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FC Supra du Quebec set make history in CPL! Ep. 280 Ft. Rocco Placentino · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: A new era of Coultro Horsetock coming to Quebec. Uh
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  Speaker 1: first first of its kind in the Canadian Premier League,
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  Speaker 1: actually super into Quebec. Uh you on the Coulture guys
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  Speaker 1: Adriano and Nicholas joined by the press. Roco, you know
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  Speaker 1: of the new team coming out the next year, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, f Supra Rocco. How's it going?
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  Speaker 2: It's going well, man, I like my name better than
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  Speaker 2: the friend like Rocco, but no, honestly, it's uh, it's
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  Speaker 2: going well. We're very happy that we finally got to
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  Speaker 2: launch our franchise and uh, now the real work starts.
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  Speaker 2: So we're very we're blessed and we're excited, very excited.
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  Speaker 3: And Rocco, we know you've been a busy, busy man,
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  Speaker 3: a man after the announcement of the new team and everything,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, we just want to ask before we kick
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  Speaker 3: off anything. You know, we know we spoke to you
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  Speaker 3: about a year ago and and and kind of you
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  Speaker 3: know the monumental you know CSA or on uh you
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  Speaker 3: know matches, Uh, last year and a year later and
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  Speaker 3: we're talking to you and now you're presidente. Right, it's
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  Speaker 3: no more Sports TiVo it's it's it's it's Presidente. Just
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  Speaker 3: how did this this dream uh become a reality for
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  Speaker 3: you and and and for FC super Rocco and just
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  Speaker 3: maybe if you want to just discuss you know, how
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  Speaker 3: that process went, maybe from start to finish.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it was a very long process. And uh
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  Speaker 2: the reason why and from day one when I when
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  Speaker 2: I believed in this. You know, the CPL launched in
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  Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen, and you know, uh then COVID hit
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  Speaker 2: and they still played during COVID, and that's where I
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  Speaker 2: started following a bit because we were home so we
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  Speaker 2: got to watch some soccer. And then you know, we've
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  Speaker 2: always said it. You know, I speak to like long
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  Speaker 2: time friends of mine, Nick DeSantis, and others of course
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  Speaker 2: in the city that are soccer connoisseurs, and we've always
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  Speaker 2: said that, you know, it's a need to have a
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  Speaker 2: second pro team in our in our province because of
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  Speaker 2: the the amount of talented players that we have province wide. Right,
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  Speaker 2: So that's all it all started, was understanding that this
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  Speaker 2: was a need. So then you know, during COVID, I
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  Speaker 2: remember going to Mike Vitolano's house, which is one of
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  Speaker 2: my dear friends, and you know, we we spoke about it,
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  Speaker 2: and I said, Mike Man, I said, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm going to try and figure out how to
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  Speaker 2: get a franchise in our province for CPL. And he
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  Speaker 2: looked at me and he knows I'm crazy, and he's like, rock,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you need me to do to help you look ideas, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: I believe in it, you know, so you know, go
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  Speaker 2: for a try. So you know, at the time, at
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  Speaker 2: the time, you know, we were doing very well with
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  Speaker 2: our clubs in our own you know. Ismael Coney got
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  Speaker 2: his lucky break with Seth Montreal, then he got sold
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  Speaker 2: to Watford, then he went to Marseilles, so world Cup,
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  Speaker 2: forgot the World Cup, which is the biggest piece, and
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  Speaker 2: and then movies Bombito. You know, a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: was happening with him going from Colorado to Nis and
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  Speaker 2: and I started believing it even more, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying we could do more, we could do more,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And and so you know, it was a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ups and downs with the process to get
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  Speaker 2: this done. And I started in you know, and during
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  Speaker 2: COVID and then after you know, several meetings with different
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  Speaker 2: types of groups of investors where it didn't pan out
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  Speaker 2: for whatever reason, because that's all life is, you know.
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  Speaker 2: The two biggest things, the two biggest hurdles for a
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  Speaker 2: CPL franchise was a the money, so you have to
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  Speaker 2: have good investors and be an infrastructure because we struggle
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  Speaker 2: with infrastructure, not only in Quebec but in our in
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  Speaker 2: our country. Right, So two extremely big hurdles that I
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  Speaker 2: had to overcome, and that led me to the run
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  Speaker 2: against Halifax with the semi pro team of Cinnerrome. We
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  Speaker 2: beat a CPL team and now again I'm saying to myself, Okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: now like I gotta like, I gotta figure this out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like we're talking of an amateur club and
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  Speaker 2: imagine what we could do with all these amateur players
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  Speaker 2: or players from Quebec and in just in the CPL,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So we fast forward that that that month
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we have to play a game at
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  Speaker 2: home against tof C, which I still don't believe we
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  Speaker 2: played against them, but we did. And I met a
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  Speaker 2: gentleman called Angelo Pasto, and he's from Montreal, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: he called me up. He got his number to a
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  Speaker 2: friend very you know how life is, I guess, and
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  Speaker 2: he said Hey, my name is My name is Angelo,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm partners with Matt Risetta. As he's talking to
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  Speaker 2: me and I'm already googling, and then I saw that
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  Speaker 2: he was a person that that had soccer teams. He
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  Speaker 2: was in the soccer industry right and the sports entertainment industry,
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  Speaker 2: and and so he put me in contact with Matt.
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  Speaker 2: And then Angel came to the game against TFC told
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  Speaker 2: Matt right after the game saying, Matt, you got to
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  Speaker 2: speak to Rocco because his his his vision and and
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  Speaker 2: his his ideas for for soccer. Here is big. So
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  Speaker 2: we played a TFC game two days later. Two or
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  Speaker 2: three days later, Matt gart on a flight and came
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  Speaker 2: to Montreal. I met him for the first time, and
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  Speaker 2: he came with his He's right and Nicola and big guy.
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  Speaker 2: I love him, very passionate, and he's like, well, we
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  Speaker 2: have similarities in terms of how we see the game
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  Speaker 2: and the passion for it. And so we had a
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  Speaker 2: good meeting. We had lunch, and we spent hours together
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  Speaker 2: and and from there we we we fell in love.
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  Speaker 2: Uh is where football brought us this, this this opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I guess my my passion and my
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  Speaker 2: my drive to put in this project forward. Matt really
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  Speaker 2: believed in it. So we we moved forward with a
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  Speaker 2: what an Apple expansion app occasion process, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we hit a break wall for the for the facility,
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  Speaker 2: right we we didn't have a facility, so project was
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  Speaker 2: it went dead in the month of November. The project
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  Speaker 2: was dead four Yeah, so like you know, and myself
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  Speaker 2: and Matt were saying, okay, well, Rock, we want you
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  Speaker 2: to be part of our portfolio, you know, and we feel,
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  Speaker 2: we feel if you don't have that Lincoln in Quebec,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be hard for us to work together because
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're there and you know, I'm married at kids.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to start traveling the world that you know,
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  Speaker 2: possibly we would, so like it was, I wasn't ready
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  Speaker 2: for that, and he understood that. And and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: I wake up in the month of December and I
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  Speaker 2: see and I'm very close to Jeanvie, the owner of
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  Speaker 2: the Roses, and he tells me that, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're we're launching our our our field as bud Butlon
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  Speaker 2: bla b mhm. And he it's because of him that
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  Speaker 2: this project came back to life. So I call Matt
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  Speaker 2: right away. I go, Matt. We got our blessing. These
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  Speaker 2: guys are in a stadium together, the Roses of Montreal,
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  Speaker 2: the girls team, and our project was reactivated. And long
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  Speaker 2: story short, because I could speak about the story for
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  Speaker 2: hours and I'd probably cry about it, it was better I
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  Speaker 2: just fast forward. Yeah. We Marnie Diker the expansion, the director,
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  Speaker 2: Costa at the time, the VP, and Mark Noonan at
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  Speaker 2: the time was the guy the commissioner, back and forth
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  Speaker 2: for negotiations on the franchise. We locked it in. We
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  Speaker 2: locked it in our stadium, and we finalized our deal
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  Speaker 2: on August nineteenth. On August nineteenth, we've slew Toronto and
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  Speaker 2: we pitched our project and it was unanimous from all
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  Speaker 2: the CPL ownership group to approve our franchise. And then
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  Speaker 2: and now we're here talking about it and I'm actually
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  Speaker 2: wearing this shirt, so it's like, you know, and you
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  Speaker 2: said something like dreams come true. And I spoke to
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  Speaker 2: my colleague, one of my old times friends. You said, Daha,
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  Speaker 2: he's the goalie coach in Vancouver white Caps and it
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  Speaker 2: was a coach for Montreal Impact back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, Rock you keep on seeing that it
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  Speaker 2: was a dream. It wasn't a dream, it goes it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't objective because you put a high objective in your
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  Speaker 2: life and you you obtained it, you know, and now
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  Speaker 2: you have to look at different objective objectives on what
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  Speaker 2: you want to do with this club. You know, so
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  Speaker 2: and I took that out. Are gonna salt because it's true,
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  Speaker 2: it is a dream. It's beautiful, you know, like the
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  Speaker 2: fact that you know, we have a CPL franchise finally
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  Speaker 2: in this beautiful province with all this talent, and now
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, for me, it was an objective. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it was a dream, but like at the end of day,
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  Speaker 2: was objective. I accomplished and now the real work starts. Guys.
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  Speaker 1: I love that that That's awesome. And I just want
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  Speaker 1: to ask quickly about that whole stadium. Were there other
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  Speaker 1: venues you guys kind of looked into, Like I know
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  Speaker 1: right now clodabr is under renovation, so I guess that
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  Speaker 1: was out of the question. Like what was that process
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  Speaker 1: like before stad Borderale if you could talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, my first location was Santa cour re
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  Speaker 2: Guard bring the super back to where it was.
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  Speaker 4: Born where it started.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh, it wasn't possible because of these uh
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  Speaker 2: these renovations that are going going on with so our
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  Speaker 2: second option was where the Roses are playing at Stadbury
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  Speaker 2: reality Laval, and we felt it was the right fit
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  Speaker 2: and you know where a lot of big news will
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  Speaker 2: come out. Also with our training facility and all that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's gonna be a one stop shop. So
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  Speaker 2: we're actually quite excited that we're it ended up working
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  Speaker 2: out that, you know, being about the line was the
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  Speaker 2: right move.
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  Speaker 3: And honestly, it's it's cool to see man like in
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  Speaker 3: a span of Again, remind Merocco the Roses when they
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  Speaker 3: came they came was last year or was it this
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: They started playing in this April. They the announced team
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  Speaker 2: last October. Last October they f I I just in
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  Speaker 2: January with but the but the line exactly.
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  Speaker 3: So and that's and that's by the time you know
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna have you have two professional you know teams
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  Speaker 3: in one location, female and male. I think it's it's
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  Speaker 3: it's awesome in the in in in our city to
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  Speaker 3: see that because again, you don't see that every day.
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  Speaker 3: We'll probably touch upon that after because I want we
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  Speaker 3: wanted to bring out just kind of go from start
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  Speaker 3: to finish. Maybe if we can Rocco the name obviously
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  Speaker 3: that was the biggest thing. The name SCU Supra as
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  Speaker 3: zu Quebec is what we what we saw at the
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  Speaker 3: end of September there on the launch. Just again for
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  Speaker 3: people that don't know and or you know, if there's
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  Speaker 3: more of a story than what we think we know
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  Speaker 3: as fans, Rocco, just why why bring back this name
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  Speaker 3: or or why use this name? I guess the whole
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  Speaker 3: why for the team name, the Colors, the badge, if
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  Speaker 3: you can just discuss that as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, as we know, the super was a club
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  Speaker 2: that was existed from nineteen eighty eight to nineteen ninety two. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I used to go with my brother and my dad
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  Speaker 2: watched games at Royard. A lot of local talent, local players,
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  Speaker 2: Nick the Santas, mar Giello, ott Manny Bride. There's so
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  Speaker 2: many guys that you know, a lot of Sprints that
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  Speaker 2: moved they can move at young age to Montreal and
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  Speaker 2: played for the Montreal Super right and and it was
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  Speaker 2: so that's one of the biggest reasons the Colors. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a crazy Habs fan Habs fan. So you know, the blue, white,
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  Speaker 2: and red just made sense. And yeah, that community feel
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  Speaker 2: we wanted to revive something that that that already existed
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  Speaker 2: and modernize it because it was something that was very
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  Speaker 2: rich back in the late eighties for people that were
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  Speaker 2: you know, there and lived it, and we felt and
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  Speaker 2: I did come up with the idea. It was my
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  Speaker 2: sole idea that I pitched to my ownership group and
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  Speaker 2: they were like, wow, this is this is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: And and also we had a design team and and
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  Speaker 2: it just for us made sense because you know, we
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  Speaker 2: could have came on a brand new name, start from
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  Speaker 2: scratch and we would have done well with it for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But like this is like to me, it's just an
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  Speaker 2: emotional attachment and we want to you know, when you
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  Speaker 2: look at the old videos of super and now you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be looking at the new videos of SUPERB, guys.
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  Speaker 2: I swear I get goosebumps.
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  Speaker 4: Talking about it. It makes sense, though I think I.
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  Speaker 2: Can't wait, honestly, I can't wait to revive it. And
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  Speaker 2: and and you know we're not putting a team to
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  Speaker 2: put a team guys. And then if you look at it,
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  Speaker 2: it says do Quebec The reason why is because you know,
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  Speaker 2: we could have been Montreal, we could have been about
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  Speaker 2: there's so many different reasons. It's because this is gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a team due Quebec. When you when you're when
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  Speaker 2: you see those players in the field, you see the
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  Speaker 2: player that played for Lake Shore, Si ram Uh Saints,
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  Speaker 2: you bid, who knows.
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  Speaker 4: D whatever, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Matter, it's it's it's something that was very important to
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  Speaker 2: me because, like I said, it was a need.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 2: This wasn't a want. If it was a want, I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be here talking to you guys. It was it
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  Speaker 2: was a need for our province. And that's why we
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  Speaker 2: decided to Quebec. Because coaches, upper management, you know, players
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  Speaker 2: they're they're from Quebec, right. So it's that's how we're
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  Speaker 2: starting this process is by having a Quebec team made
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  Speaker 2: for Quebec. That's why head in French and it could
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  Speaker 2: be c poyc right. And yeah, And for those of
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  Speaker 2: you who know me, I'm very hard headed man. So
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to these things, I'm not gonna change
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  Speaker 2: my ways. I'm gonna you know, start this process and
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  Speaker 2: and and nurture it the way we need to.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. You know one thing that I did see
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  Speaker 1: on I personally loved the Quebec name. That was one
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  Speaker 1: thing I was thinking too before the announcement. I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: are they gonna go with a Montreal name, allow the
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  Speaker 1: Laval name, just maybe a generic team name, so the
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  Speaker 1: Quebec I personally love it. One thing that people not criticize,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of question is like, does this mean there
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  Speaker 1: won't be any future CPL team in Quebec. Obviously you
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  Speaker 1: don't know, right Rocco, But you're you're always open to
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  Speaker 1: expanding the league. Right, even if there's another team in
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  Speaker 1: let's say Quebec City in the FIA, doesn't mean it's
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  Speaker 1: it's sole ownership, right.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, we want another team in Quebec City. We
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  Speaker 2: want to have that rivalry like the merch means against
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  Speaker 2: the Nordeaks, all level in soccer and a soul. No
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  Speaker 2: for us, we encourage for any investor to to try
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  Speaker 2: and get a franchise in Quebec City. This would be
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  Speaker 2: beautiful for for I think it's it's a need. It's
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  Speaker 2: another need guys, honestly, to have another franchise a CPL
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  Speaker 2: in Quebec City for us it's something that we want.
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  Speaker 2: We encourage it. It's the opposite of what people might
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  Speaker 2: be saying, but we actually encourage and hope that in
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  Speaker 2: the in the near future, not even the far future,
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  Speaker 2: but in the near future, that there's a rivalry det
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  Speaker 2: be that we could have against our friends in Quebec City.
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  Speaker 3: That would be amazing to see, especially locally at a
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  Speaker 3: de be Like it's that's that's we Obviously we love
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  Speaker 3: Italian Italian cultural but and we see that all the
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  Speaker 3: time in Italy, but to have it locally, I think
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  Speaker 3: would be even would be even better, I think, just
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  Speaker 3: because it's in your own backyard. But rock you you
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  Speaker 3: touch the point that I kind of wanted to add
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  Speaker 3: in there as as a second pointer, and you stressed
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  Speaker 3: it a lot, not only yourself but just everybody involved
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  Speaker 3: with Supra h and a club. You see, how how
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  Speaker 3: much does that resonate with you and every body involved
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  Speaker 3: and how important is that And is is that something
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  Speaker 3: that you'll you'll divert from or is that really the
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  Speaker 3: sole focus? And that's exactly you know, in terms of
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  Speaker 3: stuff in terms of players, like what's that process like
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  Speaker 3: and is that gonna is that going to be anywhere
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  Speaker 3: a negative going down the down into the future or
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  Speaker 3: is that only a positive in your eyes?
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  Speaker 2: For us, it's only a positive of course. You know,
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  Speaker 2: our goal is and we're never going to divert from
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  Speaker 2: our goal is is to is to be livened. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we want to have like we're starting the team for
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  Speaker 2: year one one hundred percent local or or close to
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent local. But like there's never going to
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  Speaker 2: be a moment where you're going to see Semifi PRIs
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  Speaker 2: team seventy five percent or fifth percent is team not
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  Speaker 2: from Quebec. If that's the case, it's because I'm not
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  Speaker 2: in this position anymore, right, No, because I'm I'm very
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  Speaker 2: set on my values and and for myself of course,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the near for our future, for our club,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it could be that there's a player two
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  Speaker 2: that come from somewhere else, but it's for it's a
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  Speaker 2: business part too, right, we want to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: maybe we could showcase this young player that comes from
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  Speaker 2: you know, from Ivory Coast and maybe one day sell them, right.
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  Speaker 2: But for me, I always believed in having a community team.
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  Speaker 2: When I was part of the Montreal Impact in the
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  Speaker 2: early two thousands and in twenty eight times ten. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: eighty five percent, ninety percent were Montreal players. So in
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  Speaker 2: my life, I take everything that I did, I put
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  Speaker 2: it together and I try and make it better. So
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  Speaker 2: for me, that those are core values and that my
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  Speaker 2: ownership group respect and they not need to be a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: But I love challenges, so I'm ready for that.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: So you're talking about players, I mean, look, how do
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: you start a team from ground zero? From zero players
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: right now versus in six months you're gonna have I
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: don't know twenty twenty three. I don't know what the
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: number is.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Going to be.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: So how do you start that? What? What's the process?
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: How are you going on and getting of these players?
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Are you going to make trades let's say with other
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: CBL teams. Are you going to the clubs here in
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Quebec and signing players from there? Like yeah, what what's
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: that going to be?
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah? So basically we have a lot of players that
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: are currently playing in the CPL from Quebec. I would
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: say we have over twenty five players that are local
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: based that are playing in different clubs in the CPL.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: So goal is to try and attract some of these
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: local boys and bring them back home. That's number one.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: And then we have our league earn our semi pro
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: league in Quebec, which we believe we have a lot
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: of talent that plays in League one that could do
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: the jump to CPL. And then you never know, we
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: maybe signed some sixteen seventeen year old because I believe
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: in young players. And you know, I left totally. I
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: was playing at seventeen years old and at pro level.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: And Jason the Tulio, same thing, he was seventeen years
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: old and we played the Monsally Impact. So, like I said,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: for me, I'm very stubborn with these things. And I
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: believe that there's a lot of talent here on the
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: on the youth level, the League one level and the
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: CPL level to put a competitive team together and and
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: and and not only just have a team in the CPL,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: but to be a to be a big fierce competitor
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: in the CPL.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you've said that since day one, since we
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: kind of became uh, you know, contacts to Rocco. You know,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: you you've mentioned the talent here in Quebec time and
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: time again, and and it's something that after after really
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: paying attention to it, you kind of see it with
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: your own.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Eyes, and you're absolutely right.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: So I think the guys that are playing maybe you know,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: abroad or you know, other CPL teams that incentive to
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: come back home I think would just be so I
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: think the pride thing would be obviously at a high
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: right these guys that are playing, you know, if it'd
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: be Vancouver, Halifax, wherever else in the CPL and coming
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: back home I think would be you know, a big,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: a big thing for them. But you know, in in
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: opening the show, Rocker, you obviously mentioned, you know, kind
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: of that the timeline of how things kind of went
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: went on.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: You know, we knew how invested you were obviously with
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: CSL or all.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: I guess just a straight question, if that match against
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: TFC doesn't happen, are we speaking to today as presidente
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: of SU Supra.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Maybe not today, but for sure in the future. Like
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I would never give up. I'm not a you know,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I thought I fought hard to get my wife and
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: this is the same thing. So you know, like I said, guys,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: it wasn't a want, it was in need. I think
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: that you know, if that that game never happens, we
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: would have recreated it again. So but I would never
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: let go. But the fact that we're here talking about
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: it is because it shows the resilience that you know,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I put together for this and and I had a
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: you know, I had people that believed in me. And
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: that's what it comes down to, you know, like I
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: transmitted my passion and my and my energy to people
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: that believed in me. And and that's what that's what
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: comes down to. At the end of the day, if
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: people don't believe in you, it's gonna be very tough.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: So that's why we're here today, is because people give
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: me the chance and believe in this, in this uh
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: this project.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Uh roco. So we got a couple of questions on
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: social media and I kind of want to go back to,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: you know, getting players and all that, because we didn't
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: get two questions maybe you could answer it. One is
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: maybe will there be tryouts for the Supras? And then
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: uh Simo Fatima says, I want to trial. So once
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the trial is their open trials, how is that going
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: to work?
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah? So pretty cool. When we say includly C poy C,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: we say it. But what we're putting together is for
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: me very special. We're going to be doing triouts in
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the Greater Montreal to start. So what we're doing is
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: we're gonna be doing trials with different amateur clubs around
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: the greater Montreal Montreal area. So stay tuned in the
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: next couple of days or weeks on tryouts. But give
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: an example, We're gonna example, go do a try out
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: and X club and it's gonna be a collaboration with
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Supra with the amateur club together and making an event.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: And we want to do several of these in the
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: month of November. So that's how much this is gonna
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: come down to the communities. Guys, you're gonna see it's
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: it's that's that's a glimpse of what this this club
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: is gonna be about. So yes, tryouts for open trouts
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: are coming up. You're gonna be able to register on
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: our website. Uh, stay tuned for information in the next
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: couple of days on our social media platforms and also
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: on our website. And and yeah, look, uh you you
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: come put on those cleats and come and show our
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: staff with you what you guys are made out of.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: And uh, you never know, man, you never know if
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: that's if that's a dream, well your dreams are are
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: a door away now. Literally absolutely.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: If I had more talent and I was better at
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: talking and play more, I would have come. But that's
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: not the yeah I thinking.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Of all going So we'll see.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I could be the like the water boy if you
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: need ra I don't know, pasta pasta pinnies around if
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: you need I don't know, but or the coffees made
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: like Tommy.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Right, I'm going to interrupt you, Adrian, because I we
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: do actually have a question related to that. From the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: twenty first century, they posted job offerings. Is it worth
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to apply? So we did see that on social media? Yeah,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: head coach for uh position coaches, But I'm guessing as
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: a club you need more than just that, right, anybody
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: could apply for all kinds of different positions. What's uh
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: what are you guys looking for? Exactly?
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Rocco, Yes, of course you don't want to get the
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: opportunity for anybody to apply for different positions, whether it's
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: head coach, assistant coach, goalie coach, you know, just send
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: it and we've got plenty of request. To be honest, Look,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: do we already have a head coach in our minds?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: We have thoughts of who we would want it's normal, right,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: we can go in this process without having any ideas.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: But so what we're gonna do is when I take
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: all these this data that we're getting from from different
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: uh cvs and we're gonna shrink it down to the
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: you know, the top whatever five or ten, whatever it is,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: and we're gonna have in person interviews and give them
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: a chance to explain themselves and see what's fit they
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: could be for our club. But for us, guys, if
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: you want to coach, and you know, if you don't try,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: you know, you'll never know, right. So so doors are
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: open for sure for for different positions, and we're ready
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: to hear people out. That's for sure.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: You have a timeline rocker for for when you kind
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: of want this coaching stuff and these positional uh you know,
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: pieces of the club to be set for.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we we hope that by the end of October
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: we have at least our our main coach and assistant
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: coach announced.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Okay, So okay, so that's that's coming up. That's coming
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: up a couple of weeks.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: So we got all the cvs. The deadline I believe
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: is on Wednesday, Okay, Wednesday comes, we take the cvs,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: we analyze them. We're probably gonna meet them next week,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: the candidates, and then from there we do a process
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: on the process of elimination and we go from there.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: So further.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: You know, we spoke a bit off air Rocco about
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: you know, the old Supra the branding. Obviously we're in
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: that beautiful kid, uh, you know, to commemorate the old players,
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: but the jerseys, the kids, the merch. We spoke a
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: bit on off air, but if you want to, if
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: you want to speak about that on air, like, is
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: that something coming up soon? Is there going to be
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: a launch for that? Can people come for that? Like?
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: What's that process?
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So just on the merch part, which is very important.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: We will be launching merch in the next guy.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Some of that merch Roco, I don't know, we need
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: our hands on it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: So once the merch part is ready, which is very soon,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: we're gonna release certain items, whether it's a two kahat,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: a hoodie because now we're coming to the fall, a
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: couple of shirts. We're gonna put a nice little line
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: together for people to get their hands on as of
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: maybe uh midther end of the October and and basically
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: it'll be on sale. You can get to our social
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: media accounts and to our website is gonna be online.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: So yeah, for sure, we're gonna encourage people to to
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: go get some merch so that we can start seeing this, uh,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: the real strong S in the streets of Monchal, Quebec.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: And then a launch of jerseys that's gonna be in
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: the new year. In the new Ye're launch our official
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: home and away FC super modern kids and we're actually
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: currently working on designing it now. So it's it's so cool.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I can't wait, can't work.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: We're kid guys and like we you know we that's
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: why I want to bring it up Rocco, because you know,
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: we love the kids. If it be the old school ones,
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: the new school ones, just get our hands on what
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: we can. And uh so, yeah, there's gonna be a
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: launch you said in the in the new year.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in the new year, we're gonna do uh a
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: kit launch. And I don't know if you guys saw
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: the first launch, but we're from now. We can only
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: do nice launches. After we did a nice.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Launch, absolutely, you set the bar up high, yes, so
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: now i's likely now we got to keep the bar
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: up all the time, and uh, we're excited. Honestly, all
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: we want to do is, uh, you know, showcase showcasing
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: our our merch and our our kids in the next
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: couple of months, and we really want to We want
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: to see people wearing it, right, Like I want to
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: go for my coffee wherever I go and see someone
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: wearing a super took or a super hoodie and popper
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: it's it's a cap whatever, right, So we're definitely be
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: a lot of the community bars, cafes, restaurants, They're going
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: to see a lot of of us knocking on their doors,
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: for sure. It's it's it's it's gonna be a long ride,
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: but a joyful one.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: So moving forward into next season, I forget the CPL
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: at each team plays how many games again?
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Right now? They played fourteen season games this year, okay,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: and now in the month of December we start brainstorming
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: for the schedule of twenty twenty six. So with one
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: one more team in the league by default for sure
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: as a couple more games a year, right, whether it's
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: one or two. But yeah, that's another another roller coaster ride.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: It's going to because we have certain ideas for that
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: to that. I can't. I can't talk about today, but
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: they're going to be cool. You will do another podcast,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: but it's when it comes to when it's time.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Of course. Of course, Uh yeah, because I did want
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: to ask first season. I know we talked about you
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: guys want to be competitive. Is there like already a
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: goal in mind where you guys want to finish let's
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: say CPL. And also, are you guys going to play
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: in the Canadian Championship? Is that you know if that's
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: already so you're playing the Canadian Championship, you have a
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: goal in mind where you how far you want to
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: go in the Canadian Championship.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: So personally, I'm a fierce competitor and I could speak
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: on behalf of my ownership group. They're also very, very
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: fierce competitors. So, like I said before, we're not putting
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: a team just to put a team. We want to
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: make the playoffs in the first year and I say
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: that proudly, and we want to do well in the
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Cannon Cup. The Voyagers Cup is one that I want
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight with Montreal Impact, so I
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: want to win another one. The cool thing with the
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Voyagers Cup or the teles Cups as they call today.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: We could we could potentially face see Around in the
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: first round, which I get, I get goose bumps. Of course,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: we could potentially face Montreal and all I envision is,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: you know, two local clubs that be at supports Stadium,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: twenty thousand people. Magical magic, the lights are on. Man.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: That that's that's that's things of you know that you've
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: seen the movies like It's, It's, It's it's incredible, Rocco.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: You you mentioned right there CF Montreal. Obviously, there's been
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: a lot of talk of you know what the contingent
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: plan is to kind of see you know, are you
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: rivals with Montreal in terms of how things are I
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: know you said there was a big need for multiple
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: another professional club, you know, in this in this in
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: this city, in this province. You know, what's the relationship
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: like with c F Montreal for for you guys, and
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: you know, how is that balance going to work in
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: terms of players, in terms of partnership, in terms of
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: you know, maybe kind of working together.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: That's for me very important to work together. I think that, uh,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: we're not competing with the MLS. The MLS is here
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: and they're the CPL. We're we're the CPL. We're going
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: to focus on the CPL.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: In terms of relationships, you know, you look at Michelle,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: they don't have a reserve team, right, so they could
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: use us with their younger players that can't have a
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: contract on the first team and come to Supra. Of course, ideal,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: it would be ideal for them. They could you know,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: evaluate them on a daily basis because they're in their backyard.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: So from us, for for FC Supra, it's it's to
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: actually work together and and uh and and make this
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: feasible for some players that maybe won't get the spot
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: on their first team. So yeah, it's definitely. I don't
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: see it as being a competition with them at all.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: I see it as being a partnership and working for
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: the good of the players of our province of course.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: And and just I don't know if you can speak
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: about it, but is that something that you've had discussions
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: with already or or is that something that you'll you'll
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: kind of touch upon when it kind of when you
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: cross that bridge, or.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: There's been discussions already of course. Okay, I didn't waste
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: my time on this. I think I thought it was
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: very important to act on it. And so far, so good.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Okay, that's good, good to hear.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I love this question. Ultra is Montreal.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Amazing?
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: You maybe get you don't know the answer to that,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: but well, the Ultras a bunch of encourage Super. Let's
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: hope that would be awesome.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: So that'd be cool to see.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So for myself playing in Italy for almost a
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: decade and uh and living with Ultra's day and day out,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: in good and in bad, of course, it's definitely something
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: that we're going to build. We're definitely building a Nutrush
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: clan and uh and basically, uh, every game we're probably
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: gonna get fine all kinds of money, but uh, it's
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: it's important for us to have ultras. I feel that,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: you know, players are gonna feel the presence and the
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: empowerment of these of these ultras right because they're they're special.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: So we're definitely creating a new Trus section and we
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: can't wait and I'm I'm I'm definitely gonna watch some
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: games with them from from their sections. So yeah, we
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: we we definitely encourage having.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Ut trust for us Super, there's like a snapshot of it,
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: like in our own backyard like, honestly, Broco, we we
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: love it.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: So it's it's it's amazing too to hear.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because we I feel like we don't you know
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: the you know, I think Floyd, so we obviously as
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: times have gone on, you know, we kind.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: Of so we started to see it here in Canada
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: and stuff.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: But you know, the European dynamic compared to the Canadian
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: ones is just so different and you've seen it obviously
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: first hand, Rocco. So I think that's very important and
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: kind of getting that that I don't know, European DNA
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: over here. You know, we come from a from a
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: city of you know, a big melting pot, so many
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: different cultures, religions, uh, backgrounds, walks of life, and that's
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: what the beauty of of our of our city, right,
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: So I'm I'm interested to see how that how that
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: pans out and to see the president in in the courva.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: You know again that's something you don't see.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: I can't wait and look, I know. Uh So obviously
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Matt Rosetta is the owner of Camp Baso as well.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: By the way, I told you my question.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: You stold my question, my bad.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: I told you at the presentation when when that was
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: announced his owner. Because Adrian's family is from Campbo Basso.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: I told him, you guys are basically a cousin. The
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: two clubs or your sister clubs now are cousins.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: So we know there was the documentary in Campo Basso.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Whin's there going to be the documentary for the super Hey?
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Like I said, Matt Rozette is a very very special
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: person and the sky is the limit to this guy.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: So I do see something happening hopefully along those lines
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: with Si Suka.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: No, it's amazing and and and he's somebody that I
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: need to speak to. Uh we need to have on
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: our on our on our platform. I know, I've I've
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: I've got I've gotten in contact with with Nicol that
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: like you said, Shna, he's he's just a piece of bread, right,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Uh right, He's He's just amazing, uh, incredible, incredible human beings.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: So hopefully one date to get to speak to about
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: his atta because him too, you can see what he's
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: been able to build. You know, obviously with with Combo
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Basso and and the local ties for me is it
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: means a lot. But just seeing his fingerprints also in
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: our backyard along with you know.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Yourself, Rocco. It's for me.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: It's incredible, Like, honestly, it's so cool to be able
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: to see that. I know he's he's had his hands
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: with other other projects, obviously not bas Get uh in
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Naples and another another projects that that that he's a
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: part of. But I saw Roco that you want to
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: come a bustle to to to see a game. Uh,
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: just a quick diversion from sc super How was that
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: that experience?
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: I did a whole eight days with Matt Risetta and
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Angelo Pasto in Campo Basso in April, so I was
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: involved with the daily operation, saw how the sporting director
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: worked and the team and stuff like that, and uh,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Matt's a machine, honestly, Guys like, I'm so happy that
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: I get to have this guy as a mentor because
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: he's he's uh, he's so good at what he does
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: and and I'm gonna feel I'm gonna feel a lot
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: off him, right because he's very good at what he does.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: So I can't wait for I can't wait for that.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I can't wait to do here.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Uh. I don't know if you have any
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: other questions, because I know we just kind of diverged.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I have one question. You're related to Katy Soccer but
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: not sc super. Do you have any other usually?
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Uh, well, I don't know. Rock are you on? Are
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: you on a time crunch? I know, we we've guys.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, whatever questions you want to have another ten minutes
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: you guys, I'm good.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: Okay, Next, you can go with your question if you
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: want to.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So what I was gonna ask? So we're seeing
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: the Canadian national team here in Montreal on Friday. One
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: guy who's on the team, Joe Waterman, came from the CPL.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I forget, I forget exactly what team he played for.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: It was Calvalry. Okay, Uh, there you go. So came
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: through the CPL, played for CF Montreal, played in a
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: World Cup, wasn't I forget if he played, was on
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the roster participating in the World Cup? Most like you
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: will participate in another Seeing his story, I know you
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: guys just posted this on on Instagram before we started
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: recording as well. Seeing his story is that the Is
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: that the type of story you want to see a player,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: future Canadian national team member having played for FC Supra.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: That's the type of story we're gonna do. It's not
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: we're going to see it's we're gonna We're gonna have
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: to do it. It's it's a must. Like for us,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you we we we really truly believe that
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: our goal is to put players in the in the
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: on stage and have them perform and then from there
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: if they're disciplined. You know, because you use an example
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: of like Joel Worman, he's a great example, true pro.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: He's a true professional. So if you're disciplined, then you
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: do things properly in your life and you off the
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: field and on the field, you could be the next
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Duwel Waterman. Yeah, you could. You could come from CPL,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: go to one LS and play in the World Cup.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: It could happen.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: If it happened to him because he earned it, it
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: could happen to others for sure.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Just another thing about you know, obviously Canadian national team players.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: You know, it didn't really it just devastating news.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: And we kind of spoke obviously Roco about most Bombito
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: right the injury for for for him, you know.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: Just devastating.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: I saw the thing was about four or five months out.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: You kind of it on the head of how long
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: he would be out for but just uh, you know
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: these types of players and obviously Ismail Corner you mentioned
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: many times and we have as well, and now we
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: see his move to to in Seria, you know, is
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: that something you know also you were kind of like,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: would hope maybe some of your your your your players
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: play abroad? Uh, you know in Europe? Like is that
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: another I want a need? I think that's going to happen, Like,
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: what's what? What do you what do you say for that?
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Most definitely we have a lot of contacts all over
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: the world in terms of clubs that buy younger players
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: and and want to you know, resell them and stuff.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: So yeah, we we hope that in the first two
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: three years we have our first European sale.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Have you been able to watch any of the games
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: with with Corney this year?
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: I watched all that.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: What do you what do you think of his play
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: so far?
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Doing very well? Look, even the first game when he
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: had three yellow cards, he was of the best players
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: in the field against Naples and against Inter and I'm
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: an Inter fan, he was the best player against Like
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: he drove he drove Baella and everybody else crazy in
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: the middle and I'm sounding biased because he's you know,
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: my boy, but he's he's honestly man, when he's when
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: he's on it, he's on it man. He's he's such
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: a good soccer player, it's crazy. He's so good in
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: tight spaces and he's able to score. And I feel
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: that in Sassuolo he got to he's game to be himself.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: I think, you know, girls was doing an amazing job
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: with him and and uh, you know he right now
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: is he's in a in a good moment. He went
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: through some tough moments and then in the last couple
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: of months and now he's he's having fun. Let's say
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: it that way. He's having fun.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: And him getting his first goal, and said, yeah, it
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: was just huge for us, like amazing bo. It was
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: just that felt for us. It was like a sense
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: of pride, right And I can imagine for you, uh
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Roco as as somebody has been so close in his career.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Crazy man. It's it's just uh to see these players
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: flourished into what they're becoming is uh is what I
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: want to do for other players too, honestly.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: And another thing that I kind of saw like floating
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: around the rockco you know, the and you've obviously touched
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: upon upon it a lot in this episode. You know,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: really the local the Quebec one players, the Quebec related
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: players that has ties to to hear, a lot of
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: people I saw online were kind of you know, comparing
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: it to the know, the athletic Bilbao kind of set up,
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: you know that that they really focus on on their
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: homegrown talent. Is that something that you kind of took
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: it inspiration from besides that you working so heavily in
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: local soccer that you saw the talent or is that
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: a model that kind of came uh to in your
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: in your radar.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: No, it was actually in my in my presentation to
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: the CPL aletical billbab was part of my presentation. It's
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: a great example of who we want to be. And
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: you know, quite frankly, I believe that if if a
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: near one, we're one hundred players, one hundred percent based
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: local players from Quebec. I don't know, but we might
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: be the first professional club besides a little Bilbao worldwide
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: that that's doing this. And I really got to do
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: my research on this and see America, there's no there's
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: no team, pro club team in any sport. I believe
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: that that has only local players. I really don't so
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: uh yeah, I believe in it, and we have a
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: lot of similarities of what we want to be, like
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: a little Coobidbo is doing.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: Uh, Nick, I don't know if you have something else,
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: I kind of just want to add something else in there.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: But I'm okay, I had nothing else.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Now you could you.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Could you another thing? Roco is obviously for people that
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: are local here. Obviously it was a bit before our
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: time in terms of being able to watch it. But
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: you mentioned the old super right and with the kid
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: you're wearing and and all the moments from you know,
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: eighty eight to ninety two. Uh what, Oh my god,
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: I almost forgot the question. Uh that was a short span. Yeah, sorry,
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: That's what I was gonna ask you. It was it
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: was a short run. What is it going to take
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Rocco to keep this thing going for for for the
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: long term, for the future, for for the long haul
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: of this Because the way you're speaking and the way
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: we've kind of gotten to know you, uh, Rocco is
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: that you know the way you work, You'll get it done.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: What is it going to take Rocco to keep this,
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: this project, this, this this objective, like you mentioned, not
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: just a dream, become a reality and keep it a
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: reality for for for many many years to.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Come, working with everybody. This is the people's club. This
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: belongs to every club that's in Quebec, and we're going
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: to show that we're going to work with them and
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: we want to have it for a very long time
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: with the amateur clubs. So when we say again this
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: is a could be c POC, there's a lot of
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: meaningful definitions that come with that saying. And the day
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: that separate ourselves from amateur clubs, that's the day that
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: this dies so which is never so for us, it's
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: it's really for the communities and they're gonna get a
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: glimpse of what we want to do and it's going
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: to be ongoing for a long time. Like we're not
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: just doing it for a year to say okay, yeah,
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: we're with you now We're not. No, it's it's it's
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: it's a team. It's a team for our communities. It
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: really is. And it's it's uh and I swear I
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: talk about it, I have so much like passion and
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: energy about it because I can't wait to express it
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: and and show people what we really really we're all about.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: And yes, we want to win, and we want to
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: have amazing players and we want to develop amazing players
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: from our province. But we want every club or whoever
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: believes in this project to be a part of this family.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: That's that's how it is.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: A couple more things walk go from you if if
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: we can you, we kind of want to bring back
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: to the whole Roses stat Boreale.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: What's that partnership like for for you guys?
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Because I forgot to mention it earlier, But what's that
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: partnership like for you in terms of uh?
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: Is is everything shared? Like? How is the relationship with
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: you guys?
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: Were they open right away to welcome you guys?
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: Like this is something that listen, we got a pro
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: women's team here here.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: In our city.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: Uh and that's a big milestone where they with open
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: arms to bring you in if if so, Like, how
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: how is that whole thing?
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: Like?
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for us, the Roses is a blessing and uh,
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: we're we're basically thankful for for you know, them believing
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: in this project because you know, they wanted to hear
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: a project before bringing us in and when I pitched
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: my project to their ownership group and their president, I
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: need a ruge. They loved it and and for me,
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: I don't see it of just us renting off them
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: and using their facility is doing big things together. I
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: really see the Roses and f Super you know, being
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: a part and and and for the good of the sport.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Right we could we could literally grow the sport together
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: in our province. So that's another vision that I have
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: that it comes to and they know what I what
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: I want to do. So yeah, for us, it's to
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: work with the Roses for a very long time.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: Amazing And again I thought I'm just the only one
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: asking the questions.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: But you mentioned obviously in the in the presentation, uh
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: a handful weeks ago. Now, Rocco, you always have you
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: always tie them in, Jason de Tuo, right, La Grinta,
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: you know I know.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: This team will have that Grinta, that I will have
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: that fight.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: Is that an important message that you know you're the
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: players and everybody involved at Super if if even you
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: know your your your your owners, your investor. Sorry, the
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: matter of Dettas of the world, Angelo pastors of the world,
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: are they something somebody that you had to really drive
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: that home to and uh, just if you want to
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: speak about that, because it always touches me.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: So yeah, Jason is ah, He's gonna be part of
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: this team forever. From day one, I mentioned that even
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: at the launch, every player on this team is gonna
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: walk into our locker room and see Laglinta, and they're
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: gonna understand every single day when they walk in that's
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: what it is. They're like, you're not playing on this team.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: If you're not Laglinta, there is no there's no chance
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: in hell you're You're not. You're not gonna be part
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: of the Sisupra. If your determination and your your perseverance
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: and you're willing of never giving up is Laglinta. If
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: you don't have that, you're you're the wrong place. And
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: we're gonna notice right away. Every player that we're gonna
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: sign is gonna notice before we sign them. It's gonna
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: be an engagement that they're gonna have to understand prior
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: to being with us what it takes to be an
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: FC super player. Having Laglinta working in being a role
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: model for kids. Because Jason not only was a fighter
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: on the field, he was a role model for a
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: bunch of kids all over the province, and that legacy
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: with me and with the Supra will live forever, forever,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: ever ever.
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: I honestly, I love it, Rocco, and I'm glad that
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: you bring that with you in this project. Obviously we
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: saw it in in glimpses, you know, obviously Montreal. Obviously
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: you brought it with with with wre on and we
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: got to see that. So I love to see it
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: bring you know that you're bringing it with you for
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: a fually, Supra.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: It's kind of just a question that kind of came up,
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: and as you were mentioning what you were saying, Rocco,
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: the number seven, Will anybody wear that?
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: Or is that something that you were ever thinking about?
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Just I don't know, very good question. We'll see. I
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: have two different plans with this etetter. I don't use
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: number seven at all, okay, me Jason's or the person
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: that wears number seven could only represent that type of player, Okay,
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: which is I have some ideas in mind.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay, perfect. So yeah again, I love I
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: love it, Nick. I don't know if you want to add.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: Something no, I was just gonna I love it.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: I love that, it's it's it's awesome, Rocco. I think
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: that's pretty much all we had. Again, we can't thank
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: you enough before we let you go and stay on
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: the air.
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: Because we want to thank you again. Afterwards, we'll try
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: a bit.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: But you mentioned where the people can find uh FC
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: super on social media. What's the handle, the website, all that,
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: all that good stuff you can plug away.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's at FC super. What is it? Let
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: me see, I see it every day, FC super Quebec. Okay,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: see super Qubec. Yeah, and to go to Yeah, there
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: are all the seams social handles, Superqubek. If you go
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: to CPL, you'll see our websites at the CPL website
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: also of our own right super Cobec. So anything else
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: super Combc you'll see.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: And people can still get their tickets for the home
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: opener or what.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so right now, right now, all it is is
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: is a season ticket deposit. Okay positive season tickets. So
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: and we know what we're close to already, like a
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: bit over two hundred already, which is crazy. You haven't
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: done much promotion about it, only on social media, but
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: once we have our seating plan. That's when tickets will
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: go on sale, which we're hoping is in the next
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: month or two.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Okay, perfect, so guys keep keep tuned with that. Again, Roco,
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: we cannot thank you enough. You've been very gracious with
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: your time for us on our show. It's it means
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: the world to us, and we're glad to have to
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: call you a friend, Rocco, and uh, it's it's a
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: it's amazing.
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: We watch nothing but the best.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Uh, and we'll and we'll weave you with this because
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: now your presidente so oh presidente solo prasy dente o
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: prazy the ch solo.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: That one age.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: You told me to think that before, but then I
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: forgot the lyrics. I let a do it the American
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: idol over here, Canadian idol. Yeah, again, we really appreciate it.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: Rock.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: I'm now you got me super excited for the seasons.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: You are super excited, right, not super.
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  Speaker 1: In six months, even with the Canadian Championship, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: chance to play see if CSL, which will be amazing
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  Speaker 1: if if that happens, or CF Montreal and Nice Montreal.
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  Speaker 3: Knowing how things work, Uh well it might it might
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  Speaker 3: just happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly. See, we'll see what happens, Adri. You
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  Speaker 1: know the drill. Where can people find us?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: First, before I say that again, guys, follow FC super
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  Speaker 3: absolutely a must because not only is the project an
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  Speaker 3: amazing one, but the people behind it is even better. So, guys,
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  Speaker 3: is at FC super and owsocials the website, all that
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  Speaker 3: video content of the podcast. We thank you so much,
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  Speaker 3: Rocko again and we'll be back next week to talk
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  Speaker 3: a lot more culture.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Thank you, guys, Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 4: Job Yeah