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Italy prepare for Nations League vs Germany - Ep. 258 · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: They say it's not over until the fat Lady sayings,
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  Speaker 1: but it feels like it was almost a nail in
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  Speaker 1: the coffin, or at least an extra stitch in interscudetto
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  Speaker 1: onto their jersey next year with the win this past weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Here on the Couch of Guys, Johnny Igianum Nicholas, you
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  Speaker 1: the Couch of Guys. Listen to us on all your
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  Speaker 1: favorite podcasting platforms. Guys, how's it going.
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  Speaker 2: It's going good. It's going good. Uh. First off, I
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  Speaker 2: just want to say, but to all the Joe's out there,
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  Speaker 2: the grouseppes as my mother is Justina, so uh you
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  Speaker 2: know all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I know Nick's nixt mother's Josie as well, so you
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  Speaker 3: know any all all those all those names, Happy name days,
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  Speaker 3: same day, however you want to say it. I just
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  Speaker 3: want to give a big shout out to all the
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  Speaker 3: I guess had all the Joe's.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, even goes for my stepdadd Joe.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: Uh pretty much filled up on Zeppaala today, So thanks.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that post on Facebook. Caught him in the middle,
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the nap.
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  Speaker 4: In the afternoon, his afternoon nap. Let the man be, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's his name day.
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  Speaker 2: I'll let him be.
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  Speaker 4: But I just can't the guy, oh man.
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  Speaker 1: The Italians, the Irish, they have Saint Patrick's Day. We
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  Speaker 1: have Saint Joseph's. But it's funny where three three Italian
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  Speaker 1: guys and none of us are named Joseph. What are
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  Speaker 1: I think? That's pretty low? Wats get any three random
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  Speaker 1: Italian guys?
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  Speaker 2: Not for our.
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  Speaker 1: Generation has been less common? Get her father's generation, forget
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  Speaker 1: about it?
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  Speaker 4: Or Joseph's Joey joe whatever?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, fair enough, Yeah Joey, Yeah, Joey's more common.
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  Speaker 1: I guess our age, our generation, what is more common?
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  Speaker 1: This season? Cidiya is interwinning. We talked about it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about it. Start doing nothing over Atalanta goals
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  Speaker 1: from Carlos Agusto and Latara Martinez, reds both ways at
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  Speaker 1: the end, well Edison eighty first minute, Bostonian the ninety fifth.
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  Speaker 1: But now, if you know, you look at the standings,
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  Speaker 1: Enter is three points up on Napoli. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's easy to say, it's easy to say, Okay, that's
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  Speaker 1: not a lot. But the fact that they've already they've
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  Speaker 1: already beate Napoli, right, and the fact that they beat
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  Speaker 1: pretty much their closest rival up until this weekend is huge.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that Napoli didn't win this weekend is
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  Speaker 1: is is even worse. But you know, three points to
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  Speaker 1: three points, it's it's not a lot, But there's not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of games left either. I don't know. I'll
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  Speaker 1: start with Johnny, I mean, how are you feeling for
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  Speaker 1: Napoli chances?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? Not really good, Bob, not pretty good? Uh No,
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  Speaker 4: in all seriouss that that game against against Vanetsia. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's too heavy of a game of drop points.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna it's gonna be devastating in a long run
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  Speaker 4: for them because you needed to get that result versus
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  Speaker 4: that team, and they tried. It was just that game
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  Speaker 4: where just nothing was working, nothing was going in like you.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to say the effort wasn't there. The
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  Speaker 4: effort was there. It was just you also fumbled on
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  Speaker 4: some chances, which you know, kind of sucks.
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  Speaker 1: You know something.
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  Speaker 4: You need to be clinical when you're finishing, which is
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  Speaker 4: which is normal you can always be on but man like,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's it's so annoying it hurts.
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  Speaker 2: Man Like.
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  Speaker 4: It's especially that you know, you kind of figured, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: they're playing like interest by Atalanta, so it's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: a tough game for them, whereas you're playing a bottom feeding,
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  Speaker 4: uh bottom feeding Vanetsia. You have the biggest chance of
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  Speaker 4: getting the W in this game compared to what Inter
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  Speaker 4: would have to go through for Atalanta, and yet you
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  Speaker 4: mess it up. And and that's where I'm like, it's
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  Speaker 4: frustrating as heck, because you were so close, like you
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  Speaker 4: needed this, and now you're three points behind with the
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  Speaker 4: same amount of games played. And it's it's even though
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  Speaker 4: it is a three point lead and the season still
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  Speaker 4: has about nine nine games left, eight games left or
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  Speaker 4: nine games left. Uh, you know, it's still it's I
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  Speaker 4: don't it still seems so too. It looks like a
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  Speaker 4: tide of a gap. But like it just seems like
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  Speaker 4: as if at the pace that enters playing, they're not
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  Speaker 4: gonna be dropping any more points that you could probably
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  Speaker 4: capitalize from. So it's it's gonna be coming down.
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  Speaker 2: To the wire.
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  Speaker 4: It's probably gonna be another Inter and Milan repeat season
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  Speaker 4: like that happened a couple of years ago, where it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna probably come down to the last game, you know,
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  Speaker 4: probably at the halfway, probably been at halftime of the
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  Speaker 4: last game, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing. Yeah that was it was yeah back in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, was it three nothing at halftime? So yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to say, uh yeah, talk about last
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  Speaker 1: game in your schedule Udinese part Mentality, Bologna, Roma, Verona, Torino,
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  Speaker 1: Latio and Como. So you know, I know they play
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  Speaker 1: Lato in Bologna. These are probably the games that not
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  Speaker 1: monopolies cheering for those teams, and uh you know they
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  Speaker 1: have a couple of tough, tough opponents Milan Bologna and
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  Speaker 1: then Empli Manza, Torino, Leche, Genua part mentality. So maybe
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  Speaker 1: two tough, really tough games for each the other one
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  Speaker 1: should be wins, right, So that's gonna That's why it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be tough for interest drop points.
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  Speaker 2: All We've seen it all season longer. It's tough for
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  Speaker 2: them to even drop points, regardless of what time of
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  Speaker 2: the year it is. You know, right now it's the
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  Speaker 2: business end of the season, and you know they they
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  Speaker 2: capitalize and you know, and again I don't know who
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  Speaker 2: you want to point a finger too at that in
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  Speaker 2: that Napoli have vanetsa game and you want to be
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  Speaker 2: on the players on Quante. I saw Quante making his
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  Speaker 2: his classic, you know, excuses about the pitch, about this,
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  Speaker 2: about that, Listen, this was this was a pot for Napoly.
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  Speaker 2: And again I'm going to stick to my guns like
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  Speaker 2: I have all season in terms of choosing Napoi and
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  Speaker 2: picking up with to win the Scudetto. I picked it
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  Speaker 2: in the pre uh you know, the preseason uh show
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  Speaker 2: that we had, and I'm going to stick to it
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  Speaker 2: until the end. But you know, this one was you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the the drop points during the season for Napoly,
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  Speaker 2: these games that they should have won or should have
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  Speaker 2: picked up maximum points.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it hurts.
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  Speaker 2: But now when it's crunch time, you're playing once a
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  Speaker 2: week and you have been all season long and you
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  Speaker 2: fumble it when nine ten games left to go in
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  Speaker 2: the season, it hurts. It's not only you know, two
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  Speaker 2: points dropped. I think it feels more of a burden
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  Speaker 2: than that. So again it's mentality. Whatever you want to
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want to label it as mentality the players, Gonte,
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  Speaker 2: whoever you want to point the finger to, but listen,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be tough, I think inter for them to
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  Speaker 2: drop points, not we's gonna have to do more than
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  Speaker 2: just a couple of prayers to Sunjanad Right, They're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to do it. They're gonna have to do a
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  Speaker 2: bit more than that. So I guess fingers crossed for
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  Speaker 2: the novel with Donni out there, But this was their weekend,
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  Speaker 2: This was the This was their weekend, and not only
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  Speaker 2: for them, even for at Atlanta just to flip the
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  Speaker 2: onto the other coin there. But you know, even at Atlanta,
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  Speaker 2: they had their chance to make it real close, all
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  Speaker 2: tied on sixty one points, if they would have won,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't do. So there it seems to be that
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  Speaker 2: inter in Zachie's inter is is kind of been there
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  Speaker 2: been their downfall. They've can't seem, Gaspardini can't seem to
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  Speaker 2: get a win against them, so be it at home
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  Speaker 2: or away. But you saw it at that flip of
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  Speaker 2: flip of momentum at that on that corner kick, that
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  Speaker 2: there was a bit of a delay. Again, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if you guys saw it or the listeners saw it,
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  Speaker 2: but you know the bit of the way with something
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  Speaker 2: that went on into the crowd into the court of
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was one of the inter fans that
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  Speaker 2: needed some some assistance, a medical assistance. So obviously, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, good to I guess quote unquote stopped the game,
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  Speaker 2: uh for that for that little bit of a pause.
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  Speaker 2: But you have to be ready at all at all
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  Speaker 2: moment of the game, and this was a moment that
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  Speaker 2: uh for for Atalanta's sake, I don't know, maybe you know,
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  Speaker 2: shut down for that for that sport. Second, you put
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  Speaker 2: in a good cross and cross Gusso's all alone to
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  Speaker 2: to to get to get a goal. So I think
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  Speaker 2: the momentum switched there and then it felt like it
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  Speaker 2: was almost uh you know not they weren't able to
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  Speaker 2: come back in there. There was whatever they had to
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  Speaker 2: go forward, it wasn't working. And again maybe uh you
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  Speaker 2: had the weapon but no bullets type of type of deal.
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  Speaker 2: But it's unfortunate because it could have made you know,
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  Speaker 2: school of Litera is even more exciting. But Atalanta, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not doing it, not we you know, shooting themselves in
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  Speaker 2: the foot in the in the morning match there against Venezia.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's tough, but again, there's still time. There's nine
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  Speaker 2: games left. They're gonna have to pray and leave it
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  Speaker 2: all on the pitch.
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  Speaker 1: Our team's ager, not so much in the scudental conversation
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  Speaker 1: My team, I don't't even want to, you know, bring
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  Speaker 1: it up in conversation. Three Nothing this weekend against Quarantina.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just more of the same, right agent. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I was talking to my coworker about this day,
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  Speaker 1: and he's a Menu fan. You know, I don't follow
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  Speaker 1: too much premierly, but I don't think they're doing so
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  Speaker 1: well either. And you know what I told him, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's got to the point with you ve Ade. It
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  Speaker 1: feels like I'm I don't even want to watch, But
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be that fan that stops watching,
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  Speaker 1: gives up on the team just because they're not doing well.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's, you know, two hours
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  Speaker 1: out of my day on the weekend, in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the day, whether it's a Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: I have better things to do, right, And I watched, Yeah, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I did watch the game, but it got to a
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  Speaker 1: certain point where I started doing other things around the house.
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  Speaker 1: Know I wasn't paying attention. Same thing with the Atalanta game.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what this is kind of define you
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  Speaker 1: a season and it's it's sad because at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, like you know, I I just want
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy watching the games. I want to look forward
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  Speaker 1: to seeing them play every week. They don't need to
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  Speaker 1: win every week. They're not going to win every week,
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  Speaker 1: and that's okay. But if you're coming out flat for
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  Speaker 1: nothing at home, three nothing against a team whose fans
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  Speaker 1: are you writing you've every mere and their tifo, it's
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  Speaker 1: an embarrassment. And I don't know, you know what the
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  Speaker 1: future holds. You know this whole Manta in Mantell business.
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  Speaker 1: You know, whether Mata stays on or not, it's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: This is a lost season for the club. That's going
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  Speaker 1: to impact them from a couple of seasons, and it's
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  Speaker 1: going to take a couple of seasons to recover from.
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  Speaker 1: So even if Mata gets fired, I'm not gonna go
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  Speaker 1: out and celebrate because that's not good. You just wasted
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  Speaker 1: a whole season of a coach you you thought you
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  Speaker 1: could have done well with. And then it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: do we have to start this all over the next season.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, I don't want him ont
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  Speaker 1: to stay on another year because he hasn't done anything
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  Speaker 1: to prove that he should stay on, right, So you know,
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  Speaker 1: at this point, nine games left, the goal is to
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  Speaker 1: finish top four. And what's hilarious is that Bologna passed
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  Speaker 1: you in the standings. So you go out and get
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  Speaker 1: this coach from another team who then passes you in
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  Speaker 1: the standings of nine games left. That that's pretty embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we've talked, we talked about Bologna last
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  Speaker 1: you know, last couple of weeks, but shout out to them,
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  Speaker 1: what for what they've done is incredible and they have
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  Speaker 1: some big, big games coming up, I think against the
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  Speaker 1: top three teams uh in the city at and they
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  Speaker 1: could really cement themselves in the top four if they
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  Speaker 1: got a couple of wins with those, so uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think they've Bologna's put themselves in a good cycle
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  Speaker 1: where they're gonna get They're gonna you know, they made
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  Speaker 1: Champions League, they got the money for the Champions League,
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  Speaker 1: and they should make Champions League at least Europe League
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  Speaker 1: next season, so they're getting you know, they're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: more money and it's gonna cycle versus you've ad no
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  Speaker 1: Champions League last year. No, you're you know European football
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  Speaker 1: at all obviously because of things off the pitch. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you go back to the Champions League this year, lose first,
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  Speaker 1: losing the first of them, the knockout. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: lose out on money, and now there's a possibility not
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  Speaker 1: even return the Champions League. So you go out get
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  Speaker 1: all these players that they got right in the past
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  Speaker 1: six months, and now they're not even gonna have the
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  Speaker 1: funds to pay for them. So it's they're they're they
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  Speaker 1: just keep shooting themselves on the foot. But it's just frustrating.
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  Speaker 2: Watch.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's not much else to say, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So you.
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  Speaker 4: Know how we talked about it like a few weeks
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  Speaker 4: ago about like uh, you know, like the whole Mantha
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  Speaker 4: situation with its Ganga, Like do you think it's a
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  Speaker 4: good idea that you know, uvent this just gives up
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  Speaker 4: on the Mata project after just one year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm still sticking to know. I know Nick, I
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  Speaker 2: know Nick wants him out, and.
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  Speaker 4: I know he just said he just said, so, like
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  Speaker 4: I get it, but like, do you think that's probably
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  Speaker 4: the best course of action for event just at this point,
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  Speaker 4: but having something could like consistent be good for them.
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  Speaker 1: There's been no progress and the team's gotten worse throughout
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  Speaker 1: the season. And I understand, look, first couple of months,
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  Speaker 1: it's a new team. You know, you got all this.
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  Speaker 1: They're sure there was an injury to Bramer, But every
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  Speaker 1: single move has been to try to fix this, and
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  Speaker 1: every single move has been wrong pretty much besides besides
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  Speaker 1: Turram and Kolamani. So why are you gonna go continue
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  Speaker 1: with guys who haven't even proved him themselves? And and
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  Speaker 1: you know, for me, again, I don't know how how
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  Speaker 1: much these reports are true, but apparently there's.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Problems between the players, and you know, he's kind of
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  Speaker 1: lost control, and I think that's when coaches loser jobs,
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  Speaker 1: when they lose control of the room. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a whole above its situation. You know, fa Joli came
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  Speaker 1: out in the weekend said it was it was a
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  Speaker 1: sad situation for him personally when he was forced out
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  Speaker 1: of Jeuve. You know, so you're getting these things, you
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  Speaker 1: don't know how much is true, right, but it's just
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  Speaker 1: very questionable at best.
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  Speaker 2: You know, so.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. Well, look, if Manta come stays another season
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  Speaker 1: and they improve, great, that that's awesome. But at this point,
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  Speaker 1: rather just pull the plug and start over.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But my thing again, this is me as an outsider.
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  Speaker 2: How many times is you eally going to pull the plug?
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  Speaker 2: How many times are they going to change their coach?
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  Speaker 2: How many times are they going to restart? How many
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  Speaker 2: times are they going to go for a new players?
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  Speaker 2: At one point you have to kind of try to
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  Speaker 2: build something more than one season. In my opinion, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to stick with that. I think they should keep
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  Speaker 2: him for at least another year. Will that happen ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: we don't know. If you read some reports, it's saying no.
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  Speaker 2: If he reads other reports, it's saying yeah. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the upper management still wants to believe in him and
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  Speaker 2: wants to put the faith and in continuing working together.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I think it's you know, it's fifty
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  Speaker 2: percent yes, fifty percent no. We're kind of in the
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  Speaker 2: middle in this, in this no man's land. But if
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  Speaker 2: it were to if it were me, I would stick
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  Speaker 2: with him some more, you know, start fresh with, you
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  Speaker 2: know again, because it can't be that as much as
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  Speaker 2: we want to hate, as much as we don't like,
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  Speaker 2: as much as you want to, you know, laugh at Juventus.
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  Speaker 2: It cannot be that top club in this in this country,
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  Speaker 2: in this league, is recycling coaches year in and year out. Nick,
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  Speaker 2: remind me how many do they have in the past
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  Speaker 2: five years?
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  Speaker 1: Sary Pirlo legree to four four missing nobody.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so, right, like four coaches in five years.
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  Speaker 2: That's not you know, you want to say and laugh
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  Speaker 2: and whatever about the Steeler ove it that that is
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  Speaker 2: not Juventus. So for me again, maybe we could have said,
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, they should have stuck with this guy then
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  Speaker 2: Pierre Lowe and bah, but you know what, they didn't.
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  Speaker 2: They moved on and now we're back in the same situation.
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  Speaker 2: For me again, I would stick to something to kind
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  Speaker 2: of just answer Johnny's question there as an outsider, I
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  Speaker 2: know fans are upset. I get it. You know, when
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  Speaker 2: things are not going well. It's normal to be upset,
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  Speaker 2: especially on on seasons where again it's not a runaway
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  Speaker 2: compananental this season, you know, we had a runaway season.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Last year, we had a runaway season the year before that. Uh,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: it came down to the wire three years ago, so
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: you know, this was a again I guess it. Maybe
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: that bleeds into my my thoughts about me on too,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: but you know, this wasn't a runaway season where a
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: lot of teams could have could have really competed for that.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: So that school that doing. You know. Unfortunately, the Juventus
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: is of the world, the means of the world, you know,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: the Romans of the world, the lots of the world.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: They're they're just not there right, So I don't know
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: they went they again, they invested hard in over the
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: summer to get Mata to throw it all away after
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: a bad season. For me, it would be a shame.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: But again, I guess the only time will tell. Uh.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: For for what what's to happen with Matajuentus.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Uh, I don't know if you want to talk about
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Milan or or we just move move on.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: To a lot. We can talk. We can talk about it,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: but you know, again again not much to say. Well, listen,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: it's we need to we have now nine more finals
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: you spoke to me two weeks ago, would have been
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: eleven finals to end the season. Uh, and somehow, some
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: way mathematically, you know, the football gods say that, you know,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Milan is still mathematically possible to get a tough for spots.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: So we're still alive in that Okay, in that aspect.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Will it happen again? I don't know. I want to
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: stay as optimistic as possible. But you know, when you
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: when you shoot yourself in the foot too many times
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: throughout to season and drop points like silly silly points
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: that you really shouldn't be dropping against. Again, no disrespect
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: to the opponent, but weaker opponents, it's times like this
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: where it bites you in the ass, shoot yourself in
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: the foot. And now we're again praying to if it
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: be sundry out, if it and on you know, whatever
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: saint you want to pray to. Uh, you know it
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: comes down to that, right So again, this could have
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: been even worse of maybe a discussion if they weren't
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: going to come back in this como game, if they
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: were going to go down to nothing and not have
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: enough to maybe pull up the three points. You know,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: you've a seven goals against zero four, right mean, coming
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: back into back to back games, it's kind of just crazy,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: crazy times right in these in the city matches in
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: the business end of the season and coming back against
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Como where again, you know, they came back against Lech
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: three to two and I think, you know, let's say,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: weren't the best and you know, Melan whatever found a
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: way to come back, but Como was really given it
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: to us. And you know they go down one. Nothing
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: could have been too if it wasn't for var and
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: the off side. You know, we have the again, we
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: have the character to come back. I guess, you know,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: our two best players of the season po and and
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: r Renders coming up cutch once again for me On.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: And it's been it's been on their shoulders all all
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: season long. They've been our top top scorers, top you know,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: top point getters, just top every everything. Right, they've been
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: the best players for me On. So you know, again
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: shows a lot of character. But again it's not gonna
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: it's not gonna be as easy to come back against,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: you know, tougher opponents. We come out of the international break.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Who do we have? We have you know the mighty
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: and upoly right, So that's gonna be a big match
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: coming out of the international break and h you know,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: now we's gonna want to get three points, you know,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: after they fumbled this past weekend against Vanetsia, Mion need
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: the three points to to continue on this path of
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: stringing in results and and and hoping and praying for
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: you know, a top four finish. That again, like I said,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: it's still mathematically possible, but again our big dogs are
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: gonna have to step up, and we can't. We can't
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: continuously go down early in games and then hope and
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: pray for a comeback, if it be to tie the
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: game or if it be to win the match. So again,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: disappointing season because like I said earlier with when touching
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: up a bit on Juventus, uh, this this season I
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: think was now looking back after what twenty nine matches,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: you know, it was very attainable for some of these
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: top top squads that if you know, they would have
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: got the ball rolling and and and had things in order,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I think could have been made up made a push
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: for another scudetto you know, with with Melon dropping all
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: kinds of points and really falling behind the eight ball
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: and seeing themselves now in ninth. Uh and again we're
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: gonna go back to Juventis. And if it wasn't for
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: those draws. Where would they be, right, we said, we
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: spoke about it on the flip side of if they
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: would have won maybe half those games, they would be
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: you know, an exposition. But if they would have not
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: gotten those draws at all, those would have been maybe
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: half those losses. What what story would we be talking about? Right,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: So it's it's a catch twenty two with these, with
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: these septs of results and in this season with these
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: with these you know, these clubs. But for me on again,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I know fans are pissed. Uh, they have been for
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: a long time throughout this year. But uh, it's it's
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: now just a race to the finish. Uh and and
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: kind of just see where we where we end. Obviously
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: top four is the ultimate goal. Will that happen again?
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Only time will tell. But we need some sort of
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: European money because, you know, if we want to keep
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: guys on, if we want to sign new players, if
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: we want to pursue and continue this project. Uh, you know,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: we need to be at at the highest of levels
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: in our league. But so again it's it's the same
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: hold meal on. But I'm remaining optimistic. I know some
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: fans just want to pull the plug and just end
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: it all and clean slate next season. Again, that's a
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: whole other discussion. I don't know if that will happen.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I do perfect No, do I do I like him
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: as a coach in the small sample size, yes, I do.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: What I want to continue with them. It would be
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: nice to again way down the foundation and start to
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: build a cycle. But again, if you listen to the reports,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: it's it's almost like, Okay, the end of the season's
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: gonna come and and there goes come in South, the
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: end of season's gonna come. Okay, there goes Mata, and
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: now we're gonna recycle coaches and start all over again,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: which again I personally don't want to do. I'd rather
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: try to stick to something. But again, the only time
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: will tell for all this. And we currently have the
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: international break now, and uh, we'll get after getting that
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: out of the way, maybe it's a good time to
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: kind of still refresh these batteries and and have these
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: last nine, these last nine finals as I like to
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: call them, and see where we see where we end up.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: But it's not going to get any easier after the
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: international break, So let's hopefully take this time to to
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: refresh and regather ourselves and uh and then off the
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: season strong.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Did you see the post that was commentating on like
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: because le Ou posed like a did or did a
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: video with a rapper or something, and people were just
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: roastingly out like, oh, I can't believe my team went
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: from the Maltinis debatsis and stuff to like this now
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: and stuff. And I feel like it was it was
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: it was unjustified, you know, like let the guy live.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: He's allowed to have a life, you know what I'm saying, Like, yes,
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: he's a professional footballer, but he's also a human being.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: If he likes it or things he likes, he has
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: their interests, he has the right to, like, you know,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: indulge in them.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: You know what I think what I think it is
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: is that you know, this is a this is a
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: season that's not going according to plants. So when fans
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: and again we're all reactioning, right all as fans, you know,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: with with our respective clubs, especially when things are not
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: going well. This is a tough period and your quote
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: unquote best player, your superstar.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Your your your your your.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Most high your highest paid player on the team, is
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: is is posting these other things that you know, these
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: hardcore fans. They don't care if he has a personal life,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: if he you know, if he if he likes, if
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: he likes the you know, rappings. I know, yeah, I
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: know he's getting into music a bit, and which again
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: I don't personally mind. I know fans get very Oh
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: my god, he's posting with a rapper and he's making
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: beats instead of scoring goals, and layout sucks and this
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: and that. Okay, guys, let's relax like it's it's it's
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: the age of social media, which if you haven't noticed
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: by now, it's it's kind of what it is, right,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: But listen, I get it. I get the frustration because
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: things going well, but when we make things bigger than
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: it is, than what it really is for me, it
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: again shakes my head. But we got players on the
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: pitch that can't get a ball on target. Ak Musa
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: rounds the keeper and still misses the net, and we're
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: discussing why they I was posting with I don't know
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: if it's a couple of plots Julier, I don't know whoever.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter who it is, but we're worried about that. Again,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I know he makes a lot of money in the
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: sea landscape, in the melon landscape, of of of salaries.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: But let's not bow of this into you know, bigger
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: proportions than it needs to be. Let's focus on on
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: on the pitch. And again, just like I said earlier,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: just finish off this season strong. And I don't know,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: listen like moist Keen Raps right, he has he has
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: a music, uh you know background. But you know, the
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: fans in Fiordentina, you know, I don't seem to have
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: an issue, right obviously, maybe the the you know, the
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: levels of you know, a Milan or a Feudentina are
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: obviously different, which I get. But at the same time,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: you know what, again, I agree with what these guys do,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: what they gotta do, but we need to see it
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: on the pitch. And Leol this season has been up
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: and down, and I know he gets a lot of hate.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I I like Leol as a player. I wanted I
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: want to see him do well. Uh he's been, he's
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: he's he's given us you know, great moments and we
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: just want those moments to continue. So hopefully that happens.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: And you know, not only to end this season, but
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: you know, in the seasons to come as well.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I guess I said, that's you know, we talked about
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: our teams in the city. We can move to the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: team that we all support together.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Five.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I nothing, lots, I'm nothing lots of that, you know.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Like I said before, Bologna, what they're doing is it's
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: crazy and they've just gotten better. This is what happens,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: or Seleni, this is what happens. This is what happens
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: when you get a coach. You know, yeah, you have
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: a rough start, but you got better throaut the season.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: That's what you want to see when you get a
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: new coach, right and that's exactly what he Tellana's doing
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: with Bologna.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: Well, it also takes time, you know, to like, you know,
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: like adjust to your squad, see what you have, which
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: what you need to build with, you know, like it's
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: not it's not something that you can like. Rome wasn't
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: built in a day. Actually Rome wasn't built in fucking
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: years either, Right now, I.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Guess Bologna they do things a bit quick for me
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: about it, I don't know, Yeah, sorry, is cooking in
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: some some good uh some good totolini? I guess I
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: But even if it's true, but even if you look
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: at their standings, Uh, the way they've progressed their standings
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: throught the season.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: After week one they were ninth, but then after that
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: it was eighteenth, eighteenth, seventeenth, thirteenth, thirteenth, thirteenth, twelfth, eleventh,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: nine weeks in a row and eight in eighth, four
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: more weeks at seventh, eighth, seventh, eighth, seventh, eight eight, eight,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: now six, six and then four. So they really just
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: it's been a slow progression progression up. They've won four
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: in a row for the four of their last sorry,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: five of the last six.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, they've been hot and they're a team that
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: cope tally semifinals. It's coming up in win in April
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: against Empley. This is a team that look, at the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: end of day, they'll be favored against emply and they
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: could have an impact in there in a Copale final
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: whether they go and win it because on the other
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: side's Inter Yeah it's intervsus Miland, right, so whoever wins
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: that is going to be favorite in the final regardless.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: But you know, you know, Moloney has an opportunity to
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: win a trophy for this for the city, which is
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: which is crazy, but but yeah, that's it. Uh, the
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Nations League guys, tomorrow, we're recording this Wednesday night.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Thursday, Italy plays against Germany at the Sant Zero and
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: then they play Sunday in the Return League in Dormant
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: at our favorite stadium, the West Founding Stadium in Dormant,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: where Italy just played in the Euros to was it
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: two one win versus Albinia, right, it was a Bostonian
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: barrel to score the goals right.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: After that DeMarco disaster.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: The virasing start. But guys actually found this out today.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Whoever wins between these two is also going to host
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the Nations League finals come June.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Oh that I did not know.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: That's interesting. Yeah, and so it's either the Nations League
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: finals are either going to be in Munich or in Torino.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: So I feel like this is another intentive. You know,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: we already knew about the fact that whoever wins is
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: going to play one less game or sorry, two less
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: games in qualifying for the World Cup. They're gonna have
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: one less to go through. Yeah, obviously you get you know,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the semifinals and finals in the Nations League and then
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: apparently get to hosted so it's it's extra incentive and
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting. You know, I want to see
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: how much of the players put effort into this versus
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: you know, how much the fi GC is poken the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: players and saying, hey, look let's win this so we
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: can make more money. But you know, at the end
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: of they you know, I want them to win. I
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: think more importantly is it's you know, it's been what
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: five months since or four months since they last played
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: in November. You know, looking back last year's embarrassment at
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the Euros, it just feels like, you know, it's they've
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: turned the new page right and if you look at
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the roster, not many of these players or even at
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the Euros. And so it is just an opportunity to
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: grow together as you're gonna get into a busy twenty
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: twenty five because if you win, you go to the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: you know you semi finals and finals in June and
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: then World Cup qualifying in the September October Humber Windows.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: And if you lose, it's World Cup qualifying June September
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: October Windows. So they already have a busy twenty twenty five.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: So it's just an opportunity to to, you know, play
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: together against a tough opponent. Are they gonna win? Honestly,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Germany's a really good team, so I doubt it, but
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: you know, anything could happen. It seems like it. You know,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Italy has a magic touch when it comes to the
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Nations League. So we'll have to see. But yeah, I
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: think more important is just getting time together.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: I just also like have a bit of work because
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: you know, you don't have it a tag in this game, right, Yeah,
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: that's that's that's the that's the big one in my eyes,
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: that like kind of you know, hurts a bit that
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: you don't have probably one probably our most actually not
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: probably like our most informed striker, like like organic striker.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Like he's the like he's the one that should be Actually.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Hold on, I don't number nine.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a true number nine. Hold on looking at
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: the I forgot to put my bad folks. I forgot
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: to pull up the roster call up. I know Maldini
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: got a call up, but I doubt he gets any play.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Kean might see some play becides now now now that
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: now that thank he's injured, Keen is definitely gonna see play.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: You know, uh, I think honestly speaking, Uh, like Spiletti's
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: gonna have to dig deep with these guys, especially against
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: a team like Germany. You have to like you have
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: to hope that like they did, like they show a
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: bit of that like wanting to win integrity.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Here we go. I have the list.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Finally, honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he starts Raspadori
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: and I don't I don't want him to in a way,
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: but I wouldn't be surprised if he probably starts a
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: rasp and then puts in Keen or does vice versus
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: starts Keen putting in Raspdori. Our midfield and our defense
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: is gonna have to come up big. That's that's that's
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: what it's gonna come down to, Like it's gonna it's
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be the battle of the midfield. If if
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Napolei can Napoli, Wow take it so much of because
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: because I was talking about hospitality and my brain went
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: automatically to Anapolete. But uh, if Italy can like win
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: that battle in the mid we should be fine. Because
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: I know you like like not having uh Demodico not
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: being there, you know, being absent and stuff like it's
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be tough because those are like some key
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: players and key positions that I think, honestly speaking, have
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: shown a brighter future for Italy than they have in
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: previous years, where it's like, okay, like now it seems
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: to be like we've we've we've we've identified a core
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: for the future for like maybe the next two major
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: international competitions at minimum, you know. So that's so that
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: that that's what kind of irks me about this game,
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: the upcoming games, because if things like that, like let's
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: say they have a poor performance versus h versus versus Germany,
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: like I don't I don't want them to think or
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: believe that it's because they were good enough. It's because
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: you know, like a lot of pieces are missing in
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: my eyes, you know.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: So yeah, and again I saw some of the you know,
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: predictive lineups and stuff, and I think Keen and and
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: uh and d he might put it together if it
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: be in a front two or you know, ROSPADORI just
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: a bit behind kind of there. But yeah, key with
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: sorry the techy's injury and now setting them home. And
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I listened to uh to what's what you had to
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: say in his uh in his press conference, uh, you
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: know earlier and you know he said he wasn't gonna
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: you know, they sent obviously the techy home and they
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: didn't He didn't call anybody up, you know, to automatically
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: replace him. He wants to kind of see how things
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: go and if he needs you know, another true nine.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I heard he was going to look at Roberto PICOI
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: the striker and if they needs more of like against
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Segonda Punta kind of that playmaker behind the striker. He
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: was looking about Danzi, so you know, because there's there's injuries,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: not only the tech ye I heard you know was
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: having a bit of an issue. Uh, Camaso was having
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: a bit of an issue. So you know he brought
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: in Bellanova that I saw as well. He he got
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: he got the call to to come in currently should
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: arrive tomorrow. But those even talks I saw on some
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: of these pages on Twitter, These are Zuli pages on Twitter,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: the the you know, the the young Ford Show. There again,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not too familiar with him in in everything. I
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: know he plays out in England and Burnley, but uh,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: he's an interesting uh, an interesting profile as well. So yeah,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be tough. No, no, don't get us wrong.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Germany is obviously a top opponent. We we always seem
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: to have some sort of uh, entertaining game and some
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: memories playing Germany in the past. Let's hope for that
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: to happen again, uh in these in these next two matches.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: But yeah, listen, I I put faith in in our midfield,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: like you said, Johnny, and and again we always say,
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: you know, games are won and loss in the midfield.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: And again I put faith in in the players that
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: we have there. You know, if it be, if it
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: be uh, you know, but Tonali, I know, Rovella is
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: in there. At Ichi has been playing very well. Uh
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: even Rovella has playing has been playing good. So you know,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: these are guys that can come up and uh and
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: and and really dominate playing in the midfield. And Frati
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: as well. I think Fratis under Spoetti. I think Frati
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: is the top goal scorer if I'm not mistaken under
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: under under Spelletti.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: For the So yeah, I think.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: So it's like six seven goals. Like this guy seems
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: to be like a man on form when playing for
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: the Audi Uner Spalletti, so that helps as well, you know,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: obviously between the pipes, you know, we're we're, we're. I
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: think we're pretty we're pretty good with don Aroma. And
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: and defensively, again the formations that I've been seeing, you know,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: if it be the you know the three five two
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: or three five one one, if you want to say
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: it that way. But it's it seems to be what
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Spoet wants to go with, and it's gonna it's gonna
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: hurt a bit, I think on the wing play, if
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: without without the Marco and and if Cambiaso is not
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: good enough to go, that's gonna hurt because again seeing
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: them live at the Olympic back in October, like those guys,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: they don't stop. They get involved very much on the
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: offensive play and they can track back well, you know,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: very very well. Also, so it's uh it died. I
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: think it's gonna be another big loss besides the tag
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: you loss. But again, if this is this is a
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: moment for Keen, this is this is a moment for him,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: and he's been again another guy and on form, another
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: forward on form he's he's up there in the couple race, right,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: so uh, scoring some you know, some big goals for Fidentina,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: not only in the league, if it be un conference
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: league as well. So I'm excited for him to get
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: his hit, hit another another shot against a big, a big,
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: big team, you know, and if he has to throw
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: up a guy like you know, Lorenzo Luca who again
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: even him, He's had a decent campaign so far this season.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: It's nothing to really brag about, but you know, he
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: can maybe get some minutes. So we'll, we'll, we'll see.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: I think it's they need to start hot. And for
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: me this these are these are must wins, like if
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: they want to progress, if they want to have these
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: incentives go their way, and you know, really again face
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: quality opponents and make a statement. You know, these games
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: against Germany and if they advanced, whoever they play next
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: are are huge. But yeah, I think also defensively, like
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: you said, Johnny is another good point. I think obviously
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: having Bostonian back there, you know, Cala Fiorti is back.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: You I don't think he was there in November, if
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken in the November call up, I think
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: he might have been injured or or whatnot. But having
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: him back back there is is huge. If it be
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: the Ornzo, if it be when Jordano, if it be
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: whoever else back there, it's it's uh. I think it's
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: strong personally. So yeah, that's kind of how I see.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: It's the new faces too, right. I know Nick has
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: down the ticker down there, you know, the whole squad
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: that he put up. I think it's Day and Ruggery
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: from from Atalanta's first cops, the national.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Nomad called up.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: He already was called up, if I'm not mistaken, But
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: I think it's uh yeahs Day and and Rue Jerry,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Like I said, I think are the new newest of
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: additions to this, this rotational squad. That's what he has
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: been really experimenting with. So yeah, shout out to them
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: and maybe they get minutes, maybe they don't. I don't know,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: but yeah, we we need a win tomorrow that stuffs
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: and again when the national anthem hits, it always gets
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: us in the mood. So I'm excited. Ah.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: And you got to respect the fact that like Spilatti
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: is digging into the barrel, like he's looking at as
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: much talent as he can to see what else does
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: he have available to it, Like he's he's trying not
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: to stay stagnant with the same roster daddy that many
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: managers had to go wrong with in the past, of
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: like just staying within the same crew. It's like okay,
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: like like let's leave no stone unturned, you know, forget.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Or Selena not being called that that that one is
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: a bit weird for me. It must be something he
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: must have something on Spilett Spiletti doesn't like but well
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: it seen. But one thing I want to bring up
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: actually before okay, actually going.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: On before you say that, the one thing I think
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know your SELEENI non call again. We've said
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: it in the past many times. We're not going to
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: beat a dead horse. But personally, I think he could
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: fit in. But I don't think SPOETI thinks he could
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: fit into how he wants to play in the formation
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: that he's going to set up, you know. Or Selene's
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: not really uh well he's not really a striker or
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: really a second striker. He's more of a more of
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: a winger. I would I think, I know he probably
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: can play maybe across, but I don't see why he
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: can't put him in that maybe segund type of playoff
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: of if you had a Taggie or whoever it be.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: But that's the only thing I can think of, because
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: it makes no sense. It's it's what three four seasons
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: in a row that he has double digits and goals.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: It's what the else does the guy need to do?
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: He helps two Champions League last season, he has them
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: currently helping them in a in the in the race
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: the top four, currently in fourth, like Nick said early here,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: ahead of Juventus and company. What else does the guy
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: need to do? Again, maybe people are are digging into
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: the celebration that I keep on doing on air. For
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: the listeners that are not doing that, not not he
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: not obviously seeing it, they're listening to it. But the
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: knock knock on the camera that he did maybe uh
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: directed towards the Spoletti. But uh, maybe he doesn't fit.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Maybe he's half mind. He doesn't fit, like I said,
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: the shape and the formation and and and the way
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: he wants to play, which again is a shame because
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: does a guy like Polyitano fit? Does a guy like
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: He's a candy really ultimately fit if he's playing this formation,
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know exactly.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: If it's a winger thing like like Polittle's already defeated
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: from the argument because Pallytitan was naturally a pure winger exactly.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: So if it's a winger issue, then you're clearly calling
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: out pollitaddle and he just plays wings. So what are
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: you gonna do from there?
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: You know? Yeah, So again we don't know obviously things
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know, it's just one of these things.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: But we hope to see him soon if if things
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: continue to go well and in the national team call
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: up with but for now, again it's still at home.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: In Bowgna for uh personally and speaking of before about
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: between the pipes quickly before we move on to the
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: next topic, uh and call ups in Italy. Did you
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: guys see the news with Buffon's son, Oh, yeah, how
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: he wants to actually play for the Czech national TechNation
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: instead of the Italian national team because he feels more
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: connection with his check side. That's crazy Italian side, which
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: I don't know, Like I don't know about you guys,
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: kind of stinks a bit. What do you guys make
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: of that? Because like I feel a little bit like
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: off put by that conved.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, I don't know anything about him
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: besides the fact that he's Buffone's son. I you know,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: first heard about this kid a couple of weeks ago,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: a couple of months ago.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Whatever.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: I wonder if he maybe he just recognizes that he's
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: might not have the talent to play, to play for
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: the Italian national team, and he's just kind of conceding
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: and saying, Okay, let's play for the Czech national team,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: like cave you guys, name one Czech player Like yeah,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: what Yakabianto?
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: What right now?
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeah.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'll have to say he played and she
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: actually always seems to have a good euro competition like
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: every event that he plays, and he just international event
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: like he just shows up for for Czech republics. Oh
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: sorry check yeah now, uh, you know what I'm saying,
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: Like it's uh, I don't know, it's I guess it
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: feels more at ease with that, I guess. So it's
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: just it's just a bit off putting to see what
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: a different jersey is.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: What I'm just gonna you know, I mean, I think
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: the press, you know, it's a lot of pressure, right obviously,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: oh that name. Ultimately, no matter if he's amazing or
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: if he sucks, that's a huge pressure, right, So that's
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: where I kind of maybe see it again. Uh, he's
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: he's he got minutes under under people in Zachie's Pizza, right,
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: not too long ago, and he's kind of getting into
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: the mix over there. So ultimately it does is he
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: of quality like Nick is saying, and like you know,
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: we kind of can maybe agree on I don't maybe not,
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know. And again for me, it's it's it's
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: the pressure thing. You know that that last name holds
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: a lot of weight in culture, right, especially among the
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Azuri fans. Uh If Beuffore's son doesn't perform for the
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Adzuri like his father did year in year out, tournament
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: in tournament.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Out, and he also plays a different position.
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: He does, which which is fine, but time and time again,
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: jujubufon Uh played at a high level for the Azuri.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Forget what he did in the clubs. That's fine, he
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: had obviously a great, great career, but for the national
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: team he was he was our superman. Right. So, uh,
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: if his son is not burying the goals like his
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: father was able to save us time and time again,
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: that's gonna be all over the papers. That's gonna break
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: this kids confidence. It's gonna it's gonna ruin him, I
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: I personally think. But again, it does sing to not
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: see another buffon in a in a in a you know,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: a Zudi blue. But I guess it's gonna be what
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: it's going to be. I don't know if they officially
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: called them up, but or they will. He played for
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: the Czech U eighteen team, so yeah, so he hasn't
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: gone the senior call up yet. So maybe there's still
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: time for this kid to change his mind and say, Okay,
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: I love you, but I'm going to h to Dot's side, right,
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: And it's also possible that the Italian federations never invited
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: him for any of the youth levels, and then the
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: Czechs federation it's like, hey, come, you know, come play
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: with us. I mean we see us all the time.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Look, uh, Canadian national team they take advantage of those players.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: There was two players that were you know, made transfers
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: to Canada recently promised David and I think uh Daniel Jeffison.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: I know, I think I have made that name screwed
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: up all from that after who you know, grew up
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: through I think the British, the English ranks, and then
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: you know they're not getting they're not getting the minutes
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: with the English national team. They're get they switched Canada
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: something forget tomorrow. He should have done, but that's too
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: late now. But yeah, I know it's interesting the politics
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: with international football because the rules are pretty lenient up
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: until your first game.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: So yeah, what's le's see what happens again? He's what
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: is he?
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: Is?
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: He eighteen?
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: He's seventeen, seventeen right, He's going to be eighteen this year,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: So listen, there's still some time, I guess, but who knows.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: If that's what he wants to do, that's that's his
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: decision and and he'll and he'll make that and he'll
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: make that decision and and with with it. But I
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: guess just as selfish as Zuli fans would like to
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: see another and like I said Inzuibu, like just seeing
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Maldini again in a in an Azudi shirt.
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: Is is.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: Obviously nowhere near his father, which it's so hard to replicate,
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: especially if your father was a legend in any sports.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: We're speaking about culture tonight, but in any sports, if
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: it'd be NFL, NHL and MLB, NBA, whatever it is.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: But it's nice when you when you when you see
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: the next generation try to maybe hold pull the torch
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: and maybe one they you know, pass the torch on.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: But maybe it's not to be for for Buffoon's son.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: And again it is what it is.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's just gonna suck. It's only gonna be
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: the casuals are going to basically eat those players alive.
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: Like the diehard fans are gonna know, like, Okay, this
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: like this guy has is not it's not like his father.
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: And obviously different roles is different things too, but like,
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: you know, like it's rare that like a player is
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: either better than their parents were, you know, more often
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: than not, it's like they tend to be a little
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: bit worse. I think the anyones that can ever think
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: of I've ever seen any player in any sport become
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: like their kids better than their father was. Basically, like
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: let's say, like in the NHL, like Jake the Brusk
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: is way better than his father Louis de Brusk, but
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: Louis de Brusk was a good Max Domi was better
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: than his father Tydomi.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: But Ty DOMI was a good you know, like like.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: One way or the other. Yeah, either the father was
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: a legend or great and the son sucks or vice versa.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: The father was mediocre and you know the sons are amazing.
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: Well that's that's why, like the Maldini's right, Like like
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: the grandfather, like he wasn't I'm not saying he was horrible,
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: but you know, like his son is clearly better than
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: his legacy. You know, yeah, like Paulo definitely has the
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: way better legacy. I'm not saying that.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Legacy.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, like it's it's it's significant, you.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Know why you want another one the Mannings, right, Archie
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: Mannings sucked, Yeah he was. He was okay, Like he
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: was decent. Obviously his team sucked. No offense, nick things
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: were terrible at that time. But uh, Archie Manning was
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: mediocre at best in my opinion, and obviously his sons
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: are you know, two time you know, super Bowl champions
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: and you know, arguably hall of famers. So uh, it's
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: it's either one or the other.
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: It's either definitely Hall of famers at this point.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, Archie Manning, he had a decent enough
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: career I mean I wasn't around, but like you said,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: he was on a really bad scene team at the
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: time when they were really bad, So you know, it's
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: kind of hard to compare. But for sure his sons
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: are better than him. And I think was his grandson
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Archie arch arch Manning that was. I think he's a
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Texas now, could be the next great Manning come come
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: to haunt the Patriots.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: No, but it's a it's a valid point.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, guys, I wanted to, you know, talk about
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: looking at Germany's team. Yeah, I mean it seems like good,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: you know, good enough, uh team, you got your you
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: got your Sanny's, you got your musialas, you got yours.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: But it's uh the attack that is there, words is
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: not there that Yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: It's the attack that kind of takes a step back.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: They got Jonathan Burkhart places for minds, he's made two
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: appearances for the national team. They got uh Tim clean Dash.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Sorry I I can't say that. Uh four appearance, four appearances,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: two goals, place for Borisy Monk and glad Bach and
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Dennis undav five five appearance, three goals place for stut Gart.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: So this is not the best attack. You know, Fulkrog
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: isn't there, and Iberries and there, Hortz isn't there. In
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: the midfield, Words is and there, Julian Brandt is in there.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: So they they've left some names at home. I don't
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: know if there's injuries. I don't know, if you know
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: they wanted some they're they're maybe they're just not performing well.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: But it's Germany. Anything can happen. You know, their defense
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: is kind of their their normal defense. They got Rudy
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: ger they got keimination, they got schlaughterback uh. And then
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: in nets Ali Berman is there as the veteran. No
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Noyer and you know you retired from national team notice
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: staking either. So a couple of guys you don't you
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: probably never heard of, Stefan Artega and and Alexander Elbel so,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of names we don't know, but are probably
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: better as a team than these.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be interesting, right, yeah, but I think
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: we have to take advantage of that, right, like it's
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: it's it's to your point that you know the attack
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: to us again, German listeners, anybody will follow the German league.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: You know, maybe we're wrong. I don't know, but uh,
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: we have to take advantage of that and to focus
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: on what we have to focus on it. We have
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: to take advantage and I think I think they have
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: to start the you have to start hot, they have
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: to start well. Uh. It's not going to be every
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: time where you go down in the first minute against
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: France and then come out with a win after ninety minutes.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: It's that happens. Okay, great, oh my god, you know,
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: amazing we beat France in France. You know, after going
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: down in like the first minute or so. That's not
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: always going to happen. So they can't get behind the
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: eight ball to open the match. I hope that you know,
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: we can score early, uh and kind of dictate and
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: the tempo they take play, use our strength to our
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: advantage and uh and hopefully find their weaknesses and and
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: and and go from there and and make it, like
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: I said earlier, another another Italy Germany, Uh, you know,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: match to maybe look back on in a couple of
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: years and say, oh my god, you remember when you
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: know so and so, Uh, you know, scored and we
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: beat Germany and you know, the nation's league whatever. So
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: obviously the caliber and the level of that is not
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: of you know, a Euro twenty twelve or you know,
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: you know, World Cup twenty and six. But still every
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: time we can stick it to the Germans, I think
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: it's it gives us some satisfaction. So I'm hoping for
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: a quick start. And and like I said earlier to
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: open this discussion, you know, they we need two wins.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: We need wins, and we need them, you know, in
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: quick succession. And I'm hopeful because like I said, I
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: don't know when we said this, maybe a couple episodes ago.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: No matter what the game is, anytime the adjuti are
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: on where we're all in passionate and we just want
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: the best for the Azui because it's enough of this bullshit,
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: not doing well and not making this, not qualifying for that,
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: not taking advantage when we have the chance, and bowing
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: out in tournaments that we shouldn't be bowing out to
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: the opponents that we face. So I just want good
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: things again. I'm optimistic that these things will come.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: I was I had something on the tip of my tongue,
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: but I forget. Uh yeah, sorry, guys, I I it's
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: gonna come back. I opened my mouth and I forgot.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: Uh No, but what I actually wanted to say earlier,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: it's funny with uh Italy squad selection. You know, the
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: three goalies are the same from the Euros. Most of
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: the players that have come back from the Euros are
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: actually the defenders, the Lorenzo Bastoni can California, California, Gati Belenova, Belanova.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: You know, these are all guys who are part of
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: the Euro squad, A couple of a couple of guys
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: in midfield Berrella for Taisy, uh that's it, and then
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: uh only Raspdorian only Raspidorians are kind of up front,
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: so a lot of changes up front. So so I
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: think that's where, you know, I think that's where there's
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: jobs to be.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: One.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: We talked about it Rete, you know, it sucks that
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: he got hurt. I wonder if it's just you know,
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: him wanting to rest for the rest of this season
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: for Atalanta. But I think I think, you know, Ken
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: has an opportunity to to you know, make a mark
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: here because he's been having a fantastic season as well.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting. I feel like regardless looking
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: at you know, the four groups are both teams, I
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: don't think there's gonna be a lot of goals scored
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: in this game. I can see, like as there was
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: there a one nothing game and that would be the
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: most Italy Germany game ever.
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: It's gonna come out to the wire, like the last moment.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the game of inches, so to speak.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: I'm seeing in my head, I think of a two
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: to one, but you know it wouldn't shock me, like
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: exactly what you said next, So well we'll see there.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I can't forget it. It's too late. So yeah,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: you know, tomorrow's game is basically half it's a you
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: know at the end of its halftime.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, listen, Uh they go down
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: if they even if they lose, they have a chance, right,
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: So I'm selfish and I want to wins, just to
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: really stick it to the Germans. But you know if
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: they if they lose to one, they have still things
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: to play for, you know. Uh, when it is a Sunday,
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: uh in Germany, Sunday I all over after one match
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: is what our coin is.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I say zero zero through one hundred and eighty minutes,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: goes into extra time. Uh, there's a corner. De Lorenzo
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: picks up the ball, curls it into the back of
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: the net. A minute later, h z cany encounters with
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: the moist can puts it into the back of that
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: to nothing.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: Italy.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: They packed their bags and they go to Torino.
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: I forget about me and Adri had like the same thought.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: Forget forget you know, going to Torino.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: That's any Any last thoughts Johnny about Italy? Uh predictions.
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: To on Germany tomorrow? Yeah, okay, yeah, uh Sunday Sunday?
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: Uh maybe uh nice uh little nice and nice surprise,
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: you know, like a like a like a versus Italy win.
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: I think that would be pretty cool to see. Like
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: I think we're gonna get like disappointed in the first
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: half and then like like first half in terms of
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: like the first game, and you get surprised in the
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: second half. I mean, that'd be pretty cool if it is,
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: But I'm not saying it's guaranteed to happen.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: You know, who are you looking to to maybe maybe
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: step up the most.
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: In terms of like, uh like the players on the squad.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just in general, like uh kind of maybe kind
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: of no, maybe the lineup again. Things can change overnight, but.
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: At the end of the day, we need key to
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: be to be good. We need him to be the
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: best player on the pitch, well actually him in Bastoni,
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: if we're being realistic about it. But I have faith
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: in Bastoni actually being good and consistent for the team.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: Like I I don't.
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: I don't have any uh qualms or like worries about
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: like how he's gonna play, you know.
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: What I mean, Like I agree, I agree, And I'm
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: going to throw In's name into that too.
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: Tonal yes, Tonal yes, because he's gonna have to be
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: the play center, you know, win that ball and set
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: it up like I just get it going, you know.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the midfield is gonna have to run. Nick. I
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: don't know anybody else to add there.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: But honestly, like I said before, King Kan, yeah, it's
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: and and I want to.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: See that he's getting the opportunity that he's getting. I
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: think he had like he has to take advantage.
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: This is the perfect time for him to do so,
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: you know, this is the perfect time for the created
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: argument that like when and when push cups to shove
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: to select players for the Nazionale for for like whatever
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: international competition. This is where it's like, oh crap, like
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: we can choose either it Htegi or Keen and you
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: have either or as an option, you know, and that
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: would be great, you know, like it's like like depth
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: up front for Italy hasn't been great for a very
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: long time. So having a nice one to two punch.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: If Spiletti's gonna go with the soul striker type of formation,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: like the the three five uh one to one type
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: of formation, then this is the perfect time for both
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: Tegi and Keen, especially Keen right now for this game
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: to make an argument for themselves.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree. So I think we mentioned Keen,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: BARSTONI Tonale. I think those are gonna have to be
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: our are our pillars in in in in terms of
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: at each position group uh to kind of the lead
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: the way and and and have the most maybe to
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: prove and the most the most on their shoulders to
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: help Italy advance past past Germany. What guys, maybe I
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: us know who maybe you can add to that list
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: of players, But that's kind of how or where our
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: minds are at for for this matchup against Germany. Nick,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know who they if if it does advance,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: who do they? Who would the end up playing in
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: what matchup because I didn't really see to be honest,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know if.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: You win winner of Denmark and Portugal, that Mark Portugal.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: Okay, so another tough test if if things go the
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: way they should.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: So yeah, let's go Danes, get through, get through this.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: Maybe we could have a matchup of what could have
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: been the Euro twenty twenty final Italy Denmark. What could
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: have been if if England didn't have the referees on
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: their side. Last thing I want to talk about, guys.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: On tomorrow, Canada also plays Nations League the semifinals against Mexico.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: It's in the US I think Sofi Stadium. You know,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: considering the success of Canada, you know, in the past year,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: making it all the way to the Copa America semifinals,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: you know, the fact that you know they play Mexico
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: then there's a chance to play US in the final
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: in this nation's league. I mean, just how big is it?
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: I think kind of they've gone to the point where
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: it's not like, oh cool, we're in the Nations League semifinals. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: they're going to there's expectations now, you know, I honestly
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: them win the tournament, right, they haven't won anything since
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: since two thousand. You know how much guys, You know,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: we don't follow the game team as much, but when
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: they do play, we all get hyped about it as
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: much as anyone else. And how much is expectations, how
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: much is just you know, hey, it's Nations League. Let's
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: go out and it's practiced for twenty twenty six, the
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: World Cup.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: I think it's I think it's a bit of both.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: Like you can say it's practice, but it's also a
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: tournament that you should strive for. It's like the comparable
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: that I like to give is like in wrestling, before
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: they give somebody the major championship, they let them get
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: what it's called a mid card title, like a middle
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: tier championship, like the Intercontinental Championship or United States champions
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: so on and so forth. It's just to see how
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 4: can like, if they were ever given the opportunity to
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 4: be the main champion, will they be able to do it?
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: Does the crowd get behind them? Like are they believable?
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying? Like are they going to
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: be a right choice for the future? So, if Canada
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 4: really wants to make a statement for their future and
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: to demonstrate that hey, you know, we actually have something
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: great going on here. This is the trophy to win,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: This is the title to go for. We go for
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: that Nation's League title. Because then from the here on
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: you can build upon the success and be like, Okay,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: what's the next step for.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: Us doing well?
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: Doing well in the World Cup? You know, like and
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: not just like okay, hey, we like we made it
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: for a World Cup, and it's like, let's get past
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: the group stages because now you can make the World Cup.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: You demonstrated it at the last competition, right, and even
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: though this year you're you're you're just a like you're
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: you're a host. Now this year is the time where
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: you could show like, well, no, even though we're the host,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: we still can't fight. We're not gonna be like another
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 4: Turkey or something or you know South Korea where he
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: definitely had to have like the like FIFA by the
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: reps for you in order to have a to.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: Have a place in the competition. You know what I'm saying, Yeah, yeah,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: I agree. Listen, I think you know you listen to
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: just Justsey Marsh speak. You know, these players in this
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: group and this core, it's it's no longer that they need,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: the motivation that they need. The belief is there, guys,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: the belief is there. Uh, you know, they know they
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: belong now. You know, even though from the World Cup
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: squad to maybe now there's obviously some different names and
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: some other guys that have grown and and and earned
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: spots on this on this squad currently. But uh, these
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: guys believe, man, and you know what, like them or not.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: Justin marsh has this team at a at a level
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: and uh, and I think at a at a quality
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: that you know that they're they're right in there with
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: the you know, the US, you know, the Mexicos of
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: the world, especially in Conker Calf right, So uh, listen,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: like next time, we don't follow. Obviously I can say
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: I don't. I can't say follow all the time there,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: but when you know, the national team comes around, it's
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: it's it's it's big pride, right, So, especially what's going
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: on currently in the world, it's huge pride for for
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: US Canadians. So you know, like similarly to how I
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: said about Italy, they you know, they need to win
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: and I want to see them win. The same thing
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: goes for Canada.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: And you know, that we can say this is a
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: test and uh, you know whatever however you want to
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: waybel it as. But you know, forget the test man,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: just go and got and performed like these guys can
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: do it like it's it's it's no longer that we're
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: doing the baby steps anymore. I think these guys are
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: in the big leagues and and and and they deserve
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: to be there. And you know, they've they've worked very
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: very hard to get to where they're at and it's
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: enough of you know, holding holding hand. I think they
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: don't need the training wheels anymore. Right, They're on the
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: two wheel bike now. It's it's fine. They're gonna go,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: They're gonna pedal, they're gonna go forward. So I'm excited,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: uh for for what's to come with you know, Canada
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: soccer and you know the national team. Does it start
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: tomorrow maybe, But at the end of the day, I
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: think this is a tournament where uh, they have a
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: shot of actually winning and bringing home some silver some
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: silverware for you know, the Canadian fans. And what better
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: way to do it than, uh than in the US
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: of A. Right, So I think that will be the
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: biggest cherry on on on top of it all. But uh,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: first you got to get through Mexico. Uh, sim we
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: don't want to get ahead of ourselves. I know maybe
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: we want we sound that way, but Mexico is still
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: a good team. They have to get through Mexico and
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: uh you know again, if things kind of maybe fall
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: the way they quote unquote should uh you know, a
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: face off against the States in the finals. So I'm excited.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: I know the new names that you know Nick mentioned earlier.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: The the the promise David, Yeah, then promised David also
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: forward forward Daniel Jefferson.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: So Daniel Jefferson, right, both these guys grew up We're born.
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  Speaker 1: In uh you know the d d A promise David
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  Speaker 1: of Nigerian parents. He played for the Nigerian U twenty
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  Speaker 1: three team, never played for the nation their national team.
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  Speaker 1: So switch back to Canada. Then Jefferson grew up through
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  Speaker 1: the English ranks, played up to you twenty and then
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  Speaker 1: now made the movie. Yeah coming back to Canada.
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  Speaker 2: So listen, these guys want to play here, they want
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  Speaker 2: to be here maybe, uh you know, they're they're they're
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  Speaker 2: ready to go. And uh not only are not only
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: are Canada's big players and big, big gun is going
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: to have to show up. I think those those those
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: filler players are going to have to to to do
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  Speaker 2: well as just just the same.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I feel, you know, they have they have a
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Sometimes like in these big games, I
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: feel like the scoring doesn't happen at the level that
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: we wanted to have. Like you know, Jonathan David, you know,
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  Speaker 2: amazing for little right, absolutely amazing. He's scoring all kinds
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  Speaker 2: and all kinds of competitions will be legal, Champions League,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is. Uh. I don't want to say dries
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  Speaker 2: up for Canada. But sometimes yes, sometimes no, right, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be good, sometimes gonna be shaped right, And
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to speak with you. You you you know,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: I don't want to speak with you. If anybody knows
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  Speaker 2: that the gutuoso quote from familiar in the in the
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  Speaker 2: Creation League, right, So I hope that you know, Jonathan
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  Speaker 2: David can get it going or if it be Kyl
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  Speaker 2: Aaron or whoever else, it would be ah David two
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: point zero. Uh, wet's promise, right, So I don't know. Again, excited,
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  Speaker 2: I think, and I just hope they don't fall flat
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  Speaker 2: in this quest that maybe bringing home some silver well
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  Speaker 2: for for for all Canadian fans, uh, from from all uh,
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  Speaker 2: from all corners of this great country.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: Maybe they'll get a goal from the maritime messy Jacob Schaffelberg.
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  Speaker 1: But I agree they need to score more well, at
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: least do a better job of finishing.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: They score decent amount, but the communagers are there.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, the finishing, the clinical being clinical in the
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: in the box and in the final third is is
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: I think what needs to be brushed up upon, because
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: you know, they can dictate play if they want to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the U status of the world. You know,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: obviously we love Cone uh, you know, and then Bombito
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: in the back who has been just absolutely amazing and
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: his development and growth has been astronomical.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: It kind of reminds me of when we when we
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: had you know, Roca Pachtino on on the show to
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: kind of talk about those two guys and just their
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: exponential growth has been just fantastic to see and and
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: we're proud to that. You know, obviously they're from from
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  Speaker 2: our backyard. So but you know, that partnership, if it
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: be bomb beat Tone Cornelius, uh, seems to be working
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  Speaker 2: between the pipes. I think is still something to be Uh,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's up in the air. I
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: was I was seeing a bit on social media.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: That, you know, it's it's apparently to be Dan Saint Clair.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, working to be Dane Stink Claire. I did see that.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, if Max Cripple can kind of you know,
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  Speaker 2: work his way back to the Max Cripple that we
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: know he can get to, that, that might be more
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: of a of a toss up at that position. But
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: thank class, Dancin Clarts seems to be ready and he
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: wants to be there, so we'll see.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously you know our boyl Phones with Davies in
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: the back, Alista Johnston has to be huge. Yeah, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think our forwards, like I said, I
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: just need to be clinical in that final third. And
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: you know, yes we can defend, yes we can dictate play,
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  Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, we need to
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: score goals and to advance in tournaments and you know,
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  Speaker 2: beat up positions and to bring home solver aware. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm hopeful for that. And I guess, as he telling
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: Canadians this is tomorrow is a big day, I guess
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: I didn't really put it into perspective. But tomorrow's a
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: big day for for you know, the kind of daisy
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: cultural fans of of of the world. So it's all
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: for two big wins tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: And Canada announced they're gonna be playing games here in
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  Speaker 1: Montreal and October and June twenty twenty six, so we're
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: definitely going to that, no, no, no questions asked.
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  Speaker 2: That's huge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, bookmarking calendars. I think it was
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: it was October tenth and June. I mean the date's
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: not announced, but friendly as a send off before the
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  Speaker 1: World Cup. So I'm excited. You know, they god knows
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: the last time they played here in Montreal, so that'll
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: be fun.
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  Speaker 2: Also, I saw I saw they're also setting up some
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: some other.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, little tournament I think with Ukraine, New Zealand and
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: Wales or something, just all friendly tournament.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: But you know what, again, that's that's for me. That's big. Right.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: These are again you know, some some maybe not top
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: tierr opposition, but still some some getting into some good
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: reps in you know, we saw Johnny at the gym today, right,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: he's doing at the leg press right, like he's getting
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: back into the game right like he's he's you know,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: getting the reps in. He's fucking Canading national team players.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: They get the reps in against these other squads, right, So, uh,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: just just excited, man. I know we always would like
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: to bash on international football, but it's time we fucking say,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: you know what, it's here, let's take it in and
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: enjoy it and you know, hope for hope and pray
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: and uh and and and want to see you know,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: positive results big ws for for both Italy and and
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: Canada tomorrow and and and to round out this this
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: international break.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the sermons at Ukraine, New Zealand and Ivory
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  Speaker 1: coach so you know it's it's friendly and they're gonna
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: tak on to it. It's decent. Uh, but I think
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: that'll do.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: It for us.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: Good good conversation, guys, got me pumped for tomorrow. Big
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: games tomorrow. Forty go Canada. Uh, we're gonna have our
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: blue shirts on the day than a red shirts on
• 1:13:01
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