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It's been a while since we've had this gentleman on.
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It's always great to have him on because we can
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talk about things other than just U.S. and Canada soccer.
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We get to talk about the Atlanta Braves and things
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like that. That was going to be my first question anyway. KJ,
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how are you, my friend?
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Good morning, John. Great to be with you. Apologize it's
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been too long.
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Well, but I mean, you are one of the busiest
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men in show business. I mean, I asked you this
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and I said it in jest when we were going
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back and forth. please tell me you're getting miles and
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points out of all this stuff.
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Yeah. Well, there's a little benefit to the fact that
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you're away from home too much from your family.
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So yeah, we'll take a few of those, those things. Yeah.
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You just accumulate them though. Like, it's not like I'm
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obsessed over them or anything, you know.
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You sit there, you look down after four months and
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you're like, man, I'm like platinum all of a sudden.
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It's like, I did use a few to send my
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wife and daughter went to New York city to watch
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Harry style. So I used the couple, I used them
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for the, Hotels for that.
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So that was good.
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Smart man. Yes.
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Got to take care of him.
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When the boss is happy, that's what navigates it. When
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you've gone through this particular international window with the Canadian
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men's national team. You're heading into this matchup with the
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United States. What have been some of the things that
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have impressed you the most about this window? And are
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there still things that concern you about the national team
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heading into the tail end of this window that just
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happens to be this match with the U.S.
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Yeah, great questions as ever, May.
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I mean, I think there's a few impressive things. I mean,
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they've used the last two games as a way of playing, albeit,
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I think, limited opposition within the common ball circuit. Chile
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and Peru would admit that they're not at the level
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that they once were. They've used those windows as opportunities
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to play in those games. It can often come with
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high emotions and tensions, and they've dealt with them pretty well.
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Chile got two men sent off in their game. Peru
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probably should have had to get a player sent off
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in Montreal for the Tug of Antigua. They've come through
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that where they've kept their cool. I think the building
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of the emotional intelligence of this group is important because
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You know, Jesse Marsh has emotional intelligence, but occasionally has
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the ability to lose it.
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And to put a full circle on that, the last
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time they played the U.S., got sent off.
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So I think that that is a really important skill
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collectively in this team where they need to have that.
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They've also incorporated a lot of players. They've played 25
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different players in two games. They've given five players debuts.
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So that's been good. A player for me that's been
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very impressive that is really important is Nathan Saliba in midfield,
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who is now at Villarreal in Spain. and is looking
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like the potential to be, can he be a top
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midfielder in.
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CONCACAF, you know, and troll a game, which leads to
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the next question.
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When you talk about concerns, there's still an element for
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Canada in breaking.
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They have a lot of possession.
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So you know what Jesse Marsh ball is all about.
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Jesse is very much on the front foot press, win
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the ball back, be dynamic, be aggressive, which works great
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when the team is out of possession. But when you're
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playing teams that are in possession, when you're in possession
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against teams that sit back with a low block, which
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we expect probably coming up now with Guatemala in the
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Nations League and with World Cup qualifying in the future,
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where you play those quote-unquote inferior teams that you're supposed
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to beat.
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How do you break them down? And I think that's
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the next frontier for Jesse and his team.
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And in the last match against Peru, Liam Miller flopped
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from one side to the other in the midfield, playing
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in an unfamiliar place. What was that like to see?
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Yeah, so the wingers in Jesse's team, for those who
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don't see him often, you almost think of it as
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a bit of an old-fashioned 4-4-2.
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And so he spreads the field really wide.
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So when you've got players in the strength of the
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wide areas like Canada has, people know Jacob Schaffelberg on
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the left-hand side from MLS. Alphonso Davies, when fit, can
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play on the left-hand side. So can Liam Miller, who
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played a hole this year, scored a goal in the
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Premier League and has played now at Birmingham and doing
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really well there. But you've also got Marcelo Flores, who
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just did his ACL before the World Cup. You've got
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Tejan Buchanan. You've got a lot of players who can
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play in the wide areas. But what Jesse likes is
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he likes lefties on the left side and righties on
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the right side a lot. So Liam Miller is a
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left-sided player. He's a right-footed player. He plays at the
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club level all the time on the left side, but
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played on the right side on the weekend and got
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two assists, two goal contributions, and was very good. So
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speaking to Liam after the game, you can see it's
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a little bit more of a different position, but it's
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still– very similar in terms of the.
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Principles of the way this team wants to play.
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She's being very, very aggressive, being very vertical, getting the
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ball out wide, having those runners, you know, from midfield
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or the forwards run it inside to take away the
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opposition's fallback, give them more space out wide to get
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balls in. And it led to two goals from Schaffelberg.
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So it isn't a complicated team to work out. It's
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just very efficient in certain areas.
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Christian Jack, one, soccer. master of his domain and he's
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having his hydration break we believe in hydration breaks here
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on the show and uh he is in the twin
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cities he and matthew shiniti i do do people call
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you matthew by mistake just because they see the two
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of you together so much they call him kj and
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call you matthew at any time.
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Not that moment no i used to do a show
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for years i used to do a show with james
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shaman as well in the score many years ago as
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you know score cousin that you are for us and
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so That often more happened, and I would get James sometimes.
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But no, I think Matthew has a different look to me,
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so I think that kind of makes up for it.
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Wow, you getting called Sharms and him getting called KJ. Yeah,
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I could definitely see that. I see how that's wired.
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Give Sharman the credit. I think he was the one
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who coined KJ. Well, he was the one who coined KJ.
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No, I give Sharms no credit for calling him KJ.
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I give him none whatsoever. When you look at, and
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I know that we can get into the geopolitical stuff,
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but yeah, it's always going to be out there as
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long as Jesse's in charge and all this kind of stuff.
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And you have two countries that are going back and
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forth in Ottawa and DC and all that kind of stuff.
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The rivalry, and I thought that this was an interesting
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point that you brought up yesterday, is that We may
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be seeing more of these matches just because of how
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things are going to be organized and what these two
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teams are going to be chasing down the line. I
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thought that was an interesting point that you made yesterday.
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I mean, look, we've come off a World Cup where
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you can organize different games within a friendly circuit.
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You know, let's call it friendly. I don't like that.
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You play for your country.
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It's an international game. It's nothing friendly about it. But
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the teams and the federations have worked together. They've had
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to work together here. So they both play Chile. They
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both play Peru within this window and they're playing each other.
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So there's already a symmetry off the field between the
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organizations that are helping each other.
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Out a little bit.
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So yeah, we know when the ball is kicked, there's
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a real rivalry on the field and very few things
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get Canadians riled up more.
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Than the US right now. Let's be honest about what's
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going on there. So they'll be tuning in for this.
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And this is, as Jesse alluded to in his press conference,
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this is really a rivalry that has been reignited through hockey.
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through the four nations right with the Kachuk brothers and
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different things right that was wonderful to watch and then
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you know I've been in Canada over 20 years John
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as you know but like being from the UK there's
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been a shift in Canadian sports landscape over the last
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decade or so where there's been a little bit more
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emphasis on what's called you know national team sport in
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Canada it's very much club driven it's very much organization
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franchise driven and And then everyone gets excited to watch
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the Olympics or the World Cup every four years and
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then just goes back to not really getting behind Canadian.
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Sports for very often because there's just not a lot
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of it.
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While in England, you could go watch England play rugby,
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you can watch them play cricket, you can watch them
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play volleyball, you can watch them play softball, you can
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watch them play football. There's so many different areas that
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you can get behind your country's pride through sport.
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The Canadians are still learning from that.
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But as you alluded to, what I said yesterday is
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that these two teams are going to need each other
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now for competitive matches because... They're likely going to play
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each other again next year, whether it be for a
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Gold Cup or for Nations League or potentially both. And
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so Jesse said yesterday to me that it's really the U.S.
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are a measuring stick for us for progress. You know,
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they really are. They beat the U.S.
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The last two times they played them. And that's really
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impressive to do on U.S. soil. They've only ever won.
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Four since 1885 and they've won two in the last
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two times. So it just goes to show you how
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tough it is. But they are, I think, teams where
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we're going to look at each other going, we can't
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arrange these friendlies against too many teams outside of the
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market right now in different regions. So we're going to
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have to figure out if we're going to play competitive football.
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We're going to have to test each other against each other.
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And we played the soundbite in hour number one that
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Jesse had from yesterday where he was talking about the
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development of the younger player there in Canada and getting
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to that point. And with this roster that Mauricio Pochettino
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has put together, practically half of them are younger players.
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You have older, more experienced players, older being relative, considering
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that my driver's license just had me celebrating a 704th birthday.
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You know, it's the older, more experienced players and the
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younger players. You're getting those 17, 18, 19-year-old players that
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are sweeping in as a part of the U.S. roster.
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Where is that state of development right now with players
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Canada and a national team perspective? Where is it by comparison?
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Nowhere near by comparison. However, what's the old saying? Comparison
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sometimes is the thief of joy. It's not worth comparing
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to the US right now.
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It's just not.
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What they should be comparing to in Canada is where
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are they compared to where they were five years ago,
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10 years ago when it comes to developing the players.
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Right?
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So I would say that 10 years ago, it was
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almost non-existent in terms of what that pathway was. Now,
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eight seasons into a Canadian Premier League, a professional domestic
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league that is a Premier League that is not a
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reserve league that is playing at a high level where
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those teams are knocking out and beating MLS teams in
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Canadian championships. which is going to represent teams in the
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CONCACAF Champions Cup, which I've been fortunate enough to cover,
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and it's a very good level of football. So that
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is producing young players because they have a rule where
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you have to play 2,000 minutes for under-21 Canadians per season,
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or you don't qualify for the playoffs if you don't
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make that rule. So there are certain players that will
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come out of that system and be Canadian internationals, and
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they've already kind of started to do that. But there's
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also an emphasis, which I tried to get Jesse to
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talk about yesterday, about the MLS clubs being better. He
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kind of said a little bit about this in the past.
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He uses Moise Bombito as an example. He thinks Moise
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Bombito has the potential to be one of the best
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central defenders in the world, but he's been injured a lot.
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And he was discovered really at 23 through the U.S.
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collegiate system and was failed by Canadian football, to be
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quite frank. And he says the next Moise Bombito cannot
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be discovered at 23. He needs to be discovered at 17.
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And he makes the point. Richard Chukwu just played left
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back for Canada on the weekend. He's an 18-year-old player,
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and he played well. And he's had two appearances for
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Canada in this window, and he's never played one game for.
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Toronto FC in his career.
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So he's now got more international caps, and he has
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first-team appearances for his MLS team. So it's one of those, right,
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where you've got the push and the pull. At the
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level of club teams, their belief is that we need
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to win. And then you've got the national team going,
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we want you to develop players. And how do you
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find the mix? And the Whitecaps have done a great
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job of that. And I think a lot of MLS
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teams in the U.S. do a really good job of that,
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which is why the U.S. team right now is benefiting
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from a lot of the youth.
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Okay, and so you've opened up a window for a
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CPL question that I will hold for later here because
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we're not to the CPL part of the program yet.
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What kind of a lineup are you anticipating tonight if
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we take, like we always do, title over wide, you're
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at Allianz, you get your graphic, fans are yelling, screaming, chanting,
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all that kind of stuff. The graphic that you had
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last time out, starting XI, starting XI, this go-round, tonight
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at Allianz. How different will Peru's starting XI be to
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this group?
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I think very similar. I think that the Canadians are
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here to win. They've only played two games in this window.
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The U.S. already played three.
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It was interesting listening to Pochettino in his press conference
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here yesterday where he went through a laundry list of
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reasons why they're tired. it was almost like you could
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look at it as a level of excuses in case
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they lost. I don't think that was the purpose, by
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the way. I think his purpose, Pochettino is, and I'll
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get to your question in a second. I think the
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purpose behind Pochettino saying that is that he doesn't like
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the fact that they're playing four games in this window.
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And I think he'd rather play three the way that
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Canada did. But finances and other things come into that.
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You're not going to say no to playing Mexico into
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a full house in Phoenix, right? So, uh, you do
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what you can for the U S soccer federation to
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get that into the window. And you've got the Chile,
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Peru and Canada games or age. So I think the
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fact that Canada will only play two in the U
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S have played three means that Canada have got a
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great chance here to be on the front foot, to
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continue that dominance.
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We know what Jesse Marsh thinks and how he likes
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to beat the U S. So I think they'll play the.
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Strongest 11 available. Now, Tejan Buchanan and Kyle Laron have
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left camp. They're both got injuries, small things, but they've
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gone back. Um, Other than that, I think it will
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be a very strong team. You know, probably the back
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four will be the same with Richie Larea coming in
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for Chukwu because Larea was just given a little bit
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of a rest.
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He will play today. There's no reason for him to
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not to. Maybe a change in goal.
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Dane Sinclair, the former Minnesota United player, will probably come
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back after Owen Goodman was given his goalkeeper number one.
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Start, the first start of his career. So probably, you know,
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Dane St.
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Clair, Nico Seguer, Luke DiFugio, Ralph Prizo, and Richie LeRae
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at the back of Stacchio and Saliba, no reason to
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change them in midfield.
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They've been excellent. Miller and Schaffelberg, likewise, and Jonathan David.
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And then the biggest question mark is up front, right?
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So no, Kyle Lahren, Daniel Jebberson got the start, missed
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a big chance, but Bournemouth striker did well. And does
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he go with Tani Oluwosie, who has been his favorite
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for a while, started three World Cup games, former Minnesota
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United player as well.
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Or does he go back to Jefferson?
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I think other than that, that's probably the 11, and
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it's probably going to be the strongest one they can
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put out.
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Yeah, when they trotted out Dane St. Clair and Tani Oluwase,
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I was thinking that, yeah, you wouldn't trot out the
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old home guys for your presser at the MD-1, you know,
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unless they were going to be fairly active into this
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whole thing. From the conversations that you've been having with
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the players themselves leading into this matchup, What are they
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the most confident about going up against the United States
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and what still concerns them going into this matchup?
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Well, they're confident because they've beaten them the last few times.
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But as Dane said yesterday, we need to beat them
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when it matters to. And I think what he thinks
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about that is that they still think of the 2023 final,
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the Nations League final, which went badly wrong for them.
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And I think that when you look at that and
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you go, That's not a game. Okay, they beat them
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the last two times. And for Canadians, there's a lot
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to like about that. In 24, one of Jesse's first
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games out of Copa America, they went to Kansas City
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and they destroyed the US.
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They won 2-1, but they were way better than them.
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And then they beat them in the Nations League third game,
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the game in 25 when we were there in LA
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when Alfonso.
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Got hurt, right?
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It was a third, fourth playoff game. So it was like, okay,
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how important is the game? So I think what they
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look at is that they want to keep that momentum going.
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I don't think they fear the U.S., and I think
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that is a big, significant step forward for this program.
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We've covered this team a long time, as you know.
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The inevitability was always that the U.S.
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Would beat Canada. It was always like, oh, could they
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beat them?
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Could they beat them? Now they believe they will beat them,
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whether they will or not is another angle. But I
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think in the mind, they feel that they can do that.
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But they also know that the U.S. is an interesting dynamic.
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You talked to me about the lineup for Canada. They've
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chopped and changed, and they may do something similar to
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what they did with the Chile game, where they may
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bring on all the big guns in the second half.
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Both teams have arranged the fact they're allowed to make
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11 changes in this game. I don't think Canada will,
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because I think the last two games where they've made
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those amount of changes, it has taken a little bit
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of fire out the game.
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But I think they're in it to win it. I
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hope that answers your question.
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No, it does. Yeah, absolutely. No, right there. All right,
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so here's my CPL question. You mentioned the number of
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minimum minutes that you've got to have attached to CPL franchises.
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Does that hamstring Supra more considering their approach to assembly?
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And this is just a curiosity question. This is what
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just popped up in my head while we were talking.
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Does that hamstring Supra more because they are straight up Quebecois,
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nobody else, no other province or anything like that? Does
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that hamstring more or does that help them?
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I think it helps them because they knew what they
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were coming in. For your audience who's not sure, Super
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is the expansion team based out of Laval in Quebec
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near Montreal. And they have gone all in for the
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Quebec team, you know, 100% connections to Quebec as the players.
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But they had the connection with CS Saint Laurent, which
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is in League One, which is the lower leagues of Canada.
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So they had that connection where they were able to
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develop players through that. And they just changed their manager.
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They got to the semifinals of the championship, but then
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got smashed 6-0 in Calgary. changed their manager and brought
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in Forge. The Forge's assistant coach, Kip, who is a
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very smart, intelligent man. So I hope that they can
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find some stability going forward. But I do think it
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helps them because of that connection with St.
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Laurent and their.
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Ability to produce players. And Quebec produces players, Matt. They
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know how to produce players. So they love their sport
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and it's been exciting to be around them.
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Sidebar, we're going to have Chris Keem, the manager of
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League Ops for the Premier Soccer League. He's going to
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be on with us on Thursday morning.
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Great.
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So we're going to have a big breaking stuff down
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with chris chris is my last question but my last
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question for you has nothing to do with soccer and
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you can continue your hydration breaks because like i said
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we believe in those here you're atlanta brave sir they
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they're causing they're causing issues with the la dodgers and
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uh when you've got a guy who comes in and
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uh and pitches the way that we've seen You know,
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7-11 in a movie theater, and he gets a $ 2, 000 contract,
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and then he gives three and a third innings in
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a clutch game. You're getting that production in October from
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unknown places, but that's what the Braves are for, man.
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That's what it's for. That's what baseball's about, no?
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Like, you think about you've got to have unlikely heroes
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in the postseason, right?
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And every credit for Ray King to be able to
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do that. It's so fun.
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I mean, it's nothing like postseason baseball, right? It's so
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great to watch. I mean, I love baseball.
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You know me, and I love my Braves.
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I just feel like, you know, I was talking to
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my son about this, who is a massive press fan
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as well. And he's, you know, the Dodgers are the
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champions for a reason, right? They're going to be so
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difficult to slay these Kings, but I feel this chinks
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in their armor.
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I do.
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I do.
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And then maybe this is just my heart over my
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head and that's okay. I'll take that. But there's just something,
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a Tony's not fit, right? He's not, he's not the
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same guy at the moment.
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Freddie's luke freddie's brilliant we love freddie but he's lost
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his power a little bit i know we had a
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home run of the day mookie's not quite mookie anymore
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tuck has been okay they've got tiago hernandez who we
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knew well in toronto has suddenly gone on a bit
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of a run uh so like this chinks in the
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armor there a little bit where i'm like i don't
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know for sure whether they're going to win it they
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may go on and do it again but if there's
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a time where a time where we can actually beat
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them this could be the time right.
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So and that's with like two starting pitchers.
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So it's crazy to think how it's going to go.
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And the way the Brewers are playing right now and
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the way they came back against Miller was awesome. So
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who knows what's going to be in store for any
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of us next. But it's great. In a day where
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I'm in the different in Minneapolis, I would love to
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Atlanta one day to experience this.
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The last time they won the World Series, I wasn't
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allowed to go because the border was closed.
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Oh, man. That's right.
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It was so tough for us. I wasn't even able
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to go there.
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So one of my life dreams is to watch the
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Atlanta Braves in a World Series, and maybe one day
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I can figure out how to do that.
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Yeah, we'll figure out how to do that. As a
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OneSoccer subscriber, sir, south of the border, what are your
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broadcast plans? What can I look forward to heading into
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this matchup tonight? Broadcast plans on OneSoccer, sir.
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Yeah, we got a lot.
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We got one soccer and we're also with our friends
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on TSN as well. So they're doing it with us
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as well in Canada. So we have a pregame show
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for an hour tonight starting at 7 o'clock here. It's
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an 8 o'clock Eastern kickoff. So yeah, it's going to
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be great. We got a full hour pregame show where
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we'll be joined by Jesse Marsh. And then we've also
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got to talk about lots of different storylines. We'll break
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down on Nathan Saliba, the aforementioned video that I talked about.
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And then we got the full game. And then, you know,
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if you follow One Soccer south of the border, you
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know we're the home for Canadian soccer. No doubt about it.
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We appreciate you, Nelly, for doing that. And, you know,
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we got the women's games coming up. I fly back
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to Montreal tomorrow. We got the Canada versus Denmark in
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Montreal on Friday night, the women's game. And then full
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on back to club football with the home of Bayern
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Munich games. We got all the Bayern games in Canada.
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as well as Canadian Championship, as well as CPL playoffs
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coming up. We've got a big Canadian Championship final coming
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up in a couple of weeks, Montreal versus Forge, which
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is MLS versus CPL, which will be really exciting for
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a one-game thriller for the Canadian Championship after the four-time
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winners in a row.
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The Whitecaps were shocked in the semifinals.
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So, yeah, lots of football coming up and taking us
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into the November window where we found out last night
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Did you see that goal by Guatemala, by the way,
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last night?
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Yeah, that was our kicker for the morning. Yeah, Matt Evans,
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the pride of Simi Valley, California, representing Guatemala.
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Right, 96-minute winner.
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We're all thinking we're going somewhere else, and then now
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Canada gets Guatemala, which is the team that knocks us.
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Out in the Gold Cup in the quarterfinals.
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So there's a little bit of a retribution potential there,
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but it won't be easy for sure.
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So yeah, lots of busy months ahead, my friend.
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All right, so then when should we schedule you next?
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Other than the fact that you have an open-door policy
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here and can jump in whenever, and I don't care when,
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when do we schedule you next?
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We'll get on. Whenever you want me on, I'll make
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sure that I get on. I will come back on
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for sure.
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Get you from a hotel room in Guatemala City or something.
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My calendar is pretty full all the way through to
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the end of November when I think I'm doing the
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Women's World Cup qualifiers in Mansfield, Texas, I think.
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There you go. Yeah.
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So, yeah, I'll be there for that too. So, but no,
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we'll be, you know, me, I love jumping on with you.
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So let's just coordinate it again in.
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A few weeks.
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You got it, my friend. Save your pipes. And if
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you need me to send some traditional medicinal throat coat
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tea your way, just let me know. Have a fantastic broadcast.
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Love you very much. And it's great to see you,
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my friend. Don't be afraid.
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Love you too, man. You're doing an amazing work. Continue it.
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I love passion.
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You can't do what you do without passion. So God
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bless you. Keep up the great work and I'll see
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you soon.
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You got it. There he goes. Christian Jack. He's going
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to go and he's going to hydrate. Yeah. Maybe he'll
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go back to bed.
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It's been a while since we've had this gentleman on.
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It's always great to have him on because we can
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talk about things other than just U.S. and Canada soccer.
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We get to talk about the Atlanta Braves and things
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like that. That was going to be my first question anyway. KJ,
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how are you, my friend?
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Good morning, John. Great to be with you. Apologize it's
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been too long.
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Well, but I mean, you are one of the busiest
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men in show business. I mean, I asked you this
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and I said it in jest when we were going
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back and forth. please tell me you're getting miles and
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points out of all this stuff.
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Yeah. Well, there's a little benefit to the fact that
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you're away from home too much from your family.
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So yeah, we'll take a few of those, those things. Yeah.
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You just accumulate them though. Like, it's not like I'm
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obsessed over them or anything, you know.
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You sit there, you look down after four months and
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you're like, man, I'm like platinum all of a sudden.
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It's like, I did use a few to send my
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wife and daughter went to New York city to watch
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Harry style. So I used the couple, I used them
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for the, Hotels for that.
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So that was good.
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Smart man. Yes.
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Got to take care of him.
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When the boss is happy, that's what navigates it. When
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you've gone through this particular international window with the Canadian
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men's national team. You're heading into this matchup with the
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United States. What have been some of the things that
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have impressed you the most about this window? And are
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there still things that concern you about the national team
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heading into the tail end of this window that just
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happens to be this match with the U.S.
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Yeah, great questions as ever, May.
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I mean, I think there's a few impressive things. I mean,
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they've used the last two games as a way of playing, albeit,
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I think, limited opposition within the common ball circuit. Chile
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and Peru would admit that they're not at the level
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that they once were. They've used those windows as opportunities
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to play in those games. It can often come with
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high emotions and tensions, and they've dealt with them pretty well.
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Chile got two men sent off in their game. Peru
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probably should have had to get a player sent off
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in Montreal for the Tug of Antigua. They've come through
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that where they've kept their cool. I think the building
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of the emotional intelligence of this group is important because
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You know, Jesse Marsh has emotional intelligence, but occasionally has
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the ability to lose it.
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And to put a full circle on that, the last
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time they played the U.S., got sent off.
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So I think that that is a really important skill
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collectively in this team where they need to have that.
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They've also incorporated a lot of players. They've played 25
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different players in two games. They've given five players debuts.
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So that's been good. A player for me that's been
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very impressive that is really important is Nathan Saliba in midfield,
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who is now at Villarreal in Spain. and is looking
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like the potential to be, can he be a top
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midfielder in.
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CONCACAF, you know, and troll a game, which leads to
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the next question.
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When you talk about concerns, there's still an element for
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Canada in breaking.
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They have a lot of possession.
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So you know what Jesse Marsh ball is all about.
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Jesse is very much on the front foot press, win
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the ball back, be dynamic, be aggressive, which works great
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when the team is out of possession. But when you're
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playing teams that are in possession, when you're in possession
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against teams that sit back with a low block, which
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we expect probably coming up now with Guatemala in the
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Nations League and with World Cup qualifying in the future,
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where you play those quote-unquote inferior teams that you're supposed
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to beat.
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How do you break them down? And I think that's
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the next frontier for Jesse and his team.
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from one side to the other in the midfield, playing
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in an unfamiliar place. What was that like to see?
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don't see him often, you almost think of it as
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a bit of an old-fashioned 4-4-2.
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And so he spreads the field really wide.
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wide areas like Canada has, people know Jacob Schaffelberg on
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the left-hand side from MLS. Alphonso Davies, when fit, can
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play on the left-hand side. So can Liam Miller, who
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played a hole this year, scored a goal in the
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Premier League and has played now at Birmingham and doing
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really well there. But you've also got Marcelo Flores, who
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just did his ACL before the World Cup. You've got
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Tejan Buchanan. You've got a lot of players who can
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play in the wide areas. But what Jesse likes is
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he likes lefties on the left side and righties on
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the right side a lot. So Liam Miller is a
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left-sided player. He's a right-footed player. He plays at the
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club level all the time on the left side, but
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played on the right side on the weekend and got
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two assists, two goal contributions, and was very good. So
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speaking to Liam after the game, you can see it's
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a little bit more of a different position, but it's
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still– very similar in terms of the.
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Principles of the way this team wants to play.
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She's being very, very aggressive, being very vertical, getting the
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ball out wide, having those runners, you know, from midfield
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or the forwards run it inside to take away the
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opposition's fallback, give them more space out wide to get
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balls in. And it led to two goals from Schaffelberg.
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So it isn't a complicated team to work out. It's
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just very efficient in certain areas.
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Christian Jack, one, soccer. master of his domain and he's
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having his hydration break we believe in hydration breaks here
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on the show and uh he is in the twin
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cities he and matthew shiniti i do do people call
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you matthew by mistake just because they see the two
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of you together so much they call him kj and
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call you matthew at any time.
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Not that moment no i used to do a show
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for years i used to do a show with james
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shaman as well in the score many years ago as
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you know score cousin that you are for us and
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so That often more happened, and I would get James sometimes.
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But no, I think Matthew has a different look to me,
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so I think that kind of makes up for it.
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Wow, you getting called Sharms and him getting called KJ. Yeah,
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I could definitely see that. I see how that's wired.
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Give Sharman the credit. I think he was the one
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who coined KJ. Well, he was the one who coined KJ.
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No, I give Sharms no credit for calling him KJ.
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I give him none whatsoever. When you look at, and
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I know that we can get into the geopolitical stuff,
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but yeah, it's always going to be out there as
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long as Jesse's in charge and all this kind of stuff.
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And you have two countries that are going back and
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forth in Ottawa and DC and all that kind of stuff.
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The rivalry, and I thought that this was an interesting
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point that you brought up yesterday, is that We may
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be seeing more of these matches just because of how
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things are going to be organized and what these two
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teams are going to be chasing down the line. I
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thought that was an interesting point that you made yesterday.
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I mean, look, we've come off a World Cup where
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you can organize different games within a friendly circuit.
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You know, let's call it friendly. I don't like that.
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You play for your country.
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It's an international game. It's nothing friendly about it. But
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the teams and the federations have worked together. They've had
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to work together here. So they both play Chile. They
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both play Peru within this window and they're playing each other.
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So there's already a symmetry off the field between the
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organizations that are helping each other.
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Out a little bit.
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So yeah, we know when the ball is kicked, there's
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a real rivalry on the field and very few things
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get Canadians riled up more.
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Than the US right now. Let's be honest about what's
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going on there. So they'll be tuning in for this.
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And this is, as Jesse alluded to in his press conference,
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this is really a rivalry that has been reignited through hockey.
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through the four nations right with the Kachuk brothers and
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different things right that was wonderful to watch and then
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you know I've been in Canada over 20 years John
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as you know but like being from the UK there's
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been a shift in Canadian sports landscape over the last
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decade or so where there's been a little bit more
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emphasis on what's called you know national team sport in
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Canada it's very much club driven it's very much organization
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franchise driven and And then everyone gets excited to watch
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the Olympics or the World Cup every four years and
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then just goes back to not really getting behind Canadian.
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Sports for very often because there's just not a lot
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of it.
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While in England, you could go watch England play rugby,
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you can watch them play cricket, you can watch them
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play volleyball, you can watch them play softball, you can
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watch them play football. There's so many different areas that
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you can get behind your country's pride through sport.
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The Canadians are still learning from that.
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But as you alluded to, what I said yesterday is
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that these two teams are going to need each other
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now for competitive matches because... They're likely going to play
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each other again next year, whether it be for a
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Gold Cup or for Nations League or potentially both. And
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so Jesse said yesterday to me that it's really the U.S.
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are a measuring stick for us for progress. You know,
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they really are. They beat the U.S.
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The last two times they played them. And that's really
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impressive to do on U.S. soil. They've only ever won.
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Four since 1885 and they've won two in the last
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two times. So it just goes to show you how
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tough it is. But they are, I think, teams where
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we're going to look at each other going, we can't
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arrange these friendlies against too many teams outside of the
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market right now in different regions. So we're going to
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have to figure out if we're going to play competitive football.
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We're going to have to test each other against each other.
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And we played the soundbite in hour number one that
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Jesse had from yesterday where he was talking about the
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development of the younger player there in Canada and getting
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to that point. And with this roster that Mauricio Pochettino
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has put together, practically half of them are younger players.
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You have older, more experienced players, older being relative, considering
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that my driver's license just had me celebrating a 704th birthday.
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younger players. You're getting those 17, 18, 19-year-old players that
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are sweeping in as a part of the U.S. roster.
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Where is that state of development right now with players
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Canada and a national team perspective? Where is it by comparison?
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Nowhere near by comparison. However, what's the old saying? Comparison
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sometimes is the thief of joy. It's not worth comparing
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to the US right now.
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It's just not.
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What they should be comparing to in Canada is where
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are they compared to where they were five years ago,
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10 years ago when it comes to developing the players.
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So I would say that 10 years ago, it was
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almost non-existent in terms of what that pathway was. Now,
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eight seasons into a Canadian Premier League, a professional domestic
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league that is a Premier League that is not a
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reserve league that is playing at a high level where
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those teams are knocking out and beating MLS teams in
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Canadian championships. which is going to represent teams in the
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CONCACAF Champions Cup, which I've been fortunate enough to cover,
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and it's a very good level of football. So that
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is producing young players because they have a rule where
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you have to play 2,000 minutes for under-21 Canadians per season,
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or you don't qualify for the playoffs if you don't
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make that rule. So there are certain players that will
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come out of that system and be Canadian internationals, and
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they've already kind of started to do that. But there's
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also an emphasis, which I tried to get Jesse to
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talk about yesterday, about the MLS clubs being better. He
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kind of said a little bit about this in the past.
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He uses Moise Bombito as an example. He thinks Moise
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Bombito has the potential to be one of the best
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central defenders in the world, but he's been injured a lot.
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And he was discovered really at 23 through the U.S.
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collegiate system and was failed by Canadian football, to be
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quite frank. And he says the next Moise Bombito cannot
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be discovered at 23. He needs to be discovered at 17.
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And he makes the point. Richard Chukwu just played left
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back for Canada on the weekend. He's an 18-year-old player,
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and he played well. And he's had two appearances for
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Canada in this window, and he's never played one game for.
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Toronto FC in his career.
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So he's now got more international caps, and he has
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first-team appearances for his MLS team. So it's one of those, right,
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where you've got the push and the pull. At the
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level of club teams, their belief is that we need
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to win. And then you've got the national team going,
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we want you to develop players. And how do you
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find the mix? And the Whitecaps have done a great
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job of that. And I think a lot of MLS
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teams in the U.S. do a really good job of that,
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which is why the U.S. team right now is benefiting
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from a lot of the youth.
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Okay, and so you've opened up a window for a
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CPL question that I will hold for later here because
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we're not to the CPL part of the program yet.
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What kind of a lineup are you anticipating tonight if
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we take, like we always do, title over wide, you're
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at Allianz, you get your graphic, fans are yelling, screaming, chanting,
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all that kind of stuff. The graphic that you had
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last time out, starting XI, starting XI, this go-round, tonight
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at Allianz. How different will Peru's starting XI be to
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this group?
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I think very similar. I think that the Canadians are
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here to win. They've only played two games in this window.
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The U.S. already played three.
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It was interesting listening to Pochettino in his press conference
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here yesterday where he went through a laundry list of
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reasons why they're tired. it was almost like you could
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look at it as a level of excuses in case
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they lost. I don't think that was the purpose, by
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the way. I think his purpose, Pochettino is, and I'll
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get to your question in a second. I think the
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purpose behind Pochettino saying that is that he doesn't like
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the fact that they're playing four games in this window.
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And I think he'd rather play three the way that
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Canada did. But finances and other things come into that.
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You're not going to say no to playing Mexico into
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a full house in Phoenix, right? So, uh, you do
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what you can for the U S soccer federation to
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get that into the window. And you've got the Chile,
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Peru and Canada games or age. So I think the
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fact that Canada will only play two in the U
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S have played three means that Canada have got a
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great chance here to be on the front foot, to
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continue that dominance.
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We know what Jesse Marsh thinks and how he likes
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to beat the U S. So I think they'll play the.
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Strongest 11 available. Now, Tejan Buchanan and Kyle Laron have
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left camp. They're both got injuries, small things, but they've
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gone back. Um, Other than that, I think it will
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be a very strong team. You know, probably the back
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four will be the same with Richie Larea coming in
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for Chukwu because Larea was just given a little bit
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of a rest.
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He will play today. There's no reason for him to
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not to. Maybe a change in goal.
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Dane Sinclair, the former Minnesota United player, will probably come
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back after Owen Goodman was given his goalkeeper number one.
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Start, the first start of his career. So probably, you know,
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Dane St.
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Clair, Nico Seguer, Luke DiFugio, Ralph Prizo, and Richie LeRae
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at the back of Stacchio and Saliba, no reason to
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change them in midfield.
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They've been excellent. Miller and Schaffelberg, likewise, and Jonathan David.
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And then the biggest question mark is up front, right?
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So no, Kyle Lahren, Daniel Jebberson got the start, missed
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a big chance, but Bournemouth striker did well. And does
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he go with Tani Oluwosie, who has been his favorite
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for a while, started three World Cup games, former Minnesota
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United player as well.
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Or does he go back to Jefferson?
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I think other than that, that's probably the 11, and
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it's probably going to be the strongest one they can
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put out.
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Yeah, when they trotted out Dane St. Clair and Tani Oluwase,
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I was thinking that, yeah, you wouldn't trot out the
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old home guys for your presser at the MD-1, you know,
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unless they were going to be fairly active into this
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whole thing. From the conversations that you've been having with
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the players themselves leading into this matchup, What are they
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the most confident about going up against the United States
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and what still concerns them going into this matchup?
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Well, they're confident because they've beaten them the last few times.
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But as Dane said yesterday, we need to beat them
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when it matters to. And I think what he thinks
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about that is that they still think of the 2023 final,
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the Nations League final, which went badly wrong for them.
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And I think that when you look at that and
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you go, That's not a game. Okay, they beat them
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the last two times. And for Canadians, there's a lot
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to like about that. In 24, one of Jesse's first
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games out of Copa America, they went to Kansas City
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and they destroyed the US.
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They won 2-1, but they were way better than them.
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And then they beat them in the Nations League third game,
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the game in 25 when we were there in LA
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when Alfonso.
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Got hurt, right?
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It was a third, fourth playoff game. So it was like, okay,
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how important is the game? So I think what they
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look at is that they want to keep that momentum going.
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I don't think they fear the U.S., and I think
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that is a big, significant step forward for this program.
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We've covered this team a long time, as you know.
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The inevitability was always that the U.S.
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Would beat Canada. It was always like, oh, could they
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beat them?
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Could they beat them? Now they believe they will beat them,
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whether they will or not is another angle. But I
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think in the mind, they feel that they can do that.
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But they also know that the U.S. is an interesting dynamic.
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You talked to me about the lineup for Canada. They've
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chopped and changed, and they may do something similar to
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what they did with the Chile game, where they may
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bring on all the big guns in the second half.
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Both teams have arranged the fact they're allowed to make
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11 changes in this game. I don't think Canada will,
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because I think the last two games where they've made
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those amount of changes, it has taken a little bit
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of fire out the game.
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But I think they're in it to win it. I
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hope that answers your question.
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No, it does. Yeah, absolutely. No, right there. All right,
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so here's my CPL question. You mentioned the number of
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minimum minutes that you've got to have attached to CPL franchises.
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Does that hamstring Supra more considering their approach to assembly?
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And this is just a curiosity question. This is what
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just popped up in my head while we were talking.
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Does that hamstring Supra more because they are straight up Quebecois,
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nobody else, no other province or anything like that? Does
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that hamstring more or does that help them?
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I think it helps them because they knew what they
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were coming in. For your audience who's not sure, Super
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is the expansion team based out of Laval in Quebec
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near Montreal. And they have gone all in for the
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Quebec team, you know, 100% connections to Quebec as the players.
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But they had the connection with CS Saint Laurent, which
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is in League One, which is the lower leagues of Canada.
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So they had that connection where they were able to
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develop players through that. And they just changed their manager.
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They got to the semifinals of the championship, but then
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got smashed 6-0 in Calgary. changed their manager and brought
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in Forge. The Forge's assistant coach, Kip, who is a
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very smart, intelligent man. So I hope that they can
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find some stability going forward. But I do think it
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helps them because of that connection with St.
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Laurent and their.
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Ability to produce players. And Quebec produces players, Matt. They
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know how to produce players. So they love their sport
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and it's been exciting to be around them.
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Sidebar, we're going to have Chris Keem, the manager of
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League Ops for the Premier Soccer League. He's going to
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be on with us on Thursday morning.
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Great.
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So we're going to have a big breaking stuff down
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with chris chris is my last question but my last
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question for you has nothing to do with soccer and
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you can continue your hydration breaks because like i said
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we believe in those here you're atlanta brave sir they
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they're causing they're causing issues with the la dodgers and
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uh when you've got a guy who comes in and
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uh and pitches the way that we've seen You know,
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7-11 in a movie theater, and he gets a $ 2, 000 contract,
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and then he gives three and a third innings in
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a clutch game. You're getting that production in October from
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unknown places, but that's what the Braves are for, man.
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That's what it's for. That's what baseball's about, no?
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Like, you think about you've got to have unlikely heroes
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in the postseason, right?
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And every credit for Ray King to be able to
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do that. It's so fun.
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I mean, it's nothing like postseason baseball, right? It's so
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great to watch. I mean, I love baseball.
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You know me, and I love my Braves.
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I just feel like, you know, I was talking to
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my son about this, who is a massive press fan
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as well. And he's, you know, the Dodgers are the
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champions for a reason, right? They're going to be so
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difficult to slay these Kings, but I feel this chinks
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in their armor.
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I do.
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I do.
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And then maybe this is just my heart over my
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head and that's okay. I'll take that. But there's just something,
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a Tony's not fit, right? He's not, he's not the
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same guy at the moment.
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Freddie's luke freddie's brilliant we love freddie but he's lost
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his power a little bit i know we had a
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home run of the day mookie's not quite mookie anymore
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tuck has been okay they've got tiago hernandez who we
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knew well in toronto has suddenly gone on a bit
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of a run uh so like this chinks in the
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armor there a little bit where i'm like i don't
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know for sure whether they're going to win it they
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may go on and do it again but if there's
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a time where a time where we can actually beat
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them this could be the time right.
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So and that's with like two starting pitchers.
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So it's crazy to think how it's going to go.
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And the way the Brewers are playing right now and
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the way they came back against Miller was awesome. So
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who knows what's going to be in store for any
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of us next. But it's great. In a day where
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I'm in the different in Minneapolis, I would love to
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Atlanta one day to experience this.
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The last time they won the World Series, I wasn't
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allowed to go because the border was closed.
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Oh, man. That's right.
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It was so tough for us. I wasn't even able
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to go there.
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So one of my life dreams is to watch the
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Atlanta Braves in a World Series, and maybe one day
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I can figure out how to do that.
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Yeah, we'll figure out how to do that. As a
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OneSoccer subscriber, sir, south of the border, what are your
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broadcast plans? What can I look forward to heading into
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this matchup tonight? Broadcast plans on OneSoccer, sir.
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Yeah, we got a lot.
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We got one soccer and we're also with our friends
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on TSN as well. So they're doing it with us
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as well in Canada. So we have a pregame show
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for an hour tonight starting at 7 o'clock here. It's
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an 8 o'clock Eastern kickoff. So yeah, it's going to
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be great. We got a full hour pregame show where
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we'll be joined by Jesse Marsh. And then we've also
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got to talk about lots of different storylines. We'll break
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down on Nathan Saliba, the aforementioned video that I talked about.
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And then we got the full game. And then, you know,
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if you follow One Soccer south of the border, you
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know we're the home for Canadian soccer. No doubt about it.
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We appreciate you, Nelly, for doing that. And, you know,
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we got the women's games coming up. I fly back
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to Montreal tomorrow. We got the Canada versus Denmark in
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Montreal on Friday night, the women's game. And then full
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on back to club football with the home of Bayern
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Munich games. We got all the Bayern games in Canada.
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as well as Canadian Championship, as well as CPL playoffs
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coming up. We've got a big Canadian Championship final coming
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up in a couple of weeks, Montreal versus Forge, which
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is MLS versus CPL, which will be really exciting for
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a one-game thriller for the Canadian Championship after the four-time
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winners in a row.
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The Whitecaps were shocked in the semifinals.
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So, yeah, lots of football coming up and taking us
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into the November window where we found out last night
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Did you see that goal by Guatemala, by the way,
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last night?
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Yeah, that was our kicker for the morning. Yeah, Matt Evans,
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the pride of Simi Valley, California, representing Guatemala.
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Right, 96-minute winner.
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We're all thinking we're going somewhere else, and then now
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Canada gets Guatemala, which is the team that knocks us.
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Out in the Gold Cup in the quarterfinals.
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So there's a little bit of a retribution potential there,
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but it won't be easy for sure.
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So yeah, lots of busy months ahead, my friend.
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All right, so then when should we schedule you next?
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Other than the fact that you have an open-door policy
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here and can jump in whenever, and I don't care when,
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when do we schedule you next?
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We'll get on. Whenever you want me on, I'll make
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sure that I get on. I will come back on
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for sure.
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Get you from a hotel room in Guatemala City or something.
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My calendar is pretty full all the way through to
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the end of November when I think I'm doing the
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Women's World Cup qualifiers in Mansfield, Texas, I think.
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There you go. Yeah.
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So, yeah, I'll be there for that too. So, but no,
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we'll be, you know, me, I love jumping on with you.
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So let's just coordinate it again in.
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A few weeks.
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You got it, my friend. Save your pipes. And if
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you need me to send some traditional medicinal throat coat
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tea your way, just let me know. Have a fantastic broadcast.
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Love you very much. And it's great to see you,
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my friend. Don't be afraid.
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Love you too, man. You're doing an amazing work. Continue it.
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I love passion.
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You can't do what you do without passion. So God
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bless you. Keep up the great work and I'll see
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you soon.
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You got it. There he goes. Christian Jack. He's going
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to go and he's going to hydrate. Yeah. Maybe he'll
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go back to bed.
