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Peter Weis returns to talk about Wolfsburg, Bayern Munich, Germany, and much more! · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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us of this episode. I am your host, Dino de
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Suspitas. And today we're joined by a
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special guest, a returning guest.
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But before we say hello, I'm also joined by my Co host Mr.
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Grant Angle. What is up man?
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I'm feeling fantastic, buddy, and that's because our guest
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today is now the world record holder for most guest
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appearances on the Into the Channel podcast with his third
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appearance today. He has been an intrepid football
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Once again, it is my honor and privilege to welcome to the
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program our Frown Bundes himself, Mr. Peter Vice.
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The pleasure is all mine gentlemen.
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A huge fan of the work that you've been doing, a growing
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interest in the women's game on so many different levels of
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Champions League reviews, the interviews with some of the NWSL
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players and all of this stuff. So it's it's an absolute honor
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to be on here with you again. And I expect we're going to have
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ourselves all manner of fun this evening.
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Appreciate that man. Thank you.
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Let's get it going, Mr. Grenegor, you want to get
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started? You know, Peter comes on to the
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show. He's not he's not your typical
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guest. He gives us ideas right off the
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bat as he's joining, kind of talked about maybe going up
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through the levels, starting with his domestic league.
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So let's do that. Let's start with the league that
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I know you and I have keen interest in lately.
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Let's start with the frown Bundesliga.
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Absolutely. Well, I of course put my money
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where my mouth is and I attend as many Frau and Bundesliga
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matches as I can. And the general mood about the
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Frau and Bundesliga this year is quite good.
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I've had some really engaging conversations.
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The MENA Bundesliga is not looking so competitive with FSA
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Bayan munching the record champions, just only Harness has
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predicted that they'll sew up the type of by Easter but in the
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following Bundesliga and I'm was happy to save this little bit of
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kiosk for you. This is from Schwartzbeed,
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Germany's main sporting tabloid. We have D Fantastician Fear.
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The Fantastician Fear was also a cult German hip hop band from
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this area of Germany that I was from Fantastic Four and those
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Fantastic Four are Voltsbourg, Eintracht Frankfurt FTSE, Bayern
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Menschen and Bayern Nulfia Levakuzen.
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If you take a look at the Frauen Bundesliga table at the moment,
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the top four are separated by only two points and this is
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quite a surprise due to some surprising results that we've
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had in the last couple of weeks. Both Voltsbourg and Bayern are
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technically the record champions in the in the women's game in
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Germany and Eintracht and Levakuzen are the upstarts, both
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of whom have a pretty decent chance at the title.
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In my professional opinion, I think Eintracht have a better
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chance of securing the sensation.
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Ironically enough, that's also the case in the MENA Bundesliga,
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Eintracht Frankfurt, our last remaining hopes to take out the
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mighty Bavarians in that league. So it could be the case that the
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Heinmein Adla, as they call them from Germany's financial
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capital, Financial and commercial capital will be
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taking crowns in both leagues. But we can talk a little bit
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about the players of course, for plans of the women's game.
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There are plenty of interesting players in the Farwin
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Bundesliga. The big news this year, of
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course, was that some players actually came back from the WSL,
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namely Pernila Harder from former Vozport player.
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She returned to Bayern of course.
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We are overjoyed that Georgia Stanway decided at this stage in
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her career to come play for Bayern.
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And also Lynette Behrenstein, former Bayern player who played
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for Juventus for a couple of years.
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She came back as well. Now Volzburg, you have your
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usual stars. You have Alexander Pop, who is
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no longer with the national team, but she is still playing
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club football. You have Euler Brand, who has
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had some injury issues as of late.
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We also have Vivian Endeman, this Icelandic Dortier that I
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like very much. I've heard her name pronounced
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Svendice or also Svendis. Not quite sure what the proper
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pronunciation person is, but for fans of the long throw she is
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absolutely golden. She does a long throw as good as
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any man that I've ever seen. She's got a cannon.
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She does for or not. You might recall that if you
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were watching the the women's oil roast in in 2021 in, in
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England, Of course, we're going to be pimping the coming women's
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oil roast in Switzerland pretty hard on this pod.
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I promise you that. I fully expect you gentlemen to
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be here and I hope that so many customers will be joining us as
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well. You mentioned Eintrac Frankfurt,
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an apology for our very Americanized pronunciations.
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We'll get into a little bit of the clean up there later.
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They seem to be on quite a tear. Some good results.
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They gave it to Wolfsburg 3 nil late September.
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They hung tight with Byron 11 draw early November.
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And basically there are two big time scores, Laura Fragang,
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Nicole Anomi sitting at the top of the the goals plus assist
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category for the league. What is Eintracht Frankfurt
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doing right? Well, first and foremost, they
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had the best transfer window. Think of any of the top tier
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Bundesliga sides. They brought in both Pia, Sophie
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Volta, that's the defender and Elisa Sense.
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So the midfield of Sense and Isana Grieva is quite effective.
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I think that's a great effective 66 setup.
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Grieva reminds me a little bit of Lena Oberdorf.
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I don't think she possesses all of the the natural skills, but
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and as a matter of fact, she's more of a defensive midfielder.
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Oberdorf can play 8. She can move into central
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defense. She can do all of that.
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But Kreba is a is a player that I have my eye on.
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Of course, Fry Gong and on Yomi are both cult figures for
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followers of the German game. Fry Gong is if you go to a
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German women's national team match, probably half the jerseys
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that you'll see are going to be Fry Gong jerseys.
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She is finally getting a chance to break into the national team.
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I mean, she's only, well, I mean, at the age of 26, it's odd
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that she's had this amazing club career but never seemed to
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really arrive at the German national team.
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Now with Alexandra Pops retirement, she may be the new
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#10. Nikki Anomi is a player that
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every time I go to see the Einschar Frauen at the Brontano
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Bod, I pick up a bunch of Anomi jerseys and distribute them to
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all of my friends who have daughters in the United States.
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Because she is just an absolute cult figure, incredibly
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athletic, probably the most natural nine that has played for
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Germany in in a very, very long time.
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Lea Shula from Bayon is, is a little bit better in the air, a
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little bit more technical, a little bit more polished.
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But Nikki is, is a player that we're that we're really happy to
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have. She's just such an interesting
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story. She grew up in Essen.
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I believe it's she has a Ghanaian father and a Togolese
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mother. I might have those reversed, but
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she's German through and through.
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So you talked about, you know, at least in America, the most
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widely known German football club, Bayern Munich, they are
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sitting in pretty good position in the Champions League for the
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purposes of this show. But thinking about the league
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after they have that kind of strange, probably somewhat
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disappointing draw with Valarenga 11 in the Champions
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League, they come back, they notch a 21V over Freiburg.
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When you do have a massive club like that.
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And, you know, it seems like every time we look up the men's
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side wins the Bundesliga. How do Bayern Munich fans react
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on the women's side when they're sitting third in the table?
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Well, I don't know if they'll be sitting third in the table for
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long. My my special tip to take the
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upset is going to be Eintracht this year.
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But what you have with Bayern is you just have this incredible
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amount of depth. Of course, Oberdorf has not been
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available a great deal this season, again, because of
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injuries. We were discussing this a little
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bit on the on the last pod, but you have so much.
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I mean, you have not just the likes of Perennial Harder and
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Georgia Stanway and Leah Shula and Clapa Boot, but you also
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have veteran leadership that can sort of step in when needed.
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Magdalena Erickson plays for Bayern.
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Coward in Simone, the German national team defender, does as
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well, you know, despair. Vigo Stotia, another Icelandic
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Dorothea is there. Oh, I almost forgot to mention
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Sarah Zadrazil. I mean, the Austrian, my God,
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what an incredible midfield wizard.
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Yeah, They have all of this depth.
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They have all of this star power.
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And the way that Germans look at Bayern in general is that in the
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league they are. We definitely root against them
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and pretty much every last instance.
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But in the Champions League they are the representatives of our
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nation. So we do root for them and we
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also root for them in a very, very general sense to have a
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strong team for the German national team.
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And that applies to both the men's and the women's game.
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So there's a cognitive dissonance when it comes to
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Bayern. We're a little bit schizophrenic
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in that regard. Now, I should point out the fact
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that us Holland Bundesliga enthusiasts do like to go see
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Bayern play. And we also, I like to see them
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on the road, you know, whenever they're travelling to Franfurt
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or Friborg or something like this, I like to go and see them
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because they do have a very, very, they have a large
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travelling support for women's team.
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They have a drum section, they go to the supporters section
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afterwards with the megaphone and things like this.
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So it's not the, the, the greatest tragedy in the world
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that that Bayern have a strong team on the women's side.
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Of course, when it comes to Bayern in the Champions League,
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it doesn't matter if it's men or women, we're going to root for
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them. Staying here in Fran Bundesliga,
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we've got match Week 11 coming up this weekend.
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Little bit of a fun scheduling quirk where six of the top seven
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teams are playing each other in three matches, so that should be
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exciting. Leverkusen and Wolfsburg, Virta
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Bremen and Freiburg, Eintracht Frankfurt and RB Leipzig.
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But looking at the table, you know, I know there's, there's
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quite a bit of a ways to go in the season.
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I'm going to put you on the spot here, Peter.
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I want you to make a prediction. What do you think the top 4
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looks like at the end of the season?
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The top 4 looks as it does I would say there are some up and
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coming players that we will discuss when we get to the
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German national team core. Itzikai for essay Freiburg for
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example, and also the very unfortunately named Alanisa
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Hitler for Bayern. I think that the top 4 looks
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like this. I'll be rooting for Freiborg to
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pull up in the top four. Leipzig have a chance because
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Giovanna Hoffman, who is actually a former Freiborg
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product, has gotten off to an excellent start this season as
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well. So I think that Freiborg and
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Leipzig can potentially pull their way up there.
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Labour Kuzin have their weaknesses.
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I think they're lacking a little bit of star power beyond yet
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another Icelandic dot tier. It's Carolina Lee Villidium's
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dot tier. I'm probably butchering that,
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but Bremen and Freiburg and Leipzig could potentially pull
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up and become top of part of that top 4.
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What do you think the teams finish like?
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In what order? Who do you think wins the
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league? Who grabs those Champions League
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spots? What are you projecting there?
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I'll go. I talked by on Labour cousin and
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of course I talk narrowly missed out on the Champions League.
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They had to qualify this year and and they didn't make it
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unfortunately. But they also didn't have sense
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and and Volta with them last year.
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So it's quite possible that they could have challenged for the
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title had they had those two players last year.
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All right. Well, Speaking of the Champions
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League, we are a Champions League program.
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We've referenced it a couple times.
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Big, big old match coming up for Wolfsburg, coming up against
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Roma, they narrowly lose. They didn't really look great in
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that. In that first match against
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Roma, they they drop it one nil. Since then they've won two on
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the spin in the Champions League. 25 nil victories,
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convincing 5 nil victories over Galatasaray.
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You mentioned her earlier, Lynette Berenstein.
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She is putting up a lot of goals, wreaking havoc on
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defenses in frowned. Bundesliga hasn't quite put it
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together yet in the Champions League.
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What do you expect in this Wolfsburg Roma match?
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And do you have any theories on maybe what what the disconnect
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is with Biernstein's play between league play and
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Champions League play? It's tough.
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Tournament football is always tough on tight turnarounds.
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I think my tactical advice for Volksburg would be to deploy
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that 343 that we saw on the initial 5 nil win over
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Galatasaray that had Jones Dotya playing up front.
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Venue Hoot, one of my favorite players slanted right.
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Bloomquist was also a surprise starter on the left.
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She ended up grabbing a hat trick.
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That was the first time I believe I saw Endemon work as a
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wingback and I was exceptionally impressed.
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Yanina Minga, Another rising, versatile upcoming German
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national team talent. She did a great job in defense.
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She can also work in midfield. Veda Maya had a very, very good
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match. That was.
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I mean, both matches were incredibly impressive, but I
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think the initial 5 nil is the blue print on what they want to
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work on. So I might even recommend a
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resting Berenstain in the Champions League and forthcoming
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match and going with that 343 again because it clicked almost
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immediately. You know, when it comes to
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Volsburg, they have good depth. They really do Volkzbourg.
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One of the reasons that they have gotten off to a sort of a
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sputtering start this season in the Champions League is because
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they lost a lot of important players.
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They lost three important players to be precise, at the
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beginning of last year. One was Dominic Jensen, the the
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Dutch defender who was known as Dominic Bloodworth at times
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because she went with her married name.
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They lost Volta, who went to to eintock Frankfurt and they lost
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Ogadorf. So Voltzbourg, of course, needs
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some some time to gel with some of of their new signings.
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And also, I mean, the the player that I've been impressed with
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most on a versatility level is is Lynn Vooms, another Dutch
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defender who's she's worked as as left back.
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She's worked in the midfield, she's worked as a wing back as
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well. You know, the reason that I
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would have Volsborg third is because they don't have the same
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kind of depth as Byron. I mean, they they have lot fine
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who's a a very good player. I like this new Norwegian one
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Keeland too. She, I think set up two of of
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Bloom Chris's goals in that in that five, no victory.
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But Bayern also have players like Dahlman and Loman who can
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sort of be plugged in anywhere on short notice.
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So this is it's kind of a a little bit of a rebuilding year
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for Tommy Stroot and and Vozborg.
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But I like that 343. That would be my advice.
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Totally agree with you there. You mentioned Bayern in that
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depth. Is the sense around Bayern that
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this is a team obviously tremendously disappointing last
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year, get bounced in the group stage, out of the group of life,
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sort of have the insight. I believe they've already
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clinched a quarterfinal spot, but they are in that battle with
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Arsenal in Group C. What are the expectations around
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Bayern in this year's Champions League?
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Well, my friend, as an Arsenal supporter, I do offer my
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condolences. I believe Grant already offered
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his condolences to you. And it's odd there for what
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happened. You know, The funny thing about
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that match was that Arsenal, they were leading at the half.
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They also equalized. And then those three goals just
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sort of came bang, bang, bang with Bayern.
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We need to discuss the fact that that Kohl's actually the the
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keeper has that malignant tumor and Mamutovich, who is, who is
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20 years old, is, is having some teething problems and, and she
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had some for the German national team as well as we as we had
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indeed. So anything is possible and, and
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Arsenal's an incredibly tough team.
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But I think you know what I, when it comes to the Champions
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League, I can't wait for the women to switch to the men's
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format now, because these group face things can get just a
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little bit tedious. I, I mean, of course, they've
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already clinched the berth so they can go on cruise control.
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You saw them go on cruise control in that last one, one
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match. You know, they're going to
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rotate in very, very heavily. And, you know, it's entirely
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possible that they that they don't really care.
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All right. There we go, guest.
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Special guest. Her first appearance?
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Here's something for your shorts.
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This is Minu. She's of French descent, but she
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roots for the German. That's amazing.
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Outstanding. Wonderful.
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So with Bayern, Peter, is it semifinals that that you think
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that team's got their eye on? Do they want to make the final?
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Do they have aspirations of taking the title home?
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I don't believe Bayern's ever won a Champions League that I
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might have to double, double check, Fact Check myself.
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But how far do you think this team goes?
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Yeah, they they have never won a Champions League.
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Actually, one of the questions that that Grant sent me a little
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bit tracking back to Fallon Bundesliga a bit is we have two
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East German sides in there, Kalasai Siena and what used to
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be my old club when I lived in Berlin, Torpino Potsdam.
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They've won two Champions League titles and I don't think I don't
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think Bayern have won one. And of course that would be
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their expectation. You know an interesting fact
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about Bayern. This is the first year that the
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women have been given their own Trico.
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They've been given their own jersey.
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So there's been a lot of investment in this club, not
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only in terms of players and and some stadium renovations, but
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also the marketing. The marketing machine of Bayern
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is behind them big time and early harness room and rogue
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that he is kind of a considered an obnoxious character by German
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football fans. If Byron don't win the men of
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Bundesliga, I imagine that he will say that I meant the
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fallen. That's that's what I meant.
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They certainly have a chance. I mean, you know, you talked
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about the depth very impressive 5 two win over Arsenal.
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We know they're on to the knockout stage.
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I think they're very live to compete for the for the title.
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Obviously there's that little club in Barcelona that's
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probably going to be tricky to to overcome, but that's why they
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play the games. So we talk about these two
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Champions League clubs. We talk about Bayern Munich and
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Wolfsburg. And you had referenced earlier
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that Bayern is almost like the the feeder club into the
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national team. Let's talk about that national
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team of yours because you were on the scene for the two
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friendlies that recently happened, A6 nil win over
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Switzerland and a 21 loss to Italy in Germany.
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So dealer's choice here where you could start with the good
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news, you could start with the less good news or maybe the bad
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news, if you want to call it that.
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What did you see in those two matches?
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What jumped out to you from your from your spot in the stands?
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Well there have actually been 4 friendlies under the the newly
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appointed Bundestrana Christian Bjerk and I've attended three of
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those four friendlies. I did not make the one in
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Wembley, unfortunately that was a cracking affair in his debut.
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The one in Dewsbourg with an impressive 25,000 attendance was
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a farewell to the Legends Knights.
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Alexandra Pop, Marina Hegering and Merle Fromms all officially
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retired from the German women's national team.
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Pop gave away her armband to Julia Gavin of Bayon in a in a
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very touching way and said Fiyush Bosman and Mahalfen have
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fun with the crew. So we ended up losing that one
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to Australia and that one was, well, I mean, I, I, I don't
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really care about that one. Friday night at the Lutzigrund.
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Of course, when you're in Zurich, it's like being in
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Germany. When you're in Zurich and you're
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Basil, it's, it's like being in Germany except for the fact that
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people speak the Schweitzer Deutsch.
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It's a little bit of a dialect there.
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But we had a good time there in in the second-half at the
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Lutzigrund. First half was awful, just God
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awful. That is a 11 walk.
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Yeah. I mean, we're deploying.
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I don't know, it was like a 721 for information or something
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like this for the Swiss national team and nobody could crack it.
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We ended up getting that goal at the at the end of the half.
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It was your girl that you like from the Premiership, Nuskin,
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who polished off a corner and then the goals came raining down
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in the second-half. The way the German press
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described it was it was a successful debutante ball.
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We could just picture, you know, Korid Zakai and Alanis Hitler
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being presented at a cotillion or something like that.
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But the substitutes obviously really made a difference.
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Frigang and Shula both grabbed braces and for Frigang that's
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amazing news because she really wants that 10 slot.
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She really does. And and Dahlman and Lohman are
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are competitors for it. The second-half was obviously
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killer and our Swiss hosts were happy to to play the the German
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song for us major Tom Ferdish ghost or tour anthem that I was
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singing a little bit earlier with my cat.
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A lot of good things to say there.
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Zakai was amazing. Zakai is an amazing story.
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She's a Fry Borg girl. She was born and raised there.
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She's scored five Bundesliga goals this season.
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The one with her head to the left, two of the right.
20:49
I looked up some highlights. Yeah, she's she is a real up and
20:53
Comer and so is the Hitler, which, OK, if anyone's coming to
20:57
travel to Switzerland this summer, I should let you know
20:59
this. This does happen.
21:00
OK, If you come to Austria, southern Germany, Switzerland,
21:04
you might meet someone called Hitler or say Hitler or
21:06
something like this. It's an awkward conversation.
21:09
You could have a perfectly cordial conversation with
21:11
somebody in our neck of the woods and all of a sudden they
21:13
tell you their last name is Hitler and you can't save them
21:15
in your phone. It's just not appropriate.
21:17
And the German broadcast people have been doing their best.
21:19
They don't they're they're trying to call her Sitler.
21:22
Sitler. They're trying to make it to
21:24
pronounce it that we don't have to worry about this.
21:29
But she's only 19 years old. She scored two goals for Byron,
21:33
so she's also a real up and coming.
21:35
Well, our girl on Katvan Baga was not with the team because
21:39
she needed a break after the NWSL season.
21:42
And I should say that Vick has traveled to the States to visit
21:45
both her and Almut Shoot Schulte, who plays for Kansas
21:51
City Current. Now, you know, he's traveling
21:53
all over the place. He goes to Spain.
21:54
He glides all the way over the United States.
21:56
He kind of reminds me of me. He's always on the road between
21:58
football stadiums. I really like this guy and yeah,
22:04
so that that was awesome. That was incredible.
22:06
We come to Monday night and I, I traveled up there to to Botham,
22:10
15,000 people there, fairly decent crowd.
22:13
There were 17,000 at the let's sequent on Friday night and the
22:16
atmosphere was amazing. Things were a little bit more
22:19
subdued. There were tons of rotations.
22:21
This was all experimentation from Druke starting Mammotovich,
22:26
for example, the center half pairing of Dorsun and Linda,
22:29
Mamotovich and Linda with those errors that ended up having.
22:32
He had those problems. He tried out a new midfield
22:34
pairing. He moved Ming up to pair with
22:37
with Sense. He did give Frey Gang the start.
22:39
She played well. Hoffman was kind of missing in
22:42
action. She'll be sad that she missed
22:44
out on that audition. I thought the full backs played
22:47
well. They pressed high.
22:48
Vin, who's the new national team captain, and Felicia Tascal, who
22:52
also got a goal. Yeah, apart from those two
22:55
mistakes, it wasn't too bad of a game.
22:57
Again, we're talking about four friendly series and and he's
23:00
thus appointed, so he's doing a lot of experimentation.
23:03
We'll know a great deal more about the German national team
23:06
when the Nations League comes in.
23:08
It is in February already, yes. I think that's right, yeah.
23:12
And as a loyal supporter of the Farwin Nazi and Oman shaft, I'll
23:16
be on the road, I'll be in the stadium, I'll be giving it a
23:19
good scout and doing all the things that I love to do at a
23:22
women's football match. Seeing the Torah anthem, talk to
23:25
the the kids who are coming there with their class so that
23:29
they can see female footballers play and and dream about
23:34
becoming a professional someday. But I expect a lot more in the
23:37
Nations League. I don't expect anymore losses
23:40
from Christian Druk leading up to the Oyros.
23:44
Otherwise his regime, his young coaching regime can be called
23:47
into question because experimentation is fine in these
23:49
4 friendlies. But when we're in true
23:52
competitive matches where unlimited substitutions
23:55
practically are not allowed, I want wants some regular starters
23:59
in this 4231 system. We do have high expectations of
24:02
our medals here in the Bundes Republic.
24:05
We absolutely do. And we need them to return to
24:07
the summit of Europe. We would like that very much.
24:10
Germany takes on Netherlands on February 21st in the UEFA
24:14
Nations League. Should be a banger right out of
24:16
the gate. Definitely looking forward to
24:18
that one. Peter, I want to rewind a little
24:19
bit, Laura, Fry Gang had two spectacular goals.
24:24
Switzerland, I think both of them assisted by PS Sophie
24:26
Walter, you mentioned, yes, I know you mentioned Christian
24:29
Burke and his experimentation things going on.
24:32
Do you feel like this might be the Fry Gang leap?
24:36
Do you feel like this is sort of like Fry Gang's moment to kind
24:38
of step into that post Alex pop world and sort of like grab that
24:42
spot? I sincerely hope so and I hope
24:44
to see. I think Germans are a little bit
24:46
obsessed with and This is why they kind of like Byron to
24:50
succeed. We like to see as many players
24:52
from the same club team locked into the starting 11 as possible
24:56
because we believe that there's good club chemistry that can be
25:00
translated to the national level.
25:02
So we have sense who is doing a bang up job for Frankfurt and
25:05
midfield. We have Volta who can start at
25:08
fullback. We have Frigung and then many of
25:11
us are keeping our fingers that on Yomi grabs that starting #9
25:14
slot as well. You know, Frigun, it was put on
25:18
her because there were a lot of players, a lot of experienced
25:21
players who didn't even call up this time.
25:24
And you know, in both of these international breaks, Sierra de
25:27
Blitz and Lena Maghul were only called up, but de Blitz played a
25:31
little bit against England. Maghul was called up as an
25:34
emergency person. Lotvine and Endemann, they were
25:37
on the reserve squad, although both of them ended up seeing
25:40
some action in this Internet national break.
25:42
Yeah, he left a lot of experienced veterans out to
25:45
really give Frigun her chance. And, you know, it's it's tough
25:49
in attack. We are really very deep.
25:52
The story in defense, particularly in central defense.
25:54
This was the story that got us booted out of the 2023 World
25:58
Cup. And that's still a little bit of
25:59
a problem. Linda and Dorsun didn't really
26:02
mesh at all. And and of course, you without
26:06
Marina Hagering, now, you know, who do you play there in central
26:09
defense? Probably Minga, but who the
26:11
other person is I don't know. Quick follow up to that, Peter,
26:14
you mentioned Vivian and Demana and a recent move to more of
26:16
like a wingback spot. I thought her service in out
26:20
from the wide channels was also sensational.
26:23
I mean, I think she just has tremendous touch.
26:25
Is that like a new wrinkle or has that been a part of her
26:28
game, or how has that developed? She was trained as a as a right
26:31
flanker, but because that's ordinarily bronze place on
26:34
Volzburg, she spent most of the time playing on the left last
26:37
season. So I mean, what does it come
26:39
down to with football? It's it's about practicing as
26:43
much as possible. If you can play both flanks and
26:46
you can play with both feet, you really have an excellent amount
26:50
of muscle memory for getting those services right.
26:53
Her game, you know, almost because Braun forced her over to
26:57
the other side. That really benefited her a
26:59
great deal. Yeah, I mean, the versatility is
27:02
just really impressive from a lot of the players on your squad
27:06
over there. Do you do we want to do
27:08
pronunciation game for a couple minutes?
27:10
All right, this idea courtesy of our guy Peter Weisey, Vice City.
27:15
We're going to delve into the world of some German
27:18
pronunciations. Let's play a game Grant, where
27:21
we present some names in our very American style and then get
27:25
it straight from the Peter's mouth about what we need to be
27:27
doing. So I'll kick it off.
27:29
This is the name that has come up quite a bit.
27:31
I go with Laura Frygang. I know that's not right, but can
27:33
you set us straight here? You pronounce it Laura Frygang.
27:37
Okay, Clara Bull. Clara Bull, how's your can we do
27:42
an? I.
27:46
Think I deal too. Good.
27:48
OK, So you mentioned we appreciate this player for
27:51
Chelsea Football Club. I go with Shoka Nuskin.
27:55
How close am I? OK, Shkokia is not a German
27:58
name, but that's how I hear it pronounced on the broadcasts.
28:01
And you once again we have the new skin.
28:04
New skin and I never knew the the the Cruddy American Rock
28:10
Band. I never knew they were Mötley
28:11
Crüe and I I never pronounced it that way.
28:14
I they had the umlaut too, so I guess that must be what they
28:17
were going for. Well, that Sasha Cohen film.
28:20
It would have technically been pronounced Bruno, but they
28:25
called it Bruno instead there. You go How about a German
28:29
national team manager, Christian Vuk?
28:32
Again, we are here on the umlauts.
28:33
OK, so there's easy umlauts and there's hard umlauts.
28:36
The 8 umlaut you can do quite easily.
28:38
It's just a a a. Perfect.
28:40
Absolutely perfect. The oh umlaut it's it's also
28:44
easy. It's ver.
28:45
One more. Time, that's great.
28:50
All right. So your 8 umlauts and your O
28:52
umlauts are, are Immaculate. They're perfect.
28:54
They're challenging. One for everyone is the loud
28:57
because you really got a deep. You got to go deep into your
29:00
throat and you got to. Go yeah, it's got to come from
29:03
like down in here, right? Yeah, go ahead.
29:10
Yeah, all right. Nothing wrong with.
29:15
There we go. But she's got it, all right.
29:17
Excellent. Now obviously over here in these
29:19
ugly American accents, we just call them Bayern Munich.
29:22
Bayern Munchin. That's a munchin.
29:25
All right, and we we get the. That was really.
29:26
We're asking a lot of umlaut questions.
29:28
You're doing it. You're doing it really good
29:30
here. You said it perfectly.
29:31
Go ahead. Bayern munchin, munchin munchin
29:34
that. Was good.
29:35
That was good. I think when you when you have a
29:38
consonant following there, you can sort of you can easily roll
29:41
down that hill. I like it.
29:43
I got a couple more ula Bron, we'll.
29:47
Work on that. That's good.
29:51
All you have to do is make sure it's a strong A.
29:53
OK, yeah, sure. Do you want to fire another one?
29:56
You know, Yeah, I got some other ideas.
29:57
OK, so you mentioned a couple, a couple players who have a
30:00
similar end to their last name, Endeman Dahlman.
30:05
But I noticed where it seems like we're a tick off on those
30:08
names too. How do those sound?
30:09
Those are great. I mean the your, your, your A's
30:12
are are just fine. Endeman.
30:14
Perfect Dahlman. Perfect Klinsmann.
30:17
You've had practice, Jurgen Klinsmann.
30:19
I'm trying. To forget that buddy.
30:24
OK, on he's. Fine.
30:26
Yeah, he's fine. He's he's fine.
30:28
You want you want Bruce Arena back, do you?
30:31
I mean, we we've said on this show, we're not we're not too
30:35
into the the US men's national team lost me a a long time ago.
30:40
Yeah, I digress. Yeah, show.
30:42
Show primarily about wins a ball.
30:45
All right, gentlemen, anything else we want to hit before we
30:47
get out of here? Tell you what, I have one for
30:49
you. So we were talking about this
30:52
the first time we met, like how the unlike the American or the
30:55
English Wikipedia page, they call the the German women's
30:59
national team di Nazionadev, which is totally false.
31:02
Nobody says that and absolutely nobody says that.
31:04
You've heard me say all sorts of different things, but the
31:08
official name of the team, and this is about as German as it
31:11
gets, gentlemen, this is about this is really German.
31:14
So I'm going to lay it on on you.
31:15
It is the Deutsche Foosball Nazional Munchaft de Frauen
31:20
Dino, you're first. Is there a shorter version?
31:23
Can I go with the munchaft Important.
31:29
To, to. OK, no, we're going to.
31:31
I, I I believe in you. I have faith in you.
31:34
You can do this. You can do this.
31:36
All right? I I believe in you.
31:38
It is the Deutsche Foosball Nazional Munchaft.
31:43
Deutsche Foosball Nacional Manchaf de Frown.
31:48
Beautiful. That was beautiful.
31:50
Let's go. I told you you could do it.
31:51
Let's go. You.
31:52
You OK, Grant? You're up.
31:54
Let's get my dual citizenship in motion right now.
31:57
I'm ready. Here we go.
31:58
Yeah, we might be. We might be that.
32:00
We might be needing that in the next coming in the coming years.
32:03
Peter Deutsche Football Nacional Manchaf de Frown.
32:08
I am so proud of you, you have absolutely done it.
32:12
And don't forget that you can come see not only the Deutsche
32:14
Foot spot, not soon on Munchaf Deaf Rowan, but also all the
32:19
best women's European teams in my neck of the woods, here in
32:23
Switzerland, in Zurich, in Basel, all over the place.
32:26
It's going to be a great tournament this summer.
32:29
Tickets are already available on wafa.com and if anybody help, I
32:35
will take anyone to a women's football match and show them
32:38
what a great time it is. So come on over to this neck of
32:41
the woods, people. I was going to say, yeah, we're
32:43
definitely going to try to take you up on that offer.
32:45
Got to figure out some logistics over here at the ITC.
32:48
But yeah, all of our pals who watch the show, who've been
32:51
great appreciators of of your insight, Peter, I'm sure you're
32:55
bound to run into some of them over there for sure.
32:57
I expect a gentleman here, you know you've passed the
32:59
pronunciation test and now you got to get over here to watch
33:03
some quality women's football. It's going to be an awesome
33:06
tournament. What else is going on football
33:07
wise in July anyway? What else are you going to do?
33:10
There you go. That's got to be top of the list
33:12
for sure. All right.
33:13
NWSL fans don't yell at us. Those are the dog days of NWSL.
33:18
OK, come on. All right, gentlemen, I think we
33:19
did it this one episode into the channel.
33:21
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33:39
Thank you again, Peter. Thank you gentlemen.
33:41
It was an absolute honor. And a big thank you to my coast
33:44
as well, Mr. Grand Angle, for our very first four week show.
33:47
How about that? We are cooking.
33:49
I appreciate you bro. Wow.
33:50
Yeah, I didn't even realize four shows in a week.
33:53
Likewise, buddy. Appreciate the help.
33:55
Peter, thank you again for joining us.
33:56
You're always welcome to come back to discuss the Deutsche
33:59
Fooschball Nazi NL Manchaf de Frauen.
34:01
Thank you, everybody, and we will see you all next time.
34:05
And now you're just showing off.