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Bello Azzurri Nations League Recap - Ep. 248 Ft. Bellobrini · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: We've got a great set up tonight on the couch.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, Johnny, Adriano Nicholas joined by Bellobrini or Brandon.
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  Speaker 1: How's it going.
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  Speaker 3: Good, you guys, I like you, it's good, it's good.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for agetting Brandon for coming on, uh said boys.
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  Speaker 4: I think this is the second cap on the show,
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  Speaker 4: so we'd love to make him any more in the future.
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  Speaker 4: And again always thank you just for your time.
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  Speaker 2: Uh we uh of course follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we had a great set time tonight. And
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: you know, if you listen carefully, the word of the
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  Speaker 2: day already is set, which the Audi couldn't do yesterday
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  Speaker 2: against France defense set pieces uh Nations League.
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  Speaker 1: So they lost three to one to France beat Belgium one. Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: I forget if it was on. It was on Thursday
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  Speaker 2: of last week. So plenty to talk about here, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean, let's jump right into it. We might as
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  Speaker 2: well start with the France game, just because it is fresh. Brandon,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how much you know if you watch
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing, if you if you had a chance
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  Speaker 2: to watch a game but what you know, what did
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  Speaker 2: you see with the Adzudio three goals on set pieces?
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  Speaker 1: Just how bad defensive? How bad defensively is that?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 5: I did actually watch that game. It was like on
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  Speaker 5: the on TV in the background, and then once they
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  Speaker 5: started getting scored on, I was like, okay, let's sit
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  Speaker 5: down and watch this a bit because it just made
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  Speaker 5: no sense how you have a flawless tournament, you barely
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  Speaker 5: concede goals and then you're getting scored scraps by like
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  Speaker 5: beat French beat team players. So it was a bit
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  Speaker 5: interesting there. The ding free kick, if it's done a
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  Speaker 5: Roma nets, it doesn't go in. That's my honest opinion. Rabio,
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  Speaker 5: a guy who played at uent Is for so long
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  Speaker 5: should be marked up by local aally like they literally
• 2:02
  Speaker 5: played together for almost six seven years. So I don't
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  Speaker 5: understand how you just forget what he's gonna do. And
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  Speaker 5: I think he came down to look at Ali. Honestly,
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  Speaker 5: I don't think he belongs on the team anymore. I
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  Speaker 5: think we have a lot more in opposition. Uh So
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  Speaker 5: now he makes a huge difference. He was missing at
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  Speaker 5: the Euros clearly, and I think it came down to
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  Speaker 5: Spalletti kind of taking the foot off the gas a
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  Speaker 5: bit and going with this somewhat of a B team
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  Speaker 5: when you you know, you just want to finish strong.
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  Speaker 5: But then again, it all comes down to the San
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  Speaker 5: Siero curse. I think that's what really comes.
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  Speaker 3: Down to do.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely, we have a now milca at San Siero. It's incredible.
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  Speaker 6: Every time the jury play there, it's like we hold
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  Speaker 6: our breath like obviously it's a it's a beautiful environment.
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  Speaker 6: If you've ever been to the stadium, guys, it's it's
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  Speaker 6: a it's a hell of an atmosphere. It's it's it's
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  Speaker 6: you know, it's an old stadium, but you know it
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  Speaker 6: brings back so many good memories. And you know, the
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  Speaker 6: Ajudi for whatever reason, so far, always in recent memory
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  Speaker 6: it's been it's been terrible.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know what it is. I guess I
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  Speaker 4: don't know. They don't see that.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe there's only as sover here across the pond. I
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  Speaker 6: don't know, but it's just incredible, uh to see that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, one stat that we kind of pulled up,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 6: Before before we jumped down here, you know, we spoke
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  Speaker 6: about the set piece goals that we can see the
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  Speaker 6: three of them yesterday. I mean the eight goals conceded
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  Speaker 6: by it we all tournament so far, all group stage.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, seven of them were off of the set pieces.
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  Speaker 6: So that says something. You know, obviously we've I think
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  Speaker 6: we've been good. Uh, you know throughout this tournament, like
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  Speaker 6: you said, run in the Flowers tournament. It's a shame
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  Speaker 6: to kind of lose that hype, that momentum on the
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  Speaker 6: final match day to go in second place against France
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  Speaker 6: came down to goal differential. Uh you know by that
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  Speaker 6: one goal, you know they could have also won nothing
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  Speaker 6: and still you know, been in first place.
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  Speaker 4: So it is a shame.
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  Speaker 6: Is because I don't know if you agree or not,
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  Speaker 6: but for me, in that first I would say that
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  Speaker 6: first twenty five, even that first half hour, it seemed
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  Speaker 6: like itly was playing not to lose. They weren't playing
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  Speaker 6: to win, they were playing not to lose. In my opinion,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if you agree with that, Just what
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  Speaker 6: does it what do you put into kind of uh
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  Speaker 6: the collapse on that final match it because for me,
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  Speaker 6: I was pissed. I don't know about you, but it's
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  Speaker 6: it's it's a shame because I wanted to finish first.
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  Speaker 6: I think all Italians wanted to finish first and Jodie fans.
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  Speaker 6: And does that come down to Spaletti's mentality? Does that
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  Speaker 6: become the players like you said that b line up.
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  Speaker 4: Like where are you really putting? Point the finger.
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  Speaker 5: That There could be a lot of factors. I think
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  Speaker 5: it majority comes down to just that classic like oh,
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  Speaker 5: we're one foot into the door, let's just you know,
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  Speaker 5: play this one out. Frances Navin, Bappi, Jo Maniser Cama
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  Speaker 5: Vinga is not there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're playing.
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  Speaker 5: When doozy and and zing, you know, tails on the bench,
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  Speaker 5: Let's just mail it in, you know. And I want
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  Speaker 5: to say that that wasn't the mentality, but it was
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  Speaker 5: because you're if you're really gonna go hard, you're not
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  Speaker 5: gonna start. Look at Telly, you can't tell me this
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  Speaker 5: guy's faith. And look at Tally with the Rovela is
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  Speaker 5: having a great year. He's you should be getting that experience,
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  Speaker 5: and he's just not starting that second game. And I
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  Speaker 5: can guarantee you he's got a tank full of energy
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  Speaker 5: ready to pounce on these opportunities. And I think just
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  Speaker 5: the squad selection too. Za, can you not being in
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  Speaker 5: the squad with the season he's having, Maldini being there,
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  Speaker 5: I have no I have no idea what's going on
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  Speaker 5: there with Monsas in last place? This guy barely scores.
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  Speaker 5: I watched the game against Milan. He missed like three
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  Speaker 5: empty nets. So it's like, I don't know if they're
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  Speaker 5: glazing the hierarchy over there or whatever is going on,
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  Speaker 5: but it's not really the moves I would like to
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  Speaker 5: see being made. We have trouble scoring and you're bringing
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  Speaker 5: four four every time to the international break. It's a
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  Speaker 5: bit crazy to me, but I think it just it's
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  Speaker 5: a lot of that. Like Spain closed it out today
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  Speaker 5: against Switzerland. Portugal has been dominant, Germany has been dominant,
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  Speaker 5: and Italy needed this from momentum and they just weren't dominant.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't care if we lost and finished second,
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  Speaker 5: it's just you lose to France at home, it's just
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  Speaker 5: even worse.
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  Speaker 3: I have to agree.
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  Speaker 7: I think that I think you've nailed it perfectly about
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  Speaker 7: the whole like killer instinct, where it's like you get
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  Speaker 7: the job done, and that's something that we've been wanting
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  Speaker 7: from the squad for the longest time to just showcase
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  Speaker 7: that they have that killer instinct, the ability to.
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  Speaker 8: Close out games when we need them to. And we
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  Speaker 8: discussed that.
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  Speaker 7: Before, where it's like we want to want to want
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  Speaker 7: the team to build confidence and results like this to
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  Speaker 7: like don't don't really help that it was the same formation.
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  Speaker 7: One thing I want to add though, is that so
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  Speaker 7: it seems like at the fund.
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  Speaker 8: Information that worked.
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  Speaker 7: I believe it still does, but it seems that also
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  Speaker 7: France probably had a better game plan this time around
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  Speaker 7: to handle that because we caught them off on their
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  Speaker 7: back foot last game. This is the same formation more
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  Speaker 7: or less, give or take two three four players about
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  Speaker 7: difference in terms of who we fielded versus in that
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  Speaker 7: game versus today.
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  Speaker 8: Versus yeah, yesterday's game.
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  Speaker 7: And I think France just also knew, okay, like now
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  Speaker 7: we know how they like to play wounds and that
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  Speaker 7: that shows the quality level of one team versus another
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  Speaker 7: where it's like they're able to adapt and adjust and
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  Speaker 7: then go from there.
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  Speaker 8: And this time Italy was underprepared.
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  Speaker 7: Now obviously yes you could say, like okay, well Vicatio
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  Speaker 7: versus don Boccados.
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  Speaker 8: It's not a terrible, terrible goaltender, but it's him and
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  Speaker 8: don a Uma.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 8: It's a bit a bit of a night and day
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  Speaker 8: there situation.
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  Speaker 7: But still I think ultimately it comes down to uh
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  Speaker 7: killer instinct in the squad.
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  Speaker 8: And also I feel like.
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  Speaker 7: As if they were just underprepared for this matchup and
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  Speaker 7: like really took it a little bit lightly that they
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  Speaker 7: should have.
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  Speaker 4: Classically, it's classic.
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  Speaker 6: Are doing it the hardway, man, It just it's it
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  Speaker 6: bows my mind. Sorry to cut you off their neck,
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  Speaker 6: but it just blows my mind. How we have to
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  Speaker 6: do it the hard way. We have to suffer. We
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  Speaker 6: can't just go out on the terms that.
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  Speaker 4: We want to go out on. And yeah, I know
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  Speaker 4: we're going to get into other topics, but sorry, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: And no, no, I just want to bring up, you know, Brandon,
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  Speaker 2: you you talked about the Sansiato Sansiero curse.
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  Speaker 1: I looked it up in the last ten years.
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  Speaker 2: Two wins, two losses, four draws, but of course we
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  Speaker 2: all remember the one big draw slash loss was to
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  Speaker 2: Sweden at the Sensato and it feels like since then, yes,
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  Speaker 2: they have a couple of Nations League wins, like against
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  Speaker 2: I think Ukraine and England, but they lost to Spain
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  Speaker 2: there in the Nation's League semi finals a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years ago, the big streak. Yeah, exactly exactly. That was
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  Speaker 2: the game that ended the winning streak. It is obviously
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  Speaker 2: amazing atmosphere. I was like, even just listening to the
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  Speaker 2: anthem before the game, it's it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: But they're cursed. They're cursed there.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they should stop playing games there, maybe go back
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  Speaker 2: to Rome where they seem to have a bit more luck.
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  Speaker 1: But guys, I wanna I wanna ask.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously I want to ask Brandon, but even
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  Speaker 2: Johnny and Adriano about the four stuff, because that is
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  Speaker 2: one thing we talked about last week. You know, Orcelini
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  Speaker 2: scored a five straight games heading into this international break
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  Speaker 2: and he's left off again. You know, Brandy talked about
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  Speaker 2: Zacny and you know one thing I said about Orcelini
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  Speaker 2: being left off. I said last week, if Italy can't
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  Speaker 2: score it or you know, we're gonna criticize it. And
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  Speaker 2: that's the position we're in now. They score two goals
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  Speaker 2: over these two games. I mean, how much of a difference, Brandon,
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  Speaker 2: do you think Orcelini ends a cany would have made
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  Speaker 2: in these two games.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think they're both wingers with their teams, but
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  Speaker 5: on this on this position or formation we play, it's
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  Speaker 5: more of a Cambiaso di Marco situation that we have
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  Speaker 5: at the wings.
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  Speaker 3: So that works fine.
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  Speaker 5: So if you put a like that where Barella played,
• 10:01
  Speaker 5: you put Barella where he's supposed to be, which is
• 10:04
  Speaker 5: where look at Tally was, then we wouldn't have a
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  Speaker 5: problem in the midfield because Barella is always gonna win
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  Speaker 5: the ball back next to Tonali, Fratesi, whoever it is.
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  Speaker 5: And I just think that that number ten role belongs
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  Speaker 5: to a dribbler that has skill like zach Ani.
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  Speaker 3: We saw it.
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  Speaker 5: He came on, he scored that goal that Finesse isn't
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  Speaker 5: in every I haven't seen that since the piano, So
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  Speaker 5: that someone kicked the ball like that for Italy Grosso
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  Speaker 5: had it in him. It's we haven't seen a nice
• 10:35
  Speaker 5: curler like that in a long time, and at the
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  Speaker 5: impact it had to to to qualify us. You just
• 10:41
  Speaker 5: can't leave a guy like that off, Like what the
• 10:43
  Speaker 5: all has Raspadori done to still get called up. He
• 10:46
  Speaker 5: doesn't even start for Napoli, and Napoly doesn't even play Europe,
• 10:50
  Speaker 5: so it's mind bogging to me. But he loves Raspadori
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  Speaker 5: because he brought him to Napoli, So there's I think
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  Speaker 5: it comes down to that. Orsolini will play in that
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  Speaker 5: ten role too. He's got that left foot, he's got
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  Speaker 5: the trickery. He's a little pit bull and he can
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  Speaker 5: set up like.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever.
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  Speaker 5: His name is Lukman there he plays right behind the
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  Speaker 5: Tagi as a ten, but he was a left winger
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  Speaker 5: his whole life. And then he goes behind the ten.
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  Speaker 5: So no, Spalletti's playing like Gasparini and he's trying to
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  Speaker 5: make the tag He scored these goals that he's scoring
• 11:22
  Speaker 5: for Atalanta, except you're putting a center midfielder behind them.
• 11:26
  Speaker 5: If it was Hatkan Toronto logo, I'd be like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: this guy he could play camp.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: It's not it's back to the Milan days. But he's
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  Speaker 5: not Italian, that guy, and we need we need this cap.
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  Speaker 5: So he brings in Maldini, but Maldini is not experienced
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  Speaker 5: enough to do this, so it comes down to having
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: you know, if Kizo is there, I don't know what's
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  Speaker 5: going on with this guy.
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  Speaker 3: He goes to Liverpool.
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  Speaker 5: He'sn't touched the field, so there's just a lot of
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  Speaker 5: players missing for that number ten role for Italy, it
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  Speaker 5: seems like it's up for grabs. Uh And he probably
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  Speaker 5: called Paulitano and Raspadari before he or Seleni and the
• 12:02
  Speaker 5: and UH and Z, which is disappointing.
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  Speaker 7: I think the reason why Barrello was also put in
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  Speaker 7: that roles because getting the red card previous game is
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  Speaker 7: is what basically caused that whole shift in the midfield
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  Speaker 7: to happen.
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  Speaker 8: And there is a lack of uh quality available for
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  Speaker 8: that role. Uh and I got this case.
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  Speaker 7: It's it's it's kind of sad to save like your
• 12:25
  Speaker 7: best case scenario for that position currently or somebody has
• 12:29
  Speaker 7: more comfort with it. Would would be in terms of
• 12:31
  Speaker 7: playing for Spalletti would be Palyagrini. But I don't disagree
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  Speaker 7: that we should try out other options too, or Seleni
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  Speaker 7: calling up this fine. I'm just gonna be a bit
• 12:38
  Speaker 7: defensive for Hategi though. It's like the guy's got eleven
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  Speaker 7: goals and said, yeah, right now he is one of
• 12:42
  Speaker 7: the hot hands too. Like it it's it is still
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  Speaker 7: like the journey of finding out that true striker. So
• 12:49
  Speaker 7: it's it's weird because in a in a three with
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  Speaker 7: three five one one formation, it's it's like you need
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  Speaker 7: to have probably the best striker in the world to
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  Speaker 7: handle things on their own up there.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have that.
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  Speaker 7: We don't have that, So yes, maybe try out like
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  Speaker 7: it's been working, that's the thing. It's it's weird. It's
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  Speaker 7: it's like because we're because he's but let me started
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  Speaker 7: off at the.
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  Speaker 4: Four three three.
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  Speaker 8: That was a disaster journ to euro Cup, right, so
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  Speaker 8: he swapped it.
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  Speaker 3: The three five one one.
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  Speaker 7: Seems to have been working out, but it's still not enough.
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  Speaker 7: It's still not enough offensively. We still have some struggles.
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  Speaker 7: I wouldn't be opposed to maybe trying out or Solini
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  Speaker 7: right behind the htagie and seeing how that works out
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  Speaker 7: and stuff too, But I will be a bit a
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  Speaker 7: bit defensive for an attag gee I think going. I
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  Speaker 7: think I still have faith in him being probably the
• 13:42
  Speaker 7: better selection option. I know some people might disagree with
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  Speaker 7: me for now, but I wouldn't be opposed to him
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  Speaker 7: losing his position in your future for somebody else. Given
• 13:50
  Speaker 7: effect of the formation itself, maybe he might not quite
• 13:53
  Speaker 7: suit him, but I don't think he's horrible either, No
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  Speaker 7: one time.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we gotta get him bothd we he he
• 14:00
  Speaker 6: touched how many balls that he touched yesterday?
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  Speaker 4: He touched one maybe.
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  Speaker 8: The ones between his pants.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly, you know, But that's it really, That's what it
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  Speaker 6: comes down to, right and and one thing's for sure
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  Speaker 6: is that but I cannot play in that role again,
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  Speaker 6: like we cannot see that again. That that's been clear.
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  Speaker 6: He tried it in these games and for me, it
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  Speaker 6: didn't work. It's not his he looks at the position
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  Speaker 6: playing where he was, and you saw it like he
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  Speaker 6: wanted to be that box to box, you know, recover
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  Speaker 6: every ball and type of midfielder. But in that ten
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  Speaker 6: role or that you know, some people say that you
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  Speaker 6: know behind Retegy it doesn't work. If you wanted to
• 14:37
  Speaker 6: put a midfielder there that you know was was called up,
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  Speaker 6: I would have maybe tried a flat just because he
• 14:45
  Speaker 6: is a bit more offensive. I think we spoke about
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  Speaker 6: it either last week or whenever it was. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 6: sure under Spalletti he has the most goals uh for
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  Speaker 6: the italianational team. Under Spalletti's being right, so I thought
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  Speaker 6: he would have maybe got a crack at that position.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: I was at the game in Rome between between Italy
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: and Belgium last month, I mean, and the Pelgriney red card.
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  Speaker 6: Even him, he didn't he looked out of it. He
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: didn't look himself at the top level that he can be.
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  Speaker 6: So one thing that we continuously I feel like knock
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: on Spalletti, even though he's done a lot of progression
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  Speaker 6: with this team, is he says he's bringing guys up
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  Speaker 6: for merit, and yet like Brandon says, or like we've
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  Speaker 6: all said on the show, is that you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, guys like Raspadori and others are getting.
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  Speaker 6: Called up, whereas people that are informed, people that are
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: having a better season, they're nowhere to be found on
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: the roster. So I don't think you can continue with
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: this four.
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  Speaker 4: And I agree this four call.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: Ops at the attacking position because I think where do
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: we struggle the most is there.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: It's in the attack. So I don't know if it's
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: going to be the service, if it's going to be
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: the people that we're calling up. But I don't know, guys,
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: last time I checked, we have.
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: We called up two of the hardest Italian strikers in
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: Seria with with the attack most keen keen couldn't get
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: it going in the time that he was given and
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: the attack he got I don't know, like he said.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Only the two balls between between his between his legs
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: as service. So we really blame the attack entirely, you know,
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I wouldn't say entirely. I think it's
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: it's the build up play.
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: But again, you know, we have to be we have
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: to be good defensively, and which we have been, yet
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: we went in these these set piece goals, which I
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: honestly find unacceptable.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: That is like, uh, you know, you you nine total campo,
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: whatever you want to say, like these are the first
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: things to to to to do.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: You don't leave a man on on on unmarked in
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: the box, you don't let them get behind.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: You in front of you.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: It's it's it's.
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: These simple cultural things that you learn as a as
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: a youngster, or that in the pro should be should
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: be a piece of cake. But unfortunately it is what
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: it is. You know, the Belgium game was was was
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: a bit different.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys saw that game, I
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: don't know if you want to transition into that game, but.
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: I was just happy to see to now we get
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: his first goal for really right. I don't know about you,
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: if you saw the game at all and if you
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: did any any.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Any of your thoughts on the Belgem.
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: Well, I watched a bit. I watched the highlights because
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: on the subscription ended the day before, so I was
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: buzzing a bit. Oh I forgot to know warning nothing,
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: so I had to stream it illegally for France, but
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: for the for no one.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I was stock.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: I couldn't do anything work computers, you know. So I
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: saw his goal. I think getting that goal early against
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: the Belgium side was very fragile, maybe made the game
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: seem what it wasn't in the sense that we got
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: away with one, and I think we we survived till
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: the end. It's it's kind of the game we should
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: have played against France, but we played it against Belgium.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: And I think this Belgium is just atrocious. They have
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: got no chemistry. There's always injury problems, there's always something.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: They came back against us in that first game, or
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: that that game that Adriano was at because of Pella
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: Greeni's I don't know what he was doing, honestly, but
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: I think Pela Greeni red carded himself off this team
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: for life in that game. I really don't think he's
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: gonna get called back. I'd be really shocked if he does,
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: because he's on he's not old, but he's getting there
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: where his position is the most up for grabs, and
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: you're getting a red card in your own half for
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: absolutely no reason. I think it just goes to show
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: that Spiletti doesn't tolerate any more bullshit like that. Tonali's
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: always a tank, a box to box, I think, but
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: all in that position could work against a weaker team
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: because you're just piling up the guys in the mid
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: and it's like, okay, well if there, if our mid
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: is stronger, we're going to pounce on them every chance
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: we get. I think maybe that's kind of what happened
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: on that goal, because it was a scrap goal, but
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: we got the job done that we have to do,
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: and and then they kind of just moved on to
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: the next and I think it kind of that easy
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: mentality simulated into a oh, well, we're not really well
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: prepared for France kind of what happened. I don't know
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: what you guys think, but that's my take on it.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I just want to pause because you said Lorenzo Pellegreen,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: he's not old, but he's getting there. I looked him up, Brandon,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: he's a ninety six. He's the same age as me
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: and Adriana.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how how old you are,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: but i'm you're a ninety eighth. Okay, there you go.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: So he's twenty eight, he's going to be twenty nine
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: soon at International, Like we're making me feel.
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: Like a Geezer is a ninety two.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Tool.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: I just think he's calling up guys like Novella fat Joli.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: You know, Badela is my age. Lookatali is my age.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: And so these guys are still all younger than him.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: To he's younger than me. So it's like, where does
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Peller Green you fit in? He's kind of the past already,
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: you know. Yeah, if you didn't play for Napoly, I
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: don't think you like that's a safety card if you
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: play for Napoly, Like the Lorenzo was so atrocious, but
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: he brought himself back. But he was so atrocious that
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: any other coach wouldn't have given him another chance. But
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: because of those Napoly ties and everything they did together.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: Of course, it brings back that I believe in you
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: and I know what you can do. And that's why
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: he keeps calling guys like Raspadori and and his buddy's
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: there Anapoly and he's okay, but he's not calafor guy.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: Just want a beast.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Now, we were missing him, I think too. I think
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: that was another that was another good point. It's another
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: that we missed. Defensively, personally, I don't mind. I think
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: he is he is growing into his own there. You know,
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: one guy I think like the biggest I think like
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: the biggest advantages that we've had and that we've seen
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: in this formation. And I'm not really sure if you
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: want to.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Only label it as a three five one to one there,
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: I think it could be you know, the three five two.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: It could be the three four two one, It could
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: it could be multiple you know, variations of that.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: But I think if we had.
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: To choose, you know, uh, you know, kind of like
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: the the tops of this international break or just even
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: as of late for it, that I think it's our
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: wing backs.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: I think that's that seems to have been our strongest position.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: I think DiMarco and Cambiaso linking up, linking up like
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: almost every other game.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: It's crazy. I mean, I you know what I'll take
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: I said in the past, I didn't know if Cambiaso
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: was ready.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Uh, it seems to be that he is.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: Getting more minutes that you've entus that obviously a team
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: I don't watch weekend in week out because as you.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Know, we obviously can't stand Juventus. But no, listen, I do.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: I do take back what I said about.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: Cambiaso because and and Nick was right. And I'll give him,
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: give him his credit because he you know, he did
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: say that.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Uh you know, he.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Can, he can work in in in that position, and
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: so far, so good. And I've just liked what we've
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: done on the on the flanks. I think it really
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: adds to our attack where we obviously have trouble in
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: DeMarco again in Tarista.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: I know. But what a beast. It's it's it's it's crazy,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: what a beast.
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: He's either getting an assist a goal or he's just
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: part of the part of the attacking play.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Pretty much in every game that we.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Play bess Levea. In the world, no one can say nothing.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: It's crazy. So you know, I think that would be
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: our biggest plus in my eyes.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Guys, I don't know if there's any other players or
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: any other positions that you saw otherwise, Uh, Brandon, I
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: don't know if you if you agree, disagree, or I
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: want to add anything anybody else to that list.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: But for me, it's it's always those two for sure.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: I'll let the other guys know if they want.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I just want to give a shout out to even
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: the defense, even Bystonia and even de Lorenzo playing in
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: That that role in the back three, like there's they've
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: been solid.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: You know, I saw a post yesterday, but yeah, well
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: set pieces, it's it's that's a team effort.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, it was.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: It was all all yeah, there you go.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: Because the center box, they play zone so they don't
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: pick up a guy, which is always a dangerous tactic
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: when you're playing seven feet Cornate and Saliba and then
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: you also have these guys are hard hitters. That makes
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: no sense to me, but that's that's something we rarely do.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: So I don't know why why we're playing the zone there,
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: but you're right, they played a great game.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's funny. I saw a post online. I
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: think it was from Bruti.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: It was like pocketed every player in the city that
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: he's he's starting to pocket his own teammates and international player,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: referencing Ukaku in the game against Belgium. But I don't
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: know if you guys saw in that game he missed
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: a sitter again like this is you know, schedule tweet
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Romelo Lucaku, like he always misses these big goals.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: But uh, it's interesting. Yeah, anyways, back to the topic gap.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: For me, the the the two the two center backs there,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: but Boni and even even Cambia, you guys know, Giano
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: and Johnny. You guys know how much I praise him
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: just as a role player. He's not he's not the
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: best at his position. He's not the best player on
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: this team. But he gets a job done. He's a
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: really solid player. He's someone you want, you know, every
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: team wants. But yeah, scores any scores, you know. Like
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: it was minute one at the game enroll against Belgium
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: and I was there. I was just videotaping just like that.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Then it happened to be that he scored right away.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: So it's incredible.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: He gets he really gets forward and I like that.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: And I think you think the depth on these positions too,
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: is not only those two guys. I think it can
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: be uh you know a new do Jay who comes
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: on late leading games. This guy has, you know, wheels
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: like you know, we've never seen so And even me personally,
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: I like Belanova too, the right flank uh F at
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: Atlanta now them too, they have they have, you know,
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: unlimited options over there. You know Bellava even like Rujetty,
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: I know he's a bit younger, but you know he's
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: playing at the U twenty one level. But yeah, these
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: guys coming up Savona right on the other side. So
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: it's I think there's options. And I think, you know,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: besides our midfield.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Because on our day and and and.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: In the position, who are they're supposed to be playing.
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: I think we have a pretty good midfield, and I
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: think we have options in the midfield. But I think
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: if there would be another position group that to say that,
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: you know, where.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: We seem to be good at so far is those
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: winning backs. Johnny, I don't know if you agree or
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: if you have any other people to add to this one.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: No, I totally agree.
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: The don't think I was gonna add is because sorry,
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: I'm doing like a practice exam for an exam tomorrow.
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: I would say maybe he would probably be like the
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: one person. Also, I would give like another massive shutout
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: for I in like scores what I think he has?
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: Like what three goal it was? The three goals he.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Had for I don't know.
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: It's a crazy amount of goals.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: In five appearances or six.
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: I think it's five.
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: He played all six? He played it all No, he
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: didn't play all six, did he? Either way, probably a
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: very dependable player, does very well with Spaletti and stuff,
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: and as mentioned before, not gonna you know, rehash old
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: conversation pieces. Even though this last game was the disappointment, overall,
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: the team did perform decently well. Obviously there's always room
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: for improvement and stuff, but it's much better performances than
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: the Euros.
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: And just to just pop back.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: A bit.
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: In the defense of the Lorenzo h it's it's crazy
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: that he's able to perform in a three man back
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: line for Spalllet right now, because he was so used
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: to playing in a four man back line that he
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: has being asked to play the three man back line
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: is a dramatic difference was the Euros himself. Uh, he played,
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: he performed terribly. I think he was also going through
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: a lot mentally because he was probably frustrated with Napoli
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: as the club. Uh during that time, there was rumors
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: if him wanting to leave and going to juve and stuff,
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: and uh, he was just I think he was just
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: in a very unhappy play. So it's good to see
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: him bounce back and get back into form mentally, because
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: you can be the most talented player in the world,
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: but if your mind's.
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: Not in it, you're not you're not gonna be good
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: at all.
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: Like it's sports in general, when you're a pro athletes,
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: it's a majority of the time a mental game. It's
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: not even as if you're not in If you're not
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: in the game mentally, you're getting dominated by anybody else,
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: so you're screwed. So the he he would be probably
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: also another player, like just like not saying like, oh,
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: he was like our best player, the greatest player ever.
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: It's like, you know, good for him for bouncing back.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: That's that's what it is. Good for him for bouncing back.
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: Now get better, that's all even him.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: He scored, he had a couple of goals in in this,
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: in this, in this group stage.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: So I know it's definitely something to think about.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: But another thing John Brandon I didn't get to squeeze
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: into the conversation is you know we're talking about the formation?
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Is uh are you locked in on this formation?
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: I do you agree with with how we set up
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: or or would you set up a different way?
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: Or I think he sets up like that for the
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: day game because it's the way Gasparini sets up with
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: lookman right behind. He used to be coop minors and
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: the take he scores. So he's like, well, if I'm
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: gonna get goals out of him, I gotta get these
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: triangle tappings, these through balls, these little knicks and knacks,
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: because that's the he's a Luka Tony type of player.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: He's a maybe a bit more better technically, but he's
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: not a tote. He's not adult Piero. He's not one
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: of those strikers. Definitely not a bad Joe. He's a
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: He's a finisher. He finishes maybe seventy five percent of
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: the chances he gets, which is a good stat because
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: we have had that in a while. Muys Keen almost
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: got that goal Manya with the crazy reflexes. Is what
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: happens when we play good teams. Right, you can't guarantee
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: all these goals. Israel goalkeeper probably doesn't make that safe.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: So that's just what it is. It comes down to,
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: you know, your opponents sometimes to just robbing your game.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: But I think we have to go with the three
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: at the back. With the three giants, the better we
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: get at controlling the ball, the better they'll get. And
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: they're like twenty two to twenty three years old, so
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: I think in five ten years we might be almost
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: at Spain's level of controlling the game. Then with the
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: wing backs, we're developing the best wing backs in the world.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: Udogi's at Tottenham and he doesn't even start against DeMarco,
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: so we're like keeping Premier League players on the bench,
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: you know. So I think there's that. And then on
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: the right, Campiaso five star week foot can play both sides,
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: running up and on the flying He's got a tank.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Bellonova, I love him.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: I wanted Milan to sign him after that first game
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: against Torino, and of course ante Anta got him because
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: that's what they do.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: He should have never got rid of that. Never mind,
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: he was part of the Prima Veda. They should have
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: never got rid of it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: So it's like guys like that that they build, they build,
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: they build, they train hard, you don't know where they
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: come out from, and then all of a sudden they
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: start tormenting you. Those are the guys we have to
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: invest our time in, not the flashy guys like Maldini
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: because he has the name, or Espadori because he scored
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: that one goal and X years ago that put us
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: into whatever tournament quarterfinal. Like those days, those are the
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: Ventura days where we were light on the headlines to
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: select our players. Like now we got legitimate options. And
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: I think this formation fits the best because three center mids.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: It's tough. It took away in Tearan Verati. He's like
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: barely playing anymore at thirty one, and I think the
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: midfield set at Tonali and like what else do you
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: want to put in there? You put strata in front
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: of them, you put our slini in front of them,
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: you put another bulllog and you're you're flying and then
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: hopefully there take the scoring goals too. I think if
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: the ball gets to the tagg and we score, then
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: that's the formation that that works.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: I understand that's a good point. Would you would you
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: put would you put the Taggi and King together? Or
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: that's that that wouldn't work.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: It wouldn't work. Both of them don't don't work with
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: other strikers. They're so used to playing alone too.
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Now, because you see online everybody everybody has an
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: opinion obviously, right, you see online you want social media,
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: everybody has an opinion.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Me personally, I don't think to put them together.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: You can maybe try it, to give it a give
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: it a try, but I don't know. People are saying,
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: I'll go put them together. They need to play it together.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: They need another partner because they're isolated.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: I think we've said a time and time again on
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: the show, is that whoever you're gonna put it, that
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: ten it just needs to be a.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: Facilitator, like if it you know, kind of like I Dibala, right,
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: if it would be the devent his days, if it be.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: You know, now Atroma, you know that guy that can
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: play that free roaming position, you know he's okay, Yeah,
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: he's labeled as a ten or, as.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: A CAM or three artist or whatever you want to
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: call it.
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: That, but he's such a free roam or that he
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: can kind of you know, go in all this wherever
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: there's space he goes, he finds out, you know.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: That that final ball to the striker.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know.
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: I don't know if like I said, the two strikers
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: can maybe work, but it doesn't seem like they're like
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: you said, Brandon and I agree that they're kind of
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: compatible playing, you know, two strikers. I know, I know, uh,
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: Keen has kind of played a bit on the wing
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: as well in the in the past, but I don't know.
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: I think he's kind of now, you know, predominantly been
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: a striker and he's having a career at Fiorentina.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: So I do think whoever it's going to.
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: Be behind them, if it be Keen starting, if it
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: be at Tagg he's starting, it needs to be somebody
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: that's that's creative, that can maybe take on a man that.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: Can find space, that can put in that final two ball,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: and uh, you know, just get our.
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: Strikers opportunities because at the end of the day, we
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: need we need those opportunities. We can always depend on,
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: you know, Uh, you know, a crazy goal from a
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: midfielder outside the box, the Marco making.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: A hell of a run to you.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Twice in the game.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: So it's we can only depend on that we need.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: I personally think we need.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: Our strikers to to or our forwards that we used
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: to to kind of contribute, and it seems to be
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: a constant thing with either we you know, we haven't
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: really set our finger on a on a true a
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: true nine, which is a bit of a shame because
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: we've had I think guys who have come and gone
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: that have shown glimpses but haven't been you know, concrete answers.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: To the to the solution. And but overall, Brandon, would
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: you say going forward, we're in good hands of how
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: we've been set up, or are like what would you
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: approve on and kind of like where would you to
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: look to change if anything?
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Well, I think one.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Of the don at good, Hey, I want to give
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: him whatever he is. He don't what to buy, but
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: he has done a lot of good.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: So no, for sure, I think he finally has the
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: recipe he wants. A key indicator of that was the
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: way he started this nation league. I think we were surprised.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: Everyone was surprised by the way Italy came out, the
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: way we won games, the way we dominated in games,
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: and I think that France game was the big one
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: to win in France. The way we did it, that
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: banger goal that's in Italy we haven't seen in a
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: long time. Everyone was smiling and having fun, and I
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: think that's the type of play he wants to get
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: out of his team. It's just that Italy is in consistency.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Sometimes it doesn't move beyond the offensive zone. We're always
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: consist consistent defensively, but when it comes to getting those goals,
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: we strugg a lot. And maybe it's because certain teams
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: we play, the better teams they watched the film and
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: they're like, well, it's always gonna play the same formation,
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: so maybe it's time to switch it up. But I
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: think the real problem will get solved by developing the
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: next art of Guler. But his name is like Adriano
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: Gulero or something, you know, like we need we need
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: like the next art of Guler that ten mess with
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: OsO style to come up. Like the last guy that
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: we had merely close to that was Alessandro Diamanti, you know,
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: where it was like just crazy tricks, two balls, scoring
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: goals he made Edd and Pelle looked like a god.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: So it's like, imagine if we had something just as
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: close to that, someone who's afraid, not afraid to take
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: that long range rocket, someone who's gonna say, hey, the
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: free kicks mine, get out of here.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: You know, we need we need that guy. We need
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: that cocky number ten. We don't have it. Thought he
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: was the guy for a long time, Casano was there.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: All these guys they've come and gone. We just really
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: haven't filled that role yet.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: And I know that that player has disappeared from the
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: game because that player used to be Mezzotzo, and Mezzo
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: doesn't exist anymore because that guy was slow. He couldn't
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: keep up, you know, so it kind of transformed into
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: Kevin de Bruyne. So our Kevin de Bruyne is Badela
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: and Tonali, And you know, everyone thought Tonali was the
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: next pirolog because he looked like him. But he's like no,
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, he proved to us he's Gatuso.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: He's literally Gatuso in the flesh. So it's like, we
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: need guys like Tonali on the team who literally are
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: not afraid to say, hey, you know, just be quiet,
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: let me play. I'm gonna show you what I can do.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: And I think the Fords that we currently have they
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: get a bit too heavily influenced. They're always trying to
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: prove someone wrong. You can see when the take he
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: comes off the pitch, he's like, uh, you know, he's
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: walking like this, like because he knows he didn't score,
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: and he knows he's gonna hear it in the papers.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: And that's kind of what happens when you play for
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: Fiorentina and Atalanta. You're not gonna hear that noise after
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: a game. You know you're gonna you're gonna do the damage,
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: plowing Napoli three zero in Napoli or whatever it was.
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: But then when if Napoli beats you three zero, you
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: don't hear anything because it's Napoli. So it's like they
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: don't have that pressure in these little teams. And I
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: think that's why if you wanna, if you really want
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: to get these guys going, they gotta play Champions League football.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: We can wake out.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: They gotta play strong defensemans like van Dyck, Saliba, this
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: and that. Like I was shocked when Calafioy went to
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: Arsenal I didn't understand that at all. And then when
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: I saw him ug Arteta and he's like, yeah, it's
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: finally done, I was like, okay, interesting, I guess they've
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: had this this going for a while and now I
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: totally get it. It's like he's the missing piece that
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: they needed. So and it's nice to see that we
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: have Tonale and Newcastle, Udogi at Tottenham, Vicario and Tona.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: So we're starting to like disperse ourselves too from this
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: classic old mindset Italian soccer.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: You know, I think this, you know, kind of transitions
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: perfectly because I want to ask, uh, not only you
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Brandan but also he Drannon and Joanny again. So the
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: draw is coming up, I think on Friday for who's
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: gonna you know, who's gonna play home in these quarterfinals.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: So it's the first time that the Nations League has
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: these these quarter files quarterfinals. Because Italy finished second, they
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: will draw one of the first place teams. Uh, so
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: they have the possib ability to play Portugal, Germany or Spain.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: And you know already they played tough teams in France
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: and Belgium's and and it's good, right, it's good U
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: to get this competition, and you know, just what do
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: you think, Brandon, do you have a preference a of
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: who you want Italy to play? Because me, I want
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: them to play Spain. They you know, Spain's been our kryptonite.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: I want I want to face them head on and
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: and get that challenge before the World Cup qualifiers. But
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: also at the same time, Brandon, what do you what
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: do you want them? What do you want to see
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: in whoever the appointed is in these two games coming
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: up in March.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: I just I just want to see dominance like and
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: no fear, like a team who's gonna play fifty to
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: fifty pubssion that Italy.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: We saw against Spain and the years was the biggest
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: waste of my time.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: For ninety minutes of my life, it was just back
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: and forth and we were unlucky with the Calafioio on goal.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: But I think we've redeemed ourselves from where that has
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: come from, and we're ready to get challenged by a
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: bigger team. I think the best challenge and the toughest
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: challenge would be Germany. I think Germany under the new regime,
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: they're drilled, They're back to that dangerous team that comes
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: in with all black suits and they don't talk to
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: anyone and they look like they're gonna kill everyone. That's
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: the Germany that in two thousand and six, twenty ten,
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: and then finally in twenty fourteen did it. And Germany's
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: on the rise with the laver who's in bringing in
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: all these guys who no one knew about another starting
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: where it's musiala like, those are those are guys that
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: Borgiano has to play. He's not playing any of these
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: guys this year. He's playing like pe Cooley and Esposito,
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: you know, like that's not gonna do it for him.
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: So Spain is like very injured right now, which is
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: like it would be nice to beat them. But at
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: the same time, I'm like, I don't know how much
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: of us Spain this Spain actually is, and Portugal will
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: meet them eventually.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: They're not gonna lose.
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: So I think Germany would be a nice back and
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: forth for all purposes, but I don't I also don't
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: know if we'd win that, you know, I just think
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: it would be a nice test. It's a different test,
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: it's a it's a type of team we haven't played
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: in a long time. Because the Portugals they played the
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: same style as US almost. You know, Layo's just gonna
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: run on the flying quint and sal Is gonna do
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: the same thing. And then Spain it's such a boring
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: game to watch when they do the sticky taka. So
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: it's like, for the love of the game, I'd like
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: to see Germany.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: You know, that's well dis sected. I personally, I don't
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: really care who are playing. I don't think they care either.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: I think they just want to They want to go
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: out there and and and win.
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: So you know, I'm not gonna say I prefer this,
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: prefer that like for me, as long as they go
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: out there and improve on the mistakes and the and
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: the things that they've locked up until that point, I
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: think will be the biggest thing for me, the biggest
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: win for me.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: Uh you know, if you if they go out and lose,
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: but they lose in a way where they really.
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: Went all out, they really tried, they really they put
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: out a good effort, we can kind of take it.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: They draw, they they lay an egg. We're not going
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: to accept that as fans.
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: So, uh, you know, if it be Germany, if it
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: be in Portugal, if it be Spain, at the end
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: of the day, these are three good teams.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: You're gonna have to funk.
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: You're gonna have to go against them, if it be
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: first or after, if you advanced.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: So for me, it doesn't matter.
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: I think that these tests of big opponents are are huge.
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: You know, we hope to we hope to obviously advance,
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: but Spain it's it's always tough. I think it's always
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: tough to break them down. You know, we we we're
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: obviously not the same Midilely, They're obviously always going to
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: be the same Spain. So it's one of these things
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: where if we can break them down, which we won't
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: because we won't have the ball very often, we're gonna
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: have to really, you know, work to our strengths, work
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: on that counter attack, work on you know, those those
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: those flanks, uh to our advantage and and and kind
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: of play that way against Germany.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: I don't know, I think that will be tough.
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: I think the biggest in terms of if we don't
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: shore up defensively, which I think by then hopefully we
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: should be okay. Everybody's back, you know, healthy and whatnot,
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: we might be okay. But Portugal is just flying with
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: goals like they just don't stop. So it's it's one
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: of these things that you know, we just.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: Have to be better defensively.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: I think if we can provide our attack with with
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: opportunities like we previously said, I think we'll be in
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: good hands. And again it's it's two eggs if I'm
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: not mistaken right.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, March twenty sorry, March twentieth and March twenty third.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Okay, so it's a two egg affair.
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: So you know, we have we have we have time
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: to kind of if we kind of fuck up in.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: The first game, we'll have time to kind of maybe
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: gather ourselves and hopefully do damage in the second. So again,
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: for me, I don't really care who we get. We
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: still need to put out a good performance no matter what.
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: These are all good teams, and uh, you know, if
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: Italy is serious and if they want to do well
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: in this tournament, then if they want to actually win something,
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: it starts. It starts now because we need to have
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: a good performance here and for Fox stakes, we need
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: to get into a world club because we're not going
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: to take another nut, another another tournament, another World Cup
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: tournament without Italy in it.
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: As US fans we already know we're gonna go crazy.
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: So uh, you know, rdping Liter literally was on fire
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: when we won the Euros.
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: I could just imagine when it when we don't make
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: another World Cup, if we don't make another World Cup, right, so, uh,
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: that could happen. So that's kind of where my head is,
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: and that's where kind of my head is at in
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: terms of this Nations League.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: And then that bleeds into World Cup. Well fine for
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: me as well, you guys next, Johnny, I.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: Just want I just want to win. I don't care
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: who we go.
• 44:23
  Speaker 7: I just want to win. I just want to get
• 44:24
  Speaker 7: confidence in this team. That's that's that's what I need.
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: I need confidence in this team. That's that's what I want.
• 44:29
  Speaker 7: I need that killer instinct pack Uh you get that
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: with with winning every game or uh, whether it's like
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: you know, it's like a friendly international trophy. You go
• 44:40
  Speaker 7: for those trophies. You give them the celebration, you give
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: them a reason to celebrate success. Go out there and win,
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: don't care who get that?
• 44:49
  Speaker 8: Wink ye?
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Well, like I said, Spain, I want yeah, yeah, Brandon,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: you know, Johnny just says you want you know, he
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: wants him to win. But how important do you think
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: the Nation League is for them as players? And also
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: use use the US a fan. I mean, we've been
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: close a few times, a couple of semi finals. I mean,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: do you want to see them win this tournament?
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: I think it would be important for the morale to
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: just because I know Portugal and Spain and Germany, they
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: don't see it as a nation league. They see it
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: as like a more of like an few you know,
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: like you guys think you're coming close to let's get
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: out of here. And I think that's all in the
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: mindset of preparation, like this is a warm up for
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: the bigger prize and it's a great way to test
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: the waters to see what actually works against these teams
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: and not. So I think it's important to really make
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: sure that they're just in this, you know. I think
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: you don't want to turn off fans. You don't want
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: to look weak against these giants, because we were probably
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: the weakest European title defending champions I've ever seen coming
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: back to defend the crown. So we have to kind
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: of make sure that that's not the identity we build,
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: you know, And I think making these statements, you're gonna
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: end up playing the Netherlands, the Germany's France again maybe
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: you know whoever it is. So I think now there's
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: four more games or three more games, well there's three
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: more rounds, but five more games if they win it.
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: All that are pure legitimate practice that a team Canada,
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: for example, has been craving for for years. So we
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: can't take this for granted. You know, I think we
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: gotta gotta we gotta step it up. We gotta show
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: the people that twenty twenty six is no joke. They
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: know how big of a year it is for the
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: World Cup for them, just for how much. How many
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: North American Italians will be in a ten and it's
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: every game is gonna feel like a home game for
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: them for the first time in a while. So I
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: think that's important for money as well, the amount of jerseys, sweaters, merch, swag,
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: whatever they're gonna sell. All of these things come into it.
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: The economics are huge. They're probably gonna play their games
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: in New York City, La Miami. They're gonna give them
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: the hotspots. So I think it's important that we kind
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: of transition with this tournament that we are still a
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: big dog, and you know, we're gonna end up in
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: a group with another big dog and we're gonna win
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: that group. In the World Cup, We're not gonna have
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: to go play against Macedonia and repeat that.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: You know, no more playoffs, we can't have that. Yeah,
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: it's not for us, that exactly. That's except we don't
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: bother win the playoffs.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: One thing that's good for Italy is that.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: Because they're gonna be playing in the Nations League, I
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: believe they're gonna be in a fourteen group for the qualifying,
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: so I think they need it. So there it's just
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: six games. It's six games, I believe. I guess the
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: international windows in September, October November twenty twenty five, So
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: in a year from now, will will know where they
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: stand in World Cup qualifying, where they're going to be
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: in playing here in the North America. So it's it's
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: it's going to be a fast qualifying six games, three windows,
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: you play three, you only play three teams and you
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: finish on top of the group to automatically qualify.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: But it's it's interesting, guys, they.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: Got put into Paul one.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: Is that is that correct?
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: Or is that not officially yet?
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: That's what I read.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: I didn't. I haven't been.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't fully understood that part. I think the
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: draw for that is December thirteenth and the nation, yeah,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: national League draws on Friday to see who they play.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: One last topic, I want to bring up guys with
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: the duty.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: So I saw a post.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: It was from you know, our friends at I have
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: TV talking about how Belgium is in the top ten,
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: few the top ten and uh, you know, even though
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Italy has beat them.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know how many times in a row, now
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: what I want to say.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: Three four, they haven't beat us.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, there you go, even longer than I thought. And
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: if you look at the standings, Belgium's in sixth, behind Brazil, England, Spain, France,
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: and Argentina. After Belgium there's Portugal, Netherlands, Italy and then
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Colombia around the top ten. I know there's a whole
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: mathematics to this, you know, few the top ten rankings,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: but even my thoughts, Belgium, for sure, Belgium shouldn't be
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: in top ten. But honestly, right now, even Italy.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: Like well, even England in the group. Yeah that's true.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: That that's true, that's true.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: But I don't know, what do you guys, What do
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: you guys think of this, this whole top ten stuff,
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: because that for me, like people, I think they get
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: a bit too seriously, it's all about numbers and mathematics
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: and the points and strength of a pintent in that.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: And you know, Italy and nine is fine. Honestly, it's
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: Belgium that probably shouldn't be in the top ten. But
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: at the end the days, it's not what matters.
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was gonna say Belgium wins, they're they're important
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: games against weak opponents, but they lost to Israel. So
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: I really don't that theory doesn't make any more sense.
• 50:20
  Speaker 10: I think.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: I think it's I know, it's like an R score calculation.
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: It's basically how the government calculates the interest rate and
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: then your mortgage.
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: That's like how they do it.
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: They don't know what they're doing, and I think, I
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: honestly believe at this point it's just to make us
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: talk about it articles, to get written people to worry
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: about it because Brazil is garbage too, Like Brazil is
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: nowhere near what they used to be. Argentina is technically
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: the best team in the world right now, So I
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: believe they're number one, and then are they number one?
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Don't know? Yeah, And.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: The surprise here is Mini is eleven. For me, that's
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: a that's a shock they're not, yeah.
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: Because they had like some weak years. But I agree
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: Jeremy is way too strong. Who's number two?
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: Spain?
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, see, it makes no sense should be Spain. They
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: won the Euros So it's like, what are we calculating
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: because France now they're they're not the same, France just
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: losing Greaseman, I don't even identify as France anymore.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on with them. I think
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: this should go to the Shine and take off there,
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: but it I don't know. I don't know.
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: I think if it is in the top ten, were good.
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: But you know USA used to be in the top ten,
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: and like where's Canada on? This was like fifty seven,
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: you know, thirty fifth. Yeah, so it's like we're not
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: We're a World Cup team, So you're telling me there's
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: three teams before us that make the World Cup, you know,
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: So it means technically we wouldn't make the last World
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: Cup because we're outside of the thirty two. So a
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: lot of things don't make sense, and that Canada has
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: gotten even better since the World Cup.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: So it's like, I don't know, I don't know what
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: they do these things.
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: What's funny is that Russia is actually head of Canada
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: right now in Russia's band from all competitions, So yeah,
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: for what are they getting the numbers from.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: That?
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: So I don't even know what they're doing that. You
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: can't even play it with them exactly.
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: But the biggest thing, in order to talk about Belgium.
• 52:25
  Speaker 6: Now in six or whatever, they were number one in
• 52:27
  Speaker 6: the They were number one in these rankings for for
• 52:29
  Speaker 6: the longest time, and we were scratching our heads. We
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: didn't understand how that was possible. They went through that
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: Golden generation. Uh, they won nothing out of it. They
• 52:39
  Speaker 6: had some great times, great players, Get that's wrong. You know,
• 52:42
  Speaker 6: they were dark horses a lot of the times in
• 52:43
  Speaker 6: these big tournaments. But we kind of got behind that.
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: But were they ever really supposed to supposed to be
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: number one in the world by the woe now six Like,
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: for these things, I think we've we've I don't think,
• 52:55
  Speaker 6: I mean, I could speak for myself. I've never really
• 52:57
  Speaker 6: understood them again, maybe we can ask more Trouble show
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: up resident it because he's the numbers guy, he knows
• 53:03
  Speaker 6: it all.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: Maybe we can ask him, but it doesn't make sense.
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: Maybe the only one that makes sense currently is like we're.
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: Saying, now the Argentina at one, you know, worke Up champions,
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: uh couple America champions.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: You know they're they're they're defending those titles.
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: But uh, yeah, I know, I mean Italy has Italy
• 53:23
  Speaker 6: has dominated Belgium since what year twenty sixteen, Like it's
• 53:29
  Speaker 6: we've had we've had their number and you know, obviously
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: in recent times obviously you said they haven't beat us
• 53:33
  Speaker 6: since since seventy two there, but you know, just in
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: recent times like that, we've been you know, really active
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: as fans is it's we haven't we've been nominating them.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: So for me, it doesn't make sense. As long as
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: Italy stays in the.
• 53:46
  Speaker 6: Top ten, I think is maybe a good barometer to
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: see kind of like where we're at. But you know,
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: we can't really take those rankings too seriously, I don't think,
• 53:55
  Speaker 6: because it's because if we're if Italy is, if Italy
• 53:59
  Speaker 6: is you know, instead of ninth, their nineteenth, we're gonna
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: talk you know, everybody's gonna talk about it in a
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: negative way.
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: If we're in the top ten, we'll have a different conversation.
• 54:10
  Speaker 6: So to Brandon's point, I think it's it's something just
• 54:13
  Speaker 6: to kind of you know, if you want to call
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: it clickbit or what to really.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: Just talk about.
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: But yeah, no, it doesn't.
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: I think it's queer on this panel week. It doesn't.
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: It doesn't make sense to any of us.
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: So we'll leave it at that. Then, Uh, you know,
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: we're happy in the top ten. But you know, we know, uh,
• 54:31
  Speaker 6: I think we know kind of where our level is as.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: A lutely time.
• 54:34
  Speaker 10: So fun fact, Canada's got the most amount of points
• 54:37
  Speaker 10: that ever has in this history with fifteen oh seven,
• 54:39
  Speaker 10: but their highest rating was thirty three and they're thirty
• 54:42
  Speaker 10: five right now.
• 54:43
  Speaker 8: Hm, I don't, I don't, I don't know.
• 54:45
  Speaker 10: I'm trying to make so go figure Yeah, fifteen oh
• 54:48
  Speaker 10: seven and they had, yeah, fifteen oh seven right now,
• 54:51
  Speaker 10: but they're thirty fifth, whereas in February twenty twenty two
• 54:55
  Speaker 10: is their all time high at thirty third, but they
• 54:58
  Speaker 10: had fourteen ninety eight in terms of points.
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: So you're John, you're the moth guys, so I go
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: calculate that.
• 55:04
  Speaker 8: I mean, it depends how they calculate these these these
• 55:06
  Speaker 8: points in the cod.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: And it's a whole calculation, like Brandon sent our score
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: and for anyone.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: And it's fun few words put together to make it
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: look make it look credible.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for anyone who doesn't understand our score, it's like
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: how the GPA was calculated, and say jap here in Quebec.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: And for anyone who doesn't understand saga, it's like between
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: high school and university.
• 55:26
  Speaker 8: It's it's great, it's grade twelve and thirteen.
• 55:28
  Speaker 7: That's the best comparable you can get to uh to
• 55:30
  Speaker 7: non Quebec uh listeners, it's it's it's great, it's great.
• 55:35
  Speaker 8: We we don't have grade twelve. It's it's split up
• 55:37
  Speaker 8: between grade twelve and thirteen or not anyways.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: But but I think, uh, that'll do it for us.
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: Guys.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Did you have any other questions, uh all about the
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: zudi specifically zuti questions?
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: No, not really.
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: I mean I think we covered I think we covered
• 55:53
  Speaker 6: pretty much, uh quite a bit of things to it,
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: to be honest. But I don't know if you had
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: anything else to add in terms of talk if you
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: had anything else in your mind.
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: No, I think I have TV fell off. But that's it.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: There you gommoting too much merch now at the game anymore.
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: There you go, I'll be too Romano ruin the game. Yeah,
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: here we go, Here we go.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: I could do a whole episode on that.
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: On that guy.
• 56:21
  Speaker 5: I don't know, he's he ruined the game. That guy,
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: he's got such a punchable ed it's insane. Like I
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: don't believe the twenty three hours on my phone, Like
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: as someone who's in this industry of having two phones
• 56:35
  Speaker 5: and being on them frequently, like there's no chance.
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: Like that means he's just calling people all day long,
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: Like it makes no I don't know. Yeah, doesn't heat,
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: doesn't get no sleep, that's it. I like the mao. Yeah,
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: he's classy, he's class you know, he's he does it
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: the right way.
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some kids on the top too that that
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: are great.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: You know, they're good kids, even even Scanada.
• 57:00
  Speaker 6: I like.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: I like his reporting just he's to the point. He's
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: always correct.
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: He has a funny accent when he talks, sounds very
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: French when he talks. Tell anybody does a good job,
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: but Brandon, So before we wrap up, I know you're
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: hosting a soccer event here in Montreal rather than Laval.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: Uh soccer Que Laval. If you want to tell us
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: a bit about that event, yeah, sure.
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: Basically it's a three v three footy tournament. One day
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: I was just like a soccer Q. I'm like close
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: with some of the guys that work there. We played
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: Total Campbell together and we were playing Total Campo in
• 57:37
  Speaker 5: the summer, and there's just the summer Total Campbell is
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: not the same as the winter total Campbo. You know,
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: the weather, you can't have any guarantees, the fields are bigger,
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: it's a lot more running, and sometimes you question is
• 57:52
  Speaker 5: it really worth it?
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: How fun can this be?
• 57:55
  Speaker 5: You know? So it got me thinking like what if
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: we just do like a full on gambling kind of tournament,
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: like a three v three You bet on yourself, you
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: build a team. Winner takes a big part of cash.
• 58:07
  Speaker 5: So I kind of appreciate ida to Sockerik you and
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: the three v three footy tournament was born kind of
• 58:14
  Speaker 5: with a Joga Bonito kind of touched to it. We're
• 58:18
  Speaker 5: trying to go in that direction where we want some skillers.
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: We're working on getting some semi pro players in the tournament,
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: some guys on that Saint Laurent team that went to
• 58:27
  Speaker 5: play TFC and stuff, so it's not gonna be just
• 58:29
  Speaker 5: a schmock tournament. I mean, listen, anyone can sign up.
• 58:32
  Speaker 5: It's first come, first serve, and my TikTok's currently going viral,
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: so it's led to more anticipated action than I thought.
• 58:42
  Speaker 5: We're already almost at seventeen teams out of the twenty
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: four and like a day and a half of posting,
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: so that's I thought we were gonna have trouble getting
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: twenty four teams, but I think we're gonna we could
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: have had thirty two basically but for time purposes, because
• 58:57
  Speaker 5: every team plays three games. The games are ten minutes
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: each of halves of five, and then the best to
• 59:05
  Speaker 5: automatically from each group advance.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: It's like the Euros.
• 59:07
  Speaker 5: There's six groups, the best to advance plus the third
• 59:11
  Speaker 5: place the best four finish out of out of six.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: So basically kind of.
• 59:16
  Speaker 5: What Italy went down to all that drama goal difference
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: is that's kind of the the kind of tournament we
• 59:22
  Speaker 5: wanna kind of remain emulate the same. Yeah, Emuly, that's it,
• 59:28
  Speaker 5: and you know we're gonna we're gonna have one winner
• 59:31
  Speaker 5: at the end of it. It's basically brought to you
• 59:33
  Speaker 5: by Shops On Team, which is the place I work at.
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: So there's gonna be supplements everywhere for everyone. Some goodie
• 59:40
  Speaker 5: bikes will take home, and there's gonna be a passing
• 59:42
  Speaker 5: challenge with its own price. There's gonna be food, there's
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: gonna be live music. The final, we're gonna close all
• 59:48
  Speaker 5: the lights in the in the stadium and it's gonna
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: be just the pitch that's gonna be lit up, and
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: that's probably gonna happen around one thirty in the morning.
• 59:57
  Speaker 5: So it's also an endurance test as well for those guys,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: Like it's a one night tournament kind of like the
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 5: ton Seas are when we were kids there, Yeah, kind
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 5: of what. Yeah, we're trying to imitate that and give
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 5: the people a cool experience because by the time they
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: reach the knockout stages, you're gonna have the legit players
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: and all those guys who just signed up to to
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 5: to play for money and not that aren't good enough.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: Let's say they'll be gone. Then we're gonna have some
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: good games.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 5: We're gonna have the legit refs and everything, and currently
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 5: looking for sponsors, have some locked in already. And what's
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 5: cool is all the sponsors are gonna go on the
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: boards in the cage, so they're gonna get to be
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 5: like hockey style on the boards. So I think overall
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 5: it's gonna be sick. There's gonna be two games running
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: out of time except for the final.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: And that's it.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 5: No goalie three v three, no cleats and uh you
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 5: said tackle. It's a automatic penalty shot, one on one
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 5: MLS style. So we're trying to make it as arkadie
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 5: as possible without you know, not mind fucking the players
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: too much because it's a lot to learn on the spot,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 5: and then we'll see if it. I think there's a
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 5: lot of interest, and that's what I told them. I
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 5: think it's something that a lot of people. I got, like,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 5: no joke, fifty dms from eleven year old kids on
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 5: TikTok asking, so it's like, maybe this could be something
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 5: that's done for eleven to thirteen year olds.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 5: Exactly, So maybe it's something we could run back in
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: the future. But I think the whole three v three
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 5: put your your money where your mouth is. It's got
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: a lot of guys ego boiling up. So I think
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 5: it's gonna be cool to see who actually takes this home,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: because there's gonna be a lot of factors who deal
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 5: with the fatigue, staying hydrated, eating properly, actually winning your games.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 5: Because ten minutes in that cage, it's it's it's a
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 5: game change. It's it's straight cardo. It's like almost a
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 5: fifty minute game in ten minutes. It's going to be
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 5: sick and anyone can come watch as well.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: It's going to be free.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 5: There's like stands and everything, and we're trying to get
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 5: like that camera that follows the game. Maybe see if
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 5: we can go live on Twitch for people who can't come.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 5: So say, it's turning out to be a nice thing,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 5: you know, And so this is taking place when? And
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 5: how much is how much does it cost for teams
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: to join? Yeah, so it's December seventh. It starts at
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 5: six thirty, Like I said, it will go probably till
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 5: two am, just because that's some you know, the stoppages
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 5: and everything. But the clock actually never stops in game,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 5: except if there's a goal at the two minute mark
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 5: of the half, you're allowed to make a sub. You're
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: only allowed to make one sub a half or at halftime, unlimited,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 5: whatever you want. Some teams won't even come with subs.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 5: You're allowed five players per team. Basically it's highly recommended
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 5: you bring a sub. And it's one hundred bucks plus
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: tacks per team. So if you guys are five, it's
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 5: twenty bucks a person. So it's not it's not terrible.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 8: Not breaking the bank, guys, they're not breaking the bank.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 5: And then if you win the thousand, five hundred, I mean,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 5: you know, you just made a pretty pretty paycheck for
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 5: six hours of your Saturday night.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: What else are you gonna do? You know you're gonna
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: spend the money, so you might that's it.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: You might try to go.
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  Speaker 5: Out to buy some food, go clubbing, unos what people
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  Speaker 5: would have done, right, So that's kind of it to
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  Speaker 5: try to trying to revive the soccer culture. I think
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  Speaker 5: there's a lot of beer leagues, but there's not a
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  Speaker 5: lot of like and these beer leagues don't even pay
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  Speaker 5: out when you win, which is something I was so
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  Speaker 5: shocked because when I was playing in Toronto, you win
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  Speaker 5: your season fee. At the end, at least you win
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  Speaker 5: three grand back, you know, yeah, like, hey, congratulations, not
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  Speaker 5: just a nine dollars bottle of champagne. So I was
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  Speaker 5: a bit confused as to why people would sign up
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  Speaker 5: to play with there's nothing to win, and then fight
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  Speaker 5: each other every week and these street fights in the
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  Speaker 5: car after. Confused because it was my first start of
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  Speaker 5: playing Total Camp.
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  Speaker 3: Whoever.
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  Speaker 5: So and then I looked, I'm like, everyone does it.
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  Speaker 5: You see usl you know, so you see ourselves good
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  Speaker 5: with the stats. I give them, I give them that.
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  Speaker 5: But then I was like, you know what, let's let's
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  Speaker 5: test it all. Let's see if there's something that could
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  Speaker 5: be done that the commitment is one night and not
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  Speaker 5: fifteen weeks, you know, so it's something like that. I
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  Speaker 5: think when when money's involved, people are always ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: You know, attached for sure.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: So that was kind of it.
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  Speaker 5: Ideally, it could have been a one on one tournament
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 5: like you see in England or all those guys are
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: the halfway line and it's like they're all huddled and
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 5: the cameraman's in the action and everything. But those and
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 5: those and ugly and I don't think that's legit soccer
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  Speaker 5: to a certain extent. You know, one guy could just
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  Speaker 5: go there, blast the ball in the net the whole
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  Speaker 5: time and win, And I'm like, how fun was that?
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  Speaker 3: How can I monetize this with sponsors?
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 5: So I think we've got a good setup right now,
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  Speaker 5: and it's it's already beyond what I think it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 5: So I think that's the exciting part. And now it's
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 5: time to make it the best it could be. Let's say, Yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 6: Coming up in a couple of weeks, so guys, if
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  Speaker 6: you're interested, if you're in the area, definitely go give
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 6: give it a give it. We might have to come
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 6: and maybe expect it too, because I know I can't
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  Speaker 6: run all that time, so and I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: If you know you're not gonna win, I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 5: you to stay home right now and I'll gladly take
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 5: your money. But we have guys coming that are gonna
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: take your money too. You know, we'll come and watch,
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  Speaker 5: maybe we'll watch, come have a beer. Trying to get
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: some beer sponsors. So we're gonna make it some good time,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: maybe some finale beer, and that's it. Make it the
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  Speaker 5: most Italian.
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  Speaker 3: Soccer event ever, you know. And if people listening want
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  Speaker 3: to uh want to reach out to sponsor, do they
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: reach out to you to the soccer Q.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah me, soccer IQ whatever it is, but I'll probably
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  Speaker 5: answer the quick responsible and yeah, it's it's very simple.
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  Speaker 5: We got to package is left because the main package
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 5: was to be presented by let's say, and to to
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 5: have all those sperks. So that's cool that one's already
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 5: taken up after my first go at it. And now
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 5: it's time to fill up the oroines and to to
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: get those boards nice and filled with some stickers, some
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 5: nice tape and get this this box looking clean. You know,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 5: if I could shove forty two cameras in there, like
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 5: uh and the an NHL hockey rink and have a
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 5: live truck in the back chopping up clip clips, I
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: would maybe that's something I could be done in the future.
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  Speaker 3: If someone thinks this is a legit, a legiti enough.
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  Speaker 2: Idea, you know, Uh yeah, awesome workman, like you thought
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: about everything. You know, wash you the best for this tournament.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds awesome. That's you know, that's all I want
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  Speaker 2: to say.
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  Speaker 3: Kudos to you.
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  Speaker 1: You really thought of everything.
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  Speaker 5: It all started with the paninis. All I can say,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 5: and look where it's look where it's taken. Taking soccer
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 5: was the first love. It was a bit of a
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 5: for a while, but we're back.
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  Speaker 3: We're happy to be back. That's it. But brand I
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  Speaker 3: think I think that's it that we have tonight.
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  Speaker 6: We wanted to give you that the four there to
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 6: to pok this tournament because I saw it on social
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 6: media and I get right away, I was if you
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 6: didn't tell me that there was going to be a
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 6: buzz around it, I could have already already have seen
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 6: it in my head that there was gonna be some
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 6: sort of buzz around it. Uh, you know, just again,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 6: kudos and chapeau to you to you know, kind of
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 6: trying to bring the community together, you know, the cultural community.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: Together here in the city of Montreal. So or sorry
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: in Lavau. I'm sorry, Uh we got to make that distinguishment.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: But yeah, no, it's guys.
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  Speaker 6: Anybody who's listening, definitely December seventh, soccer you I've seen
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 6: they've kind of kind of, you know, worked their way
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  Speaker 6: up to kind of.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 5: Like they only just celebrated their one year anniversary, which yeah, okay, So.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: They go around for a year.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 5: They're fully sponsored by Adidas at Evangelista, which is cool, nice,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 5: and then all of as Laval practices at their fields
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 5: the kids winter, so they meet some good partnerships and
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 5: they've established themselves well in the community and that's very
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 5: important for them business wise as well, because I think
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 5: we all know Sportiera Cage and we all know where
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 5: it is now, you know. And that was a sick
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 5: idea when it came out. But the whole relying on
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 5: birthday parties is just not going to cut it right.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 5: Like once you do one birthday party, it's like, okay,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 5: well next year, I want to do bowling, you know.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 5: So it's like you gotta you gotta reinvent the wheel.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 5: And they have a lot of like see if Montreal
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 5: players that go train there in the back, you got
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 5: like a Patra turf with a net vis saying goes
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 5: there often. They got a license be professional coach from
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 5: Barcelona Lamassi Academy who trains one on one in the back.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 5: So for them as well, they're growing the actual presence
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 5: of who's at these at their at their soccer I
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 5: Q that same. So it's very cool and they got
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 5: a bunch of like training machines as well to work
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 5: on your accuracy, your speed, this and that and uh
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 5: and yeah, they got a nice be stroll in there too.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 5: It's a cool place. They Hols games. When games go
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 5: alive there, it is playing the Hose games too.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 4: So I'm.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 5: Like you said, the come up has been been real.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 5: And from the first time I went till now, they
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 5: they've really established themselves.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 6: It's great to see and like, yeah, I knew it
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 6: was I knew they were new, Like I knew that
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 6: they were just recently around.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 8: I know.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 6: Uh, I think I first kind of heard about them
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 6: through our buddies and called Montreal obviously, and and one
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 6: weekly podcast, you know, they they kind of had a
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 6: little bit of a show with them and kind of
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 6: to explain, you know, the whole concept behind it and listen,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 6: anything to grow the game here in the city, you know,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 6: take and if you know, and they're doing it the
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 6: right way.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, we obviously congraduate for them for that,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: and you know, we hope to hope, we hope to
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: see them continue on this path of exponential growth.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 6: It's it's been crazy, sure for one year, that's it's
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 6: pretty impressive, you know, all the things that you're naming.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 6: So guys, if you're in the if you're listening in
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 6: the city, December seventh, the three three v Three foot tournament.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: At Soccer i Q, everything that Brandon said, go check
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  Speaker 3: it out on.
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  Speaker 6: The socials Bell obviously for Bell bring and then for
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 6: them it's just why soccer i Q on Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so there you go. But yeah, that's pretty much
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: all we have a for you tonight. Brandon. Again, we
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: do appreciate your time. Uh, is there anything else you
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: want to plug because if there is, there four yours. No,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: not really.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 5: It was a good conversation, and I think it's good
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: to see we're all on the same page of what
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 5: the Ajuri is doing. And I think everyone's illogically coming
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 5: together because this summer was tough. Some people didn't get
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 5: it too much, you know, but I think we're we're
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 5: on the right track for the AI.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: So it's good to see.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 6: Exactly colint To said it better. So guys, that'll pretty
• 1:11:12
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