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Inter-Milan Derby della Madonnina Preview - Ep. 296 Ft. Luca Scott from TSN 690 · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: Derby Week in Melan Derby de la Medal Nina. What
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  Speaker 1: better guests I have on then a melon guest right
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  Speaker 1: here from our own backyard, Montreal, Buca Scott from in
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  Speaker 1: six ninety Luca, how's it going.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good, gentlemen, it's it's I'm glad to be here
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  Speaker 3: with you for the first time ever. So this is
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  Speaker 3: the first time, but I hope there's many more times
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  Speaker 3: after this, because I don't feel like I get enough
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  Speaker 3: soccer talk in my life. So hopefully, hopefully you know,
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  Speaker 3: this will do good for me what we're what we're
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  Speaker 3: here for.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't imagine a lot of city I talk
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  Speaker 1: on six ninety.
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  Speaker 3: No. I try to sneak it in when I can,
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  Speaker 3: but it doesn't happen often.
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  Speaker 1: Love it couch your guys, I'm Nicholas with Johnny any Drano.
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  Speaker 1: We could follow us on all your favorite podcasting platforms
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  Speaker 1: and social media, Luca. So we were telling you before
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  Speaker 1: that we had a tradition going back to our cjl
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  Speaker 1: O days, so we got we got the Concordia connection
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  Speaker 1: here and our tradition when we had a first time guest.
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  Speaker 1: Give us your uh, story with Calcho, and we're passionate
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  Speaker 1: about it because after all, that's what that's what gathered
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  Speaker 1: us here today. You know, Johnny's a Roma Napoli fan,
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  Speaker 1: Adrian's the Milan fan. I'm you've a fan yet we
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  Speaker 1: all have a passion for Coultro, and what's your passion
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  Speaker 1: for Couchu?
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  Speaker 3: What's your whole one? Johnny's a Roma and Napoli fan.
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  Speaker 4: We knew it was coming, we knew it was coming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how did that happen?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well this must be about you.
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  Speaker 6: But I know, okay, so uh, like I go, I
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  Speaker 6: guess I'll paraphrase it. Born in ninety two, so growing
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  Speaker 6: up like Monopoly wasn't the strongest.
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  Speaker 5: My family's not.
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  Speaker 6: Baldan and says, but like mostly like uh most mostly
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  Speaker 6: from Campagna. Anyways, growing up like no, No was a
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  Speaker 6: big Napoly fan. I didn't really watch Napolet and Setia.
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  Speaker 6: My fair color was red. So I started liking it
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  Speaker 6: all like four years old. Plus it helps you know,
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  Speaker 6: like you have the years of like Abatistuta Tatis, you
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  Speaker 6: have like Mantella, like you had like you had some
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  Speaker 6: like good players play.
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  Speaker 5: For Roma and stuff.
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  Speaker 6: And then obviously, you know, they went to school that
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  Speaker 6: don't stand and one and whatever, and Tati is obviously
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  Speaker 6: like a star for Italy, so obviously maybe passion for
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  Speaker 6: a team.
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  Speaker 5: However, my family is very very like I guess you.
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  Speaker 6: Can say, or I forget the actual proper term, but
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  Speaker 6: I would watch the anapotly games of my no No.
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  Speaker 6: I watched like because when it came back to Setia
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  Speaker 6: B and in Citia it was around the time that
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  Speaker 6: they had like highlights from YouTube, like they would like
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  Speaker 6: Citia B would upload the highs because Napoli was such
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  Speaker 6: a popular team obviously because you know, it's the biggest
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  Speaker 6: team in the South, so they would have highlights on
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  Speaker 6: YouTube and stuff, and I watched them my no no.
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  Speaker 6: Then I would watch the games on I and t
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  Speaker 6: l N with him and stuff, and you know, like
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  Speaker 6: they always were like an underdog and you kind of
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  Speaker 6: get behind that and it's like you feel your family
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  Speaker 6: pride and stuff, and it was just so hard not
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  Speaker 6: to root for them as well, because it's just like
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  Speaker 6: it's there's like a lot of like pride and stuff
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  Speaker 6: and like family bond and stuff, and especially when it's
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  Speaker 6: like like there's the Big three in city. Yeah, right,
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  Speaker 6: and then you have this like underdog club, which is
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  Speaker 6: it is a big club, but like you know what
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's always the shoehorn joking club type of thing.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, you know what, just stick it to you
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  Speaker 6: guys type of thing. And I ended up loving Napoli
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  Speaker 6: as well. So yes, it is weird that I support
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  Speaker 6: two teams. I totally agree, especially at their rivals. I understand,
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  Speaker 6: like I totally do. But it's just it's just like
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  Speaker 6: I never developed a reason.
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  Speaker 5: To hate Oman. I never really like like, I just
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  Speaker 5: fell in love Monopoly. It just happened.
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  Speaker 6: It's just it's tough. And then people always ask me
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  Speaker 6: if they go ahead to head, who's gonna go? Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm like, whichever team's got a better chance of
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  Speaker 6: the champions.
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  Speaker 4: Like a unicorn, like true unicorn.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, No, that's a good story.
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  Speaker 4: So look, you back that up or what.
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  Speaker 2: First?
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  Speaker 3: So basically, my dad isn't really a big sports fan.
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  Speaker 3: My mom would have watched the big events, so super Bowl,
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  Speaker 3: World Cup, you know, like she was the one that
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  Speaker 3: kind of introduced me to sports. And I didn't watch
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  Speaker 3: soccer on a regular basis. I would only watch World
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  Speaker 3: Cup pretty much, and yeah, I still watch hockey, basketball
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. And I think what happened was, well, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think, I know, Fifa Street happened. Fifa Street eleven album.
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  Speaker 2: There playing the game.
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  Speaker 3: It was the demo because you know back in the
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  Speaker 3: day when demos were like more of a thing in
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  Speaker 3: video games. And I'm like looking through the teams and
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  Speaker 3: then I stumbled on Ac Milan with you know, Kevin
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  Speaker 3: Prince Bowtang's a lot of time, Thiago Silva. Okay, like
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  Speaker 3: I like this team, you know, so it actually started
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  Speaker 3: from FIFA eleven and then I mean I picked like
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  Speaker 3: I didn't follow the team on a religious basis. I
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  Speaker 3: only started following like I knew that was my team.
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  Speaker 3: But when I would actually start watching games and following,
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  Speaker 3: it was probably like twenty fourteen, So like I picked
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  Speaker 3: one of the worst times to ever start watching. They
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  Speaker 3: see me lain like it was horrid, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: oh my god, Like I was like, I'm still envious of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the people that got to watch this team
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  Speaker 3: like through the Saki days.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Like that is I can't even imagine when what that
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  Speaker 3: would feel like when Italy was the pinnacle of the
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  Speaker 3: footballing world and I'm here stuck with the banter area.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my boy Keith ki Honda shot out to him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but like that, that was it.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, the team got better and better
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  Speaker 3: over time and now there at a state where they're
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  Speaker 3: at right now, where they're second in Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 4: Love it, absolutely love it. And you know what, Luca,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's a shop out to you because you
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  Speaker 4: know you're still here right You're you're still buying the team.
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  Speaker 4: And a lot of you know, especially in this generation
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  Speaker 4: of of fandom and in all sports, you know, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of a lot of people jump ship after you know,
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  Speaker 4: some dark years with their with their clubs, with their
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  Speaker 4: their NFL team there and NHL team, the NBA team whatever,
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  Speaker 4: MLB like here in North America. But you know, especially
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  Speaker 4: for for culture and a lot of people just jump
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  Speaker 4: ship after seeing them lose or you know, not making
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  Speaker 4: tough for you know, just not you know, touch Silver
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  Speaker 4: were in a while. So it's you know, commendment. It's
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  Speaker 4: a big commitment to you because you know you're still
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  Speaker 4: you're still you know, rockying with the Colors, and I
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  Speaker 4: think that's what it's all about. Right, because we all
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  Speaker 4: have all seen dark days, some worse than others, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're we're still by our team. So it's
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  Speaker 4: it's very commendable, uh, to to see that, I think.
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  Speaker 6: And you know what's really cool is that, like you
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  Speaker 6: joined the team when they're actually in they're low. Was
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  Speaker 6: a lot of times a lot of people become Laniasti
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  Speaker 6: because they just grew up in a time where you know,
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  Speaker 6: they were dominating city or dominating the European competition. They
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  Speaker 6: were like the club of the world, competing with real
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  Speaker 6: Madrid and stuff. And the fact that you joined like
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  Speaker 6: at a low time with them, you're like, you know,
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  Speaker 6: you got rewarded for it. Yeah, but you got rewarded
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  Speaker 6: for it at some point, right, and when they want
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  Speaker 6: twenty nineteen right Adrio, My god, my brain's not working still.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for the correction. But now the real hard
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  Speaker 6: hitting question here, real hard hitting question. So you played
• 7:33
  Speaker 6: FIFA Street four, that's how you got your love for
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  Speaker 6: me on? Did you play any of the other FIA
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  Speaker 6: streets like three to.
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  Speaker 4: The older ones? Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, may I make a recommendation to that is a game.
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  Speaker 2: That I a game to play.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I even still play it today if you have
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  Speaker 6: a way to emulate it. Old on, wait, wait, hold on,
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  Speaker 6: I'm promoting private piracy. I can't say that out loud
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  Speaker 6: for American listeners, Canadians and actually hired things legally, but
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  Speaker 6: I'm all serious to say, if you ever have a
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  Speaker 6: way to play Fifa Street Too, I highly recommend Fifa
• 8:05
  Speaker 6: Street Too. Like it was on the game q PS
• 8:07
  Speaker 6: two Xbox era like probably like like right before World
• 8:11
  Speaker 6: Cup thousand and six came out, like it's so funny. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: So it's so funny because like you have like we'n
• 8:17
  Speaker 6: all those the Christiano ren all those like the cover
• 8:18
  Speaker 6: boy he's got like a eighty something overall rating. Then
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  Speaker 6: you see like Messi on Argentina with like a seventy
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  Speaker 6: two rating, and you're like, oh, this is interesting, Like it's.
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  Speaker 2: It's been like my whole life.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah exactly, it's just so it's.
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  Speaker 6: It's a it's a really fun time capsule of the
• 8:35
  Speaker 6: game because you have so many strong like like it's
• 8:38
  Speaker 6: pretty much like I guess around that time was when
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  Speaker 6: a lot of national a lot of nations had really
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  Speaker 6: strong clubs and a lot of course good So the first.
• 8:46
  Speaker 3: I ever played those FIFA four with del Pierrodino and Ty.
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  Speaker 2: On the cover.
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  Speaker 5: That was that's a that's that's a good FIFA was.
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  Speaker 2: That was a lot of fun.
• 8:57
  Speaker 3: But and and you know, further more to the heartache
• 9:01
  Speaker 3: early on as a as a Melan fan. I remember,
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  Speaker 3: you know, later late in high school, I was so
• 9:08
  Speaker 3: high on haqem My Store.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, you can.
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  Speaker 5: Was watching youtu.
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  Speaker 4: I was watching YouTube.
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  Speaker 3: I was watching YouTube. You know him and Martin order
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  Speaker 3: guard with the two guys like that class.
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  Speaker 5: I guess he was supposed to be a savior for
• 9:23
  Speaker 5: the national No worry about it.
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  Speaker 2: We know, we know, man, my friends till this day,
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: what happened to Store? I'm like, startling alone?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, take a walk, take a walk, yeah exactly. But Luka,
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  Speaker 4: one more thing I kind of wanted to add in
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  Speaker 4: here before we kind of maybe switch switch shops. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: any any any moments in in your fandom that has
• 9:47
  Speaker 4: kind of stood out for you as a mean fan,
• 9:49
  Speaker 4: because like, like for me, there's there's there's plenty, but
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  Speaker 4: I just want to hear for you. Oh, there's the phone,
• 9:57
  Speaker 4: there's the phone.
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  Speaker 2: There, there's fall number one. Hold on a second. We
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: have enough, We have enough. Juice, I think to sustain
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  Speaker 2: for now. So obviously the school that one twenty twenty two, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Olivier just.
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  Speaker 3: I was nervous that day because you know, yes, the
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: Swallow is not the strongest team. But you know, Dominical
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  Speaker 3: Dominical variety was having a great season that year, like
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  Speaker 3: he was. He was in the running for Player of
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: the Year. If I'm not mistaken. You always giving me
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: trouble exactly exactly, and you know, they comfortably won and
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: it was a surreal and like this really happened. But
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: you know, leading up before that, I think my favorite
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: moment of that run obviously, you know the two Jeru
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  Speaker 3: goals against Inden to win to one, but the Tonale
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: goal Latsio, oh man, that was that was probably my
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: favorite moment of that season. I still miss Sandel so much, heartbreaking,
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  Speaker 3: But I think after that, I mean, it's got to
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: be the Champions League semifinals run, you know, like to
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: see them go that far and I had never I've
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: never seen them go that far before. You know, it
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: was like, and yeah, we're the draws insanely difficult. No,
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  Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, you've got to
• 11:22
  Speaker 3: play who you got to play and who's in front
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  Speaker 3: of you, and to beat Tottenham and to get that
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  Speaker 3: revenge for the last time when Tottenham beat them and
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: was it twenty eleven or twenty twelve or something like that,
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: to get revenge for that, and and Mike Magnel making
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: some big saves and then to beat the school that's
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: the winners that year Anapoli. I know men missed the
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: first game, but they still did with like we talked
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  Speaker 3: about it number that year. Yeah, just knew how to
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  Speaker 3: put them in his pocket.
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  Speaker 4: Twice. They beat them twice in like a week's two weeks.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, like four times. It spotted like two months
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  Speaker 5: had it was.
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  Speaker 3: Four nil in Napoli and Saladmaker scored that beautiful goal.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was to make it three or four nil,
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: but yeah, to be Napoli and then obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to lose to the ink tear was that was rough.
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: I definitely was like, what if Layout didn't get injured before,
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: you know, the first leg of the game. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know how much of a difference it would have made,
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: but at that point in time, the team was not
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: capable of having an offensive spark without Layout, like they
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: they just there wasn't a Christian Pulisic there to to
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: be that backup option as a spark like he like
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: it was layout. He was do or die with him,
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  Speaker 3: So that was that was tough, but still it was
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  Speaker 3: awesome and I thought they would build on it. They
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  Speaker 3: didn't unfortnately, but you know, I'm hoping that the Steps
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  Speaker 3: can can get back to that.
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  Speaker 4: Also.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, well we'll focus on Melan for this season obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, Derby, they'll be coming up on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: I did want to ask you though, because I know
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  Speaker 1: you were in Milan. I know you didn't get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to watch them play. You didn't go to another
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  Speaker 1: game though, Como Atalanta.
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  Speaker 5: What was your experience Like it was crazy that as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was first of all gorgeous. Yeah, Como was gorgeous.
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  Speaker 3: It was like it's like an hour train ride from Milan.
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  Speaker 3: So we figured like that, like, if I'm going to
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: go to a game, like if it's not my team playing,
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  Speaker 3: I'd i'd least like to see a good quality game.
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  Speaker 3: With all due respect to the to the bottom teams
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  Speaker 3: in the league, but the stadium is just gorgeous, man,
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's by the water, you see the mountains
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: like it was beautiful, and it doesn't. It doesn't hold
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people. I think to like thirteen or
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: fourteen thousand people that it holds. So I didn't get
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: to experience that. You know, yeah, I didn't get to
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  Speaker 3: experience that, but it didn't take away from how awesome
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  Speaker 3: that environment was. And it was also my first European
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  Speaker 3: game that I saw in person, So como listen, Como's good.
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  Speaker 2: I love what they got going on.
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  Speaker 3: I know they get a lot of flat for not
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: having enough Italian players on the team. I understand both
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: sides of the argument. But at the end of the day,
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: if fab Degasa is the manager, and you know, if
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: he feels like he finds more talented guys other places
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: and they can have success doing this, then they have
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: their right to do so that's that's their progative. At
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: the end of the day, the team is still an
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: Italian team and it's drawing eyeballs to said, yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: I think that's always a positive. The more eyes on
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: the league, the better. But it was a great game,
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  Speaker 3: even though it was nil. Nils I didn't even see
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  Speaker 3: a goal that sucked, but Nico pas missed the injury
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: time penalty shot.
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  Speaker 2: But that's because Kamna Saki.
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  Speaker 3: You know, as as Nick and I were talking before,
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: you know, beforehand, he's he's unreal.
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  Speaker 2: And if if not for.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: Don A Ruma not being done with Luma, he would
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: be the number one guy for Italy, and if he
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: played for a different country, he'd likely be the number
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  Speaker 3: one guy as well.
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  Speaker 4: No, absolute, absolutely absolutely, I got that was the game.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: You caught that. That's that was an interesting game that
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: you went to. Yeah, but you know what, we've been there,
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Me and Nick have been there. We went to San
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Seago against US swollen back twenty nineteen nil nil one
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  Speaker 4: hundred twenty fifth on the first three game for Milan.
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  Speaker 4: Uh whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Least there was a goal we celebrated that was later
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: later taken off.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the bar whatever it was far took it back,
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: but it could be worthy.
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: You could go watch your own team and see them
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: lose both both games in the same man. I went, Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I went to go watch an happier game at the Maradonna.
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  Speaker 5: They lose one zero.
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  Speaker 6: That was year that they won their third school that
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: though it was one zero Dealazzio at the Maradonna and
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: then I go watch rom at the Olympico. They lose
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: four to three to SaaS Swallow and then I radly
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: go visit my relatives in Florence, right in Tuscany, and
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: I'm like, you know, let go see a good game.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the game.
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  Speaker 5: They win one zero. Like you gotta be.
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: Shitty being conferen the conference league game. Yeah, conferencely. I'm like,
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: come on, I see what. Don't even supported they win
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: win zero? What is it?
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: It's crazy Sarantina are like kings of the Conference League. Man, yeah,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: never won though, no, no.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: No, But it's the run again. All this to say,
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: it's the it's the risk that you run any point
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: going to these matches. You don't. I listen, it's we
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: always say it in this league and said, yea, we
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: always say on the show there's no easy games in saida, Yah,
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: it's uh, it's it's it's a known fact at this point.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: If you're not if you don't know that, then you
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: don't watch Setia. It's you know, it's one of these
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: things where you know the swoos of the world, or
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: the Pisas or the Leches or the Padmas or whoever
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: it is, you don't pull out the Cremoneses, right, they
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: they pull out these magical games against against against your club,
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: so you know, thankfully Criminals didn't do it two times
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: in a row. From you on, Luca, it was just
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: before we get into the derby talk. I kind of
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: just wanted to hear your thoughts on on on that match,
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: on that well, on that match. First. We can speak
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: about obviously this season as we as we go along here,
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: but that match, Uh, you know this past weekend, the
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: two nail win, which looked like it was going to
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: be a lot worse and we had a bad taste
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: in our mouth week one with with Crimons, right with
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: the first loss of this season. What if What was
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: your take on on the match if you caught it
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: for that matter, and uh, maybe Mewan struggles with these
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: bottom table teams that have really been our kryptonite this season.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: Just your thoughts, Luga.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's so I don't understand it.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: It's so weird because obviously on paper or Melons the
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: more talented side, but for whatever reason, endless at the
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: end of the day, it was it was nice to
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: see them get the two mil win, like to avenge
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: a Lassu klement essay, get like you said.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Get that bad taste out of their mouths.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: That that's I love that, that's great, But I think
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: it speaks to a bigger picture with the amount of
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: draws that they've had to inferor your competition. You know,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: drawing to Roma, drawing to Como Atalanta. You've a like
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: that's gonna happen. I'm not anticipating that you need to
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: beat those teams twice, two times the two times you
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: play them, But you know, Sasolo Arma Pisa, like, those
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: are valuable points on the board to condemn, to contend
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: for the school deeto that you you didn't get, you know,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: and and it I don't understand why you can be
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: so good against the top teams in the league and
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: have such a good record against them and then not,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: you know, capitalize against the lower teams. And listen, I
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: understand injury plays a part of it.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: You look at Leale that was when we started.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: I know he's played twenty but only started sixteen m
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: And you know, Santiago yu Manez like that's been a
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: disaster in the grand scheme of things, you know, full
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Krug like, you know, I'm not going to expect him
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: to come be the savior. And Kunku only got relatively
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: healthy recently, so I understand there are some injuries, but
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, you got you have
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: to find a way, right. And look, even if I
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: like Rabbio, like I I hated Rabbio when he played
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: for you couldn't stand him because because I love Christiano
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Ronaldo and you know, seeing him playing going from Real
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Madrid and I'm not trying to disrespect you man, I
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: know Nick's a big y fan. I'm not trying to
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: disrespect them, but to see Ronaldo, to see to see
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Ronaldo go from Real to playing with Rabbio and like
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: just the boneheaded decisions he make, you know, but he's
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: but having said that, he's played well, you know he's
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: he's been one of the I guess, surprising players for
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Miland this season. You know, for me, so I don't
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I don't understand, you know how they can lose to
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: kmon Essay and then draw all these mediocre teams and
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: then beat Inter beat Roma the first time they played them,
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, beat Napoli Like I I
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: don't understand it. And and you know, one one more thing,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I'll say about it is it sucks because you don't
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: know if you're gonna be able to do that next season.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: You did it this season. This was an opportunity to
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: win a school detO that no one thought you were
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: gonna win.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: And listen, they still could. But it's a stretch because
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: into is I hate.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Them, but they're they're they're playing well right now, at
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: least in the league Champions League. I'm sure we'll get
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: to that and later on, but there's no guarantee that
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: you're gonna beat Napoli into the next season. Like you
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: don't know that those teams are gonna get better, Napoli
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: is not going to have the abundance of injuries that
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: they have, So I kind.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Of feel like it's a bit of a missed opportunity,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: to be honest with you.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: And it's also crazy because I saw again, I don't
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: know where I saw. I think it was a tweet
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: or on Instagram whatever, somewhere on socials. You know me
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: and I've only lost two games, yet there's still ten
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: points back of saying in first place, right so it
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: just goes to show you that, like you said, to
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: add to your point, those those draws or missed opportunities
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: of gaining three points rather than just claiming the one
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: is really what's going to be budding me on in
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: the ass come the end of the season, because you know,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: we're still ten points away and even if we do
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: win on Sunday in the debd be you know, we
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: will be seven points back. And again it's still a
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: little bit of a mountain to climb, uh, you know,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: so down the stretch. So it's a it's a shame
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: because I think, like, uh, you know, like I said,
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: and I think even Nick said it. We both said that,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: you know, they would be the school at the winners
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: and just because similar to NAPA last season, the one
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: competition a week, you know, that should have been uh
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: you know, like a like a catapult into really focusing
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: on the league and really gaining that you know, that
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: second star. Unfortunately, I don't know if it will be again.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Fingers crossed. You always try to be positive as a fan,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: but you know, just to be a realist, it's it's
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: it's you know, slowly escaping our grasp, if not already
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: has escaped. So it's a shame. But just as to
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: your point, I totally agree and that's probably be the
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: downfall of this season for me.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: It sucks and I don't want to look back at
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: this season as and then first of all, into is
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: gonna be on us in the school that though by two,
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: which is which is which.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Is even worse.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: But it's like, I don't want to look back at
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: this season as a as a missed opportunity, you know
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: what I mean.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: And that's what it's starting to feel like. You know,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: that's what it's starting to feel like.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: But you know what, I can't even say it's like
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: a learning process because it's not like they're a young
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: team like that. Like a lot of the d players
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: are have been there and done that, So it's not
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: like it's like if it's if it was like some
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: youthful team where like the average age on the team
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: was like twenty two twenty three. Okay, that's different, but
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: you know, Luka Modric is how old he is, Rabio
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: has been around, Mike Mignon, Tomori like all these guys
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: have they're not they're not young guns. So it's like
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: that's why it adds to the I guess disappointment.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: For sure.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Uh and their defense, sorry, like inter is continuing their
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: strong form as like from last year, you know, and yes,
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: you know they had embarrassment in Champions League final and stuff,
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: but they're a team that you know, is.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Embarrassment, it's set.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: If we weren't already set backing.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Up, but overall, it's like they're still a very strong team.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: So it's really hard for like I.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Think that, like maybe as an outsider, you know, like
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: I feel like Melon deserves just a little bit of like,
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: you know what, even though we're playing one game a
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: week more or less because of the Kopetalia, they should
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: you know, like be safe from a bit of the
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: scrutiny because, don't forget leg he came back. You know,
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: you feel like he has to just get the team
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: readjusted to his system and your your competition is one
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: of the strongest teams in Europe. It's the fact that
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: she's only ten points behind is still I think it's
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: still commendable.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: I I yeah, that's fair, that's fair, And there was
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: definitely work to be done. And you know, when they
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: sold renders, they got they got some decent pieces back.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: It not obviously like with the money that they used
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: from that transfer to man City, but now, I mean,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: you know you mentioned allegedly now there's rumors that he
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: might go to Real Madrid. I don't know if you
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: guys have seen that like that. Now you're gonna have
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: another managerial turnover. And I'm personally not against it, to
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: be honest with you, because I.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Wasn't like.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Jumping for joy when they when they got allegedly to
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: be to come back as manager. I wanted someone that
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: was young and innovative because I think Setiya needs more
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: of that, right, I think Setiya needs that that creative
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: genius that's gonna come in and kind of give a
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: league the kick in the ass that it needs. And
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: maybe five the guys can do that, you know, in
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: the next two years if he decides to say or so. Sure,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: but if allegedly does decide to move on, I mean,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I've always wanted Milan to go and get this be.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, first of all, he's a Melan guy, mm hmm.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: And and I know things didn't work out the way
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: he would have liked him, I'll say. And obviously you
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: know Ishmael Cone Montreal z own it didn't work out
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: with him, and and that's that was unfortunate. But has
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: grown and he's player exactly. So having said that, I
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: just feel like this LB would be the guy that
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: can you know, bring that creative dynamic to Milan mhmm.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah I could. I could see it. I mean yeah, Anyways,
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: I don't know for the real Madrid thing on a lego.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: I think it's it's to tell it's all obviously, uh
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: you know click for clicks right, use you're in that space,
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: right so you you you know better than us. But listen,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: I would hope he does stay, just because I do
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: think there is something to build on. You know, we
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: didn't have we had a we had a we didn't
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: have a sporting director before before Tari came in right
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: for that year a year and a bit and and
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: we were a mess, you know, and we had uh,
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: you know, management that wasn't all there, and we had
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: the coach that was half in, half out, and uh,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: you know, you kind of bring somewhat of stability and
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: you know, you see, you've seen improvement. I think in
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: this season so far under allegedly, I think he's he's
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: tied with I think the purely Sudetto year in terms
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: of points at this point in the season with fifty seven.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: So listen, there is some sort of stability that has
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: been put into place under allegedly we knew that was
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: going to happen. But again it's you know, we know
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Allegriy style, you know, the court to Musola, the famous
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: you know, just getting over the line right type of mentality.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: And listen, I still think players are played out of position.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Obviously we saw, you know, Juvantini saw that for for
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: their run with the with the every rights guys put
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: out of a position. And for me, you know, Leo
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: is not a striker, right, and neither is Posage. You know,
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: they're the getting put up there and they're doing what
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: they can and they're not fully fit, and but you know,
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: there's there's more to it than that. But I would
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: just like maybe a bit more flexibility to add to
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: your point. Does Zbi is obviously an interesting name. Again,
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: I know, I don't think it will happen, but I
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: like a Palladino as well. I spoke about it last week.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: I like a Palladino. He's I just like what he brings.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: You know, Italian coach Young, you know, bringing this Atalanta
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: team to a point where at the beginning of the season,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: we didn't think they would be at so it's again
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: shot out to him, so listen. If they do end
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: up going that route eventually in the future, we'll see.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: But personally, I think I like you wants from what
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: I hear, I like he wants to stay. I think
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: the relationship is still intact if if we we believe
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: what is written so again, we'll we'll we'll see for sure.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: But Nick, I think you wanted to quite add a question.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I honestly, it was just I want to talk
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: about the game on Sunday. Yeah, you know, thoughts and
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: all that. And I know you watched the first derby
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: of the season at Charles with me for all that
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: one nothing win. You know, both me Andano were there
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: and it was one nothing goal from poolshitch save. I'm
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: appenalty saved by Magnon on hot gun. You know, one
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: of those classic one of those classic wins, right. I
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: don't know if you expect the same this time around.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: What are your what are your thoughts? Oka?
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: It's weird because it's like you have these two forces
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: colliding together.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: And what I mean by that is.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Intel has been unreal as of late M eight games
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: eight game winning streak. But then on the other side
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: you have Milan, who and when I say force, I
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: mean force in the sense that they play up to
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: their competition.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: So it's.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: How is that going to balance out? And it's kind
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: of hard for me to see an avenue for Milan
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: to beat in Ted this weekend because, like I said,
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: in Ted has just been and you know, Frederico di Marco,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: like he has he has doubled the amount of assists
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: as the next closest person, you know, when there's something
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: about him playing in the city where he just turns
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: it up a notch, right, So, and then not to
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: mention that their midfield is solid of course, about ella Is,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: I think he's slowed down a bit, but he's by
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: no means like some scrub like he is still one
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: of the better midfielders in the league, easily bashtoni Is,
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, when you look throughout Europe, I
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: think he's ex criminally underrated as a center back. He's
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: he's one of the best center backs in the world.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: And and Nick and I know you're probably still upset
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: about the you know, the UVEL.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Game with.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Get me started.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: We're gonna a couple of episodes, but you know, and
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: and they're doing this without Martinez, who's who's been out
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: for what like the last two three weeks or so,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: and they're they're just firing, like they're firing on all cylinders.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Not to be cliche, but they just are. And then
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: of course you got a guy in pos Posito who
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: I know he plays for Intereor, but I love his game, man,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: I really do love his game because not yes, he's
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: playing for Intel, but I'm also looking bigger picture for
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: the Italian national team for the years to come, you
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: know what I mean? What he what what he brings
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: to that. So you know, I I would be pleasantly
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: surprised if Milan can get it done. But I just
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: gotta be honest with you. It seems like a very
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: very uphill battle.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: Would you say a loss or a draw? Luca, You're
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: you're kind of hanging towards because just to add in,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: just to adding before you answer that, I saw and
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: I kind of forgotten. But you know, it's it's six
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: games unbeat, like they haven't lost to inter in the
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: last six matchups of of of the of the dead Beat.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Right before that, they were on the opposite side of
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: that they have exactly. They hadn't want it forever, but
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: now we've had somewhat of Inter's number the last six matchups.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: You know, take that for what for what it is.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: But yeah, like, is it is the draw? Is it?
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Is it a loss? In your opinion? Like what do
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: you what do you think?
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I could I could see I could see uh h,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: I could see a loss.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: To be honest with you, Okay, I can see a
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: loss if I if I do, if it is a loss,
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: I don't think they're gonna get smacked around. I don't
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: think that's gonna happen. Sure, I can see a one nil.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: I could see it two to one, you know, I can.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: I can see that happening. But I would love to
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: be wrong, I really would.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: But it's just.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's it's hard to picture. It's hard
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: to envision, you know, like you mentioned before, playing guys
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: out of position. Yeah, like we've we've been known Leyou can't.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Everyone that watches set and watches me La has been
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: known for like half a decade that Leyou can't play striker,
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Like Pioli tried to do that same nonsense, although in
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: a smaller, uh, like sporadically he wouldn't do yeah, like
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: it didn't work, It never worked. That's the You're you're
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: limiting his creative ability by doing that. So and like
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: same for Pulicite and I I struggle to see how
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: this team is is gonna genuinely win a school that though,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: and you know, to Janny's point, photos to them for
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: for only being ten points behind, Like I understand that
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: point of it, but to legitimately win it, you're gonna
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: need a striker. And who's who's the striker that's gonna
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: be the Olga wasn't He wasn't flashy, He wasn't like
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: some unreal striker or he's gonna go get you twenty
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: five goals in the season or something crazy like that.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: But you could rely on him in big moments. You
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: could rely on him to get the job done like efficiently.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: And they don't have that Yams like like we mentioned,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: who knows what's going on with him? Ful Krug Like,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna expect the guy to come in mid
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: season and just you know, save save save the team.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: You know, I thought that was gonna happen with Kyle
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Walker last year when he signed Kyle Walker because we
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: needed it write back and it didn't work out, you know, so.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: I I don't.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: It'll be tough, like it'll be tough Ley Allen or
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Pulisic or someone is gonna have to step up and really,
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: you know, be a star on that in that game,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: with the way intense playing lately.
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: So then with with Milon's desperate need for striker, do
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: you think we believe that rumor that Lavich joins a
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: legacy Milan.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I would like it because I think I think he's
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: I think it's it's an upgrade from what we've had.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: I think I think from a talent po v, he
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: would be he'd be the best striker they've had in
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: a while. I can't even I don't even know who
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: I would put closely because lat of Time when lat
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Time came back, he.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Was older, like that's like, and Ju was also older.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: So I'm not gonna put those guys in that category
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: because it's not like we were getting a Primes lat
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Time again or applying Ju. But Vlovich I still think
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: has quality soccer left in him, you know, I still do,
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: so I wouldn't mind that. But I also think at
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: some point you really need to start nurturing Kamarda and
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: giving him a proper shot, you know. And even if
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: he does come in as an eighteen year old and
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: he scores three goals in the season, it's not the
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: end of the world. Give him time. He's eighteen years old,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: you know, in what other sport that we are we
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: going to criticize an eighteen year old for having a
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: rough start, Like that's normal, he's a kid. But at
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: some point you also, like, I know he's dealing with
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: a shoulder injury right now, but like I kind of
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: it kind of feels like a waste season that legit. Yeah, sure,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: I'm sure he's getting the experience and all that, but
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: he's barely playing. You know, He's played over fifty minutes
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: like only a hand full of times. So I do
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: think that they need to if let's put it this way,
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: if le Migna mal can do it, and he's a
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: he's a different animal.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: Sure, but we.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Have extremely high hopes for Camarda, and maybe that's unfair.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's unfair to have you know, like our our
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: our our hope for a striker which is desperately needed
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: for for years on years on end, maybe it's unfair
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: to put that much pressure on him, but I think
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: he can live up to it, and hopefully it's not
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: a keem My store or two point zero.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: No more YouTube, no more YouTube.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: But like, you bring up a very good point because
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: we're kind of like having a tongue in cheek conversation
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: in our group chat that we have the other day
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: about like you know, SIYAS should go back to the
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: rules of like what it was in the eighties and
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: nineties in terms of having foreign talent on the team
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: where it was limited to like about three to five
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: players and stuff. And I feel like as you watched
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: Italian like you watch Italian national team regrets overall, it's
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: not a mean line thing. It's mostly a city a issue.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the Lord.
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: It's like like it just seems like opportunities for Italian
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: players to develop in the league are being taken away
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: because of the teams, the team's.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: Drives to win and stuff.
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: Do you think maybe, like some like in your opinion,
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: do you think maybe that plays a contributing factor. Do
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: you think maybe City I should probably move towards something
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: like that, because like I know, you joined the fandom
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: waight of Citia. But that's how it was back in
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: the time and Duringland's glory years, you know, they had
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: the three Dutch like yeah, like they obviously they dominated
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: city in Europe during that time. But nonetheless, players like
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: if that rule would exist today, would probably getting more
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: playing time than being being having an option of loan
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: to let you and I think it actually hinders his development.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: At least he's still playing in like you know, like
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: against like stronger teams, but it hinders his development in
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: a sense of playing with the big club, do you.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: But your thoughts on that.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Stuff even not only come out of the tool like
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: even liberality, like I I was gonna blow a gasket, like.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: What are you? I mean maybe with cutanzato, right, I
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: think it is, yeah exactly, So.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: It's like I don't understand.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: And listen, they see these guys almost on a night in,
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: night out basis, so maybe they see something we don't.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: But the talent is there, and it's a failure on
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: your part if you can't own, if you can't cultivate
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: the talent of come out of that and liberality like
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: those are two young guys that you could pivot around
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: and kind of build your future around and they seem
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: unwilling to do it with liberality, and I think I
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: think they have no choice but to do it with
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Kmarta because he's there's so many teams that want them
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: want him. He's worth fifteen if you look at transfer market,
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: he's worth fifteen million euros as a seventeen year old
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: like like that. That's saying a lot. So I do
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: think to your point, Yeah, if thing, if it weren't
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: for that silly rule where they like just struggle to
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: develop young Italian talent, yeah, he would be playing and
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: I think he should be playing. And I think, I
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: think Saidiya, it's it's a shame that they don't do
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: a better job of developing the talent. There we go
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: number two.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: See what happens when you got Maluca.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Know, they do need to do a better job of
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: developing their talent and not like look at listen like
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: we you know, everyone loves to rag on Nigar. I
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: get it, but look how well they.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Develop talent, you know what I mean?
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Layouts from Legan, Mike Mignon's from Legar, two guys that
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: are that have been absolutely pivotal for ac Milan. I'm
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: sure there's a ton more guys that I'm just they're
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: just not coming to mind right now, and I just listen.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: It's not to say that Cidia has been garbage at
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: developing town. I'm not trying to say that, but I'm
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: saying they could do better. You know, at the end
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: of the day, Tonali was developed and home grown from
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: said Yeah, Bashtoni was developed, home grown from Sea.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: So at the end of the day, I do think
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: they need to do a better job. And if not,
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: then I think I would actually encourage. If Setia is
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: not going to give young Italian players opportunity, then go
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: to a different league, go to the LEGA, go to
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: go to the Bundesliga. Look at and I'm forgetting his
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: first name, but I believe his last name is in
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Nacio and yeah, there you go, right, like go absolutely
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: look at pumps out young talent all the time like
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: that's that's and it's I'm sure the fans may not
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: always love it because it's like you're losing talent instead
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: of competing on a regular basis for for the for
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: the Bundesliga title. But at the end of the day,
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: if you have an opportunity to develop and and hone
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: your craft and go for it, you know, absolutely.
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Kind of mentioned the league. One player actually wanted to
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: who played in the league, Ger Jonathan David. I know
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: this is outside me, but he kind of talked about
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: it before he talked about Valvi.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: Seems like he's on his way out of Juve.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Not really, I mean, you know, Vovich is obviously the
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: guy there now a weird season. I think he has
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: something like five or six goals in City, maybe two
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: or three more in Champions League. I don't know if
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: you've had a chance to watch him at all this year?
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about his play and even heading
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: forward to the summer for the national team, for the
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: game national team, where do you where do you think
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: he stands in terms of like his what type of
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: player he's going to contribute to the World Cup.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: So I haven't I haven't watched like every single game
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: I've seen. I've seen games here or there. I remember
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: when he went to Santia, I would see you know,
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: let's just say I saw a topic get brought up
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: about whether Setia was competitive enough for him, and I
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: was like, this is this is outrageous I don't whoever
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: put together this question needs to have their soccer card
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: revoked because you don't know what you're talking about. Like
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: if you if you think SETI I is less com
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: or is not going to be as difficult as the league,
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: aren't you're on drugs. It's as simple as that you're
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: on drugs. So it's an adjustment. I don't think. Listen,
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: it's hard for center forwards and strikers if you're not
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: like kind of honed into or brought up in SETI I.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: Of course, I like bop He or Holland, Like those
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: guys are just freaks, so like I'm not gonna put them,
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: but like a lot of the guys, yeah, it's normal
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: to struggle in SETI. I don't think it's the end
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: of the world that he has a bad season with you, Abe,
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't. I would love for
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: him to stay in the league. I just think he
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: needs another their year to get acclimated to the league.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: How many times have we seen players take a year
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: to get it.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Acclimated to a league. It happens all the time.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Look at a guy like, I'm trying a blank here, right,
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: So he you know, Maldini goes and gets some of
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: the Maldini we miss you come back to come back.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: I was I remember I woke up on that Monday.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: Side note, I woke up on that Monday. I was like,
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: you know what, that was the first time I've been
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: through the batter era. That was the first time I
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: was like, I don't even want a part of me
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: left this team. I don't even who wanted to Like,
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: I had to reevaluate my support for the team because
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: I just thought it was so it was so disrespectful.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: But come back. He'll be back one day. I believe
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: it in my heart. But you know, he got flack
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: for just being quite frankly, was awful in this first season. Yeah, A,
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: he was a young guy. B it's his first season
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: in Setia with Miland, who had high expectations that season
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: and a pretty big price tag. He missed some he
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: missed some chances. I'm not gonna lie. I said he
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: did not play well. But you see what happened when
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: you give up on a guy too early. He goes
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: to to Lanta the next year and he's been one
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: of their best players since he's been there. So and
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: you look at Rasmus Hoyland. Hoyland was was. I thought
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: he was very good at Atlanta before he left for
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: uh United United, Yeah, before he went before he left
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: from United, and then he comes back to Napoli and
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: he's good for Napoli, you know what I mean. So
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: I think there's a level of patience that needs to
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: be exerted for for players that haven't experience before. But
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: I also understand that you know, when you play for you,
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: when you play for Intail, when you play for miland
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: that there are expectations and you know people are not
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: going to hold your hand the whole time, you know
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: what I mean. So I also understand that point of it.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: I couldn't agree more.
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: I think it's always tough because you know, not only
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: do they are they like win now type of teams,
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: those Big Three. You know, it's kind of I think
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: we spoke a bit about last week with our with
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: our guests, you know, John Marco from interviews, part of
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: the inter fan but you know they're they're in a
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: win now mentality and then you know, obviously for me
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: personally again I'll say it again, but like it's the
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: finance part of of these clubs. That you know, they're
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: behind the eight ball a bit and they need to win.
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: They need to they need to be top four. They
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: need to do, you know, go as far as they
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: can in you know, European competitions just to kind of
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: get some money, to get some money, right, And and
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: I don't want to say stay a full but you know,
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: stay stay up there, right, And you know it's it's
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: it's this game we play. So to even circle back
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: to what Johnny said, and again I probably couldn't agree more,
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: but you know, with with with you know, playing the
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: youngsters and playing you know, the Italian talent and keeping
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: you know, the Italian talent within the league. You know,
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: it's we get carding this between a rock and a
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: hard play type of thing, and and it's it's it's tough.
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: So again totally agree. It's it's again and you said mentality.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: And you know, I don't know who's more stubborn than
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: the Italians, right, we kind of all know it, right,
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: coming coming from coming from that world. But you know
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: they're they're stubborn. You know that they are stubborn, and
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: you know we see it not only in our league,
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: we see it. You know, you said a bit a
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: bit about it before Luca, you know, the national team
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: as well, right, So and yeah, we're you know, we're
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: crossing our fingers for the end of March here. But
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: it's uh, you know, it's it's it's a real thing.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: So and and and just to quickly follow up on that,
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: you know, sure you look at a guy like Cala
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: Fiori and Leone. You know, a part of me, a
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: part of me I was like, I wish those guys
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: would have stayed in the league because I think they're
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: I think they're phenomenal. I think they're both phenomenal. But
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: at the same time, I'm looking at the other side
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: of it, and they're bringing attention to Italian football by
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: playing in leagues with the most eyeballs on it, you know,
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: playing for Liverpool, playing for Arsenal like that.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: That's fantastic.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: You know when Cala Fiori maybe a year or so
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: after he got there and he was linked with Real Madrid,
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like, I also think that
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: can be beneficial for Italian football. And you know what,
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: you know, you mentioned the stubbornness. It's unfortunate. I I
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: personally think that you know, a lot of the guys
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: that we grew up watching need to be in more
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: positions of power, you know, the Maldini's, the diddle Sees,
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: the Tutties, the del Pierros, like I want to see
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: those guys and positions of power because you know, I
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: you know, watching Double Heiro on CBS, like he's he's
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: been ranting about the state of Kachyo, you know what
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, He's been pointing out the issues and Wyatt
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: as a league, it hasn't been able to catch up
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: like they've been behind. I know, Inteed won the Trouble
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: in twenty ten, but you know, after and maybe I'm
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: being biased here, after two thousand and seven when Land
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: won the Champions League, it kind of feels like it's
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: gone downhill ever since, outside of the one year in
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: twenty ten, and it's it's a bit shameful to not
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: be caught up almost twenty years later, right and I
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: and I think that for a country that's as synonymous
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: with football as there is, there has to be a
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: meeting of them. Of course, you know, you have other issues,
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: like every country has issues. I'm not trying to get
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: down that route, but it's unfortunate that there hasn't been
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: more of like a meeting of the minds.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: On what can we do to.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: Make couch Hio better and take it back to the
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: eighties and take it back to the nineties where it
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: was the top of the football world. Because being at
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: the top of the football world helps everybody, you know
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: what I mean? Like that that does wonder. So I
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: only hope that in my lifetime I can witness say
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: be you know the hub for football just in general.
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: I think it can have that potential.
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: I just think it goes back to how you handle
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: the youth and how you develop locally as Issuebviously, people
• 51:00
  Speaker 6: want to talk about TV deals and stuff. You know,
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: how the Prems got all these crazy financial dealers.
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: It plays a big factor.
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: It does play a big factor, especially with the sponsorships
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: and amount of money in that league obviously plays a
• 51:12
  Speaker 6: heavy hand in it. But yeah, we we generate the
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: best managers in the world. A lot of the best
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: managers come from Italy. And it's it's funny because like
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: you know, the prem wants to talk about like Italy
• 51:26
  Speaker 6: being like or just people in general casuals just say like, oh,
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: Citia has a step down. I'm like the the Have
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: you ever seen how Citi managers go to the prem
• 51:34
  Speaker 6: and they just win the prem where they just take
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: a team and they win a championship like as if
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: it's nothing.
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: You know, it's it's it's funny, it's funny.
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: It's like the Premier League hasn't had uh in England
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: ever since they changed to the prem Premier League, they
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: haven't had an English manager win the league ever. It's
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: always been someone internationally.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: So Thomas's managing international team.
• 51:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it just it baffles me where it's like
• 51:58
  Speaker 6: we we have the we have the brains. It's just
• 52:03
  Speaker 6: ownerships are just being incompetent. Obviously there's the issue of
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: teams owning stadiums versus not only stadiums, and you see
• 52:09
  Speaker 6: you see the difference with that too. Like Atalanta ever
• 52:11
  Speaker 6: since they they basically built their own stadium. Look how
• 52:14
  Speaker 6: much of a turnaround they've had. Obviously Gospadini plays a
• 52:16
  Speaker 6: factor in that too. But that's another day after Like.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: They didn't they didn't drop off like I thought they
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: were going to fall off, at least for this season, fall.
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: Off the same. Yeah they have well that that maybe
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: that's not like what that four or fives maybe six
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: months of under Yuich was like the worst little blimp
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: of time for them. But now, like I said, with
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: Paulardino there it's it's it's he's brought back wife exactly.
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: And and they're the only team in around the sixteen
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: Champions League. And that was a great comeback against Dortmund.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: You know, I thought we were I thought every team
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: was going to be dead, and they managed to hold on.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: And you know, listen, they have a.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: Tough task against Byron Byron's Byron, Like we know what
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: they dressed. But when I look at the when I
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: look at their back line, I love Scalvini. I think
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: he would I think he would have if not for
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: his injuries. I think he would have probably been gone
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: from that to lant And I don't want to say, like,
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: you know, promote like go go, because I don't want
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: to disrespect Atlanta. I think what they do is phenomenal.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: But I think he would have left at Atlanta Vers
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: for a bigger team, you know. And and honest ah,
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: Noor who was what seventeen years old, and he already
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: has that much presence to his game, Like you know,
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: I know, I know when you look at the Italian
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: national team. It's it's kind of we're in a down
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: period because I mean, everything's on the cusp of qualifying
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: for the World Cup for the first time in twelve years.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: But it's no, it's a twelve years. Yeah, it's twelve years.
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, don't don't say.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: But when I look at the talent that's coming, I'm excited,
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: Like I'm so excited for Puffundi. Look another guy we
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: have we haven't brought up, brought him up. Yeah, he's
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: another guy that's that's talented and and I'm pretty I'm
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: pretty sure I can speak for everyone. I don't want
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: to put words on anyone's mouth, but the key moment
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: in time for Italian football is crafting and cultivating those
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: young guys that.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: We have, you know what I mean. So I'm gonna
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: hope for the best. That's all i can do, man,
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: That's all.
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: That's all we could do.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that brings that brings us the perfect topic
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: to talk about the qualifier in three weeks. Yeah, three
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: weeks tomorrow, March twenty sixth. Yeah, they played Northern Ireland
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: that day. I just want to get your thoughts about
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: that game. And then also latest news. I mean, obviously
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: nothing's official yet, the latest rumors that rat He's going
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: to be called up. You know you're talking about all
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: these young players. Now we got this veteran coming back.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about that alone is and and
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: what do you expect to see in these qualifiers?
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: So let me just charge my phone first.
• 55:16
  Speaker 5: For a while. This is a this is a lot
• 55:21
  Speaker 5: at all, but.
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: Some ca Okay, so let me tackle VI at you first. Sure,
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie to you. I love it because
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: I look at the current construction of the team and
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: to me, it's who's the leader, who's.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: The guy that you know?
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: When they won the euro in twenty twenty one, that's
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: my greatest football moment ever because I was in two
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: thousand and six.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: I was how old was?
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: I was eight and I was at a camp, so
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: I couldn't It wasn't like I didn't experience it properly.
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: Okay, at least at least I was alive.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: At least I was alive, But I was eight year
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: I didn't understand the gravity of it at eight years old.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty one, I didn't think that team. I'm I'm
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: honestly going into that tournament. I didn't think the team
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: was gonna win the year. I didn't. I just I
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: didn't think they would, and to and and to watch
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: that and also coming out of COVID and and and
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: just being around everyone, it was. It was incredible. But
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: all that to say is, you look at that team Bonucci,
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: KIARELINI you know what I mean.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: I don't love how they played for the national team,
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: but I still think they have leadership qualities, you know,
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: Insignie Emobile like they had leaders And when I look
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: at this team, I like, Butaddela, I don't think he
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: has that leadership, that same level of leadership as a Bonucci,
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: as a Kiellini, that I he does, you know, and
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: he was.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: He was a big part of that team, you know.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: So when I when I look at it from that standpoint,
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: he didn't have to play ninety minutes the whole tournament.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: God willing to get into it, but just to be
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: there and to be on the pitch with the team
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: I think can go a long way. And and I
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: think it also gives more time for you know, the
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: other guys like Bush Stony, like Tonali to develop that
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: leadership quality that's kind of that's kind of been missing.
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: But you know, it's funny last week when we had
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: John Marco on, like I was talking, i asked him
• 57:36
  Speaker 6: a question. I'm like, do you think this is a
• 57:38
  Speaker 6: core of like the players for inter that you know,
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: despite you know, Sadiyah, they're they're being successful for them,
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: It's like no, but they want they want Champions League
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: and obviously Champions League.
• 57:47
  Speaker 5: You know, they craped the bed twice in the span
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: of three seasons or.
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: Four seasons, whatever it was, and like you move on
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: from a cores and he says like, yeah, he doesn't
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: feel like like like you know, like Beela's played into
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: the ground for no matter where he's gone, Like it's
• 57:59
  Speaker 6: like the guy you could see the guy is exhausted,
• 58:01
  Speaker 6: Like probably, but like the mentality of the players are
• 58:05
  Speaker 6: sometimes not there in the crunch time. And funny enough,
• 58:08
  Speaker 6: it kind of plays back into like something we discussed
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: like US three with other guests in the passwords, like
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: it doesn't feel like there's no vocal champion in the room.
• 58:19
  Speaker 6: I like, I felt like the team's been lacking that
• 58:24
  Speaker 6: we need to find somebody. There's nobody that's that's capable
• 58:26
  Speaker 6: of doing that and I was, and I said, like,
• 58:28
  Speaker 6: that's why you need to bring a guy like these
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: boys can attest for It is why you bring a
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: guy like Gatuzo in as the manager to kind of
• 58:35
  Speaker 6: wake the boys up a bit and rally them.
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: Catuso is a short term coach. Gatuzo's goal is.
• 58:40
  Speaker 6: Just to get them to believe in themselves again and
• 58:42
  Speaker 6: to be confident enough and hopefully hopefully they do qualify
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: for the World Cup, because that's that's what he's there for,
• 58:48
  Speaker 6: help motivate them to get there. But like in terms
• 58:50
  Speaker 6: of long term plan, Gatuso is not going to be
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: like a World Cup whining you know, knock on glass,
• 58:55
  Speaker 6: I guess because I don't have a wood desk. But
• 58:58
  Speaker 6: but you know, like he's not gonna I don't think
• 59:01
  Speaker 6: he's that. I mean, hey, unless he pulls a miracle.
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: He pulled a miracle Kope Dalia for an athlete. But yeah,
• 59:06
  Speaker 6: he's not that guy who's gonna win them a World Cup.
• 59:08
  Speaker 6: You know, he's not the he's not the guy who's gonna,
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: you know.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: Take your heart. He doesn't bringing the heart to Yeah, but.
• 59:16
  Speaker 6: But that's the thing, like we need to like it's
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: just so sad that none of these players, like, like
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: I'm they're obviously they're passionate for the team, but you
• 59:24
  Speaker 6: could see that none of them are like can do
• 59:26
  Speaker 6: it on their own.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah they're not, Like, yeah, they're not, like they're not
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: motivators and like they're gonna scream in your face and.
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: You know, but you know what best, but they're not.
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, just just a cookie add in there. Like
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: even if they're like, we don't have a raw rock
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: guy like on the pitch, like and that's fine, Like,
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: but I feel like the ones that are supposed to
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: still lead are not even doing it by their play
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: on the pitch, you know what I mean. Like Maldini
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: wasn't a wasn't a raw rock guy, right, get in
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: your face, and but he you know, he brought respect
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: and he brought you know, uh, you know, leadership in
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: other ways, you know what. And Thenaiah pires is another
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: name a calmness, right like pure low is another name
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: that he didn't have to scream. He didn't have to scream.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: These guys didn't have to scream to get you know,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: everybody on the same page, right, So, but that but
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: that means you have to do it on. You have
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: to walk what you're trying to preach, right, And unfortunately
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: I don't think these guys have even done that. So sorry, Jena,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: and then.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 6: I want to cut you, but yeah, but the only
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: thing I want to add is, like, you know, having
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: guys like Banucci being and when is he a technical
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 6: director or assistant coach?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, let's his role again, Yeah, assistant assistant coach.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 6: And you have like I think Whufon's like a team
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 6: advisor or something like having guys that have went to
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: that level and you know, knows what it takes to win,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: you know, just have like like part of like I
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 6: I like to argue that the part of the reason
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: why the roster was capable of winning the Euros in
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 6: twenty twenty one is you had Daniella did Ossi being
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 6: an assistant coach and you know, like the guys humbly
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: like picking up cones and placing cones for the team,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: and you got players coming up to him and they're like, no, no, no,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 6: what's okay, We'll do it because you know, like the
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 6: off season World Cup and he's like no, no, He's like, guys,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 6: this is my job. Like this is like everyone pulls
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: their way type of thing, and that's like a little
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 6: lead by example things. And you know, these guys are young,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 6: they're they're they're talented. It's just it's it's an issue
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 6: I also see, like I guess I'm just throwing hockey
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 6: a little bit. Like I feel like it's something that's
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 6: going on with the Canadian junior's team, like throughout the
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 6: past few seasons. It's like the talent is there, but
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 6: what it means to be in this case, an Italian
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 6: national team player or what it means to be a
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 6: Canadian junior player that's gone.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 5: Like nobody has that in their head anymore.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 6: Like nobody has I don't want to say it's a
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 6: swagger thing, but it's like, you know, like like the
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 6: like Canada's junior team was always like like they were good,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 6: they knew they were good, and they just led by
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 6: the results on the ice. Didn't have to showboat, they
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 6: didn't have to be flashy, they didn't have to go
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 6: for like the highlights. They're just like, you know what,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 6: get the fuck in the net, hit hard, and then
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 6: we're gonna play the Canadian style pucks in deep, get
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 6: grind and need goals.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 5: Italian team too. Boffom brought this up, and I'm gonna
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 5: lot of the play now.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: My question.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: Boffom brought this up where he's like, we know, we
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 5: need to go back to our roots. We're not Spain,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 5: we're not Germany. We're not We're not you know, the Holland,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: you know, or France.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 6: You know, like like we're not playing We're not gonna
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 6: play tiki taka because we, like you, you know, we
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 6: have amazing midfielders.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 5: We're not a team that's like identities, it's not it's
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 5: not tiki taka. We're not offensive juggernauts like Germany.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 6: Like we have talented strikers throughout our history, but we
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 6: never had a juggernaut, you know, like we're not flashy
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 6: like Brazil.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 5: Our thing has been Captainnacho.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 6: Our thing has been defense first, you know, build a
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 6: play from the back, counter attack score. Do you think
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 6: maybe that's probably something that they should probably start looking
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 6: towards instead of trying to go for like you know,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 6: like uh, like a like a three five two, you know,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 6: having left wing backs or whatnot, Like they should just
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 6: go for like a like mind you, it's been a
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 6: long ass time since we've seen a five and a
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 6: man back system, but maybe go towards more of like
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 6: you know, condensed the ball first and then counter type
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 6: of push or like a bit of a like befall
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 6: what he's saying, like, do you think he's onto something.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: Or I mean, listen, I'm not.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: Who am I to disagree with buffoon like he's he
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: could forget more soccer than I would ever know in
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: my lifetime twenty lifetimes.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: But I absolutely agree. We have the second most World Cups.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: Well, we're tied with Germany for the second most World
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: Cups ever and that was playing the style that we played.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: So we don't need to conform to how Spain plays
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: because that's their style. And that's the beauty of football
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: as a whole is that every country has their own
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: approach to it and and every country has found success
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: doing it. Spain found their success, England, I mean it's
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: been like seventy years, but you know, sixty years, but
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: they had success. You know, Germany, how they play, France,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: how they play like a Brazil like, everyone does.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: It differently but it works. So of course.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: I do think, you know, Italy needs to get back
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: to that defensive identity while also not you know, forsaking
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: the offensive side of things, because obviously the game is different,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: you do have the fact that that in I'm not
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: saying that, you know, Italian football needs to be.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: Rigid with how they are. You know, you still have
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: to cultivate often.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: Did we lose Luca?
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: No, he's there visually, is he back?
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 6: No?
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: No, on you.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 4: You didn't put enough Benzena in that car. I didn't
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 4: think technical problems. You's got to go to the gas station.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: What's today? Is that one fifty something?
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 5: I said at one sixty It was at once sixty one.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 5: Here and see me show crazy.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: For the first time we've ever talked about gas prices.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: Here, look the gas guys.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 6: Yea lappen Zena Guyza guys, Look.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: We see you.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 5: At least we see you, at least we can hear you.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're back.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: You know, Buffon, I think we still need to cultivate
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: that offensive talent. But you look at all the defensive
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: you know, you look at all the center backs that
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: we have that are up and coming like it's a
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: it's a war to get onto the pitch as in
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: the starting eleven first center back in Italy. You know,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: what I mean, Like you have Bonjo, No, you have Skylvini,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: you have Calafiori, BASHTONI you know what I mean. Honest,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: who's going to be coming up leone? Like there's it's
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: a it's a battle and I and I think I
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: never think it's it's harmful to have that that competition
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: and the guys know that their spots aren't safe and
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: if they don't play up to up to expectation, that
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: they can get replaced. No matter no matter how good
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: you are, if you're not performing for the national team
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: the way you are for your club, you at the
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: end of the day, we're in the business of results,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: and I think I have no worries about how our
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: midfield is. I think I think we're always relatively solid
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: in the midfield. I think the biggest issue going forward
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: is going to be just the striker and making sure
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: that we we hone them in properly, and because it's
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: going to be difficult to win without a proper striker.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: We forget forget about on the wing, like that's non existent,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: Like that just doesn't that's not that's not a thing
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: in Italian football. I don't know why we can't produce
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: a phenomenal winger. But that's fine. If that's the case,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: then you need to you need to adjust to what
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: works for you. And that's where guys like pos Posito
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: and come out in the years to come and Skamaka
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: and Moise Kane like, that's where they need to really
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: step up and have that moment. And if if they're
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: if the highlight of their careers happens in the World Cup,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: then good, that's there's nothing wrong with that. Fabio Goso's
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: moment came in the World Cup. No one, no one
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: can tell me a highlight of anything Fabio did outside
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: of the world I can't. I'm obviously, I'm sure there's
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: people that could.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: I can't.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 4: I can't tell you anything that it did.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: But you know it's it's Buffon is right, He's absolutely right.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I came. You said, you can go against the
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 4: World Cup World Cup winner, right, No, it's hard to
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 4: really do that. Like many times we get the winner, right.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: So of course, so I do not want to see
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: de Lorenzo in the starting starting line up.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: I don't think that can be a That can't be
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: a strategy anymore.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 5: You can't play in a three man back. That's that's what.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 5: But you see that.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: I don't have a problem with the three man back
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: because I think they have that many good center backs
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: that that they should He's a right one hundred. He
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: cannot play if you're playing three man back. If I
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: see March twenty six against Northern Ireland, I think the
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: game starts at like three pm. If I see three
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: forty five, If if I see de Lorenzo in the
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: three man back, I'm gonna I'm gonna have a connection.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna have a connection. It just needs to stop.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: It needs to stop. And also one more, I'm sorry,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: I'm rambling a lot of no.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: One more thing.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: Not that DeMarco is gonna see this, but.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 4: I know me too.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: How he's how you're playing with Intel. You have to
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: translate that to the national team because he is not
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: the same player for the national team and it's it's unfortunate,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: and I hope that they can figure out how to
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: get him comfortable. I love Udogi, but I don't think
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: Udogi is on that level. Maybe yet, maybe maybe he
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: can get to that level one day.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: But if Italy's going to have success, not only qualifying
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: but in the World Cup, DeMarco is going to have
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: to play, you know, out of his mind and he's
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: going to have to play. You know, remember in that
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: year before Spinazzola got injured, he was he was at
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: times he was, Yeah, he was the MVP, and I
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: think Demonco is going.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: To have to be able to do that.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And again I think that goes back into the
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 4: whole formation thing and and all that because you know,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 4: just like just like Theorenzo's not a center back and
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: is more true right back. You know, DiMarco again, sorry
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 4: for all the in defense, but he's not a left back.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 4: He's a left wing back. So we kind of have
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 4: to find that balance, right of what formation is going
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 4: to give us the best chance to win and the
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: best chance to advance and to qualify and all and
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 4: all that stuff, because exactly we cannot put like as
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 4: much as I kind of want to see somewhat of
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 4: a back four, like our best left wing back is
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: going to be playing as a left back, and it's defensively,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 4: he's just not the same. He doesn't put in that
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 4: same output that he does yeah in his natural left
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 4: wing back position, because he can go forward, he can
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: you know, come back. He can you know, put in
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: a ball, he can score. Like again Ken stand Inter,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 4: like you look on the same page, but the guy
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: has twenty twenty ga right like it's it's it's crazy.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 4: I think he has six goals fourteen assists in the
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 4: league right now, Like it's it's absurd. As a left
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: wing back, like like, we don't really see those numbers,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: you know, very very often, especially especially in SETI right,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: such a defensively tactic oriented league. So I'm with you, man,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: you know, we have to see the guy the right
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 4: guys in the right positions and and you know, if
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 4: it takes a Dati to come back, and as long
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 4: as it's not a Chad Beat, if it could be
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 4: anybody else, like I don't want to see a chat
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 4: be back in the mix. But you know, if it's
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 4: going to be a Verdati, you know.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: It.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: You know, hopefully he'll do what we need that leadership
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 4: role to be. And if it's going to fall on him,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 4: you know, more power.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it has no business being named to the team
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 3: with all the.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 7: Centers that we have, Like you know what I mean, Like,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 7: you know, as much as you don't want to see
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 7: uh de Lorenzos starting right starting sorry, started center back
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 7: on the pitch, March twenty six.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 4: I don't want to see him in the call and
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: the call right for respect on his career and everything
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 4: he wants through. But of course, of course, the time
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: is the time is, the time is gone. Like I I,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 4: you know, there's very like I saw a post on socials,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 4: there's very few I would say locks on this team,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: like in terms of like players and positions and whatnot.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 4: We probably can maybe name them on one hand, right,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 4: maybe a five guys max, right, So listen, everybody's gonna
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 4: have to be accountable. No, no position is safe, like
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 4: you said, Luc, and I agree with that. And you know,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: these players are gonna really have to fight because you know,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: you made a comment, Luca, I think before we got
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 4: on here about Johnny's background, right, and and we kind
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 4: of hint at his background a lot, because you know
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 4: it just you know, was it five legends of our game? Right?
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 4: You know, from from Maltini all the way to the
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 4: Piero and everybody in between, the Nesta's, Canavados and Toties
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 4: right of the world. You know, we're a long way
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: away from that, but you know, those guys were accountable.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 4: Those guys we you know, played for each other and
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 4: they knew what it meant to wear the Adzuri blue
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 4: and they fought right. So we need to be back
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 4: at that and similar to how they need to be
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 4: fighting for for the national team, I think kind of
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 4: just to bring it quickly back before we kind of
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 4: jump back into the national team a bit, you know,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 4: Meoon players have to do the same for the Red
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 4: and Black, right, And yeah, just just to wrap up
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 4: the mean talk because I know this was supposed to
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 4: be a bit of a Meuon centric episode. We kind
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 4: of went all over the place, which we really do
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 4: appreciate because we've got a good grasp of topics out,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 4: you know, despite the ten point gap and what do
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 4: you kind of see this ending of the season for
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 4: me to shape out to be the second place to
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 4: you know, the be all end all and one needs
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 4: to kind of maybe improve to kind of build on
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 4: this season into into next year.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: So firstly, I think I think keeping the gap between
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: Intaeil and themselves needs should be respectable. I don't I mean,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: it's semantics, but personally I don't want to see into
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 3: like wind the lead by fifteen twenty points. You know,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: keep them on the heels, keep them honest, because you
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: remember at one point it looked like it was going
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 3: to be insurmountable in twenty twenty two and then I
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: can't remember the game. I can't remember who the goal
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: goal goalkeeper was, but he made a mistake and they
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: lost to one, and they yes, thank you, right, like,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: keep them honest. If you if they didn't keep them
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: honest at that time, that wouldn't have happened. But I
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: think it's just go out with pride, you know what
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, even though it's you know, you wish you
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: could have had, you know, results here or there against
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: Parma said, whatever the case may be, go out with pride,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 3: and I still want to. I want to see development
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: from continued development from Baptistaga.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: I love his game.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: I think he's he's been one of the revelations this
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: year for the team. So at the outlook, I it's difficult.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't see them winning the league intil
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: it would have to fall off the face of the
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 3: earth for that happened. But there's no reason why they
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 3: shouldn't finish second. There's no reason why a monopoly who's
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: riddled with injury should be finishing ahead of them. So
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: I think it's important to finish the season off strong
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: and to be able to carry that momentum into next uh.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: And I think they need to get I think they
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: need to hit on and I mean really hit on
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: a signing in the off season. You know, Estupo Nan
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: was a horrible signing with all due respect, and I
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 3: think they need to shore up the striker position now.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: However form that is, whether it's Camarda or whether it's Vladovich,
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: whatever the case may be, they need to define that
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: because if you're able to do that with you know,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: Pulsage and if he stays, if they unless they sell.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 4: Them, I don't know.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: Nowadays with layout with the midfield, I think I think
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: they can be dangerous and I think they can be
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 3: a real like like even more so of a contender
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: for the school that the next season.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: All said, last question, Luca, I mean, if it feels
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: like we could talk all day next time we're at
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: a tarist together, we might have to. But yes, absolutely,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: the famous question A bunch of Italian Canadians have been
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: asked or asking themselves if Italy qualifies the obviously first
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: game I think June twelfth through thirteenth, whatever it is,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: would be against Canada.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, who are you cheering for?
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 5: It? We might have to We're gonna have to pull
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 5: Johnny in that game. Who are you cheering for if
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 5: that happens?
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, big, big big?
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: If fingers crossed out, it's it will be a great
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: problem to have.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm as.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: I know, I know some people feel some type of
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: way about it, but it's just how I feel. I'm sorry.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: I'm going for Italy like it's not even a question.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 4: And the for me, it's.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: If if Canada played Italy and hockey, I'm going for Canada.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 3: And the reason is is that I just have more
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 3: of a connection to Italian football than I do Canadian
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: the same way I have more of an affinity to
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: Canadian hockey as opposed to Italian hockey. I don't watch
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 3: Italian hockey. I don't watch the Italian leagues. I grew
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 3: up watching Canada like those the Golden Goal twenty ten.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 3: Like that's that weighs with me to my heart to
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: this day. I don't have memories of Italian hockey in football.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 3: I have tons of memories of Italy and football. I
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: don't have, really until recently, memories of Canada and football.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 3: That doesn't mean if Canada plays anyone else, I'm gonna
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: be like I don't care, Like, of course, I want
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: Canada to win out every against everyone but Italy. And
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 3: I know I grew up in Canada. I understand that,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 3: but I don't know.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: I just.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: I just feel this strong connection to the Italian football team,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 3: like I just I get so passionate about it, I
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 3: get emotional about it, you know. So I'm going to
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 3: be rooting Friday without question, without question.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 4: Well, there's there's no gun to his head, guys, just
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 4: in case out there. We didn't pay him to say that, right,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 4: because you know what I mean, like perfectly, we didn't
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 4: give him a bush to say that. So it's an answer, listen.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: I'm just.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 4: You're not alone.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 5: We would be more about it.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: I grew up, you know, I would watch the World
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 3: Cups with my mom, you know what I mean, and
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 3: we'd be rooting freely and hoping, hoping that they get it,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: and and when they did win, it was nice. And
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: when they would get bounced out, it would suck.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: It was horrible. But you know, having that.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: Flag on my car when when they're in a tournament,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: like I put that flag on with pride. I do
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: need to buy a new one, but you know I
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: put that on myr with pride. Shout out to Evangelista,
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 3: he's got to go get another one there.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 4: But no, look at you know what, Bro, It's been
• 1:19:10
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• 1:19:15
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• 1:19:17
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• 1:19:21
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• 1:19:23
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• 1:19:25
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• 1:19:27
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• 1:19:29
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• 1:19:32
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• 1:19:34
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• 1:19:36
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• 1:19:40
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• 1:19:51
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• 1:19:58
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• 1:20:02
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• 1:21:07
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