May 9, 2024 • 56 mins
Edmundo is out. Tom, Russell and Ted are in studio for hour one. Bill McDermott (Mr Soccer his own self) joins the show to discuss MLS, and UCL semi-final leg one matches. KXOK and Lider Sports Marketing spanish language play by play man Santiago Beltan joins the show by telephone to discuss the City SC draw vs Houston Dynamo. STLToday beat writer Tom Timmerman @tomtimm joins the guys to discuss all things St Louis City SC. Be sure to check out his weekly podcast STL Soccer Talk.
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Don't you want ladies and gentlemen,boys and girls and anyone else within the
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sound of my voice. Welcome backto year thirteen of the longest running discussion
of Jogo Bonito in Saint Louis radiohistory STL United Soccer Sunday on Cafinnis five
ninety the Fan. Today's show,like every show, is brought to you
by our friend Mark Neimeier at nGklawfirm dot com, a Saint Louis law
firm with local roots and nationwide results. Russell White here in for Edmundo,
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who is somewhere somewhere. Oh thatscores a little bit later today Dallas.
He's in Dallas. That's not SaintLouis. No, it's it's not even
a selfie with the Direk statue.Could be. That's what I do.
That's what you do. Yep.Today's lineup includes the usual gang in the
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studio, just me, Ted andTom for right now bound the ro will.
We will have visitors today, soI guess I probably should have told
you he's coming right. No,it's all good. I think we'll have
Santiago Beltran Spanish choice of scl Citysc We'll have Tom Timm and the Dean
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of Saint Louis Soccer reportage from theSaint Louis Post Dispatch from Fliver Footy,
the man who knows the x's andnoses of the sc Matt Baker and in
studio expecting to have from Fox twoand eleven, the host of the award
winning podcast Wembley's Game, danielis theaward winning Wow could be well and preps.
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Also Tai Kyo, you never know, No, I think he's going
to be could get exciting. Andnow a man who just can't get enough
of watching I don't know line videossomething like that. I do love lion
video your friend of mine. Iwatched them this morning. Mister c There
you go evidence your friend of mine. Mister Tom Schwartz, the air of
Beyay might be h. Punch ithere in the studio post post game.
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Post game visitors had a little difficultyunderstanding you. Once I got it,
Ben Gay, Yeah, will beprepared for Ben Yay. It's those who
have early games on the Sunday morning. Yeah, come here post game.
You know this was a really prescientchoice of a song. You know,
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are you familiar with the song?No, I'm not turned to Stone by
Joe Walsh. That's about what happenedto me last night watching City. Did
you find it ran dry? Didyou find it a little less than exciting?
Yeah? Did you drift off tosleep? No? I did it
because, to be honest, Iwas really interested in the the NBA game
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because it was the first time I'vereally seen the The thing was, it
took me the stats. There weremore There were more shots on Gold than
the four to one game the Nashvilleplayed, for example, but the quality
of shots were not. There wasnot Wasn't there a a I want to
save this for the discussion. Well, yeah, because we have we have
people who are are more knowledgeable.It's sorry, we have our observations as
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well. Yeah, well for sure, but it was. It's not a
bad result. Honestly, it's avery good reason. Houston's a good team,
and seeing though they don't have anyfans. I was saying to Ted
earlier, the test is next weekin Chicago. Yeah, yeah, well
I think the test is every weekbecause true, every week we see how
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important movement is this team. Absolutely, and I look and say, well,
he's not due back until the endof the month. Is that what
they're saying, that's what that's what. That's what Fox Mob says. Anyway.
Yeah, and have they decided whathamstring? Hamstring? I mean that's
just what it says. Yeah,sure, and hamstrings take a long time,
do you don't. You don't rushthose. You just do the last
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thing you can do. But boy, they just need somebody that they need
the general. They're missing the general. They're like troops running around. Uh.
Well, let's it's not terrible.It's just not penetrative enough to sco
goals. And like you said,you know, a point is good.
Remember last year, the biggest problemlast year was they played so well early
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and then they cooled off. Well, maybe this year they're cooled off and
things will come together and start clicking. Remember what the goal is, Yeah,
to do well in the playoffs.Do we have exactly that's the whole
goal. Do we have? Ourguests on the air, ladies and gentlemen,
Mister soccer his own self, BillMcDermott, How you doing Bill?
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Weren't it Tom? Hello? Everyonein the studio. Bill. I want
if you want to say something aboutCity last night, say it now because
I want to talk to you aboutChampions League oh sure, by all means,
well, the thing was city withrelation to their latest outing. Let's
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look at the game and then thislook at where they were at this time
last year. There were six threeand one at this stage last year.
Now the are two one and sevenfor thirteen points in ten games, and
everybody says, well, wait aminute, how does this happen in just
one short year. Whether it's Ithink, I think, these are all
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my personal opinions, and watching everygame, being games and watching them closely.
Oh, but what do you knowabout soccer? Oh, you's soccer.
But the first half yesterday against lastnight against Houston, Houston liked to
keep the ball a lot. Theyplayed. They play a lot of possessions,
so consequently they are vulnerable to acounter attack. That happened a great
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deal last night. Far for SaintLouis City, which has used to their
trademark, Thomas Totland wasn't as activecoming from the right flank at right back
he always is in every game sinceeveryone he's played in. Uh, this
is the thing that's different about theirgame this year because they're missing their ten
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shirt. Almost every ball into thepenalty area, almost every ball into the
penalty area was in the air.A steady diet of that is not going
to work unless you have Rude VenistleRoy or Harry Kane our Ramrio there.
As I've checked lately, City doesn'thave those players. Well they haven't,
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but they're all in their fifties.Yeah, but they're playing. They're playing
with one forward continually. I've toldyou many times on the show, I
don't care for one forward. BridMcBride never liked playing with one farward.
That's just my personal opinion. Ifyou watch Into Miami now this is you
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go. Are any any team,any real prominent team, there's always two
forwards, almost immediately next to eachother, so you can always work one
too. Now that's a cult withEnter Miami. It's a cultural thing,
Suarez Messi. They're always looking foreach other to work a one to the
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tighter the space the better because they'reconfident in doing that. I think a
number one time, as we continueour conversation about City, the absence of
Edward Mouveman, the guy who reallycaught the league, the overall league by
surprise with his play last year.I think that's one of the things that
that's really missing. Amen Okay,look, since we you know, it's
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amazing to me how much I agreewith what you're saying. I think,
well, hell, I learned thegame from him how to think like you
do? All right, so let'sgo to the Champions League. In the
note I wrote to myself, amongmany was whats and I think I'm taking
this from one of the announcers.What sort of magic have we witnessed?
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And I want you just to takeit from there, Bill, I think
you can. We've always talked aboutthis time, the magic that has provided
literally by some of the best playersin the world at their positions, namely
namely Harry Caine, le Roy Sane, Venisius Junior j Bellehaan. But for
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Byron excuse me, a farmer ironplayer who now was thoroughly entrenched in the
real Madrid lineup. To watch crossplay on a ninety minute base, well
he's not playing the entire ninety justabout does. But he puts his mark
on the game immediately. I'm nothuge for the statistics they show at the
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end of the game. I preferthe floor of the game to dictate what
I see. But he connected onninety six percent of his passes and he's
on the ball all the time,all the time. And you will notice
tom that during the first and secondhalf he floats. He floats a lot,
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He does a lot of freelancing,but he'll come back as deep as
Antonio Rudiger to get the ball andstart to spread around accordingly. But also
he's not running as much as whenhe's inside the center circle. Now he
doesn't run a great deal. Oneof the few times on the dribble in
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the game, most recently, hewas on the dribble played through a ball,
and that was magnificent. But whatturned the game, what turned the
game on its ear pass one passwhere where Byron is totally dominating at the
alliance and all of a sudden,Venisius Junior from out of nowhere appears fabulous
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running off the ball. By theway, your cruise a beautiful through Well,
now, this through ball encompassed almostthirty to forty yards, but it
was just a matter of fact forthe way the cruise plays and looks to
find people and does it quickly.If you go on the real Madrid website,
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they always give you snippets of video. They don't show you the entire
training session of course not. Butthey show you snippets of video, and
they know you video sessions of theirlast training session before they go into a
big game. They always play smallsided games, and just watch Cruise how
he plays the same. What yousee in training is what you're going to
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see in a big game. Hegets the ball off his feet early.
He finds people, He finds peoplein dangerous positions, and he finds people
who are dangerous. A number onefor buyers, excuse me for Real Madrid
is Benisius Junior. Oh and Billand Bill. Here's here's a good idea.
If you're a Byron fan, don'tboo Tony Kruz every time he touches
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the ball, because it was justhumble and venetious. I mean, god,
lord, you talk about you know, like when rockets take off right,
they're they're going really fast and thenthe boosters kick in, and that's
what it must be like for,you know, trying to mark him in
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his explosions, likewise from a deadstunt. Now, imagine next year,
if indeed, we continue to hearall these rumors Killian and Bope going to
Real Madrid, majority of which nowseemed to be accurate at least seemed to
be accurate. They may have tosacrifice Rodrigo in the process, who's had
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another player who's had a fabulous yearfor Real Madrid. But Bellingham and Babe,
and then those those French midfielders,the young French midfielders, Juemenni kamavinga
slide, Rudiger in the backfield,and the players. It's not the players
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that that that slide in uh LucasVasquez, Uh not sure, not just
they're not phased by anything, They'renot overwhelmed by anything, especially this year
where they've had to step into thefirst eleven because of injuries to Alaba tal
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players like that who have not beenable to play on a regular basis.
So they look solid, look solid. And I think, as I've always
mentioned to you, and I thoroughlybelieve this, they play with three ghosts
on their team. With the StefanoPushkison Hano. Okay, have you seen
any of the stills of the gamewhere he is maling early, malling him
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and then they have I saw otherstills that when he wasn't someone else was.
I mean, how to take himout of the game, Well,
you have to have somebody really bigand tough. That's what happens in every
big game like that, and onevery occasion when there's a set piece or
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a carner kick on a car kickanywhere in the world, anywhere in the
world, at the Soccer Park,at Creeve Corps, at the Berta Bao,
at America and wherever, there's fivefiles at least on each team offense
and defense. And it's never goingto vary. And you will always see
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the referee come over and say,all right, look, I can see
a polar shirt, leave them alone. The instant the balls in the air,
there's ten files committed. But thesethe things that were remarkable to me
is this was just during the courseof play. They had him wrapped up.
It was like watching the old NewYork Knicks play defense. Huh.
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I mean, it was unbelievable.As I mentioned you many times, that's
how that's how Alexi and Marcello playedon July fourth, nineteen ninety four at
the World Cup at Stanford Citium.That's how they played against l Mario Lebetto.
And it still didn't work. Hey, let's take a quick station.
I d bill hold on for us, please, yep, yep, yep,
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Hey I need to remind you thatyou listening to soccer Sunday on KFNS
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I did do that that time.Bill? Did you know that Russell?
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Next week is his last show untilAugust? The middle of August? Where
is he? Is he going toget involved in the Champions League? What're
you doing? Yeah? He isactually going to make for What are you?
Where are you going? Well,first of all, I'm going to
visit family in New Zealand. Ohand then then after that I'm going to
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be off to Europe and go spendsome time with my research colleague and also
a little bit of traveling around.Where are you going in Europe? Arriving
in Nice and then spend three weeksin Florence and then Hamburg, Germany,
France just south of Geneva, andthen Zurich in the trip A fabulous places
we have you've been? Magellan?Here? Did you have you been to
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Homburg? No? I haven't I'mlooking forward to it. I know you've
said great things about fabulous. Imean, the nicest people you'll ever meet
in your life, and you don'ttell me we talk about Byron. And
when I look just recently, Isee six players, six players from Byron
on the national team. Now thatvaries, it comes and goes. Last
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time I saw six players from BayernMunich in the first eleven on Germany was
in nineteen seventy four when they wonthe World Cup. So yeah, I
mean there's always going to be Byronplayers. Yeah, let's take a look
at the at dortmun and PSG thatgame. First of all, if there
is ever an aura about a particularstadium. And I love watching the games
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I mentioned earlier Markana Bausch, theolder games as Teca, the Burda Bao
camp, No, I mean anyof those places. But in this stadium
at Bayer, Oh, there's eightyone thousand and twenty five thousand of which
were in that yellow wall. Didyou see Jamie Carragher go up into the
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wall. He's drinking beer with thefans. Yes, it was just it
was their coverage is so good?Yeah, he gets and Jamie gets actively
about and makes no secret of thefact that he's a Liverpool fan and played
for Liverpool, and that's fine,that's fine, but he tempers it just
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well enough. And then they startsinging You'll never walk alone. Oh you
forget it. Yeah, there's noatmosphere in particular in protectular Tom. Remember
the game, uh three or fouryears now ago now when Barcelona came in
and Liverpool ended up defeating them inthe Champions League, and everybody in the
stadium and everybody on Liverpool's squad,not just the players, the kitmen,
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everybody in the locker room turned andfaced and sang that to the cop end.
Yeah. No, there's nothing likeit. And not just not just
singing it there. I mean it'sit's their hearts are on display. I
mean everybody's. Can you imagine isLiverpool played their last game uh at home
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for klop or do they have onemore at home? I think there's one
more that would be you're right,Russ, I think yes, uh huh,
that will be playing been playing Spoostoday at home? Yeah yeah,
okay, all right, that mightbe brusha dartmund just a little bit different
from the brusha dartmound side that Iplayed against the nineteen sixty eight when when
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Jim Bullagnesy and Ed Kirsten said,all right, Bill, your job is
to mark Siggy Hell, Yeah,how's that working out for you? Let's
see, I've been out of highschool for two years now and Siggi hell
was just in a World Cup finalfor Germany and sixty six. Now did
you have the mustache Thenville or didthat come a little later? That came
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a little later. That came alittle later. But with reference to Brusha
Dortmund and the in the very verydistinct of my all time favorite uniform yellow
black, yellow, ol Kroke seemsto be a definite first eleven player in
the first eleven for the for thefeldeister Shoft. He's he can pass and
shoot rights, he shows he makeshimself available. He's great in the gear.
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He plays well with his back togoal. He's never going to hide
the physical game. But the ballthat he received, the ball played over
him, over to him, overthe top. In a thirty six minute
he brings that down in stride withhis right, finishes with his left.
It doesn't get any better, Oh, Bill better, I've got to drop
this in because I would want toget your reaction to this, I'll be
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mad at myself. I don't RoyHudson. He had more gasp than a
porn star in that same I meaneverything was yeah, literally talk about Roy
Hudson a little bit. Bill.I first met him, oh my words,
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years ago, uh in the nsL days when he's down in Florida
playing for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers,where a lot of players from Great Britain
went went to play as a matterof fact. And then I also used
to see him on a regular basisin Florida when the MLS still had two
teams in Florida, not Orlando Citynow, but the Tampa Bay Mutiny when
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bald Rama was playing and he's doinggames. But you should have heard the
hair at n time. Oh ohright, and he was a very good
player too as well. Yeah,it was a very good player. Well
he I think the man of thematch for Brusia dartman ful Krug was great.
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But Jayden Sancho running at people forthe entire ninety minutes, entire nineties.
I got to drop in this RoyHudson metaphor because he is the king
of metaphors. Oh yeah, thatwas as slippery as an eagle and eel
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covered in vasily. Yeah exactly,yeah, yeah, yeah, come on.
He does occasionally go out of hisway to force those into the commentary.
That's all right, he's got noin a situation you've worked I'm sure
with people who have those things writtenout ahead of the game and they're just
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looking to work them in. Isthat how that works? Yeah? Occasionally,
yeah, yeah, unlock Unlike wewere talking over the weekend about Ben
Scully. As a matter of fact, I follow up to Mutson's lines.
But Scully at one time is doinga cub a couple of Dodgers game.
So he says, uh, whois the great players? I'm just going
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to give you a name from theCubs. This is this is not accurate,
he said, so and so islisted with a bad hamstring as day
to day pause, aren't we allonly selling? But and that gets that
has more and more meaning every day, week, month of our lives.
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At this point watch and then watching, uh, paris remain I always like
watching right back, he he joins. He gets involved. He's continually involved,
and I think one of the mainreasons Morocco made it to the semifinals
of the World Cup and guitar playerslike him and Bopp, and Boppy knows
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just enough where to go to findthe game and he he is always looking
to work a one two and Imean always. And you talk about explosion,
explosion speed from a dead stop.Oh and late in the game and
Bappe hits the goal Postkimi hits thegoal post. Hey Bill, Bill Expand
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more teams though, or a treatto watch? Expand for me just a
bit the vision of what you've beenseeing in particular, and Champions League in
the league's in general, as howit plays out in the Euros this summer,
because I think I love the Euros. Yes, offense, offense,
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offense, people, but people runningat people. And I mentioned just a
second ago about Jaden Sancho for BrusiaDortmund. What a magnificent game he had.
And why did he have a magnificentgame Because he was taking people on
every time he touched the ball.And and I always reference his name with
Real Madrid the old way Hentel usedto play with the Stephan on pushkis.
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You knew every time he touched ithe was going to run at somebody.
But he was so good at itthat you can't prevent it from happening.
You either follow him and usually whenyou file a player like Sancho, he's
in a dangerous area of the fieldand you're going to get a set piece
in a dangerous area of the field. Okay, Bill, we're about out
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of time. Sure, sure,who's your week? Who's your choice?
Oh? Yeah, we have gamesagain next week, Yes, sir.
Yeah. Always have a very veryvery prejudice dependent upon this. It's just
because I liked them. I thinkI told you last week time. It
was the first real soccer film ofany consequence we saw featured real Madrid,
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and we had only heard only heardabout this guy to Stefano and push because
and then you see him first time. And then you see them come to
Saint Louis Diversity to train before theirgame at the ever Jones Dome in August
of twenty thirteen, when there wasfifty four one eighty four and they played
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this three v three offense versus defense. It's just three v three, three
b three people alternate. It's Ronaldo, Ozio and de Maria as a threesome.
You've never seen a soccer ball movelike this, never, Bill,
don't answer your question about Liverpool's lastgame of game round thirty eight Sunday made
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the nineteenth Liverpool against Wolves at Liverpooland Field at the Lodge. Great,
and don't forget June first, Junefirst City at Inter Miami and Champions League
Final all on the same day.Wow, yeah too much. Thanks the
great mister Soccer his own self,Billig They brabbles Russ. Thanks yeah,
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take care of by Now. Allright, guys, you are listening to
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your one side. Shakira, Shakira, welcome, Welcome back to the thirteenth
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year of STL. United Soccer Sundayon KFNS five ninety Fan Russell blythe along
was super Ted Williams on the boardpost Thomas Schores and now we have Daniel
stab with us in the studio.But that music can mean only one thing.
But let me tell you first,this show is brought to you by
Mark Nemi at Njklawfirm dot com.We have we have super secret text line,
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super secret text line from Dirk Kaiserhis own self. Now, that
was a soccer show. How canmister soccer remember so many players' names?
I have two words for you,Billy Billy Ritchie, ancient aliens, encyclopedal
memory, ancient alien A lot ofpeople. I guess I probably shouldn't have
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told people that what I did thatsecret. I mean, it's true,
he knows so many he can goback to those names. And the other
thing, Daniel, this might impressyou is Bill is able to pronounce all
of these great names. You know, It's just he can't say him,
you know, like I would screwhim up. But he's got the right
pronunciation, diction the whole nine yards, Tom, Is that supposed to be
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my introduction? It was? Imean, I come into to a studio,
jam packed people waiting out the doorjust to get into there, get
out of here. I finally getin and this is this is I get
that just a quick toss over tome is my intro? Aren't you always
telling me how part of the familyyou are? I guess I'm supposed to
just you ever see always treat mychildren. No, do you know we
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I almost said we shoot dogs inour family, but that would really be
unfortunate, wouldn't don't do that.Don't do it. Don't say that.
I'm not running for office. Wedo not condone that that kind of behavior.
On Soccer Show, der Kaiser says, now he thinks Bill makes all
these names up. Now that's atheory. That's see, that's playing chess,
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not checkers. I think that's onlya hypothesis, not even a theory.
That's like Russell's accent being fake,entirely fabricated this whole time. It
is, well, don't tell peoplethat. But I'm just saying, those
are the kind of theories that canfly wild. You haven't seeing the childhood
photo of him the horse that sealsthe deal on the accent. No,
it's from Texas. That's what he'ssaying. He just made all this stuff
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up. See that's what I'm thinking. No, honestly, I could see
like totally remote Idaho or something likethat. Russell. Yeah, oh for
clearly, yeah clop the way hesays, reckon, Yeah, I reckon.
You might be right, about that. You're you're blowing my cover here.
You know, you've tried so hard. We just had enough of this
stuff. We've discovered that Bill makesall these names up. That if you
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check Canto and Poodleski and all thosecats, you know we don't even know
who they are. Now. Looklook, look, by the way,
the show is only a quarter done. It's not the whole show yet.
Yes, right, so we're goingto have more excellence. I think there
might be someone on the line rightnow. We have countless excellence in fact,
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ladies and gentlemen, with no furtherAdams the voice, the Spanish voice
of Saint Louis City, Santiago BellTry. You're right, that is a
better introduction than I gave Daniel santiHow you doing, Buenos Dias. I'm
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doing great. Well, you're doinggreat after that game last night. Well
not not about the game, butstill doing okay on other things. But
yeah, it was a little frustratingto not see uh any goals, to
not call any goals. I wascalling the game live from nine Mile Garden.
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There was a supporter group party goingon there, so I was calling
the game from there. Hey,Thomas Week isn't predicated on some silly sports.
Okay, with that being said,if Tottenham loses to Liverpool today,
I will not be going to work, Santi. Is is it like for
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you not to call goal in agame? That must be Oh we're looking
at pictures of Russell as a childon a horse in New Zealand, so
that's proof possible. No no,no, no, in remote Idaho,
remote Idaho. Well these things,you know, Santi, this is the
stuff you find out on this show. Somebody's gonna say, Santi's making up
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his accent. No no, no, no, just to get the just
to get the gig. At isthe you know you're not going to tell
us you're from remote northern Idaho,are is Santi? Uh? No,
No, I'm from remote Columbia.Even better, Hey, Santi, what
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do you like? I understand thatit's that a point this time of any
time of the year, point onthe road is a good thing. But
boy, they just looked out ofsorts last night, didn't they. Yeah?
Yeah, it was one of thosethat the team created some chances but
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just couldn't close it up. beINis the chances? And I don't know,
like, yeah, still a gooddefensive performance. Houston. It's a
difficult team to play against, andyeah, maybe a little bit of disappointment,
but a point is a point.And I was talking to Matt Baker
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earlier today and if you look atwhat the team did last year to ten
games, they got nineteen points thisyear through ten games, thirteen points if
you win your next game is sixteenpoints last year through eleven games. Because
the team lost that mess game lastyear, it's still nineteen points. So
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it's still very close if you comparethe two years, just two different ways
to get there. But yeah,at some point the team has to get
up that a streak of dying gamesand it started getting three points more often.
Well, last year they were reallyhot at the beginning of the year
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and they were really cold at theend of the year. So maybe what
we're seeing this year is the reverseof it. You surely don't want to
be playing your best soccer at thebeginning of the year, right is that?
Another reference to Tottenham tom Oh,my goodness, unbelievable. Santia tell
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you what. It is interesting though, given the results and the similarities to
last year, when you look atfrom a comparison perspective, like you and
Matt were talking about that we're notthat far off. It seems to me
like you just throw some kind ofcatalyst into the mix, especially with the
team. From a foundation perspective,you could argue it's pretty solid given that
we don't lose. All the talkfrom Badly Carneal, Tim Parker, et
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cetera, et cetera on playing notto lose or playing in a way that
you won't lose, that's good.But then when you throw a catalyst in,
like say some random striker from Germany, So maybe that'll mix some things
up in the summer, right,Yeah, and absolutely absolutely, I think
there's just that missing piece on theoffense that hopefully the team is already at
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work on that and we'll see somereinformans coming in in the summer. But
yeah, I think it's just apiece or two and yeah, getting Loving
back and just having more options,like yeah, right now the team.
I was also surprised that the teamwent with the same lineup again for the
third game in a row, whichis something that never happened and in the
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history of Lewis cit a Sea.But I think just with the players that
are available to me, it lookslike Cornell has finally found that lineup,
and with an addition or two aroundthe summer, I think this team will
continue on an ascending trend and getto the playoffs in the right form.
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I'd like your initial comment you madeabout the defense, because there's only one
other team with one loss, whichis the Columbus Crew, current champions.
Right, they're on fifteen points toten games, three wins, six draws,
one loss, so a fifth placein the East. But okay,
but you know, both teams areprobably in reasonably good shape if they can
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put together a few wins. Yeah, you have to win some games at
some point, at some point.But again, to me, if we
didn't learn the lesson last year abouthow important it is to be on song
in September, you know you gotthis is all preliminary stuff, right,
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I mean it's I hate to saythat because it maybe sounds too but but
the foundation has to be strong defensively, yeah, right, right. I
mean my point is that you knowthey're they're not losing these games. I
mean, they should have lost thatgame last night. I mean, Houston
didn't have much, but they hitthe post, right, hit the crossbar,
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but didn't we I don't know.Did we I can't remember. I
don't know. Go ahead, Sonny, we didn't. There were some good
chances that just couldn't finish them.Just the one that clouds like sky high.
Yeah, I thought that that wasit, that was the game winner,
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but I just didn't happen. Butbut yeah, Tom, I I
agree with you, like it's along season. But yeah, at the
same time, at some point youstart just you need to start getting being
a win or two, and Ithink the perfect opportunity for that is next
Saturday against Chicago Fire. Daniel,you are looking very pensively. Yeah,
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I'm thinking about the catalyst comment.I really don't want to get to ahead
with the edu Luvin, especially withRussell throwing him in there, because he
did play earlier this season and hehimself said it was going to take him
some time to get right and tocome back and get into the rhythm of
things, and after dealing with whathe's been dealing with both physically emotionally,
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I don't think him coming back tothe lineup is going to be this instant
answer. Certainly, it will help, for sure, but there still needs
some work to be done in termsof learning how to score. I think
a catalyst will certainly help, butoverall, I don't think it's the end
all be all. With the factthat we continue to tie, I think
I think that's the more weeks goby, the more optimistic I am about
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the way we're shaping up result wiseand on the field. We just were
a little stagnant, that's for sure. I would be interested to see what
the record would look like without RomanBurke, but the reality is that we
have Roman. There's no point inplaying around back. You wouldn't want to
see that. I don't think.All right, santi We're we're about tied
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up here. What tied up?Listen to me? Final thoughts, Well,
still not losing, but yeah,I just have to find a way
to score. And I agree withDaniel. Yeah, even when Lewin comes
back, it's gonna take some timefor for him to get back to his
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rhythm, so he's not the immediatesolution, but he will help when when
he comes back. But yeah,hopefully we'll see some movements around the summer.
There's a big chance. Okay,thanks a lot, Santiago, Beltron,
Thanks take care, bye, guys, thank you, thank you,
Hey, folks. Russell to remindyou that you are listening to soccer Sunday
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Let's just wait, Daniel, Ithought last night Klaus looked. Oh.
Before I talk about Klaus, Iwant your take on uh Celio they
subbed? Did they sub for himat halftime? Yeah? Halftime? Because
I was watching the basketball game duringhalftime, I thought he was out of
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sorts last night. I don't know. Did you have any reaction to that?
Were you thinking that? Well,I've got two thoughts. One.
I was sitting in a two anda half hour randola in Saint Louis at
the at the Bush Stadium during thisgame, so I was trying to keep
an eye on the game as muchas possible, but just stylistically speaking,
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in a low block A lot ofthe times, especially with a possession based
team, like Houston. When theysit back low, you're going, oh
am, I getting called off.My speech is already ending. Almost.
Yeah. Having a dribbling winger likeSelio is great when he yes, I
like that. It's like Tottenham's folklore. At this point, you got to
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drop the hard g winger. Dribblingwinger, dribbling winger. That's how the
Brits say, okay, okay,dribbley winger. Yeah, okay. When
you're dribbling into space, it's great. But when you're dribbling into a low
block and you've got two three otherHouston Dynamo players, your effectiveness continues to
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trickle. So it could have justbeen a stylistic move. But because I
wasn't watching as intently as I probablywould have otherwise, I couldn't point to
a specific reason. All right,thank you, mom, I love you,
Mom, And uh, thank youto all the producers and directors.
We'll have a good night. Andnow the Dean of Saint Louis Soccer ripotage,
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Tom Chamberman, Hi, Tom,Yeah, either I feel bad about
about cutting off Daniel. I feelbad about that. Daniel's in the studio
right here, he's he's got he'sgot a segment late. Yeah, don't
worry about Daniel. Okay, Ohwell in that case, hey, but
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Well okay, but you know what, it's a sponsor and really it's all
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Okay, Tom, talk about thegame last night. Well, you
know it's it's another tie and atsome point in times and it shows you
just you know, they've not playedseven games. We're doing one more good
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thing would be a win, andwe're doing or doing one less bad thing,
but also doing one more bad thingwould be a loss, So you
know, road wins are supposed tobe good, but it's I mean,
it is you know, it's justif they're they're right there and they can't
do quite enough to win, butthey're doing enough not to lose. Ultimately,
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though, this isn't something that's gonna, you know, probably get you
to the playoffs. I mean,at this rate they got, I mean,
they they've only lost one game allyear. There are only two teams
in the league that have only lostone game this season. Meanwhile, they've
they've only won two games, andthat's tied for the least number of wins
(43:44):
in the league. So you know, it's you know, they're either really
good or really bad. And whatwe see is that they're really seven ties,
so they're really ordinary. I guess, Tom, I enjoyed your suggestion
about maybe the offensive prowess of theteam could be improved by Romanburke. He
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allowed them to score at training andbeing so good in practice. He's gotta
let he's gotta let the guy scoreevery once in a while. Guysh darn
it, Tom, did you actuallyasked Roman that question last night at the
press conference? Yeah? And whatwas his response? Was it a snarl
(44:29):
or a smile. It was asmile, and he said, but but
I gotta get myself good too,and I got to compete, and so
for me to be good, Ihave to stop their shots in practice.
So but he but he did,you know, kind of appreciate the suggestion,
but said, you know, notgonna. He's got to also look
out for himself, and so he'sgot to make stops in practice. He
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could tie his hands or put onehand behind his back or something. I
mean, that's a very good question, Tom, That was that was a
very insightful question. Oh, thankyou. Tom. Did you ask him
if he if he could just playstriker or maybe like a little shadow striker
behind Jack Klaus? You know thatthat's maybe a topic to look into here.
(45:16):
Okay, I'm just I'm at thispoint. Let's just six conceptions.
You know, you can just goup on corners yet, Yeah, I
mean, I don't know how manysprints he has in him though, that
how many how many times he cango when that doesn't work, that he
can go scrambling, you know,one hundred yards to get back in the
goal. He sprinted, He sprintedto break up that that contractemnt between I
(45:42):
forget who is our player who isinvolved in the Yeah, oh no,
no, no, he's his namehas been changed. Were you there?
Are you? Were you there?Were you listening watching on Apple? I?
I was. I was watching onApple TV. So they apparently they
Chase is named Osra instead of alsoMarketick. It's not Marcandic Marketick. But
(46:08):
but he's changed it halftime. It'sas though someone said, you're not doing
that right and and yeah, andthen he kind of kind of mangled Sam
situation, so that that was alsouh uh if he there that uh,
you know, the mystery of Sam'sdisappearance. Hey, let's let's talk a
(46:28):
little bit about Sam. Does heneed to be on the field more?
Well, according to who? Imean, I'm sure Sam would love to
be on the field more. Ithink for the uh, I think from
Cornell's point of view, I mean, they really have liked what they've gotten
out of uh, you know,Pompeiu and the other midfielders, and so
(46:49):
that is pushed Sam out and andyou know they've always liked Sam and his
speed coming in late and what hecould do. So I don't know,
I mean, they scored three goalswithout him in the previous game. You
know, Sam hasn't scored a game, has scored a goal since what March
the second, So we're we've justpassed the two month mark since he scored.
(47:14):
So you know, I don't knowthat you know, there are there
are other guys who are making claimsfor playing time as well. So,
Tom, you said that they likewhat Sam can do. What didn't they
like about what Sam couldn't do whenhe was left off the match day squads
and out of training, because westill to this day have not gotten a
(47:37):
very strict specific answer outside of yeah, we gotta we need players that are
going to stick to our principles.Yeah, I mean, the one thing
that always comes up is talk aboutthe work rate, and so as to
whether they didn't feel Sam was goingall out in practice or in games,
(47:58):
you know, I don't know,but I mean that seems to be the
theme is that, you know,the recurring thing is that he wasn't apparently
giving enough in some capacity, youknow, whether it's in practice or in
games to do that, it musthave been in practice. Yeah, you
know, the first time he gotleft off was right before practice, so
(48:20):
right for a game. So youknow, it's funny though you talked to
Sam and he's you know, hedoesn't. He was totally unapologetic. I
mean, he did not feel heneeded to change anything in what he did
when we talked to him on Tuesday. So yeah, you know, I
don't know, but but I meanhe So he came into the game yesterday.
I played twenty six minutes, didn'tget a shot, but you know,
(48:44):
he was there, and you know, so it shows that you know,
he's not person and on Grada,that he's going to play. I
mean, this isn't like John Nelsonlast year, who we vanished, you
know, but but he's he's justnot you know, I don't know how
they're gonna structure, but he's gonnaplay. I mean we've seen that.
But also we also every reason tobelieve, and this has been the thought
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of years that they're going to tryto bring in of you know, offensive
help during the summer transfer window.And name pops in my mind for some
strange reason, Mario Bellatelli. Ohno, no, no, no,
no, no no, Sam,No, don't put that on Sam,
is what I'm saying. No,no, but hopefully it's not. Hopefully
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it's not that situation, right,that's a different ball game, right,
Well, I mean yeah, Imean with Sam wearing a why Always Me?
Shirt under his jersey last night,can we confirm we cannot. No,
it's a provocative thought. I understandthat, But well, I mean,
really this all started at least wasbrought to our attention. I don't
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know when it started. Is whencity turned down that offer for him?
Well no, well, hold on, I mean you can go back even
further though, Sam spent time inwhat Seattle before going down to the USL,
and that was in San Antonio,and then made his way. I
mean, you see the talent thathe has. To see him just go
down to the USL is you couldbe telling? Of course, every time
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I've met Sam, he's been fantasticand he's certainly talented. But right now
we're all inside the box. Let'slet's get outside the box and play little
game of what if? So,Tom, you mentioned bringing in another well
you said offensive help, but let'scall it a striker in the summer.
Should that happen? Klaus Striker tobe named, and Sama dennerin do you
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keep all three or do you lookto move one of them? On?
Certainly not Klaus certainly not new striker. Do you look to move Sam Well?
And Sam is you know, outof contract at the end of the
year, so you know he's youknow, he's only here through October November
anyway. Wow, So yeah,is this a chance to move him,
you know, to get something forhim, to get a transfer fee from
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him, rather than let him goout of contract. I mean, that's
you know, that's certainly something theyhave to they have to think of it.
That would be good business. Well, that's the that's the way this
this guy, I think his valuehas gone down pretty significantly, at least
in the last month or two.Not from productivity perspective, but people are
going to be asking questions like,hey, you've got this physically demand or
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dominating presence with a great left foot, and you left him off your entire
match day squad on a healthy scratch. That's going to raise some eyebrass.
Yeah, yeah it is. Buta lot of times, you know,
this is what happened to a lotof these guys on this team, where
they were being scratched by their team. And you know, Joe Kini wasn't
playing in Orlando, and so sometimesyou just say, you know, I
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think teams can say it's just notworking for a guy there, so,
but he can work in our place. That's right, that's wrong, right
that I mean, that's yes,that happened with Sam previously, and it
happened, you know, maybe maybethird times a charm, But I mean,
hey, city fans love him rightfully, so he scores goals and so
long as he can mesh well,he's a great asset. But certainly it
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just depends on what on what happensin the summer. The idea of bringing
in Marco Royce is thrilling, thoughI don't think that's going to happen either,
But wouldn't that be a treat?What do you think we bring the
brusha boys back together? You sawRoman Burke post about his buddy, his
buddy Marco on his Instagram. Yeah, I mean the name you hear that's
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been out there is Cedric Tukert,who's a guy with handover ninety six.
Yeah, second division guy, andthat's the one that makes sense. Yeah,
the dreamers like the name Marco.Yeah, LUs was just over in
Germany, you know, last week, So I don't know if you know
if that's connected to that or theguy just I mean, the guy does
(52:50):
like going to Germany, so Idon't know if that's the who doesn't if
that's one. Yeah, well it'sa fine country. It is my ancestral
homeland beer. Come on, Itell you my I mean my summer in
Cologne was was wonderful and the amountof colsh that I drank, well there
was was was noticeable. Yeah,you can't beat it, so I'm sure
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you could beat it. But it'scertainly a good spot. Cols almost everything
cold. Wait a second, Waita second. Have you ever been to
Cologne. I've not been to Cologne. The beer that you get, the
fresh coulsh there right, it's it'sI don't know there's anything better, any
beer that's better. Prague delicious,but I don't know. It's no,
(53:37):
there's there's a better brewery in Germany. It's my favorites, my favorite beer
on planet Earth. The brewery iscalled a Ainger and I can't remember which
city it's outside of, but thebrewer the brewery is called iro Anger.
My favorite flavor is the yellow ribbon, which is called Irvis and it is
well to the Dean of Saint Letissoccer repert will back me up on this
(54:01):
Daniel, You're wrong. Nope,never been wrong in my life. No,
that's that's a good you're wrong orthey're wrong. Wronger. There you
have it. Ted. Ted's yellingat me and I'm not appreciating you right
now. Hey, my anger isin Eyeing Bavaria, Germany, about twenty
five kilometers south of Munich. Yeah, well I Anger Brewery. Look it
(54:23):
up, Go get yourself one ofthose beers that will be life changing,
and then this whole conversation will onceagain favor Daniel Stemi, which is really
what this show is all about.Tom. I don't know if you knew
that he's feeling it because'stonville islosing right now. Yeah, yeah,
he has a chance. Hey,Tom, we need to we need to
wrap it up. Final thoughts,you know, the the weeks ahead,
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or it's gonna get interesting because theyyou know, they got three games coming
up in eight days Chicago, la FC, Cincinnati, So that's uh,
you know, that's that's a toughstretch there. Cincinnati one of the
best in the league, LAFD shouldbe one of the best in the West.
So kind of weird results lately anduh, kind of a you know,
the rival the secondary rivalry with Chicago. That's not gonna outdo the Kansas
(55:13):
City rivalry anytime soon. But threegames in eight days, we're gonna start
seeing a kill. Wattson, JakeErwinsky and uh and guys like that win
it. Maybe we'll see some goals. Okay, thank you very much,
the great Tom Timmerman from the SaintLouis Post Dispatch, et cetera. The
Dean, the Dean there for everyone. Thank yeah, cheers. This is
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not a gloria you hear very often. I'm enjoying it. I love it
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who is somewhere somewhere. Oh thatscores a little bit later today Dallas.
He's in Dallas. That's not SaintLouis. No, it's it's not even
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Beyay might be h. Punch ithere in the studio post post game.
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Post game visitors had a little difficultyunderstanding you. Once I got it,
Ben Gay, Yeah, will beprepared for Ben Yay. It's those who
have early games on the Sunday morning. Yeah, come here post game.
You know this was a really prescientchoice of a song. You know,
(03:00):
are you familiar with the song?No, I'm not turned to Stone by
Joe Walsh. That's about what happenedto me last night watching City. Did
you find it ran dry? Didyou find it a little less than exciting?
Yeah? Did you drift off tosleep? No? I did it
because, to be honest, Iwas really interested in the the NBA game
(03:23):
because it was the first time I'vereally seen the The thing was, it
took me the stats. There weremore There were more shots on Gold than
the four to one game the Nashvilleplayed, for example, but the quality
of shots were not. There wasnot Wasn't there a a I want to
save this for the discussion. Well, yeah, because we have we have
people who are are more knowledgeable.It's sorry, we have our observations as
(03:45):
well. Yeah, well for sure, but it was. It's not a
bad result. Honestly, it's avery good reason. Houston's a good team,
and seeing though they don't have anyfans. I was saying to Ted
earlier, the test is next weekin Chicago. Yeah, yeah, well
I think the test is every weekbecause true, every week we see how
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important movement is this team. Absolutely, and I look and say, well,
he's not due back until the endof the month. Is that what
they're saying, that's what that's what. That's what Fox Mob says. Anyway.
Yeah, and have they decided whathamstring? Hamstring? I mean that's
just what it says. Yeah,sure, and hamstrings take a long time,
do you don't. You don't rushthose. You just do the last
(04:31):
thing you can do. But boy, they just need somebody that they need
the general. They're missing the general. They're like troops running around. Uh.
Well, let's it's not terrible.It's just not penetrative enough to sco
goals. And like you said,you know, a point is good.
Remember last year, the biggest problemlast year was they played so well early
(04:57):
and then they cooled off. Well, maybe this year they're cooled off and
things will come together and start clicking. Remember what the goal is, Yeah,
to do well in the playoffs.Do we have exactly that's the whole
goal. Do we have? Ourguests on the air, ladies and gentlemen,
Mister soccer his own self, BillMcDermott, How you doing Bill?
(05:18):
Weren't it Tom? Hello? Everyonein the studio. Bill. I want
if you want to say something aboutCity last night, say it now because
I want to talk to you aboutChampions League oh sure, by all means,
well, the thing was city withrelation to their latest outing. Let's
(05:39):
look at the game and then thislook at where they were at this time
last year. There were six threeand one at this stage last year.
Now the are two one and sevenfor thirteen points in ten games, and
everybody says, well, wait aminute, how does this happen in just
one short year. Whether it's Ithink, I think, these are all
(06:01):
my personal opinions, and watching everygame, being games and watching them closely.
Oh, but what do you knowabout soccer? Oh, you's soccer.
But the first half yesterday against lastnight against Houston, Houston liked to
keep the ball a lot. Theyplayed. They play a lot of possessions,
so consequently they are vulnerable to acounter attack. That happened a great
(06:27):
deal last night. Far for SaintLouis City, which has used to their
trademark, Thomas Totland wasn't as activecoming from the right flank at right back
he always is in every game sinceeveryone he's played in. Uh, this
is the thing that's different about theirgame this year because they're missing their ten
(06:47):
shirt. Almost every ball into thepenalty area, almost every ball into the
penalty area was in the air.A steady diet of that is not going
to work unless you have Rude VenistleRoy or Harry Kane our Ramrio there.
As I've checked lately, City doesn'thave those players. Well they haven't,
(07:11):
but they're all in their fifties.Yeah, but they're playing. They're playing
with one forward continually. I've toldyou many times on the show, I
don't care for one forward. BridMcBride never liked playing with one farward.
That's just my personal opinion. Ifyou watch Into Miami now this is you
(07:31):
go. Are any any team,any real prominent team, there's always two
forwards, almost immediately next to eachother, so you can always work one
too. Now that's a cult withEnter Miami. It's a cultural thing,
Suarez Messi. They're always looking foreach other to work a one to the
(07:55):
tighter the space the better because they'reconfident in doing that. I think a
number one time, as we continueour conversation about City, the absence of
Edward Mouveman, the guy who reallycaught the league, the overall league by
surprise with his play last year.I think that's one of the things that
that's really missing. Amen Okay,look, since we you know, it's
(08:18):
amazing to me how much I agreewith what you're saying. I think,
well, hell, I learned thegame from him how to think like you
do? All right, so let'sgo to the Champions League. In the
note I wrote to myself, amongmany was whats and I think I'm taking
this from one of the announcers.What sort of magic have we witnessed?
(08:43):
And I want you just to takeit from there, Bill, I think
you can. We've always talked aboutthis time, the magic that has provided
literally by some of the best playersin the world at their positions, namely
namely Harry Caine, le Roy Sane, Venisius Junior j Bellehaan. But for
(09:05):
Byron excuse me, a farmer ironplayer who now was thoroughly entrenched in the
real Madrid lineup. To watch crossplay on a ninety minute base, well
he's not playing the entire ninety justabout does. But he puts his mark
on the game immediately. I'm nothuge for the statistics they show at the
(09:26):
end of the game. I preferthe floor of the game to dictate what
I see. But he connected onninety six percent of his passes and he's
on the ball all the time,all the time. And you will notice
tom that during the first and secondhalf he floats. He floats a lot,
(09:48):
He does a lot of freelancing,but he'll come back as deep as
Antonio Rudiger to get the ball andstart to spread around accordingly. But also
he's not running as much as whenhe's inside the center circle. Now he
doesn't run a great deal. Oneof the few times on the dribble in
(10:09):
the game, most recently, hewas on the dribble played through a ball,
and that was magnificent. But whatturned the game, what turned the
game on its ear pass one passwhere where Byron is totally dominating at the
alliance and all of a sudden,Venisius Junior from out of nowhere appears fabulous
(10:31):
running off the ball. By theway, your cruise a beautiful through Well,
now, this through ball encompassed almostthirty to forty yards, but it
was just a matter of fact forthe way the cruise plays and looks to
find people and does it quickly.If you go on the real Madrid website,
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they always give you snippets of video. They don't show you the entire
training session of course not. Butthey show you snippets of video, and
they know you video sessions of theirlast training session before they go into a
big game. They always play smallsided games, and just watch Cruise how
he plays the same. What yousee in training is what you're going to
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see in a big game. Hegets the ball off his feet early.
He finds people, He finds peoplein dangerous positions, and he finds people
who are dangerous. A number onefor buyers, excuse me for Real Madrid
is Benisius Junior. Oh and Billand Bill. Here's here's a good idea.
If you're a Byron fan, don'tboo Tony Kruz every time he touches
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the ball, because it was justhumble and venetious. I mean, god,
lord, you talk about you know, like when rockets take off right,
they're they're going really fast and thenthe boosters kick in, and that's
what it must be like for,you know, trying to mark him in
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his explosions, likewise from a deadstunt. Now, imagine next year,
if indeed, we continue to hearall these rumors Killian and Bope going to
Real Madrid, majority of which nowseemed to be accurate at least seemed to
be accurate. They may have tosacrifice Rodrigo in the process, who's had
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another player who's had a fabulous yearfor Real Madrid. But Bellingham and Babe,
and then those those French midfielders,the young French midfielders, Juemenni kamavinga
slide, Rudiger in the backfield,and the players. It's not the players
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that that that slide in uh LucasVasquez, Uh not sure, not just
they're not phased by anything, They'renot overwhelmed by anything, especially this year
where they've had to step into thefirst eleven because of injuries to Alaba tal
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players like that who have not beenable to play on a regular basis.
So they look solid, look solid. And I think, as I've always
mentioned to you, and I thoroughlybelieve this, they play with three ghosts
on their team. With the StefanoPushkison Hano. Okay, have you seen
any of the stills of the gamewhere he is maling early, malling him
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and then they have I saw otherstills that when he wasn't someone else was.
I mean, how to take himout of the game, Well,
you have to have somebody really bigand tough. That's what happens in every
big game like that, and onevery occasion when there's a set piece or
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a carner kick on a car kickanywhere in the world, anywhere in the
world, at the Soccer Park,at Creeve Corps, at the Berta Bao,
at America and wherever, there's fivefiles at least on each team offense
and defense. And it's never goingto vary. And you will always see
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the referee come over and say,all right, look, I can see
a polar shirt, leave them alone. The instant the balls in the air,
there's ten files committed. But thesethe things that were remarkable to me
is this was just during the courseof play. They had him wrapped up.
It was like watching the old NewYork Knicks play defense. Huh.
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I mean, it was unbelievable.As I mentioned you many times, that's
how that's how Alexi and Marcello playedon July fourth, nineteen ninety four at
the World Cup at Stanford Citium.That's how they played against l Mario Lebetto.
And it still didn't work. Hey, let's take a quick station.
I d bill hold on for us, please, yep, yep, yep,
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Hey I need to remind you thatyou listening to soccer Sunday on KFNS
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I did do that that time.Bill? Did you know that Russell?
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Next week is his last show untilAugust? The middle of August? Where
is he? Is he going toget involved in the Champions League? What're
you doing? Yeah? He isactually going to make for What are you?
Where are you going? Well,first of all, I'm going to
visit family in New Zealand. Ohand then then after that I'm going to
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be off to Europe and go spendsome time with my research colleague and also
a little bit of traveling around.Where are you going in Europe? Arriving
in Nice and then spend three weeksin Florence and then Hamburg, Germany,
France just south of Geneva, andthen Zurich in the trip A fabulous places
we have you've been? Magellan?Here? Did you have you been to
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Homburg? No? I haven't I'mlooking forward to it. I know you've
said great things about fabulous. Imean, the nicest people you'll ever meet
in your life, and you don'ttell me we talk about Byron. And
when I look just recently, Isee six players, six players from Byron
on the national team. Now thatvaries, it comes and goes. Last
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time I saw six players from BayernMunich in the first eleven on Germany was
in nineteen seventy four when they wonthe World Cup. So yeah, I
mean there's always going to be Byronplayers. Yeah, let's take a look
at the at dortmun and PSG thatgame. First of all, if there
is ever an aura about a particularstadium. And I love watching the games
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I mentioned earlier Markana Bausch, theolder games as Teca, the Burda Bao
camp, No, I mean anyof those places. But in this stadium
at Bayer, Oh, there's eightyone thousand and twenty five thousand of which
were in that yellow wall. Didyou see Jamie Carragher go up into the
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wall. He's drinking beer with thefans. Yes, it was just it
was their coverage is so good?Yeah, he gets and Jamie gets actively
about and makes no secret of thefact that he's a Liverpool fan and played
for Liverpool, and that's fine,that's fine, but he tempers it just
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well enough. And then they startsinging You'll never walk alone. Oh you
forget it. Yeah, there's noatmosphere in particular in protectular Tom. Remember
the game, uh three or fouryears now ago now when Barcelona came in
and Liverpool ended up defeating them inthe Champions League, and everybody in the
stadium and everybody on Liverpool's squad,not just the players, the kitmen,
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everybody in the locker room turned andfaced and sang that to the cop end.
Yeah. No, there's nothing likeit. And not just not just
singing it there. I mean it'sit's their hearts are on display. I
mean everybody's. Can you imagine isLiverpool played their last game uh at home
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for klop or do they have onemore at home? I think there's one
more that would be you're right,Russ, I think yes, uh huh,
that will be playing been playing Spoostoday at home? Yeah yeah,
okay, all right, that mightbe brusha dartmund just a little bit different
from the brusha dartmound side that Iplayed against the nineteen sixty eight when when
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Jim Bullagnesy and Ed Kirsten said,all right, Bill, your job is
to mark Siggy Hell, Yeah,how's that working out for you? Let's
see, I've been out of highschool for two years now and Siggi hell
was just in a World Cup finalfor Germany and sixty six. Now did
you have the mustache Thenville or didthat come a little later? That came
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a little later. That came alittle later. But with reference to Brusha
Dortmund and the in the very verydistinct of my all time favorite uniform yellow
black, yellow, ol Kroke seemsto be a definite first eleven player in
the first eleven for the for thefeldeister Shoft. He's he can pass and
shoot rights, he shows he makeshimself available. He's great in the gear.
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He plays well with his back togoal. He's never going to hide
the physical game. But the ballthat he received, the ball played over
him, over to him, overthe top. In a thirty six minute
he brings that down in stride withhis right, finishes with his left.
It doesn't get any better, Oh, Bill better, I've got to drop
this in because I would want toget your reaction to this, I'll be
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mad at myself. I don't RoyHudson. He had more gasp than a
porn star in that same I meaneverything was yeah, literally talk about Roy
Hudson a little bit. Bill.I first met him, oh my words,
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years ago, uh in the nsL days when he's down in Florida
playing for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers,where a lot of players from Great Britain
went went to play as a matterof fact. And then I also used
to see him on a regular basisin Florida when the MLS still had two
teams in Florida, not Orlando Citynow, but the Tampa Bay Mutiny when
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bald Rama was playing and he's doinggames. But you should have heard the
hair at n time. Oh ohright, and he was a very good
player too as well. Yeah,it was a very good player. Well
he I think the man of thematch for Brusia dartman ful Krug was great.
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But Jayden Sancho running at people forthe entire ninety minutes, entire nineties.
I got to drop in this RoyHudson metaphor because he is the king
of metaphors. Oh yeah, thatwas as slippery as an eagle and eel
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covered in vasily. Yeah exactly,yeah, yeah, yeah, come on.
He does occasionally go out of hisway to force those into the commentary.
That's all right, he's got noin a situation you've worked I'm sure
with people who have those things writtenout ahead of the game and they're just
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looking to work them in. Isthat how that works? Yeah? Occasionally,
yeah, yeah, unlock Unlike wewere talking over the weekend about Ben
Scully. As a matter of fact, I follow up to Mutson's lines.
But Scully at one time is doinga cub a couple of Dodgers game.
So he says, uh, whois the great players? I'm just going
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to give you a name from theCubs. This is this is not accurate,
he said, so and so islisted with a bad hamstring as day
to day pause, aren't we allonly selling? But and that gets that
has more and more meaning every day, week, month of our lives.
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At this point watch and then watching, uh, paris remain I always like
watching right back, he he joins. He gets involved. He's continually involved,
and I think one of the mainreasons Morocco made it to the semifinals
of the World Cup and guitar playerslike him and Bopp, and Boppy knows
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just enough where to go to findthe game and he he is always looking
to work a one two and Imean always. And you talk about explosion,
explosion speed from a dead stop.Oh and late in the game and
Bappe hits the goal Postkimi hits thegoal post. Hey Bill, Bill Expand
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more teams though, or a treatto watch? Expand for me just a
bit the vision of what you've beenseeing in particular, and Champions League in
the league's in general, as howit plays out in the Euros this summer,
because I think I love the Euros. Yes, offense, offense,
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offense, people, but people runningat people. And I mentioned just a
second ago about Jaden Sancho for BrusiaDortmund. What a magnificent game he had.
And why did he have a magnificentgame Because he was taking people on
every time he touched the ball.And and I always reference his name with
Real Madrid the old way Hentel usedto play with the Stephan on pushkis.
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You knew every time he touched ithe was going to run at somebody.
But he was so good at itthat you can't prevent it from happening.
You either follow him and usually whenyou file a player like Sancho, he's
in a dangerous area of the fieldand you're going to get a set piece
in a dangerous area of the field. Okay, Bill, we're about out
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of time. Sure, sure,who's your week? Who's your choice?
Oh? Yeah, we have gamesagain next week, Yes, sir.
Yeah. Always have a very veryvery prejudice dependent upon this. It's just
because I liked them. I thinkI told you last week time. It
was the first real soccer film ofany consequence we saw featured real Madrid,
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and we had only heard only heardabout this guy to Stefano and push because
and then you see him first time. And then you see them come to
Saint Louis Diversity to train before theirgame at the ever Jones Dome in August
of twenty thirteen, when there wasfifty four one eighty four and they played
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this three v three offense versus defense. It's just three v three, three
b three people alternate. It's Ronaldo, Ozio and de Maria as a threesome.
You've never seen a soccer ball movelike this, never, Bill,
don't answer your question about Liverpool's lastgame of game round thirty eight Sunday made
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the nineteenth Liverpool against Wolves at Liverpooland Field at the Lodge. Great,
and don't forget June first, Junefirst City at Inter Miami and Champions League
Final all on the same day.Wow, yeah too much. Thanks the
great mister Soccer his own self,Billig They brabbles Russ. Thanks yeah,
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take care of by Now. Allright, guys, you are listening to
St. L. United Soccer SundayKFN S five ninety the Fan. This
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your one side. Shakira, Shakira, welcome, Welcome back to the thirteenth
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year of STL. United Soccer Sundayon KFNS five ninety Fan Russell blythe along
was super Ted Williams on the boardpost Thomas Schores and now we have Daniel
stab with us in the studio.But that music can mean only one thing.
But let me tell you first,this show is brought to you by
Mark Nemi at Njklawfirm dot com.We have we have super secret text line,
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super secret text line from Dirk Kaiserhis own self. Now, that
was a soccer show. How canmister soccer remember so many players' names?
I have two words for you,Billy Billy Ritchie, ancient aliens, encyclopedal
memory, ancient alien A lot ofpeople. I guess I probably shouldn't have
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told people that what I did thatsecret. I mean, it's true,
he knows so many he can goback to those names. And the other
thing, Daniel, this might impressyou is Bill is able to pronounce all
of these great names. You know, It's just he can't say him,
you know, like I would screwhim up. But he's got the right
pronunciation, diction the whole nine yards, Tom, Is that supposed to be
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my introduction? It was? Imean, I come into to a studio,
jam packed people waiting out the doorjust to get into there, get
out of here. I finally getin and this is this is I get
that just a quick toss over tome is my intro? Aren't you always
telling me how part of the familyyou are? I guess I'm supposed to
just you ever see always treat mychildren. No, do you know we
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I almost said we shoot dogs inour family, but that would really be
unfortunate, wouldn't don't do that.Don't do it. Don't say that.
I'm not running for office. Wedo not condone that that kind of behavior.
On Soccer Show, der Kaiser says, now he thinks Bill makes all
these names up. Now that's atheory. That's see, that's playing chess,
(28:59):
not checkers. I think that's onlya hypothesis, not even a theory.
That's like Russell's accent being fake,entirely fabricated this whole time. It
is, well, don't tell peoplethat. But I'm just saying, those
are the kind of theories that canfly wild. You haven't seeing the childhood
photo of him the horse that sealsthe deal on the accent. No,
it's from Texas. That's what he'ssaying. He just made all this stuff
(29:21):
up. See that's what I'm thinking. No, honestly, I could see
like totally remote Idaho or something likethat. Russell. Yeah, oh for
clearly, yeah clop the way hesays, reckon, Yeah, I reckon.
You might be right, about that. You're you're blowing my cover here.
You know, you've tried so hard. We just had enough of this
stuff. We've discovered that Bill makesall these names up. That if you
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check Canto and Poodleski and all thosecats, you know we don't even know
who they are. Now. Looklook, look, by the way,
the show is only a quarter done. It's not the whole show yet.
Yes, right, so we're goingto have more excellence. I think there
might be someone on the line rightnow. We have countless excellence in fact,
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ladies and gentlemen, with no furtherAdams the voice, the Spanish voice
of Saint Louis City, Santiago BellTry. You're right, that is a
better introduction than I gave Daniel santiHow you doing, Buenos Dias. I'm
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doing great. Well, you're doinggreat after that game last night. Well
not not about the game, butstill doing okay on other things. But
yeah, it was a little frustratingto not see uh any goals, to
not call any goals. I wascalling the game live from nine Mile Garden.
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There was a supporter group party goingon there, so I was calling
the game from there. Hey,Thomas Week isn't predicated on some silly sports.
Okay, with that being said,if Tottenham loses to Liverpool today,
I will not be going to work, Santi. Is is it like for
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you not to call goal in agame? That must be Oh we're looking
at pictures of Russell as a childon a horse in New Zealand, so
that's proof possible. No no,no, no, in remote Idaho,
remote Idaho. Well these things,you know, Santi, this is the
stuff you find out on this show. Somebody's gonna say, Santi's making up
(31:38):
his accent. No no, no, no, just to get the just
to get the gig. At isthe you know you're not going to tell
us you're from remote northern Idaho,are is Santi? Uh? No,
No, I'm from remote Columbia.Even better, Hey, Santi, what
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do you like? I understand thatit's that a point this time of any
time of the year, point onthe road is a good thing. But
boy, they just looked out ofsorts last night, didn't they. Yeah?
Yeah, it was one of thosethat the team created some chances but
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just couldn't close it up. beINis the chances? And I don't know,
like, yeah, still a gooddefensive performance. Houston. It's a
difficult team to play against, andyeah, maybe a little bit of disappointment,
but a point is a point.And I was talking to Matt Baker
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earlier today and if you look atwhat the team did last year to ten
games, they got nineteen points thisyear through ten games, thirteen points if
you win your next game is sixteenpoints last year through eleven games. Because
the team lost that mess game lastyear, it's still nineteen points. So
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it's still very close if you comparethe two years, just two different ways
to get there. But yeah,at some point the team has to get
up that a streak of dying gamesand it started getting three points more often.
Well, last year they were reallyhot at the beginning of the year
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and they were really cold at theend of the year. So maybe what
we're seeing this year is the reverseof it. You surely don't want to
be playing your best soccer at thebeginning of the year, right is that?
Another reference to Tottenham tom Oh,my goodness, unbelievable. Santia tell
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you what. It is interesting though, given the results and the similarities to
last year, when you look atfrom a comparison perspective, like you and
Matt were talking about that we're notthat far off. It seems to me
like you just throw some kind ofcatalyst into the mix, especially with the
team. From a foundation perspective,you could argue it's pretty solid given that
we don't lose. All the talkfrom Badly Carneal, Tim Parker, et
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cetera, et cetera on playing notto lose or playing in a way that
you won't lose, that's good.But then when you throw a catalyst in,
like say some random striker from Germany, So maybe that'll mix some things
up in the summer, right,Yeah, and absolutely absolutely, I think
there's just that missing piece on theoffense that hopefully the team is already at
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work on that and we'll see somereinformans coming in in the summer. But
yeah, I think it's just apiece or two and yeah, getting Loving
back and just having more options,like yeah, right now the team.
I was also surprised that the teamwent with the same lineup again for the
third game in a row, whichis something that never happened and in the
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history of Lewis cit a Sea.But I think just with the players that
are available to me, it lookslike Cornell has finally found that lineup,
and with an addition or two aroundthe summer, I think this team will
continue on an ascending trend and getto the playoffs in the right form.
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I'd like your initial comment you madeabout the defense, because there's only one
other team with one loss, whichis the Columbus Crew, current champions.
Right, they're on fifteen points toten games, three wins, six draws,
one loss, so a fifth placein the East. But okay,
but you know, both teams areprobably in reasonably good shape if they can
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put together a few wins. Yeah, you have to win some games at
some point, at some point.But again, to me, if we
didn't learn the lesson last year abouthow important it is to be on song
in September, you know you gotthis is all preliminary stuff, right,
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I mean it's I hate to saythat because it maybe sounds too but but
the foundation has to be strong defensively, yeah, right, right. I
mean my point is that you knowthey're they're not losing these games. I
mean, they should have lost thatgame last night. I mean, Houston
didn't have much, but they hitthe post, right, hit the crossbar,
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but didn't we I don't know.Did we I can't remember. I
don't know. Go ahead, Sonny, we didn't. There were some good
chances that just couldn't finish them.Just the one that clouds like sky high.
Yeah, I thought that that wasit, that was the game winner,
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but I just didn't happen. Butbut yeah, Tom, I I
agree with you, like it's along season. But yeah, at the
same time, at some point youstart just you need to start getting being
a win or two, and Ithink the perfect opportunity for that is next
Saturday against Chicago Fire. Daniel,you are looking very pensively. Yeah,
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I'm thinking about the catalyst comment.I really don't want to get to ahead
with the edu Luvin, especially withRussell throwing him in there, because he
did play earlier this season and hehimself said it was going to take him
some time to get right and tocome back and get into the rhythm of
things, and after dealing with whathe's been dealing with both physically emotionally,
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I don't think him coming back tothe lineup is going to be this instant
answer. Certainly, it will help, for sure, but there still needs
some work to be done in termsof learning how to score. I think
a catalyst will certainly help, butoverall, I don't think it's the end
all be all. With the factthat we continue to tie, I think
I think that's the more weeks goby, the more optimistic I am about
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the way we're shaping up result wiseand on the field. We just were
a little stagnant, that's for sure. I would be interested to see what
the record would look like without RomanBurke, but the reality is that we
have Roman. There's no point inplaying around back. You wouldn't want to
see that. I don't think.All right, santi We're we're about tied
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up here. What tied up?Listen to me? Final thoughts, Well,
still not losing, but yeah,I just have to find a way
to score. And I agree withDaniel. Yeah, even when Lewin comes
back, it's gonna take some timefor for him to get back to his
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rhythm, so he's not the immediatesolution, but he will help when when
he comes back. But yeah,hopefully we'll see some movements around the summer.
There's a big chance. Okay,thanks a lot, Santiago, Beltron,
Thanks take care, bye, guys, thank you, thank you,
Hey, folks. Russell to remindyou that you are listening to soccer Sunday
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on KFN S five ninety the Fan. This segment is brought to you by
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Let's just wait, Daniel, Ithought last night Klaus looked. Oh.
Before I talk about Klaus, Iwant your take on uh Celio they
subbed? Did they sub for himat halftime? Yeah? Halftime? Because
I was watching the basketball game duringhalftime, I thought he was out of
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sorts last night. I don't know. Did you have any reaction to that?
Were you thinking that? Well,I've got two thoughts. One.
I was sitting in a two anda half hour randola in Saint Louis at
the at the Bush Stadium during thisgame, so I was trying to keep
an eye on the game as muchas possible, but just stylistically speaking,
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in a low block A lot ofthe times, especially with a possession based
team, like Houston. When theysit back low, you're going, oh
am, I getting called off.My speech is already ending. Almost.
Yeah. Having a dribbling winger likeSelio is great when he yes, I
like that. It's like Tottenham's folklore. At this point, you got to
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drop the hard g winger. Dribblingwinger, dribbling winger. That's how the
Brits say, okay, okay,dribbley winger. Yeah, okay. When
you're dribbling into space, it's great. But when you're dribbling into a low
block and you've got two three otherHouston Dynamo players, your effectiveness continues to
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trickle. So it could have justbeen a stylistic move. But because I
wasn't watching as intently as I probablywould have otherwise, I couldn't point to
a specific reason. All right,thank you, mom, I love you,
Mom, And uh, thank youto all the producers and directors.
We'll have a good night. Andnow the Dean of Saint Louis Soccer ripotage,
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Tom Chamberman, Hi, Tom,Yeah, either I feel bad about
about cutting off Daniel. I feelbad about that. Daniel's in the studio
right here, he's he's got he'sgot a segment late. Yeah, don't
worry about Daniel. Okay, Ohwell in that case, hey, but
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Well okay, but you know what, it's a sponsor and really it's all
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Okay, Tom, talk about thegame last night. Well, you
know it's it's another tie and atsome point in times and it shows you
just you know, they've not playedseven games. We're doing one more good
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thing would be a win, andwe're doing or doing one less bad thing,
but also doing one more bad thingwould be a loss, So you
know, road wins are supposed tobe good, but it's I mean,
it is you know, it's justif they're they're right there and they can't
do quite enough to win, butthey're doing enough not to lose. Ultimately,
(43:22):
though, this isn't something that's gonna, you know, probably get you
to the playoffs. I mean,at this rate they got, I mean,
they they've only lost one game allyear. There are only two teams
in the league that have only lostone game this season. Meanwhile, they've
they've only won two games, andthat's tied for the least number of wins
(43:44):
in the league. So you know, it's you know, they're either really
good or really bad. And whatwe see is that they're really seven ties,
so they're really ordinary. I guess, Tom, I enjoyed your suggestion
about maybe the offensive prowess of theteam could be improved by Romanburke. He
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allowed them to score at training andbeing so good in practice. He's gotta
let he's gotta let the guy scoreevery once in a while. Guysh darn
it, Tom, did you actuallyasked Roman that question last night at the
press conference? Yeah? And whatwas his response? Was it a snarl
(44:29):
or a smile. It was asmile, and he said, but but
I gotta get myself good too,and I got to compete, and so
for me to be good, Ihave to stop their shots in practice.
So but he but he did,you know, kind of appreciate the suggestion,
but said, you know, notgonna. He's got to also look
out for himself, and so he'sgot to make stops in practice. He
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could tie his hands or put onehand behind his back or something. I
mean, that's a very good question, Tom, That was that was a
very insightful question. Oh, thankyou. Tom. Did you ask him
if he if he could just playstriker or maybe like a little shadow striker
behind Jack Klaus? You know thatthat's maybe a topic to look into here.
(45:16):
Okay, I'm just I'm at thispoint. Let's just six conceptions.
You know, you can just goup on corners yet, Yeah, I
mean, I don't know how manysprints he has in him though, that
how many how many times he cango when that doesn't work, that he
can go scrambling, you know,one hundred yards to get back in the
goal. He sprinted, He sprintedto break up that that contractemnt between I
(45:42):
forget who is our player who isinvolved in the Yeah, oh no,
no, no, he's his namehas been changed. Were you there?
Are you? Were you there?Were you listening watching on Apple? I?
I was. I was watching onApple TV. So they apparently they
Chase is named Osra instead of alsoMarketick. It's not Marcandic Marketick. But
(46:08):
but he's changed it halftime. It'sas though someone said, you're not doing
that right and and yeah, andthen he kind of kind of mangled Sam
situation, so that that was alsouh uh if he there that uh,
you know, the mystery of Sam'sdisappearance. Hey, let's let's talk a
(46:28):
little bit about Sam. Does heneed to be on the field more?
Well, according to who? Imean, I'm sure Sam would love to
be on the field more. Ithink for the uh, I think from
Cornell's point of view, I mean, they really have liked what they've gotten
out of uh, you know,Pompeiu and the other midfielders, and so
(46:49):
that is pushed Sam out and andyou know they've always liked Sam and his
speed coming in late and what hecould do. So I don't know,
I mean, they scored three goalswithout him in the previous game. You
know, Sam hasn't scored a game, has scored a goal since what March
the second, So we're we've justpassed the two month mark since he scored.
(47:14):
So you know, I don't knowthat you know, there are there
are other guys who are making claimsfor playing time as well. So,
Tom, you said that they likewhat Sam can do. What didn't they
like about what Sam couldn't do whenhe was left off the match day squads
and out of training, because westill to this day have not gotten a
(47:37):
very strict specific answer outside of yeah, we gotta we need players that are
going to stick to our principles.Yeah, I mean, the one thing
that always comes up is talk aboutthe work rate, and so as to
whether they didn't feel Sam was goingall out in practice or in games,
(47:58):
you know, I don't know,but I mean that seems to be the
theme is that, you know,the recurring thing is that he wasn't apparently
giving enough in some capacity, youknow, whether it's in practice or in
games to do that, it musthave been in practice. Yeah, you
know, the first time he gotleft off was right before practice, so
(48:20):
right for a game. So youknow, it's funny though you talked to
Sam and he's you know, hedoesn't. He was totally unapologetic. I
mean, he did not feel heneeded to change anything in what he did
when we talked to him on Tuesday. So yeah, you know, I
don't know, but but I meanhe So he came into the game yesterday.
I played twenty six minutes, didn'tget a shot, but you know,
(48:44):
he was there, and you know, so it shows that you know,
he's not person and on Grada,that he's going to play. I
mean, this isn't like John Nelsonlast year, who we vanished, you
know, but but he's he's justnot you know, I don't know how
they're gonna structure, but he's gonnaplay. I mean we've seen that.
But also we also every reason tobelieve, and this has been the thought
(49:06):
of years that they're going to tryto bring in of you know, offensive
help during the summer transfer window.And name pops in my mind for some
strange reason, Mario Bellatelli. Ohno, no, no, no,
no, no no, Sam,No, don't put that on Sam,
is what I'm saying. No,no, but hopefully it's not. Hopefully
(49:27):
it's not that situation, right,that's a different ball game, right,
Well, I mean yeah, Imean with Sam wearing a why Always Me?
Shirt under his jersey last night,can we confirm we cannot. No,
it's a provocative thought. I understandthat, But well, I mean,
really this all started at least wasbrought to our attention. I don't
(49:50):
know when it started. Is whencity turned down that offer for him?
Well no, well, hold on, I mean you can go back even
further though, Sam spent time inwhat Seattle before going down to the USL,
and that was in San Antonio,and then made his way. I
mean, you see the talent thathe has. To see him just go
down to the USL is you couldbe telling? Of course, every time
(50:13):
I've met Sam, he's been fantasticand he's certainly talented. But right now
we're all inside the box. Let'slet's get outside the box and play little
game of what if? So,Tom, you mentioned bringing in another well
you said offensive help, but let'scall it a striker in the summer.
Should that happen? Klaus Striker tobe named, and Sama dennerin do you
(50:36):
keep all three or do you lookto move one of them? On?
Certainly not Klaus certainly not new striker. Do you look to move Sam Well?
And Sam is you know, outof contract at the end of the
year, so you know he's youknow, he's only here through October November
anyway. Wow, So yeah,is this a chance to move him,
you know, to get something forhim, to get a transfer fee from
(50:58):
him, rather than let him goout of contract. I mean, that's
you know, that's certainly something theyhave to they have to think of it.
That would be good business. Well, that's the that's the way this
this guy, I think his valuehas gone down pretty significantly, at least
in the last month or two.Not from productivity perspective, but people are
going to be asking questions like,hey, you've got this physically demand or
(51:20):
dominating presence with a great left foot, and you left him off your entire
match day squad on a healthy scratch. That's going to raise some eyebrass.
Yeah, yeah it is. Buta lot of times, you know,
this is what happened to a lotof these guys on this team, where
they were being scratched by their team. And you know, Joe Kini wasn't
playing in Orlando, and so sometimesyou just say, you know, I
(51:42):
think teams can say it's just notworking for a guy there, so,
but he can work in our place. That's right, that's wrong, right
that I mean, that's yes,that happened with Sam previously, and it
happened, you know, maybe maybethird times a charm, But I mean,
hey, city fans love him rightfully, so he scores goals and so
long as he can mesh well,he's a great asset. But certainly it
(52:06):
just depends on what on what happensin the summer. The idea of bringing
in Marco Royce is thrilling, thoughI don't think that's going to happen either,
But wouldn't that be a treat?What do you think we bring the
brusha boys back together? You sawRoman Burke post about his buddy, his
buddy Marco on his Instagram. Yeah, I mean the name you hear that's
(52:30):
been out there is Cedric Tukert,who's a guy with handover ninety six.
Yeah, second division guy, andthat's the one that makes sense. Yeah,
the dreamers like the name Marco.Yeah, LUs was just over in
Germany, you know, last week, So I don't know if you know
if that's connected to that or theguy just I mean, the guy does
(52:50):
like going to Germany, so Idon't know if that's the who doesn't if
that's one. Yeah, well it'sa fine country. It is my ancestral
homeland beer. Come on, Itell you my I mean my summer in
Cologne was was wonderful and the amountof colsh that I drank, well there
was was was noticeable. Yeah,you can't beat it, so I'm sure
(53:14):
you could beat it. But it'scertainly a good spot. Cols almost everything
cold. Wait a second, Waita second. Have you ever been to
Cologne. I've not been to Cologne. The beer that you get, the
fresh coulsh there right, it's it'sI don't know there's anything better, any
beer that's better. Prague delicious,but I don't know. It's no,
(53:37):
there's there's a better brewery in Germany. It's my favorites, my favorite beer
on planet Earth. The brewery iscalled a Ainger and I can't remember which
city it's outside of, but thebrewer the brewery is called iro Anger.
My favorite flavor is the yellow ribbon, which is called Irvis and it is
well to the Dean of Saint Letissoccer repert will back me up on this
(54:01):
Daniel, You're wrong. Nope,never been wrong in my life. No,
that's that's a good you're wrong orthey're wrong. Wronger. There you
have it. Ted. Ted's yellingat me and I'm not appreciating you right
now. Hey, my anger isin Eyeing Bavaria, Germany, about twenty
five kilometers south of Munich. Yeah, well I Anger Brewery. Look it
(54:23):
up, Go get yourself one ofthose beers that will be life changing,
and then this whole conversation will onceagain favor Daniel Stemi, which is really
what this show is all about.Tom. I don't know if you knew
that he's feeling it because'stonville islosing right now. Yeah, yeah,
he has a chance. Hey,Tom, we need to we need to
wrap it up. Final thoughts,you know, the the weeks ahead,
(54:49):
or it's gonna get interesting because theyyou know, they got three games coming
up in eight days Chicago, la FC, Cincinnati, So that's uh,
you know, that's that's a toughstretch there. Cincinnati one of the
best in the league, LAFD shouldbe one of the best in the West.
So kind of weird results lately anduh, kind of a you know,
the rival the secondary rivalry with Chicago. That's not gonna outdo the Kansas
(55:13):
City rivalry anytime soon. But threegames in eight days, we're gonna start
seeing a kill. Wattson, JakeErwinsky and uh and guys like that win
it. Maybe we'll see some goals. Okay, thank you very much,
the great Tom Timmerman from the SaintLouis Post Dispatch, et cetera. The
Dean, the Dean there for everyone. Thank yeah, cheers. This is
(55:37):
not a gloria you hear very often. I'm enjoying it. I love it
all right, guys, you arelistening to STL United Soccer Sunday KFNES five
Night a fan. This segment wasbrought to you by n GK Lawfirm dot
Com. The local roots and nationwideresults. We will be right back the
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