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Talking Soccer/Futbol with Dave Bradley · Motor City Mad Mouth

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Happy Wednesday everybody. Yes, I'm back. Thank you very much Kate Ebling
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for filling in for me last night. It was a little under the weather,
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but she did a superior job filling in for me. But when I'm
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back, I'm back, and I'm louder than ever. But meanwhile, this
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is the Motor City Man Mole Show. I wonder why it's not MotorCity mile
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Mouth because I'm too loud for it to meet any other way. Well,
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I've been looking forward to having this guy down a long long time. His
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name of Dave Bradley. Dave, welcome to the Big Show. Thank you
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very much, Scott so happy to be here, happy to be anyway.
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Well, let me tell you one thing about mister Bradley. Folks, if
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you're a soccer fan, you've they want to stay from start to finish.
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If you're not a soccer fan, stay anyways, you might find some other
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interesting twisted turns in this show. Because we're gonna talk about the guy that
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played for Manchester United. And you know one thing about Dave. I've been
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talking to him for a while. It's just a matter of fitting him in
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wil Vogel and let's put it up there. I lived in London in Germany
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and I grew up playing soccer with my brother and I'm my dad played Division
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two soccer in the USA. Great stuff, well will it doesn't appear every
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once in a while on Fire Up with Candy Ebling. But that said,
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Dave, let's talk a little bit about your soccer career. Give me a
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s how. I know you had a pretty good career, so now you
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have a chance that talk about it. Okay. So I'm born and raised
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in Manchester, England, which is not dissimilar to Midwest slash Toledo Detroit,
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working class, blue collar, right down to earth. How to would can
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you know? Grind it out, et cetera. Got set out, be
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tough, be strong, you know, get over your excuses. And I
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left high school when I was sixteen years of age, because that's what you
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do over there, and went straight to Manchester United as a sixteen year old
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and was there for four years and soccer taught me a lot of things,
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as we call it football over there. But you know, we'll use the
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term soccer for relatability reasons here. Soccer taught me a lot of things,
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you know, the usual things that sports can teach you, the discipline,
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the outdication, accountability, being a team player, all those things. But
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one thing you did teach me was is you can get paid for living your
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dream. And that that came. That came around a few years later at
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the end of my career to help me find something to continue to live my
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to live my dream dream or chase more dreams after soccer finished. Well,
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we got a great coleman in the chair room and this guy when he's at
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a roll and I've never seen a guy do more research than this guy here,
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one of my young, young and up and coming broadcasting Sorry, mister
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Bradley, I'm an Arsenal fan. Much respect to you and Manchester United,
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such a great team with great istory out there. Arsenal. There you go.
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I'm sure I have a lot of respect for that rivalry, not you,
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And you know what he's right. I mean, every dunk has his
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day, Manchester United had their day and they'll have another day. Actually,
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my best friend around here and I spend a lot of time with he's from
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Cambridge, England, but he's an Arsenal fan too, so but Arsenal is
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going great. I wish you all the best, but it cook because it's
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not gonna last for over. Man United will take over again. Well done.
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I want to talk about Manchester United a little bit here you'll alluded to
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it, so now we're gonna go Dave in the more detailed. You know,
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you played there for four years for Manchester United, which I view as
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the New York Yankees of soccer. What was that like playing for Manchester United?
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You talk about the big name, recognizable worldwide. I mean again,
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the New York Yankees and Manchester. Is that a fair comparison? Yeah,
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it is, it is. It's it's always hard, but I think that's
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about as close as you can get in American sporting terms. What is it
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like joining and arguably now not so much the results, but just the size
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of the club, the history, the stature, the commercialism. Arguably you
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know, still one of the top one or two teams in the world basically.
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But our friend is right. You know, the Arsenal fanilies right now,
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you know that they're not having the greatest of times, but you know,
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that does happen. But wow, you know, John joining a club
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like Manchester United as a sixteen year old. I look back now, I
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think about what did that do for me? Other than the obvious things.
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It gave me a real teaching and a grounding, and it helped to mold
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me into the person that I needed to become, not just to be a
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soccer player, but to hold myself and carry myself and carry the weight of
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being at a big soccer club and wearing the shirt of something of a club
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that is so iconic. As a young person, you soon realized, wow,
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I'm part of something that's a whole lot bigger than me here, and
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you have to represent it well. All right, So tell me about their
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stadium. How many people did that hold? The stadium as it holds at
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the moment is seventy six thousand people, and that's jump packed every game.
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Back to the chat room, there is a great team sport that teaches you
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about building character and building relationships with others. Boy, they definitely agree with
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that thought. Yeah yeah, without a shadow of it out. And it's
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not only just helped me in soccer. I mean, my career runted a
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long time ago, but I carried those principles and those habits with me through
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my life, through through business relationships, et cetera, and it's really stood
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me well. All right, Candy in the chat room sets, playing for
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the team you grew up with had to be special. I don't think there's
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anything better than joining your boyhood team because when I was a single digit ah
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kid, I used to walk to go see the games with my dad and
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my granddad. Wow. And and now my son lives over there, so
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he's now fourth generation man United soccer player. As soccer fans, so yeah,
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it really is. I mean, we don't want to be big headed
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about things, but if the question is posed, it's a massive honor to
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play for your hometown team, and it happened to be Manchester United. The
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one that you know was the my dad. By the way, my dad
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was there before I was as a young kid, just for a couple of
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years, so it was kind of passed down to me. It's in the
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blood you're born into it. It's in the blood. It's very strong,
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very powerful. Well, the way you're describing this, I mean, soccer
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reminds me of baseball, of being half some generation to generation because we all
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know in the States, obviously, how many times have you teen players who
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have played their grandfather's dead their kids are played. And I'm not going to
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get a listen name, but I'm drawing the similar comparisons here, Dame,
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with what you just mentioned. Yeah, and you know there's a statue right
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outside the ground and there are three players that have got their own statue,
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and that's George Best, Bobby Cholton and Dennis Law. I got Dennis Law's
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autograph. I wore his number ten Shire at school as a kid. Bobby
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Chauton used to come and train with us after he retired, but I was
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there. He would still join in and play. George Best left before I
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got there, but I was a ball boy before I joined the club full
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time, so I used to get shoulder to shoulder with those legendary names as
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far as soccer is concerned. Yeah, I saw somebody mentioned to that.
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Well, you know, Will Bobo seems to get the GMTA part like great
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mind stake alike jess in case I want to know the acronym, He's like,
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yeah, you obviously did. Go ahead. Didn't play with George Best
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is on our here with Mount Rushmore obviously, So you know, that's an
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incredible comparison. Back to the chat room, okay with Will, you might
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as well call him the unofficial co host of this show, because he's certainly
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doing a wonderful job. I watch Premier League every week. I like the
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I like ten plus jerseys, all right, that's pretty interesting. Old Trafford
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gets a crowd every week no matter how good the team is on a field.
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Emirates Stamford Bridge and hart Lane and he thoughts about that. Uh,
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he's one hundred percent correct, the loyalty of the fan base, which creates
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a lot of commercialism success even though they may be not all as successful as
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they would like to be on on the field right now, but the club
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itself is an absolute juggernaut. I mean, you know, you talk about
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they're talking about selling Manchester United. Someone was gonna buy it, and you
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know, there was all sorts of things going on recently and they were talking
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about four or more billion dollars to buy it and and a lot of those
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a lot of those soccer grounds that would be mentioned, their White Hart Lame,
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yeah being their arsenal. Didn't get a chance to go there. But
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yeah, in my fourteen year career, especially around the UK, I played
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a lot of those soccer grounds that are iconic that have been around a long
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long time. I mean it's special. It's special, and no doubt about
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that, especially over there as well, because of the culture. It's you
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know, it's a little bit different over here, but you're talking generations and
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generations and generations, and you're talking about soccer grounds there that have seen good
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times at bad times with most of the clubs. But the good old fashioned
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soccer stadium's soccer purpose built and they create atmosphere, the crowd on top of
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you, everyone's screaming at you. It's intimidating, but that's the challenge,
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and you know that's what you play for for that challenge. Another kind of
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word from wellogle that up before we move on here, mister Bradley. I'm
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so blessed to see you joined Scott that he meant to her mind. I
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love soccer Scott run's phenomenal YouTube channel with a variety of shows. So thanks
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Will for putting that out there. You're really a great Yeah, thank you
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very much. Too kind, way too kind. Yeah, Dave and I
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have been good friends for a while. I just thought that This was a
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perfect opportunity to bring him on, and I'm so thankful that he was willing
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to join us tonight. All right, Well, when we talk about iconic
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brands, Okay, since you live in Mammy, Ohio, and for those
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individuals that don't know much about Mammy, Ohio, suburb of Toledo, Ohio,
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right off of I seventy five, If that isn't good enough, that
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Toledo Mudd hadn't played there too. So with that said, okay, when
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Manchester United played at the Big House, okay, Michigan Stadium, you said
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you watch it from the stance and it drew a big crowd. Explain that
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experience. Yeah, I mean, first of all, it's my boyhood team,
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and I was a ball boy and I was there for four years and
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it taught me a lot. My dad was there. I minis you know,
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if I slit my wrists right now, yeah, red blood would come
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out, but red Manchester United blood would come out. I minis in my
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blood. I minis my DNA. Would you believe my son still lives over
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there? And would you believe my now twenty two year old daughter is moving
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from here to go and live in Manchester England right by the stadium in July.
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So yeah, it's pretty amazing. I don't know that I answered the
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question. Now, could you repeat that, Scott? Well, sure,
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absolutely, you're talking about an iconic venue, the Michigan Wolverine with the most
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iconic vennor the all time Division One winning team. Of course, it doesn't
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hurt. They won a national championship this year either, and they have a
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hundred and seven hundred ten thousand stadium. And I have amazing blue in my
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blood even though I graduated from the US Flora and I'm affiliated with others.
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So when you talk about Manchester United playing in an iconic venue at an iconic
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school, they had to send chills down your spine. Knowing that Manchester United
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down there and the Bigham in Michigan the b lockdown. To me, this
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is a lot. I mean, who would have thought that a few years
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ago that Manchester United would be playing literally forty minutes down the road from where
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I live and I would be joining one hundred and nine other thousand people just
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to watch a friendly game. It was even a competitive game, that's the
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popularity. In fact, my brother in law, who's now a man United
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fan, lives in Nashville, and he said, do you want to go
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to the game because I want to go and watch it? And I said,
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yeah, I'll go with you. So yeah, that's how we ended
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up at the game. Oh very good. So all right, let's go
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ahead and talk about Lionel Messy. It's impossible not to talk about this guy,
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you know, in his impact in the United States and playing for Inner
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Miami. And would you say, is he worth a big money even later
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in his thirties. The answer to that would be yes, okay, for
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the simple reason is when when when you're playing at any level of sport and
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you're gonna get and and you're being paid for that, you have to produce,
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whether that's X amount small amount of money or x amount bigger amount of
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money. In heath case, it's a bigger amount of money he's producing and
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they're not going to pay him that money and go out of pocket because they're
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given somehow through Apple TV and through other sponsors and getting creative, they found
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the money to pay him. Otherwise he wouldn't have come because he could go
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anywhere and go and go and get that money. Right. I think if
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nothing else, Scott, it raises the profile of the game in MLS in
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the USA to a whole new levels and it needed to go to another level
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since Beckham first came in who used to be in Manchester and added also long
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after me, but he came in and took the game to another level because
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he brought attention to it. And now Messi is taking it to the next
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level, ironically brought in to into Miami by David Beckham who partly owns into
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Miami aafter the chat room. Okay, well Vogel, I hope England gets
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a World Cup soon. With all Bradley question, what are your thoughts on
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the future of English national team soccer? Oh, this is a great question.
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I you know what, It's such a timely question because right now,
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for the first time, I would say that in the best situation as far
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as the team is concerned, the world clasp class players they have access to.
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The next World Cup is coming up in a couple of years time,
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but coming up right now this year is what they call the European Championships,
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where it's not the World Cup, it's the European teams without the South American,
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et cetera. And that's a big competition. Some say, it's even
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stronger competition than the World Cup, right, because the World Cup has got
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so many teams in it and it's a big commercial engine. But they have
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teams in there that probably, yeah, it's exciting for them to be there.
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But then they play the top teams, they get they get beat by
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too many goals and it's not competitive. So the European Championship is coming up,
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I believe this year, twenty twenty four in I want to say June,
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maybe July, it's going to be. It's going to be over in
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Europe. So to answer that question, I if England was ever going to
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win a major championship for the first time season nineteen ninety six, they have
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the best chance right now with the team they have all Right back to Vogo,
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Well this is an easy one, he's said, he's grinning from ear
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to ear. Well, you know what, Well, when you're asking the
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questions you asked, we're grinning from ear to ear that you know this much
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about the sport, which I think is a credit to the way a lot
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of things are done. Soccer, obviously, compared to American football, is
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a sport that you know, takes second fiddle here, but a few people
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realize that the amount of youth participation in soccer is much better and it's a
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much safer sport than American football. But we'll just talk about what Well's mentioning.
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Now, we'll get to that in the moment Messi's putting on the MLS.
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Matt Parry, go back to that again, Candy, that the best
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player in the world. My dad tells me stories when Pele came over to
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the New York Cogitos and the status. So you know what, Well,
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I can tell you that too, because I was old enough then. But
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y'all, Pele was unbelievable and that an outstanding comparison. This guy isn't just
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selling out. The teams are making a bundle of money off the ticket.
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I won't get into overseas stuff about the friendly he missed. That's not necessary
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for this particular show. But Messi's main responsibility is get ready for the MLS
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season. So why don't you address Little's question here in terms of how we're
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putting the MLS on the map. Yeah, it's just sheer profile that he's
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putting MLS on the map. I mean he's arguably now, I mean it's
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between Messian Ronaldo is who's the best player in the world, and it was
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it was to and froing between mission Ronaldo. Ronaldo was gonna off the raid
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out a bit because he's gonna Saundi Arabia and that's not a competitive league,
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even less so than MLS. And now Messi. Messi has taken over the
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mantle for sure of being the most influential soccer player in the world right now.
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When you bring in that kind of player at that skill set level,
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with the success that he's had and the consistency that he has brought to those
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performances over the years, that can only mean good things for MLS over here
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in the USA. Yeah, he's raised the profile one thousand percent. I've
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heard it on the streets, and I'm talking about when I get opinions from
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fans, Okay, Dave, and this is just fans of people that I
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follow on the South Order Tribute Broadcasting Network as well as everything we do,
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and a lot of people have told me that the MLS is like a minor
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league soccer. Do you agree or disagree with that assessment. I would have
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agreed with that assessment several years ago. I would say right now, in
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the UK they have like a structu pyramid system, and you got the Premier
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League, then you've got a league underneath that one, and then a third
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one, and a fourth one, and even a fifth one and a sixth
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one. So in the pyramid system over there, a team a team in
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the second, third, fourth, fifth, six whatever, and it's been
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done before. If they decide they want to grow and they want to try
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and get into the Premier League, they can do that because over there they
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have a promotion and a relegation every season. So if you do really well
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in the league that you're in, you can be promoted to the next league.
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That it's more commercialism, there's more money. You can then get better
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players, et cetera, et cetera. But equally so, if you don't
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do well, you can drop out to a lower division. And that's that
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That makes it very interesting because you can't be you can't be a Cleveland Browns
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and end up bottom with the ladder for five years or more and stay in
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the NFL in England. You'd you'd the bottom, would drop out and you'd
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have to climb your way back up. So it makes it really interesting exciting.
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The promo I understand in America why they maybe don't do that because of
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the size of it, the traveler's involved, the time zones, the different
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weather. The UK is a whole lot smaller, easy to navigate around,
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a whole lot more. But the promotion system, I do believe eventually MLS
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will have a promotion and a relegation aspect to the league. But I I
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believe the MLS, the top teams and the bottom teams, there's there's a
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there could be more parity than there is right now. But what in the
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world of emercialism. The moment you've got, the better plays you can go
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and get. I'm not gonna determine where you end up. I would put
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on the lands in UK terms, somewhere in roundabout the mid second tier slash
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the tier in the UK, which is nothing to be embarrassed about. Okay,
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we're gonna shift for a moment to American football, and then we're gonna
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end the show about the World Cup. Okay, two questions for American football.
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Number One, do you ever see the UK ever getting an NFL team?
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I know the Jacksonville Jaguars have played there a lot in there than most
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people, but this is a question if so many people ask me, and
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I don't think there's a better person on the planet to asking you that.
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Is it a matter of if, It's not a matter of if, it's
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a matter of when. Correct. Yeah, AFL Stiley lands in the UK.
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Yeah, you're right, Scott, it's a matter of when because the
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wild has become smaller place and we definitely are more global. We're more global
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than we ever were sport wise. I can I would I can flood you
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with I would say probably in somewhere around about five years, you might have
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a UK NFL team and that wall in the beginning consist of x NFL players
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that can't get into a big team over here if I had a good career
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but a little bit on the down swing over here. But they can definitely
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lend their experience and their knowledge to some of the younger players who are her
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are UK people who who want to play gridiron. Yeah, well, we
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do want to place. Really, we know the crowds are really received it
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well and with few people probably don't know, but maybe you and I do
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as well as the older generation. Many years ago they had the World League
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of American Football out there, and if it wasn't so expensive that rate.
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I still think the World League of American Football were being producing a lot of
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good players and I know a fair amount of people that actually work there.
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And you already have a stadium that's a relatively brand new stadium arguably probably the
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best one in the world that I think costs you know, well over a
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billion dollars or maybe even more. But Tottenham Hotspur, the team over there
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in North London, their stadium now, they built that so that they could
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host NFL games and have done that many times now. And they've got that
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system where they push a button somewhere and the soccer field kind of falls up
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and runs away on runners and they bring out the NFL field and the post
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and they put it up and there you go. You promote it, the
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people turn up, they're paying the money. The market is there, The
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market is getting ready for that. So yeah, it's a matter of time.
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You know, Well, you have two stadiums like the United States in
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Vegas and Phoenix, where you can move the stadium in and out to based
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on light and all that. But yeah, I've heard a lot of stories
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about that stadium. So let me ask you that if that's the case.
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Could you ever see the United Kingdom ever hosting a Super Bowl? You're talking
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about there's a big culture over here of football and super Bowl. I don't
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know that a super Bowl would fly in the UK. Maybe not in my
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lifetime, maybe at some point. But I think that's I think that's a
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way off. It's okay. I mean, let's say it's reality. There's
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perception that there's reality. The perception is be a good idea. The question
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is is it a reality? And when you get to our age and wonder
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if it will happen in our lifetime. Remember, you're talking to a guy
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who's been with the Detroit Lions a lot of years, and it's taken a
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lot of years before they got back to the NFC Championship game. And the
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last time that they ever won a championship, Dave, was on my birthday
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in nineteen fifty seven, five years before I was born. So there you
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go. So let's talk about all of that and put a perspective there.
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But again, I mean again, I don't think anybody in the United States
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when you talk about time as well as taking away from an American city,
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the amount of money loss. But I know that's a question that will be
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brought up as time goes on. And at least I don't leave any stones
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unturned, as you can tell in these particular shows, and you've been following
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a lot on my shows before you finally had the we had the ability to
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put you on here, so you know, obviously we'll Vogel brings up some
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points about Oliver and Andrew Love's dad being in the NFL Europe, which was
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true, and of course obviously well agree with me that the Super Bowl needs
27:51
stay in the US, but any agrees that it's way off when it happens,
27:53
So you know, so when we talk about that, so let's talk
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about why the United States has struggled in the World Cup. I mean,
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you would think that the MLS was brought in here, okay, to try
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to ridge that gap a bit, but it just doesn't seem to happen.
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I don't think the culture is caught up yet. I can see the USA.
28:21
I don't know about winning the World Cup that that takes. I mean,
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let's switch it around and you've got an NFL team that's in the UK.
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Could they ever come over here and do the opposite, like you know,
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to what you and I are talking about, right, I mean,
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I don't know how long is a piece of string. That's a hard one.
28:47
That's a hard one to answer. Yeah, I don't know. Well
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I think you know why it's such a hard one answer because they haven't solved
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this riddle for fifty to seventy years and we're still trying to figure it out.
29:00
So don't feel too bad. No matter how many coaches, managers,
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whatever you want to call these people, you know, they haven't saw that.
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Like a lot of teams haven't won the Super Bowl for many years.
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So but again, it's one of those types of things where you know,
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but let's just think about this way. Okay, let's talk about the women
29:18
for a moment. The impact here of a woman's World Cup championship. Can
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you imagine if the men's team won a world championship? And I'll even take
29:29
it a step further. Okay, the men winning a World Cup championship was
29:33
the equivalent to the Chicago Cubs winning a World Series in the Windy City since
29:38
it happened over one hundred years before it happened. So I'm trying to draw
29:44
parallel the two. And you know, we know al Michaels will never be
29:49
around when he called a miracle on ice, and I can only imagine what
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announce it will be around when this particular beach that it ever happened would do
29:59
it. But it's always wor putting it out there, especially with an individual
30:03
like yourself that knows English soccer better than anybody I know. I know a
30:07
guy that I work with for a period of time named Thomas Rongan who's doing
30:10
the announcing for Inner Miami and once upon time for Lotteral Strikers. Hopefully we'll
30:15
talk to him at some point, but these are hypotheticals and I want the
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one thing I want people to do here with the show is not only get
30:21
to know you, Dave, okay, but I want them to think about
30:23
soccer in ways that they never ever would. And I think it's important that
30:29
we It's about thinking and entertaining and inspiring and that's what we're trying to do.
30:33
Let me also point out some other information that their website www dot South
30:37
Florida Tribute dot com are Twitter slash acts informations at Tribute South. Katie Embling
30:42
behind the scene. I have a book out there that's written all over the
30:45
screen here called Lessons from the Microphone, Tuning into the enduring wisdom of visionary
30:49
leaders. It talks about old school media versus news school media. It's available
30:53
on Kindle and Amazon and work working in other sources to get there as well.
30:57
But the thing that's important here is a want people when they leave the
31:02
show can not only listen to it again, but think about the way this
31:04
is such an unbelievable sport when it comes to growth. It's probably the great
31:11
the biggest sport on the planet, but the most the biggest kept secret on
31:14
the planet in the United States. And I feel a lot of that is
31:18
attributed to the lack of success when on the biggest stage in that name the
31:22
World Cup. Yeah, and you know what, Scott, you said something
31:26
that I think kind of helps me help with the people to understand, Now,
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why do you have a USA women's soccer team that can win the World
31:37
Cup multiple times over but not the men? Right? I don't I don't
31:42
know what happened to create that, but the women. The women created a
31:49
machine, a mentality, an animalistic machine. They were tough, committed,
31:59
they believe they scared the living daylights out of the other teams because they were
32:05
so physical, they were organized, but just the whole emotional development and the
32:12
buying that they had I don't believe the men's team have had. Therefore it's
32:19
affected their success. So if you're the men's team, look look at the
32:24
mentality of the women's team over I don't know, fifteen twenty years. I
32:30
mean, they were cleaning up and it's not. Talent is never enough,
32:35
Scott, You know that, right, Not only do you have the talent,
32:37
you're got to have the application, and you've got to have the posture,
32:43
the belief and you could you can scare people before you even go out.
32:51
I can remember I can remember wearing a Manchester United shirt with a Manchester
32:54
United badge on. Or We always used to say that was worth a goal
32:59
start because he's scared the living daylights out of the other teams. It was
33:04
intimidating to them. And I think that's what the US women team created.
33:09
They created a culture that intimidated of the teams. You know what that's called
33:15
day they're in their heads psychology. Right, Once you're in somebody's head,
33:20
all of a sudden, the mental part begins to wonder if the physical part
33:23
will be on the same page and with the boat down on the same page.
33:28
It is called a developing dangerous situation. I'm gonna put one more comment
33:31
up from Will, and I'm gonna hit you with the most important question that
33:36
you will see in this entire broadcast, And for a lot of you folks
33:38
that are watching on YouTube, everything that I've mentioned is still at the bottom
33:42
of our ticker as well, so you know my book is on there in
33:45
the different places, as well as our relationship with some of our other affiliates
33:51
as well. So we'll go candy to Will and the friends part, and
33:55
then I'm gonna hit Day with the toughest question that he's gonna get hit with
33:59
all day long. I'm trying to get my friends to watch soccer, but
34:02
they're like, man, this is boring. Nothing exciting happens, and it's
34:06
a low scoring They're used to basketball football. But you know what, well,
34:09
that wasn't always a case many years ago that they had indoor soccer,
34:13
and that was actually pretty popular in the United States many years ago, but
34:17
it never caught on long term. I have had the question many times since
34:24
being here about sucker being boring. I kind of understand it in some way
34:31
because when you're born and you grew up in America, see, soccer is
34:37
a single goal game. You score a goal, you get one goal,
34:45
there's no like football. You get a touchdown, and then you want a
34:50
moxical to get well six points. Right. So I think sometimes in people's
34:59
heads to go well because I lost scoring game, Well, we only get
35:02
we only get one goal for scoring one goal. We don't get six points
35:07
for one touchdown, right, So I think you've got to compare apples with
35:13
apples a little bit. There just needs to be a shift in the way
35:17
we think. I mean, I had somebody close in my family while ago
35:21
talk said the same thing, soccer is boring, and I thought, okay,
35:27
so let's so. So this is the way I'm seeing football. Number
35:35
One, we call it football over here, and nobody kicks the ball other
35:38
than one guy who comes on three or four times in the game to kick
35:43
the ball once. Right, But we call it football, but no one's
35:46
using the feet. The next one is correct me if I'm wrong, But
35:52
statistically NFL is only live play out of a three hour telecast of about seven
36:00
to eight minutes of actual game time. Right, So if you're telling me
36:07
that sucker is boring. We don't have commercials. It's basically non stop.
36:13
A ninety minute game is a minimum a minimum of seventy minutes full on,
36:20
non stump. Yeah, football is seven to eight minutes. Now tell me
36:23
which one's the boring one. Well, the only house today is pretty hard
36:29
to argue against your logic. And I'm not even gonna dare trying to do
36:31
it. Although what I am going to dare to do is but Will's final
36:35
timing up and then I'm gonna hit you with a hard question that you have
36:37
to answer no if aans or butts about it. So before well said,
36:42
before I go, I want to thank you Scott and mister Bradley for doing
36:45
this very much. As you can tell, I enjoyed this very much.
36:50
And y'all have a last night and gods, well, well if we appreciate
36:53
you beyond So all right, everybody's been waiting for the hardest question of the
36:58
night, so I have to give it you. Okay, finally, Dave
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to find your biggest success as a person. Oh wow, that's that's so
37:07
easy, Scott. Well, I thought it was a hard question, I
37:12
know, and it probably was but I like to simplify things. That's just
37:15
the way I think. You know, if if you asked if you'd have
37:22
asked me this question when I was a soccer player, I would have said,
37:25
I hate being a pro soccer player. The percentage of people that become
37:30
a pro soccer player in the UK that make a good living out of the
37:36
game is around about zero point one percent of kids, so it's pretty competitive.
37:44
When I came out of soccer, I was and I retired out of
37:46
it. I went to do a bit of coaching. I was in New
37:49
Zealand, and eventually I thought I don't want to be involved in soccer anymore.
37:54
So I finished my playing career in New Zealand. And so my career
38:00
was good. And we're not talking on messy level here by any stretch of
38:06
imagination, but it was. It was good for me. And then the
38:13
hard thing. Back in those days, the money was great, but it
38:15
wasn't life changing money like you can. You can play soccer now and then
38:20
you can retire for the rest of your life as long as you don't waste
38:22
any money, which a lot of athletes do, right right, So then
38:27
I became an entrepreneur and I used some of the skills and I had from
38:31
soccer the mindset that the attitude, you know, the the ability to dream
38:38
and think big and apply yourself. But I had to learn and I set
38:43
a new skills that weren't available to me in soccer. So I had to
38:49
make that shift and learn a new set of skills to survive and do well
38:52
in business, which I did. In fact, I think and I was
38:57
probably more successful in business than I was as a hocer player when I look
39:00
back then, I moved to America, and I by default thought to myself,
39:07
you know what, I've got two young girls now going the kindergarten and
39:13
the early days of school, they were very young, single digit age,
39:17
and I thought, I want to be a full time dad because I want
39:21
to watch them growing up. What is the point in doing all this and
39:24
not being there for the kids and not being involved in their life so physically,
39:30
mentally, emotionally. I was there for my girls every single day.
39:37
So to answer the question, my biggest success in life, especially in today's
39:42
world, was raising two girls in a crazy world and raising them successfully where
39:50
they've become very confident, well rounded, very well put together, very well
39:54
emotionally developed girls and they now live in Alabama. But my biggest success,
40:01
and this is what I say to people's scup. If you want to know
40:04
what my biggest success was, the best thing you do is ask my wife
40:08
and my kids, because they'll tell you the truth. Well, you know
40:13
what, really, I could summarize it one word, botherhood. You accomplished
40:19
what you wanted on the field. You're well rounded with what you're doing anyways.
40:22
But yeah, the one thing you cared about is you took the ability
40:25
to come to America and you developed your You know, people like you that
40:30
take an interest in their kids. We don't see enough of these stories on
40:34
social media, and which is attributes to a lot of the bad things that
40:37
we see. So why do you think I don't know? You ever heard
40:40
of Vanessa Williams? Yes, yeah, you know. I took a page
40:46
out of her book when I asked you that question. You know what,
40:50
one of my favorite songs was Saved the Best for Last. So I decided
40:52
to take this question and save the best for last. And that's why you
40:57
now my goodness, Oh forget that, leave it alone. But I want
41:06
to tell your fatherhood and you know what not only you're a great father of
41:08
it, your good friend and folks, just to let you know, Dave
41:12
Bradley, this is the last time you've meant that guy. I'm planning to
41:15
bring him back if he wants to come back. You want to come back
41:17
in the future. Yeah, absolutely, all right. Well, the MotorCity
41:22
man Mouth and Day Bradley on The MotorCity man Mouth Show here tonight, Wednesday,
41:29
March sixth, twenty twenty four. Anything you want to add before we
41:34
close the show. I just want people to know that life can be difficult
41:37
sometimes and right now where you know we're we're in we're treading in waters right
41:45
now that you know we've not navigated before. But however, what Sucker did
41:50
teach me is dreams do come true, and dreams can come true for anybody.
41:54
You've just gotta want it badly enough and be willing to pay the price
41:59
and believe in yourself good things can happen. There you go, folks,
42:04
I give you a lot of reasons to rewatch the show. Number one,
42:07
you've probably learned a lot. Number two, I'm sure you're inspired. Number
42:09
three, you're going to see this guy again. Anyways, It doesn't make
42:13
any difference. Dave Bradley is everything I expected. I'm not being biased because
42:17
he's a friend of mine. But the one thing I will say this,
42:20
when I do bring on guests on these shows, as I screen them and
42:23
I qualify them very carefully, they have to fit the mold of what I'm
42:27
looking to do. Those individuals that have experienced a lot, whether it's success
42:30
or failure, but their ability to communicate and convey a message. And I'll
42:35
leave on this note, Okay, for a lot of folks that wonder about
42:37
my book, Okay, Lessons from the Microphone Tuning into the enduring wisdom of
42:42
Visionary Leaders, Old school media versus News will be available on Kindle and Amazon.
42:46
The lessons that you take from that whole thing is when you look at
42:51
a lot of people right here, is you can learn from people that you've
42:53
met and that you haven't met. And that's the most one thing that you
42:58
can learn. You know, he's not only learning for your successes, but
43:00
your failures. And I know Einstein failed a lot, but in the end
43:04
he was a success. And I believe that that's the one thing we're trying
43:07
to make sure everybody understands here and that's the whole purpose of this show,
43:10
and that's why it's been a tremendous amount of fun to be able to talk
43:15
to Dave. Also tonight at nine o'clock Eastern time, the sports exchanged with
43:19
myself, JB Ellis, George Ecorn, Jacob Chrisner, Candy Ebling will be
43:23
obviously producing behind the scene. But Dave, I got to tell you,
43:27
it's been an absolute blessing and I'm so thankful that we've been able to share
43:31
some time tonight, and I hope that you spread the word of the show,
43:35
let him know that we're looking forward to bring you on more times and
43:37
as evidence, you know, you're always going to pick up fans not only
43:40
with what you did in Manchester Night, but fans in life, and that's
43:45
what this platform is all about. So meanwhile, this concludes this edition of
43:49
the MotorCity mad Mouth Show. So on behalf of day Bradley. My name
43:52
is Scott Morgan, rot the Motor City mad Mouth himself. Thank you for
43:57
joining us on this show and we will catch it the next time. Change
44:00
is at nine o'clock eas Third time I lowed yeah, and again it wasn't
44:02
very loud yesterday but you got to make up for it a little bit today
44:06
because I'm only working on the Person two shows. Good evening, everybody,
44:08
catch it next time in the Motor City Bands show. Good Night Now,