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🎯 Our UEFA Women's EURO 2025 Pre-Preview TEAM DRAFT! [ MEGA PREVIEW 🎬 COMING SOON ] · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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  OK. As promised, here we go, the
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  Women's, the UEFA Women's 2025 Euro Draft, where each of us
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  will select teams. We'll make some picks.
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  We've got the preview coming. Well, actually you're watching
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  the preview right now and this is just nuzzled right inside the
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  preview. So forget all that little
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  editing magic skirty skirt. Let's get to it.
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  We're going to speed. We got to speed through this
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  draft. So we're going to boom, boom,
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  boom, quick formality. You know, you're our resident
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  England guy. You, you needed to be the, the
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  guy covering England. So you're taking the England.
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  I'm going to take Spain as a result.
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  So draft starts at 3. You'll you'll have the 3rd pick
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  in the draft and then we'll just alternate from there.
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  OK, wow. I didn't.
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  I didn't expect that, but I should have expected you to be
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  as gracious as you usually are or sneaky.
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  You always got a trick up your sleeve when it comes to these
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  drafts. All right, give me France.
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  I mean, I know we've had our our questions about them in big
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  tournaments, but you know, I want to talk about them and, and
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  there's endless intrigue with is this team going to play well in
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  a in a big tournament? Well, they're France, so
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  probably no. So you took fraud.
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  France. Give me.
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  I didn't think they'd be here. Give me Germany, the third
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  ranked team in the world, super loaded.
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  I get to watch all those great players made some noise in the
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  Nations League. I think they'll be disappointed
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  if they don't at least reach the semis.
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  So give me the Germans. OK, I'm already going to betray
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  my big board, but I think it's just because now that I'm here,
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  I'm going to go one spot lower on my big board because I'm
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  afraid that you would take them. Next, I'm going to take Norway.
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  Shout out to all of our pals, the Bron Battalion.
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  Wow. I mean, you know, I'm obviously
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  rooting for them because of all the all the great people we've
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  met along the way in the Champions League coverage,
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  leading to, you know, us just becoming bronze supporters.
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  So give me the Norwegians. I hate that sniped them.
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  Loaded squad Aurora Mickelson grow right in freedom on them.
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  Ingrid Engen, Karina Shevic. Justin Gellen, Elizabeth Turlin,
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  ETA Hegeberg, CGH. Nice pick.
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  Love it. I think I'm going to go and this
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  is tough. Got my eyes on two teams.
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  I'm going to go with my heart here.
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  Give me the Netherlands. I like the attackers.
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  Esme Brukes, you know, Sherita Spitza is not an attacker, but
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  Danielle van de Donk, a loaded, a loaded side for the
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  Netherlands. No, Lily.
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  Honest, but I don't know, maybe, maybe.
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  Maybe could be poke in the ribs. Why'd you do them like that?
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  I mean, I don't know, man, we're we're we're speed drafted.
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  I'm trying to go quick here. I'm going off the Dome.
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  And you know, like I didn't know.
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  I didn't know that it ended up with Netherlands in the fourth
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  round. So I'm very happy, very happy
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  about my big here. Give me, give me the Dutch.
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  That was literally the team #5 on my board that I I took Norway
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  in in front of the Netherlands because I had a feeling if I
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  took Netherlands, you would take Norway.
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  And I just couldn't live with myself if I allowed that to
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  happen. OK, I guess I'll just keep it in
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  the Nordics. I'll take Sweden.
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  Damn. Great pick, all right.
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  Lot of good players, yeah. JRK Rofo, Champions League
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  winner Steena Black Sidious. I mean K go wrong there.
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  Damn right. All right, for the vibes, Give
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  Me Portugal recently announced Kika Nazareth back in in in the
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  group. Might get some burn here for the
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  Portuguese. And you know I'm not going to
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  let Kika slip any any deeper in this draft for than she already
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  has. So give me that squad.
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  I our big boards are very, very similar, which I guess makes
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  sense considering we watch a lot of Champions League and talk
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  about it all the time together do.
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  A show, football, hundreds of hours.
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  We probably have all the same ideas.
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  Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, I think, I think that's
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  about right. So I'm curious to see where this
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  team was. I mean, could we be more of a
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  pro Valentina Giacinti podcast? I don't think it would be
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  possible that we could be. Give me the Italianas.
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  Excellent pick by you. Manuel Giuliano, Elena Lenadi.
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  Just so many fun names. Sofia Cantor.
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  There's so many fun names to say on this Italian side.
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  You're going to have a blast with with that group.
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  All right, who do we have left? All right, Italy off the board.
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  Give me 12 Frank team in the world, Denmark.
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  I like their attackers pretty harder.
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  Senior Brune, Emily Vangsgaard, Not a ton on not a ton after
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  that. But I mean, at the very least,
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  you know, we're going to stay in some games.
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  So give me, give me the Danes. OK, All right.
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  Now you've given me some options here.
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  I just want to, I know where, I know where speed drafting.
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  I mean, they're next on my big board, so I'm just going to do
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  it. I'm going to take Poland and and
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  if the question is am I taking them largely because of Evapyor,
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  you're damn right I am. I want to, I want to learn more
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  about them. Give me the polls.
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  Good pick. I I I might end up regretting
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  this pick. Do I want to do that?
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  No, I'm not going to pick them. Give me Iceland, OK, Spade this,
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  Jane Glottis, Perla, Vegas, Dodier.
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  They played the US tough last couple of matches.
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  I like watching them play. 14th ranked team in the world.
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  I'm not sure how live they'll be in this tournament, but I don't
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  know. They're fun, they're scrappy and
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  I don't know, I like that pick. Good value here late in the
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  draft. I think so and I don't know if
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  this is the team that you were, you know, between, but it would
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  be kind of silly if me living here in in Seattle, WA and with
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  two Seattle Rain FC players on the squad, I thought I could get
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  them later in the draft. So I'm going to go ahead and
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  take Wales with obviously Jess Fishlock and on her aunt James
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  Turner, you know, making their long-awaited debut.
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  Fishlock specifically making her long-awaited debut in the
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  Women's Zeros. It's about damn time.
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  I'm ready to see Airplay. I like it.
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  Draft really broke my way. I wasn't picking between those
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  two and a little bit a little bit into the games shift draft
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  strategy and I knew that well squad, I knew they'd have a
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  couple players that that you'd have your eye on.
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  So they were cross off for me. I was going to let them sit.
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  And now very late in the draft with my 7th pick, the home team
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  falls in my lap who includes 1. Leo Valti 1 Anna Maria Cerny
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  Gersovich and the young in Sydney shirt and live.
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  Let's fucking go. I'm ready for my shirt and live
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  moment in the Euros. That's a great pick.
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  Yeah, Congrats on that. Looking at my big board, perhaps
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  the big board betrayed me somewhat there, so it's okay.
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  No, that's yeah, the host nation.
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  It's a great call by you. OK, two left.
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  I'm going to go ahead. You know what I already have?
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  I have Norway and Sweden. I'm not great with geography, so
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  I'm not sure if I think I'm a grown man and I'm not 100% sure
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  if Finland is in the Nordics. I think it is.
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  They're up in that mix. OK, sure.
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  Yeah, they're, they're in the, I mean they're in Europe, right, I
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  know that much. So yeah, give me, give me
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  Finland there. You go Quicka, Katarina, Cazola,
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  you've got some recognizable players, and that leaves me with
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  Belgium. Don't know any of their players,
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  but hey, we've got a couple days between now and, well, your boys
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  gonna have to do a little homework on Belgium.
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  Understandable. I'll be doing the same with
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  Finland. Obviously they have, like you
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  mentioned, they have a couple recognizable players, but you
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  know, we try to watch as much of the European leagues as
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  possible. Obviously some of these squads
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  have NWSL players, but we got homework now.
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  So I, I guess that's, that's what we're doing here.
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  So I'm psyched about it. I, I like, I like the look of
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  this breakdown. Shall we do a quick rundown of
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  who we have? Yeah, you go first.
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  All right, so I have England, France, Norway, Sweden, Italy,
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  Poland, Wales, Finland. I like it.
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  I'm just going to come out and say I think I, I think I smashed
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  this draft. I've got Spain, Germany,
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  Netherlands, Portugal, Iceland, Denmark, Switzerland and
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  Belgium. It's pretty good.
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  Let's say you did all right. I think I did all right.
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  I'm not going to go as far as to say we should take it to a pole,
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  but suffice to say I'm happy with where I'm at.
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  Yeah, that, I mean, yeah, that's fine.
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  If you would take it to a poll, that's fine.
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  I'll lose again. I forget about it right back to
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  the preview.