#527: WoSo — Gold Medal Celebration Pod
00:03Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.Welcome to the scuff podcast, ladies and gentlemen.This is Woso Wednesday.Woso Wednesday, once again.Just me and Tara this time.But we're here to celebrate the Olympics.We're Olympic champs.We won the gold.
00:36Tara, I don't know how you're feeling, but I'm feeling absolutely tremendous.buzzing ever since, what was that, Saturday? Sunday?Yeah, Saturday.We're triumphant. We're back. A lot of people try to speak on our downfall after the World Cup.But here we are. Here we are, Tara. How are you?Yeah. USA, baby. I'm basking with pride.I haven't gotten a real chance to debrief with you yet, so I'm really happy that we're taking the time.talk today, even if it's just,
01:12even if it's just us,I'm really glad we're going to be taking the timeto do brief.I'm not over it yet.Nope.I'm proud. I'm excited.I can't wait to get into it.Yeah, that's right. And the thing is,
01:28Adam Bell's tried to silence us this week.You know, I hit him up. I'm like, yo, we're doing a well-so this week?He's like, nah, let's wait until next week.Next week, come on, baby.We just want to go.Oh, man, he can't silence me.I didn't get the opportunity to be on the postgame show,which if you're not a patron and you listen to Wausau Wednesday,
01:46there's a postgame show that you can, one, be involved in,and two, if you don't want to be involved in it,you can listen to it on our Patreon.You can sign up for that.Descriptional, I mean, the link will be in the show notes,I assume, provided our benevolent leader,Adam Bells, decides to put the link in the show notes.But yeah, yeah, he,
02:08He was like, yo, let's wait two weeks.And I was like, man, we can't get into everything I'm going to, I'm going to want to get into in one Woso episode.You know, we tried to, we're going to, in that next Wosso episode, you know, we already got plans to talk about what we can do, moving forward to improve the team, to improve our midfield, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.It's like, we're going to get into that, but that basically means we're leaving the Olympics and what happened and this beautiful triumph.We're moving on from it.And I didn't want to, I wanted to make sure I was able to talk just a little bit about what's going on, because I'm hype.I'm hype, man.Yeah.
02:47World champs.We can't move on to how we remain world champs until we sit in it a little bit longer.That's right.That's right.Because the people told us, they tried to tell us we were finished.We were through.We were cooked.Mm-hmm.
03:02And guess what?We're not.I remember, I remember reading NWSL was a return.Retirement League.Crazy.A retirement league.I remember reading, you know, our own Emma Hayes was...Our own Emma Hayes was throwing shots in the...
03:23In a...What was it? The Guardian?I don't know what type of British publication it was.But yeah, Emma...I think so.Emma was stomping on our grave during the World Cup,which now we know came from just a place of...love, a place of deep, deep love and admiration for the United States of America.
03:46But, you know, when everybody's coming to us, it didn't feel that way in the moment.It didn't feel that way in the moment.Leave us alone. Leave us alone. But lo and behold, she, number one, took the job, came over,did her thing. You know, everyone's saying that she only did it in, how many days she'd beenthe manager?70 or something?75.75 days.
04:15I'm happy Belles isn't here because I'm going to give some, I'm going to put a littlerespect on Twyla, a little bit of respect just because she did, she did bleed in a few of theseplayers, like the changes that we did make from the World Cup to the Olympics.A lot of them were introduced by Twyla.And as we know, it was Emma pulling the puppet strings behind.behind the scenes and all that.You know, we got Sam Coffee back.People forget, Sam Coffee was not in the picture,
04:44inexplicably removed from the picture by Vlakoafter really not doing anything wrong in her appearance,in her appearances that she had leading up to the World Cup.So Sam Coffee back in, et cetera, et cetera.So Emma did her thing, of course.Twyla did her thing.I also got some proof of life of Twyla Kilgore.You know, most of the time when Emma,
05:09She waspictures of herof her staff.There is no Twyla to be seen.Twyla poses some pics.She was there.She was in Paris.Yeah.
05:19So.The content was amazingcoming fromEmma and her like core staff.Poor Twyla was not,not in that core group though.I was worried about her for a little bit there.But yeah,
05:35she showed up at the end in the ceremonies.I was happy to see her.I was happy to see her there at the endbecause she did usher in thisbeginning of the new wave.Yeah.As you will.Yeah. It may along continue.
05:56I guess you talked about the vibesjust coming from the coaches staff in general,but what about, I mean, the players, the celebrations,them singing, what is this?I haven't watched the Cheetah Girls movie yet.a long time.You know, like Raven Simone was one of my first crushes.I watched the Cheetah Girls movie plenty of times, but I do not remember Strut
06:17whatsoever.I might have fired Cheater.Oh, Mike.No, this is, this is going to be, you're going to be dad of the year when you bringCheetah Girls back into these girls' lives.Like, this movie, iconic.I'm going to watch Cheetah Girls again, and I have no reason to it.I saw a video where they were subjecting strut to, like, a team USA bus.
06:46The track team was there.The swimming team was there.And these other athletes were just sitting there.And Mal is like standing on the seats, like swinging from the arm,swinging from the, swinging from the armstand and everything.Trinity's screaming the lyrics.They looked insane.Bus is very packed.
07:05It looks very uncomfortable.Like any unnecessary movement or gyrating, singing, any extra vibration added to that bus would just make anyone uncomfortable based on the, you know, the proximity everybody was sitting.So, yeah, I can only imagine.But it just, it does seem like, and another thing I really like to see, like, the squad is just, they're it.Like, they're the ones.Like, they're the celebs of Team USA for the most part.No, I mean, you have, you got a hierarchy, you right?You got the basketball teams.
07:43But really, I mean, I would probably put them at one C with the basketball teams is the women's soccer team.Everyone loves them.Everybody wants to get a picture with them.You saw Tara Davis get in.You saw Nikki Heights.Get some.No, Tara.Tara Davis was posting that she was adopted by the soccer team.
08:01She said, they took me in.And, I mean.This is an aside, but those closing ceremony jackets, the white ones with the U.S., I had to buy one.I bought them.I was swept with emotion after the events of, I think it was Saturday.Yes, because Saturday was the soccer game and the men's basketball game, which I'll talk about this on the Monday review, but men's basketball, it will be my one over everything.There's a lot of stuff wrapped up into basketball, which makes me just rabid beyond all belief.if men's international basketball was a thing,
08:40I probably wouldn't be doing this.I don't know.This is actually a great segue.Did you see the vacation pictures of Kevin Durant?Yes, I did.Okay.Okay.So Kevin Durant and Devin Booker are on a yacht in St.
09:03Trip.And I saw it there.hysterical pictures, Kevin Durant's going down a slide with his arms up.He's having the time of his life.And I was looking at him and I was like, these NBA players, they have so much money.I loved watching that final as much as anybody.Like, they go right on a yacht after vacation.I thought, I thought, oh, our players are going right back into season.
09:32I wish that they could go on a vacation like that.Lo and behold, I was completely wrong.Naomi Germa is in Mekanos.What?She's right.Yeah.Naomi Germa is in Mekonos.She's posting pictures by yachts.
09:51And I was like, okay, Naomi Germa, Kevin Dorea equals.What world do we live in now?Let me see.What is the start?I think we got like two weeks or something.Yeah, yeah.So August 24th is when the waves next matches.So, yeah, I mean, she, they actually do have a little bit of time.
10:17Today's the 14th.Yeah, they can probably go the rest of this week.I would think the club's probably given them.They probably got to report Monday or something like that.Yeah.This took an incredible turn, but, hey, I'm happy she's going to get,She's going to get a nice NBA-style vacation.I mean, if anybody deserves it.
10:39If anyone deserves it.What a tournament.What a tournament.I mean, come on.Come on.This is beautiful.You think she has a shot at Ballandor?Um, I couldn't tell you.
10:54I guess so.Um, I kind of think she might.She just, she was the best player of the tournament.I think everybody saw it for the first time.It was more than just Americans.Yeah.That's right.But you can never, I mean, these pesky Europeans, you know, these pesky Europeans, it's tough.
11:18You just don't know.You just don't know.Yeah.But I guess we will see with this ball and door ceremony, like, you know, is this something we need to actually pay attention to?Or do we just need to create our own?trophy because as we know and as has been proven well it's already been proven but as wereminded the world you know women's soccer runs through the United States of America so youknow the fact that we even outsourced this trophy in the first place but because you know
11:51the Boundor had their own clout built up in the men's game or whatever whatever but wemight need to just create our own might need to create our own it.It depends on what they do.If they do that thing, then, okay, okay, we can rock with you.But, you know, the final is going to be,final is going to be a whole bunch of players that didn't make it to the final.I'll tell you that.And that's what it's probably going to end up being.
12:18A whole bunch of players that didn't make it to the final.And one of our girls, whether it be Naomi, whether it be South Maltran.One of them.But just one, though.But just one.Yeah.But I hope not.But I hope not because I always enjoyed seeing, like, Trinity go to the Ballandore ceremonies.
12:38Who else?I think Sof went this past year, I want to say.But they get to get dressed up, hit a red carpet, you know what I'm saying?All the pomp and circumstance that comes with the Ballandore, I love it.But just act right.Act right, French Federation.That's all I'm saying.That's all I'm saying.
13:03But yeah, anything else from the Olympics in general or the ceremonies or anything?I think I just came, well, you know what?I'll tell you this, Tara.I'm just salty.I feel like we had the best Olympics of all time and I was not in attendance.That's what's hit me.Yeah, yeah.I mean, I agree with you.
13:26I went into it knowing that it was going to be a good one.I really felt confident that this team was ready for the international stage.And I should have known better.I should have known better.I should have got on a plane.Yeah.Just, I mean, I didn't understand how dope Paris is.It hadn't been properly communicated to me.
13:51But a lot of people, a lot of people after the fact are like, oh, yeah, you didn't know.Paris is like the best city in the world.I'm like, oh, I did not know.I absolutely did not know.But just seeing the sight lines, just the venues, the colors, the aesthetics, everything was just beautiful.I think it was one of like the former gymnastics girls that like made a post about the vault and how beautiful the vault was.Like the color blue that they used on.Like, you know, everything aesthetically, which I guess makes sense with it being Paris, was just absolutely beautiful.
14:25the venueson like NBC or somethingthey had this one guy walking aroundone handsomeI think he'she might be of like Middle Eastern descent or somethingI forgot the man's namebut he was just walking around
14:39Paris like showing you what the venues wereand like these venues would be likethe fencing venuewould just be like a classicFrenchlikemuseum or hall type of thingyou know with the columns and like all
14:55and the stepsyou walk up and you just walk in and it's like, oh, it's offensive in you.You know, they've turned this whole thing into like, like, it's just beautiful.Everything.There's everything old and historical.Yeah, I've never wanted to watch an opening ceremony.But then when I saw they were doing it on boats going down the river, I'm like, oh, this is dope.What?
15:16Like, that was tremendous.I never really wanted to watch a closing ceremony either, but because the opening ceremony had already gained so much goodwill, I was like, you didn't.damn right, I'm going to sit through and watch this whole closing ceremony,which was absolutely ridiculous.Did you?It was, yeah.I watched every bit of it.I watched every bit of this Olympics.
15:36Tom Cruise.Tom Cruise grabbing the flag, taking it to L.A.And then I look over to my wife, I'm like, yo,it's Snoop Dog going to pop out in L.A.And at first we get red hot chili peppers.We get Billy Ish.I'm like, okay, I guess not.It's going to be ridiculous.
16:01I can't even imagine how we're going to compete with what Paris pulled off this year.Can you?It doesn't seem like we'll be able to.I mean, if you know anything about anybody that's been to L.A.knows anything about L.A.Like, come on.There are so many, there were so many memes about what our opening ceremony was going to be like, like, traffic?Yeah, like, I mean, just.
16:26the influx of touriststhat are going to comethat are going to pull up right and you know all thesethese venues are going to be spread out as helllike they I meanthey're going to be all overthe last time I was inthe last time I was in L.A.
16:43Everything took two hours to get to.Yeah. Which maybeif I go I'm just going to post up atI'm just going to post up at Venice.They said they're going to have three on three basketballVenice Beach. I'm excited about that.That'll be amazing.Yeah, that'll be.
16:58If they had like weightlifting out there or something, too, that would be incredible.Skateboarding probably.Yeah, skateboarding, all that.That would be Venice, hopefully if they really do everything at Venice that you can do at Venice,you know, that would be tremendous.I don't think the waves are big enough to have surfing necessarily.But I don't know.But, yeah, Olympics, I'm Olympics-pilled.
17:23It's been a while since.we've had a good Olympics, right?I mean, 2016 was a while away.I don't even remember that Olympics.But anyway, yeah, if we could,if you give me the choice between a World Cup and an Olympics,give me the damn Olympics.It's just beautiful.
17:46Seeing the camaraderie between everybody.Yeah, so I'm happy we did our thing,and we did our thing there.But Tara, before we actually move on,on to the soccer.Let me ask you this.Does a part of you wishthat our rebuild
18:00would have tooklike slightly longer?No, why?I'm just,I don't know,maybe I'm weird.I'm not,I'm happy we won the gold.
18:13Don't get me wrong.But part of me does wishwe could havedid like some type of piece by piecerebuild like,oh, we're getting thereincrementally.It's like, oh, we're struggling.
18:24We're buttoning our head upagainst the wall.And then, like, we finally overcome it or something like that.But...You wanted us to fight a little harder for it?We fought plenty hard.I don't want to...I'm not trying to diminish what we did at all, at all.
18:40But, but, yeah.So just something...It's just a little...It's the devil, right?You know, you got the angel devil on your shoulder.The devil is just like, ah, man.Well, I mean...The thing is...
18:53The thing is...I think that this brings up a very good part of the conversation.The rebuild still has a lot to do.Yes.We have so much to celebrate.There was so much celebration going on.I'm so proud of them.The entire team has so much to be proud of.
19:24but there's a lot of missing pieces still in orderthat our coaching staff has to play with, I think.And that's exciting for me.Yeah, fair, fair.I guess maybe I'm just wondering, like,because you get this big success, right?You get the big success.Maybe that causes things that be a little bit more stagnant
19:54that we wanted to be all this stuff.It's just the unknown.Maybe it's freaking me out a little bit.But I don't know.I just wanted to see where you stood on that.But, um...Well, I think, I think that's totally fair.But something that gives me a little bit of comfort in that is I was forced almost against
20:17my will to watch Chelsea all last year because I was on categorized.Marina Macario watch.The comeback was on and you never knew when it was happening.So I watched that team all last year.And it was interchanging the entire time.She sat the stars all the time.It was Lauren James in, Lauren James out.It was Jess Carter in.
20:54Jessica Carter out, Fran Kirby in, Frank Kirby out.It was, it was, she had, she had no commitment to the big dogs.Like, and, and that, that wasn't just based off of my one year of watching, like, the people who are committed to Chelsea women's soccer team have been saying the same thing for a while.and I think that we can take a lot of reassurance of that.Okay.Okay.Well, I will take reassurance from it.We still have one particular player who, you know, has not been set, has transcended administrations.
21:50We'll get into that next woe so.We're going on that next WOSO.Yeah.But anyway, so I guess big picture takeaways.I'll start this off, but I just want to talk about some of the themes that we've been going through on WOSO as we've been leading up to the, this moment, basically, as we've been leading up to the Olympics and things, the different problems that we had chosen out that we had focused on.and what actually happened, you know, what played out in reality versus the theoretical that we were, that we've been going on about, talking about.And the one that sticks out to me, largely, hugely, Roosevelt, right?We've been going back and forth.
22:42Is she cooked?Is she not?How can she play on this team?Is she worthy of starting on this team or being in the team?and pen or whatever.And I just want to give a big shout out to Rose, man.She came through.She stepped it up.
22:59And, you know, we talked to particularly me.I talked a lot about how she's just not doing a ton of creation at Gotham necessarily.More like on the receiving and the chances, she didn't necessarily do a ton of creation in the Olympics.But the huge thing is that, and maybe this is just something that we should assume will happennow this is tournament rowstournament rowsthat's the thingyou know
23:27the uhwhat we sawagainst Gothamin thatNWSL championshipwhat we saw in 2019what we saw in these2024 Olympics
23:39tournament rose is a different roseand the main thing that she broughtlike I said not a lot of chance creationnecessarily but she brought dogand didn't knowif she had the legs to do itdidn't know if she had the willingness to do it,but she brought that and I'm just,
23:56and I'm happy.And I will fully take,I will fully take an L for my Rose take.How are you found about it to her?I'm definitely proud of Rose,and it was something I wasn't sure of either,but something I'm still not sure of,and it, it goes past Rose Lovell,
24:18and it's something I'm curious about.Do you think what we see,saw from this tournamentisEmma's desireor Emma'scommitment to playing with like a true10? Do you think she wants to do that
24:37for the future?Yeah.And I'm taking thatfrom the manifesto.You know,when she talked about where is the creativity at, blah, blah, blah.I think she does want tohave one on the field, yes.
24:54for sure and so so i i i i i i i went past rose a little too much there i am extremely proud of rosei think the biggest the biggest difference here was she got a lot of minutes and a lot of preparationin her legs before the olympics so all credit goes to the gotham coastsfor warming her up and and keeping her healthy, slow and steady.It was, it was a few minutes here, a few minutes there.It was complete, careful preparation for Rose.And it worked because she stayed healthy for as long as we could get her.Who knows what happened there at the end.
25:52But it worked.It worked.I mean, we need to turn.with Kat going down, with Jaden going down,we absolutely needed Rose,and it ended off paying,it ended off working, working out wonderfully.Yeah, worked out wonderfully.
26:09And, yeah, she didn't play that last game,which that last game,I would have liked to have her.But, like, as Greg said on the recap, right?The controversial selection here would be putting Lindsay at 10in the situationwhen we havelike if we had a healthy
26:33Roosevelt Rose would fit better thereat that 10th spotbut we have no inclination that Emma is going to sitLindsay as it stands right nowso you knowshe got hurt likebasically what I'm saying is Rosegave us all she had
26:54she gave us the full Rose allotmentof minutes you knowAnd at the end of the day, she couldn't finish it through to Brazil, but it's like, job well done, Rose.Job well done.You played more than I could have imagined, you know.Ever, ever, except.Yeah.And you did a great job.
27:21And you did a great job.So I'll take it.I'll take it.You earned that gold medal system.Earned it.Wonderful work.Earned it.Earned the party after.
27:31You know, which everyone, everyone gets a kick out of Rose.Because she's the one that goes the hardest.But as somebody said on Twitter, you know, from Cincinnati and a Wisconsin grad, like, she's not, she's not new to this.She is true to this.It's in the blood, yeah.With Cincinnati being like a sister city to Louisville, like, that's one thing I know.One thing we do, particularly the Catholics, particularly the Catholics.Drink.
28:03Just drink.Drink, drink.Excuse is to drink at any time.Fish fries during Lent, you know what I'm saying?Picnics during the summer.The Catholics, Catholics go hard.We got the same kind of culture here in the two cities.So, Rose is just from that cloth, baby.
28:21But my next takeaway is, uh,We talked a lot about our midfield, right?That's going to be one of the places, right, that needs upgrading that we'll talk about next week.But also at the same time, maybe it doesn't defensively.You know, maybe Nehne McGe Germann was just that good.That's the thing I've got.That's the conclusion I've come to.Because, like, we saw it happen multiple times.
28:54Lindsay, be late to stuff.Sam Coffee be late to stuffhave issues getting pressure to the ballThat's what I thought Corbyn did aDid a pretty good job of at BrazilIf we would have had the two of Lindsay and SamAgainst BrazilI mean we would have been roadkill
29:12It would have looked likeLooney Tunes like Wiley CoyoteAnd a roadrunner or somethingWhen they seeThey set up like one of those trapsLike it just would have been Sam CofyLindsay Horan just picking themselves upoff the
29:27of the grass after being splattered by a boulder or something.It would have been very nasty.But like I said, maybe Naomi's just that good to where we can afford to go a little bit lighteron defense for the most part in the midfield area.Yeah.I mean, I think something we learned is even the highest praise for Naomi girls.isn't isn't enough.We had a coach come out and say she's the best defender she's ever seen.
30:10And yet somehow it still feels like we could say more.I wish I could write a soliloquy for Naomi Germa.And she's somebody I've been following for many years.I think she's grown into such an incredibly talented.multi-dimensionaldefender.She's still so young.I can't imagine
30:37where she goes from here.I seeArsenal fanstrying to find a way to snag her upat this point.I'm trying totry toyou know,
30:50wot them away,like flies.Get out of here.I just,I just,I think,I think Naomi affords usthe time to experiment in our midfield.
31:04I don't think we stick with this midfield because there are so many holes, but Naomi allowsus time.We can play around with it.Yeah, yeah, as evidenced by the fact that we were able to win a gold while.Yeah.While, like, yeah, go ahead.like Emma hadEmma had so little time
31:30toexperiment witha rostersheshe kind ofgot stuck with what we hadshe had she was ghost ridingunder Twyla sure
31:44butshe was on the ground for two monthsnow that we have a gold medaland we have what two and a half yearsuntil a World CupI am, you know, thrilled to see what happens next because there's so much to experiment with in so many different ideas for how we can get better in just a few positions because we really are so, we really are so talented.And it could very well just be our bench even too.Right.
32:29I mean, the alternates, right?You know, it was a great opportunity for Croix, Hal,to get, what, two months, basically training under Emma?Seeing all Emma works.What she wants from...Now they're champions.Well, Hal is a...Champion S.
32:48Well, unfortunately, did not get a medal.So sorry, Hal.It's unfortunate.Croix is thoughRoy is I mean which you knowI mean Hal andJayden Shaw played the same amount of minutesone of them has a medal one doesn't
33:04unfortunatelyCroix saw the fieldYeah Roy saw the fieldCorey saw the fieldbut yeahwe have we got the playerswhich is what we've been telling youon a well so Wednesday
33:20for a long time nowyou see a lot of people comingaround there. A lot of people are like, oh, we were telling you the whole time.We were telling you the whole time.Get Lachol out of here and switch a little things up and we're just fine.Like, no, you didn't. No, you didn't. You were sitting here talking about U20 results and how, you know, we haven't got out.I had to look this up. You know, we haven't got out the group since, I think it's 18.Been a while.
33:48But yeah, people are bringing that up. And we sat there and told y'all,you know, there's still players coming out.The U-20 results, don't worry about those.It's kind of a false, false flag.Red Herring.I don't think Red Herring works there.But Tracy Kevin's was coaching.That's what we'll tell you.
34:12Tracy Kevins was doing, I mean,something way worse than what Black Co has ever done.Am I humble?And she's back?She's back next week.And she's back next week, which everybody needs to tune in to that.If you want to see some of these future stars, we got them.We got them.
34:30The ones playing in the NWSL, they're playing in this U-20 World Cup.It's going to be beautiful.Well, hopefully it's beautiful.But I'm hoping that those players that are now professionals that have had professional coaching, et cetera,can overcome Tracy Kevin's.I hope.Yeah.My hope is that.
34:52at least at least two of these girls can graduate on to the senior team after after this world cupeven if it's just to get the experience or to get a look because these next these next two windowsof the senior team being september and october no being october in novemberthey're they have no meaning they're just they're just friendsSo if we could get a healthy Dressel Thompson or a Claire Hutton, I think that could be really exciting.That's right.And one of those meaningless, meaningless matches will be in Louisville, Kentucky, ladies and gentlemen, in Louisville, Kentucky, October 30th.My niece, my niece might go.
35:46Oh, tell her come by the tellgate.I will.October 30th in Louisville, if anybody wants to pull up on me, we will be, I will be tailgating, food and all, etc.I just looked at the, I've been checking Ticketmaster daily.It's looking like we got about 100, maybe 150 tickets left of actual non-resale, non-resale seats left.That's great.Yeah, it's looking very good in there.So expecting a sellout for sure.
36:25And that's even with their, they're bringing in bleachers too to put behind our like.Who do you play?Who do we play Argentina?Yes.Argentina is, it's when Claire Hutton's U-19 team went to the Pan America games.Oh, right, right.And they played the senior Argentina team.And she scored that goal against the Argentina keeper.
36:52and she retired right afterwards.So obviously we won't see that keeper,but just know it was a great game.It was a great game.Beautiful.Oh, did you know,did you know we got a U-17 World Cup this year too?No.
37:12No, that's going to be exciting.It's in the Dominican Republic.See, women's soccer is so exciting.We have so much to look forward to.And our group is Spain,Columbia and Korea, South Korea.Let's go. Let's beat them all.Yeah. Yeah.
37:33Oh, the October window, I did want to mention.The October window is a three-friendly window.So I'm fully expecting there to be a lot of chopping and changing, particularly for, I mean, we're in, and the Louisville game is the third game of the window.Like I'm expecting, I don't know who the hell is going to be out there.Ryan Williams, North Carolina, Kurt.That would be awesome.Are you kidding me?I would love a Ryan Williams' star.
38:03I've become a Ryan Williams fan.I've been watching.Louisville's been playing a lot of games against North Carolina here recently.And I'm just like, man, that's a good player.That's a good player right there.But yeah, maybe we get a little Taylor Flint.Maybe you get some Saddam-Mello back.I don't know.
38:18Because, I mean, it is a three-friendly window right around the time that NWSL playoffs is supposed to start.So we'll see what happens with releases and all that different type of stuff.And then also that November window, it's already been announced.Saturday, November 30th in Wembley.We're going back.We're going back.Another England match, baby.That window is, that FIFA window is the end of November into early December.
38:52So I'm really curious who we play early December.Hopefully it's, I don't think it's been announced yet, has it?No, no.But it should be a European.Yeah.Last time it was Spain.So hopefully it's somebody good.Right.
39:09Right.Didn't we do England, Spain, and Germany in the same window?Or was it?It was a two different window.I think it was just England, Spain.And then we, I guess that next window was the two Germany's or something.butOkay
39:23But yeahLet me seeAnything else we learned in thisIn this OlympicsLearned about paying caveI want to shout outI want to shout outBig
39:38Appreciation for Crystal Dunnand Emmwood FoxThat's rightHave always always loved themBut I think theyThey stepped it uptournament.They stepped it up.
39:52Crystal Dunn listed as a forward.Emma tricked us.Emma said, nope.Just kidding.She did not touch the forward line even a little bit.And that's why I like, I see people, a lot of, a lot of, and a lot of Olympicwrap-ups, people have been saying like, hey, Crystal Dunn has been like a big winner from thistournament, you know, coming into the thing.
40:21We didn't know if she would be on the roster.on the bubble, what she was doing, blah, blah, blah.And I've seen people push back on that.But I would say I agree with it.Not necessarily that she was going to be on the roster bubble necessarily,but that we just didn't know where she was fitting in.Like, had the left back spot been fully transitioned to Jenna Nasswanger?Gena Niswanger was the one getting the starts.
40:42Let us not forget.Had it been fully transitioned, what was going on?Because Crystal was playing forward.I mean, the first window, she played it a little bit.Once Jenna was subbed off or something, I think Crystal moved back.But she was starting in the forward line and whatnot.So you really did not know what was going on with Crystal.But, like, yeah, when the games came, it was time to get serious.
41:08Emma went with who she knew, who she trusted.I mean, they go back, right?They go back.So she was always going to be on the roster.But it's how she was going to be used.And, yeah, the performance was...performance wasA1.
41:24Tremendous.From both, yeah.Andsomething she really earnedthis tournamentwas all that dancing.We got in trouble.We got in trouble at the World Cup
41:39for dancing,but this yearshe couldn't stop dancingand nobody's mad at it this year.We was dancing, we was TikToking.We was JulieFoutian, you know what I'm saying?Lindsay Horan's in the mud.
41:56Everything Lindsay was talking about was just like, yeah, we are going to do that and we'regoing to win a goal.And it might have been a distraction of Lindsay.I don't know.Maybe.Maybe all that put Lindsay off.Maybe that's why she talked about it because it's like, I can't focus.I can't focus through it.
42:14I'm not worried about them.I saw TikToks with Crystal and all of our.track stars.Like, even the track starshad Crystal dancing.Crystal don't stop dancing,man.Kills me.
42:29Every single behind the crest,I tweeted out at one time.I'm going to go through all these behind the crest from,from 2019,because that's when I first noticed.That was my first World Cup actually following,you know, the team.But, yeah, I mean, they were,
42:46I remember them being in New York for some reason.Like, after the, it was either after the World Cupor before the World Cup,Crystal just danceEvery time you see CrystalShe's dancingHey, hey, I mean, my type of personThe most recent
43:02Behind the Crest that came out, she's on theShe's on the training groundDoing a Tutsy roll. I mean,just a lovelylovely person, lovely vibes.You know,but yeah, to bring it to Emily,yeah, Emily just
43:19did a thing.She, she,she found the consistency thatI knew that she had within her,you know, the sideboard.She really just brought it out.Once again, I would like for her to juststart carrying the ball a little bit.
43:35She's really good at carrying the ball.That's like one of our best traits.And I think she did do it once,at least once or twice in like the Germany matchor the Brazil match.Nothing like crazy, but just, you know,carry the ball to get you a better anglea pastor of somebody.
43:55Leah.She was tremendous.Tremendous.I mean, so manylast-ditch interventions from her.Always alerted the back post.And the last thing I had,I wanted to shout out
44:07a few of the spouses I saw.Hmm.Okay.But the first beingSophia Smith's fiancé.Oh, wow.That was beautiful, wouldn't it?Yeah, he was at.
44:22in a presser for his football team about how inspiring she wasand how she inspired him to, you know, reach his goals.And he listed off all of her accomplishments since she was in college.From how many caps she got with the national teamto being the youngest MVP in the league and so on and so on.It was just so sweet.but I'm comparing it to the next spouse.And it was almost in the exact same setting.
44:59Okay.They asked Dansby Swanson about Mao.And this one ended up being my favorite.And why I'm nominating him as an early frontrunner for spouse of the year.He took it in almost a completely different direction.heumhe said mal
45:23asked him to not ask for time off to come to Franceto not mess with the mojoso I just alreadyhumble king he saidI can't I can't step foot in this countryto mess with the mojoand we want we won a gold medal because of itthank you Dancy
45:43for not entering the countryum but he didHe did thank her best friends and her family for being there for Mal.And I just, I thought it was very funny and lovely.And thank you, Danzby for not going to France, messing with the mojo.That's right.That's right.And she obviously delivered.
46:09Mao did.Thank you, Mal for understanding that she needed her mojo to stay safe and calm.not have her husband anywhere near France.That's right.Which if he had asked for that time off,you know, it would have been a little mini scandal,you know.Dansby leaving the cut.
46:33I don't even know if the Cubs can make the playoffsor what's going on with the Cubs season right now.But leaving, like, they will rip peoplefor taking their like eight days off to have a kid.Yeah.But like when it happens in the middle of the season.Like, oh, Sharia, Shia taking.They get some very small amount of time.
46:58I think it's like five days.I haven't been a baseball fan for about five years now.But when I was locked in, I think it's about five to ten days they can take whenthey have a kid.And even then, people.That's crazy.People will hop in and be like, what's he doing?He should have playing better anyway.
47:18Should have had a kid during the offseason.What's going on here?So, um...Well, I am, I'm thrilled that Mal understood that.She, she protected the mojo and no, no France for Dansby.Shoot, I was surprised that, uh, Simone Biles' dude could leave training camp.That was interesting to me.Right in the middle of training camp in the thick of things, he's on a new team, too.
47:45He left the Packers, went to the Bears.He stayed for a while, too.Yeah, he was there.He was there for a minute.So, yeah, like, shout out to all our professional sports organizations for not succumbing to toxic masculinity anymore.I think this is an appropriate time for me to use that phrase.A lot of times, I'm not going to lie, a lot of times I tend to roll my eyes.But this one, specifically, like, huge life of.
48:18Vince? Yeah, man, you don'tWe don't need you in training camp getting your brain busted in.Go over there and enjoy Paris.Happens once every four years.That's right.Let me see.Any other takeaways, Sarah?Front three is going to be the front three for many years to come.
48:45Yeah, yeah.Mal Swanson is the oldest of the Trident.Vince, she's 26,years old. Yeah, I was about to say. She'sthe oldest one.It's beautiful.Incredible. Incredible luck.And, I mean, we've talked
49:07about it many times before. Reinforcementsare coming. That just meanseverybody who ragedagainst the lack of substitutions,subs are coming. But this is the Trident for years to come.Man, the sub thing is just...Because you know the situation.The Emma, 75 days, like you said,
49:30haven't had a lot of camps.She hasn't had time to put trust into people in the first place.I wasn't upset about it.I understood it.But my point is that's the next thing that's coming.Her understanding the rest of the pool,have no fear.We have all of the talent in the world.
49:53Yeah, right, right.I am agreeing with you.I was more talking to the people.Because it's, I mean, the one thing that you'll always find following these coaches,particularly these international coaches that don't get that much time,they're going to go with who they know, who they know.Coaches don't like uncertainty.Coaches don't like uncertainty.
50:17And they can watch all the film that they want,but until you do it for them in front of themand show them that you can execute their ideasor whatever they want you to have you doing,until that you will ride the pond,which as we've seen with Jaden Shaw,like, you know, all the good Jaden Shaw stuff that she did,as good as it was, she did it under Twil.
50:39You know, unless she comes in,has a few so-sell matches in Emma's first,first window or whatever and then, you know,ended up catching an injury and all that.Like, it's...Sorry, but, you know, it passed you.It passed you up, unfortunately.You got a nice gold medal.
51:02You got a ton of gear.I mean, that's a...I'm very envious.A ton of free gear.Got to travel France.But...And that's something I talked about on the call-in show.I went back to
51:18something Tobin Heath said after the World Cupwasshe was talking about whydidn't Sophia Smithhave any internationalexperience before the World Cuplike she should have went to Tokyoeven if it was
51:43as an alternateeven if it was to sit on the bench,something to get her feet wetbefore the World Cup,knowing that she was going to bethe star of this team someday.She should have gotten experience.And Vladko should have known that
52:01because he was the coach.Jump tothis is going to be really good for Jaden.She got hurt.That wasn't expected,clearly because Croyddid get minutes.But Jaden now has an international tournament under her belt.
52:23And that's going to be very good for her.She's going to go into the World Cup already having experienced an international tournament.Yeah.I mean.Which is more like I've seen people comparing it to we sent Kat home.and we didn't send Jaden home.Kat's already been in the sixth,been to an international tournament.
52:50There's a difference.Jaden now has this under her belt.Fair enough.And, yeah, I think it's a good place to end.It's a good place to end.Nothing but, nothing but,bright horizons in our future.Pain caves.
53:14Emma has inspired me to go into,my pain cave.You know, see and see what I can come out with.We can do hard things.We can do hard things.You know what was crazy.That Brazil, the most rotated team in the tournament, just dying in the second hand.They couldn't keep up.
53:34They couldn't keep up.I was like, as soon as that second half started, I was like, oh, we're going to be fine.We just had to last.We just had to last one half.I thought we were like mostly okay in that first half anyway.We like we created our traditional breakaways.We just didn't do anything with them.Like, you know, we created, we had a probably about four corners,
54:01five corners in that first half or something that came from traditional,you know, triple espresso, triple espresso breakaways and whatnot.We just weren't able to, you know, fashion them in the shots,etc., etc.So the XG at the half did look crazy.It did look crazy.Yeah.But.
54:19Have you seen the XG charts of the Olympics?No.Oh my God.It's like Mal number one.It was some outrageous number.But then it's Lindsay number two with like some even more outrageous number.Beautiful.But yeah.
54:39Should we fire Giovanni?The set piece, man?Our set piece.Yeah.Oh, man.I mean.Hey, he got us the goal against Australia?Well, we got an Australia goal.
54:53We got...There was another one, right?When they were Germany goal?I don't remember.Yeah, I don't either.Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.I just remember how mad I was getting at our corners.I can't remember.
55:09But, yeah, I don't know what Matt was...I was doing some BS with particular with those first two.She just kept trying to float them.Yeah, Matt was making me mad.I'll just blame it on tired legs.Yeah, let's do that.Let's do that.But yeah, that is all.
55:29Shout out to Brazil for being extremely tired.Maybe you need to fire your strength and condition to coach.I don't know what the hell is going on.They just got zapped.Shout out to endurance.That was our winning strategy for, like, at least three games.We just, we just endured.And we can't even, we can't even say that,
55:52It's like, it'd be different if it was Spain.It's like, okay, all these people are out of season.Like, no, this is Brazil.This is NWSL.They in there right there with us.They should have been fine.But yeah, shout out to Enduring.Shout out to pain caves.
56:08Whatever, whatever juju or snake oil that Emma was selling, it worked, baby.It worked.It may long continue, women's national team, as a program,as a people.We're back up.We are back up.It's so crazy with like theWorld Cup and the Olympics being back to back like this.
56:35It's like, man, Spain didn't even get to breathe.No.We're real chance, baby.Took it right back from them.So that's it.Like we said, we'll be back next week.Talking about how we move forward.what players should we be looking at to reinforce this roster.
56:57Got a U-20 World Cup coming up.Got a U-17 World Cup coming up.Got a whole bunch of women's national team.Got at least five women's national team friendlies coming up in these next four months.So a ton of women's soccer coming your way.And once again, we reign supreme.Go Duranga next.USA, baby.
57:18number onecan't waitto talk more about ityou 20 World Cup coming upwe have so much to look forward tothanks for talking with me today Vincethank you Taraand no thank you to Adam Bells
57:33who tried to muzzle mebut anywaythanks for listeningwe'll see you
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