Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America - #435: Yunus starts, Wes shines, Balo misses, Tillman slumbers

Episode Date: September 25, 2023

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From the USSF approved territories of Georgia and Kentucky, and also from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, this is the Monday Review. Hey, everybody, it's the Monday Review. Usually, for patrons only, this week we're going to try to make it public. Sign up for the Patreon, the links in the show notes, to get the Monday Review delivered to your phone every week. Let's start with some news from yesterday.

Greg and Gio have started to patch things up. According to Matt Crocker, as reported by Jeff Carlyle on Twitter. I think both Greg and Gio are in a good place to move forward, Crocker said. Apparently he said they have met to move their relationship forward with Rana set to be called into the next camp for which he is healthy.

All right. The way you put emphasis on, I think you added a level of uncertainty that I did not read that as having. Yeah, that was purely accidental, if so. But, um, I mean, you have to put the blame on Mr. Crocker for saying, I think. You know what I'm saying? He's, he's an executive with a front-facing position where he has to talk to the masses, talk to the people. He has to be more clear in what he's declaring. We don't got no time for, for, for I think. Yeah. I thought that either. It's all, it's all, I was feeling awesome. And now, now I'm really in the dump. I think we're good. I just did it too, didn't I? Mm. I could have read it like this. I think both Greg and Gio are in a good place to move forward. Mm, okay, okay, hold on. That's a totally different characterization.

If they have met, then that's good. And he said they have met. Did they need a third party there to referee the conversation? Perhaps we'll never know. So I was going to say, since he brought up the mediation part in Vanity Fair, that, of course, he did it, but I guess he just mentioned that he talked to experts in mediation. So maybe Yeah, there just wasn't a third party

And Greg just took his Newly acquired talents And put him to good use Either way, the end result is the end result I'm choosing to imagine a team of lawyers Involved A giant boardroom Yeah, just like

I don't know if y'all remember When those charges were levied against Man City And there was just like It became a meme Just a video of lawyers walking in briefcases It couldn't have been It wasn't that. So, you know, I don't think any of this is a surprise.

Of course he's coming back. Of course he's getting called in. What's the next step? What's the next step here? Well, if you read the replies to the announcement, John Brooks is the next step. Okay. Now do John Brooks.

Yeah, I mean, assuming they met in Germany, things are too far away in Deutschland. You know what I'm saying? I guess maybe to answer your question, the next step on the geofron. would be for him to play and soccer games show up in a camp

show up in a camp you know what I'm saying get out that car flash that smile have a little gallery department hat on you know what I'm saying per usual per usual some chrome heart something little drip for everybody and you know

we go again we go again and beat Germany in Hartford that that's the ultimate grand finale you know I'm saying confetti falling Greg Burrhalter arms in the air looking for somebody to hug Who's that somebody happened to be

Who's he lock eyes with first? Giovanni Raina Give a nice little hug Pat on the back And then we move And that's how we fully heal We need some You know

Some work from them In terms of connected with each other Yeah It's really the last thing they did on the field together Was him Greg Berhalter doing that bounce pass To Geo that he just be didn't commit to at all.

I guess maybe that's something you guys didn't. I didn't notice that. It's been in my head for a long time. That did happen. It was a bounce pass that he refused to engage with, or did he just bat it away? Yeah, it was an off, it was a poor bounce pass that he just made look as bad as possible. Yeah, what says, what was that quote from Danielle, man, about, about the bounce passes? Oh, yeah, I know the quote.

it's something to the effect of I can make we don't we don't need to get back into I mean I mean go on let's do it a little bit I can make it's a beautiful quote

I can make one phone call and all of his cool sneakers and and bounce passes will be gone boom that's it which I don't know if we ever talked about that did she think people thought he was cool there seemed to be some envy

resentment harboring because no one thinks that no one yeah I don't know but she was may or may not have been delusional by other things too so you know we can keep moving but

her definition of cool may be different than ours I mean mine is different from yours right we all have different definitions of course of course of course. But very few of ours include Greg Burrhalter's being cool. I wouldn't think. Correct.

Correct. Now, now with the with the listenership of this pod and the particular demographic that this pod serves, you know what I'm saying? Like, I think we might be able, we might get some different opinions, you know, you know, all my, all my brothers and sisters age is, you know, 40 to 60. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, I feel like Greg might hit that, might hit that sweet spot. Yeah, and man, I've learned this over the past years. Young people, they really don't like us very much.

I'm not. Us? Like, us three? Well, I don't know. Yeah. Scoffed. Yeah. They like Vince.

They like Vince. They like Vince. I think it's mostly. Me? They don't know. Like Greg? I was, I was going to suggest me. Maybe should we just kind of cynically become a little more anti-Berhalter just to get them on our side?

Hmm. Like maybe start like a pretty anti-Berhalter YouTube presence where we can just prepare stuff for you to get on there every week. And you just do it. You go off. Go to town. Yeah. And that could help get people to podcast. I mean, we got to make some business decisions, you know?

Yeah. It's business time. Mm. Anti-Berhalter, it's a viable business choice for sure. Oh, okay. So, Geo, the other thing, I mean, you mentioned it, Waki by Geo still hasn't played for Dortmund. He's been on the bench unused for the past two games, I believe.

Dortmund could, the way they're playing right now, they could get some dead rubber Champions League games, but that's not until closer to Christmas. So if we want him to be here for this crowning victory over Germany that sort of heals all the wounds of the national team, You know, he's got to get on the field here pretty soon Next couple weeks But he's got to come either way

Unless he gets injured Yeah, he'll come, that's true But it would be nice to have him come in With a head of steam That is probably too much to ask Let's talk about Weston He was great In a 4-2 loss for Juventus

At Sasuolo But he was great He's playing real calm, real tidy He's awfully good Yeah He's just awfully good So I think some people would say That maybe

Just maybe he might be our best player But you know what I'm saying That's where I'm getting That's kind of where I got to This game's where I basically am right now Yeah yeah Yeah I know it

Yeah Pulisic's gonna come in some big game And score like a goal that we absolutely need In the future Just as he has done in the past And then it might You know Shift the hierarchy

I'm going to trick you around a little bit, but right now, if you're building the team, I think you'd, I would take West first. Okay. Interesting. Does it feel good to hear that from us, Vince? Because, you know, the past, maybe we have not been, you've been very consistent. I've, I've waffled. I'm not proud of it. Yeah, man, I'm just happy that he's like, back.

and like clearly, clearly healthy, clearly healthy, man. He's just, he's moving well. He got that, he got that spring in his step. He's just,

he's Wes again. I don't want to harp on the receipts, but there were some, yeah, there were some, um, uh, 20,

26 World Cup lineups that he would just fell out of the team. And this was like after the World Cup, before it leads and all that. Like, it was, it was real nasty. It was real nasty. And I remember each one of y'all's faces,

names and addresses too. So be on a, to watch. Be on a lookout for me. He's here and he's back and it's beautiful. It is a little, well, one other thing is just how control, in control of his situation he looks like on the field out there. Like he, he kind of toys with the person who comes out to mark him and then he just, he finds a solution one way or another. And it's, it is really nice to watch. It is discouraging, I think, that he and Wea have to share a spot in the team that you, Yu-Vey? That was never the idea.

Who came up with this? It's not how we would have drawn it up. I will say it's pretty interesting when Wea comes on and just does add something different. That's kind of cool. He's a burst. He's challenging that back line. Yeah. His last game he started, he was like, Yu-Ve's best attacker.

And then he just disappeared, which, you know, Weston's been doing his thing, but it's like, man, if you can get them both on the field, they might do something crazy, like combined for a goal against Real Madrid or something. But, you know, I guess Mr. Allegory was asleep when that happened in the preseason. Got to get all those minutes for Rabio and Fajoli. Fajoli, Medetti. Which in this match, Mr. Moretti was quite ass, quite ass. and Fajoli came on and got an assist

Fajoli was better than Meredi, I thought. Better, yeah. Which came from a Tim way across. Received a ball on the right, crossed it in. You know, ball fell to Fasioly who passed it to whoever scored the goal. I forgot who it was. It was Kiesa. Okay.

But hopefully that isn't the type of situation that really sticks in Allegri's. I mean, you know, it seemed that Weston McKinney, he got zero points for his assist to Tim Wea, so fair is fair. Fasioly gets zero points as well. But I'm already seeing from some YuVe fan blogs that Fagioli is set to take Merti spot in this next match. Do they play Leche? I don't even know if that's how you pronounce it.

But, yeah. Oh, and also in the midweek, Uve had something, I guess, like an open practice or something. Whole bunch of media was invited. The Italian national team coach, I think it's Spiletti now. Anyway, he pulled up. And in that open practice,

Wes came out injured. Supposedly, they said like a brace with ice was on his knee, which I don't know if it's just like a rap, you know, where you get, you know, just some ice on your knee. But anyway, he didn't. He just Wolverine healed again.

Right, right. And I was locked in. I was locked in. Like ever, like once I saw, saw that news. I was on the UVA fan blogs, everything. And basically I got good news like five hours later that

he was going to be all right. Because Alexandra also got hurt in that match, I mean, in that practice. And he was rolled out for the match like immediately. And so Nassi and Weston ruled out. Put my fears at ease. Put my fears at ease.

I mean, a broken bone, he's basically going to be back from about three weeks. So whatever happened to this practice, It was not a problem. I do. Torn ACL would be like a month, maybe. Max? A month, yeah.

Month, five weeks, I'm like that. He is, I was trying to look up who the greatest throw-in throw-iners of all time in soccer are. There's not really a clear list. He's got to be up there because he's got a missile of a long throw. And he just threw a dime off, like,

two steps from the halfway line. perfect ball in behind in the first half. Doesn't it still seem like a phase of the game that isn't fully exploited yet in soccer? Like, if people would just, if the team in possession just act with a little bit more alacrity, you know, they could get some stuff done. I do think that the nerds are on to this, though. So it's just going to be a couple years before everyone catches up. And Liverpool did something. There was a bunch of articles about that.

That's true. Yeah, but having a throwing coach and all that. But I don't think there's ever been a... The thing about the nerds is... He's probably the best throwing artist ever. The nerds is... The nerds... People listen to them for a little bit,

but then it gets exhausting to listen to them, you know? Because they talk too much. They talk too much. They have too many numbers. You know? Well, they're in a tough spot. They're either just going to have to overlook, show you their spreadsheets or talk,

and neither of them we have much interest in. Right. That's what I'm saying. I mean, the devil and the deep blue sea there. Well, Wea does add something different, but I guess we just have to pray that he'll, he and Wes can get on the field at the same time. I don't know.

And Juventus, so, yeah, you said their game is tomorrow against Leche, and they're obviously not in Champions League, so there's some shortage of fixture congestion there. Waki, what do you think about young Christian's performance on Saturday? I'm glad you've asked me this. I thought people were way too sad about it. Because I didn't watch it live.

I saw this big hole we were just wailing. Everyone was really down in the dumps. I watched the game. He's having just pretty much a completely normal game, kind of good even in spots. It's not until the 70th minute even begins to make sense while people are upset. I lost the ball a couple times.

I guess people just kind of went off a cliff there. We got to do something about this. Just week to week. I don't know how you guys feel about the game, but I just... I think we need to find spots to feel a little better about things. If we're going to be upset every time

he doesn't have an amazing game, it's no way to go through life. I can appreciate that, yeah. I went back and watched his involvements and it was not as bad as I thought it was initially. I guess there is like this, you know, the synchronicity of humans. There's like this collective, this collective feeling that grows when there's a bunch of people talking about it with each other.

It also doesn't help. I think Pulisic contributes to this himself by being sad, sad looking on the field when he's not going exactly as well as he would want him to go. And then we feel that. We internalize that. He does. We can't just, he's putting that on us, which isn't fair, and then we put it out into the world. I don't know, man.

I was, I was watching the game by myself, and I thought he was ass. Okay. I wasn't, I wasn't talking to anybody. I wasn't reading anything. It was some point in the second half, I popped in the Discord. I was like, boy. I mean, you, you know, it's not like ass ass, but like. It's like ass.

So, you know, in the midweek, he didn't start, right? Mr. Chuck Waze started, did, I don't know. He did a little bit of something, a little bit of nothing. Like, you know, not too much. But if Rafah Leal just lays off a ball one time, he scores a goal and then, I don't know, maybe we spiral even further. But it's just that thing where it's like, bro, if you want to make sure you lock this spot down, for sure, for sure.

Just going to need a little bit more from you. Going to need a little bit more from you, in my opinion. Need a little bit more is definitely fair. A couple things. He, you know, his work rate helped lead to that first goal, kind of had a got an interception and poked it away from a guy to Jeru who played Liao into goal, you know, on goal. That makes it 1-0.

That was all Milan needed to win the game and get the three points. He nearly scored late in the second half with his left foot, which was really, really good. You know, he kind of tried to take the guy on from the right wing, kind of circled around him onto his left foot and then took a shot from a tight angle, but drew a good save. Now, hold on, Bill. Let me talk about this real quick. Mm-hmm. Because this, like, like, the main thing I was taking away from this match watching it, to me, was just, he's just so up and down physically, poorly is.

And it's possible that the ups are just playing against Mexico and them slow-ass boys. and that, you know, when he, when he, on the field against Mexico, he just looks like Luca Coliocho out there or something. That play, Bells. So for me, he tried to, he's at the standard, he's at a standard stop, right? Stand a stop, a typical take-on situation, try to get to the end line, whatever. He gets beat to the spot. He gets beat to the spot.

And as a, and, and, so I don't know if you guys are real hoopers or not. But for anybody's played basketball, so you know the opportunity to hit the the perfect spin move. The opportunity to hit the spin move is when you get beat to the spot. Like, like, you know, you would always prefer just a,

just a straight line drive. That's what Pully tried. He got beat. Now, the term was nice. I'm not taking anything away from this play. Like, if,

you know, the decline has been, like, if the decline is here, you're just going to find different ways to do it. Like, people do it all time. It's not that big a deal. But I'm just,

I'm just noting it. I'm just noting it. That's just a middle note for me. And you know what? I think that contributes to some of the, you know, yes, it contributes to some of the sadness because he isn't as fast as he used to be. And it's a shame. It's everything. It's the whole reason that I'm sad. He was very fast. He's not fast anymore. I've incorporated that into how I view the games. Maybe I don't think that's what Vince is doing here. But

Some people are just upset that he's not fast anymore because it was pretty cool when he was really fast. Yeah, I am. I'm upset that he's not fast anymore because I don't know what kind of player he is at an elite level if he can't beat people 1 v1. Yeah. He can't stand somebody up and beat them 1B1 right now. It doesn't look like unless it's one of those fullbacks for Mexico. Yeah. Hell is Verona.

You know what I'm saying? I mean, bro, I will say, though, Eunice was having trouble physically with some of these guys. I mean,

these were some stout fellas. Like, uh, yeah, yeah, they, they have quite an athletic team. I ain't gonna lie. I'm not going to sit and act like they just some,

yeah, some mozzarella merchants. They had some real tough guys out there, too. They're real, real mugging it up in a few spots. I, I really didn't much care for it.

I'm used to seeing in Eunice just, like, absolutely dominate people physically. And he was, you know, he was, getting knocked off the ball some too. Although he had a good game.

He did. Oh, so also just we, on the, on the pulley, well, first of all, I forgot to mention that West enforced an own goal, just to bring that, to bring that up real quick. I forget to mention that, yeah. It was almost a Weston McKinney goal, but we got too many cameras in the stadium, you know what I'm saying? When you take some advantage points out, because that would have been a Weston McKinney goal. But, but anyway, you know, he did, he also, he needs to act like he scored it, but he just

didn't because he knows how many cameras there are. So he didn't do anything. Yeah, because I feel like Italians would appreciate the theater of it. If he did act like he scored, they might have just gave it to him. Just like, I respect it. But never mind, he's black. Anyway, so Milan played midweek, right? Champions League.

Who they played against? Newcastle. Newcastle. Yeah, Newcastle. Zero, zero. Busted them, really. would they have like 2.75 XG or something it was incredible but anyway Pully came on that week as see this is why it's been building right we had the

international window had the Inter Milan match had this midweek match had this Hellas Verona match you know I'm saying the frustration has been building a little bit with Pully like so that's why we're at this position now and yeah he wasn't he wasn't that good against Newcast it wasn't influential at all for real but yeah Yeah, Eunice, the reason why he got this start on the weekend is because he came into this match against Newcastle and looked great. He was great against Newcastle. He was. We're doing this thing.

We'll step over action and which, you know, we got that slow mo of the step over and the, and I guess it would have been called a foul if Eunice didn't keep going. But I need for that clip to include the pass that he played after, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, zipped it right across the six And I think it was it was Pulisic Who was a step away from punching it in, right? Yep Just couldn't quite get there But yeah man

This is a It's a good science for Eunice Good science for Eunice He's fought his way on the field So what I do need Is for managers to quit playing this man In attacking positions You know what I'm saying

He played wing back this last match and it's just like I mean we saw there were like a few situations where like he had to do something like incisive in the attacking third and he almost like punted the ball like it was almost like a

like you know what I'm a show I'm a show coach that I don't even need to be here right now like he tried to hit that cross yeah so I'm sensing you've kind of seen enough from him in the final third that you're not even really interested in him trying to improve it just let's nail down the Eunice has a...

He's tried to do everything in his power to tell people. They're like, yo, I'm not that guy. Like, bro, even if you just look at Eunice, like, you know what attackers look like, right? Attackers, you know what I'm saying? They usually got a nice trim. They might, you know, bleach their hair, something like that, you know what I'm saying?

They have a look to him. Eunice, I mean, like, I'm looking at pictures of him from this match. You know, no cut. You know what I'm saying? Just out here thugging it out. You know what I'm saying? It's just, he's a nice lad in it. He's a nice lad.

We've heard him talk. A nice Muslim boy, you know, that tries not to make a fuss. Just goes about his business. You could tell Eunice to do anything and he would do it for you. Just heart of gold. But he's trying to, he's giving us his subtle hints. I didn't even think about that part of it. Yeah, man.

But, you know. He did nearly score. He didn't nearly score. I mean, like, he had a good shooting opportunity. He had a good shot on frame. It was kind of similar to Pulisix's left-footed shot in that it was about head-high within the goalkeeper's reach. He did.

But yeah, I don't know if Wes, Eunice, either of those two is going to get much time in the midfield. These Italian teams just want to play them at wingback. You need to start asking why. Well, I said it's fine. You said that something different, and I'm going to take a gift sign of this. I think maybe it's racism.

But, you know, whatever. Play everyone at Wingback. We'll figure it out when they come to camp. Yep. Heartbreaking Catalonia. You know what I'm talking about, right? Thelta Vigo. Almost a dream win for Luca.

He had a great game too. They're up two nothing. I like 80th minute. Yeah, 80th minute. 80th minute, bro. Barcelona scores one. goal and then we all know what's about to happen and it happens

they lose three two. I have my rat tweets lined up man. We were going to bear you, Shavi. You're so lucky. But I was certain, because that second goal came in, I mean, what, the 80th minute, 78th, something like that,

whatever. Beautiful pass from Eago Aspas, by the way. But, but yeah, I think this might have been Lucas' best match of the season. Yeah, to me. I mean, got an assist off a, the assist was funny, right? A pass comes into Luca that he tries to control on the half turn.

He does not. It squirts out a little bit. And so in a panic, Mr. Luca just gets a foot to it, stabs it. And the person, I think the person that came out was, it was part of the backline. I don't know if it was a left back or a centerback. But basically, the striker came in. just came into that space that the, that the player that Luca B to the ball avoided and scored a goal.

Nice little assist for Luca Deloory. We'll take it though. We'll take it. But because the thing is, he came back like five minutes later and could have had like a pre-assist. Also, release somebody in the space who probably should have shot, in my opinion. But the cutback, I mean, try to play a little ball across that was blocked out. And on that assist, I really like him getting that ball first that he, mishandle a little bit, a little bit of La Liga level athleticism there.

Yeah. You know, not, you know. He also, late in the game, carrying the ball past Barcelona defenders, getting in behind. Yep. You know, making a difference. I don't think anything that happened at the end was really his fault. It's just kind of how things are destined to be in the nation of Spain. it seems.

People are asking if maybe we, he just keeps wearing this mask forever that he has on. Hey, he's looking good. He's playing, he's playing well. Yeah, he's doing this thing, man. I mean, seems like he's going to get something like 2,000 minutes,

2,000 minutes playing in the menfield for the Delta. Great to see it. Great to see it. This would have been huge for relegation purposes. Yeah. win would have. I mean, they're still like outside of the relegation spots or whatever. But, you know, as always, Seltaviga will be going down to the last six, uh, seven games, the La Liga season and will be threatened with relegation, but then Mr. Ospas will come up

clutch, as he always does. I mean, just the coolest, one of the coolest stories of football, man, just doing it, doing it for his hometown team. I mean, that has to be just cool as hell. That past, like you said on the second goal from him was, It was like the definition of a slide rule. Pass, just the weight on it is perfect through that little window. That would be a pass. It would be good if Christian would do, learn to do. That is another.

If we just want to keep critiquing him, that would be another area. I know I said people were too sad, but. Yeah. There were some paths. I'm not with my breath. Pass was silly. Oh, oh, and this came after Luca had the Football America's interview, right? Oh, yeah.

You got the sound bells? Yeah, you want it where he talks about grocery stores? Yeah, yeah. Okay. When I was playing in Holland, the fans of the club called me Frankie DeYoung from Aldi, which is like Frankie DeYoung from a cheap, like, knockoff supermarket, which I guess was a compliment.

I hadn't heard that last part, but I guess it was a compliment. He was happy. He's thrilled by it. He liked it. No, it's a good. It's a good thing. All these fine, right? I haven't been there for a minute, but.

Bro, all these great. I got an Audi, uh, five minutes from my house. And, and let me tell you something. These grocery prices are, like, getting crazy. I'm not going, I mean, for, for me to get to the point where, where I'm saying this, you know, a rich man full of just pockets of money, uh, myself, uh, like, yo, these groceries I started to hit. Like my wife went to the, went to Meyer the other day, which might have been part of the

problem. She went to Meyer. But she came back $300 of groceries and. It didn't look like $300 of groceries. Bro, I was looking at the hall. I was looking at the hall and I said to her, she actually, I just looked at her and said, babe, I'm not going to lie. I'm kind of dubious of your strategy here at the grocery store.

She did not appreciate. that but um yeah i mean you have couples going at each other that's when we know we the price is it's a tearing america part that's the thing it wasn't her fault it wasn't her fault but i'm just looking at the receipt i'm like bro i just paid three hundred dollars for what i mean i'm not seeing too many meals in this yeah time for us to all just start eating crickets man you know what i'm saying um and you can i mean you could you would have saved an aldi i don't want to it is yeah man uh did you alldi's a great place They got a great produce section, too.

Quality products as well. So that's part of why, which Luca understands. That's why he took a little man. He's a sensible man. So, so he explained it further, which lets me, like, like, I'm not sure if he knows that we have Aldi in the U.S. or not. You know what I'm saying? Like, like speaking to football America, as he felt the need to explain that Aldi was a cheap grocery store. I wonder if they had them in San Diego.

He must know that. I think he was talking to a British person. Oh, oh, fair enough, fair enough. But also, go ahead,

Bill. Well, just a little more on the corporate history of Aldi. They, they split into two companies in Germany. Aldi Nord and Aldi sued. And Aldi sued is the one that brought Aldi to the U.S. Alde Nord,

their two separate companies started by the same family. Aldi Nord is the, parent company of Trader Joe's. Right. So Trader Joe's comes from the Nord version. Which when you go in Trader Joe, like if you've been to a Trader Joe's and all these, you can see the similarities a little bit. But I don't understand what it is with German family starting companies and then,

you know, splitting. And then what happened with like Adidas and Puma? Yeah, they seem to be doing this over and over again. That's a good point. I don't know. I don't know. No. Interesting.

But the whole reason why I wanted to bring this up was just because, you know, they called them Aldi Frankie DeYoung, but, you know, Frankie had to come out this game injured because Luca was putting that pressure on him. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, it's what's going to happen to Meyer as Aldi, you know, as more people come to their senses, get their groceries at Aldi. Fair enough.

Fuller and Balgan, did anything, you know, anything happened there this weekend? No He was He was pretty good in the run of play I would say Yeah nothing really much worth talking about He did miss two penalties But

You know Whatever It's variance It's variance Forget about it I say we forget about it There were good penalties Sure

They were Let me just describe the penalties real quick Because both of them were on frame but neither was far enough away from the keeper. So he went hard and low to the left, but not far enough. Keeper gets down and plums it hard up into the air.

Ballot gets whistled for a foul for grabbing the defender who's trying to head it away. That was not a great penalty. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great. And then the second one was almost the same except closer to the goalkeeper and even harder. And the keeper kind of gets low and knocks it away again. That thing went in the orbit when it hit the keeper.

The ricochet was crazy. Didn't that thing go out to touch? It might have, yeah. He hit it freaking hard. And here's what he said on Twitter. It is difficult to turn the page on last night's defeat. I know how much this game meant to the fans and us a team. I take responsibility but failed on this occasion.

Fans. They don't have fans. Well, I didn't know this, but apparently their matches versus Nice are like a big Derby, which I guess they're fighting for like the nicest place to visit in France. It's like Nice Monaco, you know what I'm saying, just fighting for supremacy. And Nice took this round, so. I think that's where most of the local or fans, they go to the Nice games because it's basically less expensive, is my understanding. I appreciate that maybe he is just making sure we don't have a penalty taker controversy on the national team.

Okay. Could have happened if he goes in there, slots them in. Next time, let's say we're playing Germany. We get a penalty. He has that striker mentality, goes up and seizes it. Polisick's coming for it. What happens? I think Pulisic would have to take it, but we'd have a scene.

We don't want to have that scene. I mean, we still want flow. I mean, we still want Bala to want the penalty, right? I mean, we want him to hate Greg Burrhalter and always be at odds with him. And we want him to get into fights with Christian Pulisic over who gets to take the penalty. That's what we want, right? It's a real striker in it. I mean, you know, we beg, prayed for one.

Now that we have one, we got to know what to do with it, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. So maybe you're right. I should not want our striker to miss multiple penalties. Yeah, but you're looking for the silver lining, which I, you know, which is good. Well, Bells, so you were starting to read that last sentence that he put in the tweet, but I'll go ahead and do that real quick. Please. Mr. Faleran said, I will always believe in myself and my focus is to make it right and help us reach all our objectives, exclamation point.

You know what I'm saying? So, hey, hey, you know, we go again, essentially. We go again. I like the turn of phrase, but failed on this occasion, you know, localizes the failure without minimizing it. Yeah, yeah. It's good. You're going to fail on occasion. Did we need an apology?

You know, did we, though, need one? Yes, I needed one. Okay. No, I'm just kidding. I didn't need one, but I like when a player takes responsibility for something that's not ideal. well if you want to talk about somebody not taking responsibility for something that's not ideal sir jean yo dust you know what i'm saying that's your man that's your man right there uh midweek arsenal's first champions league match in a long time just to feel like this has been a long

time just to look like this has been a long time uh and arsenal is back in the champions league uh and they and they dust at PSG 4 nil 4 nil But what does Serge do? What does Serge do? He posts his highlights. Yeah. A highlight reel of him dribbling. A high video.

This performance. A little sizzle reel. I love it. Which, we want him doing this. Absolutely we want him doing this. We don't want anyone else doing this, but we want him doing this. Yeah. Was he like, I guess he was sort of at fault for maybe the first or second goal, but was he,

I mean, was he like, was he in hell during that game? People have over-exaggerated the amount of hell that he was in or was not, but I will say this. Like, I think we do need to accept the fact that he is currently bad at defense. I'm not ready to accept that. I mean, there was, he did put one highlight, one play in that highlight where he stole the ball from Saka, which I've really liked that he did that. He did a few things like, you know, once, twice, three times, but it's just, he's just not good of defense, like the overall package of defense of defending.

You know what I'm saying? We saw him get beat the backposts against Rangers. We saw what happened against Netherlands. His last match before he was put in hell by Javi, he actually started, and I forgot who they were playing, but he gave up an early goal that led to a lot of Zeprudering. But it's just in these moments where like other defenders would do better, he just consistently does not do better. Like all the off the ball stuff, he just doesn't have.

And on the first goal, if he watched that first goal back, okay. Bacayo receives a ball. Touchline. Serge is like three yards away. He's in the defendant posture, but like he's not doing anything. And Saka just walks him down. Serge keeps backing up, backing up, backing up. Saka walks him down

So he's almost like at the box. Serge has still not met his line of confrontation, I guess, to go up and pressure Bacaio at all. Bacaio plays it inside, shots taken, and, you know, Serge misses his marco. I mean, like, you know, loses track of Saka, which, you know, the centerback next to him also could have made a play on the ball.

Also, just don't spill, just don't spill the ball, Benitez. But, you know, it's just, the entire package is just not there. bro. He's not good to defend him right now. We got to, we gotta. He falls asleep. He falls asleep sometimes, but I don't know, man. Maybe, I mean, yeah, whatever.

I think whether he's good at defending or not, it is not socially acceptable to post a highlight video of yourself after your team gets roasted for zero. Hey, hey. That's maybe the, it's just the social skills thing. What place do we have to judge someone who's living in their own world? you know like we

like who are we to even weigh in on this keep doing exactly what you're doing don't change the things Virginia although it's really you really shouldn't do that

so he was he was left back left back midweek and people you know I saw some rumblings that that may be the posting of the video would lead to him getting benched

this weekend against Almere City but you know it seems like Mr. Pete Tobash had bigger discipline issues to worry about which we'll get to yeah let's get through it right now well I just want to say he started it right back Serge did end up starting but yeah let's go ahead and get to it it seems like Serge is going to play a lot but yeah um Waki

go ahead I was just before we get to the um the hot button issue uh about our you'll play that we care a lot about, so it's going to be a difficult conversation. But Serge was playing in his hometown. Oh, yeah. His home club. Wasn't a whole lot of pomp.

I don't know if they knew it was his hometown. I don't know if he knew it was his hometown. He probably didn't. He didn't know. I don't think he might not have cared. I'm guessing he doesn't care. It's like a suburb, but isn't it like across the river from Amsterdam? It's like really close to Amsterdam.

It's like a city they invented in. The 70s. Okay. Which is weird to think about in Europe. They had to invent a lot of stuff post-World War II in... That's true. In the Netherlands. Rotterdam, mostly post-war, post-war city.

Anyway. I didn't know that. Tillman, you didn't come off the bus. Before Almera City. And people were wondering, well, why didn't he come off the bus? And then it turns out, oh, well, he... overslept and he was punished by being left out of the squad

I mean we knew he was languid but very languid this pretty languid it's so easy to oversleep though I don't want to I think it doesn't this doesn't in the long run you never do it on purpose

it just happened sometimes he was on the bus is that we're saying we don't know for sure if he was on the bus we just know he didn't come off the bus We don't know exactly He never was on the bus Yeah

Okay He was probably late for the bus And then Bosch was like Screw it man We're going without you I'm guessing Incredible that wasn't Surge you did this

Yeah Oh man I was thinking about time When I was in college We were about to go play a game And we were leaving I don't know I think it was Friday morning or something.

We had a decent distance to travel. And we were supposed to be there at a certain time. Because usually, like, if we're leaving in the morning, we'll get to the stadium and, like, do our, like, Friday walk through and, like, get down with that, then hop on the bus and dip. And, like, it was somebody. I just remember, like, leaving a dude in the parking lot. Like, he pulled up.

He overslept, right? The practice was, like, extremely early, like, five, six o'clock or whatever. That man overslept, but pulled up, like, before the bus left. and coach was just like leave his ass just dipped out so got to draw the line somewhere right? Yeah, it just is what it is

it just is what it is but I'm assuming that Malik feels shame a little bit more than Serge does so he'll respond appropriately yeah it is not I mean he is on loan from Byron Munich at PSV Einhoven

So, you know, his situation with regard to the coach Maybe a bit more tenuous than if he had been signed for $40 million like Balagan Not ideal to It's not ideal in any situation, but maybe it's a little less ideal in his Than it would be if you were a permanent member of that team But whatever, it's it's gonna be fine, I'm guessing Uh-huh Uh-huh

Also, Peppy scored in this game Yep Rico keeps scoring and keep scoring which there was also some angst because he was the last of the yanks to come on in the Champions League match with the game being long gone

done and dusted for a while and de yong didn't come off and yeah everybody got a little bit up in arms and that but rico's fine man it's just you know when de yon comes off peppy comes on and so as long as he's in that position I'm good with it and he keeps

scoring to. And and it was just, like I mean, I know Omere City is not good, but like the way he received this pass and just the entire package of that goal that he scored, I'm just like, it's a good player, man. It was a nice, it was a nice calm, calm finish after rounding the keeper, but my, oh my, that poor centerback, what was he doing? Just flopping all, laughing all over the place, dude. I responded to USM&T only, only's video of that with, it's just, hey, man, I feel bad for that centerback.

And of course, somebody comes in, future MLS defender. Like what? What are you talking about? Put your agenda down for like three seconds. Oh, oh. Yo, if, so if I can return to surge real quick, I've been thinking a lot about this this week.

And I do feel like he needs to find a way to feel shame. Just a little bit. Not a lot. We still want surge to be surge. But like shame and pride have a correlation. You know what I'm saying? Like you cannot take pride in defending if you can't feel shame. You know what I'm saying?

If every time you get beat, you just, we've all seen it. Surge does that little skip. and it hits his size with his hands and he's just like ah well darn it didn't get that one and that's the end of it I never connected that when the second his hands hit it's over yeah and I'm just saying like in order for him to be

but because for me if I'm coaching on the other side we're going at Serge all match we're just going at surge all match man we're seeing if we can get in behind them we're going at them when he's there, seeing if we can get him on the backposts, all these types of things. I mean, I'm doing,

we're throwing him through the wringer, through the washer. Because you know, if you throw him through enough times, one of the times he's going to, at least one of the times he's going to fall asleep. And even when you're watching him, like,

when he's in the back, when he's on the back post in situations, it's just like, you're looking at him, and you can see his, you can see his concentration, like laps and come back, laps and come back.

And it was just like, yo, Serge, I just need you to have a little bit of shame, just have a little bit of fear that like, because I think he's only like, did I get megged? No, I'm good. You know, it's that type deal. Did I get meg? Did I fall? Anything like that? Which he did make Ben White fall. And, well, I'll get to that.

But yeah, we need a little bit of shame. A little bit of shame for my man. Shame as a use feeling, the ability to feel shame as a useful human characteristic. It's an interesting question because there's some evidence in our society that, you know, the incapacity to feel shame is actually quite an asset, you know, for some people. I mean, yes. But, you know, those people are usually called sociopaths for the most part. And sometimes they can tend to use their powers for wrongdoing. But, you know, when you play on a team and you're responsible to other people, then, then yeah, you might need a little bit of, just a little bit of shame.

But also, I do think the reason he's unbenchable is just like, like that Arsenal match. PSV wasn't getting the ball at the field if it went for Serge. Right. Serge was just facing dudes up, like, was giving it to whoever, which is why he posted the highlights because he's like, hey, I did my thing. which, hey, it is what it is, but yeah, it's just that side of the ball, man. Got to figure it out. Okay. Tyler Adams may be back in the next two weeks.

I mean, it feels a little silly to say those words out loud, but Andoni Irola said, Tyler, last week he said Tyler Adams won't be available for the Brighton game, but he has started training partially with the group. There's a chance of having him in the next week or two weeks or so. So, you know, keep an eye out for that. beautiful, which, you know, maybe there was some, there was some consternation about, who's he played for?

Bormouth, for Bormouth getting relegated. Also, maybe Fulham getting relegated. But these teams that we've brought up from the championship seem to be so bad that maybe everybody's just chilling for this entire season. Like all three of these teams, Shepley, United, Burnley, and Luton, have one point through six games. Yikes. By the way, Sheffieldy Nannock got beat 8-0 by Newcastle, which is crazy. And also, maybe Austin Trustee gets a chance to play centerback for him now after they get eight dropped on them.

I mean, you would think there would be some rotation? Has he not played yet? He made like one cameo for like not a long time. Yeah. Well, he might not have an awesome time out there. if he does get out there. So it's, you know. Yeah, it's kind of half a dozen one way, six the other.

Baker's dozen. Yeah, he played four minutes against Tottenham. And I'm pretty sure they scored in those four minutes that he was out there. I don't think it had anything to do with him. But, yeah. I deliberately misused the term Baker's dozen there, just for those of you paying attention. It's an inside joke.

What about Hani Mukhtar? He could perhaps play for the U.S. as early as 2025. Sudanese dad, German mother, grew up in Germany, married a girl he met in Nashville, one of the best attackers in MLS. The rules are too complicated for me, but my understanding is it could be 2025 when he can play. And somebody asked him about it, and he said, I'm just waiting for the call. So, I don't know. I think he's, I kind of like to see him for the national team. If he can play by 2025, let's get him in the mix.

he'd be 30 at that point so not not too old yeah I mean so we can see we can see what I will I will admit that I haven't watched

too much of honey but I mean I did see him come to Louisville and score on my club I did see that but it's just a lot of the times you know when I'm saying these highlights

he's nice don't get me wrong he's nice but he's you know he's in a he's in acres of look man

I don't hey this we need more of this keep going keep going we need more of this the MLS defending people are going to love this

yeah let's take it it's typical typical MLS things man he's he's running out you know we're running at a back line with like 30 40 yards

of runway doing his thing and he does something amazing every time You hear that people? That's us disrespecting the MLS. So just register that on your... That's just what I'd be seeing in the highlights. I'm sorry, y'all.

I'm sorry. No, it's true, though. There's no doubt about it. People who argue otherwise are... Well, it's true. Honey, I noticed when he played in that open cup final against Inter-Miamy, like you know obviously messy was a difference maker in that game but hani was clearly a difference

maker in that game too like you could see like who are the who are the big players here it's lino messy and hani muktar and uh so that that made an impression on me yeah yeah um i mean regardless of what i said he is that dude he is that dude and he does pull off incredible feats with the soccer ball so yeah i'm with it i'm with it man who else is in the attacking, you know, depth chart. Let's talk about the Aronson brothers. Oh, all right. Well, first let's do Brando.

Oh, okay. We're doing Brenda. So, sub-appearance midweek against Real Madrid, in Madrid. We made a mistake on the last pile. We said, first of all, we were talking about the fact of just the Champions League League bringing in the German forest. they aren't playing at Union Berlin's home grounds they're playing in the Olympic Stadium

where her to plays get more fans in the in the in the park which if if Union has enough fans to make that place rock I mean you know just a huge stadium right that would be cool as hell

that would be cool as hell but yeah they were in Madrid Brendo came on he did a few he did a few Brendano things he got the ball taken on off him once and guess what he did three minutes later took the ball off somebody else it was great to see

you know that's Brendan for you though yeah yeah running around started this weekend against Hoffenheim I think he wasn't supposed to start but somebody got injured in the pregame right right he came in it was crawl or somebody but which is a little

like this was his first start post red card right so after after he got that red card he hasn't started since and this was an accidental start this weekend so well we'll see we'll see how it goes but um he didn't do too much and at half time they were down two nil and he got pulled he got pulled uh okay um usually when you're losing you know it's typically a situation where you want some more attacking power and so um the manager pulled off bernan there and put somebody else.

So I'm just, it's, it's kind of interesting for the manager not to think that Brendan would be part of the solution to get him goals. So I'm hearing it's some continued question marks from you on the Brendan front.

We're just going to have to keep monitoring that. So I'm just reporting what I'm seeing. I'm just reporting what I'm seeing. Like, I mean, that can't be that just can't be the best sign. Maybe he was flagging a little bit, I don't know. But that's what happened. That's why I went Bredo.

What about Paxe, Bels? Pax was also pulled at the half, midweek, in a European Conference League game, Europa Conference League. He got on the end of one chance. So there's a ball over the top. He made a good little darting run behind, met it with this right in-step, and drew a decent save from the keeper. But that was the only thing he did. otherwise somewhere between anonymous and outright bad and got a yellow card in the first half.

And so he came off at the half and then didn't appear this weekend in a zero zero draw. I don't want to overreact or anything and I'm not going to, but I'm looking for signs of encouragement week by week. That's what I'm doing. And I can't draw too much encouragement from Young Paxton. Yeah, it's been the case where he's been getting these starts. He hasn't did anything too much with it yet, which, like I will say, it's just like, they had him like playing on the forward line, you know, like occupying defenders and stuff for the most part. And it's like I would like to see him more in the midfield getting stuff going because like that's where he typically finds itself when he's making these sub appearances for Frankfurt.

Just like a little bit more involved in the play. where in this match he was mostly looking to you know wait for on track to figure out everything else in front of him before being a position to receive the ball right and it's not yeah Aberdeen was in a low block so his only thing he could do was really hope to get the ball between a couple of centerbacks at the edge of the box and you know it never really worked

never really worked out yeah nice goal for Brian Gutierrez over the weekend from Chicago. I think it's his second goal of the season. He has eight assists, but he met a cutback with his left in-step on the stretch, pinged it home, far post. Very nice finish.

And then he and Kai Kamara seemed to have a nice rapport too, which is good to see. They celebrated together vigorously. I don't know, Gutierrez is a, he would have been U-20 eligible for the World Cup, not released. and, you know, he's just somebody to keep an eye on.

We should, I know we don't respect Fulham here, but Anthony had a good game this weekend. Okay. He's man of the match. But he just always, you know, he's just kind of consistent now. He's just good. Yeah.

You don't necessarily always have to watch, and that's what happened this weekend with me. I didn't see it I checked it out a little bit but yeah he's just Jedi's doing Jedi things and and you know when you can catch him in a match

against another mid-table club you know what I'm saying like Fulham Crystal Palace that's when he really comes alive is when he's making attacking runs he's doing a little one-two you know what I'm saying I'm like I'm like on what I'm seeing

like on what I'm seeing for Mr. Jedi which you know I was I'm going to bring this up with Serge but when you're seeing Serge being walked down by Saka and you see Jeddah when he's just on Saka like right on rice

whenever they match up you know what I'm saying it's just he he provides like you know really he's he's the one that deserves the Clamps title you know he really does put clamps on anybody he's going up against

I did check out Tim Riem in this match just to see how he's doing on the wash allegations that I've been that I've been somewhat levied by me on this pot You beat the charges? He's doing just enough He's doing just enough to hold off on the wash allegations, man

That's what he knows That's what he has to do That's all he's going to do He's just going to stay right Where he needs to be He's going to pace himself all the way through the World Cup It's going to be incredible what he does Well, we'll take it

Well, so what I really just want to see Is him making one of those recovery runs like he was doing last season, before the World Cup, which, you know, once again, well, this is going public. I'm not going to bring that up. I'm not going to put no, put nothing bad on Tim's name. But I would just like to see one of those. I would just like to see one of those rooms.

Please. Mr. Tim. Credit to Tim, sort of credit to Tim for the Western interview, which I did finally listen to. It was a great, a great episode, a great podcast episode. I think largely in spite of Schenger and Tim Riem, like... Oh, exactly. They just kind of there.

They have the access. They got Weston on the pod. Weston was fascinating. And he does seem to have grown up a little bit in the last year. Yeah, it's all about the, you know, the doors you can get into. I guess. But yeah, that was a disaster class from Slanger. I don't know.

He might listen to this pie. He's a good play-by-play guy. You know, I was watching CBS Sports one time when I think an NWSL match went off, and it was like Fordham against Iona or something. Steve Flager doing play-by-play. But college basketball. But anyway, keep it moving. I don't want to talk about this because really he's letting.

me down. But Joe Joe Scally Joe Scally man Gladback has moved to a three back situation so Joe's playing wingback and he's receiving the ball and better he's just like like

okay these back passes that he's playing now are like comical in nature because he's further back he's further up to field receiving the ball in situation that you would think would be advantageous and he's like, nope. Just pinging it to the goalkeeper.

Bro, he is turning his ass right back around and passing that ball backwards. Still, still, man. And, you know, I'm kind of tuned in to what you were talking about, Bell, just to the fact that, like, yo, if, like, if they know you're just going to pass the ball back,

like, they're on them. They're on them. They're not taking any, you know, the people that are pressing them aren't throttling down as they get to, him in the fear of maybe being stepped past or whatever. No, full speed ahead until you get to Joe Scali.

Even if you go through his back a little bit and get a foul, like it just is what it is. But yeah, I think he had a total of maybe like three progressive passes in this match. He hit like one. He had a couple with his left foot to Jordan Pfeck actually coming back to receive the ball. Piffok did well with him, actually, for the most part. One was a little, Piffok had to do a little work. to like draw a foul because it was a little

it was a little errant and I think he hit one with his right foot to Pfog too but that's that's all we got man it is looking it is looking kind of bleak for Joe right now he needs to figure out what the hell's going on or move to center back I don't know what the hell is with it

or like that I like the moving to center back he's he doesn't seem to be an outstanding progressor with the ball yeah Which was a controversial thing to say about, well, maybe it's still controversial to say. Bro, I, but certainly six months ago. I was the one making it controversial.

Like, I mean, when he first broke out, he was doing so much more with the ball than he is doing now. So he can maybe find his mojo again, then, like, it may not be a permanent thing. I mean, we're going on two and a half years now. I will say that thing about, like, if people don't fear that you might step, buy them, they will come flying into you and make it even harder every time. That's why ball mastery is so important. That's why all the youth gurus say you got to get those kids on the ball, which brings me to my favorite subject, which is Dallas, the white working class hero of East French

Tennessee. An update on Dallas. I saw him play last Monday, and he was even better. He was even better than the first time. Well, what on, Bill's. If this is going public, you've got to explain to the people who Dallas is. It's a kid that I've seen out playing at Camp Jordan on the east side of Chattanooga. And notable because he's very good.

He's the best player in this rec league that I've seen. And because his grandparents are hillbillies. So this isn't like some rich kid from Lookout Mountain or Signal Mountain with. his parents are paying $2,000 a year for him to play soccer. He's just playing rec soccer, and he's really good. And I love to see that. So, yeah, my only update is he was excellent. Again, on Monday, I think, totally dominant.

A little unfortunate that his coach kept him in, even though they were up like 15-0, you know. And then I saw. I like that mentality, step on that mentality, though, from this coach. I'm fortunate for the whole, for everybody, you know. Yeah. But then I saw another East Ridge team on Saturday. They're really good too.

So I looked up like, are they doing something different at East Ridge? And I realized the Red Wolves, Chattanooga Red Wolves, USL team provides U6 and U8 practice plans for all the coaches in the East Ridge rec. And so shout out to them for that. I don't know how many people are making use of that. But I looked over those plans and they're good. Yeah, good. That's cool. Yeah.

I mean, that's what, you know, that's what should be happening. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? We have all these, as soccer's footprint, continues to grow with, you know, all these different clubs, not just MLS. You know what I'm saying? This is what we should be doing. Yeah.

Now, do we maybe, do we need to get Dallas off the rec team? Is there a ladder he can step up? Is he being challenged? I think. The scuff need to sponsor this, man. Maybe so. I think maybe he, yeah, his parents just don't want to pay for it, you know, so he's just, there you go.

There's the problem right there. That's pay for play in a nutshell, isn't it? You know, it costs like a thousand bucks, you know, to get on the Red Wolves Academy team. You know, so a lot of people can't, aren't about that, which I would, you know, I understand. My goal is to just bring better competition to Camp Jordan in the upcoming years so that it's not so easy for Dallas to run the league. so he gets pushed in the rec league because there's always going to be kids who can't afford it, you know? Shout out Dallas, man.

Shout out Dallas. Oh, and he also, just to give people a sense, he kind of looks like a young Kier and Trippier. Trippier. Trippier. Is that how you say it? That's what he looks like. Yeah, he's English, so it's trippier, for sure.

Anything else, guys? Oh, real quick, Coliocho. Colio Show We didn't talk about him last Monday Because they played on Monday They played Matt Turner Nottingham Forest Luca Colio show

Basically contributed to Burnley's only goal You know Received the ball out On the touch line And got to running And got to running as he does so well Beat a man to the end line

And not only got to the end line But you know Beat him firmly enough to where he could turn Once he reached the end line You know what I'm saying to really set up his cutback. The cutback was scuffed and popped to a man at the top of the box

who then scored the goal. But yeah. And they played this weekend against somebody. I'm drawing a blank. But he was influential once again. This is, I mean, it's just a case where, you know,

we need to do everything we can do. You know what I'm saying? Pete, PJ to Burnley. we need everybody we can getting off of it. We need some of these people that are coming to the messy games. If we can get a correspondent from U.S. soccer there, hoping that we can talk to them and get them as part of the traveling party to go over there in court. Luca Colio Show.

That would be great. I also did some, I did a little research. A little research on his family. His dad played football. Dad played college football at Oklahoma. finished his career Simo South East Missouri

D1 was a running back he is now seems to be some type of big wig investment banker for AIG which I was

if you read the article on the athletic his dad made the move to England with him so he's there he's there with him so that Luca has somebody

also his father his father was part pardoned by Greg Abbott here in the in the past three years for some petty crime that he did when he was like 19 years old,

19, 20 years old. Didn't seem to be a big deal, but it's just something he had on his record. I don't know if he had to do with his job as to why he needed to get it pardoned or whatever, but yeah, that happened. That happened. Mom's a PT in Connecticut,

which, oh, how did I forget? Brits me to the that like, you know, Bells, you and I are going to Hartford, right? We're going to the Germany match in Connecticut, in Hartford. I'm thinking this might be a galaxy brain play from Mr. J.T. Batson because... Oh, yeah. I don't know if y'all have looked into Hartford, Connecticut. There's not a lot there, and it doesn't seem to be a lot to do.

And so we put a game in the Northeast, but for some reason we put it in Hartford. Connecticut. And it could be, it could be that Mr. J.T. Batson is doing that as some kind of elaborate recruitment point for Mr. Colio's show. What do you all think? I think that's definitely in play for J.T. He works at that, operates at that level. He does. He does. I mean, at this point, we can't really put anything past him after he pulled out all those stops for flow. Everything rides on this game, doesn't it? The entire future of soccer in America. Yeah, Greg,

Gio's relationship. Yeah, if we can get another attacker to partner with Gio, you know what I'm saying, Colio show, all that. So. It's a crucial tune-up before the Copa America playing game. Yes, yes.

Oh, also, they interviewed Luca Colio's show after that Nottinam Forrest match. Like, that's how good he was. That's how good he was in that match. He got interviewed. You know what I'm saying? They drew Nottingham Forrest 1-1.

Yeah. And go ahead. Well, I just wanted to raise, I noticed his tattoo on his forearm. It's his Roman numerals. It says 15-9, which is, his birthday is 915. So he is doing dates in the European format. I guess the Roman numerals are also Italian. So just something to be aware of because we're still trying to figure out exactly what he wants to do.

You're not worried by that, Adam? Roman numerals are, you know, we have, we draw as much from Roman civilization as Italy does at this point, wouldn't you say? Yeah. But it was in the order of a European date format. Yeah, but that's also a sensible way to do the date, you know. Is it? Well, I mean, well, on the opposite front, in this interview, okay, um, number one when he said when he was talking about his involvement for the goal he basically said you know

he he summarized what happened and he was like where i was happy to be involved in the in the play that that led to us going up one zero not one nil not one nil one zero okay and then later in the interview um like like i don't know i think i think the question was something about like, what was the thought, like, later in the match? Or I think it was the halftime discussion. It was like, what did company say at halftime? And it was basically like, you know, that we need to come out there and keep playing our game and try to get more points.

Points. This guy's American. Let's just stop this charade. He sounds very American. What are we doing? Was he saying points in reference to, like, goals? Yes. Yes, bro.

in reference to That's too American. That's too American for me. Hey, it's the college football playing father, I guess, man. Yeah. But yeah, so I'm feeling I'm feeling pretty good on our where we stand, where we stand right now, you know.

Italy, where they stand is outside of the World Cup. So, you know, Luca, come over here. His dad went to Southeast Missouri? South Missouri, Southeast Missouri State. Is that what it is? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Is Canada just completely out of the picture now?

Because it seemed like he had committed to them. So he's, he, um, he's been a little fast and loose with, uh, it seems like Is Canada still have a men's national team? That's the thing. I think that just really worked to our benefit. Their, uh, insolvency. All right. Well, yeah, let's get out of here.

Thanks everybody for listening. Check out the show notes for the link to the Patreon so you can get this conversation every week. We'll see you. Oh, Taylor Swift went to the Bears game. We didn't mention that. Why would we mention that Taylor Swift went to a Bears game? It's kind of the big news this weekend. Never mind.

Okay. No, no, I mean. Okay. So the countdown is. underway 24 hours for Pooley to put her on the IG

be like it'd be nice for her to show up to a U.S. Minnesota team game that's what we need that's what we need

yeah yeah we need Polly to just keep that going Selena Gomez was at another game in Europe by the way this weekend

was she I think we need to stay on that front as well yeah she was at a PSG she was at the part that proms that they call it

anyhow just wanted to make sure we hit that at the end there good thank you crucial to include that all right thanks everybody for listening we'll see you