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Catching up on FC Supra, calcio, and Serie A with Anthony Corneli - Ep. 315 · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: Another great weekend in the city. No goalless games, no
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  Speaker 1: referee controversy. It seems like it's a good start to
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  Speaker 1: the season. And great guests here on the couch, you guys,
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  Speaker 1: joining myself, Nicolas, Adriano, and Jadny. We have Anthony Cornelli,
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  Speaker 1: first-time guest on, assistant coach with FC Soubrette du Québec
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  Speaker 1: in the Canadian Premier League.
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  Speaker 2: Anthony, how's it going?
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  Speaker 3: Very good. Thanks for having me, boys. It's been a
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  Speaker 3: long time coming since we met in preseason. Happy to
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  Speaker 3: be on the show.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like we've been.
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  Speaker 5: Just trying to find the time and it's been like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: when are we going to get Cornelio? When are we
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  Speaker 5: going to get Cornelio? And it seems like now is
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  Speaker 5: the best time. And you kind of touched like all
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  Speaker 5: angles of cultural, Anthony. So again, we want to thank,
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  Speaker 5: first off, thank you for taking the time to speak
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  Speaker 5: to us tonight.
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  Speaker 6: And not to mention, we usually record on Mondays or Wednesdays.
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  Speaker 6: So we said we're available on Tuesday. We're like, we're
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  Speaker 6: going to do this.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to do this.
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  Speaker 7: We're going to make ourselves available for Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: Usually in the evening, I'm available because we train during
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  Speaker 3: the day. So it just happens to be an evening
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  Speaker 3: where I'm home. Sometimes on Monday nights, the little one
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  Speaker 3: has soccer, but it's over now for the under fives. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm available at night. If I'm not on a plane,
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  Speaker 3: I'm available for you guys.
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  Speaker 5: Or if you're not on a 5K run, I don't know, maybe...
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  Speaker 5: 5K in 25 minutes, you know, I'm 43, but I
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  Speaker 5: still get those numbers.
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  Speaker 4: That's it, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: Anthony, so.
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  Speaker 1: normally what we do when we have someone on for
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  Speaker 1: the first time uh we'd like to know their story
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  Speaker 1: about calcio about how they got into calcio so you
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  Speaker 1: know tell us your story about uh what makes you
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  Speaker 1: passionate about the sport and for you you know it's
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  Speaker 1: also your career you're not only you're a fan like
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  Speaker 1: us but it's your career now so kind of take
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  Speaker 1: us through you know what what soccer has meant to
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  Speaker 1: you through your through your life.
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  Speaker 3: So i guess i guess my story is just the
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  Speaker 3: same as anybody's story right you you grow up or
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  Speaker 3: you you grow up you start playing you know you're
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  Speaker 3: five six years old and then you you start following
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  Speaker 3: a team and for me it was you know my
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  Speaker 3: dad's team Juve and then from there your first dream
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  Speaker 3: is to be a professional footballer I mean we're not
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  Speaker 3: going to lie to each other and and say that
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  Speaker 3: that wasn't everyone's dream because that's everybody's dream of course
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  Speaker 3: but obviously dreams don't always come to a reality we
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  Speaker 3: all know or we wouldn't be sitting in this this
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  Speaker 3: chat but Um, I just tried to stay as close
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  Speaker 3: as possible to the game, uh, in any shape form,
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  Speaker 3: if you would like, uh, and started coaching when I
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  Speaker 3: was like 16. And, uh, I remember having like, I
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  Speaker 3: showed up to the park and it was like Saturday morning,
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  Speaker 3: like you five. And I had like a clipboard and
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  Speaker 3: like was ready to go. And they're like, no, they're
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  Speaker 3: just five, you know, they're just going to like run
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  Speaker 3: around and you just got to make sure that ball
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  Speaker 3: stays in play.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it's basically just started from there, from like volunteering
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  Speaker 3: in the summer and just, you know, followed Serie A
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  Speaker 3: religiously like everybody and followed the national team and whatever
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  Speaker 3: bits and pieces of information we can get prior to
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  Speaker 3: internet and IPTV, you know, like I was part of
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  Speaker 3: a generation where when I started following, we had like
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  Speaker 3: the first half on Tele Italia, which was channel 24.
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  Speaker 3: And then we had the second half on the radio
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  Speaker 3: or vice versa. I'm not that old, but that's how
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  Speaker 3: we started, right? And a lot of times my dad
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  Speaker 3: would pick me up and we'd go to my grandmother's
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  Speaker 3: for lunch and he would speed because the game started
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  Speaker 3: and we were listening to the game on the radio
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  Speaker 3: and then we try to make the second half. And
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  Speaker 3: it's just, you know, like 100 million Italian immigrants or,
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  Speaker 3: you know, sons of immigrants. And that's what it is, man.
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  Speaker 3: Pasta sauce, nonnas, and then said, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah honestly that's i mean we hear so many different
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  Speaker 5: stories when we have you know first time guests on
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  Speaker 5: the show and we've heard the you know the simplest
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  Speaker 5: ones like kind of almost like ours and then we
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  Speaker 5: have the you know the extravagant stories of you know
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  Speaker 5: just different you know out of the box type of
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  Speaker 5: ways of getting into culture and again for for your
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  Speaker 5: story i think it's just so relatable to to many
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  Speaker 5: of us especially here tonight and just a lot of
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  Speaker 5: you know local people just people i feel like just
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  Speaker 5: in the east coast italian immigrants right coming of immigrants
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  Speaker 5: so We.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely resonate with the story. Just, again, you're not old, right?
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  Speaker 4: Obviously not. And just, I want to get your early,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe childhood memories of Serie A and, like, what inspired
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  Speaker 5: you and who inspired you and who kind of, you know, was,
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  Speaker 5: I guess, your idols growing up.
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  Speaker 3: So I have to say my first memory of soccer
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  Speaker 3: was Italia Novanta, right? I was seven. I don't remember... uh,
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  Speaker 3: any games except the final Italy, Germany, uh, sorry, uh, Germany, Argentina.
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  Speaker 3: And in that tournament, uh, was Skelacci's breakout tournament. So, uh,
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  Speaker 3: Skelacci kind of became my first boyhood idol as the
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  Speaker 3: first person that I saw, like Italian person, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he scored six goals and he won the studio doll,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. And then as, um, Soccer became
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  Speaker 3: more and more mainstream. TSN had a show called Soccer Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: It was hosted by Graham Leggett. And they would show
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the EPL highlights. And the Serie A highlights,
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  Speaker 3: they would just show the scores and maybe just quickly
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  Speaker 3: go through it. So EPL became super visible, right? It
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  Speaker 3: was the first, I think, games that I remember watching.
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  Speaker 3: And Eric Cantona... He came like a God to me,
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  Speaker 3: I guess. In my journals in kindergarten, grade one, grade two,
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  Speaker 3: I was writing, I want to play for Manchester United
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  Speaker 3: and I want to be Eric Cantona. The teachers would write,
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  Speaker 3: this is a great story, Anthony, but tomorrow can you
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  Speaker 3: write something else besides soccer? The next day would be like,
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  Speaker 3: yesterday I had soccer practice. I scored three goals. So
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  Speaker 3: Eric Cantona was, I guess, where it started from. seeing
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  Speaker 3: the first EPL games on TSN and then summer of 94,
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  Speaker 3: Roberto Baggio and, uh, all kind of everything exploded from there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like, uh, he, uh, he took us to
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  Speaker 3: the final. He scored five goals. You're 11 years old.
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  Speaker 3: That's all you remember. That's all you see. And then
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  Speaker 3: it just became, uh, uh, I guess a love affair.
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  Speaker 3: My first love I'd like to say as a, as
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  Speaker 3: a young boy and, uh, He happened to play for Juventus.
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  Speaker 3: I was able to start watching more and more games
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  Speaker 3: with my dad on Sundays, like all of us, and
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  Speaker 3: just start to follow as much as we could. There
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  Speaker 3: was a depaneur in St. Leonard that used to sell
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  Speaker 3: the papers, the newspapers, the Italian papers, the Casadolo Sport,
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  Speaker 3: the Calcio du Mille, and all the old magazines, Ura Juventus,
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  Speaker 3: Forza Milan. Every month, we'd go myself and my cousin,
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  Speaker 3: we'd bike to the Depenner and like buy the magazine
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  Speaker 3: of the month and cut out the pictures and stick
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  Speaker 3: them on our walls. And I guess it's just how
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  Speaker 3: it built up from there. And then, you know, it
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  Speaker 3: just escalated pretending to be a, pretending to play soccer
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  Speaker 3: and the levels of the guys at CPL or the
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  Speaker 3: guys in MLS, but just stayed connected to it as
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  Speaker 3: much as I could, you know?
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  Speaker 6: Like you got to see some fantastic games because, For me,
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  Speaker 6: my earliest memories were for international play was World Cup 98.
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  Speaker 6: So I remember Bobo Vieira just like just killing it,
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  Speaker 6: you know, right? Is there like one game from like
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  Speaker 6: the 90 and 94 era that kind of like sticks
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  Speaker 6: out the most in your mind that you're like, was
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  Speaker 6: like a foundation memory for you for like your love for, well,
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  Speaker 6: Madjo obviously, but I mean, I don't want to say
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  Speaker 6: soccer in general because it sounds so vague, But you
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  Speaker 6: know what I mean when it's like a game, it's
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  Speaker 6: like this was the game that really impacted me as
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  Speaker 6: a kid, either in a good way or a bad way.
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  Speaker 3: So I think, like I said, 90, I only remember
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  Speaker 3: the final and just bits and pieces of it. So
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  Speaker 3: I think 94, it would have to be Italy, Nigeria,
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  Speaker 3: Foxborough and Boston. It was my cousin's birthday and we
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  Speaker 3: watched the game together and we tied in the 88th
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  Speaker 3: minute and then we won it on a penalty and
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  Speaker 3: And then we went celebrating on Jean Talon with our bikes.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was the first real memory of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: feeling that joy for a soccer team, I guess, right?
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  Speaker 3: Because you watch the group stage games and we lost
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  Speaker 3: to Ireland and then, you know, we beat Norway, we struggled.
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  Speaker 3: And then the Mexico game was a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a blur. The Mexico game is the only game of
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  Speaker 3: the tournament I don't remember. I remember Ireland. I remember
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  Speaker 3: losing where we were, where I was, watching the game.
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  Speaker 3: I remember beating Norway, Paliuk getting the red card, Baggio
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  Speaker 3: being subbed out. And then Mexico was a blur. I
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  Speaker 3: know we tied. I know Massaro scored, but it was
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  Speaker 3: a blur. And then from there on, every knockout game,
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  Speaker 3: I could relive the moments. So I'd say Italy-Nigeria 1994,
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  Speaker 3: July 5th.
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  Speaker 6: That was like the game where it's like, I have
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  Speaker 6: to tell listeners, because they have to be able to,
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  Speaker 6: They have the full game available on YouTube, by the way.
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  Speaker 7: FIFA has the full gameplay on YouTube.
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  Speaker 6: That is the game that underlines how much Baggio carried
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  Speaker 6: the Italian national team in that World Cup in 94.
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  Speaker 6: Even though there was a good roster, there was a
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  Speaker 6: lot of big names on it. bad joe was that
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  Speaker 6: x factor and only reason why they even made it
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  Speaker 6: to the final and that and nigeria were afghan champions
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  Speaker 6: at the time they weren't like as if there was
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  Speaker 6: some like joe schmoe team it's like this is the
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  Speaker 6: african champions versus italy and uh and they were they
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  Speaker 6: were really giving it to italy for a while like
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  Speaker 6: like badger was that different taker so if anybody's listening
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  Speaker 6: or watching or whatever it is uh i really do
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  Speaker 6: recommend it you guys go check out that game because
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  Speaker 6: it is a memorable well.
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  Speaker 3: If anybody has a vhs player i have them all
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  Speaker 3: on tape i still do i purposely like.
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  Speaker 8: Like like i have like one of those like um
• 10:36
  Speaker 8: oh my god what's it called those two tvs uh
• 10:38
  Speaker 8: oh my god proper the proper term for them anyways
• 10:41
  Speaker 8: those tvs like with the the tube tv the.
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  Speaker 9: Big box yeah the big back one seriously yeah the
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  Speaker 9: crt tv projection yes and i and i have like
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  Speaker 9: one that has a like a built-in vhs player and
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  Speaker 9: dvd player and i'm like this thing i'm purposely trying
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  Speaker 9: to keep clean and like well maintained because like these
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  Speaker 9: type of medias we should never lose them we should
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  Speaker 9: never lose physical media.
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  Speaker 3: During covid my buddy one of my buddies who live
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  Speaker 3: in toronto had an idea that we would like get
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: onto like zoom call, right. And, and talk soccer exactly
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  Speaker 3: the way we're doing right now. And each week we
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  Speaker 3: would choose a game, an old game, and we would
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  Speaker 3: stream it and watch it all together. So we went
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  Speaker 3: on a, we went on a run of like watching
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  Speaker 3: all of USA 94 and then COVID COVID extended. So
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  Speaker 3: then we took it to like France 98 and then
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  Speaker 3: COVID extended. And we took it to like, you know, we,
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  Speaker 3: I think we went up all the way to like,
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: japan korea 2002 and like every week we get together
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  Speaker 3: it was like one night a week the boys and
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  Speaker 3: we would watch a game obviously from our own homes
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: because we were all on lockdown but yeah now reliving
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  Speaker 3: those games and be like oh my god i don't
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  Speaker 3: remember that or i don't remember that save and if
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: he doesn't make that save it's one one or he
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  Speaker 3: cleared the ball off the whatever it may be you
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  Speaker 3: don't realize it because you were young, you were in
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  Speaker 3: maybe a cafe or maybe you were at your uncle's
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  Speaker 3: house and your whole family's there and you're just living
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  Speaker 3: the excitement of it. And you remember waving your flag
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  Speaker 3: and honking your horn. But if you rewatch some of
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  Speaker 3: those games now, it'd be like, we were like seconds
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  Speaker 3: from being out. And then we were in a final
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  Speaker 3: or we shouldn't have got out of the group. And
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  Speaker 3: then we're here, you know, it's, there's so many close
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  Speaker 3: calls when it comes to the national team. We just
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  Speaker 3: remember the trophies and the good times and the celebrating,
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  Speaker 3: but there's so many close calls where, you'd be like, oof,
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  Speaker 3: you know?
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  Speaker 4: Nick, I feel like we have to do that with 06.
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely re-watched games during the pandemic.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of re-watching old games at any sport.
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  Speaker 1: But moving from the World Cup to the Canadian Premier League, Anthony,
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: you know, we'll talk some Calcio. We'll go back to Calcio.
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  Speaker 1: Just want to talk quickly about the CPL, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Supra first season. And you joined the staff, it's obviously
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  Speaker 1: this year, right? You know, what's that experience been like
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  Speaker 1: for you? And you know, one thing I want to
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: talk about next week, second league of the semifinal of
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  Speaker 1: the Canadian championship, this, you know, super has a chance
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  Speaker 1: to make history.
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  Speaker 2: We have opportunity. We could see, we.
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  Speaker 1: Could see an all Montreal final in the Canadian championship.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, just what's that this season been like,
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  Speaker 1: especially now that you guys have the opportunity to make history.
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  Speaker 3: Look, if anybody would have, you know, wrote up a
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  Speaker 3: contract six months ago saying you'll be 90 minutes away
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  Speaker 3: from playing in the Canadian championship final, we, we would
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: have signed, right? So, cause we were up one nil, uh,
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  Speaker 3: we conceded in the 95th in the first leg on
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  Speaker 3: a set piece. So we kind of had our heads
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  Speaker 3: down a little bit. And then, you know, our, um,
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  Speaker 3: one of our like sporting directors came in and said, guys,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're 90 minutes away from a final, you know,
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  Speaker 3: forget the result. It's zero, zero. You're playing it all
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  Speaker 3: in 90 minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So kind of like that started to kind of kick
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  Speaker 3: in and, um, we still have very important games along
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  Speaker 3: the way because we're in the playoff race. So we're
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: trying to not put all the eggs in one basket.
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  Speaker 3: We're trying to prepare a game at a time. And
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  Speaker 3: you can't hide the fact that we have Hamilton on
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  Speaker 3: the back burner. But as we're preparing for Vancouver or Halifax,
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: we're preparing for Hamilton as well. We're doing our research.
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  Speaker 3: We're watching tape and stuff. I'm in charge of scouting
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  Speaker 3: their midfielders. So I got to know some of their
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: midfielders so well that when we played them last week,
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: I was like, hey, Anthony, how are you? And he
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: turns around. There's a midfielder from Ford, you know, and
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: he's like, I saw your game with Woodbridge last year
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: in the Ontario League One. I'm like, what part of
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: Italy are you from? We started talking. He's like, you
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: know so much about me. He's like, but I watched
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: so much video on you last week. I know your
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: grandmother's name. We had a good laugh. And then now
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: like we've crossed paths and say hi, but no, that's, that's,
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  Speaker 3: that's what it's been. It's been, you know, it's, it's
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: been an experience. Uh, and now you're, you're, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we were in the amateur game, but now it's like,
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: it's still the same coaching, but you're coaching better, faster, uh, athletes,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and, uh, you're playing for keeps, right. This is,
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: you know, it's not, uh, Lakeshore versus, uh, FC Laval,
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  Speaker 3: you know?
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 5: And just, I guess, the roller coaster, again, obviously the season,
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: the CPL season is not over, Anthony. And, you know,
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  Speaker 5: one thing I would say, just as we've come to games,
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  Speaker 5: we've watched them from home, you know, we've been in tune, obviously,
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  Speaker 5: with you guys and Supra. And just been a roller coaster,
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  Speaker 5: I think, of a year so far.
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  Speaker 4: Good, bad, ugly.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, everything in between, I think, you know, the
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: team has kind of seen. What has been your perspective
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: of just the season so far? And again, like I said,
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  Speaker 5: it isn't over and there is a playoff, You know,
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  Speaker 5: aspirations still there and a possibility.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: And just, I guess, your thoughts.
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  Speaker 5: As being inside, you know, with the club and being
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: an assistant coach. And what has the season kind of
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: maybe taught you guys and kind of you kind of
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: learned along the way in this roller coaster of a
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: season so far?
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: Well, it definitely is definitely teaching us something every week.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: because it's a new experience for all the staff, right?
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  Speaker 3: We've all done a little bit here and there. Some
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: of our staff has worked in the university circuit. Laurent Simon, obviously,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: was part of CF Montreal. Of course. So we're learning
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: every week. And obviously, I mean, if you've been following
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: the games, right, we've dominated in terms of statistics in
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: a lot of our games, possessions, shots on target, goals,
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: past completion, but we, we struggle to close off those
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: last 10, 15 minutes of the game. And, and that's,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: you know, that's, it's, it's a, it's an experience. You know,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: we have a lot of young players. We have a
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: lot of players coming from league one semi-pro. So that's
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: the difference I think right now between us and a
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: team like Cavalry or Forge that has seasoned veterans that
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: have been in the league for seven, eight years since the,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: beginning of CPL and they have one, they have a
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: winning culture. Um, we play them sometimes out of the
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: park and at the end they find the way those
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: good teams or those successful teams find a way to win.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: So I think we've put on a show. Uh, I
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: think anybody that's come and watch a game, you know,
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: text me and say, wow, you know, like I was
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: really surprised by the brand of football. You know, you
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: guys attack, you move the ball quickly. You have exciting players. Uh,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: And on the other side, they they're fearless. They're young.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: They've dominated in league one in their respective, you know,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: teams and they're playing the same way they would have
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: in league one. They're having fun and they're creative and
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: it's exciting. But on the other end, we as a
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: staff and them as young professionals need to learn how
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: to manage those, you know, like we say in French,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: you know, it's, five minutes at the end of the game,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: you're up 1-0 or it's 1-1. How do you manage that?
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: And some of those pressures are a lot for us
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: as a young staff and a lot for some of
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: these young guys. So I think that's been the biggest
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: learning curve. And I feel we did struggle with set
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: pieces and anybody that follows the team, but we've put
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: in a lot of work on literally scouting the opposition,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: looking into their set-piece actions in the last five, six games,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: reading cues and triggers so that we can better prepare
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: our players to defend our set-pieces. And we've been pretty clean, honestly,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: in the last few games. So hopefully we continue building
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: on that and we're able to shut the door. It's
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: not going to be easy in Hamilton, but maybe an
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: old catenaccio, 4-4-2 low block. get the ball to bag,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: you know? Yeah.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: That's well said because I was just, again, I was just,
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: you know, observations amongst ourselves. And again, we don't want
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: to always pester you guys that are, you know, working tirelessly,
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: but we just amongst ourselves, we say it, it's like, man,
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: if this team, if, if, if Supra could just play
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: 80 minutes, I think they would be undefeated, right? Like
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: it's one of those things that it seems to be
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: at the end of games. And, um, in games where
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: you guys, I think could have, should have won and, and,
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: and maybe could have won and, and what, whatever the
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: case may be, it just, you know, it's obviously a
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: big learning curve. This is first year for, and we
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: spoke to Rocco many times, right. Especially at the beginning
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: of it, of it all. And, um, regardless of how
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: things have kind of shaped out and panned out so far.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: And again, like I said earlier, it's not over, but, um,
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: just super impressive to see where the team is at, um, having,
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: you know, uh, a leading goal scorer, uh, in the league,
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: you know, right.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: And, uh, with, you know, double.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Digit goals, um, a potential MVP candidate in Sean Rhea,
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: who just week in and week out, this guy is
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: just unbelievable. Uh, phenomenal phenomenal player it helps that he's
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: italian so for us you know we like to push
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: for him a bit more.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: But we have a season and he's a napoli fan but.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Uh but again just to say you know joking aside
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: you know you know top players in the club and
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: the list goes on i'm just naming two but the
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: list definitely goes on so just to see you guys
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: where you guys have been and still be in a
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: race and i know rocco had aspirations of winning it
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: from from the get-go and Listen, maybe we're not quite
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: there as a CPL team, but it's just cool to
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: see where you guys have gone to. And again, with
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: fixing a couple of things here and there, I think
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: this team is, you know, sky's the limit. Again, Anthony,
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you agree or not, but for me,
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: it's just as an outsider walking in, it seems to
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: be that way.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Look, every great thing starts with a crazy idea, right?
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: And I think Rocco had this idea. And I don't think...
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I've been around soccer in Quebec for a long time
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: and I've met... Everybody, anybody that's anybody in, you know,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: amateur or pro world I've crossed paths with. And I
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: don't think anybody in Quebec besides Rocco could have got
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: this done.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Because he's a dreamer. It's crazy. And he's a dreamer.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: And he made this happen. He made this happen. And
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: it's really for all of us. We're grateful because he
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: did this. He literally did this for us. And I
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: include myself because the whole team is local, right? The
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: whole team has a story in Quebec, whether it's their
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: youth club or, you know, whether they're, they moved to
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Quebec because whatever it may be, there's a story and
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: the staff has our story too. So this, this wouldn't
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: be possible. And I don't think in all honesty that
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I would have ever worked in the CPL if it
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: wasn't for the Supra. So from that, from a crazy
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: idea came an incredible project. And now, uh, I mean, I'm,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I'm able to, to live my dream and fans and, and,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: and podcasts and, you know, who would have thought that
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: we'd be talking Supra CPL on, on a podcast, you know,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: especially a cultural podcast, you know? So it's, um, it's
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: been a real, a real win tornado. We're just going
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: to ride the wave and just, just live it.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: You know, I love it.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Johnny, anything else you want to add before we move,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: move on to this idea?
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Well, uh, one play, I just wanted to know, like,
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: cause we're talking about like our own little favorites and
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: stuff and whatnot. Is there like one player as you, like,
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: obviously I don't want to put people on blast or,
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: you know, on the spot or whatnot, but is there
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: like a play or players that you feel like are
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: kind of like the nucleus of this team? You know,
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: like the team, like, like the kind of like, like
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: the engine that makes everything piece together. Or do you
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: feel like as if it's still like a, it's too
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: early to tell where it's really is like a group effort.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: You know, like, I'm just curious to hear some of
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: your thoughts, you know, give us some of like a
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: fly on the wall type of thing, you know.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Like, well, if you, if you look at CPL minutes,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: we don't have, I think Mathis Chrétien is our highest
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: minute guy, but he's so low in the CPL standings
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: that it goes to show that we've rotated and we've
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: trusted young players to come in, whether it's through suspension
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: or injury or, or just squad rotation, and everybody's contributed.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Before Sacha Delon got hurt, he was getting minutes as
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: a 21-year-old. We had some card trouble, and we got Eliakim,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: who's 17 years old, into the game. So I think
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: our depth and the fact that the coach trusts so
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: many of our players to go in. Nick trusts... the
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: 17-year-old just as much as he trusts the 28-year-old. He's like, no,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: we can put him in because he's good and he's
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: going to do the job. So we look at our
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: bench and it's like they're not reserves. They're game changers
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: because they're going to go in and they're going to perform.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: And we trust and we have confidence that they will.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: So I think the strength of the group has been
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: our depth, to be honest, the quality. And obviously there's
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: five or six pillars that, I mean, you guys– that
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: you follow the team that are, are in non-negotiables in
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: the lineup, but that that's every team. Right. But then
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: all the other pieces that, that plug in, um, we,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: we have confidence of any of these guys, you know, we'll,
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: we'll put a 17 year old on the pitch, you know, uh,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: we'll put a, you know, uh, our third goalie or
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: even our fourth goalie, 16 years old. I throw them
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: into a game tomorrow because I see him train every day,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: you know? So, uh, I think to answer your question politically, uh, Gianni,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: without naming any names, there's five or six that make
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: up the backbone of the team. But from number one
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: to number 30, I trust pretty much any of our
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: players to go in and play super football.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: It's amazing.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one team that might need to rotate some young
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: players is Juve. Perfect transition to the city.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: If they can stay healthy, they'd be in business.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Just today, Boga out, Locatelli out. And they were looking
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: to sign Brozovic because there was the window for his Vingolati.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: And apparently the Brozovic deal couldn't go through. Like, soon
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: we're going to sign Sean Rea.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you'll go. Actually, you'll probably go.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, Yildiz, Sean Rea, same profile, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Juve, I mean, yeah, a lot of injuries. Even, yeah,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: like you said, Locatelli out three or four months. Touram's
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: already out. All right, Yildiz.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I already forget. Yildiz, obviously. But look, 1-1 this weekend.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Milan draw is.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: The least surprising thing out of these Juve-Milan games. You know,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: we talked about it last week, Adrian. I predicted a 0-0.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: 1-1 isn't far off.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: I said there would be goals.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: I didn't think there would only be 1-1, but it was,
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: I mean, we saw something at least.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: At least we saw two goals by Italians. I will
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: say that.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: You know, Anthony, what did you, what did you make of,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: of the game?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: And, you know, even with these injuries, what do you
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: think you've able to do moving forward?
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Well, for the game, we were on the road, so
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: I had it on my phone and I think we
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: were in between meetings, player meetings and some team activities and,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: So I wasn't able to watch the game live. And
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: then obviously getting updates on my phone, the score, and
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: then watching the highlight package. What I can make of
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: the game is that Juve somewhat dominated and had the best,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: the better of chances from what I've seen on the
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: highlight package. And then in the end, right, you need
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: to score. That's what happens in football, right? You're dominating
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: the game. You're getting shots. You're getting chances. You're not
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: closing them off. And then Milan found the goal. Beautiful
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: goal from Cissé. And, you know, at the end, you
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: know what you'd say is like, to tie the game
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: late and you'd be like, you wouldn't expect, but Gatti,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: as much as he was on that, in that trade
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: block or sell block, if you want to call it
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: for time and time again, even last year, he bails
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Juve out with these like 93rd minute winners on a
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: scramble or a header. And he, he has the, he
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: plays with his heart on his sleeve. I'm not going
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: to say he reminds me of Kellini because that's putting,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: that's like, that's saying big things, but Gatti is, I
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: feel like he lives and breathes Juve the way Chiellini did.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: And that's, that's saying a lot because Chiellini was, you know,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: a different player, but, um, as for what I, look,
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Juve has to make the Champions League, right? And I
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: can actually see them going as far as sacrificing results
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: in the Europa League, uh, to finish in the top four.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: I could see that because financially, uh, It's been hard.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: It's been hard for most Serie A clubs, right? Yeah,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: big time. The economy doesn't help. And Juve's transfer spending
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: over the years hasn't helped because any player they buy
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: doesn't end up really fitting in and we sell him
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: for less. So we're at a loss. Since 2021, we've
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: been at a loss for any of our transfers. So
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: if they have to sacrifice in the Cups... just to
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: make the top four, I could see, maybe not Spalletti
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: wanting it, but I can see where management will be like,
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: you know, we're going to have to, you know, maybe
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: rotate in the Europa League or maybe rotate in La
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Coppa Italia, which most teams do anyways, to try to
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: get results. And I'd have to say they're going to
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: finish in the top four, but don't put your hand on,
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: don't put my hand on fire. What's that saying there?
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: because there's a lot of teams that strengthened themselves as
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: well this year, so we'll see. Como's, all of a sudden,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Como's headlining in Serie A, you know, so. Of course.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it's, listen, watching the game, again, and, you know,
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: we like to joke, you know, as being a Milanista,
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: and you guys are obviously Juventini, and just the back
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: and forth, the banter, whatever, but, again, it was like
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: the first half, like, and I texted the guys, and
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: it was like, just, it was like, pulling teeth to
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: get something out of the game. Like, you know, it
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: was just like a first half of nothingness, it seemed like.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: And again, I don't know what it is with this matchup,
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: especially as of late, you know, the amount of draws
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: we've seen. I think the last win, well, it wasn't
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: too long ago, you know, you guys took it two
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: nil i think it was in 2025 uh last season
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: i forget what time of the year i think it
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: was in the winter uh winter time but um but
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: besides that it's been like these nil nil and me
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: and nick spoke we spoke about it last week nil
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: nil one one like these very like nothing games and
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: again i guess i don't know if that's just what
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: the rival is now uh nowadays i don't know what
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: it is but I think for Milan, the Milan perspective
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: of things, it was just, again, disappointing.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Again, you know, had a, you know, many would say
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: they didn't play, obviously, the best. And I know Amirim
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: said it didn't play well enough. And, you know, Juve
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: maybe was the better team.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: Even if you want to say that, I mean, I
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: don't think it was, like, astronomical, like, levels of, like,
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: you know, Juve was here and Milan was here or
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: vice versa.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: Like, it was very, like, just balancing of scrappy play.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: A lot of loose balls, if you ask me, especially
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: in the midfield, like, you know, giving away balls like very,
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: very cheaply, in my opinion. And like the quality chances
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: just weren't there. Obviously, you know, Juve, Nico Gonzalez hitting
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: the post, you know, having those little moments on another day,
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: maybe on another keeper, that's probably a goal, right?
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: You know, stuff like that.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: But with all that to be said, Milan only, you know,
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: two minutes away from stealing points at Juventus, I think
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: was the biggest thing on the Milan side Even though
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: he didn't play up to your standards, you know, you
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: had to hope and pray that, you know, your subs worked.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: And obviously Cissé comes on seven minutes later, he scores.
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: Chukwueze makes an appearance and he has, you know, a
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: good shift when he does come on. So I think
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: the starting 11 for some Milan fans was a bit questionable.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: We obviously saw Diego Moreira getting his debut. It was
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: a bit of a weird one for me, getting his
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: debut at the Allianz Stadium against a rival in Juve.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: He didn't look up to it. He looked a bit nervous.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: I don't know what it was. He kind of looked
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: a bit all over the place, but listen, I think
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: at the end of the day, both teams will take it,
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: take the draw and go. They're still undefeated in the season.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: But again, you know, there's already three teams ahead of us, right?
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: There's already, to your point, Anthony, you know, Como, Roma,
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: you know, obviously Inter is Inter. They're going to be.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: There, unfortunately, if we like it or not.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Lazio, surprising start.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: Lazio, right? Exactly. Lazio too.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: Another 3-0 team.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: So we already have like these like three, four teams,
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: five teams that are like in and around, you know,
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: our teams, right, and that's not to mention, you know,
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: obviously when Napoli wakes up or, you know, when Atalanta's
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: playing well, you know, good football as well, so it's,
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: you know, for me in the heat of the moment,
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: if I'm honest, I'm a bit upset, you know, probably
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: you guys too, you know, you wanted the three points,
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: I think the three points would have been obviously a
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: lot better.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: You know, you go, you run away with one, you
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: move on. And it's, it's, it's one of those things where, again, we.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Say it every, every year that we've done this podcast,
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: there's no easy games in Serie A. It's just one
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: of these leagues that it doesn't matter if you're playing
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: Lecce or if you're playing Juventus, it's, it's going to
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: be a tough matchup.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: So I want to see, we spoke about it last week,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: you know, First real.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: Tests for the Juves, for the Milans, you know, for
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: the Napolis, right?
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Obviously against Inter. You know, I think for Milan's first
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: two games, you know, on paper, those were winnable games.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Juve as well. You know, Napoli had, you know, the
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Como game. It was what it was.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: Roma, I think, was able to really, you know, do
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: their part. So first real test, again, for a Milan perspective,
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: I don't want to say a pure failure. but I
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: would probably give like a C, you know, instead of,
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: you know, the F, right? Maybe a C, C minus
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: in that range because didn't take full advantage of the opportunity,
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: even being on the road. So still need to see
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: more from our clubs. I could speak for Milan. I
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: don't know about you guys, for Juve, because it's only
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: going to get more difficult. And I think starting fast is,
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: It's obviously a big plus, and there's already so many
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: teams around us. Again, I know it's still early in
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: the Serie A season, and a lot can change, but
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: staying relevant and staying in the race as the season
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: goes on, I think, is a big point to be at.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: So again, seven points out of two games, I think
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: talking to maybe some Milanisti and probably some Juventini, they'd
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: probably sign up for that.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: So it's not all doom and gloom. No, for sure.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: I guess, I mean, like you said, the first two
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: games of the season were must-win games. And those are
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: the games that hurt teams in their championship run. Like Roma,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: like a lot of my friends are Roma fans, and
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: they would lose points to small teams all the time.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: And that's what hurts them in their Scudetto runs or
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: their Champions League runs, right? So I guess the first
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: two games of the season, Juve and Milan put them away,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: and then they had a big one. But, I mean,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: like you said, for the last few years, the Milan-Juve,
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: I think the rivalry... has kind of cooled off as
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: the years went on because Juve wasn't the Juve of
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: the past. Milan wasn't the Milan of the past. And
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: Berlusconi and Agnelli, they were like on a boat together.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: So you have Juve and Milan fighting and the two
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: owners are on a boat in a yacht somewhere together
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: having dinner. And it was always like a little bit
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: of sympathy, you know, between the two clubs, even though,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: you know, they battled to dominate Serie A for years.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: the Juve-Milan games have become less and less of a spectacle,
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: you know, as a Milan Inter or Juve Inter, you know,
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: it's kind of died down and you see it in
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: the results. I think like between the clubs, they've been
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: like fixing results for the last, you know.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: Well, it's like a, it's not a derby, but it's like,
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: you know, it's a big, it's big on big, right?
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: Like as they say, right?
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: So it's a historical matchup over the years, right? And
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: another thing I just want to throw out there, just,
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know if we're going to move on, but,
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: um you know obviously the the tifo you know just
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: respecting the barezzi right obviously with his passing you know
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: and just the the banner that they had up so
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: again uh we like to bash heads you know milan
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: and juve fans but um just for that i wanted
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: to throw that out there because uh it shows something
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: uh you know with the with the tifosi and and
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: being uh you know respectable not just not just because
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: they have to, but it's for a Serie A legend,
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: for an Italian legend, you know, Barresi obviously passing away
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: and just them doing that banner, I mean, it just,
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: it shows something.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: In my opinion.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can imagine me in the super locker room
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: trying to explain to these 20-year-old guys who Barresi was,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: you know? And I always post like Dembele and Yamal, blah, blah, blah,
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: but we didn't watch Del Piero and Totti in Serie
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: A in the 2000s. And it's crazy what these players
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: are doing today, like, I mean, you can't hide what
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Yamal is doing or what Mbappe has done, but everything
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: they did or everything they're doing, I saw, I saw
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Di Natale, I saw Totti, I saw all these players
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: do it, you know, and they show a highlight reel
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: of Messi with a backheel. Totti was doing those in
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: his sleep. You know, people say, yeah, you can't compare,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: but it's generational and you're crazy, but we saw that
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: in Serie A. You know, in the Serie A that
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: I grew up with week in, week out. He had
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: R9 versus Totti. You had Zidane versus, you know, like,
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: what are we talking about? You know, but the people
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: that I mix with every day, the young players from
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: the Supra, these guys, like, I'm ominous with them. Like,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: for me, there's like, in Calcio, there's AD and BC.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Before Calcio, 2010 and down, I can talk to you
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: about anything. I can tell you what color underwear Deschamps
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: was wearing when Juve won the Champions League. Today, these
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: young guys with the FIFA app on their phones and
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: we have like in our clubhouse, we have the TV
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: and they have highlights on. They know the left back
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: from Charlton Athletic, the center midfielder from Coventry. And I'm like, guys,
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: I watched El Piero and Totti what are you talking
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: to me about? And like, they don't, they can't live
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: it because they won. They haven't seen Italy at a
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: world cup a hundred years. They haven't seen an Italian
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: team perform in Europe besides Atalanta that won the Europa League.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: So you can't blame these, the younger generation to say like,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: who's this old man? He's crazy. He's talking to me
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: about who Van Basten, like, You know, so it's tough.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: And every day I pull out hair, right? Because I'm like, what?
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Franco Barresi? And they'd be like, we have no idea.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: I'm like, probably the greatest libero of all time. So
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: those are the conversations. And I'm like, am I getting
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: old or I'm just disconnected?
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: I just want to add to that. Romo won the
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: Conference League. That's another European title.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying.
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: True. And they shit in the Europa League the year after.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: And penalties, yep.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Argentina went to how many finals in the Conference League?
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: They should have won, right?
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Three in a row, I think, no?
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So, anyways. Nick, you had a question?
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: I guess plenty. I don't know if, Johnny, you had
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: anything you wanted to ask? You've been quiet for a bit.
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: No, I mean, like, I'm just having my late night supper,
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: you know.
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: I'm just listening because I didn't have a chance to
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: eat dinner. But, no, I just find it fascinating because, like,
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: I kind of get those vibes, too, as a teacher. Like,
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: you teach the high school kids and stuff, and you
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: hear them saying these names, and you have these moments
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: where you're like, like, that's.
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: So, I feel so disconnected.
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: Like, you hear even, like, young Italian kids, like my
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: younger cousin's, And they're playing soccer outdoors.
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: And they're not saying Italian names. They're saying, I'm Mbappe. No,
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: I'm going to be Mbappe. Or I'm going to be
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: Yamal and all that stuff. And I'm just there like.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: This is bad, man.
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: This is, I don't know what's going on.
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: I want off, I want off this ride, please.
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: Emergency exit button, push it.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: I couldn't agree with you more. Like all the young
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: kids are, so, you know, like 10 years ago, it was,
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: you know, Barca and Real, Ronaldo and Messi. And now
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: it's Jamal, Mbappe, Haaland. And one of my good friends,
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: he has two kids. And for Christmas, he got a
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Liverpool and a Man City jersey. And I'm like, you're
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: a Napoli fan. And he's like, yeah, but the kids,
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: they don't, you know. And it's crazy that all of
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: the younger generation, they're looking up to Premier League players
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: or Ligue 1 players or La Liga players. different nationality
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: players because you know italy doesn't have a player that
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: you can really look up to i mean you could
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: speak about some young players that are coming through and
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: you know might have bright futures but they're not dominating
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: yet and there's no italian team that's making a splash
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: so these young kids they get on the fifa they
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: watch tv their friends are playing fifa and whatever and
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: the first thing is you know mbappe is 99 on
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: fifa or holland is this and there's no kids are
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: not growing up a Napoli fan because, you know, your
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: grandfather supported Napoli or a Milan fan because your dad,
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: that's not the case anymore. All of my friends that
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: have younger kids are not supporting the team that they
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: supported because it's just, it's just not there. You know,
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: like I remember like Johnny, like the picture in your background,
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: I remember where I was, who I was with. I
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: can tell you exactly, you know, These young kids don't
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: have the moments that we lived, you know, whether it
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: be Euro 2000 or whatever, you know, so.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: I was at home watching these penalty shots and it
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: was like one of my favorite moments of watching it.
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: I was also at home during the finals and that's
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: also where I realized like one of the greatest disappointments
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: of my life and really said, like really solidified my
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: hatred for France because 98 and 2000 back to back.
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: But one thing I do want to say is that
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: I've noticed that the trend with kids today or the
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: youth today, and I'm not, I'm not being like an
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: old man, like, ah, the Utes, the Utes. No, like,
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: I'm not saying that. But I find people are becoming
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: more fans of players. They're not becoming fans of teams.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: Of teams, yeah.
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: Like, kids are just wearing jerseys of players no matter
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: which team they go to. And it's irritating because it's like, okay,
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: but when this player retires, what are you going to do?
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: Just going to move on. Just going to change the player.
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: It's like, it's... there's a history behind every team.
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: Like the club should be bigger than the player, but
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: now it's getting to a point where the players are
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: becoming bigger than the clubs.
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: And it's, I don't like what it's doing to soccer
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: in a sense. Like it's, it sounds bad.
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: That like, I'm not trying to, like, I'm not trying
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: to sound like a relic, but I'm just saying like,
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: it's like Tati was, was the King of Rome.
• 42:25
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: But he would never, he would make sure he was
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: never bigger than Roma. You know what I mean?
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: Like he made sure that when he, when he left
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: and whatever he did in Roma was in humility. you know, like, yes,
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: he had success there in a sense that he wanted
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: to put that for the team, you know, he wanted
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: Coppa Italia and stuff like, but he never, like, really
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: made it about him or, like, even today, you know, like,
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: for him, like, he, for him, it's like, like, he
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: wanted to elevate the club and fucking Maldini for Milan,
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: you know, like, Maldini's never going to make himself bigger
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: than Milan, never, never, you know, Del Piero would never
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: make himself bigger than Juve, but, It's like all these players,
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: they're chasing that bag, which, hey, good for them.
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: Make that money while you can.
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: But they're trying to build themselves as brands.
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: It's like they're the reason why you're watching soccer.
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: Not for the passion of the team, but them.
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: They are the reason why you're watching.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: I guess I realize with your observations, it kind of
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: made me realize too, and that's why I just wanted.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: To add to that. No, you're 100% right. And again,
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: you go to a park today, right? Right now, you
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: go to a park anywhere– near your house and you'll
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: see a bunch of kids playing soccer and just look
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: at all the jerseys, right? It's the same three or
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: four names, but you won't see an Inter jersey, a
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: Milan jersey, a Roma jersey, a Napoli jersey, especially not
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: in St. Leonard. You know, so it's... You'll see a
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: Ronaldo Al Nasser jersey.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: You'll see a Ronaldo Al Nasser jersey. Yeah.
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: Bro, that person wouldn't have known where Al Nasser is
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: on the map if it wasn't for Ronaldo, right? Just
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: to put things into perspective, so... I got, I told again, guys,
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: we can space on here all night. And it's cause
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: I totally agree. Uh, but it's a bit sad, uh,
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: actually a lot sad if I'm, if I'm honest, because
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: I think, you know, I, again, me and Nick kind of,
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: I feel like we're kind of like somewhat in the same,
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: not the same generation, but like kind of the similar ish,
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: like from, from your experiences, Anthony down to Johnny's down
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: to me and Nick's, I think it's like, we've kind
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: of touched like all three bases and, um, I think, like,
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: my next generation, I think, is, like, the last of, like, the,
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: maybe not the last, maybe even a bit under us,
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: but it's one of the last, like, of, like, you know,
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: really supporting the team, like, don't, you know, non si tradisce, right, from, like,
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: from the team, right, like, don't, you know, you don't
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: go against the team, like, no matter what, ups, downs,
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: it doesn't matter, you stick with your club, and, again,
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: we're losing that in football today, you know, right, it's just,
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: it's a sad reality, and, again, it's no, we've said
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: it so many times on this show, like, we sound
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: like broken records, but, like, The era of the bandera,
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: that's gone.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: It's a business. It's a true business now.
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: We're beating a dead horse and it's a shame because
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: it shouldn't be that way. The pure art form of
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: this sport is what got so many of us invested
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: in it.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: It is a shame.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: Again, it doesn't help when the league that we love
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: and support is so behind in terms of... Again, we
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: can go on in depth, but in so many different aspects.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: It's no kidding that, you know, little Gennaro at the
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: park is watching, you know, Liverpool and Man United on
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: TV when, you know, Italy's rights, you know, here or
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: elsewhere in different countries are so far behind and they
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: don't cater to, you know, that international market.
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: So, again, that's a whole other conversation for, I think,
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: a different day because we'll be here all night. But, Nick,
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: I know I think you had some other questions to ask.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to try to reel it back in
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: to Juve. You know, I know you mentioned Coppa Italia,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: top four, this and that. Europa League starts next week.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: This is a competition that Juve went to the semifinals
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: just over three years ago.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: Starts this week, no? Next.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Champions League is this week. And Champions League is Tuesday, Wednesday,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Thursday this week. And then Europa League is next week.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: So I don't know who Juve plays. I'm going to
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: be honest. can't tell you the need, the opponents that
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: he was playing. Some of them are created team on FIFA. Um, but, uh,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: you know, do you, do you have expectations? Cause me personally,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: I think this is a tournament.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be honest.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: I have to go to win that. You know, they,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: they need a, it's been 30 years since they've won
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: a European trophy. This is the opportunity. We almost got
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: it a couple of years ago. This is this right now.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: This is a competition for you, right? It's not, you know,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: champions league.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: We never had a chance.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: It's been, It's been a while since Juve's even won
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: a knockout round in the Champions League. It's been since 2019.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: So to go out and go far in the Europa
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: League will be huge. But for me, I think they have.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: To win it. I think for the number of times
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: that Juve has been in the Europa League, I mean,
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: in the past, Juve was in the Champions League. It
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: wasn't even a question, but we've been through some tough times.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: And I think to bring back, like you said, to
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: bring something to the supporters, to bring something to the fans,
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: to bring something to the team, they have to at
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: least attempt to make a run, show the supporters their
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: investments is going to bring back some sort of dividends.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: And based on paper, I mean, you can't even say
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: that anymore because there's so many, like there's English teams
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: in the Europa League that they've spent more money than
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: Juve that could make a run. But I think Juve
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: has to go out and try to win the Europa League.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: they have to try it. And if it's not for the,
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: for their, their, their bankroll, it's, it's for the supporters.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, like you said, right, we haven't, we haven't
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: won anything in Europe since 96. My sister was born
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: the day Juve won the Champions League. So my, I
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: can never really forget it. And that's basically what I
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: text her every year. You know, that 23 years ago,
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Juve won the Champions League and you were born. And
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: then like the year after, like 24 years ago, counting those,
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: We've been counting those birthdays until.
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: Nick was born a couple of months later.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: So no, I remember, I remember exactly where I was,
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: who I was with.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: You were born a couple of weeks later.
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: So yeah. Yeah, no.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: So that's it. So we have to, and just to
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: think about it, like Lazio has won two trophies in
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: Europe after Juve, you know, like we have in Rome
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: has won a trophy in Europe, you know, like the, the,
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: the finals that we made, like we made it to
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: 175 finals and lost them all. But yeah, I mean,
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: it's not enough for a club with a history like Juve,
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: but if you just look, you know, just look at
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: the roster and just look at the players that we're
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: bringing in. You know, I watch different podcasts online and,
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: you know, we signed Koulou Mouani, who did very well
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: for us in his first stint, you know, and he
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: wanted to come back to Torino and We wanted to
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: bring him back at all costs. And you're following like
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: your news on your phone and like the back and forth.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: And are we getting him? We're talking about Koul Mouni
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: like he's Ibrahimovic. You know, we're talking about Koul Mouni
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: like he's Trezeguet. This is what we've come to. We've
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: lowered our standards as a club to make this signing
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: at all costs. Like we're talking about Trezeguet who scored
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: 150 goals. for the club, you know?
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: So I just think we bring down the standard. Not me,
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: not you, but like Juventus has brought down the standard.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: Is it economics? Is it the power of Serie A
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: and attracting the top talents? But we're obviously not signing
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: the players that we signed in the past. And our
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: record on signing players in the last, I'd say, seven
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: to eight years has been next to zero. I mean,
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: there was moments where you saw that Vlaovic, the Fiorentina Vlaovic,
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: but 80, 85 million, almost 90 million euros, you know,
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: and now he's gone, you know? So I don't know.
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: I don't have the answers for you.
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's tough.
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: And like, just on your point of, You know, just
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: the separation. And, you know, obviously this includes Juve, it includes,
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: I think, all Serie A clubs. And you say, you know,
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: having won in so long. And, you know, we say
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: this almost like every year at some point during the
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: year and just, you know, now that Champions League is back, right? And,
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: you know, obviously European competitions are back and we saw
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: it today and whatever, you know, Inter losing to Real.
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: And it's not to pick on Inter, just there happened
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: to be the game today. But, you know, an Italian
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: team hasn't won a champions league, right. Since, since what,
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: since 2010, right. Into 2010, right. When they won the treble.
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: And before that, it was three years prior in Milan, right.
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: In 07.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: So, um, you know, I can add to, I know you.
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: Say you don't have the answers, but anything to add
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: to like, as to like why we're getting to, like,
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: we've gone into finals, right. Like we've seen, obviously you guys,
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: you know, you've made it, you know, those handful of finals,
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: Inter made those, those two finals in recent, in recent memory, um,
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: you know, semifinals appearances, whatnot. you know, anything you can
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: kind of pinpoint just as being so invested in the
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: sport to say like why we're so far off, especially
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: when it comes to Europe. And we said even before,
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: and we want to go a step below, right. Um,
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: in the Europa league or, you know, even the conference league,
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: we just mentioned Fiorentina three finals, three losses. Like, are
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: we that behind as a, as a, as a league
• 51:28
  Speaker 5: that we always say we are, but are we truly
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: that behind or just what's your thoughts on just the, um,
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: the gap between, you know, the Serie A and, and, and,
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: you know, obviously European competitions.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: Look, I mean, we have these discussions all the time
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: and we get together with the boys and we talk about,
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: you know, Serie A and financial, financially that we can't
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: keep up with the Premier League or La Liga. And
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: then we speak about, you know, the foreigners in Italy
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: and there's in the infrastructure and the youth academies and
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: the corruption. There's so many little, details that make up
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: the big picture, but even though, like, you know, they
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: talk about the problem with the Primaveras, the Vivaios are
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: all made up of stranieri, and there's so many details that,
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: you know, not everybody knows about how much an Italian
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: player costs compared to a player from Eastern Europe or
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: an African player or a player from South America. There's
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: all kinds of, you're dealing with the agents and whose
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: envelopes and it's a disaster right now.
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah. But that being said, it's like when you watched
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: or you followed Calcio Mercato as a kid, it was like, okay,
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: we wait for that summer transfer window and you'd sign
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: like one or two big names. And then you'd still
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: have 18, 19 guys from the year before. And you
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: bring in two, three guys and sell a guy. And
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: then they would stay in their clubs. Players would sign
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: a four year deal and stay for four years. Whereas now,
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: like certain clubs, you know, some of the mid-table teams,
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: every year there's 11, 12 new players on the field.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: And it's not to, you know, Imovic and Lakovic and Ukavic.
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: I can't keep up anymore. It's literally like, and it's
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: hard to follow Serie A because the transfers that come
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: in and out of every big team and any team
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: is crazy. So what happened in the past where you know, 1995, 1996,
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: Juve won the Champions League and then, you know, they
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: kind of, Viali left and we brought in a few players,
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: we brought in Bocic and then, okay, the team is
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: still there, we brought in Bocic and Zidane and we're
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: going to continue to build and we brought in Vieri
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: and then the names were there, they did well, you
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: followed the team but they had an attack to the sweater.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: These guys came and they played for the team, they
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: bled whether it was Milan, Juve, Inter, Zidane became Juventino.
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: He was no longer French. Zidane was Juventino. And then
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: after he was French. That doesn't exist anymore. And that
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: goes for all Italian teams. Like Milan. I mean, I'm Juventine. Nick,
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: you're Juventino. But Milan represents Italy on a world stage.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: There's Real. There's Liverpool. There's Milan. Milan. And then there's
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: the second teams, the Manus, the Juves. Milan is Italy's
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: biggest team, historically. The Champions League speak for themselves. The Scudettos, whatever,
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: it doesn't really matter. But there's players playing for Milan
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: over the last few years that they just come through.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: They don't realize the shirt they're wearing. And maybe they
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: can't because, you know, the glory days, I'm going to
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: say the glory days, Milan won in 07 and 03,
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: but you know, Serie A is looked at as a
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: stepping stone now, whereas Serie A in the past was
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: the place to be. And, you know, players left Italy
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: to go and drink beer in England because England was
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: a beer league. You know, like Zola went to England,
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: Di Canio went to England. These guys would go to
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: England to retire, you know, and it's not the case anymore.
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: So I think if we put away Everything we just
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: mentioned about the academies and the infrastructure and the corruption,
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: players don't have an attachment to their teams. They don't
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: connect for long enough and they don't feel it. They
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: don't feel what it is. And a lot of ex-Juve
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: players have been saying, you know, he's not a player
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: from Juventus. He doesn't know what it is, the DNA
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: of Juventus.
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: They don't.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: And it goes for Milan as well. The only team
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: that's been able to balance that all in the last
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: years is Inter that they have players in players out,
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: but the system has been the same. The structure has
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: been the same. They replace a player here or there,
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: and they're able to compete and represent Italy on the
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: European stage with some Italian players. And I was the
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: first that, you know, I shot on Inter for a
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: hundred years because they had two Italians, a backup goalie
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: and Materazzi, you know, like, and, they're actually, in the
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: years that were coming, they actually played Italians, you know?
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: At Di Marco, they had Bastoni, they had Barella playing.
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: They had Italians playing, whereas, I mean, Juve, I mean,
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: if it wasn't for Di Gregorio last year, there were
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: some games we had Di Gregorio and Ten Stranieri, you know?
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: Milan too. Milan too. It's the same idea.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: And now it's Vicario and Ten Stranieri. And that's what
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: I noticed, too. Even at the start of the game,
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: I was like, man, there's not a lot of Italians
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: on this Juve team. Like, besides Locatelli, I think... I
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: think he was the only outfield player, the only Italian outfielder.
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: Who started the match, I believe so. Yeah, I think
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: you're right.
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: If Cambiasso doesn't play, it's usually Locatelli and now Vicario.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then Gatti scores.
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: And then Gatti scores. He comes off the bench and
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: scores too as an Italian. I totally agree.
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: I had seen a post. Again, I don't remember who
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: posted it.
• 57:16
  Speaker 5: It was Cacciatore Brutti or one of these pages. It
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: was like Dortmund had fielded more Italians on the pitch
• 57:26
  Speaker 5: in their game against whoever they played over that over
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: the last weekend or this weekend, sorry. Then, then Milan,
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: then Milan did in Milan Juve or even Milan Venezia too.
• 57:36
  Speaker 5: So it's like, and they had three, Inacio, Dejani, and,
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: and I forget who else, who was the third one.
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: But just to say, you know, abroad, out of the country, Germany,
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: not far, but still abroad, you know, fielding three Italians and,
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: you know, two, two full lineups, 22 players, you can't
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: muster up more than three Italian players. So obviously, again,
• 58:00
  Speaker 5: that's a whole other talking point and that's definitely alarming.
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: One thing I did want to kind of throw in here,
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: I know we're kind of going a lot on time
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: here and we don't want to take too much of
• 58:11
  Speaker 5: your time, Anthony, but one thing I've been seeing and,
• 58:15
  Speaker 5: you know, kind of been interesting because we always have
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: some sort of problem or some sort of, you know,
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: disagreement or the VAR or this or that, some sort
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: of controversy in this league. It's kind of like Serie
• 58:31
  Speaker 5: A and controversy kind of go hand in hand, right?
• 58:33
  Speaker 5: So what have you made, again, with, again, still early,
• 58:38
  Speaker 5: but in 30 matches, no, I believe no nil-nil draws,
• 58:42
  Speaker 5: no VAR interventions, no penalties given from what I've been seeing.
• 58:47
  Speaker 5: I know they've kind of implemented that this season with,
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: you know, the referees, you know, or Sato, again, Not
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: a fan of Versato, but he's kind of laid the
• 58:55
  Speaker 5: law down with that, kind of really going with what
• 58:57
  Speaker 5: we saw a bit in the World Cup and a
• 58:59
  Speaker 5: bit of some of these other leagues of really letting
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: things play and not call every single damn foul that
• 59:06
  Speaker 5: you see on the pitch and not really making these
• 59:08
  Speaker 5: guys play. and just your thoughts on that Anthony just
• 59:12
  Speaker 5: how you've seen these Serie A matches go is this
• 59:16
  Speaker 5: a step in the right direction is this a plus
• 59:17
  Speaker 5: for our league because again kind of tying it in
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: with our the discussion we just had with you know
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: the discrepancy between Serie A and Europe we've.
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: Said this to ourselves, on the show, whoever, you know,
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: whoever or wherever it.
• 59:33
  Speaker 5: May be, that would be called in Serie A, but
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: we're not getting that call in Europe. Or, oh my God,
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: that's a call. No, guys, we're used to Serie A.
• 59:41
  Speaker 5: That's what we get called in Serie A. We don't
• 59:43
  Speaker 5: get called that in Europe because Europe, it's in Champions League,
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: it's very, you know, black and white. What has been
• 59:48
  Speaker 5: your thoughts on how these games have gone on with
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: these kind of new, I don't want to say new,
• 59:53
  Speaker 5: but kind of like different ruling systems and just how
• 59:56
  Speaker 5: the officiating has been and just the, again, the excitement
• 59:59
  Speaker 5: of the matches and no boring, no, no draws.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, look, I'm, I'm pretty prehistoric when it comes to,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: to football. I mean, if you, you know, you follow
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: me on social media, I'm always like posting something from
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: the eighties and nineties. And I always comment like reset football,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: football needs to reset like to the days when said, yeah, dominated.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: Like I live in the past, so I can't enjoy
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: the future. But like the VAR, you know, speaking about
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: the VAR, like, I think the VAR is a good
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: thing for football because it has, you know, pointed out
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: these details or a goal or a foul or a
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: penalty that we would have never, never been able to
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: call in the past. So it does well, but it's
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: taken away so much of the beauty of the game.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: You know, player scores, he runs into the crowd, he
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: jumps in, he celebrates. Seven minutes later, we come back.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: There was a foul a hundred yards down the field.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: I won't speak about Egypt, Argentina, but, Just, you know,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: like it takes away from the beauty of the game.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: And I believe that, you know, like in England or
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: like in the Champions League where things are, it keeps
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: the rhythm of the game going and not calling every
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: single foul. It can only do good for the fan.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: But I also miss the days where like a PK was,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: there's a PK, you know, and they would speak about
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: it all day on TV. Now, like every game, you know,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: up until it has four PKs. VAR, PK. If the
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: game finishes 5-4, there's four PKs for one team, three PKs,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: four suspensions. Honestly, if the VAR is not utilized properly
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: and nobody actually knows the rules, because in Serie A
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: there's always somebody on pressing or Rai or Domenica Sportiva
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: that changes the rules of the VAR, I would just
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: remove it. Have goal-line technology, which I think is important.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: Maybe some sort of virtual assistant for the offside, like
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: in the CPL. And then just let the game play out, man.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: Let the game play out. But, I mean, they're going
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: to say, you're Juven Dini. You used to steal the
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: games before the VAR, so I'm not the one to
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: comment on this situation.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 5: No, but what I do like, just, like, just, you know,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 5: kind of bring in more modern, whatever. What I do
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 5: like is that they have, like, called less fouls, especially
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 5: in the middle of the park. Like, we have seen
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 5: more actual football. And, like, the stats are there, right? Again,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: I don't remember the numbers on top of my head,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 5: but we've been seeing more minutes of actual football being
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 5: played in these Serie.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: A matches than we have in the past. In terms
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: of time, right?
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 5: Not all these stoppages that we've kind of like taken
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: off of like actual game time in the Serie A.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: So for me, that's a plus. At the end of
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: the day, we want to see game time.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 5: We don't want to see fouls every two seconds because
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 5: I feel like in Serie A, and again, you know,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 5: the guys have their opinions, whatever, but We've seen so
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 5: many stop.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: We've been taking hours to get the game going, especially
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: when the VAR.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: Came into the league. Again, for me, a bit of
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: a breath of fresh air. I don't know how long
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 5: it's going to last. I don't know if this is
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 5: the future, but I can't say I've really.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: We.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 5: Haven't been on the show... Again, it's only week three
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 5: going on to week four. I don't think we've come
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 5: on the show yet this season and spoken about a
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 5: controversy with a penalty not given this not giving of our,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 5: you know, mess up or having or Sato or whoever
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: it may be going afterwards and saying, oh yeah, the
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 5: ref fucked up and this should have been called. But
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 5: now you can't bring those points back. You can't bring
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 5: that goal back, you know, days later, right? So we
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 5: used to always get frustrated about that. This season, we
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 5: haven't seen that. In seasons past, like by week three,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 5: we would have already had like at a very minimum
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 5: three controversies to talk about. in one of our games
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 5: or another game in the, in the league. And for that,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 5: I think has been a plus and just the letting
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 5: of the play go, um, especially like, especially in like
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 5: the big matchups, like you always want to see that,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 5: like continue, like no controversy, let the game go, let
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 5: the game flow, uh, especially in deadbies or, you know,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 5: historical matchups.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: Like we saw this weekend, you.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 5: Know, Juve, uh, Milan and, and, you know, even, you know,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 5: Napoli Inter right over, over, over the weekend, over the
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 5: weekend to that crazy game, right?
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: Like the comeback of Inter.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 5: And the, and the three, two, I don't remember off
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 5: the top of my head, but I don't think there's
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: any controversy there. Maybe here or there, okay, this should
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: have been a foul, that should have been a foul,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 5: but for the most part, it was clean football. So
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: if we can go on that path, that's the point
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 5: I want to make. If that's the path we can
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 5: get on to make this league better, I think for
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: me it's a plus.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: Nick, I don't know if you've kind of saw that too.
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  Speaker 4: I've been seeing that online, so I just wanted to
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  Speaker 4: bring it up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to complain that Colomonia was fouled before
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: the CC goal, so I'll leave it at that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. I guess I'm confused.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 4: I'm confused. I didn't see it.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, that would have been called back. But look,
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  Speaker 1: I've said a million times on this podcast, as long
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: as it's consistent. So if Juve scores a goal later
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  Speaker 1: in the season and there's a similar event beforehand and
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: it's not called, fine.
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  Speaker 2: It's about consistency. Whatever the rule is, right?
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  Speaker 3: My Roma friend said there might have been a foul.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: So if my Roma friend says that and he hates Juve,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: there could have been. I didn't see the extended highlights,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: so I didn't see the foul before the goal, but
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: I read it on some of my Instagram.
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  Speaker 4: I closed my eyes. I guess I closed my eyes.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see it.
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  Speaker 2: Just like Mariani.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Look at it this way. Serie A is the only
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: league in the world that has dedicated shows just to
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: discuss replays and video errors. There's no hockey... football, uh, baseball,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: basketball shows that talk about referee errors, errors and replays.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: But in Italy, just how we are dramatic in general,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: Italians are dramatic. Our grandmothers are dramatic. Uh, we have
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: shows just to talk about referee errors, nowhere in the world,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: but said, yeah, but that's what it's beautiful. That's why
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: it's beautiful.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: You know, you gotta love it. You have to love it.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: Um, anyways, Anthony, uh, I feel like we could talk
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: to you all day about Calcio, but we'll have to
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: let you go.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: We know you have to go on a run as well.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 4: Is it charged? Is it charged?
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: Check the phone. I didn't check it yet, but I
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: got to go pick it up because I got to
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: leave the house at 6.30 tomorrow morning.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: I don't want to keep you up too late.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: Listen, all the best to you guys with Supra. I
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: forgot who you're playing this. Are you playing this upcoming week? Yeah,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: you are.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: Halifax is here at home.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the 12th. It's here at home. Yeah.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: And then Forge next week in Hamilton. Seems like there's
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: already a bit of a rivalry. Seems like you guys
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: played Forge 28 times already this season.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 4: I like to go out of it every other week.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 4: It's like ridiculous.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: When you have a small league, eight teams, 64 times.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: But, you know, here from the three of us, we
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: do love, you know, your accessibility. Everyone on the staff,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: between Rocco, between Paul, between you, Paul says.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: Hello, by the way.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: He just messaged me.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm on the podcast. He's like, oh, tell
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: the guys to say hi.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: He was on before the start of the season. And yeah,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: all the best to you guys. Like you said, it's
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: cool that it's four Quebecers. Do you see what you see,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: like Rocco says? But, you know, for anyone who wants
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: to follow the team, follow you on social media, where
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: can people find you guys?
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: I don't have Facebook or Twitter. I had to delete
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: it because I was fighting too many people. I have
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: an Instagram account and I literally just post about Serie
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: A and coffee. It's pretty much it, man. I don't
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: really have any other passions. So if you follow me,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: you're going to get like some nostalgic videos of somebody
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: scoring some goal in the 80s or something.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: I see it all the time. Like I'm on both.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 5: I'm on our account, on the Culture Guys, my personal account,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 5: because we follow each other and it's just like, cornelli
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 5: again with you know badger this or fucking juve that
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 5: piero you just if.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: You have me if you have me on like 10
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: times i'll have a different badger jersey on every time
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: yeah yeah but i i chose i chose besha today
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: you know maybe next week maybe bologna maybe you never know.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah hey but it's about time but i should get
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 6: some love on the podcast too it's been because they
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 6: haven't been in a while right so it's just.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: Nice to have that jersey too yeah this is actually
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: was a gift uh from one of my players in
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: my club when I was working in Laval. I had
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: a Del Piero t-shirt and he was a big Del
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: Piero fan. So I gave it to him. And then
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: a couple of days later he came and he's like, well,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: my daddy said you can have this. And I was like, what?
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: Are you sure?
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So it was, you know, not match worn, but,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: you know, official 2001, you know, so it's big.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: That's beautiful.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: My bin of uh, my bin of goodies.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 5: And, uh, Anthony, uh, obviously, uh, if anybody wants to, uh,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 5: tickets are still available for this weekend, I assume obviously
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 5: super available.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: It's, uh, actually it's, um, it's like a commemorative match
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: for Jason, Jason, pushing that a lot. And, uh, also, uh,
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: Leonardo da Vinci, the elementary school and RDP. It's like, they're, uh, come,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: come and support. So like a lot of the young
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: students from the school will be there. So yeah, I
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: know for sure. Tickets are still available. I think last
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: week we had like almost 3,500 for the Hamilton game,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: which was fantastic. Really honestly, the fans coming out and
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: listening to the crowd and then coming out of the
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: tunnel and fans are coming at and asking for autographs.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: Like it's, it's nice to see the community coming out
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: and it feels good when the stadium, when the stadium
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: is full, you know, so hopefully we continue to build
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: off that.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 4: Beautiful.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 5: And yeah, guys, listen, go follow Anthony if you want
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 5: a nostalgia trip, I guess you can say, and a
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 5: coffee trip there. And definitely go, guys, we've said it
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 5: on the show many, many times, go follow FC Supra
• 1:10:01
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• 1:10:05
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• 1:10:07
  Speaker 5: If you're listening to this and you're local, it's a no-brainer.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 5: You have to follow FC Supra. So definitely do that, guys.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 5: And for us, like we say every week, at The
• 1:10:15
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• 1:10:18
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• 1:10:20
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• 1:10:23
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• 1:10:25
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• 1:10:28
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• 1:10:32
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• 1:10:39
  Speaker 5: And, uh, and yeah, I think hopefully this is not
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 5: the last. It's definitely not the last for you on
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 5: this show. I, we can probably promise you that. So, Again,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 5: thank you for your time. And yeah, guys, we'll be
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 5: back next week to talk all more cultural.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: We need to do a live, a live show from
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: like Cafe Trocharo. All of us.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that'd be amazing.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 5: We've got to make it happen. Or at the FC
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 5: Super Studios, maybe. I don't know. At the headquarters, we've
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 5: got to pull some strings there and make it happen.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 5: But yeah, guys, we'll be back next week to talk
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 5: a lot more cultural.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me, guys. Have a great night. See
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: you guys soon. Bye.