Latest / The Calcio Guys / Serie A Champions League race is reaching its final lap! Ep. 307 Ft. Forno Tony/Pizza Calcio
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- 0:07Speaker 1: Except for u V. Except for u V, everyone did
- 0:10Speaker 1: their jobs this weekend, including the guys At four oh
- 0:13Speaker 1: Tony and I'm talking about the Champions League, Grace, I'm
- 0:15Speaker 1: talking about the best bakery in Western New York. Billion Mole.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Here on the couch, guys, it is just me this week,
- 0:20Speaker 1: different different episode the couch guys. You could follow us
- 0:24Speaker 1: on all your favorite podcasting platforms and social media. But
- 0:27Speaker 1: Billion Mo, how are you guys doing?
- 0:30Speaker 2: Doing good? Thanks for having us today? Is I got
- 0:33Speaker 2: a question for you?
- 0:34Speaker 3: Is this the first time you guys have had someone
- 0:36Speaker 3: doing the podcast while baking?
- 0:39Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, yeah, I got billions. What are you making
- 0:43Speaker 1: over there?
- 0:44Speaker 4: Yeah? I'm just some counter tity.
- 0:47Speaker 5: There was the one the guy from his A t
- 0:50Speaker 5: do Italians up in Toronto, he was working on the
- 0:52Speaker 5: pod too.
- 0:53Speaker 4: I remember that.
- 0:54Speaker 1: One, exactly exactly. I was just about to say that
- 0:57Speaker 1: there was one time where Angelo from Toronto Italian was
- 1:00Speaker 1: was printing jerseys. This was right before the Euros, back
- 1:03Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. Uh yeah, so you're not the
- 1:07Speaker 1: first guy to be working, but first guy to be making,
- 1:10Speaker 1: uh making foods. So I just ate, Billy, I just ate,
- 1:14Speaker 1: but I'm hungry. Again.
- 1:15Speaker 4: Oh correct, All.
- 1:16Speaker 5: Right, I gotta say, I'm just glad we got uh,
- 1:19Speaker 5: we got the good one of the three Musketaris.
- 1:21Speaker 4: Super bombs up.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you? Uh yeah, listen. Uh you guys
- 1:29Speaker 1: are the Roma fan, Melan fan me as you've a fan. Well,
- 1:32Speaker 1: we'll talk about you later, but uh, you know, it
- 1:35Speaker 1: was a turning point in the Champions League race this weekend.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Roma with the Derby win two nothing over Latsio, Melan
- 1:41Speaker 1: with the two to one win over Genua. So that
- 1:44Speaker 1: puts them in the driver's seats for the Champions League
- 1:47Speaker 1: race now that they if they each win on the
- 1:52Speaker 1: last match day coming up this weekend, they each qualify
- 1:54Speaker 1: for the Champions League. As simple as that. I don't
- 1:56Speaker 1: know if you guys want to start with the Derby, Billy,
- 1:58Speaker 1: if you want to take it away. First of all,
- 2:00Speaker 1: did you guys wake up six tam to watch these games?
- 2:04Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, we had to get us.
- 2:06Speaker 4: It wasn't too bad.
- 2:06Speaker 5: And I used to live on the West Coast, used
- 2:08Speaker 5: to be a three thirty wake up, so pick thirty
- 2:11Speaker 5: is not too bad.
- 2:13Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, slept over.
- 2:16Speaker 3: I slept over in my fiance's house and woke up
- 2:19Speaker 3: early you know her, she's from Monopoly and her dad
- 2:23Speaker 3: obviously too. And uh I was excited to like watch
- 2:27Speaker 3: all the games. And when I woke up, he was
- 2:29Speaker 3: just watching the Monopoly game.
- 2:30Speaker 2: And you know, I like I sat with him.
- 2:32Speaker 3: We're watching the Knopoly game. I was waiting for him
- 2:34Speaker 3: to like go back and forth to the other games.
- 2:37Speaker 3: We're like talking about, like you know you uh Fjordina
- 2:40Speaker 3: just scorable and I'm expecting them to change the channel.
- 2:43Speaker 3: He just he's like Napoly through and through. He just
- 2:46Speaker 3: like makes no difference on this race the Monopoly game.
- 2:50Speaker 2: They're winning.
- 2:50Speaker 3: That's they got there their UCL spot. So that was
- 2:53Speaker 3: that was kind of funny. But yeah, I went phone
- 2:57Speaker 3: for the games.
- 2:58Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, uh yeah, I'll be honest. I had
- 3:04Speaker 1: woken up at six. I was the beating. I was like,
- 3:06Speaker 1: do I get out of bed, start watching the game,
- 3:09Speaker 1: put my head down, wake up at seven. I'm like,
- 3:10Speaker 1: I'll watch I'll watch second half, open my phone. It's
- 3:12Speaker 1: either down one nothing, still watch second half. But miserable,
- 3:16Speaker 1: miserably as U a fan, But uh yeah, I think
- 3:21Speaker 1: the only the only other fan base that could complain
- 3:24Speaker 1: this week is lats of fans look losing the cold
- 3:26Speaker 1: Batali Final final, losing in the derby uh Manchini with
- 3:30Speaker 1: the two goals, Billy, I mean, how big is this
- 3:33Speaker 1: not only in terms of the derby but also in
- 3:35Speaker 1: terms of Champions League obviously first time in what I
- 3:40Speaker 1: think it's seven years. Yeah, like this is a huge win.
- 3:45Speaker 5: The last moment I remember Danielo scored against Porto and
- 3:48Speaker 5: that leg one, and then ever since then it's been
- 3:50Speaker 5: down here in the in Europe for or in Champions
- 3:53Speaker 5: League for Roma.
- 3:54Speaker 4: But no, I think it's I don't know. I don't
- 3:57Speaker 4: want to jinx it too much, you know what I mean.
- 3:59Speaker 5: I'm very superstitious, so I don't want to talk about
- 4:00Speaker 5: it before it happens.
- 4:02Speaker 1: But I don't know.
- 4:04Speaker 5: I think it's big from a project standpoint, with all
- 4:06Speaker 5: the stuff that's been going on in Rome with Regnieri
- 4:09Speaker 5: and Gasparini and kind of their battle and the Freakin's
- 4:12Speaker 5: picking realistically picking Gasparini and picking his vision. So I
- 4:16Speaker 5: think it's I think it's big with that in mind.
- 4:22Speaker 5: With Roma, the Champions League money is always is always
- 4:24Speaker 5: huge if we can get it, just for the project
- 4:26Speaker 5: and building out Gasperini squad, So it's it's just a
- 4:31Speaker 5: it's just a step a step forward with the project.
- 4:34Speaker 4: I think, yeah, it's just I don't want to say
- 4:38Speaker 4: I don't want to drink it too much. But right
- 4:40Speaker 4: now it's it's exciting times.
- 4:42Speaker 3: I mean, I think with with Roma, it's like, you know,
- 4:46Speaker 3: when I'm looking at Milan juve Como, when I when
- 4:51Speaker 3: I'm watching Roma, with them, I feel I feel a
- 4:54Speaker 3: different energy from the others. With the others, I feel
- 4:57Speaker 3: like we have a bunch of squads who are like
- 5:00Speaker 3: doing their best job to mess this up right. It's
- 5:03Speaker 3: like Milan leaves it till the end.
- 5:05Speaker 2: With Genoa, who you know I made They made Genoa.
- 5:07Speaker 3: Look like a Champions League team yesterday. But you know,
- 5:11Speaker 3: I think with Roma, you gotta look at they have.
- 5:13Speaker 3: I think they have the longest win streak right now
- 5:15Speaker 3: in Europe. I think they've won like seven games straight
- 5:18Speaker 3: or something like that, so like they have all the momentum,
- 5:23Speaker 3: and then when you watch them, you just like I
- 5:24Speaker 3: feel like you feel that passion and that energy, Like
- 5:28Speaker 3: was it I can't remember if it was last week,
- 5:30Speaker 3: They'll be prior. But when Mancini scored and he ran
- 5:33Speaker 3: down to the court bit to celebrate like, I don't know,
- 5:36Speaker 3: Roma just has an energy right now that the other squads.
- 5:39Speaker 2: Just don't have.
- 5:39Speaker 3: I think it's really negative around Melan, around Human right now,
- 5:43Speaker 3: But with Rome, I feel like it's the only squad
- 5:45Speaker 3: that is trending up, both like you know, I don't know,
- 5:51Speaker 3: just as a squad and also just as a as
- 5:54Speaker 3: a fan base.
- 5:54Speaker 5: But yeah, it was definitely there's rumors that uh Mallon
- 6:01Speaker 5: might come out with the Ronaldo haircut, the original Ronaldo haircut,
- 6:04Speaker 5: because he's a because he's such a banger right now,
- 6:06Speaker 5: so we'll see the scenes.
- 6:08Speaker 4: That's true now, I'm just kidding, but yeah, it's a
- 6:11Speaker 4: it was a good weekend. It was a good weekend.
- 6:14Speaker 1: But but it is true. They are trending out. B Look,
- 6:16Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, they were in sixth place,
- 6:17Speaker 1: they were in fifth place for two weeks. Now they're
- 6:19Speaker 1: they're in fourth, So they're definitely earning it, you know, Uh,
- 6:23Speaker 1: not like Juve right now. And last game is against
- 6:27Speaker 1: a Rona team that is guaranteed to go down to
- 6:28Speaker 1: the city and be easy trap game, right, Billy, Uh,
- 6:32Speaker 1: what do you want them to see? I obviously want
- 6:34Speaker 1: to see a win, right, But what do you want
- 6:36Speaker 1: to see on the pitch to make sure they get
- 6:38Speaker 1: that done?
- 6:39Speaker 5: Yeah, just for all of our sakes, just to score early,
- 6:43Speaker 5: maybe get too early, and just ride it out. I
- 6:45Speaker 5: can't think my heart can take can take you know,
- 6:50Speaker 5: eightieth minute zero zero, some type of situation. It is
- 6:54Speaker 5: kind of nerve wracking with Wesley got the red, so
- 6:57Speaker 5: he's not gonna play. I think in Deka has maybe
- 7:02Speaker 5: a hamstring tear, so he's gonna be out. Cone and
- 7:06Speaker 5: Pellegrini I don't think are could be able to return,
- 7:08Speaker 5: so it is kind of a banged up squad.
- 7:11Speaker 2: But I don't know.
- 7:12Speaker 5: Me and my brother actually went to the Verona game
- 7:15Speaker 5: in uh Stad the Olympico in September, and Roma just
- 7:19Speaker 5: they just had so much more talent. So I'm just
- 7:22Speaker 5: I'm just hoping. Uh, I'm hoping we score early and
- 7:26Speaker 5: we just ride this out. That's that's the plan. I guess,
- 7:31Speaker 5: does I guess, Billy?
- 7:33Speaker 3: Do you think Dibala how much playing time do you
- 7:37Speaker 3: think he gets against Verona?
- 7:39Speaker 2: Do you think he's playing from the from the start.
- 7:42Speaker 2: I think he's playing from the start.
- 7:44Speaker 5: I don't think I mean, obviously, I don't think he's
- 7:45Speaker 5: gonna probably play the full ninety I think he's going
- 7:47Speaker 5: to get the Star rather than come in late because
- 7:50Speaker 5: I think, I don't know, I think it's just we
- 7:53Speaker 5: just want to put total pressure on these guys right
- 7:54Speaker 5: from the beginning.
- 7:56Speaker 4: But yeah, no, I think I think Debala will get
- 7:59Speaker 4: the Star.
- 8:00Speaker 2: Are maybe sixty sixty five minutes?
- 8:07Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah? For Melan, I mean you mentioned him, you know,
- 8:11Speaker 1: a bit of a more nerve wracking game. They did
- 8:13Speaker 1: get out to the two nothing lead, The General scored
- 8:17Speaker 1: late and obviously had pressure to try to tie it up,
- 8:19Speaker 1: but Melon squ squeaked away with a win Leger style. Look,
- 8:26Speaker 1: this is a team obviously seven Champions League titles all that.
- 8:29Speaker 1: It's it's very different if Melon qualifies for the Champions League,
- 8:31Speaker 1: then if Roma qualifies for the Champions League regardless, Uh,
- 8:35Speaker 1: you got to be happy with the result, especially after
- 8:37Speaker 1: the fact that you know, they didn't they were in
- 8:39Speaker 1: the Champions League this year, So it's more like just
- 8:41Speaker 1: a bounce back season. Just kind of wrap it up,
- 8:43Speaker 1: you know, move on, move on with it, right and
- 8:45Speaker 1: and get into the into the Big Dance next year.
- 8:49Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think you know, it's kind of a
- 8:54Speaker 3: it's kind of a who knows with Melon at the moment, right,
- 8:57Speaker 3: I think we're gonna go into that game against Sky
- 8:59Speaker 3: Giddy and we're going to see, you know, I think
- 9:01Speaker 3: we're going to see the same thing we've seen for
- 9:03Speaker 3: the last you know, it seems like five weeks or so,
- 9:07Speaker 3: especially since Molden it has been has been missing. Yeah,
- 9:11Speaker 3: I think it's like, you know, we'll see this team
- 9:13Speaker 3: maybe maybe get that goal, but then you know, they
- 9:16Speaker 3: they can let it go through just as easily as they.
- 9:20Speaker 2: Can score one.
- 9:22Speaker 3: And you know, I think I probably go against the
- 9:25Speaker 3: Green like I think Alegrity has done a pretty good
- 9:27Speaker 3: job with a pretty mediocre squad this year, and you know,
- 9:33Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be like, I think it's gonna
- 9:34Speaker 3: be the same exact game. I think Milan should be
- 9:37Speaker 3: able to pull it out. I would hope that they
- 9:39Speaker 3: have the motivation, but you know, I think the the
- 9:44Speaker 3: shakiness that Milan has, like from the top down in
- 9:47Speaker 3: the club will be the reason why they don't get
- 9:50Speaker 3: it if they If they don't, you know, I think
- 9:55Speaker 3: there's just so much up in the air with you know,
- 9:59Speaker 3: with who's to be in the front office next year.
- 10:01Speaker 3: That's really gonna change the outcomes and the fates of
- 10:04Speaker 3: you know, the layouts and monions.
- 10:07Speaker 2: And all these players.
- 10:09Speaker 3: So I don't know, I don't know that they're motivated,
- 10:11Speaker 3: to be honest, like I would hope they are. And
- 10:13Speaker 3: I think this is why you have moldergage, is to
- 10:16Speaker 3: keep the team focused even when there is this uncertainty.
- 10:20Speaker 3: But yeah, I think you know, between Milan and you,
- 10:24Speaker 3: but like I said, I think they both have the same.
- 10:28Speaker 2: I think they both have the same trajectory at the moment.
- 10:30Speaker 3: And you know, it's unfortunately kind of anyone's guesses what's
- 10:35Speaker 3: gonna happen this week.
- 10:36Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, look, an't even this last match
- 10:43Speaker 1: to look, as you've a fan, we kind of need
- 10:46Speaker 1: a miracle from other teams. We need other teams to
- 10:48Speaker 1: drop points. If I'm not mistaken, we need, uh, I
- 10:51Speaker 1: think two of Roma, Como and Milan to drop points.
- 10:55Speaker 1: And it kind of, you know, the way you're you're
- 10:58Speaker 1: talking about it kind of makes me think back in
- 10:59Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. I don't know if you guys remember,
- 11:01Speaker 1: but you've had to beat Bologna on the last on
- 11:04Speaker 1: the last match day, and then Napoli had to drop
- 11:06Speaker 1: points against Rona and that's exactly what happened, and you've
- 11:10Speaker 1: got into the Champions League. So obviously as you've found,
- 11:12Speaker 1: as you've found, you know, that's what I'm hoping to see.
- 11:15Speaker 1: If I'm a betting man, you know, Como could fall
- 11:18Speaker 1: under pressure and Melan could be unmotivated. Look, I think
- 11:22Speaker 1: Roma they're motivated. Its seven years no Champions League football.
- 11:26Speaker 1: They're they're gonna wanna They're going to get it done. Uh,
- 11:30Speaker 1: we'll have to We'll have to see what the other
- 11:31Speaker 1: two teams. Personally, I don't think You've is gonna make
- 11:33Speaker 1: the Champions League just because of matchups and everything. Look,
- 11:37Speaker 1: even with Melan, they're playing cality team that guaranteed their
- 11:40Speaker 1: spot in city at next season. They won against uh Threno.
- 11:44Speaker 1: They have nothing left to play for at this point
- 11:46Speaker 1: and that could help me land, right. So yeah, like
- 11:51Speaker 1: you said, if if You've does make the Champions League,
- 11:55Speaker 1: it is Melan's own doing. But again it could you
- 12:00Speaker 1: be an easy trap game. Are you worried about that
- 12:03Speaker 1: at all? Like personally, if I'm a Melon fan looking
- 12:05Speaker 1: at of course, like allegree, I know he'll probably get
- 12:08Speaker 1: the job done. But again, it's one game you never
- 12:10Speaker 1: know what happens.
- 12:12Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I'm I'm like, I definitely do not
- 12:17Speaker 3: feel certainty that Melon are gonna be able.
- 12:19Speaker 2: To get it done.
- 12:19Speaker 3: I think especially too, Like, Yeah, on one hand, Kyl
- 12:23Speaker 3: Giddy has nothing to play for, but I think especially
- 12:27Speaker 3: against an allegedy team, those types of teams can actually
- 12:31Speaker 3: hurt you, right, Like the teams that are playing free,
- 12:34Speaker 3: that are not worried about conceding, that are just kind
- 12:37Speaker 3: of attacking Milan's half. Like, that's the type of team
- 12:41Speaker 3: that Allegory definitely can struggle with. And I think cal
- 12:44Speaker 3: Giddy's looked like coming off a big win against Todino.
- 12:48Speaker 2: They have a lot of really good young Italian players.
- 12:50Speaker 3: And yeah, I definitely don't feel as the Melon have
- 12:54Speaker 3: it in the bag.
- 12:55Speaker 2: I think too.
- 12:55Speaker 3: Milan are playing at the Sun zero, and you know,
- 12:59Speaker 3: I think in the end of the day, they're the
- 13:04Speaker 3: fans are not the most happy with the club right now,
- 13:07Speaker 3: right so I think that advantage of home field kind
- 13:12Speaker 3: of goes out the window.
- 13:13Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to be super strong for
- 13:15Speaker 2: Milan at the moment.
- 13:17Speaker 3: I think the atmosphere around their last few games has
- 13:19Speaker 3: been like a lot of anger, a lot of people
- 13:22Speaker 3: wanting for Lania, wanting to sell the team, wanting Maldini back.
- 13:26Speaker 3: You guys saw the images. I don't know, but everyone
- 13:30Speaker 3: in the crowd against the last game was holding up
- 13:33Speaker 3: like Maldini jerseys and.
- 13:35Speaker 2: You just see. I mean it's like that, that's the
- 13:38Speaker 2: that's the atmosphere right now.
- 13:39Speaker 3: It's like there's there's kind of a desire for revolution
- 13:44Speaker 3: for Milanistie and you know, I just I think that
- 13:48Speaker 3: could also really weigh on some of these players. Right,
- 13:51Speaker 3: Like we've seen Layou, it's not the most mentally tough.
- 13:55Speaker 3: So when you know the Milanisti are not behind him,
- 13:58Speaker 3: he could come out and have one of his games
- 14:01Speaker 3: where you know, he doesn't doesn't get into a rhythm
- 14:04Speaker 3: and loses the ball a lot. And yeah, I think again,
- 14:09Speaker 3: like not having a ball that itches is definitely gonna
- 14:12Speaker 3: hurt me a lot of.
- 14:13Speaker 1: This final game. And you know, lastly, look, I'll talk
- 14:19Speaker 1: quickly about about you've obviously disappointing result against Ferentina, but
- 14:24Speaker 1: it's not only that. It's all these games this year
- 14:27Speaker 1: that you're playing teams, you know, mid table, bottom table
- 14:30Speaker 1: teams that you should win, should win against and obviously,
- 14:33Speaker 1: you guys, look, we know sports, anything can happen, right,
- 14:36Speaker 1: But if you are a team like you've, if you
- 14:38Speaker 1: do have those ambitions to qualify for the top four,
- 14:41Speaker 1: to be a serious contender, again, you can be losing
- 14:46Speaker 1: these games, especially at home, especially as the last home
- 14:48Speaker 1: game of the season, it is it's embarrassing. Frankly, it's embarrassing.
- 14:52Speaker 2: You know.
- 14:52Speaker 1: Obviously, I, like I said, I watched the second half
- 14:55Speaker 1: and what I saw was a lot of disconnect. Offensively,
- 15:00Speaker 1: you know, a lot of just passing around the ball around,
- 15:02Speaker 1: you know, close to the box, not getting much done,
- 15:04Speaker 1: no creativity. You know, Farantina clearly set up a box
- 15:08Speaker 1: to prevent that. But even defensively, the fact that they've
- 15:11Speaker 1: allowed so many shots, so many goals on these first
- 15:14Speaker 1: shots throughout the season, it's it's, let's be real, it's unacceptable.
- 15:20Speaker 1: On the other hand, as crazy as it sounds, you know,
- 15:25Speaker 1: playing one season in the Europa League could maybe help,
- 15:28Speaker 1: because you think back, I think it was twenty twenty three,
- 15:30Speaker 1: they got knocked out of the Champions League, went to
- 15:32Speaker 1: the Europa League knockout round and did well. They made
- 15:34Speaker 1: the semi finals and everything, and that seriously helped the team,
- 15:38Speaker 1: that helped, you know, confidence even but money wise, it's
- 15:41Speaker 1: better to have a run in the I'm sure it's
- 15:44Speaker 1: better to have a run in the Europa League than
- 15:45Speaker 1: constantly get knocked out in the first round or the
- 15:48Speaker 1: first knockout stage er of the Champions League as well.
- 15:51Speaker 1: So maybe this is an opportunity for you it to
- 15:54Speaker 1: reset because right now, in the past few seasons, it's
- 15:56Speaker 1: just been a constant process of just trying to qualify
- 15:59Speaker 1: for the Champions League, allified for the Champions League without improving,
- 16:03Speaker 1: right it's okay, we finished fourth place. Okay, we're satisfied.
- 16:06Speaker 1: You know, now that the other teams have have caught
- 16:10Speaker 1: up with them, it's you know, maybe it is time
- 16:12Speaker 1: for you to have reset. I'm a bit surprised that
- 16:17Speaker 1: they resigned Splecty as quickly as it did, because originally
- 16:22Speaker 1: his goal was to qualify for the Champions League. But
- 16:25Speaker 1: then now he has a contract and they're not going
- 16:27Speaker 1: to get it most likely not. But at the same time,
- 16:30Speaker 1: it's like, okay, if it's not split toy, who else
- 16:32Speaker 1: would it be. So I get it. Regardless, guys like
- 16:37Speaker 1: you've needs a project and it feels like every few
- 16:38Speaker 1: years they're changing projects. That's what's a frustrating thing as
- 16:41Speaker 1: a fan. It's like I said, it's constant cycles. Is
- 16:44Speaker 1: wins repeat, whether it's whether it's you know, a Legry
- 16:47Speaker 1: two point zero, whether it's Mata tudor you know, not
- 16:49Speaker 1: to splecty. I do think you've also needs patience. You know,
- 16:54Speaker 1: these next few seasons could be painful. It could be
- 16:57Speaker 1: that we don't make the Champions League again for another
- 16:59Speaker 1: two three years. I hope it's not the case, Helper,
- 17:02Speaker 1: you know, fighting for the Scudetto before you know it,
- 17:05Speaker 1: because it's been six seasons now. I know it's not
- 17:09Speaker 1: a long time, but when you win nine straight in
- 17:11Speaker 1: a row, you kind of want another one kind of
- 17:13Speaker 1: quickly after. But yeah, it's you know, in terms of
- 17:19Speaker 1: this last match day, sorry.
- 17:20Speaker 5: I think there's a coach they can go after who
- 17:23Speaker 5: just lost their their who just you know, if he
- 17:25Speaker 5: lost his job. But a Spanish coach who just they
- 17:29Speaker 5: came free from from a Manchester position.
- 17:32Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I thought, to be honest, I thought you
- 17:34Speaker 1: were gonna bring up Conte. But Guardio. Yeah, Guardio is
- 17:39Speaker 1: really not a bad idea. I personally, I think I
- 17:42Speaker 1: don't know if you'd want to take on this project away.
- 17:45Speaker 1: It's a mess right now, right, but you know, for
- 17:48Speaker 1: sure not a bad idea. Apparently you've a If that's
- 17:51Speaker 1: the case, you've they would go from one bald one
- 17:53Speaker 1: bald manager to another, which I would which I would like.
- 17:56Speaker 3: But you know, it seems like the theme of Youve
- 18:00Speaker 3: season has been a bit of buyer's remorse, and I
- 18:04Speaker 3: think Spiletti continues that, like, look, I think they I
- 18:08Speaker 3: think really what their issue has been this year is
- 18:11Speaker 3: I think they kind of missed on the summer signings, right.
- 18:14Speaker 3: I think the most notable one was Jonathan David.
- 18:17Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
- 18:18Speaker 1: I know, you know, you.
- 18:20Speaker 3: Guys got the the Canadian India that probably wants him
- 18:23Speaker 3: to succeed, but he just I don't know, he hasn't
- 18:26Speaker 3: looked good, he hasn't been scary. I think Bogo was, like,
- 18:31Speaker 3: you know, at this point in his career is kind
- 18:33Speaker 3: of a question mark, like maybe four years ago would
- 18:37Speaker 3: have been exciting, but it seems like he was kind
- 18:39Speaker 3: of like a band aid. And then you know, you
- 18:41Speaker 3: have the Thelovitch situation and not getting resolved and yeah,
- 18:47Speaker 3: I don't know, And then now I think with Spiletti.
- 18:49Speaker 3: I'm sure that you know, the board is probably looking
- 18:52Speaker 3: at it. They're seeing call become available unexpectedly, they're seeing
- 18:56Speaker 3: what the old I mean, you know, you'd have to
- 19:00Speaker 3: imagine that they might reconsider re signings at the at
- 19:05Speaker 3: this point, right if.
- 19:06Speaker 2: They could go back knowing where they're going to be.
- 19:08Speaker 3: In the table come may second, as well as you
- 19:14Speaker 3: know what coaches were going to become available. So I
- 19:18Speaker 3: don't know it's they're in. They're in a peculiar situation.
- 19:23Speaker 1: I think, yeah, yeah, exactly it uh you know, like
- 19:28Speaker 1: you said, buyer's remorse or maybe they they they act
- 19:31Speaker 1: on things a bit too quickly. Look, Jonathan David, I'll
- 19:34Speaker 1: continuously defend him because he was Canadian. I but I
- 19:40Speaker 1: do think, like you know, he was signed for one coach.
- 19:42Speaker 1: Another coach comes in and it's just not the same system. Well,
- 19:46Speaker 1: let's be real, you doesn't have a striker right now,
- 19:49Speaker 1: whether it's David, whether it's it's Evolvage, anybody right there,
- 19:54Speaker 1: and there's just no I don't know if there's any
- 19:58Speaker 1: other striker out there that would succeed and score let's say,
- 20:01Speaker 1: fifteen goals with this team. So I think it's a
- 20:03Speaker 1: system failure. I love to I hope David stays. I
- 20:09Speaker 1: hope he gets the second chance. You know, I'm excited
- 20:11Speaker 1: to watch him at the World Cup this summer, but
- 20:14Speaker 1: that we'll see, you know, in terms of this last
- 20:16Speaker 1: match day, look, I want to see you Ad to win,
- 20:19Speaker 1: but I do expect the other teams to win as well.
- 20:21Speaker 1: Just like we saw this past weekend and all these
- 20:24Speaker 1: draws against and losses against lower level teams. It's going
- 20:27Speaker 1: to come back to hunt them and you know, cheer
- 20:29Speaker 1: up the league next year.
- 20:31Speaker 3: But you know, you got to shout out that yeah, beautiful,
- 20:39Speaker 3: a beautiful role.
- 20:40Speaker 2: Rely that I got out of my got out of
- 20:43Speaker 2: my seat.
- 20:44Speaker 1: Uh, guys, Uh, you know, in terms of coaches and stuff,
- 20:49Speaker 1: the team, we all supported the Italian actional team. You know,
- 20:51Speaker 1: it's we're still looking right. Obviously, the big news for
- 20:55Speaker 1: Napolioa this weekend it is Conte uh saying he's said
- 21:00Speaker 1: being down at the end of season. Obviously, rumors are
- 21:02Speaker 1: quick with him with the national team. First of all,
- 21:05Speaker 1: would you guys take him back to the national team?
- 21:07Speaker 1: What do you what do you guys think about that possibility?
- 21:12Speaker 5: First, yeah, it's two sided, right, I'd take him back
- 21:16Speaker 5: because the guy has a you know, a history of
- 21:19Speaker 5: coming into I guess, difficult projects and just getting you know,
- 21:24Speaker 5: getting wins. On the other hand, it feels like we're
- 21:28Speaker 5: still not getting we're not getting the message that we
- 21:31Speaker 5: need to move the game forward, and we're kind of
- 21:33Speaker 5: just stuck and trying to like, you.
- 21:35Speaker 1: Know, work on.
- 21:38Speaker 5: Just see what past you know, what past solutions can
- 21:41Speaker 5: come up. So, I don't know, I'd prefer maybe a
- 21:46Speaker 5: little more modernization of the adzuri. But at the end
- 21:51Speaker 5: of the day, don't think it's results and you know,
- 21:54Speaker 5: he he gets the job done.
- 21:56Speaker 4: The training is going to be different. I don't know.
- 21:59Speaker 4: I'm kind of I'm kind of fifty to fifty. What
- 22:01Speaker 4: do you think about?
- 22:03Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I think I think where where
- 22:08Speaker 2: we're at now is like.
- 22:11Speaker 3: Without having the president, it's tough to know if I like,
- 22:15Speaker 3: if if we want a manager who can come in
- 22:17Speaker 3: and like have a vision for the future of the Alzui,
- 22:21Speaker 3: or we want a manager who can come in and manage,
- 22:25Speaker 3: you know, a young squad and get.
- 22:27Speaker 2: The most out of them and help them grow.
- 22:29Speaker 3: Right, I think that's kind of where I'm at like,
- 22:32Speaker 3: I think, if you're telling me that, I don't know,
- 22:34Speaker 3: it seems like the president's going to be that a
- 22:37Speaker 3: mile ago and if if he comes in, then it's
- 22:40Speaker 3: you know, I don't know, you can't help, but feel
- 22:42Speaker 3: like we're getting kind of, you know, a little bit
- 22:46Speaker 3: of gonna be a regurgitated to us, right, And like
- 22:49Speaker 3: if that's the case, I think I want a manager
- 22:52Speaker 3: who's gonna like really look at the fall system right
- 22:55Speaker 3: and kind of think about how it can help, you know,
- 23:00Speaker 3: help us develop young players even past the first squad
- 23:06Speaker 3: that said, like, you know, if we're talking about getting
- 23:09Speaker 3: the most of the pieces available to you now, Conte
- 23:15Speaker 3: feels a little bit like like like Billy Seward's kind
- 23:18Speaker 3: of going in the past.
- 23:19Speaker 2: I don't get a good feeling when I think about it.
- 23:21Speaker 2: I kind of get a little bit.
- 23:22Speaker 3: Of of that Great Milan type feeling where like, look
- 23:27Speaker 3: like the problems exist even if you bring in Conte
- 23:31Speaker 3: and he's not going to solve those problems. My personal
- 23:35Speaker 3: favorite was the was Madesca, but it seems like I
- 23:39Speaker 3: think he just got picked.
- 23:40Speaker 2: Up by someone who was it.
- 23:42Speaker 4: He's the rumor for city. I think to go to
- 23:44Speaker 4: replace Pat.
- 23:45Speaker 5: Oh.
- 23:45Speaker 3: Yeah, he's getting biggers for City, so you know if
- 23:47Speaker 3: he's going to get taken. But for me, he was
- 23:49Speaker 3: a guy who like, look, I think Chelsea had a
- 23:51Speaker 3: really young squad, right, he took them to that club
- 23:55Speaker 3: World Cup, he won a tournament with them. He did
- 23:58Speaker 3: struggle a little bit, seems like in the season and
- 24:00Speaker 3: to watch a lot of prem but it seems like,
- 24:02Speaker 3: you know, he struggled kind of this year, which kind
- 24:05Speaker 3: of led to him getting fired, so on and so forth.
- 24:08Speaker 3: I don't think Chelsea have like a great squad personally,
- 24:11Speaker 3: So for me, that's like I don't really kind of
- 24:13Speaker 3: take that with a grain of salt. But the fact
- 24:15Speaker 3: that he helped a lot of those players develop and
- 24:18Speaker 3: also kind of took them right against a club like
- 24:21Speaker 3: PSG in the World Cup and and won it, to me,
- 24:25Speaker 3: was like really impressive. And I don't know, he has
- 24:29Speaker 3: kind of has the aura of like what I want
- 24:31Speaker 3: out of the next that's already manager. I want someone young,
- 24:34Speaker 3: I want someone promising, I want someone exciting, and I
- 24:37Speaker 3: felt that with him, And yeah, so I guess like
- 24:40Speaker 3: now you know where we're at.
- 24:42Speaker 4: I don't know, I.
- 24:42Speaker 2: Don't love Conte, but I don't. I don't have an
- 24:45Speaker 2: idea of like where we should go from here.
- 24:51Speaker 4: Said, I feel like coaches.
- 24:55Speaker 5: It's not like I don't know if it's it's still
- 24:57Speaker 5: an issue, but I feel like it's the last issue
- 24:59Speaker 5: to work. There's so many like stuff you need to
- 25:02Speaker 5: put in place before that, and if we just get
- 25:04Speaker 5: a coach first, yeah, I feel like we're just going
- 25:08Speaker 5: to continue this, continue the cycle they did. I don't
- 25:11Speaker 5: know if I saw it. They changed like the qualification
- 25:15Speaker 5: format today, so knock on wood. I don't think we
- 25:18Speaker 5: should have a problem getting in after this one. Now,
- 25:20Speaker 5: how it is they dropped the groups and now it's
- 25:22Speaker 5: gonna be like Champions League one big table. But uh yeah,
- 25:27Speaker 5: I just think there's so many there's so many bigger
- 25:30Speaker 5: problems than coach that it's hard to even like speculate
- 25:33Speaker 5: what's the answer right now.
- 25:35Speaker 1: Actually, I actually didn't didn't even know about that. The
- 25:39Speaker 1: change in the in the qualification, that's interesting. But I
- 25:43Speaker 1: will say there's two things. First of all, the FIGC
- 25:47Speaker 1: the president elections are only June twenty second, so I
- 25:51Speaker 1: don't even expect coaching announcement to be made until that time.
- 25:54Speaker 1: That's guys, it's more than a month away. Whether these
- 25:58Speaker 1: country rumors are are true, I don't know, Like, like
- 26:02Speaker 1: you know, you guys said, there's no president, so I
- 26:05Speaker 1: don't know where these rumors would be coming from. Also,
- 26:10Speaker 1: I would be in favor of a foreign coach, maybe
- 26:15Speaker 1: even Peb Guardiola. Maybe if he's interested in international football.
- 26:19Speaker 1: Maybe this is the project for it to start. You know,
- 26:22Speaker 1: look how many teams have foreign coaches across world Brazil,
- 26:27Speaker 1: they win for an Italian guy. Some of the best
- 26:30Speaker 1: nations in the World Cup right now have Italian coaches,
- 26:33Speaker 1: but then an Italian coach coaches the Italian national team
- 26:36Speaker 1: and can't get it done. So maybe we have to
- 26:38Speaker 1: do a little reverse card over here. I don't think
- 26:42Speaker 1: they'll go that way. I think there's too much prestige,
- 26:44Speaker 1: too much history in the job that they'll want to
- 26:47Speaker 1: stick with an Italian Conte seems like a good idea,
- 26:51Speaker 1: But I my knock against him is whoever they choose,
- 26:55Speaker 1: I want him to stay four years, right through the
- 26:56Speaker 1: World Cup, the twenty thirty World Cup qualification of this,
- 27:00Speaker 1: you know, two years go to the Euros. That's it,
- 27:02Speaker 1: Like it's a four year project at this point. They
- 27:05Speaker 1: need qualified for the Euros. Obviously they need I want
- 27:08Speaker 1: them to have success in two years. But whoever staying
- 27:12Speaker 1: this job, it has to, you know, be willing to
- 27:14Speaker 1: take on four years, you know, of course, unless there's
- 27:17Speaker 1: unless he's really bad and he's fired, right, uh So
- 27:20Speaker 1: in that case, I don't I don't see it being conte.
- 27:24Speaker 1: But like you guys said, I think we do have
- 27:25Speaker 1: to wait for the f i g C. The f
- 27:29Speaker 1: i GC elections come come June. And what's weird is
- 27:33Speaker 1: also look, Italy plays two games in the beginning of
- 27:36Speaker 1: June against Luxembourg and Greece. These are friendlies. I get there.
- 27:40Speaker 1: They need to play games, I get it, but they
- 27:44Speaker 1: feel like the most useless friendlies ever, like especially against
- 27:47Speaker 1: these two teams that obviously aren't going to the World Cup.
- 27:50Speaker 1: Like what's what's the caretaker coach Baldini even gonna do?
- 27:54Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if you guys expect anything
- 27:57Speaker 1: at all at all of these two games. I hope
- 28:00Speaker 1: maybe it's some younger players playing and all the veterans
- 28:02Speaker 1: are out, but what's the point.
- 28:05Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a good chance for like a reset,
- 28:06Speaker 3: you know, like throw throw the young guys out there.
- 28:08Speaker 3: I think they've talked about that, Like then they talk
- 28:10Speaker 3: about fielding just all the U twenty threes or something like.
- 28:13Speaker 1: That, probably especially if Baldini's a coach.
- 28:17Speaker 3: I saw that, and like I think I saw one
- 28:19Speaker 3: of the teams I don't know if it was Grease
- 28:21Speaker 3: or the other one was saying that, you know, they
- 28:24Speaker 3: would like not play the game if.
- 28:26Speaker 2: Italy did that, which is equally kind of stupid. But yeah,
- 28:29Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 28:29Speaker 3: I think it's a good chance friendly to like kind
- 28:31Speaker 3: of to reset the squad that way and see what
- 28:34Speaker 3: we have. I think we have a lot of we
- 28:36Speaker 3: know we do. We have a lot of talent. That's
- 28:37Speaker 3: not the issue. It's playing them and getting them experiences.
- 28:43Speaker 3: This is sort ofally with the Issuan spin So I
- 28:45Speaker 3: do want to throw out one other candidate. Actually, I'm
- 28:50Speaker 3: gonna throw out one that I don't like, and I'm
- 28:51Speaker 3: gonna throw out one that I do like. The first
- 28:54Speaker 3: that I don't like, who I think is going to
- 28:57Speaker 3: be an option, Simon Nametagi.
- 29:00Speaker 2: There's rumors that he's going to be leaving. I'll get
- 29:06Speaker 2: long at.
- 29:06Speaker 3: The end of the season and he's going to be there,
- 29:11Speaker 3: you know. I don't see a ton of jobs opening
- 29:15Speaker 3: up this summer elsewhere. Madrid City already got their replacements
- 29:20Speaker 3: lined up.
- 29:21Speaker 2: It seems.
- 29:23Speaker 3: Liverpool's going to keep with slot In, There's going to
- 29:27Speaker 3: keep on Milan Allegri will probably stay, So I don't know.
- 29:32Speaker 3: I think that kind of leaves in Zagi maybe potentially
- 29:35Speaker 3: being open to it. Why I don't like it, Besides
- 29:38Speaker 3: being in Danista is in lots Uh is the three
- 29:44Speaker 3: five two and I think it, you know, I think
- 29:47Speaker 3: we all know it, like Italy needs to get back
- 29:48Speaker 3: to a back four, that's our strength, like not these wingers.
- 29:52Speaker 3: I don't think we have the wingers too to to
- 29:57Speaker 3: get back to the top of world football. And it
- 30:00Speaker 3: absolutely gets in our DNA. So you know, I don't
- 30:04Speaker 3: love him for that, unless he was willing to change.
- 30:06Speaker 3: But you know, history has shown that his that's really
- 30:09Speaker 3: his preferred formation, but the other one and this is
- 30:13Speaker 3: kind of a curve ball. Very young coach. He's currently
- 30:16Speaker 3: my favorite coach Palladino. Is he ready for it? I
- 30:22Speaker 3: don't think so. Probably not. Is he the type of
- 30:26Speaker 3: manager that I want not only for Milan, my.
- 30:29Speaker 2: Club, but also my country.
- 30:30Speaker 3: Absolutely I think he's he's a really solid manager, really young.
- 30:36Speaker 3: I think it's a it's a good risk to take.
- 30:39Speaker 3: I think now is a good time to take a risk.
- 30:42Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm curious what you guys think of those
- 30:44Speaker 3: two names.
- 30:48Speaker 2: Good choices?
- 30:52Speaker 4: Ah, well happened? What do you think that.
- 31:01Speaker 1: Zagie is still I guess he's still under contract in
- 31:03Speaker 1: in was it Saudi Arabia?
- 31:06Speaker 2: Right?
- 31:06Speaker 1: Need a lot of money?
- 31:08Speaker 5: Uh?
- 31:11Speaker 1: Yeah, those are those are good names? Like well happened?
- 31:14Speaker 5: No cool?
- 31:15Speaker 1: At this point, it is a toss up, and I
- 31:17Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if at the end of the day
- 31:18Speaker 1: it's someone no one's even mentioned or thought about before.
- 31:22Speaker 1: So we'll see.
- 31:23Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like a dark horse could be Italiano.
- 31:27Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Yeah, I think he's pretty like well perceived,
- 31:30Speaker 3: i'd say across the board. Yeah, I don't know, and
- 31:34Speaker 3: I'm not sure how I feel about him.
- 31:36Speaker 2: He doesn't really give me like a wow factor with
- 31:38Speaker 2: his style of football.
- 31:40Speaker 3: But but he has a lot of international experience, which I.
- 31:44Speaker 2: Think is another good thing.
- 31:46Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, that's a good point. Uh. You know, guys,
- 31:50Speaker 1: we're on topic of international teams World Cup coming up,
- 31:53Speaker 1: obviously not Italy.
- 31:54Speaker 4: Uh.
- 31:55Speaker 1: You guys, like all in on the US. What's what's
- 31:58Speaker 1: what's the mentality like there?
- 32:02Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 32:03Speaker 3: I'm not really sure, Honestly, I don't get the sense
- 32:07Speaker 3: that people have a lot of confidence in the US
- 32:09Speaker 3: men's national team at the moment.
- 32:11Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like it's stuck because I don't know
- 32:14Speaker 5: World Cup. It's kind of like you need to be
- 32:16Speaker 5: hitting the World Cup on a certain stride obviously, you know,
- 32:18Speaker 5: because international football can be a roller coaster, and I
- 32:21Speaker 5: feel like the US is in the worst spot and
- 32:23Speaker 5: probably in a long time.
- 32:25Speaker 4: I couldn't put a year on it. But I don't know.
- 32:27Speaker 4: It just seems like everyone's out of form or hurt
- 32:30Speaker 4: or Yeah, it's just a little weird.
- 32:33Speaker 3: The main headline you see around Polis Sick at the
- 32:36Speaker 3: moment is that he hasn't scored in twenty twenty six.
- 32:39Speaker 2: And it looks like we're gonna have to wait until
- 32:41Speaker 2: the World Cup for that to happen. So yeah, I
- 32:43Speaker 2: don't know that.
- 32:44Speaker 3: That's not a great feeling, i'd say for the US
- 32:47Speaker 3: national team.
- 32:48Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like I'm gonna have to say it's gonna
- 32:50Speaker 5: be another year of not root, not rooting for.
- 32:52Speaker 4: A team in the World Cup.
- 32:54Speaker 5: Or rooting for like rooting against France, rooting against you know,
- 32:59Speaker 5: against Germany, against the usual suspects, another another like hater,
- 33:04Speaker 5: another hater. World Cup.
- 33:05Speaker 4: I think I think it's gonna be It's gonna be happening.
- 33:09Speaker 1: Do you guys have any favorites, like in terms of
- 33:13Speaker 1: you guys think will win?
- 33:16Speaker 5: I personally I think I if I had to bet,
- 33:18Speaker 5: I'd bet probably Spain.
- 33:22Speaker 4: And I think my like, uh, who is.
- 33:25Speaker 5: It like Morocco in the last one that had like
- 33:28Speaker 5: that kind of miraculous run. My my dark horse underdog
- 33:31Speaker 5: is Turkey not to win it, just to make not
- 33:36Speaker 5: to win it, just to get to the knockout, maybe
- 33:37Speaker 5: when they even win.
- 33:38Speaker 4: A few games in the knockout.
- 33:39Speaker 2: But I like, I like, for some reasons, shout out
- 33:45Speaker 2: yielded is a little U be loved.
- 33:47Speaker 3: I know from from the Romanista.
- 33:52Speaker 2: They have the group to do it. I mean I
- 33:54Speaker 2: think they're in the US group. Yeah, US, Australia, Paraguay.
- 33:59Speaker 3: Uh my yeah, my my like head tells me Spain
- 34:04Speaker 3: or France is gonna win it. There is the like
- 34:09Speaker 3: sixteen year old inside of me who is like, come on, Ronaldo, like.
- 34:15Speaker 2: Get that World Cup, Like it'd be pretty poetic.
- 34:18Speaker 3: And you know, I think Portugal overall is like a
- 34:19Speaker 3: pretty likable team, and yeah, I don't know, I think
- 34:23Speaker 3: that'd be that'd be really fun.
- 34:24Speaker 2: I hope they make noise.
- 34:25Speaker 3: I think it would it generated a lot of buzz
- 34:27Speaker 3: and make the World Cup a lot more exciting. But
- 34:31Speaker 3: unlikely obviously, you know, so I don't know that they're
- 34:35Speaker 3: necessarily a dark horse like Turkey, but but yeah, I
- 34:41Speaker 3: think they're the team that I'll probably.
- 34:43Speaker 2: Find myself rooting for a fat outside of US.
- 34:48Speaker 1: I might. Yeah, you guys might hate me for this,
- 34:50Speaker 1: but I think England it's not coming home. It's not
- 34:55Speaker 1: coming home, but they can make a run again because
- 34:58Speaker 1: this is a team that's lost tousha Eurofi finals. They
- 35:01Speaker 1: was it the semi finals? They made a last World
- 35:03Speaker 1: Cup or was the that was the one before I
- 35:06Speaker 1: forgot how how deep they went in twenty twenty two.
- 35:09Speaker 1: Yeah it was twenty eighteen. They made the semis Like
- 35:12Speaker 1: they're a good team. They're a good team, let's be honest.
- 35:14Speaker 1: But obviously you know, the favorite still, like you guys said,
- 35:17Speaker 1: I think between Speed and France, he still got to
- 35:19Speaker 1: include them, you know, Argentina's repeat champions. I don't see
- 35:24Speaker 1: them repeating obviously, it's it's tough to defend their championship, right.
- 35:28Speaker 1: We never see this, We really see defending champions have
- 35:32Speaker 1: success at a World Cup. But Ronaldo, like you guys said, uh,
- 35:37Speaker 1: or rather like most said, Ronaldo the fact that you
- 35:42Speaker 1: know he saw Messi lift the World Cup and he's
- 35:44Speaker 1: he's hungry. It's his last World Cup. Hey, I wouldn't
- 35:49Speaker 1: be surprised. I mean they're in a group with uh
- 35:52Speaker 1: Congo Uzbekistan in Columbia. Now, uh, you know, obviously one
- 35:58Speaker 1: team I'll throw out there is Brazil. My feel it
- 36:00Speaker 1: says Brazilian. So I'm gonna be cheering for for them.
- 36:02Speaker 1: I don't. I keep telling her, yeah, they're gonna win,
- 36:04Speaker 1: They're gonna win. But we'll see. I you know, this
- 36:07Speaker 1: is a team that they haven't been doing well lately.
- 36:09Speaker 1: But Carlo Ancelotti, I think deep down the Italian in
- 36:15Speaker 1: me is cheering Francilotti to lift that World Cup. Uh
- 36:18Speaker 1: so maybe maybe an Italian will win the World Cup
- 36:20Speaker 1: at the end. And obviously, you know, for Canada, it's
- 36:23Speaker 1: it's exciting, you know, it's it's weird, it's weird here
- 36:26Speaker 1: because it's not like for you guys, where the US
- 36:29Speaker 1: has made what every single World Cup in since wins
- 36:34Speaker 1: I don't know, in the past at least five, six, seven,
- 36:36Speaker 1: eight editions, I don't know. I don't know it was
- 36:39Speaker 1: the last time they failed to make World Cup. But
- 36:41Speaker 1: for Canada it's the second time since nineteen eighty six. Look,
- 36:45Speaker 1: a lot of us here have grown up cheering for
- 36:48Speaker 1: other teams, cheering freely, cheering for France, Spain and Germany
- 36:51Speaker 1: whatever it is, so we don't have that same I
- 36:55Speaker 1: find people here don't have that same enthusiasm for the
- 36:57Speaker 1: Kenadian national team, even you know, Allians I've talked to,
- 37:01Speaker 1: Even between a Jean Jenny, it's like, no, we're not
- 37:03Speaker 1: gonna cheer for Canada because Italy is you know, we
- 37:06Speaker 1: cheer for Italy and Italy is not in it. It's like, okay, guys,
- 37:08Speaker 1: we get cheer for two teams. Jenny cheers for Rome Moanopoly.
- 37:11Speaker 1: You know, I wish he was here that I could
- 37:12Speaker 1: tell that to his face, but you know, it is
- 37:16Speaker 1: what it is. I am excited for Canada. I'm excited
- 37:18Speaker 1: to see, you know, a home World Cup. Uh they
- 37:21Speaker 1: have they have a group that they could advance from.
- 37:25Speaker 1: Look Bosnia, Guitar Switzerland. If they want advance, they need
- 37:29Speaker 1: the wins against Bosnian and Guitar straight up Switzerland. We
- 37:32Speaker 1: know they're a tough team. I think Switzerland goes three
- 37:35Speaker 1: out of three in this group. They topped easily. But
- 37:39Speaker 1: for Canada they're at home. They need to use that
- 37:40Speaker 1: to their advantage. Obviously, you know Bosi is a team
- 37:43Speaker 1: that just beat Italy. But look they beat them. Let's
- 37:46Speaker 1: be real, they beat them on penalties with against ten men.
- 37:49Speaker 1: Are are they that? Are they that amazing of a team?
- 37:52Speaker 2: Uh?
- 37:53Speaker 1: No, It's gonna be tough both games for Canada. Straight up,
- 37:57Speaker 1: they're gonna have to play mistake free football. They're gonna
- 37:59Speaker 1: have to play They're gonna have to play full, full
- 38:03Speaker 1: heart in front of the home fans. I think there
- 38:06Speaker 1: their mistake. Back in Guitar. They had a good game
- 38:08Speaker 1: against Belgium and their coach goes in front of the
- 38:10Speaker 1: cameras like, oh, we're going to destroy destroy Croatia. Then
- 38:14Speaker 1: they go out and lose for to one. So I
- 38:16Speaker 1: think mentality wise they've learned from that. Jesse Marsh is
- 38:20Speaker 1: a much better coach than Herdman. So I do have
- 38:24Speaker 1: some expectations for Canada in this to at least get
- 38:26Speaker 1: out of the group. After that, it's it's it's bonus,
- 38:29Speaker 1: it's it's And it's so hard to predict with the
- 38:31Speaker 1: bracket with these third place teams, you don't know who
- 38:34Speaker 1: they could play, and I think that's a tough thing
- 38:36Speaker 1: about predicting the terament entirely. It's like it's like, Okay,
- 38:40Speaker 1: this team could win this group, and then it's like, okay,
- 38:43Speaker 1: they could play the third place team from eight different groups.
- 38:46Speaker 1: So you don't know, you don't know, you don't know
- 38:49Speaker 1: how to formulate a brackets.
- 38:50Speaker 2: So right, like Brazil are in a group with.
- 38:58Speaker 3: Scotland, right, Like, yeah, brazilka finish start in that group
- 39:01Speaker 3: depending on.
- 39:02Speaker 1: The play O. That's a good point. It's good, you know,
- 39:05Speaker 1: good teams, good teams.
- 39:07Speaker 3: I do also love that shout Brazil like they're the
- 39:10Speaker 3: total X factor with Ancharlotte.
- 39:12Speaker 2: Like yeah, I don't think anyone really knows who they are.
- 39:16Speaker 3: I don't think they knew who they are, Like, I
- 39:17Speaker 3: think they're gonna have to like figure this out during
- 39:20Speaker 3: this World Cup. But of course, like Brazil always has
- 39:22Speaker 3: the pieces to do it. It's not like you know,
- 39:25Speaker 3: they they're lacking in the talent department. So yeah, I
- 39:27Speaker 3: don't know, it's gonna be It's gonna be really interesting
- 39:30Speaker 3: to see what they could do. And I think you
- 39:31Speaker 3: guys saw when Neymar got the call up, which is
- 39:34Speaker 3: which is pretty cool.
- 39:35Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well he'll probably be a bench player come
- 39:38Speaker 1: off eventually. But I think you know last World Cup
- 39:42Speaker 1: they were it was against Croatia in the quarterfinals. They
- 39:46Speaker 1: were leading lead, I think it was an extra time
- 39:48Speaker 1: they had just scored and he was on and he
- 39:50Speaker 1: was telling he was telling everyone to get back, play defensive,
- 39:54Speaker 1: and everyone was up attacking and then Croatia scored on
- 39:58Speaker 1: accounter and you could see him afterwards like, guys, we
- 40:00Speaker 1: should stay back, we should stay back. So, uh, you know,
- 40:03Speaker 1: I know Nymar gets a lot of flak, but he's
- 40:05Speaker 1: a leader on that team. He's a veteran. Yeah, he
- 40:08Speaker 1: was there in twenty fourteen at home, right, so he
- 40:12Speaker 1: him to you. You know, you talked about Ronaldo, uh,
- 40:16Speaker 1: you know, wanting to win for his country. I think
- 40:17Speaker 1: Namar is in the same situation. Obviously, he's younger, he
- 40:19Speaker 1: hasn't played in his many World Cups, but same situation, right,
- 40:23Speaker 1: you know, you could even throw in Harry Kane for
- 40:25Speaker 1: England in that boat, those those veteran guys who just
- 40:28Speaker 1: want to get it done for their countries. So it's
- 40:30Speaker 1: gonna be interesting. I don't know how how you guys
- 40:32Speaker 1: feel about this whole forty eighteen World Cup. I know
- 40:34Speaker 1: you've talked about it a lot, but I'm I'm nervous
- 40:37Speaker 1: for the group stage. It doesn't look like there's gonna
- 40:39Speaker 1: be a lot of good games.
- 40:41Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm not There's there's a lot of games
- 40:46Speaker 3: that will not.
- 40:46Speaker 2: Be watching where it's like in the past, like I
- 40:49Speaker 2: wanted to watch every single World Cup game, right said.
- 40:53Speaker 5: I was gonna say, it seems like there's a lot
- 40:55Speaker 5: of teams that won't be that entertaining. I guess you
- 41:00Speaker 5: could say in the group stages. So yeah, I think
- 41:03Speaker 5: it's I'm sure it's like a money grab, just like
- 41:06Speaker 5: all this stuff now.
- 41:07Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't don't really see the of it.
- 41:10Speaker 4: But maybe we'll get a couple of big upsets that
- 41:13Speaker 4: we would never get.
- 41:14Speaker 5: You know.
- 41:15Speaker 3: I'm also curious to see these stadiums, Like, I think
- 41:18Speaker 3: it's very realistic.
- 41:19Speaker 2: There's a lot of US stadiums that are not full
- 41:22Speaker 2: for the World Cup.
- 41:23Speaker 3: Which I can't really remember the last time or ever,
- 41:28Speaker 3: like the World Cup struggled to sell out games.
- 41:31Speaker 2: But I think that very well could be the case.
- 41:34Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean thickets are so expensive. I know these
- 41:37Speaker 1: for the Canada games, it's crazy. I don't know about
- 41:39Speaker 1: the US games or just the US teams in general.
- 41:42Speaker 1: Are you guys going to any of the games or
- 41:43Speaker 1: any chance.
- 41:45Speaker 5: I'm still waiting to see if tickets come down a
- 41:47Speaker 5: little bit. I mean I had penciled in, I was.
- 41:51Speaker 5: I don't even know if I would have paid it.
- 41:53Speaker 5: But that candidate Earlygue game in Toronto.
- 41:56Speaker 4: The game, right, that's that was the game.
- 41:58Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't know.
- 42:00Speaker 6: I think looking right now, Los Angeles looks like the
- 42:04Speaker 6: cheapest tickets. I think just because it's one of the
- 42:06Speaker 6: bigger stadiums, right, But yeah, I don't know. We'll see,
- 42:10Speaker 6: We'll see when it comes closer to I'm kind of
- 42:13Speaker 6: penciling in. If you look at the Knockout, like the
- 42:17Speaker 6: way the Knockout round works, Spain and Argentina, if one
- 42:22Speaker 6: of them finishes second, that's the first knockout game. Is
- 42:25Speaker 6: Fain versus Argentina if one of them doesn't win the group,
- 42:28Speaker 6: and that would be in Los Angeles.
- 42:30Speaker 4: So I don't know.
- 42:31Speaker 5: The tickets aren't crazy for the knockout yet, so I
- 42:33Speaker 5: almost want to, you know, kind of bet on that happening,
- 42:37Speaker 5: maybe buy a ticket, But as of now, nothing really,
- 42:40Speaker 5: nothing really catching my eye yet. Do we know what
- 42:42Speaker 5: it for the group stage? What's the what would you
- 42:45Speaker 5: guys say are the biggest games right now? I haven't
- 42:47Speaker 5: even really like looked too hard.
- 42:50Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm looking at at the groups like I
- 42:55Speaker 1: really don't know honestly, Like England, there's I know, there's England,
- 43:00Speaker 1: sorry not England. I saw one group, the Uruguay group.
- 43:05Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean if Morocco's kind of got the
- 43:10Speaker 4: same momentum as last.
- 43:12Speaker 3: Yeah, entertaining, there's England, Croatia, and then there's actually, I
- 43:18Speaker 3: mean the best one is probably France.
- 43:20Speaker 5: Norway.
- 43:21Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. No Way is another dark course, last.
- 43:26Speaker 5: Team in the world and when and they when they
- 43:28Speaker 5: gotta go in Italy's groups, so maybe.
- 43:30Speaker 1: That the even even group f Netherlands, Japan, Swede in Tunisia,
- 43:35Speaker 1: you know those you know, superstar teams. But I feel
- 43:38Speaker 1: like this group's a it's a toss up, you know,
- 43:42Speaker 1: it could that could be an interesting one. The USA
- 43:45Speaker 1: group it again toss up. Same thing with Canada's group
- 43:48Speaker 1: besides Switzerland in first place. I'd say, but yeah, I'm look,
- 43:55Speaker 1: we we say all this. But I feel like once
- 43:58Speaker 1: the tournament kicks off, like I'll be watching all the
- 44:00Speaker 1: all the time, and I hope, like at least for
- 44:04Speaker 1: smaller teams like Cape Vergie or Corosao, like they have
- 44:10Speaker 1: that passion and they have that that good storyline, right
- 44:12Speaker 1: that everyone wants to watch. I don't know if you
- 44:14Speaker 1: guys agree, like yeah, maybe some of these smaller countries
- 44:18Speaker 1: we will be cheering for them.
- 44:20Speaker 3: It's funny, you know, it's like that feeling that I
- 44:23Speaker 3: usually have with with those kind of countries just because
- 44:27Speaker 3: of the expanded format. Like I have that feeling with
- 44:30Speaker 3: like the Croatias in this World Cup, Like those teams right,
- 44:34Speaker 3: like Croatia Portugal, Like those are my teams that I'm
- 44:38Speaker 3: kind of like rooting for from more of an underdog standpoint.
- 44:43Speaker 2: I don't know, like I hear you.
- 44:44Speaker 3: I just don't like Cape verd is gonna lose to Spain, like,
- 44:49Speaker 3: you know, for nothing in that that first game.
- 44:54Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I think it's tough.
- 44:56Speaker 3: I I hope I'm wrong, but I think we're gonna
- 44:59Speaker 3: have a lot of really ugly games in the group stage.
- 45:03Speaker 1: Yeah your period cut out?
- 45:13Speaker 4: Can you hear me?
- 45:14Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 45:15Speaker 5: I was gonna say, and somehow in this Italy is
- 45:17Speaker 5: not in this field.
- 45:19Speaker 2: It's kind of depressed.
- 45:19Speaker 1: It don't remind me at least, like you know, at
- 45:24Speaker 1: least for me, you know, at least seeing Canada home
- 45:27Speaker 1: World Cup, it definitely softens the ball. It's not like
- 45:30Speaker 1: twenty eighteen where zero teams to cheer four like that
- 45:32Speaker 1: was good. That was terrible. That was a real hate
- 45:34Speaker 1: watch World Cup. Yeah, but you know, it is what
- 45:39Speaker 1: it is and hopefully Italy gets back on it. Guys, Look,
- 45:44Speaker 1: thanks for coming on again. I don't know if there's
- 45:46Speaker 1: anything else you guys wanted to talk about, wanted to
- 45:48Speaker 1: get off your chest, whether it's about the Italian national
- 45:49Speaker 1: team or the city.
- 45:52Speaker 2: Does this is kind of a troll question?
- 45:56Speaker 5: Are you?
- 45:57Speaker 3: Does you may lose yield is if they do not
- 46:00Speaker 3: go in the Champions League this year.
- 46:02Speaker 2: I I know they just signed him to that long
- 46:06Speaker 2: deal but I don't know.
- 46:07Speaker 3: It makes you wonder, right like that you feel a
- 46:09Speaker 3: little bit scared when you're a player like Guield is
- 46:11Speaker 3: and the team's not performing, I feel like you tend
- 46:13Speaker 3: to become I don't know, Yeah, but what are your
- 46:18Speaker 3: thoughts there?
- 46:20Speaker 1: Personally, I think it would take multiple seasons of not
- 46:25Speaker 1: making Champions League, like at least two, you know, like
- 46:28Speaker 1: maybe he gives you a one more one more season
- 46:32Speaker 1: next year. Like I wouldn't see him leaving this summer
- 46:35Speaker 1: unless he has like an outstanding, outstanding World Cup and
- 46:39Speaker 1: you know, real Madrid comes calling with two hundred million
- 46:41Speaker 1: dollars for a transfer fee or whatever they want to give.
- 46:46Speaker 1: But I don't see him leaving anytime soon. I do
- 46:49Speaker 1: seriously believe he wants to be that.
- 46:52Speaker 5: You know.
- 46:54Speaker 2: That.
- 46:55Speaker 1: But you know, guy was gonna stay at you for
- 46:57Speaker 1: a long time, probably not the rest of his career.
- 47:00Speaker 1: Let's be honest. That doesn't happen anymore. But yeah, not
- 47:04Speaker 1: not after just one season not making Champions Look, and
- 47:07Speaker 1: I've said this on the podcast before, like he's an
- 47:10Speaker 1: amazing player, but there are some games where you do
- 47:14Speaker 1: we do feel like we need more from him, particularly
- 47:17Speaker 1: against Fiorentina as well. You know, there's a lot of
- 47:20Speaker 1: chances or kind of made the bad pass, bad decision,
- 47:24Speaker 1: this and that. So maybe if he's the superstar for
- 47:27Speaker 1: all thirty eight games, maybe you've a minks the top four.
- 47:30Speaker 1: So I think it's kind of like he needs a
- 47:33Speaker 1: team and the team needs him to both improve, if
- 47:35Speaker 1: that makes sense.
- 47:36Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I definitely hear you. I mean I think,
- 47:39Speaker 2: look like you've.
- 47:40Speaker 3: You've lacked a lot of talent at the moment that
- 47:43Speaker 3: they got to put around him.
- 47:44Speaker 2: So I feel like, I don't know, all things considered,
- 47:48Speaker 2: they're not far away, right, Like I think if they
- 47:50Speaker 2: get you know.
- 47:51Speaker 3: Two to three signings right this summer, things could could
- 47:55Speaker 3: really change.
- 47:55Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know.
- 47:57Speaker 3: I think, wellft to wait and see, but it it
- 48:01Speaker 3: will be fun to watch him, like for the for
- 48:04Speaker 3: the Derby this.
- 48:05Speaker 2: Weekend, Like I'll definitely have my eye on Yielded to see.
- 48:07Speaker 3: You know, he should be the guy who stands up
- 48:11Speaker 3: right hopefully.
- 48:15Speaker 4: Yeah, I do think it's always good.
- 48:17Speaker 5: It's always tough too, because like I you know, personally
- 48:20Speaker 5: I wish Juve loses every game, But I do think
- 48:22Speaker 5: a strong Juve is like is good for the league, right.
- 48:28Speaker 5: I just feel like, you know, strong financial Uve also
- 48:31Speaker 5: keeps a lot of the Italian guys that are going
- 48:33Speaker 5: to the prem for these big deals.
- 48:34Speaker 4: It keeps him in Italy too, you know what I mean.
- 48:36Speaker 5: So it's always it's always tough, you know, when you
- 48:40Speaker 5: face down bad a little bit because they do what
- 48:43Speaker 5: is it a rising uh rising tide lifts all boats.
- 48:46Speaker 4: I feel like it's I don't know, I feel like
- 48:48Speaker 4: it is.
- 48:50Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe if they miss out on one Champions League,
- 48:53Speaker 5: but it is good for the league.
- 48:54Speaker 4: I think.
- 48:54Speaker 5: I think this weekend, Roma financially has the most to
- 48:57Speaker 5: lose because if they don't make Champions League. I think
- 48:59Speaker 5: they might have to sell a couple of guys that
- 49:01Speaker 5: they would rather not sell.
- 49:03Speaker 2: Yeah, been saying that for years.
- 49:06Speaker 5: We don't make because because somehow, somehow Roma is the
- 49:10Speaker 5: only team in Europe who's still in the financial fair
- 49:13Speaker 5: play issues.
- 49:13Speaker 4: It seems like they've been.
- 49:14Speaker 2: In for because they don't tell anybody. I know.
- 49:17Speaker 5: That's but I think I think this, if they don't
- 49:19Speaker 5: make it, they're probably gonna have big decisions on Cone
- 49:22Speaker 5: and Dica. I don't know, Yeah, they're gonna. I think
- 49:27Speaker 5: Roma has a lot too, so it's a big weekend
- 49:30Speaker 5: some stuff.
- 49:31Speaker 2: I mean this is.
- 49:34Speaker 3: This would be a huge feat for Gasparini. Yeah, I
- 49:38Speaker 3: mean this would be like and for me would be genuine.
- 49:40Speaker 3: It's like I think the ub or sorry, I think
- 49:43Speaker 3: Roma has been just like I don't know, they've been close,
- 49:46Speaker 3: but also so far at the same.
- 49:48Speaker 2: Time and obviously, like you know, the.
- 49:52Speaker 3: The Conference league title that should have been Europa League
- 49:55Speaker 3: title that they they should have won. It's the been
- 50:00Speaker 3: doing really well and like from like a sporting perspective,
- 50:04Speaker 3: Roma's you know, I think they've had a really strong
- 50:07Speaker 3: five years even without Champions League.
- 50:11Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know.
- 50:12Speaker 3: I just think with what Roma has been up against,
- 50:14Speaker 3: like I think Gasparini to come in your want and
- 50:16Speaker 3: get it done is like that's a I think that's a.
- 50:19Speaker 2: Pretty big accolade that he could add to his collection.
- 50:24Speaker 3: So I don't know, I think it's exciting times for
- 50:27Speaker 3: NOMANISTI Yeah, like.
- 50:29Speaker 5: I said earlier, I don't know what the I think
- 50:32Speaker 5: it was maybe an American owner thing. I don't know
- 50:33Speaker 5: what the freakins were thinking, like bringing in Gasparini but
- 50:37Speaker 5: then having him report to Ranielli, which if you bring
- 50:41Speaker 5: in Gasparini in a club like Rome, I feel like
- 50:43Speaker 5: you're turning the keys over to him, and he kind
- 50:45Speaker 5: of should call the shots. So now that's the case,
- 50:48Speaker 5: and I know, you know, he's gonna have a bigger
- 50:51Speaker 5: say in the medical team, which he wanted. He's gonna
- 50:53Speaker 5: have a bigger saying where they trained. I think they're
- 50:55Speaker 5: gonna go to the Alps potentially in the summer instead
- 50:57Speaker 5: of England. So I love her an eerie body. If
- 51:01Speaker 5: you're gonna hire Gasparini, you don't.
- 51:02Speaker 4: Just hire him, you know, just the coach. I feel
- 51:05Speaker 4: like it's kind of like an organizational reset. So it
- 51:08Speaker 4: is exciting to see them, you.
- 51:11Speaker 2: Know, yeah going going all in. Did this wind streak
- 51:15Speaker 2: start when they fired the idea? I can't what I'm
- 51:20Speaker 2: going to look that up?
- 51:21Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know, And I don't want to put
- 51:23Speaker 5: that out there in here as he's a guy.
- 51:25Speaker 2: No, no, no no.
- 51:26Speaker 3: I think more of a like serenity in the club,
- 51:31Speaker 3: you know, like.
- 51:31Speaker 5: Yeah, like two fighting parents and they finally separate and
- 51:34Speaker 5: the kids are happier.
- 51:36Speaker 2: Well, I feel like Gasparini could be like a little
- 51:38Speaker 2: spoiled like a little spoiled.
- 51:39Speaker 3: Baby sometimes, like if he doesn't get what he wants
- 51:41Speaker 3: from his players or management.
- 51:44Speaker 2: He kind of can be a bit of a loose cannon.
- 51:47Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't think he's the easy, easiest to
- 51:51Speaker 1: deal with, to deal with, Yeah, I mean that's why
- 51:54Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year I thought I didn't
- 51:56Speaker 1: I thought he'd either be great or not even make
- 51:58Speaker 1: it through the year, just.
- 51:59Speaker 4: Because he's so tempered, mental, and I didn't know if he.
- 52:01Speaker 5: Was like if he was just a guy who you know,
- 52:06Speaker 5: can't be at the big clubs but can just like,
- 52:08Speaker 5: you know, take a middle club and bring him to
- 52:10Speaker 5: the top.
- 52:10Speaker 4: I didn't know what his what the path is going
- 52:12Speaker 4: to be.
- 52:13Speaker 5: But yeah, no, he's uh, I guess we'll just we'll
- 52:18Speaker 5: just wait and see the Sunday it's sense.
- 52:20Speaker 1: Yeah, But by the way, uh Rainier he left the
- 52:22Speaker 1: club April twenty fourth, Roma fourno since then. So numbers
- 52:29Speaker 1: don't lie, numbers don't lie. I will say, I will say,
- 52:32Speaker 1: Billy if VE doesn't make Champions League, one team I
- 52:35Speaker 1: would like to see in it. Roma straight up, like
- 52:37Speaker 1: Romo has always had a bit of a soft spot
- 52:39Speaker 1: for me, you know, especially uh they played here Montreal
- 52:44Speaker 1: back in twenty sixteen against against the Impact and friendly
- 52:49Speaker 1: it was you know, tat To heading into his last season.
- 52:51Speaker 1: Allison has just joined the team. I'm pretty sure Salah
- 52:55Speaker 1: is still on the team. Like that was a fun
- 52:57Speaker 1: game to see, some really cool players to see. So
- 53:00Speaker 1: I've always had a soft spot for them. So if
- 53:03Speaker 1: you videos make it, I guess forts Aroma, I guess
- 53:06Speaker 1: I'll say that I'd rather see them than than even Anapoli.
- 53:10Speaker 1: I know Napolis made it, or even Como the fake
- 53:12Speaker 1: Italian team at this point, but.
- 53:16Speaker 5: I want me line out on a Roma Como Anapoli,
- 53:19Speaker 5: and then there I want peer U pure craz out
- 53:24Speaker 5: here hiring allegory like it's ten years ago, like they're
- 53:26Speaker 5: making a huge yam.
- 53:28Speaker 2: Guys.
- 53:28Speaker 3: From March first to April eighteenth, Roma played nine matches,
- 53:36Speaker 3: they won two of them. They won two of them
- 53:40Speaker 3: against oh yeah, Leche and Pisa.
- 53:44Speaker 1: Yeah I see him, I see that.
- 53:46Speaker 3: And then since then, yeah they go four and oh
- 53:49Speaker 3: against Bologna, Fiorina Lazio.
- 53:54Speaker 2: I mean, look, a lot of the stuff's mental, right,
- 53:56Speaker 2: Like I think.
- 53:57Speaker 3: It very well could have, you know, play a part
- 54:00Speaker 3: in getting the squad at least focused, right, Like.
- 54:05Speaker 4: Maybe that's a.
- 54:05Speaker 2: Big part of it.
- 54:06Speaker 4: So it's gonna be a good game. It's gonna be
- 54:09Speaker 4: a good form.
- 54:10Speaker 5: Like I said, Deka, probably it's gonna be Uh, they're
- 54:15Speaker 5: gonna have to earn it, that's for sure, so we'll see.
- 54:18Speaker 1: Anyways, guys, it was an absolute pleasure having you guys
- 54:21Speaker 1: on again. Too bad Giann and Johnny. You couldn't enjoy
- 54:23Speaker 1: this time, So next time they will maybe win it
- 54:25Speaker 1: to kenaday us the World Cup final. Uh but uh,
- 54:29Speaker 1: you know and enjoy enjoyed this last match day of
- 54:31Speaker 1: the city.
- 54:32Speaker 2: I want to give a quick shout out.
- 54:34Speaker 5: Me and my brother have a minority stake in our
- 54:36Speaker 5: hometown team Melfi, and we just got promoted this area
- 54:40Speaker 5: d for next year.
- 54:41Speaker 1: So no way, that's awesome.
- 54:42Speaker 4: Congrats, we're building something great down there.
- 54:45Speaker 5: The Silicata will be at Sadiya in three or four
- 54:48Speaker 5: years and that's it.
- 54:50Speaker 1: Melt Melfi, Melfi and l F and they just got
- 54:55Speaker 1: promoted to city. That's awesome. That's awesome.
- 54:57Speaker 4: Congrats we're building I.
- 55:02Speaker 2: Also too. I think this could be parting words.
- 55:05Speaker 3: But Billy, is there any like uh send off you'd
- 55:10Speaker 3: like to give?
- 55:12Speaker 2: Oh Si.
- 55:17Speaker 4: I dis ordered his jersey of this year so I
- 55:19Speaker 4: can have his last jersey.
- 55:20Speaker 5: One of my favorite, one of my favorite all time players. Yeah,
- 55:26Speaker 5: just uh, and then he's got melon roots just one
- 55:30Speaker 5: of the.
- 55:30Speaker 4: Best, one of my favorite. The hair is iconic. The
- 55:33Speaker 4: hair is icon.
- 55:37Speaker 2: Truly a Syria legend.
- 55:40Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, definitely never played in a World Cup though
- 55:44Speaker 1: unfortunately one of those that missed out one of those. Anyways, guys,
- 55:50Speaker 1: is there any other showows you want to give? Where
- 55:53Speaker 1: can people find you on social media?
- 55:57Speaker 2: Follow us at I know.
- 56:02Speaker 1: And obviously culture guys, you know where to follow us
- 56:05Speaker 1: at the couch guys on all your favorite podcasting platforms
- 56:07Speaker 1: and social media. Uh, Billy and Mole, thank you very
- 56:11Speaker 1: much again.
- 56:11Speaker 5: Uh.
- 56:12Speaker 1: You know, like I said, I'll have to come down
- 56:14Speaker 1: to the fo no Tony one day. I'll have to.
- 56:16Speaker 1: I'll wear the shirt when I walk in and uh
- 56:19Speaker 1: you'll know, you know, you'll know who it is. But uh,
- 56:22Speaker 1: that's it.
- 56:23Speaker 4: Uh, thanks for you, guys, fans fans pay double.
- 56:26Speaker 1: Don't forget that, Okay, no worries, no worries, Thanks guys,
- 56:31Speaker 1: and thanks for listening.