May 28, 2026 • 30 mins
Hosts Keely Dunning and Laura Schott are back — as is the Reign FC attack, with your PNW Queens netting not one, but two goals against Boston Legacy. Blood is in the water for the Reign as the team hopefully is able to ride this momentum into a result against Washington Spirit on Saturday. And of course we couldn’t end the show without some exciting USMNT news (congrats to Cristian Roldan!) and some general thoughts ahead of World Cup 2026. Celtic Jersey joke: Vittorio Angelone.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome back to another episode of Rain Weekly. I am
Killey Dunning here with Laura Shott, and this is exciting.
Not only did the Rain score one goal, whoa, they
scored two goals and they got three points on the road.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, on the road, on the.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Road against Boston Legacy. Although they were not in Boston,
they were technically in uh not technically they were in
Rhode Island, which, by the way, if anyone is a
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(00:50):
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of Rode Island. But back to soccer. We scored two goals,
and you know what I have to say that first
goal that we scored is a p K eleventh minutes,
so a few where to a number eleven. You're into
numbers eleven eleven and we scored it.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Oh that's wonderful. I know a lot of people are
into eleven eleven see it as lucky and four twos
and I suppose it was in this game, but uh,
that was clearly a handball. I think the first thing
on that goal is great cross. Also, why did they
review that play for? I mean I was sitting there
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for minutes going are what are they doing? And then
you know, Laurie Lindsay's talking through the game and I
was kind of puzzled because they showed it multiple times
and I mean, obviously we're seeing it, I would think
later than everybody that would be evaluating that clearly a handball,
and well done by Maddy Dallen to challenge for that ball.
And yeah, and where it to steps up and I
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think it was James Turner did have a step up
then and then where it comes back and I think
everybody knows it where it toes you know solid she's
steal on those moments with pks and took it so well,
So hats off to her. Congratulations. Way to break that
streak that we didn't want, and way to get back
on track.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
That was very well done.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And not only do we get back on track, but
then we scored a goal in open play as well,
not just PK.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, I loved that.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I it was Curry on the cross to Duline Again.
I mean what I really loved about it was the timing.
I mean, the ball gets you know, Curry sets it
up and she's she's looking for the cross, everybody kind
of holding on that far post. It's it's too often
that we see players run off side or get a
little bit antsy in those situations and they want to
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make the run, they want to get there, and then
it ends up, you know, killing the play, but very
well timed. I don't think Dulane could have timed it
any better, getting in behind the defense and the arrival
of that ball and then she placed it so so well.
So I mean, hats off to them as well.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Great goal. In the run of play.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
According to OPTA, we had five shots on target, which
was our season high for the season. So we were
bound and determined to score goal. And not only were
we bound and determined, but we were getting shots on
target and the most that we've had all season.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well, for me and watching that game, and I know
there were how many changes were there to the starting
lineup from the previous game. I want to say it
was five or six for various reasons. Right, we got
bug back. Yeah, that was really great to see. I mean,
how awesome to have her back. We're welcome, Jordan Bug.
We've been you know, waiting for a while. I know
you have too. We're really really excited to see you
back on the field and healthy. I will say in
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this game, I thought that has played a really instrumental
piece in this game. I think that, you know, in
watching the game, it's a performance that maybe could be
a little understated, and I think that's kind of her
memo anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
You don't, you know, you don't hear a lot from her.
You don't. She's not super flashy all the time. She's not.
I would. I don't think she's.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Fun to, you know, talk about herself a lot. But
outstanding performance and you just got called up to Wales.
Nobody's surprised again, but I thought she had an outstanding
performance and you know, attacking wise, and she was big
part of it. One thing that really stood out to
me in this game and kind of switching pace and
getting back to winning ways and scoring goals, was that
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the rain just looked I don't know if it was confidence,
I don't know if it was game planning. I don't
know if it was just we're ending this today, we're
tired of it. But something shifted and it seemed like
there was a lot more aggression into the attacking third,
a lot more purpose people receiving balls, making runs, just
looking to get in with a lot more energy, and
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it paid off. So it was really great to see.
I think that, you know, and watching the rain over
the course of the season and parts of last season
that I don't know if you want to call it
aggression or if you want to call it purpose, but
getting into the final third, I feel like sometimes it's
on and they go hard and it's you know, fedal
to the metal, and they're just they're going on all
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cylinders and very aggressive into the box.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And then there are games where it looks.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Like maybe they're a little bit unsure and runs get
you know, a little bit slower, or they're they're indecisive,
and indecisiveness just isn't your friend.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
In the final third.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
You have to be decisive whether you make the right
decision or the wrong decision. Obviously you want to make
the right decision, but you make the wrong decision, you
just got to recycle your run, or make the next run,
or do the next best thing. So anything with aggressiveness
and assertiveness is what's gonna make things happen in the
final third. And I thought that the Rain did a
much better job of that in this game than in
previous games.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That's a great point when it comes to, you know,
indecisiveness and you know, making sure that you just take
your shot in that final third. I think it's also
a life thing. You know, you're never gonna regret the
shots that you took and missed. You're gonna regret the
shots you never took. M that's always what your life advice.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, great life advice from really dunning and in great
advice for playing well. But absolutely I was really excited
as I was, you know in previous games this year.
I just the word I would use to kind of
describe it, and we saw it during the scoring drought,
was just that they were a little bit in decisive
and but when these players make these aggressive runs and
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really put their talent out there, it pays off, and
it certainly did against Boston.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Mattie Dellen was our player of the match for our
radio call. We were on radio for nine to fifty
KJR for this one. Matty Dollen player of the match, Laura,
what did you see from her? How exceptional was she
and how did she help really spur this attack on?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, it was great to see her.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
We know that she's fast, right, She's an athlete. She's
very athletic. She's very quick.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I mean, she was a track athlete.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So you know that when you get her in a
one B one matchup where you get her isolated, she's
going to be able to get in. You saw that
on the second goal. But she got in behind that
back line so fast. I mean it looked like, you know,
live it looked like she could have maybe been offside
because she was so far behind the line by the
time the ball arrived. She absolutely wasn't. It was a
perfectly timed run, perfectly time ball. But I mean, like
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I said before, just with the team in general, but
specifically with Matti Dolling. You know, we know that she
goes one B one well, we know that she can
create space for a shot. We haven't seen a lot
of what we saw from her with Boston with that
second goal is you know, receiving balls in behind, out
of the air and then finishing It was a brilliant finish,
perfectly placed.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It was it was.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Great, but seeing her make runs at full pace. When
she's at full speed, she's hard to stay with. She's
difficult for these defenders to track. She sits in these
spaces where you know the ball's on one side and
and you know she's splitting the defender's vision. She did
that a lot better, just kind of picking her times,
in her positions, in the spacing where she wanted to be.
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So I've always been high on Maddie doleen and in
what she can do and how she can be effective,
but I would say not inike with. You know, as
the team goes, Maddie Dollen has gone. I guess as well.
Sometimes is when we're not aggressive, or when she's not aggressive,
or when she doesn't you know, she's not taking the
front foot, she's not saying, you know, mentally, I'm going
to go at these players. I'm going to make this happen.
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You know, she's not as dangerous, but we didn't see
that in this game. We saw a very dangerous Mattie
Dollen who wanted to go at players who wanted to
get in behind, and was willing.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
To do it over and over and over, and she
did it very well.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well great result out in Boston slash Rhode Island, and
now another massive matchup again against Washington Spirit, this time
on the road. The last game before the World Cup break,
we played Washington Spirit as well as any team has
played against Washington Spirit all season. Laura Harvey head coach
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Laura Harvey on her production call ahead of the Boston game,
was really still disappointed by it because she said, we
prevented them from doing anything. We are the first team
this season to have completely stripped Washington Spirit of their identity,
and it was devastating that we didn't get a result. Now, however,
they're back on the score sheet. Just the mental side
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of this, I feel really good going to this Washington
Spirit game. I feel great, Laura, how do you.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Feel really good? I mean, we talked about it last week.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
We talked about I don't know if anybody remembers last week,
but just to refresh, we talked.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
About getting four points out of the weekend.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
We talked about that we thought that Boston was a
winnable game and that was an attainable goal, and that
at any point this Rain team we get back to scoring.
It wasn't a matter of if, but when, and that
this was a game really to do it. Boston had
been on a streak there, a non losing streak, will
call it. It wasn't a lot of wins, but there
were a lot of ties, yea. And they were at home,
sort of like we were when we were in Spokane,
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and so I saw that the Rain really had a
great opportunity there, even though we know the travel is difficult,
but let's be honest, the Rain sometimes play a lot
better when the backskainst the wall or when they have
that East Coast travel. I mean, we even saw the
first game against Orlando and that just happens to be
a thing. So sitting on three great. We also talked
about how two wouldn't be bad, getting shut outs wouldn't
be bad.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
That goal in the ninety.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Fourth minute was a bummer, but you know, you got
the insurance goal. So getting the three points was huge.
So sitting on three, which obviously is better than getting
two ties on the weekend, is not a bad place
to be. So if they can pull off i mean, gosh,
another win would be huge. Pull off a tie and
you know, get back to getting to not not two wins,
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but points out of both games in these two weeks
before going into this. Hiatis, I you know, if they
can do that, I think that that's huge and they
have a lot of momentum going into the next part
of the season.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
See if I'm the rain, I'm I am tasting blood
in the water right now. Yeah, it's with you because
we were not on a great run of form when
we hosted Washington Spirit last time, and like Laura Harvey said,
we took them completely out of their game.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, yeah, we took them.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I mean, I mean we turned them into a shell
of themselves. Let's be Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And I even think back to last year when Rodman
was matched up with Curry in one of the matches
later later in the year. It was the last match
against Washington, I believe, and you know, I just remember,
you know, Rodman really seemed like she was hitting her
form and obviously they got to the final and all that,
but it was it was promising to not give up
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so much in the attack, whether it produced goals or
just produced chances. Obviously, she's a super difficult matchup for anybody.
She's just in form and an amazing player. So you
always have those threats when you play Washington. But you know,
I feel like and Laura Harvey us to. She's spoken
so highly and so many times at least with us,
and you know, the pregame conversations that we have about
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Matty Curry and how she's just been steady and she's strong,
and obviously she got the assist with against Boston. So
Matty Curry is really although quietly we could say, kind
of like a James Turner. She's she's steady. She doesn't
always get the stats, although she did last game. She
plays a ton of minutes. She's been solid, so, you know,
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and getting bugged back and the combination of those two
playing next to each other, that's going to be really
exciting for Washington. But I think those two players just
continue to grow, and you know, facing a team like
Washington is just another test for everybody.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Laura, you actually, back in the day played in Washington.
I did pray tell some stories of your time in Washington.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
On the first stories that I have from playing in Washington. First,
I was drafted by then the Washington Freedom. At that
point the league had eight teams.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It was the first league. It was the final year
of the first league.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Side note, I mean basically within I want to say,
like two weeks of being there, we had a conference
call and they were trying to decide if they were
going to have the third year of the league or not.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And it was supposed to be five.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Years was kind of the horizon for that first league.
They thought that they were funded for five years. The
funding was gone basically after two. We don't need to
get into that. But there were adversities right from the start.
You know, as a new player to the team, I
was just just motivated and hoping to like make sure
I made the roster, because even if you get drafted,
you don't necessarily make the roster. And as a player
that had been in with youth national teams and was
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capped at that point, I knew that that roster was
difficult to make, even for a player that had been capped,
because the players that I was fighting for position with
were Mia Ham and Abby Wanback.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Huh right, wow, Laura, you were a freaking superstar. My god. Okay,
keep going, keep going. I was just an off for
a second. Okay, keep going.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
So for me, I knew that if I made that
roster and stayed there, that it was going to be
a year where I was you know, learning from Mia
Ham who probably wasn't going to retire in much longer,
and the horizon for me was to you know, make
the team and then hopefully become a player that moved into.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
That spot and played with Abby.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Right, that was kind of the idea there, but that
was squashed pretty quick with you know, the league not
necessarily continuing very long. Fortunately we got that year. Fortunately
we won the national championship. So many names on that
team that have gone on to do great things in soccer.
I could start to go through the roster and that
just is the tip of the iceberg with Abby and
Mia and you know, I've played with Mia before or sorry,
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I played with Abby before with youth national teams were
not the same age but close, So getting to play
with her again obviously really fun. Getting to play with
me a Ham for the first time as a person
that my.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Graduation gift was going to the ninety nine final. So
all of.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Those those players that you know, really were the launching
point for that league, and then getting to get to
know them and play them and you know, and they
became teammates or players that you're game planning for really
was a dream. So I had to you know shell
that and make sure that I was also a good
teammate and competitor.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
But it was.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It was a fun first year. I was, of course disappointed,
like a lot of us were. I think our our
our Agria boys had a ton of talent. I could
name other people that I really think could have had
great careers with the national team if there wasn't a
six year hiatus of you know, between first league and
second year league starting up. But in terms of getting
into the league and getting to play, there really was
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anything like it. It was amazing to play with those players.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Okay, so now I need to know what was it
like playing with Abby wanback, Not the personality, but like
the actual fundamental like how did you guys play together?
Like what was the strategy? What was you know, how
did you guys play together?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Well, let me just let me start with that. Playing
with Abby, I think is probably inherently different than anybody
else that ever really played with the national team, and
that nobody's ever been as dominant in the air as
she was. That is a different fold. I mean, I
think that the trajectory of the national team in terms
of style of play changed for a while because you
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knew that if you got the ball anywhere near Abby's head,
anywhere near the goal, you had such a high probability
of scoring. So, I mean, that was always her bread
and butter was just you're gonna find Abby. You're gonna
find her in the air. She's going to dominate. She's
so tall, strong, all the adjectives. I was more of
a quick player that used lover and a little bit more.
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I'm certainly ground based.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You're crafty. You are very crafty.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Buffy, and so playing with her it was a nice,
nice balance, honestly, because you know, like you've got you've
got two different threats. And Abby obviously scored a ton
of goals with her feet, but that was I think
her most unique Trait was just how dominant she became
in the air, and honestly, nobody in the world could
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stop her.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I have so many more questions. This show is only
thirty minutes. Unfortunately, we will get so much more into
that as we continue this show. Like I said, I mean,
this is the how many times we said tip of
the iceberg, but this is just a tip of the iceberg.
We're back with Rain Weekly, Khiley Dunning and Laura Shat
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your hosts for this show on ninety three point three
kjr FM, which, by the way, even though the rain
are going to be on a break, rain, we will
not to be on a break We will not be
on ninety three point three, but we will continue to
post episodes on the Seattle Audio Network page, so please
make sure to check that out. We will be giving
you all of the World Cup breakdown from a different perspective,
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so it should be a lot of fun. Speaking of
the US men's national team, the roster was released yesterday
and Seattle fans we had I already knew because of
the leak that came out. Because everything is always gonna leak.
We need to start. Yes, of course, we need to
plug leaks as much as we can, blah blah blah,
but it's inevitable. It happens. Christian Roldon has been named
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to the official World Cup roster for twenty twenty six.
Not anyone, not a surprise. He was predicted to be
on it. He's gonna be one of only a few midfielders.
The midfielder crop is a little bit thin on the roster,
so I mean, bright side, we're definitely gonna get see
him on the field. That's exciting.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I don't think there's any doubt about that.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I want to say, for the record, we're talking about goalkeepers,
we're talking about goal scorers. The six is maybe my
favorite position besides those two.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I agree, I agree, And.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
It's such a position that is I guess for probably
somebody who doesn't watch a lot of soccer, you don't
notice them a lot. One of the unique things about
the position is that if they play it well, you
might not notice them at all.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, I mean what you'll notice is that the opponent
isn't effective into the final third, and you'll notice that
we have quite a bit of the ball. How are
we keeping possessions so well? What's creating this flow, what's
allowing us to get into positions, into spots, get into
a rhythm. Often that's the six And they have such
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a huge impact on the game and starting plays and
stopping plays for the opponent because they're in such a
unique spot. They're sitting on top of the backs. If
your backs don't have a lot to do or plays
are getting broken up. You're getting possession at times where
you think something dangerous is gonna begin, and then you
know it just seems to always die often.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
That is a really skilled six just not getting.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Noticed unless you're unless your name is Ozzie Alonzo and
you beat up everyone in the middle of the park,
so everyone sees you all the time, and you are
a grade six. By the way, Ozzie, you congrat I mean,
the Sounders actually have quite a history of good sixes
on their squad. It's actually kind of a major League
soccer thing.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I'll get into my opinion on that maybe another time.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Okay, not for this, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I talked to Stephanie Burdoy about it the other day, Lauras,
so we'll offline some of our opinions on why Major
league soccer cares so much about the six. That's a
whole other Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
All right, may maybe this is yeah, maybe we'll get
into this topic. Maybe we have her on and we
talk about it.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Heck yeah, heck yeah. Uh Men's roster. I mean my
I'm gonna be totally real. Everybody. I am rooting for
Christian rolled On and then I every year root for
everybody but England. So that is what I'm doing for
the World Cup, everyone but England and Christian world On.
So I'm gonna get myself a Christian rolled on jersey
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and I'm gonna it's all the Celtic jersey, and I
don't wanna wear the Celtic jersey during England games. And
it's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I love all of it.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I am certainly going to be there alive in person
for US Australia at Loomenfield.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I'm really looking forward to that. It will be my.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
First men's national team World Cup game, so I'm.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Really it's a milestone.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Wow, it is a milestone. And you know, I kind
of went back and forth.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I was like, am I going to go to this
especially for someone so like in with the US women's
national team and you have such a background with US soccer.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah, And it's not that I haven't been to a
men's national team game, but a World Cup game and
this is just and multiple times I've thought about traveling
and all that, and I just I haven't done it.
And here they are in Seattle and that's gonna be
That's gonna be amazing. But overall, I think whenever i'm
you know, like, whenever I'm getting ready to enjoy a
World Cup, there are a few things that I really
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like to to do one is I like to and
this World Cup is going to be especially unique for this.
I love to see how countries play that maybe you
don't get to ever see, and because of the expanded field,
we're going to get to see more of those. I
also think we're going to have some real blowouts, which
is kind of a bummer in some ways. But the
fact that you know, the expansion occurred and there are
going to be maybe some different styles, some different athletes,
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some different styles of play, I think that that's going
to be really fun to watch. I think there are
multiple teams that multiple countries that can win it this year.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I'm also really.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Interested just in you know, a lot of my US
men's national team information. To this point, I listened to
a lot of Landon and Tim and I'm sorry, but
sometimes I get some Alexi gets mixed in there. Some
people are fans, some people aren't. I understand the polarization,
but I like to kind of hear it from people
that have been there, and that just gives me an
opportunity to do that. The thing that I think is
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really interesting going to this World Cup in and listening
to you know a decent amount of their podcast is
just that even going into final rosters, they weren't quite
sure what it was going to be. There have been
some injuries, there's just been Yeah, I'm just going to
say some some unknowns, and so I'm really interested just
to see how they prepare in this next few weeks
and how they show up to the World Cup in
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terms of like what's that what's that first line up
going to be, what's that starting lineup going to be?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
How how are they going to play together? Like, what's
what's the culture going to be? Like? How are they
going to interact with the fans? What's this?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
What's this going to be like? Since frankly, we're home,
which is amazing, So I have a lot of I'm
going to say, probably more questions and not like are
they good or are they not? I don't have that question,
and that's not my first order of business. I guess
as a fan of the US men's national team right now,
but I'm really curious just to see what they bring
to these World Cup games.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I think that the issue that's been surrounding the US
men's national team since forever, and I think it's culturally
because America is a winning like we are winner. We
win everything. When we go to the Olympics, we get
the most medals, like we are number one US women's team.
You know. Yes, there's other countries now that are very competitive.
They don't blow away, they don't win it every year,
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but they're gonna be a favorite every year in every tournament.
And the men's side has never had that. And we
don't know as a society how to handle it, and
we don't know how to go from this to exceptional.
And I don't know what the answer is. I it
is way above my pay grade, and it is way
above my understanding of all of the ins and outs.
(23:34):
This is all so complicated, there's so much to it.
But I just I know every single year you go
on Reddit and it's, oh, we're gonna stuck again, Oh
why are we bringing this guy? Oh? And it's just
there's no positivity ever there is I don't remember the
last time. And even when the team does well, there's
no positivity whatsoever. So how are supposed to be motivated
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by just negativity? By just avoid everyone being angry at you?
That's not a motivation, no, And it's.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Not like these players aren't fantastic players, right, it's a.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
There's a lot going on there, and I think we
get to back that for hours too.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
But I mean, like, I want to see the US
men's national team just flourish. I would love to see them.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
We all do, we all and I would love to
see them. Yeah. I would love to see them with
a style of play that we can get behind, whether
it works all the time or it doesn't. I'd love
to see players really step out and be dominant players
in a World Cup.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I don't think we've really seen.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
That in a while from the US men's national team.
I want some people to become a fan of I
think with the women's national team, not to you know,
make a comparison, but I think that's it's a hard
one because you.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Know, we go back a little bit.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
You know, people talk about the US women's national team
and how they had a head start, right and how
they you know, they were playing against teams that didn't
have countries that didn't have the NCAA when there wasn't
you know, a professional team. Nobody had professional teams, and
the US had the NCAA, which was really used as
a training ground in the US women's national team came
to prominence. You know pretty much right out the gate.
So there's always been this kind of assumption that, oh, well,
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they started good and they got a head start, and
so they're gonna be good. There was a lot of
talk in the early two thousands about how they everybody's
catching up, everybody's catching up. That was a phrase, everybody's
catching up. Okay, everybody's catching up. Everybody catching up was
like us getting third exactly right and then winning again.
So we're in a very unique situation where a women's
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national team has had a culture and a framework and
a history of success, and then if you don't get first,
you're like what went wrong?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Right?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
And with the US men, that's got to be really difficult.
I would think, within just US soccer to then be
the team that everybody's going like, what's wrong, why not?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Who's going to be good? What's going on?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
And it's always like this problem to be solved. Whether
rather than these players to celebrate and be fans of.
I would really like to just see opportunity in a
moment of these are great players, we're going to celebrate them.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
We're behind you.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And in order to make sure that that continues through
the World Cup, they have to win.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
They have to succeed, they've got to get out of
pool play. They got to advance a little bit.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
And I hope they give us the opportunity to do
that because I know a lot of us want to
be big fans.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Listen, in the US, we started out to scrapy underdogs
man back in seventeen whatever, like we were. We were
the underdogs against the Brits. And by the way, I
always read for everyone again except England.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
That's funny. I don't feel like when I watch the
Men's World Cup.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I don't feel like I'm rooting against somebody until I
get like, literally in the game.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, I'm gonna watch.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
These three games in a row today, And then you know,
I get into the matchup and I'm watching the teams
and I feel myself not even like purposefully, but I
feel myself going.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Like, oh, man, I gosh, they minted that. What a bummer,
And I'm like, why am I? Oh? And there's the cramming.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Okay, So the twenty fourteen World Cup team, that men's team,
I knew every single one of those players that team
had an identity. Actually, I would say that twenty fourteen
that they were they knew that they weren't as technically good.
They understood that they had a couple, Uh, they had
a couple. Oh god, what is the word? I'm forgetting
the word. They had some people come in from Europe
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to like help them out, you know, like the Jermaine
Joneses of the world who had a great World Cup
that year, and that they hadn't identity. They knew that
they weren't as technically gifted, but they were gonna be
more physical than you. They were gonna be grittier. Michael
Bradley was gonna run eight thousand miles. I mean that
team had a real.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Identity, got a live track, ran well. I mean when
there was.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Like you have like bald head just running around like
all of that.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
That's what it is is like those there were some
things that like we could latch on exactly, what's that
player that's been playing in Europe.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Jermaine Jesse's gonna come over, what's he gonna do?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Right? Yes? And I don't I don't feel like I
have a lot of that right now. I would love to,
like as fans meet others whatever I want all the info.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Like let us in.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
And part of it is because we didn't have to
qualify it, so we didn't have to go through the
same trials. Yeah, they're in the same way. Excuses, excuses,
all the things. But I want to know these guys.
I want to know what I can latch onto. I
want to know the good, the bad, and the ugly.
You know. Yeah, when they're are guys. Hello, I was
a Warriors man. I rooted for Draymond Green. He was awesome. Okay,
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everyone else hated him, but we loved him because he
was our a whole.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
He's your guys. I want to know.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I want to know who our a hole is so
I can do it for that.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, let's find out, you know.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
The side note, I've got to say twenty fourteen the
World Cup. I think I watched. I probably watched almost
every game of the twenty fourteen World Cup. And I
have some advice for I mean, young parents out there.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
So my daughters. My daughter was born on May twentieth.
Her birthday was last week, Happy birthday, but she was
twenty four and you know what, Oh my god, when you.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Have a baby right before the World Cup and you
get some time off and you're not sleeping, but the
games are at five am people watch soccer all day.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Wow, maybe I need to go back it so.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
As people prepare for this next World Cup. I know
it's too late for this one, but as you prepare
for these big tournaments, yeah, extra viewership if you if
you have a child.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
All right, Well, the World Cup is almost here, guys,
we're so excited. I am all about Christian roll Don
and everyone in this region should just be donning their
Christian roll Do on jerseys and just rallying behind our
water carrier, our you know, captain, our guy who has
no ego but does all the hard work and is
the iron man. I remember my first season with the
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Sounders in twenty eighteen. He played every single game, every
single game. He is the man. He deserves this like
no one else. And we are so excited for him.
And we're so excited for the World Cup. And we're
even well, I don't want to say even more excited,
but we're also very excited for this rein of the
future victory against Watching Spirit. I have a good feeling
about it. We will be back next week on the
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website breaking down all World Cup stuff. We will get.
We have so many topics that we had to stop because,
like I said, we have thirty minutes. But the good
news is once we go online, we can talk as
long as we want so, which will make me editing
everything very much easier. All right, thanks everyone for listening,
and like I said, we will be back next week
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on the website.
Welcome back to another episode of Rain Weekly. I am
Killey Dunning here with Laura Shott, and this is exciting.
Not only did the Rain score one goal, whoa, they
scored two goals and they got three points on the road.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, on the road, on the.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Road against Boston Legacy. Although they were not in Boston,
they were technically in uh not technically they were in
Rhode Island, which, by the way, if anyone is a
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of Rode Island. But back to soccer. We scored two goals,
and you know what I have to say that first
goal that we scored is a p K eleventh minutes,
so a few where to a number eleven. You're into
numbers eleven eleven and we scored it.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Oh that's wonderful. I know a lot of people are
into eleven eleven see it as lucky and four twos
and I suppose it was in this game, but uh,
that was clearly a handball. I think the first thing
on that goal is great cross. Also, why did they
review that play for? I mean I was sitting there
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for minutes going are what are they doing? And then
you know, Laurie Lindsay's talking through the game and I
was kind of puzzled because they showed it multiple times
and I mean, obviously we're seeing it, I would think
later than everybody that would be evaluating that clearly a handball,
and well done by Maddy Dallen to challenge for that ball.
And yeah, and where it to steps up and I
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think it was James Turner did have a step up
then and then where it comes back and I think
everybody knows it where it toes you know solid she's
steal on those moments with pks and took it so well,
So hats off to her. Congratulations. Way to break that
streak that we didn't want, and way to get back
on track.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
That was very well done.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And not only do we get back on track, but
then we scored a goal in open play as well,
not just PK.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, I loved that.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I it was Curry on the cross to Duline Again.
I mean what I really loved about it was the timing.
I mean, the ball gets you know, Curry sets it
up and she's she's looking for the cross, everybody kind
of holding on that far post. It's it's too often
that we see players run off side or get a
little bit antsy in those situations and they want to
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make the run, they want to get there, and then
it ends up, you know, killing the play, but very
well timed. I don't think Dulane could have timed it
any better, getting in behind the defense and the arrival
of that ball and then she placed it so so well.
So I mean, hats off to them as well.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Great goal. In the run of play.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
According to OPTA, we had five shots on target, which
was our season high for the season. So we were
bound and determined to score goal. And not only were
we bound and determined, but we were getting shots on
target and the most that we've had all season.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well, for me and watching that game, and I know
there were how many changes were there to the starting
lineup from the previous game. I want to say it
was five or six for various reasons. Right, we got
bug back. Yeah, that was really great to see. I mean,
how awesome to have her back. We're welcome, Jordan Bug.
We've been you know, waiting for a while. I know
you have too. We're really really excited to see you
back on the field and healthy. I will say in
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this game, I thought that has played a really instrumental
piece in this game. I think that, you know, in
watching the game, it's a performance that maybe could be
a little understated, and I think that's kind of her
memo anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
You don't, you know, you don't hear a lot from her.
You don't. She's not super flashy all the time. She's not.
I would. I don't think she's.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Fun to, you know, talk about herself a lot. But
outstanding performance and you just got called up to Wales.
Nobody's surprised again, but I thought she had an outstanding
performance and you know, attacking wise, and she was big
part of it. One thing that really stood out to
me in this game and kind of switching pace and
getting back to winning ways and scoring goals, was that
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the rain just looked I don't know if it was confidence,
I don't know if it was game planning. I don't
know if it was just we're ending this today, we're
tired of it. But something shifted and it seemed like
there was a lot more aggression into the attacking third,
a lot more purpose people receiving balls, making runs, just
looking to get in with a lot more energy, and
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it paid off. So it was really great to see.
I think that, you know, and watching the rain over
the course of the season and parts of last season
that I don't know if you want to call it
aggression or if you want to call it purpose, but
getting into the final third, I feel like sometimes it's
on and they go hard and it's you know, fedal
to the metal, and they're just they're going on all
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cylinders and very aggressive into the box.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And then there are games where it looks.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Like maybe they're a little bit unsure and runs get
you know, a little bit slower, or they're they're indecisive,
and indecisiveness just isn't your friend.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
In the final third.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
You have to be decisive whether you make the right
decision or the wrong decision. Obviously you want to make
the right decision, but you make the wrong decision, you
just got to recycle your run, or make the next run,
or do the next best thing. So anything with aggressiveness
and assertiveness is what's gonna make things happen in the
final third. And I thought that the Rain did a
much better job of that in this game than in
previous games.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That's a great point when it comes to, you know,
indecisiveness and you know, making sure that you just take
your shot in that final third. I think it's also
a life thing. You know, you're never gonna regret the
shots that you took and missed. You're gonna regret the
shots you never took. M that's always what your life advice.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, great life advice from really dunning and in great
advice for playing well. But absolutely I was really excited
as I was, you know in previous games this year.
I just the word I would use to kind of
describe it, and we saw it during the scoring drought,
was just that they were a little bit in decisive
and but when these players make these aggressive runs and
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really put their talent out there, it pays off, and
it certainly did against Boston.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Mattie Dellen was our player of the match for our
radio call. We were on radio for nine to fifty
KJR for this one. Matty Dollen player of the match, Laura,
what did you see from her? How exceptional was she
and how did she help really spur this attack on?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, it was great to see her.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
We know that she's fast, right, She's an athlete. She's
very athletic. She's very quick.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I mean, she was a track athlete.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So you know that when you get her in a
one B one matchup where you get her isolated, she's
going to be able to get in. You saw that
on the second goal. But she got in behind that
back line so fast. I mean it looked like, you know,
live it looked like she could have maybe been offside
because she was so far behind the line by the
time the ball arrived. She absolutely wasn't. It was a
perfectly timed run, perfectly time ball. But I mean, like
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I said before, just with the team in general, but
specifically with Matti Dolling. You know, we know that she
goes one B one well, we know that she can
create space for a shot. We haven't seen a lot
of what we saw from her with Boston with that
second goal is you know, receiving balls in behind, out
of the air and then finishing It was a brilliant finish,
perfectly placed.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It was it was.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Great, but seeing her make runs at full pace. When
she's at full speed, she's hard to stay with. She's
difficult for these defenders to track. She sits in these
spaces where you know the ball's on one side and
and you know she's splitting the defender's vision. She did
that a lot better, just kind of picking her times,
in her positions, in the spacing where she wanted to be.
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So I've always been high on Maddie doleen and in
what she can do and how she can be effective,
but I would say not inike with. You know, as
the team goes, Maddie Dollen has gone. I guess as well.
Sometimes is when we're not aggressive, or when she's not aggressive,
or when she doesn't you know, she's not taking the
front foot, she's not saying, you know, mentally, I'm going
to go at these players. I'm going to make this happen.
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You know, she's not as dangerous, but we didn't see
that in this game. We saw a very dangerous Mattie
Dollen who wanted to go at players who wanted to
get in behind, and was willing.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
To do it over and over and over, and she
did it very well.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well great result out in Boston slash Rhode Island, and
now another massive matchup again against Washington Spirit, this time
on the road. The last game before the World Cup break,
we played Washington Spirit as well as any team has
played against Washington Spirit all season. Laura Harvey head coach
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Laura Harvey on her production call ahead of the Boston game,
was really still disappointed by it because she said, we
prevented them from doing anything. We are the first team
this season to have completely stripped Washington Spirit of their identity,
and it was devastating that we didn't get a result. Now, however,
they're back on the score sheet. Just the mental side
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of this, I feel really good going to this Washington
Spirit game. I feel great, Laura, how do you.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Feel really good? I mean, we talked about it last week.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
We talked about I don't know if anybody remembers last week,
but just to refresh, we talked.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
About getting four points out of the weekend.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
We talked about that we thought that Boston was a
winnable game and that was an attainable goal, and that
at any point this Rain team we get back to scoring.
It wasn't a matter of if, but when, and that
this was a game really to do it. Boston had
been on a streak there, a non losing streak, will
call it. It wasn't a lot of wins, but there
were a lot of ties, yea. And they were at home,
sort of like we were when we were in Spokane,
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and so I saw that the Rain really had a
great opportunity there, even though we know the travel is difficult,
but let's be honest, the Rain sometimes play a lot
better when the backskainst the wall or when they have
that East Coast travel. I mean, we even saw the
first game against Orlando and that just happens to be
a thing. So sitting on three great. We also talked
about how two wouldn't be bad, getting shut outs wouldn't
be bad.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
That goal in the ninety.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Fourth minute was a bummer, but you know, you got
the insurance goal. So getting the three points was huge.
So sitting on three, which obviously is better than getting
two ties on the weekend, is not a bad place
to be. So if they can pull off i mean, gosh,
another win would be huge. Pull off a tie and
you know, get back to getting to not not two wins,
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but points out of both games in these two weeks
before going into this. Hiatis, I you know, if they
can do that, I think that that's huge and they
have a lot of momentum going into the next part
of the season.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
See if I'm the rain, I'm I am tasting blood
in the water right now. Yeah, it's with you because
we were not on a great run of form when
we hosted Washington Spirit last time, and like Laura Harvey said,
we took them completely out of their game.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, yeah, we took them.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I mean, I mean we turned them into a shell
of themselves. Let's be Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And I even think back to last year when Rodman
was matched up with Curry in one of the matches
later later in the year. It was the last match
against Washington, I believe, and you know, I just remember,
you know, Rodman really seemed like she was hitting her
form and obviously they got to the final and all that,
but it was it was promising to not give up
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so much in the attack, whether it produced goals or
just produced chances. Obviously, she's a super difficult matchup for anybody.
She's just in form and an amazing player. So you
always have those threats when you play Washington. But you know,
I feel like and Laura Harvey us to. She's spoken
so highly and so many times at least with us,
and you know, the pregame conversations that we have about
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Matty Curry and how she's just been steady and she's strong,
and obviously she got the assist with against Boston. So
Matty Curry is really although quietly we could say, kind
of like a James Turner. She's she's steady. She doesn't
always get the stats, although she did last game. She
plays a ton of minutes. She's been solid, so, you know,
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and getting bugged back and the combination of those two
playing next to each other, that's going to be really
exciting for Washington. But I think those two players just
continue to grow, and you know, facing a team like
Washington is just another test for everybody.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Laura, you actually, back in the day played in Washington.
I did pray tell some stories of your time in Washington.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
On the first stories that I have from playing in Washington. First,
I was drafted by then the Washington Freedom. At that
point the league had eight teams.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It was the first league. It was the final year
of the first league.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Side note, I mean basically within I want to say,
like two weeks of being there, we had a conference
call and they were trying to decide if they were
going to have the third year of the league or not.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And it was supposed to be five.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Years was kind of the horizon for that first league.
They thought that they were funded for five years. The
funding was gone basically after two. We don't need to
get into that. But there were adversities right from the start.
You know, as a new player to the team, I
was just just motivated and hoping to like make sure
I made the roster, because even if you get drafted,
you don't necessarily make the roster. And as a player
that had been in with youth national teams and was
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capped at that point, I knew that that roster was
difficult to make, even for a player that had been capped,
because the players that I was fighting for position with
were Mia Ham and Abby Wanback.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Huh right, wow, Laura, you were a freaking superstar. My god. Okay,
keep going, keep going. I was just an off for
a second. Okay, keep going.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
So for me, I knew that if I made that
roster and stayed there, that it was going to be
a year where I was you know, learning from Mia
Ham who probably wasn't going to retire in much longer,
and the horizon for me was to you know, make
the team and then hopefully become a player that moved into.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
That spot and played with Abby.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Right, that was kind of the idea there, but that
was squashed pretty quick with you know, the league not
necessarily continuing very long. Fortunately we got that year. Fortunately
we won the national championship. So many names on that
team that have gone on to do great things in soccer.
I could start to go through the roster and that
just is the tip of the iceberg with Abby and
Mia and you know, I've played with Mia before or sorry,
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I played with Abby before with youth national teams were
not the same age but close, So getting to play
with her again obviously really fun. Getting to play with
me a Ham for the first time as a person
that my.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Graduation gift was going to the ninety nine final. So
all of.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Those those players that you know, really were the launching
point for that league, and then getting to get to
know them and play them and you know, and they
became teammates or players that you're game planning for really
was a dream. So I had to you know shell
that and make sure that I was also a good
teammate and competitor.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
But it was.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It was a fun first year. I was, of course disappointed,
like a lot of us were. I think our our
our Agria boys had a ton of talent. I could
name other people that I really think could have had
great careers with the national team if there wasn't a
six year hiatus of you know, between first league and
second year league starting up. But in terms of getting
into the league and getting to play, there really was
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anything like it. It was amazing to play with those players.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Okay, so now I need to know what was it
like playing with Abby wanback, Not the personality, but like
the actual fundamental like how did you guys play together?
Like what was the strategy? What was you know, how
did you guys play together?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Well, let me just let me start with that. Playing
with Abby, I think is probably inherently different than anybody
else that ever really played with the national team, and
that nobody's ever been as dominant in the air as
she was. That is a different fold. I mean, I
think that the trajectory of the national team in terms
of style of play changed for a while because you
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knew that if you got the ball anywhere near Abby's head,
anywhere near the goal, you had such a high probability
of scoring. So, I mean, that was always her bread
and butter was just you're gonna find Abby. You're gonna
find her in the air. She's going to dominate. She's
so tall, strong, all the adjectives. I was more of
a quick player that used lover and a little bit more.
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I'm certainly ground based.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You're crafty. You are very crafty.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Buffy, and so playing with her it was a nice,
nice balance, honestly, because you know, like you've got you've
got two different threats. And Abby obviously scored a ton
of goals with her feet, but that was I think
her most unique Trait was just how dominant she became
in the air, and honestly, nobody in the world could
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stop her.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I have so many more questions. This show is only
thirty minutes. Unfortunately, we will get so much more into
that as we continue this show. Like I said, I mean,
this is the how many times we said tip of
the iceberg, but this is just a tip of the iceberg.
We're back with Rain Weekly, Khiley Dunning and Laura Shat
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your hosts for this show on ninety three point three
kjr FM, which, by the way, even though the rain
are going to be on a break, rain, we will
not to be on a break We will not be
on ninety three point three, but we will continue to
post episodes on the Seattle Audio Network page, so please
make sure to check that out. We will be giving
you all of the World Cup breakdown from a different perspective,
(17:13):
so it should be a lot of fun. Speaking of
the US men's national team, the roster was released yesterday
and Seattle fans we had I already knew because of
the leak that came out. Because everything is always gonna leak.
We need to start. Yes, of course, we need to
plug leaks as much as we can, blah blah blah,
but it's inevitable. It happens. Christian Roldon has been named
(17:34):
to the official World Cup roster for twenty twenty six.
Not anyone, not a surprise. He was predicted to be
on it. He's gonna be one of only a few midfielders.
The midfielder crop is a little bit thin on the roster,
so I mean, bright side, we're definitely gonna get see
him on the field. That's exciting.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I don't think there's any doubt about that.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I want to say, for the record, we're talking about goalkeepers,
we're talking about goal scorers. The six is maybe my
favorite position besides those two.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I agree, I agree, And.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
It's such a position that is I guess for probably
somebody who doesn't watch a lot of soccer, you don't
notice them a lot. One of the unique things about
the position is that if they play it well, you
might not notice them at all.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, I mean what you'll notice is that the opponent
isn't effective into the final third, and you'll notice that
we have quite a bit of the ball. How are
we keeping possessions so well? What's creating this flow, what's
allowing us to get into positions, into spots, get into
a rhythm. Often that's the six And they have such
(18:48):
a huge impact on the game and starting plays and
stopping plays for the opponent because they're in such a
unique spot. They're sitting on top of the backs. If
your backs don't have a lot to do or plays
are getting broken up. You're getting possession at times where
you think something dangerous is gonna begin, and then you
know it just seems to always die often.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
That is a really skilled six just not getting.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Noticed unless you're unless your name is Ozzie Alonzo and
you beat up everyone in the middle of the park,
so everyone sees you all the time, and you are
a grade six. By the way, Ozzie, you congrat I mean,
the Sounders actually have quite a history of good sixes
on their squad. It's actually kind of a major League
soccer thing.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I'll get into my opinion on that maybe another time.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Okay, not for this, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I talked to Stephanie Burdoy about it the other day, Lauras,
so we'll offline some of our opinions on why Major
league soccer cares so much about the six. That's a
whole other Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
All right, may maybe this is yeah, maybe we'll get
into this topic. Maybe we have her on and we
talk about it.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Heck yeah, heck yeah. Uh Men's roster. I mean my
I'm gonna be totally real. Everybody. I am rooting for
Christian rolled On and then I every year root for
everybody but England. So that is what I'm doing for
the World Cup, everyone but England and Christian world On.
So I'm gonna get myself a Christian rolled on jersey
(20:10):
and I'm gonna it's all the Celtic jersey, and I
don't wanna wear the Celtic jersey during England games. And
it's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I love all of it.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I am certainly going to be there alive in person
for US Australia at Loomenfield.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I'm really looking forward to that. It will be my.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
First men's national team World Cup game, so I'm.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Really it's a milestone.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Wow, it is a milestone. And you know, I kind
of went back and forth.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I was like, am I going to go to this
especially for someone so like in with the US women's
national team and you have such a background with US soccer.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah, And it's not that I haven't been to a
men's national team game, but a World Cup game and
this is just and multiple times I've thought about traveling
and all that, and I just I haven't done it.
And here they are in Seattle and that's gonna be
That's gonna be amazing. But overall, I think whenever i'm
you know, like, whenever I'm getting ready to enjoy a
World Cup, there are a few things that I really
(21:05):
like to to do one is I like to and
this World Cup is going to be especially unique for this.
I love to see how countries play that maybe you
don't get to ever see, and because of the expanded field,
we're going to get to see more of those. I
also think we're going to have some real blowouts, which
is kind of a bummer in some ways. But the
fact that you know, the expansion occurred and there are
going to be maybe some different styles, some different athletes,
(21:27):
some different styles of play, I think that that's going
to be really fun to watch. I think there are
multiple teams that multiple countries that can win it this year.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I'm also really.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Interested just in you know, a lot of my US
men's national team information. To this point, I listened to
a lot of Landon and Tim and I'm sorry, but
sometimes I get some Alexi gets mixed in there. Some
people are fans, some people aren't. I understand the polarization,
but I like to kind of hear it from people
that have been there, and that just gives me an
opportunity to do that. The thing that I think is
(21:58):
really interesting going to this World Cup in and listening
to you know a decent amount of their podcast is
just that even going into final rosters, they weren't quite
sure what it was going to be. There have been
some injuries, there's just been Yeah, I'm just going to
say some some unknowns, and so I'm really interested just
to see how they prepare in this next few weeks
and how they show up to the World Cup in
(22:19):
terms of like what's that what's that first line up
going to be, what's that starting lineup going to be?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
How how are they going to play together? Like, what's
what's the culture going to be? Like? How are they
going to interact with the fans? What's this?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
What's this going to be like? Since frankly, we're home,
which is amazing, So I have a lot of I'm
going to say, probably more questions and not like are
they good or are they not? I don't have that question,
and that's not my first order of business. I guess
as a fan of the US men's national team right now,
but I'm really curious just to see what they bring
to these World Cup games.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I think that the issue that's been surrounding the US
men's national team since forever, and I think it's culturally
because America is a winning like we are winner. We
win everything. When we go to the Olympics, we get
the most medals, like we are number one US women's team.
You know. Yes, there's other countries now that are very competitive.
They don't blow away, they don't win it every year,
(23:13):
but they're gonna be a favorite every year in every tournament.
And the men's side has never had that. And we
don't know as a society how to handle it, and
we don't know how to go from this to exceptional.
And I don't know what the answer is. I it
is way above my pay grade, and it is way
above my understanding of all of the ins and outs.
(23:34):
This is all so complicated, there's so much to it.
But I just I know every single year you go
on Reddit and it's, oh, we're gonna stuck again, Oh
why are we bringing this guy? Oh? And it's just
there's no positivity ever there is I don't remember the
last time. And even when the team does well, there's
no positivity whatsoever. So how are supposed to be motivated
(23:58):
by just negativity? By just avoid everyone being angry at you?
That's not a motivation, no, And it's.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Not like these players aren't fantastic players, right, it's a.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
There's a lot going on there, and I think we
get to back that for hours too.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
But I mean, like, I want to see the US
men's national team just flourish. I would love to see them.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
We all do, we all and I would love to
see them. Yeah. I would love to see them with
a style of play that we can get behind, whether
it works all the time or it doesn't. I'd love
to see players really step out and be dominant players
in a World Cup.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I don't think we've really seen.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
That in a while from the US men's national team.
I want some people to become a fan of I
think with the women's national team, not to you know,
make a comparison, but I think that's it's a hard
one because you.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Know, we go back a little bit.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
You know, people talk about the US women's national team
and how they had a head start, right and how
they you know, they were playing against teams that didn't
have countries that didn't have the NCAA when there wasn't
you know, a professional team. Nobody had professional teams, and
the US had the NCAA, which was really used as
a training ground in the US women's national team came
to prominence. You know pretty much right out the gate.
So there's always been this kind of assumption that, oh, well,
(25:12):
they started good and they got a head start, and
so they're gonna be good. There was a lot of
talk in the early two thousands about how they everybody's
catching up, everybody's catching up. That was a phrase, everybody's
catching up. Okay, everybody's catching up. Everybody catching up was
like us getting third exactly right and then winning again.
So we're in a very unique situation where a women's
(25:34):
national team has had a culture and a framework and
a history of success, and then if you don't get first,
you're like what went wrong?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Right?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
And with the US men, that's got to be really difficult.
I would think, within just US soccer to then be
the team that everybody's going like, what's wrong, why not?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Who's going to be good? What's going on?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
And it's always like this problem to be solved. Whether
rather than these players to celebrate and be fans of.
I would really like to just see opportunity in a
moment of these are great players, we're going to celebrate them.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
We're behind you.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And in order to make sure that that continues through
the World Cup, they have to win.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
They have to succeed, they've got to get out of
pool play. They got to advance a little bit.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
And I hope they give us the opportunity to do
that because I know a lot of us want to
be big fans.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Listen, in the US, we started out to scrapy underdogs
man back in seventeen whatever, like we were. We were
the underdogs against the Brits. And by the way, I
always read for everyone again except England.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
That's funny. I don't feel like when I watch the
Men's World Cup.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I don't feel like I'm rooting against somebody until I
get like, literally in the game.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, I'm gonna watch.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
These three games in a row today, And then you know,
I get into the matchup and I'm watching the teams
and I feel myself not even like purposefully, but I
feel myself going.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Like, oh, man, I gosh, they minted that. What a bummer,
And I'm like, why am I? Oh? And there's the cramming.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Okay, So the twenty fourteen World Cup team, that men's team,
I knew every single one of those players that team
had an identity. Actually, I would say that twenty fourteen
that they were they knew that they weren't as technically good.
They understood that they had a couple, Uh, they had
a couple. Oh god, what is the word? I'm forgetting
the word. They had some people come in from Europe
(27:18):
to like help them out, you know, like the Jermaine
Joneses of the world who had a great World Cup
that year, and that they hadn't identity. They knew that
they weren't as technically gifted, but they were gonna be
more physical than you. They were gonna be grittier. Michael
Bradley was gonna run eight thousand miles. I mean that
team had a real.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Identity, got a live track, ran well. I mean when
there was.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Like you have like bald head just running around like
all of that.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
That's what it is is like those there were some
things that like we could latch on exactly, what's that
player that's been playing in Europe.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Jermaine Jesse's gonna come over, what's he gonna do?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Right? Yes? And I don't I don't feel like I
have a lot of that right now. I would love to,
like as fans meet others whatever I want all the info.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Like let us in.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
And part of it is because we didn't have to
qualify it, so we didn't have to go through the
same trials. Yeah, they're in the same way. Excuses, excuses,
all the things. But I want to know these guys.
I want to know what I can latch onto. I
want to know the good, the bad, and the ugly.
You know. Yeah, when they're are guys. Hello, I was
a Warriors man. I rooted for Draymond Green. He was awesome. Okay,
(28:28):
everyone else hated him, but we loved him because he
was our a whole.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
He's your guys. I want to know.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I want to know who our a hole is so
I can do it for that.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, let's find out, you know.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
The side note, I've got to say twenty fourteen the
World Cup. I think I watched. I probably watched almost
every game of the twenty fourteen World Cup. And I
have some advice for I mean, young parents out there.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
So my daughters. My daughter was born on May twentieth.
Her birthday was last week, Happy birthday, but she was
twenty four and you know what, Oh my god, when you.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Have a baby right before the World Cup and you
get some time off and you're not sleeping, but the
games are at five am people watch soccer all day.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Wow, maybe I need to go back it so.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
As people prepare for this next World Cup. I know
it's too late for this one, but as you prepare
for these big tournaments, yeah, extra viewership if you if
you have a child.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
All right, Well, the World Cup is almost here, guys,
we're so excited. I am all about Christian roll Don
and everyone in this region should just be donning their
Christian roll Do on jerseys and just rallying behind our
water carrier, our you know, captain, our guy who has
no ego but does all the hard work and is
the iron man. I remember my first season with the
(29:44):
Sounders in twenty eighteen. He played every single game, every
single game. He is the man. He deserves this like
no one else. And we are so excited for him.
And we're so excited for the World Cup. And we're
even well, I don't want to say even more excited,
but we're also very excited for this rein of the
future victory against Watching Spirit. I have a good feeling
about it. We will be back next week on the
(30:05):
website breaking down all World Cup stuff. We will get.
We have so many topics that we had to stop because,
like I said, we have thirty minutes. But the good
news is once we go online, we can talk as
long as we want so, which will make me editing
everything very much easier. All right, thanks everyone for listening,
and like I said, we will be back next week
(30:27):
on the website.
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