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Canada make history at FIFA World Cup! Round of 16 Preview - Ep. 310 · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: It's Jacob Shaffle Books.
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  Speaker 2: Shaffle Bocks pull into the box headed to worry by
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  Speaker 2: ot Con hits you Stucky.
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  Speaker 1: Dock stops.
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  Speaker 3: Sixteen, an historic goal for Canada at the feet four
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  Speaker 3: World Cup in a storic episode here on the Couch,
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  Speaker 3: you guys, first time ever we get to celebrate one
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  Speaker 3: our one of our countries in a free World Cup
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  Speaker 3: knockout game. So we'll take that during the episode three
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  Speaker 3: hundred and ten past episode on the Couch, you guys, Johnny, Johano, Nicholas,
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  Speaker 3: who could follow us on all your favorite podcasting platforms,
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  Speaker 3: don't forget to hit subscribe on YouTube. Guys. How's it going.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty good?
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  Speaker 4: Pretty good?
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  Speaker 1: How about you? Guys?
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  Speaker 5: It feels weird to be talking the World Cup run
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  Speaker 5: the sixteen Canada, but you know what, it's like an
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  Speaker 5: excitse it's a historic it's a historic time for for
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  Speaker 5: all Canadians and we're we're happy to talk about it
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  Speaker 5: and then looking forward to the episode.
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  Speaker 3: If you would have told us in twenty eighteen that
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  Speaker 3: the first team that we'd be able to celebrate a
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  Speaker 3: knock good game during this episode, during this podcast run
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  Speaker 3: would be Canada later, you're crazy, man, let's be real.
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  Speaker 3: I new growing up. Look, none of us ever expected
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  Speaker 3: Canada to be in a World Cup unless they hosted it, right,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the fact that they qualified in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: two was cool enough. And the fact that they're hosting
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  Speaker 3: and advancing to around the sixteen advancing a knock you know,
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  Speaker 3: passing the knockout round is awesome. Look, guys, we started
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  Speaker 3: every episode, you know, with a new guest, like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: asking you know, what makes them passionate about soccer. But
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  Speaker 3: I think we should take a turn now what this
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  Speaker 3: means to you guys as you watched yesterday. If you
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  Speaker 3: guys don't mind, I'll take it off. Because watching it yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: watching that goal, the way I celebrated, the way I
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  Speaker 3: jumped that pride, I felt it took me back twenty
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  Speaker 3: years to watching Italy No. Six and it made me
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  Speaker 3: think of Tatia Australia, you know, round with sixteen, first
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  Speaker 3: knockout game. It's a team that Italy should have beat,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the struggling I know they had ten men
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  Speaker 3: at some point, Mat threats, he got the red. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, it gets to the nineteh plus plus minute,
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  Speaker 3: they draw the penalty. They draw the Yeah, they draw
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  Speaker 3: the foul, drawd penalty, Toti scores. Just that relief, right,
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  Speaker 3: it was that relief, like finally, and that's what that's
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  Speaker 3: what I felt yesterday. And obviously, you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: scinn to sing here and compare. So obviously Italy goes
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  Speaker 3: on to win the World Cup. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: Canada will do the same, but just that that pride
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  Speaker 3: for cheering for the Canadian national team, a team that
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  Speaker 3: ten years ago was in one hundred one hundred plus
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  Speaker 3: rankings of the FIFA Men's ranking. To just see guys
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  Speaker 3: that are from here, that you know, have grown up
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  Speaker 3: through the use systems here, whether it's see If Montreal
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  Speaker 3: or Vancouver White white Caps to see to see them,
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  Speaker 3: you know, achieve their dream now of Canada winning that game.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, one thing I thought, you know in
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  Speaker 3: the aftermath is like, you know, a lot of people saying, oh,
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  Speaker 3: this is huge for soccer in Canada, this is huge
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  Speaker 3: for the youth. I agree. I agree. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's going to make you know, like force
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  Speaker 3: kids or make more kids play soccer because it is
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  Speaker 3: the number one most most play sport amongst youth in
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  Speaker 3: Canada more than hockey. But I think it gives an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity for these youth to go out and look up
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  Speaker 3: to guys like Stevenostacio, Is Malconey, Nason Saliba, Jonathan David. Right,
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  Speaker 3: they don't have to look up to you mean, lamal
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  Speaker 3: To Jude Melliam anymore. They don't have to look up
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  Speaker 3: to Christiano Ronaldo. They can look up to these guys
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  Speaker 3: that are from these neighborhoods that are just like them.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the best part of seeing this team
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  Speaker 3: have success. And even yesterday, I know, I was walking
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  Speaker 3: here in Saint Lurai. You guys know how cultural, culturally
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  Speaker 3: diverse Sailorai is and we know here Montreal people have
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  Speaker 3: to put their car flags up, and you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: so used to everyone putting the flags up with their nations.
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  Speaker 3: And what I'm seeing more now is you know, one
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  Speaker 3: flag of you know, that person's home nation. And I
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  Speaker 3: want to fight in Canada and that's awesome. And even yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm in a park, have my Canada jersey on,
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  Speaker 3: and there's this kid playing soccer and he comes up
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  Speaker 3: to me and he's wearing a Brazil shirt and he
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  Speaker 3: comes up to me. He's like, oh, my dad has
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  Speaker 3: that jersey. I'm like, okay, cool, I continue Waki and
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  Speaker 3: I see I guess. I'm guessing it's it's his dad
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  Speaker 3: sitting on a bench and he kind of smiles me
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  Speaker 3: has the same jersey as I do. It gives me
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  Speaker 3: a thumbs up. I'm like, yeah, yeah, big one.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 3: Nice And it was just that moment. It's like growing
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  Speaker 3: up every time we'd watch the World Cup, guys, we
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  Speaker 3: all have our different you know, countries, teams to support,
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  Speaker 3: and now it's everyone's supporting the same team. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's the best part. You know, we'll talk about this after,
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  Speaker 3: but let's see how far they can go. But just
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  Speaker 3: to get to this stage and finally when it came
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  Speaker 3: in the World Cup, finally when a knockout game, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's amazing and it's that pride, that same thing that
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  Speaker 3: I felt twenty years ago for Italy. That's that's what
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  Speaker 3: it means for me, Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: You I mean, that's a very fair assessment, and I
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  Speaker 4: have to agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: Like look walking around and seeing like Canada flag with
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  Speaker 2: another nation on everyone's cars and whatnot is very nice
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  Speaker 2: to see. It is something different, and you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: something I honestly never thought i'd see. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: as the as the team has developed over the years
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  Speaker 2: and stuff, they gotten better and we've reached this point
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  Speaker 2: where you know, we have a competitive team and just
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  Speaker 2: getting to the knockout stage was a goal in itself.
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  Speaker 4: But now.
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  Speaker 2: Like they want a game in a knockout stage. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I know it's around a thirty two game, but nonetheless
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  Speaker 2: it's still a knockout stage game. So this team's first
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  Speaker 2: milestone was just to get passed, like just to get
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  Speaker 2: a win, sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Four years ago, get a goal.
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  Speaker 3: They did.
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  Speaker 4: This year was to get to get a point. They did.
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  Speaker 2: They gotta win, they made, they qualified from the group.
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  Speaker 2: They want a knockout stage game. It's it's something that
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're keep they keep on pushing moving the goal,
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  Speaker 2: but in a positive sense of like what their limitation is.
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  Speaker 2: And it's been nice to see this throughout the entire way.
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  Speaker 2: Now is it gonna last?
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  Speaker 3: Who knows.
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  Speaker 2: We stopped to play against the winner of Morocco or
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  Speaker 2: slash Netherlands. But you know, it's nice to actually, you know,
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  Speaker 2: have a team to feel like, you know what more.
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  Speaker 4: Than neutral for like it was yesterday. Don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I was excited when they scored and I was happy,
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  Speaker 2: still very I'm still proud. I'm Italian Canadian, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: still proud, and it was nice to see it. Nice
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  Speaker 2: to got to win a knockout stage. We haven't had
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  Speaker 2: that feeling on a long ass time, so it's nice
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  Speaker 2: to see that in a World Club game, in a
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  Speaker 2: World Cup game.
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  Speaker 4: So it's nice to see that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No, I always thinking, guys, I think now when we
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  Speaker 5: had Angelo on from Italians, now, this is this is
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  Speaker 5: going dating a couple couple of months now, probably when
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  Speaker 5: we had them on, and the whole potential, you know,
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  Speaker 5: Italy versus Canada, the whole potential of that happening right then.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we got pretty bashed in the comments for
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  Speaker 5: or what we had said on that episode.
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  Speaker 1: And listen, I still stand by those same thoughts.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, if those two nations will go go
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  Speaker 5: out of each other, who would you be supporting and West?
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  Speaker 5: And at the end of the day, I feel like,
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  Speaker 5: you know what the joy of twenty years ago brought
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  Speaker 5: for us. I don't think anything will probably trump that
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  Speaker 5: sporting wise, right in our lives. I always I can
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  Speaker 5: speak for myself. Is this a proud moment as you know,
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  Speaker 5: as an Italian Canadian or just as a Canadian. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 5: you know this is this is This is a tournament where,
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  Speaker 5: you know, like Johnny just alluded to, you know, a
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  Speaker 5: tournament of first, right, there's a lot there's been a
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  Speaker 5: lot of first that have been happy for for this
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  Speaker 5: team and Weston. At the end of the day, nobody
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  Speaker 5: expected Canada to be at this at this disposition, right, Like,
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  Speaker 5: absolutely nobody besides you know, the hardcore Canadian fans and
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  Speaker 5: even just you know, the people that are in this
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  Speaker 5: country that do have you know, other roots and uh
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  Speaker 5: and you know, jumped on the bandwagon right for for
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  Speaker 5: the tournament. And you know, Sid said it a lot,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the likes of Christian Jack and and and
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  Speaker 5: those types of figures, you know, jump on the bandwagon
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  Speaker 5: like this team needs it. And what I like about
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  Speaker 5: the team is that you know, it's it's it's it's
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  Speaker 5: a team that's you know, you're able to kind of
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  Speaker 5: you know and also cucia to say, but kind of
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  Speaker 5: like fall in love with the team and really have
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  Speaker 5: a reason to root for them, like they're they're you know,
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  Speaker 5: they're likable people, they look like they're good people, good players.
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  Speaker 1: The quality is there.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, I think we're never gonna I don't want to
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  Speaker 5: say never, but it's going to be a stretch toc
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  Speaker 5: kind and get to the levels of you know, the
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  Speaker 5: Europe and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But just the strides that this.
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  Speaker 5: Nation has made is is incredible. You know, being able
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  Speaker 5: to host games in this country is something Again, you
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  Speaker 5: would have spoken to us five, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago,
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  Speaker 5: we would have been like, what we're going to host
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  Speaker 5: World Cup games? Like that didn't even seem like a possibility, right,
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  Speaker 5: So just just the overall you know, unity I think
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  Speaker 5: in this country has in a big, a big plus
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  Speaker 5: in my opinion, because in a world you know that's
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  Speaker 5: so negative, uh, you know and divided, I think something
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  Speaker 5: like this is you know, it's called the beautiful game
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  Speaker 5: for a reason, right, And and you know these moments
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  Speaker 5: that you see online or that you that you that
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  Speaker 5: you share with you know, your loved ones or your
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  Speaker 5: friends or whoever it may be complete strangers even you know,
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  Speaker 5: it brings you together and and and that's what it
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  Speaker 5: should be about. So that's one thing I would say
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  Speaker 5: I do like and I have been loving, uh with
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  Speaker 5: with this, with this uh this run for Canada.
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  Speaker 1: And listen, no matter what your biases are and your
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  Speaker 1: opinions are, root for this team. Uh.
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  Speaker 5: They have they have, you know, something, they have a
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  Speaker 5: swagger to them, they have something about them that you know,
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  Speaker 5: you're like I said earlier, you're just able to kind
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  Speaker 5: of even if you don't even if I don't know
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  Speaker 5: how to say it, but like even if you feel like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, like, oh why am I rooting for them?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 5: They just bring something different that we have not seen
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  Speaker 5: ever uh in in this program. Right, So I think,
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  Speaker 5: just the improvement and I know we'll get you know,
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  Speaker 5: we'll get out, like along with many other topics, but
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  Speaker 5: just the improvement and the growth I think has been
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  Speaker 5: just amazing. You know, from nineteen eighty six, You think
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  Speaker 5: the guys from nineteen eighty six were thinking this.
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  Speaker 1: Would be possible all these years later. I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: Even the people in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 5: Probably didn't think this would you know, be possible to
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  Speaker 5: see that you know, this team uh you know go
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  Speaker 5: tour toe with you know, you know some of the
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  Speaker 5: I said, they haven't really faced a giant yet. But
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  Speaker 5: you know, to tow against you know, some pretty strong nations,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and if it wasn't for you know, certain results,
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  Speaker 5: could have even finished first in the group.
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  Speaker 1: Right and you know, falling where they where they fall
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  Speaker 1: into and.
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  Speaker 5: You know, advancing pasted around the thirty two match into
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  Speaker 5: the around the sixteen in the World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, we're not talking about Copa America. We're not talking
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  Speaker 1: about Gold Cup. We're not talking about.
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  Speaker 5: These these I don't quote unquote lesser tournaments.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're talking about the FIFA World Cup and
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  Speaker 1: Canada's in the last sixteen of that.
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  Speaker 5: That's something none of us here and I don't think
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  Speaker 5: anybody listening that is a supporter of this national team.
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  Speaker 5: But have ever thought so just in that in its
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  Speaker 5: own I think is a is you know, is a
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  Speaker 5: chapel moment for for the nation. And yeah, I know
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  Speaker 5: we have a lot more to talk about, but I
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  Speaker 5: think that's what kind of it means. I think as
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  Speaker 5: a as as a as a supporter, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: you you want to go out and buy the merch,
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  Speaker 5: you want to go, get the jersey, you want to go,
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  Speaker 5: you know, put the flag out, you want to go
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  Speaker 5: do these things and you know, this is not something
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  Speaker 5: we grew up with, you know, Italy and then Italy
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  Speaker 5: national team will always, at least for me I can
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  Speaker 5: speak for myself, will always be number one. But it
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  Speaker 5: feels nice that we can we can kind of fall
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  Speaker 5: back in this Canada team and and and actually.
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  Speaker 1: Be proud and have something to turn on the TV for. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So not only is that gonna do that for this
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  Speaker 1: generation of of of adults.
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  Speaker 5: But I think it's gonna do it for the for
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  Speaker 5: the next generation of kids that are growing up here
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  Speaker 5: in Canada, because that you know, five, six, seven, eight
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  Speaker 5: year old kid that uh, you know is just you know,
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  Speaker 5: starting to grow up and and uh and dive.
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  Speaker 1: In the world of of of soccer.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they see these moments, you know, uh, they're
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  Speaker 5: they're they're gonna want to replicate that, right, They're gonna
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  Speaker 5: want to put the number seven you stock you on
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  Speaker 5: the back of his shirt and and try those things
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  Speaker 5: in the park with the friends. These things they sound
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  Speaker 5: like cliche and movie movie type of things, but these
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  Speaker 5: things will happen in this country and it's it's amazing
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  Speaker 5: to see and uh, you know, we hope for for
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  Speaker 5: many more, many more successes.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, into the into the future.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well said We'll said both of you guys.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, listen, I do want to talk about tactics
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  Speaker 3: and lineups and all that. But one thing you talked about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, liking the team. They're all lovable guys. I
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  Speaker 3: just want to say is Melcone. Our heart goes out
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  Speaker 3: three of us. Look, we've cheered for him ever since
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  Speaker 3: he started with the Impact. You know, you guys remember
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  Speaker 3: we went to go watch that game at the Olympic
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  Speaker 3: Stadium where like, Hey, who's this kid. He's pretty good
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  Speaker 3: and we've cheered for him ever since. Look, we don't
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  Speaker 3: know him personally obviously, but we know Roco and he
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  Speaker 3: knows him pretty well. And when when that happened against Guitar,
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  Speaker 3: like I I I'll admit like I didn't cry, but
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  Speaker 3: I got emotional. It affected me a like he's the
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  Speaker 3: last person that deserves that type of injury and you
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  Speaker 3: just feel so bad for him, and you saw it
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  Speaker 3: on everyone's faces, right, And you know, I also want
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  Speaker 3: to say, his reaction to it is it's it's beautiful
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  Speaker 3: to see and we're cheering for him at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day. You know what I read online like
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  Speaker 3: when it's a bone break like that, it's better than
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  Speaker 3: having like an acl tear. So hopefully he'll be back stronger. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of members of the team knows what it's
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  Speaker 3: like to have a broken leg, but we know he'll
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  Speaker 3: be back stronger. Uh so forts is Mael. But yeah, guys,
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  Speaker 3: I do want to talk about tactics because look four
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  Speaker 3: four two, this is what Canada has been playing with.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if if there's things you guys think
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  Speaker 3: Canada has done that have had success, if there's things
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  Speaker 3: that you saw maybe against South Africa that you'd like
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  Speaker 3: to see improved coming up the next game, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: the Netherlands or Morocco. Because I'm gonna be honest, I
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  Speaker 3: I do think the team they are, there are aspects
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  Speaker 3: they could be better. We know that, right uh and
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  Speaker 3: you know the fact that Dave's coming back with Beatles
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  Speaker 3: coming back you know, to one hundred percent form. I
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  Speaker 3: do think they're getting healthy just at the right time,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I wonder how maybe Jesse marsh is
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  Speaker 3: gonna deal with that. I don't know if there's things
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  Speaker 3: you've got you guys have seen in these games that
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  Speaker 3: maybe you think they could be better at m as well,
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  Speaker 3: just start with Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: We could definitely be better at at sub subbing choices.
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  Speaker 2: One thing that I was really critical on yesterday day
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  Speaker 2: was the subbing of Nico Sigoor. I tweeted about it.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like ever since he came on for a Bombindo,
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  Speaker 2: like he was a negative aspect for the roster, Like
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  Speaker 2: every ball that went to his way was like a
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  Speaker 2: dead ballplay three fouls, one leading to a yellow card
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  Speaker 2: and he got subbed on. And this first yellow was
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  Speaker 2: almost like five minutes ten minutes in of him being
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  Speaker 2: subbed on.
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  Speaker 6: So definitely a player that was a risk factor.
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  Speaker 4: Now is was it just because he had a bad game?
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  Speaker 2: Remains to be seen, but you're in a position where
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  Speaker 2: you can't risk that anymore. And if his and like
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  Speaker 2: at the start of like the tournament, right, remember we
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  Speaker 2: had our first episode about it. I'm like, one thing
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: I really want this team to show is maturity, you know,
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: to show composure, to show you know, especially after two
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: years ago, last year or two years AGO's performance. You know,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: like I keep on mixing up my dates, but you
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: know what I mean. Or it's like they had the
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: shoffle Ber gets that red cart in the middle of
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: the game and costs basically Canada their Copa America.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: It was a Copa America Gold Cup, Gold.
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: Cup, run Cup.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I wanted to see, and that's a
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: demonstration of not showing that. Besides that, I think keeping
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Davies towards the end was a very very smart play
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: by them. I think like like the last fifteen minutes
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: plus whatever time came afterwards, was very effective. If he's
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: able to push for more, push for more, Maybe do
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: him for the next last twenty to thirty minutes. Now
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: see what he can do, because the moment he came
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: on to the pitch, the offensive pressure that Canada applied
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: was so significant. They applied a lot of pressure to
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: the entire game. Like if if we're talking matter of fact,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: it was all Canada, the whole game is just they
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: weren't clinical in the final third, and that's something they
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: need to work on as well. But right now, in
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: my personal opinion, uh, just Cigar probably not.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: Really sub them on.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Davies, try to use them earlier and just be more
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: clinical in the final third is something that I think
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: should be worked on. In terms of being a four
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: four two. It's not so bad. I think it's it's
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: it's been good. I don't really see much much much
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: reason for it to be changed at the moment. I
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: think it's a pretty safe formation.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Listen, I think there's the four fourth two was expected.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: We've seen this out of Canada for for a while.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: And and it's a flexible formation that you know, with
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: the players that they have, you know, especially on the
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: wing backs and or the full backs rather and just
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: you know some of these other you know positions, they're
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: they're able to kind of intertwine and and that four
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: fourth two might not really stick to a traditional four
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: fourth two the whole time throughout the game.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: So that's what I kind of like about you know,
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: the team. I think they are flexible, uh in pretty
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: much you.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Know, all the roles. Listen.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: I don't want to harp on the defense, but I
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: would I don't know, I would like, just like, are
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: we playing Bombito? Are we getting him back in? Are
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: we starting the fuge role? We know he's gonna stick
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: with Cornelia is for that left foot because you know, uh,
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: that seems to be uh, that seems to be a
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: thing in in the world of football, right, you have
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: to have one left footed center back and one right
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: footed center back.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: But I think the kid, uh the has been has
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: been really good.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Uh he's he's shown a lot of a lot of promise, uh,
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: you know, at only twenty years old. So I think
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: that's a plus. I want to see Bombito in there. Obviously,
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: again we're biased, you know, we said it with Cone.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Uh you know, our bias for for for him. But
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: you know, even even a guy like Bombito, you know
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Montreal guy, right, we want to see him in the
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: lineup and we want to see him get back to
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: you know, his full potential. So I would like to
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: see you know, those two guys in the rotation. It's
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: going to have to probably be on or the other
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: un four changes because of Cornelius his experience and that
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: left foot you know, uh, you know, ballpoint center back.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: But we have to be careful defensively because you know,
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: in the Switzerland game, we got caught, you know, we
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: got caught defensively and they had they had a bit
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: of a lackwester game. If if if I'm honest, the midfield,
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: I think even with the Coney loss, and I'm again still.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Devastated about that.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: You know, I said said that he was going to
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: be the X factor for this team, and you know,
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: barring the injury, he was gonna he was going on
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: his way to be that, you know, man of the
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: match in the first game, and he was. He was
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: having a pretty good game up until the injury in
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: the second match against Guitar. But I think Saliba again,
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: another another local guy for us. Saliba has been has
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: been amazing, uh stepping into the you know, there was
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: a big shoes to fill, you know, right, He's many
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Canadian shows, those are those are big shoes to fill,
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: and I think Saliba has done a good job in
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: that role next to Uh, next to Ustacio. Again, I
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: didn't think we would bring on a Galleic Sigur because
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: we haven't really seen him in this tournament all too much. Uh.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: I guess you know, with the with the injury to
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: to Cony, what are the options after? You know, you
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: think of a guy like Ozorio right as another option
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: off the bench in the midfield. He hasn't really, I
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: don't think, touched the pitch at all in this tournament,
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: so it seems like I guess it would be a
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: weird one to throw him in there.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: But I think, uh, the biggest thing, and.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Johnny kind of alluded to her a bit, is the
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: final third. This is a this is an aspect in
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: this Canadian team that I think they need to clean up.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: There's too many chances that are being created, uh and
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: no finish with.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: The end product.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: This is something that we never thought we would have
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: this problem of creating all these chances as a Canadian
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: national team. But here we are, and we're creating the chances,
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: and we're getting in dangerous opportunities and unfortunately we're not
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: putting them all, if not most, in the back.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Of the net.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: So I think that's something to to to look at.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: You know, he's he's kind of switched the forward line
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: almost every game. The only mainstay has been obviously Jonathan
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: David up there. So we've seen tany Olosh, we've seen
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Kyle Larren, we've seen a bit of promise David, and
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: we're still not sure who's going to start next game.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Like if we're talking tonight, like and we talk guys,
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: who do you think is going to start in the
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: India talk for for for this weekend against either Morocco
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: or or the Netherlands. We don't have an answer because
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: it's been so lackluster in terms of who's starting, who's
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: going to come off the bench?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's starting tany Oh but Laren scored you know,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: two goals. Oh, you know, and.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: It's like a bit of this limbo land of the attack.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: So I would personally like that to get figured out. Listen,
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: it's bars all the way to hear, even though it's
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: been a bit of a chaotic mess. So that's that's
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: obviously still a positive. But let's let's figure that out.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Let's bring on these maybe these attacking substitutions on maybe
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: a bit sooner and you know, go for it. Besides that,
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: a player that I don't want to harp on but
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: he needs to wake the fuck up is is Tejon Buchanan.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Because this is a guy this and all the talent
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: in the world. And it's not to hate on him
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: because he's a fantastic player, barring the fact that he
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: went to play for intere but we need Tejon Buchanan
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: at his best. He's looked okay in some of the
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: matches in the group stage and against South Africa, but
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: we need him, you know, at his top level, producing
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: a lot more than what he has which is pretty
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: much nothing so far in the tournament. We're rooting for him,
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: we want him to do well, but he needs to
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: he needs to take that position by the horns. And
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: you know, in the fifteen minutes and it's that he
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: got stopped off in the seventy fifth minute. Davies comes
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: on in the seventy fifth minute, Davies who hasn't played
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: in fifteen fucking months, and he outshined Tejon Buchanan, who
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: played a whole seventy five minutes prior to that before
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: coming off.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: So that should tell you something.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Granted, you know, we kind of hold Davies to a
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: higher standard than maybe Buchanan in terms of how important
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: and how talented and how skillful that put those players are.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: But nonetheless, Tejon has to step up, and I hope
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: he puts something, you know, something together for the match
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: of this Sunday.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: But you know, besides all those.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Things, I think, you know, we kind of touched upon
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: a lot of things there, but it's those are the
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: aspects that I would say are the biggest thing. And
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: just another chopo to Mad Max between the pipes, as well.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Krip Pol has been unbelievable as well. So another local
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: guy for.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Us, and he's just been a you know, a rock solid.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Despite some of the maybe the goals that he went in,
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: but he's been he's kept us in the game, you know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: throughout throughout the tournament.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, as a ghost. That was a coaching decision that
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Jesse March one hundred percent got right. And I don't
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: want to repeat anything you guys said. I think, uh,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: you know, in terms of tactics, it's not like Canada
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: has a ton of depth, especially with the injuries. Look,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: you know one thing I'm gonna bring up. You talk
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: about Buchanan, I'm gonna talk about the other side. Uh
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Leam Miller, I'm not. I'm really not a fan of his.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: I felt like yesterday there was times he was trying
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: to do too much, not to pass it, he didn't
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: pass it quickly enough, or he held onto the ball
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: too long. Though I would say, yeah, yeah, because saying much.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: But he's been a bit better than.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: And I was a bit surprised that Liam Miller started
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: because Ali Ahmed started I think the last two games,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: and he's he's solid. He's not you know, this wonder
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: kid or whatever. He's not gonna even.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Shot man even shot he shot, comes on and he
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: go get a good shift.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. I like the way he played. I know, John,
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: you talked about him, you know in our preview episode
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: preview episode, Jacob Schaffelberg. So I wonder if they're gonna
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: change that up. I would be in favor of putting
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: in Ali Imed in the next game, whether it's Morocco
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: or Netherlands, because maybe want a bit more responsibility, defensive responsibility.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: But you know, once you get the green light for Davies,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: no matter how many minutes he plays, you put him
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: on no matter what. And it's nice that they played.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: They have six days off before the next game, so
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: that's definitely a plus. And like you guys said, Davies
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: coming on look fantastic. In terms of strikers. I actually
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: really liked Anny yesterday goin in South Africa. His speed
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: was just something else. It's something that both larn and
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: promised David don't bring the both kind of similar players
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: between promised David and Carl Lyron. And look, I'm gonna
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: be honest, Jonathan David, I think it is fair to
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: expect just a bit more from him. I know at
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: the end of the day he is reliant on service.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: There was one play where he should have taken it
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: first time in the first half. He didn't held on
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: it got blocked. There was another chance once Davie's came on,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: where it was a good chance by David and it
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: was a good safe. But in terms of tactics, I
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: think whether it's Netherlands or Morocco, it could almost play
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: to Canada's advantage in that they're a good counter and
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: tacking team. We know that they're a good team that's
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: good at the press and good to counterattack that South
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Africa didn't afford them. Right, guys, yesterday's game South Africa
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: is playing for your penalties all ninety minutes. One of
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: the most boring tactical games we've ever watched period.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: The goaliad made not like eighty five passes, set our
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: new World Cup record for most passes by any player.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: That's all they were doing. And you know, a certain
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: point in Canada just said, okay, you guys could keep
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: passing around the ball. And I did find Canada struggled
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: a bit to get into those scoring chances. Look they
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: did have Mois Bombido on the corner, you know, stop
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: the line. I think they definitely dominated the set pieces,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: but for sure, that's also I was so happy that
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Stacia scored just to finish the game, no extra time,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: no penalties, because going to penalties would have given South
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Africa life. Right, we knew Canada deserved to win. They
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: were the better team all game. So for sure, the
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: game against Morocco or Netherlands, it's gonna be a very
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: different game again than against South Africa. I expect more,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: you know, similar game to Switzerland. Let's be real, Canada,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: besides an eight minutes span where they allowed two goals,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: they were good, right, It was a decent first half,
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: you know, once they allowed those two goals. Yes, Switzerland's
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: had back and you know allowed Canada to have a
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: bit more chances, but they were a couple hitters away
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: from from tying it too. So you know, it's hard
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: to preview a you know, the round of sixteen game.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Obviously it's gonna be tough whoever it is. Morocco Netherlands,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: they're really good teams, right, these are two top ten
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: FIFA teams. But at the end of day, Canada is
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: gonna have a chance, just like any other team in
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: the knockout seage Look power why Ti Germany and then
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: beat them on pellies, right. Uh So maybe Canada could
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: use some inspiration from that, but for sure they need
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: to use their momentum. And I do trust Jesse Marsh
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: in that regard. I think that he's a great tactician
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: as well as a great motivator. Motivator, so I'm excited,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: uh for that game. You know, one thing I wanted
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: to ask you guys. I know we kind of brought
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: it up some names, but do you guys have like
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: most you know, most surprising player, maybe Canada's best player
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: versus Kenda's disappointing because for me, Canada's best player. I'm
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: gonna go ahead and actually say Alistair Johnson he's just
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: been the most sorry, you know, he's just but yeah, yeah,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: you know, sometimes with defenders it's better not to talk
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: about them, right, because he's not making mistakes and he
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: is driving the play as well. It was one of
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: the goals against against Guitar that he started along with
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Buchanan on the side. I think it was one of
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: David's goals goals and I'm a huge man of Johnson
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: ever since you know, he played here in Montreal. Him
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: he seems like an amazing guy, uh, you know, very
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: good team leader as well, and just the consistency. I
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: think he's played every single minute, if I'm not mistaken,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: and even yesterday, you know, everyone's getting tired, this guy
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: is still sprinting up and down the wing. And I'm
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: a huge fan of Alistair Johnson. I think he's been
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: you know, Kenna's best and most consistent player, and for
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: most disappointing, I think it Buchanan is the obvious answer,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: you know, I yeah, I think I'll go with Buchanan
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: and sorry, one name, I'm gonna throw it. Maybe you could,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: maybe I'm gonna take back Johnson. Then more surprising at
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: least I watching that kid play that that kid we
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: need to test him for Italian DNA, honestly, because the
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: way he the way he plays defenses, he's so solid,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: he's so good, and I was a bit disappointing when
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: he didn't start yesterday. I understand you want to get
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: that left foot in Derek Corneelius, but uh, you know,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: at this point it's clear it to three man rotation
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: and the twenty years old. He's been definitely been a
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: great surprise for Canada.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Another name I would probably throw in there and been
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: with the program for a little bit, and I had
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: to step up with with you know, our best player
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: on the sidelines throughout you know, throughout the group stage
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: and up until you know, this game in around the
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: thirty two for against South Africa.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: But I think, uh, more or.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: Less consistent, I would say, and if not, you know,
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: above expectation, Richie Larrea on the on the left flank,
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: I think has has put in some good shifts.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: You know, a player, like I said, who had to
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: fill in the shoes of you know, somewhat of the
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: shoes of of of Alfonso Davies because it's nobody can
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: really you know, fill in his shoes. It's like saying,
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: let's go fill in messy shoes. It's not going to happen, right.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: But I think Richie Lorea has been you know, positive
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: pretty much every every game he brings. He brings an
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: edge that some of our players don't. How this guy
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: hasn't gone a red card in his career is absolutely
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: beyond me. This guy is talk about instigator like and
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: and standing up for the team and and you know,
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: really being proud and and and and going for it.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: You know that embodies everything that you know Laray is about.
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: So I would throw his name in terms of I
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: don't know about surprises because you know, he has been
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: with the program for a big he knows, you know,
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: what it is to to to play for Canada and
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: what to it is to be on this stage. But
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: just again just having to be put on the left link,
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: you know, doing what is told, you know, putting.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: In pretty solid shifts every every game.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: Almost scored a hell of a goal in the group
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: stage as well, you know obviously you know, off the
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: bar and off the line and all that.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: But just I think his his he hasn't really been
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: spoken about it.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: I feel like not many people have been really speaking
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: about Larraya. But Lowki I found he's been pretty pretty solid,
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: to be fair. The defensive line, even though I said
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: could always be better, they've been not bad like all
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: as a unit, you know, despite the injuries, despite you know,
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: Cornelie is having a having a.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Funk up here or there, they've been quite solid.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: But I think just you know, another another obvious one
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: besides what I said, earlier about you know about about Cripple,
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: because I think Cripple has been been a huge, huge,
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: a huge player for us in this tournament between the sticks.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: But it's a Homer pick and it's an obvious pick.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: But you know, Stephan Ustakio, man, he has to be named, Like,
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: we cannot go out in this episode and not name
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: Stephan Ustakio like he has been.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: We knew he was gonna be one of our better players.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: We knew he would be getting, you know, called upon
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: and trusted upon heavily in this tournament.
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: The whatever the behind the scenes was of him not
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: starting the game against Switzerland and then coming on, and
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: we saw the impact that he had when he came
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: on and.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Apparently he wasn't fit.
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: Apparently he was he's still still nagging something, but he
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: ended up coming in and we instantly saw what a
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: difference you know, he he brought on on that game.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: So plus plus he got a knock in the head,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: in the head too. I don't know if you guys saw.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: The bum Yeah the game, yeah against South Africa, Yeah,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: exactly right.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: So but I'm even saying in the in the Switzerland game,
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: you know, going into this game, right, we saw what
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: it was like without him in the midfield, and we
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: saw him with him in the lineup in the midfield,
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: and it was you know, almost night and day of
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: of of how the team ran and how the team operated,
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: uh in these matches.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: So Stephan Newstack you I mean, hats off shot.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: Po Uh, you know, all the all the all the
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: good things to him, because he's just been he's just
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: been that guy, uh for for Canada and and and
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: you know, I didn't realize you know, the whole backstory
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: of behind you know, you know, in his personal life.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: But man, losing both parents within was it thirteen fourteen,
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: fifteen months whatever it was mother first, uh, you know
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: to uh to to cancer and his father on you know,
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: with an unexpected heart attack. And he's still what late,
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: he's around our age you know, give or take, you know,
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: in our in our age range, right, he's exactly ninety six,
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: So ninety six, right, he's in our in our age bracket.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: And it just like I can't think of those things, right,
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: you know, losing both parents and having to go still
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: you know, provide and do all these things. And I
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: think that takes a lot of courage. The celebration. You know,
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: obviously was was great. It got brought up in the
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: interview UH on TSN and our feed, so we got
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: to hear these things. Some people were saying, maybe I
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: don't know why that got brought up. Listen, he held
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: himself really professionally. I love the answer. You saw the emotion,
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: you know, the tears right and you know somewhere, you know,
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: somewhere they're looking down and absolutely proud of of what
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: he's accomplished and what he continues to do for Canada.
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: So I just wanted to shout out him because you know,
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: we always say on this show, you know, games are
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: won and lost in the midfield and the and you
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: know the midfield is the engine of of of teams,
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: of clubs, of international teams of whatever.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: And he is that guy for for Canada. So yeah,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: big shout out.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: Besides you know the areas, the crepoles, the guys you named,
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: stephan U Stockiel definitely needs needs a shout out as well.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah for me, like I said before, Alistair Johnson, like
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: the guy's been a rock in the back. He's been
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: somebody consistent, somebody that we can depend on, someone that
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: we don't have to worry about when the balls in
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: his neighborhood. And that's something that especially when you're a
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: smaller footballer nation like Canada in terms of like let's say,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: accolades and like.
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: I guess, placement in the world. It's nice. It's nice
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: to see and I think you said it best. If
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: he's not being talked about, that means it's a good
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: thing because he's not being noticed. He's doing all the
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: things quietly.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: One player that I want to be better, I wouldn't
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: say he's the biggest disappointment, but another name I want
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: to throw in just just to be better is Jonathan David.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: He's he can be that guy like he definitely has that.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: And it's not just him, it's like just the strikers
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: in general have been having a rough time. You know,
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: besides the six to zero win against Katar, right, it
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: hasn't been offensively juggernaut games. And even at six zero
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: win versus Guitar, it's like double rick card. You know
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: what it's gonna it's it's gonna come, you know what
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. So, Kyle Aaron did score, John David did score.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Promise David had that that great goal too, but like
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: I want my strikers to be better. I want I
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: want my strikers to be better, and but he's the
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: one that is. I guess you can, I want say
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: more experience, because Kyle Laarron is definitely more experience. But
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: he is definitely the.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Guy that.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: We have the big circle on in terms of strikers
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: because he plays in Italy, he plays for a very
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: big club, you know, like he has a lot of
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: like European experience.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: You know, he's he's the.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: All time winning goals scorer for Canada. Exactly, you have
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: to step up.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: It's you play against this tough, these tough competitions. You
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: play against these tough, tough and top teams in the world,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: so you're capable, you.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Know what I'm saying.
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: Like it's you could say service is an issue.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Probably so, but it hasn't been like as if our
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: midfield's been horrendous either. You know, it's just it's been
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: an issue. Like I said that we talked about earlier before.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: It's just the struggles in the final third. So I'm
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: not I'm not trying to throw Johnason David under the
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: bus because it is most of the strikers in general
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: that are struggling the most. It's just he's priority number
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: one because he should be our first resource for goal scoring.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: But you know, who knows, maybe the next game he
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: probably gets a very serious opponent, no matter whether it's
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Morocco or Netherlands, might be a game where he elevates
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: himself and he manages to, you know, surprise a lot
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: of us, because right now he's really not beating the allegations,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: and I want him to beat those allegations.
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: The one thing I would add to that, Sorry, I
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: don't want to cut you off, Nick, is we eliminate
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: that that Quitar match, that hat trick, you know for
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: the World Cup and great, great accomplishment like this is
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: that's incredible, like I never again another thing that we
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: never thought would we would see. But you wipe that out,
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: and he hasn't done anything else. He hasn't scored at
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: all besides those three goals, right, so you eliminate that
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: one game. And I know we're playing you know, Monday
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: morning quarterback, and you know the what ifs and and
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: all that, but just put in your head, like we
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: don't demolish Qatar and he doesn't get those chances and
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: he doesn't score those goals, what has he done in
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: the tournament so far? So that's a worrisome thing for me. Again,
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: another player for this national team in in club play,
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: we can say what I hopefully doesn't score for club
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: but because he plays for you of it, but joking
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: his side, for Canada, he needs to score. He needs
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: to be able to to to be that guy. To
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: Johnny's point, So yeah, I think that the standard is
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: a bit higher, the bar is set a bit higher
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: for for a guy like that because pretty much everybody else,
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: for the most part, besides the guys that we need,
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: you know, the Tejon's, you know, the William Millers or
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: what have you, have have performed to the level that
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: we know that they should be at. Maybe another guy
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: that you might want to throw in there.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: That could be a bit better is Cornelius because sometimes
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: he gets, you know whatever, like can you get a
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: can you get a proper head on the ball when
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: he gets crossed him and put that on net like
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: properly like that, like if we convert on some of those,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: we're talking about.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: A different ball game, right, So so yeah, like just
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: to a bounce off to Johnny's point, like you wipe
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: away that guitar match. And David has zero goals in
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: this tournament, and we're talking about you know, goal scoring issues.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: So listen, we want him to do well.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: We we hope, you know, he's able to come up
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: big against you know, whoever he may be, Morocco or
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: or the Netherlands. Uh, in a handful of days time
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: and uh, you know, let's let's go, Like I kind
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: of want to see well even going back to what
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: you what you kind of brought up earlier, Nick of
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: you know, tactics and what you want to see, like
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: could we throw on the two Davids together, Like can
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: we put promise and and and and and and Jonathan
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: David together? You know, I think that the reason we
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: keep on seeing Tanny or keep on seeing we've seen
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: him start twice, but.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Is for that pressure.
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: We know Marsh wants to play the high, high press,
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: and he really wants to put a water pressure on
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: these teams.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: And if you wish to what he said after the match,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: you know, post.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: And post game and to the team and to to
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: to the media, and you know our feeds on TSN
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: that we catch, you know, we're ready to throw everything
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: out of at a giant and I could imagine that's
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: going to be a lot more high press, a lot
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: more you know, full team press on whoever it may be,
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: and really get them uncomfortable and and really play on
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: the counter and and whatnot.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: But with all that energy used, I.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: Hope it converts into goals, opportunities, you know, positive moments
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: for the team. But other than that, I think, you know,
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: Johnny had a Johnny had a good point. I just
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: wanted to add on before I cut you off. Nick,
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but just I just want to throw that
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: in there as well.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what you kind of answer what
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: the last topic I wanted to bring up. I know,
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Johnny have to go, but you know quickly, No, I
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: just want to ask you guys your thoughts on what
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: it's going to take, whether it's Morocco Netherlands. And now
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna sit here and be like, oh, I
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: want to play Morocco, I want to play the Netherlands.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: They're both great teams.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Oh don't John.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: The only thing, the only thing, I hope it goes
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty minutes tonight, straight up, I hope
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: it goes one hundred and twenty minutes. Canada has the
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: extra day of the rest, extra thirty minutes less of
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: play would would be nice. That's it. I don't care
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: who we play, straight up, it's we know it's a challenge, right, Uh,
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: what I want to see in order for Canada to win,
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: I think they're gonna have to score first and score early.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: I think that's kind of been you know, we talk
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: about all these goals scoring and you know, I think
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: this goes back to the Switzerland game. Had those chances
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: in the first half, and I said it at half.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: I think they needed to score, they had to put
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: them away and then Switzerland made them pay. And that's
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: what's gonna happen against these these bigger clubs, these better teams.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: You don't take your chances, they're gonna make you pay.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: It makes me think of even the Belgium game back
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two eighties, missing on the penalty and
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: Belgium pretty much scoring with their only chance, and that
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: was the game kind of had so many chances they
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: didn't take them. So for me, if Canada is gonna win,
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: they're gonna score early on maybe first thirty minutes first,
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: you know, first half let's say and and they're probably
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: not gonna win one nothing, but at least just get that,
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: get that first goal out of the way, and then
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: you see where it goes from there. Personally, I think
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: if they win it, it'll likely be like extra time
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: or even penalties. But honestly, guys, I'm like, I'm not
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: gonna say I'm confident that they're gonna win. I'm confident
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: the team. I'm confident. It's gonna be a competitive game.
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: That's it. And I'm excited. I'm really excited for Saturday.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: It's it's gonna be cool to see. I don't know
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: about what about you and Johnny.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: What I would like to see from Canada is don't
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: play on your heels, play on your toes, apply to pressure,
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: take it to them no matter whether it's Morocco or Netherlands.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Show that you belong, apply the fight, catch them, catch
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: them on their back heel, you know, just really get
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: aggressive with it. I think that's probably the best draft
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: for them to go because the matter which team you
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: whether it's Morocco or Netherlands, that you sit back on,
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: they're gonna punish you. So what I want to see
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: from Canada is obviously you know what they were doing
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: against South South Africa. It's just playing roll with that ball,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: making the plays, being offensive. That's what I want to
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: see from UH for for this game. That's what I
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: hope that they do.
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was I didn't know Johnny was gonna hit
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: us with with the analogy and an off there like
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: play on your what was it?
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Play on?
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: Don't play on your deals, play on your toes bro.
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: I didn't know that was coming. So I'm sorry, guys.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: I don't have something to buy to match that in
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: terms of analogies, but do that. I guess right like that,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: that's probably the best bet.
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: But listen, at the end of the day, UH, nobody
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: thought we would get here around the sixteen feet for
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: World Cup.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Like, that's just something that.
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: You know, I never thought we would say like we've
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: been holding, we've been saying that whole episode, but true,
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: we never thought we would be able to say these
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: types of things. So no matter what happens, and no
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: matter how the game goes, I think I think this
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: team should be proud no matter what happens. What I
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: want to see definitely our first half goal. I think
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: I don't like saying like scoring early, like, don't score
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: too early, like at least in the first half. Because
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: what happened in the Switzerland game, and Nick said it perfectly,
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: you know, forty five minutes of you know, back and forth,
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: whatever had the chances could have maybe put one one in,
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: didn't minute forty six goal right like, not even after
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: the half, like people weren't even back in their seats,
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: right at BC plays and and and and there was
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: a goal scored by Switzerland, so and Morocco and or
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: Netherlands in my opinion, or if you look at the
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: FIFA rankings, right if if you pay any mind to that,
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: and you put any values of that are better than Switzerland.
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: So we're going to have to be a lot better
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: within our own within our own uh you know, tactics
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: and strategy and and game plan. Listen, the midfield is
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: going to have to win the win the day. I
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: think I'm a big believer in that the midfielder is
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: going to have to win the win the day. I
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: put confidence in a guy like Ustacio, I now put
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: confidence in a guy like Saliba, who again the free
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: kick goal. I mean, I don't know if that was
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: Dstino or what you know after after Izma going down,
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: but just he's able to to do so much and
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: even the assists for promise David, guys like that was
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: just a hell of a heads up play for such
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: a young player as well. So I put confidence in
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: our midfield, those two off the benches where it becomes
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: a bit you know, iffy. But if they can be
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: able to win the day and the things that we
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: you know mentioned earlier, you know, the clinical finishing or
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: just creating the chances to put yourself in good positions
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: to be able to score, I think we can make
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: it a match. Listen, at the end of the day.
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: You know, I again, I'm not gonna say I'd rather
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: play this team or that team because I don't believe
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: in that. But whoever it is, uh to to Marsh's point,
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: you know, they're ready to throw the kitchen sink at
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: a giant.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: So I'm I'm.
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: Looking forward to seeing what that looks like. I hope
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: they're able to do something. And listen, the confidence is there.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: I think, uh, there's a reason right to h to
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: behind this team, like what they're playing for. They're not
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: only playing for themselves and not only playing for their families.
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: Right, they're playing for for more than that, right, They're
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: playing for you know, Canada Soccer.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: They're playing for the country as a whole.
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: You know, they're playing now for you know, a fallen brother,
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: you know in is moult Coney with the injury. Uh,
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: you know Marcelo for As was there too, we saw, right,
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: So you know they're playing for more than than just
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: you know, themselves and all that. So and for the fans, right,
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: they're playing for the for the fans that travel you know,
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: to Los Angeles to play around a thirty two game
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: when it should have been in our own backyard.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: And Johnny, don't know how I know, you're on.
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: This tight, tight, tight window here and you might have
• 48:12
  Speaker 5: to bounce before. I wanted to kind of bring that up,
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: but maybe not, maybe way well, I don't know, but yeah,
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: they're just playing for so much more than just what
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: it you know, what it says on on the back
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: of their jersey and even on the front. So that's
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  Speaker 5: what you know it should be, you know, proud and
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: want and want to see And again, listen, guys, the
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: bow is around. That's cliche as it is. It's tournament football.
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  Speaker 5: It's a knockout game. Anything is possible. Really, as as
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: cliche as that sounds, anything is possible.
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  Speaker 1: I'm confident it will be competitive. I just hope it
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: does end up being competitive.
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  Speaker 5: And and let it, you know, all while out on
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: the uh you know, on the on the pitch, because
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: at the end of the day, no matter how you
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: want to shape it, they're going in there as underdogs, right,
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  Speaker 5: so they have really nothing to lose if you really
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: put it in you know, Layman's terms, right, they don't
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  Speaker 5: really have much to lose. They're the they're the the
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: heavy underdog. Whoever they're gonna be facing. It will be
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: a pretty good uh you know favorite, you know, high
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: favorite to to to advance. But we saw it tonight, right,
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: Paraguay Germany at Jowett Stadium, Right, Paraguay has.
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  Speaker 1: No sorry Boston Stadium. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: If Jan not just Joenny, the other journey might come
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: after you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry. If if I don't, don't come after us.
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: But you know, and and I in a normal world,
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: which again nothing is normal these days. But you know,
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: Paraguay shouldn't be shouldn't be beating Germany, but they did. Right,
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: it's turning turn turn the mint football knockout football, uh
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: and anything as possible. So I listen to the team,
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  Speaker 5: I just you know, hope they go out with with
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: it all.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how he manages Davies's number minutes again.
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: Because we kept on hearing uh, you know, minutes like
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: they're on they're on a cap limit with with his minutes.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Just throw him on, just throw them onth for half?
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: Just can we please?
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: Like I want to see him on the pitch, but
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: you know, people pay a hefty fee for these games
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: and we want to see the top players on the pitch.
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: So but yeah, again, I think no matter who's on
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: the pitch, no matter who comes off the bench, I
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: think they'll be ready to fight and no matter what happens.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: And again, if you listen to what Jesse Marsh has said.
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: You know post match and on the pitch after the game,
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: this team is Canadian heroes as as of now. So
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: if they weren't already right, so that should that should
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: give them extra motivation. And I hope we see all
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: these stuff on display come this weekend against either Morocco
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: or the Netherlands.
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: Jenny, I know you have to go. I know we've
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: had a great conversation, but we'll have to do it
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: again next we hopefully talking about previewing, previewing quarterfinals for
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: Canada Sports.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we're on PTI. I feel like we're
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: on PTI. It was a cornizer with the with the
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: with with the with the flag there right.
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  Speaker 5: The interruption, the interruption right, we're on the time yo,
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  Speaker 5: same time tomorrow, knuckleheads right whatever?
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  Speaker 1: He says that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Forts of Canada, they Canada, go Canada, however you
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: want to say it. Guys, it's been fun. It's you
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: know what I want. One thing I'll say, it's been
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: nice to have a summer World Cup. I think that's
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: one thing we missed. Uh, four years ago, I didn't
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: see no car flags. Four years ago. We're seeing plenty
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: of the more like I said, more in Canada, which
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: is awesome to see. Uh, but yeah, enjoyed guys. Uh,
• 51:41
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  Speaker 3: I know we are the council guys, but you know
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  Speaker 3: we will talk what.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: We're the soccer guys, the football guys. Whatever.
• 51:51
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• 51:53
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