, against any club
in South America. We can't beat Panama PanAm No disrespect
to the Panaminians, but if we're supposed to be the
soccer nation that we claim to be, we should win
(25:58):
at home. Again, it's Panama in Los Angeles. Look it
to me right now, if the US wasn't an automatic
qualifier because they were a host, I would be concerned
they would not qualify for the twenty twenty six World Cup,
authentically concerned. You're not better than Mexico, You're not better
(26:20):
than Canada. You might not be better than Panama. You
might be the fourth best team in your own continent,
which normally would get you not even a seat at
the World Cup. So right now you have to look
yourself in the mirror, and it comes from the very top.
I have known they moved the Federation from Chicago, but
it came from when they were in Chicago. When you
(26:42):
did Bruce Arena for the second time, when you did
triple g for the second time, you were an unserious organization.
You've been an unserious organization. And Sebastian can tell you
there's a reason Didier Deschamps is there. He has his
guys and they've made something beautiful in France, where in
(27:04):
America it is dysfunction one oh one. And it led
to the pitch shocker.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Yep. Well, I don't know if those were your words
or you were quoting Jesse Marsh, but it sounds pretty
much the same.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Who who should have been the coach of the United
States And we all know this, And because of the
incompetence of the US Soccer Federation is what we're into
right now. The reason we have pay to play in
the United States means we're never gonna discover the best
talent in our country. And that's just a fact. Well
that's just a fact. So until we figure that out,
(27:42):
we're gonna keep telling us that Weston mckennie is the best,
that we got. We're gonna keep telling you that Christian
Polistics the best they got. And look, they play at Juventus,
they played ac Milan. Doesn't that mean something. I would
love for you to play at freaking pol Aermo. I
would love for you to play in Sheshuan as long
as you can compete. I don't give a crap what
(28:03):
your badge is when you play club. Where is your
energy when it's a red, white and blue badge?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Well, Adam, I don't want to cut you off, but
I got to put my Garrett Stubbs Chief vibes to
get the vibes going. We've got Miami guys. I'm going
to start this off. You know, we are number one.
We're battling Miami, who is technically because they had a
week off, number three. But this is the battle for
first place in Miami. Sabashian, I know you just did
(28:33):
the show on PHL seventeen, which airs on Friday nights.
Give us a preview of what we're seeing. I mean,
we may not even.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
See MESSI yeah, I mean I don't really care about Miami.
I'm about the Union. I mean it's definitely going to
for me, just a great game to just watch and enjoy.
You know, I think what I say in the show today,
it's you know, we always say, you know, it's a
it's a game where you have nothing to lose, But
I always say you have everything to win about that game.
(29:02):
It's it's a game I think, with not too much
pressure for the team. You know, they are first in
the league, they play Miami, We're supposed to be the
best in their stadium. So I feel like it's kind
of like I just want them to be able just
to play the ways I've been playing in the first
five games, especially when they were away, you know, kind
of being aggressive, you know, attacking and not kind of
(29:26):
like thinking how we play and all the Missy team
or the Buskit or the Alba and we're going to
be shy, you know, like which could happen, And it
happened to me when I play Tyrry on it the
first time. You know, you're like kind of like not
just watchings and you know, playing your own game. So
I kind of just want them to pass that and
just be like, hey, we are first in the East.
Let's plays the number one in the East and make
(29:47):
it difficult for Miami to beat us and maybe you know,
get to get a win and maybe make a little
statement after six you know game in a league. So
for me, just a fun game for the guys to play.
There is a win, fantastic, There's a tie fantastic. There's
a lose fantastic too, you know, because they will still
be second you know or certain league whatever still on top.
(30:10):
And uh and then we come back home against Orlando.
But it's definitely a good, you know thing for the coach.
He has the a lot player to choose from. You
can choose the best line up, and if he doesn't
work out, the guy you are on the bench would
be hungry to come and help. So I'm just really
excited to to kind of just sit down, watch the
game and uh and enjoy you all kind of a
(30:32):
good soccer game and hopefully, yes I'm not going to
get shy and play them the same way as an
Orlando is being aggressive and trying to score and win
the game.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, I mean I'm excited for the game. Side note,
I'm going down that all last minute trip, so gonna
gonna watch it in person. Haven't been in that stadium,
so I'm looking forward to crossing that off the list. Adam,
how are you feeling about Miami. I mean, Will Smith
just got his street by Overbrooks, so I mean, this
is Philly Miami. It's all over the.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Place, party in the city, where the heat is on.
I look, I'm excited. I think this is a great matchup.
I think, you know, Miami is more than messy. I
think we really need to stress that, and they are.
They have a great academy, they have a lot of
great talent in there, and not to take them lightly
in any capacity, It's going to be a battle. I
(31:26):
like our chances, though I don't know. I think we're
five games in, right, and first two three games we
can all say, all right, they're getting their sea legs together,
or they took advantage of opponents, or the other teams aren't.
But like at this point to be five and one
and the one game to be lost to a Nashville
team that we all think is a good Nashville team,
(31:48):
and circumstances being half the league believes you were robbed
in that Nashville game. So look like, I think we
can go compete, you know, And I think that's really
the only thing you can ask for in these situations,
especially going on the road into that type of an environment.
I think you can compete with inter Miami, you know.
(32:09):
And again, if you lose this game, do I believe
this is an indictment on the Union? Absolutely not. If
you win this game, do I believe this solidifies the
Union as a contender. Quincidentally enough in might you know?
And And that's the thing about it is, this is
a situation where in our modern society we love to
do the there's no wins, there's only loss of scenarios
(32:30):
where if you win it doesn't matter, but if you lose,
it's the worst thing ever. But I think it's literally
the exact opposite here. If you win, if you go
into Miami and you win this game, and you win
this game with any definitive nature, you solidify that you
are trying to compete this year and that you're force
to be reckoned with That's just it. If you lose
this game, you're four and two, You're still probably in
(32:54):
the top three at minimum, and you can go on
and build from there and see what the next steps are.
It's a win win for me on this one. And
I think we're playing with the proverbial house money here, So.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, no, I am excited for this game. We come back.
We have Orlando at home. I know we're getting on
in the wire for our timing that we already had
because we all have some things we got to get done.
So I want to thank you both for coming on. Seba,
thank you so much. We will We saw some of
the socials that the soccer camp happening. We'll keep everybody
informed about that. Adam, we know the Phoenix are coming soon,
(33:31):
so we will keep everyone informed about that. But hey,
go Union. Let's try to beat Miami and then we
will see everybody at Subaru Park against Orlando. So thanks
a lot everyone that was episode number thirty one. Have
a great day.
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