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Potential dream Italy-Canada matchup in 2026 World Cup - Ep. 290 Ft. Toronto Italians · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: Dreaded or dreamful matchup? Uh depending, how are you looking
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  Speaker 1: at look at it. You're on the couch, guys, Johnny Nicholas,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Drano, joined by a friend Angelo from Toronto
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  Speaker 1: Italians obviously from Toronto.
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  Speaker 2: Angela.
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  Speaker 1: You guys, how's it going?
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  Speaker 2: Good man, you guys, we're doing good.
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  Speaker 3: We're happy to have you back. And it's been it's
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  Speaker 3: been way too long. I think the last time we
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  Speaker 3: had you on it was the Euros, if I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a long and we want and we won.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe I don't know, maybe this is a bit
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  Speaker 3: of good luck. I don't know, So thank a little
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  Speaker 3: bit about Yeah, that's it. So thank you for taking
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  Speaker 3: the time.
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  Speaker 2: That was pressing Jerseys to it. Remember he was working memory,
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  Speaker 2: it was like nine o'clock at night. I was pressing
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  Speaker 2: the seniors and kids and now they're not even on
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  Speaker 2: the team. Guys.
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  Speaker 3: Times I've changed. Times I've changed, But thank you for
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  Speaker 3: your time.
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  Speaker 2: Mane.
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  Speaker 1: Almost five years ago. Then the Euros that Italy would
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  Speaker 1: have won almost five years ago, like you said, has changed,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I think we're all excited for a
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  Speaker 1: potential World Cup four Italy hopefully return after twelve years,
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  Speaker 1: still got hoops to go through a game against Northern
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  Speaker 1: Ireland in March twenty sixth and then potential game against
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  Speaker 1: Bosni or Wales on March thirtieth. But if that happens, guys,
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  Speaker 1: we know who the who Italy's opponents are. We know
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  Speaker 1: when they'll play, when they could play, if they qualify.
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  Speaker 1: I mean to use a lot of I'm gonna use
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  Speaker 1: a lot of hypotheticals in today's episode, guys, potential Canada
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  Speaker 1: versus Italy game on June twelfth in Toronto. Quickly, guys,
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  Speaker 1: let's go round table ten to fifteen seconds each. Give
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  Speaker 1: me your thoughts. What your initial reaction is or was
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  Speaker 1: when you when you found out when you saw the
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  Speaker 1: draw that Italy could play against Canada in Toronto on
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  Speaker 1: June twelfth. We'll start with you Angelo.
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  Speaker 2: My initial thought was, I think it's not good for
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  Speaker 2: Team Canada because there's so many Italians here. The whole
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  Speaker 2: stadium is going to be completely blue. And my second
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  Speaker 2: thought wasn't gonna sell crazy amount jerseys. But I really
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  Speaker 2: say Italy's gonna I still think it'll can win that game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my thought was I honestly, I don't as cool
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  Speaker 1: as it would be. It's I don't want to choose
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  Speaker 1: for a team to cheer four, but if it happens,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be so happy to see Italy back in the
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  Speaker 1: World Cup first of all, And honestly, it's probably a
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  Speaker 1: once in a lifetime game. So I think it'll be
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  Speaker 1: a game where we just embrace, embrace the battle.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny, Johnny, I'll let you go and then I'll finish
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  Speaker 3: it up.
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  Speaker 4: Well, for me, it's like, well, you know what, as
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  Speaker 4: much as you.
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  Speaker 5: Know we're being born a Canadian, I'm first jen so Italian,
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  Speaker 5: so for me it's a growing up was always in Zuity.
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  Speaker 5: So for me, like, as as much as you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's cool to see Italy versus Canada, if that were
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  Speaker 5: to happen, right, remember a lot of big ifs in
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  Speaker 5: this picture. I'm sorry, but I'm gonna be full blown
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  Speaker 5: at Zuty. I'm gonna be wearing my jersey, the flag
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  Speaker 5: and everything. You know, it's it is what it is.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Team Canada can still get my part for
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  Speaker 5: hockey though, that's that's gonna happen there, But.
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  Speaker 4: Come Caucho, it's always gonna be Italy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And to to wrap this, up, guys, I would be
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  Speaker 3: lying to you if I said I wasn't gonna go
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  Speaker 3: for Italy.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know we grew up, we grew up watching Italy.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: This is how you know we got into culture. It's
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  Speaker 3: because of it's because of the Italian national team that
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  Speaker 3: that really kickstarted our fandom. And for me, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: a Julia all the way. I love Canada for sure,
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  Speaker 3: don't get me wrong, but I hope they do well.
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  Speaker 3: But in this matchup, let's take a bit of a break. Canada,
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  Speaker 3: take a bit of a break and let let you
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  Speaker 3: Jui win because it's been too long we haven't seen
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  Speaker 3: them in the World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do want to talk more about this because Angela,
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  Speaker 1: I know on your Instagram Toronto Italians. Uh, everyone obviously
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  Speaker 1: could tell you their teat on Italians. You have a
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  Speaker 1: store in Vaughan. You did post something that it was
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  Speaker 1: reaction from Canadian head coach Jesse Marsh after the game,
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  Speaker 1: after the draw, and he said, you know, he hopes
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  Speaker 1: that all the Italians in Toronto will go out and
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  Speaker 1: wear their Canada jerseys. And you know you're post got
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  Speaker 1: a got a reaction. Obviously a lot of people saying
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna a lot of Yeah, a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: said they're gonna go for Italy. Some people said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna go for Canada. You know, I I remember. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I think I even commented like, hey, you cheer for
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  Speaker 1: who you want to cheer for. I think this is
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  Speaker 1: a really personal topic, right, you know. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: more than just like cultural identity. It's at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, it's sports. Like first of all, guys,
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  Speaker 1: it's not even it's not that serious. You cheer for
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  Speaker 1: the team you want to cheer for. It's like Adri
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  Speaker 1: you cheer for Milan jan you cheer for Napoli, Roma Angelo,
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  Speaker 1: and I we cheer for you. It's almost like that, guys.
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  Speaker 1: And how I see it, it's like for me, if
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  Speaker 1: that happens, honestly, I I I can't cheer against either team.
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  Speaker 1: I think I will have more of a soft spot
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  Speaker 1: for Italy just because this is a team that's you know,
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  Speaker 1: we watched them win the World Cup and O six.
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  Speaker 1: It's a team that I followed a lot longer. But
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it's the first game in the group stage,
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  Speaker 1: zero zero in the standings, It's not like you know,
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  Speaker 1: if it was a third game where maybe Canada needed
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  Speaker 1: the points or Italy needed the.
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  Speaker 2: Points, it's definitely different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of know who you're gonna cheer for
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  Speaker 1: in that case. But in this case, personally, I would
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to draw win. Either wins straight up.
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  Speaker 1: Either team wins, I think I'll be happy with. But
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  Speaker 1: like for me, you know one thing that I didn't like,
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  Speaker 1: honestly from Jesse Marsh saying, Okay, the Italians in Toronto,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta we'll get your kind of jerseys. No, you
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  Speaker 1: for who you want to.
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  Speaker 3: Cheer Fortant boy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was actually watching here in my shop before
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  Speaker 2: I actually posted a realized this.
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  Speaker 3: Guy okayout.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And then I had one of my friends called me,
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  Speaker 2: he's again you have to make the half and half
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  Speaker 2: half red blue. I said, no, bro, I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 2: wear blue and that's it.
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  Speaker 3: Call it.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, no, that's pretty much hidden. Yeah what I
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  Speaker 1: was gonna add, it's like and then again, if there's
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  Speaker 1: an Italian wants to cheer for Canada, it's like let them,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But yeah, sorry, I took over the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: But Angela, what you're going to continue about that.
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  Speaker 2: No, I was gonna just say my thoughts in like,
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  Speaker 2: like technically I'm born here as well. Right, it's second
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  Speaker 2: generation Italian, but growing up watching the Zudi my whole life.
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  Speaker 2: I And you know, obviously Canada just started to be
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  Speaker 2: like a better team like most recently. Right, yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: watching Canada in the twenty twenty two World Cup, considering
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  Speaker 2: Italy wasn't there, Obviously we're going for Canada. But when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to Italy Canada, there's first of all, we'll
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  Speaker 2: never see that ever again, I think in Canada.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, absolutely, I would.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going for the Zudi. There's no doubt, Like we
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  Speaker 2: need a win. We're back in the World Cup. Well,
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  Speaker 2: getting ahead of myself left the first win our qualifiers,
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  Speaker 2: but the big if, the big if, the big if.
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  Speaker 2: I think the second match is a lot harder than
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  Speaker 2: the first, but we're gonna get by the first first. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, and I don't know, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you've been seen online, but I've been seeing so many,
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  Speaker 3: so many like I don't know, creators, content, creators, just
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  Speaker 3: people posting on social media and saying it's a shame
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  Speaker 3: if you don't go for Canada, you're Canadian and this
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  Speaker 3: and that, Like what what do you what do you
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  Speaker 3: make of those types of comments, because at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, like Nick said, you cheer for who
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  Speaker 3: who you want. And again, like I said earlier, mean personally,
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  Speaker 3: I would be lying to you if I said in
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  Speaker 3: that matchup, I would be going for Canada, like I
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  Speaker 3: would be lying to you.
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  Speaker 2: So for me, Italians are going to go for Italy, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, it's difficult.
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  Speaker 5: I think I think I'm more confident to say that
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  Speaker 5: basically all the Italians are gonna be going for Italy.
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  Speaker 5: Like it doesn't make sense that all of a sudden
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  Speaker 5: it just because Canada is in it open to go
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  Speaker 5: for Canada. It's like you have history upon like years,
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  Speaker 5: decades upon decades of supporting this, supporting that team.
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  Speaker 4: What makes you all of a sudden, now that Canada
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  Speaker 4: is in it, that's convincing you.
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  Speaker 5: Enough to swap from supporting the Italian team to the
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  Speaker 5: Canadian national team. I mean, like, I think I wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: blame them if they've been frustrated with the way the
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  Speaker 5: FIGC has been in terms of like how they handle
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  Speaker 5: their players, that maybe they decided, you know what, I'm
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  Speaker 5: fed up, so in spite of Italy and gonna support
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  Speaker 5: Canada in that game. But you know, I don't think
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  Speaker 5: I see any like Napolodani going for Macedonna type against
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  Speaker 5: Italy type of situation.
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  Speaker 4: But in terms of the Italy Canada situation, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean, Like, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Think that's yeah, yeah, I don't know. The ideal thing
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  Speaker 3: in this whole situation. I think would be for both
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  Speaker 3: of them to somehow get out of the group. Because
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  Speaker 3: I think that's possible, right, Like, that's there's still a possibility.
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  Speaker 2: Of that game, right, So it is does that?
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  Speaker 3: Does that where you for Canada? I guess, like you
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  Speaker 3: said Android that that's a terrible matchup for Canada.
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  Speaker 2: You said, I think is a terrible matchup. Yeah, because
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  Speaker 2: it's like even Gattuso I was reading a comment, He's like,
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  Speaker 2: it's like we're playing at home the first game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's aware of the amount of Italians, especially.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that he's been here before too, I remember, So.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I did want to talk about that the
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  Speaker 1: composition of the group, you know, both for Canada and
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  Speaker 1: for Italy. If Italy qualifies, this is a tough group
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  Speaker 1: for you know, a tournament that's forty eight teams that
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  Speaker 1: there's some groups that are really bad. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: think Canada kind of got the short end of the
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  Speaker 1: stick in the draw them being a POW one team
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  Speaker 1: and having potentially to face, potential to face a number
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  Speaker 1: twelve ranked Italy and the number seventeenth ranked Switzerland and Canada.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, at the end of they they're no
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  Speaker 1: slouch themselves. They've gotten better since the twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 1: World Cup, their twenty seventh rngth in the world. There's
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  Speaker 1: a potential for three top thirty teams in one group
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  Speaker 1: in this forty eighteen World Cup. You know, I would
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  Speaker 1: almost say, you feel bad for Qatar, But you know
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  Speaker 1: what I.
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  Speaker 2: Do wish our second game was Guitar, not Switzerland because
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we can be Switzerland for Italy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, that Switzerland game if we were to
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  Speaker 2: make the World Cup, I think that's a draw.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look, perspect.
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  Speaker 2: As of how we're playing now.
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  Speaker 4: For like, I think it's fair to say, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But who knows, right, Like when Italy goes like when
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  Speaker 2: they enter the tournament, they're a completely different team. We
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  Speaker 2: got to just get out of the group. That's usually
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  Speaker 2: how it is. And think about it, we haven't been
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  Speaker 2: out of.
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  Speaker 1: The group since six It's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: It's twenty years, twenty years, and it's twenty long years.
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  Speaker 2: It's a twenty year anniversary.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but like all all things like aside, I think
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  Speaker 3: for I guess you can say both our allegiances if
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  Speaker 3: you will. Uh, for Canada, I do agree, Guys, like
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  Speaker 3: the matchup for the group for Canada, I think is
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  Speaker 3: is a lot tougher. But if on the flip side again,
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  Speaker 3: the big if if Italy does qualify, this couldn't have
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  Speaker 3: been any better in my personal opinion, because this group
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  Speaker 3: is very manageable. I think for Italy, like your biggest
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  Speaker 3: competition will be obviously the Switzerland's and the Canadas of
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  Speaker 3: the world. But in an ideal world, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they should be beating these teams.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say comfortably because we haven't shown that we're
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  Speaker 3: able to really comfortably beat opponents. But you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think being a Pot four team, I think they got
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  Speaker 3: you know, Italy, I know a lot of Italians were
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  Speaker 3: watching that dreadful World Cup draw that took way too
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  Speaker 3: long than they needed to might get into that lager.
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  Speaker 3: But I think a lot of Italians after watching the
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  Speaker 3: final result of that, and he had Judi fans out there,
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure they're they're they're, they're smiling. The biggest thing,
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  Speaker 3: obviously in our way is is the playoff, which has
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  Speaker 3: has you know, cursed us, you know the last two times.
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  Speaker 3: But I honestly, all things aside, I think can Italy
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  Speaker 3: got a potential. I don't want to say easy, because
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  Speaker 3: nothing is easy, but a pretty favorable group if if
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  Speaker 3: if I would say, it's most so myself, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if you guys agree disagree.
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  Speaker 2: I think the first game is is okay, like we
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  Speaker 2: should be good. I think the second game we might
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  Speaker 2: have to play away. I think that might be a problem.
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  Speaker 3: But you're saying for the for the for the playoff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for the playoff, through the balls in your whales.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm saying, if they get into the tournament, let's
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  Speaker 3: say they do win out whatever, and we have a
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  Speaker 3: group consistent of Canada switcher in Qatar. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if if you would have asked me to say, okay,
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  Speaker 3: we're a puff four team and those are the teams
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna get. I would take that every day of
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  Speaker 3: the week, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Considering there's forty teams, we got pretty lucky to get
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  Speaker 2: into that group.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, like the.
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  Speaker 5: Way the way I think about it is that going
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  Speaker 5: to that whole playoff, I think it's better that we're
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  Speaker 5: not playing at home if you make it to that
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  Speaker 5: second game, because both times that they played at home
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  Speaker 5: for these qualifiers, they shot the bed. They shot the
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  Speaker 5: bed because they had all that pressure in front of
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  Speaker 5: the fans and stuff, and you know, you had the
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  Speaker 5: Donal rooma getting the Brooklyn cheers and stuff and whatnot.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I mean, Like it's it's it's situations
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  Speaker 5: like that where this is probably a blessing in disguise.
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  Speaker 5: This actually maybe beneficial for us because we're gonna be
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  Speaker 5: going up. We're gonna you know, we're not playing at home.
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  Speaker 5: We're not gonna feel that additional pressure.
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  Speaker 3: From a lot of pressure.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like as if they're basically gonna use being
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  Speaker 5: on the road as fuel to like, guys, we can't
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  Speaker 5: get comfortable, we can't get like like, we can't assume
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  Speaker 5: this is going to be a positive result for us, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, we have to earn it.
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  Speaker 5: And that's the thing that I really hope Gatuzo drills
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  Speaker 5: in their heads that boys like this, there's no guarantees
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  Speaker 5: you get in there. I think personally speaking, like I'll
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  Speaker 5: get to Gatuzo more in a second. That obviously I've
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  Speaker 5: said it before in podcasts before that, like episodes, episodes,
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  Speaker 5: episodes before that. He's probably he's just a short term coach.
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  Speaker 5: I see him just coaching all the way up to
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  Speaker 5: the World Cup. If they qualify, and then that's it,
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  Speaker 5: and then I think they go with somebody.
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  Speaker 4: Else going forward.
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  Speaker 5: But I think Gutuzo should stay on as a more
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  Speaker 5: of assistant coach type of thing, you know, as a motivator,
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  Speaker 5: instead of just being like the main guy handling everything
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  Speaker 5: strategy wise.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think he's in.
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  Speaker 1: But anyways, did we lose Angel?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah there, Sorry, No, I was gonna I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: ask Angelo. So you know, we're talking about the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: and everything. So we know Ireland in Bergamo on Northern
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  Speaker 1: Ireland s already on March twenty sixth, and then obviously
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  Speaker 1: we know the winner of Bosnia versus Wales away March thirtieth.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think Sorry, thirty first. I think it
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  Speaker 1: is March thirty first. There's thirty first first. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think it have to do? Even in
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  Speaker 1: terms of tactics, like are there certain players you kind
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  Speaker 1: of want to see called up and start for the
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  Speaker 1: national team by March? Like, yeah, what are your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on I was I was.
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  Speaker 2: Reading something that you wanted to play Cristante in a
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  Speaker 2: back three today? Oh do sond for before I get
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  Speaker 2: to Before I get to that? What do you think
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  Speaker 2: about that?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's a big mode for me.
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  Speaker 4: What was the last time piece? Not even played center back?
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  Speaker 5: Like I think it was like like his early early
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  Speaker 5: start at Roma, like you know, like I don't think
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  Speaker 5: he played center back in Atalanta.
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  Speaker 3: The biggest thing is the formation, Like it's so hard.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's another thing. That's another thing we talked about.
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: I agree it should be a fore man back. It
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: shouldn't be a three man back.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: But you know, it would be funny though if if
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: it only makes a World Cup Christante makes a team
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: and then he plays in Toronto and he's I don't
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: think he's from Toronto, but I think his dad's from Toronto,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Like he would just be he would just represent all
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: the talent that is.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think him and his sister saw I
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: was reading some stuff that they've come to Toronto or whatever.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: His dad's from here.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, yeah, Christante center back. It almost feels
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: like Coop Miners.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't even start him, but on the bench is
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: in case too much of a static midfielder. But it's
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: hard who would I want to see called up as
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: of right now? We have to just use who we have,
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Like I don't really know who else we can call up,
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Like I don't know how got called up the last match.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, which is weird because Beat is a different type
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: of He's like he's not a fridge brat Alanta.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: It's weird.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think we're like, come midfield, we're really
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: really stacked. Yeah, the defense after like tournament wise, losing
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Killeen and Bonucci, it's a bit different. Having color Fiordy
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: there doesn't make a difference. As for the strikers. We
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: can need somebody who's going to score. And this was
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: the exact same conversation we're having five years ago. You know,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: we had whatever we did win the Euro was a
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: team effort. But we still don't have a number ten, yeah,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: or number give the number ten too.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think for number nine, I think one player
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: was kind of gaining momentum right now is supposed to
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I know, Rette Gee still the guy, but to have
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: a supposed possibly come off the bench or maybe play
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: as two strikers, I think it's it's good to see
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they probably need to
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: go with guys in those two games and those potential
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: two games that are playing hot. You know, even the
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: topic of Kisa comes up, it's like, Okay, he's playing
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: well for for Liverpool down apparently he declined the last
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: invite to the national team. But there's always right, yeah, exactly,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: there's always that talk. I don't know if if he's
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: a player you think could make it.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Like I think Zaniola could make a big impact. When
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I went to go watch Italy Venezuela, I went to
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: watch into Florida, I was like literally right in front
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: of the bench and when Zaniolo came on, it was
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: was just a friendly match. But you see the difference
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: when he came on, like.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: That creativity that he brings to the team, which is
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: what's kind of missing. Yeah, even when kiss It plays
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: as well, like kiss, we really need him, we really like.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: You know, do you buy? And the refusal of the
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: because of the call up by Gatuso, because that was
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: the biggest talking about.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: To be honest, No, no, I think maybe he's not
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: physically fit. Maybe yeah, he needs to play more, right, Yeah, yeah,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: for sure, that's what I think. I think it was
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: just an excuse maybe, but.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Well maybe a cover up by Gatuso. He decided to
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: cover up what was a possibility.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well we really need him for the qualifiers, so
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: hopefully we can hopefully they call him up right.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm, but I told I just to bounce off
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: to one Nick said earlier. I agree, And I think
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: we had this probably this conversation probably five years ago.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: But you know, going with who's who's inform who's hot,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: because sometimes the name might be bigger than the per
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: than the player that's that's that's informed that hot at
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: the moment. So and in a two game, you know,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: potential two games to to get you into the World Cup,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I don't care what your name is. If you're if
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: you're firing and you're hot and you're able to produce,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: that's what we need. There's no more time, there's no
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: more excuses, there's no more time to make up ground
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: like it's it's it's two do or die matches, uh
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: to to get us to the World Cup.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: So we're there are a lot of under twenty one
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: players that are good, like last year when come out
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: that was playing, Like, I don't understand why we don't
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: call up these players. It's so political, like Lemon Lamal
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: is playing for Spain when he was what seventeen like
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: that actual like senior team. Yeah, so it's.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Like we're using these guys.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: He's like, is really call up in Mobile for example, just.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: For say Baltelli maybe I saw was talking about I
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: know I saw that too, sid or Field, but never mind.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: He would probably do a better job than the guys
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: we have, which is sad to say, which is okay,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Maybe he's not in form, but yeah he could hold ball,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: turn around and he has a rocket of a shot.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean it's not like a zippit.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: I take he's not doing well either like in po
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Exposs still doing a good job too, Like yeah.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: And I think he actually surprised me.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: He I didn't think he was going to be as
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: good as as he's performing right now.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: No, he fights hard. He fights hard, and even if
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: he doesn't score, he's he he works like extremely hard
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: for for a forward, a center forward in my personal opinion,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Ever since he kind of came to Italy and I've
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I've been able to we've obviously been able to watch
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: him a bit more and and I'm a fan, like,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: listen for me if when he goals in the in
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: as you know, the number nine and we've been lacking that,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: and if it's going to be a guy like the TAGI,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: you know, Poesposito, who's young, who's getting that that time
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: to shine. I still like King there. It's unfortunate the
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: season that fjordent Tina is having and again that's just
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: not a you know, that's not obviously his fault of
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: the situation that he's in. But you know, I still
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: like what he can bring because I think for the
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: national team he's a different player. So listen, I think
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: we have the options. It's just a matter of actually scoring.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: So we'll we'll have to wait and see.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I guess yeah, no, definitely, yeah, King King is good though.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm a fan.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: I just think it's honestly just a mentality issue.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: These boys just they don't have that killer mentality and
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: they don't have that fire, and it's like, you know,
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: you need to surround them with a good supporting gas.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: You have Gutuso and Bonucci. That's a great start, but
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: like you need more. You know, Buffon if he's doing
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: an advisor role, get him on the pit like like
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: have that. Like you know how did Ossi was in
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: the euro squad and I've said him many times, like
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: just have something like that. Have guys that have been
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: there before. I know what it takes to drive it
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: into these guys heads, Like you guys have to hate
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: to lose, you know what I'm trying to say, Like
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: it's you have to hate to lose, and obviously just
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: don't play certain players as their positions.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: But it's just it is what it is.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: This is these are the cards that we're dealt with,
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: and this is what's going to continuously happen. The only
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: thing that the team can control is on the pitch.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: They can't control what the FIGC does in development. They
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: can't control what the figc's mentality is on the league
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: itself or what city had teams do with their youth
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: if they want to develop the youth or not, and
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: from their academies and stuff. Don't you think the control
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: is what they can do on the pitch itself, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: they have to remember that. Like, look, these other countries
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: are starting to catch up, right, you can't take them.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: I have already caught up even yeah pastas.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: So you know, let's just say, if Canada were to
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: play Italy today, it'd be a pretty good match to see.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'd be real with you. I think Canada
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: might pull an upset in that type of batchup. I
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: don't have confidence in Italy. That's the insuury.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I agree as well. You have to see how we're
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: going into the tournament. I don't see them. I don't
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: see them going into it. Like Italy playing Canada for example,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: and I was scoring four goals.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: No, I don't see that happening.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: But there's a possibility that maybe we can put the
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: and win one zero, you know what I mean.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: But like a player like Davies will have a field
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: day with the Lorenzo for sure, and I love the Lorenzo.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: It all happened to my life. Everyone loves all the coaches.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: We have loved the Lorenzo.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: But the thing is, you can't put him in a
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: three man back. You need to have him in a
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: four man bad anyways, But like, but I agree with you.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: It's like it's if they would win the game, Italy
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: would be a win zero cat Natal Town. But the
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: thing is the reason why I also don't have confidence
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: that Canada. You know, last World Cup learned a valuable
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: lesson in over confidence. You know, they were a young team,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: they had a bit of snarkiness to them. It was
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: the first time they dominated a qualifying.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Berth to get huh, they're gonna come in very.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Hard, yes, exactly like that that that four to one
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Losster Croatia was the embarrassing lesson that they needed to learn,
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: And and he did a good job that game. You
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: just couldn't score.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: But nonetheless, you know, like now this time coming into
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: this World up, like I feel like as if they've
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: learned their lesson from the last one and like, okay,
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: we're not gonna take it as a joke this time around, not.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: As a joke. But you know, they know what it
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: takes now to go above and beyond to get those results.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: And they do have a good team too, So yeah,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: especially as hosts, right, and you know we're talking about
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the group and stuff, and it's like like top two
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: obviously automatically advanced, but there's a chances that the third
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: place team advances. I think out of twelve the twelve groups,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: eight of the twelve third place teams advanced because there's
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: a round of thirty two. So for Canada, it's like
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: that game against Guitars, must win. They need three points
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: and then you get a result against Switzerland or the
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: UEFA winner, whoever it is. If they want to have
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: a chance to advance. You know, I don't think they're
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: gonna you know, to finish top two is gonna be tough.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna win the group. But Canada
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: has a legitimate shot to advance. Being a home team
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: is also an advantage for them. But they need they
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: need to play smart because guys, we watched this Canadian team.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: They're very emotional, right, we saw that even against Australia
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: kind of fights.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I kind of take that like Canadian hockey mentality almost,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: But they need to play smart. You see that sometimes
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: in the Gold Cup the Red Cars Shaffleberry last year.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: So they can't have none of that red card, you know, nonsense.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I mean we think it's cool because you know, Canada
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: will play Italy here in Toronto. But at the end
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: of the day, out of the three host nations, Canada
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: is the better team out of like us. Like, if
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: you really think about it, Mexico does have a good
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: team as well. But you're right, it's gonna be a
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: good It's gonna be a good match, like the whole
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: group in general will be good to see.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and guys, I think we could all agree on
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: this once you know the potential Canada and Italy game
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: is done. We're cheering for Canada, We're cheering for Italy separately.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Uh And no matter what, guys, if Italy makes it
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: when they play those anthems on June twelfth, on June twelfth,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I'm singing on Canada probably, I'm singing Frattelli Talia probably,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Like it's gonna be such a cool moment. So let's hope, guys,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: let's hope. End of March, I do want to continue
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: talking about the World Cup just for a bit before
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: we switched the city. Yeah, besides, you know, the group
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: that we just talked about are there other groups you
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: guys think kind of caught your eye. Are there any
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: teams that you have as favorites, you know, maybe for
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the World Cup we'll start with Angelo.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Portugal. I like Portugal and France. This
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: World Cup, I think Portugal obviously because it's when all
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: those last World Cup. They're going to go in very hard,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: and I think they have a really good team in general.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Argentina since they won the last World Cup, they're very
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: strong as well.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: It's hard to.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Evens Yeah, for sure, even Spain to Spain is going
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: to be really good. I think Spain, Portugal, France, Argentina,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: those are going to be like the top the top
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: teams to beat.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: England's also good as well.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: They just lost to five two year old Cup finals,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: so we'll have to see, right. Yeah.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Uh, you know, I've just even kind of seen the
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: groups that it was kind of hard to like, you know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: every every tournament it's like, oh, like, what team is
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: going to be in the group of death? What team
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: is gonna be in the group of death. That's what
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: I was just about to get.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: France Norway one.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: If it'll qualifies, I say, group is a group of death.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: If it'll qualifies.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: I don't know, because I think because the thing is
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: you have.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Group groups solid too.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: It's it's because like like like for example, it's like France, Senegal.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Sorry for interrupting everyone, No.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: No, but that was my point.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you got three teams that you can feasibly believe
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: could win a group, and that's the way I see it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: And like, and you have teams like in the.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: Other group England, Ghana and uh where it's like, Okay,
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: I don't I don't really see you know, like Ghana
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: winning a group, but Gana would always be in the mix.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: But like I could feasibly see like England or Croatio
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: winning a group, whereas this group, I mean, I don't
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: like as much as I want Canada, well, I don't
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: feasibly see Canada winning a group. I don't feasibly see
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: Italy winning a group. I don't see Katar and I
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: don't think Switzerland would ever win like so like it's
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: it's it's kind of like a group of death in
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: a sense where none of the teams are like.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: They're very evenly matched considering how perfectly it's a group.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: That way, because it's a mid off if you put
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Italy there in that.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Group, it's like, Okay, obviously we stand out, we should
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: finish first.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Historically yes, but recently.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: But recently, yeah, we're very evenly matched. I always say
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Switzerland's better than us.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to disagree with you, Jenny. Did you
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: have any favorites for the World Cup?
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Favorites for the World Cup?
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: I really don't know if I have a favorite, per
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: se because you know, it's really tough.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: I mean, like there's easy cop outs like Spain for example.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: You could say France as well, and I don't want
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: England to win. I just don't want.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: England to that's the last team because have an extra Yeah,
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: I know, but uh, I.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: Mean for how well the development has been and how
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: dominant they have been. It's it's like it sucks because
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: it's such an easy cop out. But like Spain, like
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: it's just it's it's it's hard to argue against especially
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: with the way they just keep on having players come
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: up and come up and come up, and it's like
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: a never ending wave of talent in Spain, so it's
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: you know, it's hard to argue against them.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I also would probably agree with what I said
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: about Portugal. I do see them pretty strong. They have
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: they just like they keep on pumping out like crazy
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: talent in the forwards. Uh yeah, they're surprising me, to
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: be honest. Yeah, exactly right. And you know when they
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: have guys in the midfield two, you know, the Vitinias,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: the Jeel nevis Is of the world. You know, No
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: No Mendis in the back like it's you know, it's
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: it's a it's a pretty pretty solid squad. And again,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: if the script writers are are are ready to write
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: the script they wrote the last time with with Messi,
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: they're going to have to do the same for Ronaldo
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: right to kind of make it even to kind of
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: say that final hurrahs. So but joking aside, I think
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: they are strong.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Like I said earlier to Andrew's point, I do always
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: think it's it's so hard to go back to back
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: to win again. So even though I would like to
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: see Argentina do well, I don't I don't see them
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: repeating because it's it's it's extremely hard, especially uh, especially
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: in Culcho. So I would probably say Portugal the Spain answers,
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: like Johnny says, is a good cop out. It's it's
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: it's a pretty solid answer. But you know, even maybe
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: the Germanys of the world too. You know that Germany
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: always gives a good a good run that kind of
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: going through their ups and downs or have been in
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: the later years. So you know, I think there's always
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: a team took outfore. They have some good talent as well.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: And you know, I kind of said it, I remember
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: when probably a handful of weeks ago now, but you
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: just it's just, uh, it's just crazy to think that,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: you know, Ronaldo Messi, you know, I even say Luka Modric, right,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: these these these these older players that are going for
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: what their fifth World Cup.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: I think it is.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: So it's just timeless players that you know, like in
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: our generation were you know, so strong. So it's gonna
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: see it's gonna be pretty cool to kind of see
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: them give it their last kick at the.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: World all those seventh Worke Cup, is it. Yeah, he's
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: been He's been playing since O two. He was on
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: that two thousand roster that lost in the Euro finals.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Remember that for real?
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a seventh woke up Chrisiano Ronaldo.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: I thought it was just fifth.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: No, he lost.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I'm buying. Yeah, that's Yeah, it's okay, you're.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Sure not getting confused with the no.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: So I think he played in the one.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: No, he made his Portugal debut in O three.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: He was on the euro on the four year.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Against so it's a it's a sixth World Cup then, yeah,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: all these guys still like twenty years later.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah what Yeah, that was my that's my point. Sorry
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: six I meant to say, but yeah, no, it just
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: it just shows the class of of these of these players,
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: and you know, it's still able to perform at the
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: highest level. And we'll see, you know, like we said,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: you know, Messi his and let's see if Ronaldo gets
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: gets back at that and gets gets the trophy that's
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: that's escaped him, you know, in his career. So we'll see.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: But exactly right, the script, the script has already written,
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: and so we'll have to wait and see. But you know,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: uh another point that and said that I would bounce
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: off of if and when it gets into into the
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: World Cup, it's you know, you never know what this
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: team can do and and it's one of these things
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: that we just need to be there and then once
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: we're there, you know, things can kind of kick off
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: from from there. So again, we're all hopeful here, all
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: four of us. Andrew so excited, He's like, boy, we'll
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: have to jump on the pod. So we we pretty
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: cool to talk about it, right, Yeah, exactly, So we
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: we were fingers fingers crossed exactly right the day after.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: But just one thing I wanted to kind of like say,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know if any of you guys had four
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: hours to kill on the World Cup draw, but I
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: don't know if it was just me, But what the
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: hell was that? Like, why the fuck was this so
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: damn long? I try to catch bits and pieces.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: But I couldn't and I want to watch.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: I want to see when what group we're in? Yeah,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: And it was four yeah, and we were like pulling
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: teeth to see what what team was where and all
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: this extra curricular like, oh my god. Again, it was
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: just crazy to me.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: And it was two hours and the draw was like
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: within the last twenty minutes thirty minutes.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: He showed Wayne Gretzky, he did you see when he
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: didn't spend the.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: And then how I don't know, like is he gonna
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: know what's inside there?
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. But he told he told Jesse
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Marsha was gonna give them a nice team from Pot four.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: He couldn't even put names. He couldn't even wait, I
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: don't know, wake up, Broc. How about Trump when he
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: pulled out the in the US, I wonder what this is?
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, even just that at that point where it's like
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: they had the three president's prime ministers draw each of
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the names and he's like I saw Tweet's like, okay,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: now we're into the draw. All we know is that
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: that USA, Canada Mexico are laying in USA, Canada and Mexico.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Relevant, It was guys, I don't know. It was
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: way too long for my life and I couldn't even Unfortunately,
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: we worked.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: On this weird.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: It was a weird vibe though.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: The whole draw was like stream.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: It felt it felt artificial, like I didn't fel like
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: I didn't feel like there was any soul.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: In it, you know what I mean?
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Basically?
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and I also making up that fake award
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: for Trump, like the just to appease the man, just
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: to like like, come on, man, like.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Politics and sports collide.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: It's it's but it's but it's like it's like no,
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: it's just more like they have to do everything for
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: this guy, like like it's like like, yeah, this guy's
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: this guy's a toddler and body that's what he is,
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: what it is.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, I know, I just want to bring
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: that up because like it was like it was ridiculous,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: like you know, like Okay, you know you want to
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: bring in uh this person to to you know, to
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: do uh, to do the draw to kind of to
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: do the names. Okay, you know he's a shock Tom Brady,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: you know, fucking Wayne gratz Keith, you know, things like that.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: But I think this should just stuck with the like
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: legends of yeah, like you know, like get on or
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: like even Zidan or somebody.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: You know, I kind of like former legends of these countries.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: For exactly that's what they usually doing there.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: Done the Rosario. You could have got freaking what's his name?
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: He's an analyst. He was also a manager at one point.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: Ah not well, Mark Michael Bradley is the one that
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: comes to name. But it's not Michael. It's not Michael Bradley.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: It's he played for them in the early two thousands.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: American American American.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: Man, not Claudi Arena, No, an American Uh it was
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: it was it midfielder like attacking midowless or something.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: No defender.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: But anyways, but like but like you had a lot
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: of options to choose from, you know, like you could
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: have my God, like it's it's it.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Really felt americanized.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: Christine didn't Claire if you wanted to, you know, like
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: you could have brought Christine's Sinclaire, Like you know.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: No, no, it's fine that they brought Gretzky, but you
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: should have told him how to say the name. Like
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: the guy didn't know the names.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: Like the guy doesn't The guy doesn't know half the time.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: The guy doesn't even know.
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: Where he is. Like he's got like if you watch
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: that see it, if you watch his analysts analyzing on TNT.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: Like the guys are terrible, Yeah, but he has problem man.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like he's just I know somebody is like to
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: two doors down from him and he's like, bro, this
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: guy is like beers.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Everywhere, oh for real.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: In the recite to Beat It, I'm like, okay, Wayne,
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: he's fucking pretty every night.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: The guy's like he's like I want to force sand
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: like cups.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: Fuck you know, listen, when you're the gold, you can
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: do what you want, but I just tell him how
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: to say the name, but you won't be still.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean remember remember when Huba Gooding Junior did
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: the NHL Awards. How slashed he was when he did
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: the awards.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: It's it's it was crazy. But yeah, anyways, it's just
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know, it felt americanized to me, like it
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: felt very very and like, you know, it's which is fine, Okay,
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: you know what it's. It's it's it's a North American
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: you know, tournament, which is which is fine.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: There had to be a bit of a better way
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: to to operate it. And but whatever it is, what
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: it is, the draw happened. These are the these are
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: the groups. You know, we'll see what Canada does. We
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: hope that Italy gets there to play Canada, uh, you know,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: June twelfth. Another thing we'll kind of speak about off
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: air before we continue on is these damn ticket prices,
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Like I don't know, man, they're really not catering to
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: to uh to the fins here. It's it's a bit crazy.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: And I know you said you got you got, you
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: got a spot, but can you post some more strings
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: or what going on?
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna hope, man, I'm gonna hopefully we make it
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: and I can pull strings. You just come here from Montreal,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: and that's it. That's it.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: That's it, that's what we're hoping for.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: So but just we'll try to sneak you in like
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: they're doing it and just come everybody, come inside.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: But but I don't know, like just well, maybe your
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: guys thoughts, like the take up price is like did
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: you expect it to be like this crazy or like
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: was it just it should have been expected and we're
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: kind of just naive to not think that it would
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: be this high.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I think FIFA just because they it's in North America.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: I think everyone's rich over here, like two three thousand
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: dollars a CE, you know, yeah for group stage and
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: group stage regularly it's like what a few hundred yuros
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: if it's in Europe, it makes completely no sense. So
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: I think it's very stupid because everyone wants to go
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: to the games. You know, it's like you gotta you've
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: gotta have a lot of money to go watch one game.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: You know, it's ridiculous.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: I agree, you guys, know, we have like the higher
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: average income than a European right, So I mean I
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: think you're trying to milk us as much as they can.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's basically, but it's still not right. Yeah, at
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: least do it in stages, you know, like they started
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: right in the beginning.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think at this point it's like, I mean,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but it seems like not all the
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: tickets are available. So then there's like this whole resale
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: market that's driving the ticket prices up. And I mean, Angel,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: you're a business owner supplying the man. So you got what,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: what's population of the US three hundred and something million,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: I don't even know, Canada's forty million. You got three
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: hundred and forty million people there. I don't know what
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: population in Mexico is, plus everyone from around the world.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: You got all these people want to buy tickets and
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: forty thousand seats in Toronto. It's going to see that
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: game in on June twelfth, and so it's it's tough.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: It's tough. It's a dream for us to go to
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: that game if if we could, if not, we'll enjoy
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: it from wherever we can, whether it's your Montreal or whatnot.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: And we'll be happy to watch.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: We're still we go to Toronto and we just watch
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: it there.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: But even for FIFA regulations, I disagree for with the
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: forty thousand state like forty thousand spectators, I think it
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: should be at least sixty you know.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, a good point in general, Yeah, I guess, Gus.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Obviously the stations in the States are a lot bigger.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: They're football stadiums, right, but yeah, yeah, you can't get
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: You're hard to compare.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: But most putting what you said, Andrew Fair, they're putting
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: about ten thousand more seats.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Is that what it was? Yeah, ten thousand more seats
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: and they're going to take them down.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: But I would leave them.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Up because then it'll track like other teams to come,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: you know, like if let's just say you vetor Meanland
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: they want to come for a friendly, Yeah, it'll track
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: more teams.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: Totally agree.
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: It depends on how those extra seats look and how
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: they're you know, put in and stuff.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: They're probably not going to look that great.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: No, I don't think if they got a little running
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: with the.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: They have people holding up the seats below Jesus so
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: you can get into the game. You hold up the seats.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe that's where our seats are going to be. Nick,
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know, we'll be on top of somebody.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Uh, I guess perfect transition. You know you mentioned teams coming,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: uh meanland Row, Moanopoly, you mentioned it. Perfect transition, guys
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: to the City Angel, you are the u A fan.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: We did have an appoly you've this past weekend, obviously
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: anapoly at the two to one win. I don't know
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: what your thoughts were on the game, Angelo, and we'll
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: get Johnny's thoughts after from the winning side.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't really like Spillet as a coach. First off,
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: I don't think he was the right the right move
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: for you right off the bath.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: I hate him. I don't really hate him, but like
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: I just don't like his like his tactics.
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think you does. They do have a
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: good team, they just can't put it together. Like they'll
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: have one really good match and one match that's not
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: that great. But Roma really surprised me this year in general.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: I didn't think Romo was going to be that great.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: But as for you, I think they got a lot
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: of work to do just in general, like even striker wise,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: their midfield. They got to just try to put it together.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Spiletti's got a hold, like he's he's got.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: A lot on his hands, right, So.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. It's honestly, every game is different. It's
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: just you see them in a different way all the time.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: But just to bounce off the quickly before Johnny goes,
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: just to bounce off the Spoetti point, like for him,
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: if he does good or bad, he at the end
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: he washes his hands and he goes away. Anyways, right,
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: because it's a six month it's a six month I
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: think Tutor was was a bad coach, to be honest
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: with you.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: He wasn't that Like, Okay, we had coming off from Bologna. Yeah,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: we thought he was the hero and Pep were going
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: to win the Scudette on everything, but nowhere close and
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: then he got rid of Yeah, it just like fucked
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: up his whole career, not necessarily, but like it's a
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: big transition for him, right for.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Sure, Johnny, your thoughts or get something to say, No,
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: Johnny go first, Well, no.
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: The way I saw from the game was that it
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: didn't feel like as if like Ve was out of
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: the entire game the whole time.
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: Like early on it was it wasn't opty dominance, you know,
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: but I think that they basically it felt like they.
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: Wereathered to storm. It's just Napoli had the better chances,
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: you know, like better quality chances.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it just felt like as if like Juventus was
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: doing everything well besides being threatening.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: That's what That's what it felt like.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: It felt like That's where I think it all comes
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: on coaching stad to interrupted just no, no, please, please
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: please please, tactical wise, like you see, obviously, Antonio is
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: a different coach. I mean I didn't see, but today
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: they're not really lost, right.
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: They lost to zero to Benfica, which I'm not surprised by.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: I'll be real with you. I'm not surprised by.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: I didn't watch no highlights or anything of that, but
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: you know, like I think anything can happen, you know,
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: but yeah, pretty much.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: But it's just it's it's it's like that for a monopoly.
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: It's like like like Conte can't do it in Champions
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: League as much as he wants to, and like I
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: don't think Napoli even has a squad that's strong enough
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: to even compete in Champions League, despite you know, winning
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: this the last year and stuff, and adding some reinforcements
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: this year, like it takes so much more to be
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: successful in Champions League, you know, like you basically need
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: too strong, too strong squads, and I don't think Napoli
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: has like a squad ain't a good like the squad
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: bee is very you.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: Know, yeah, I think it's good for saying I think
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: there's their squad b is good for like Setia. But yeah,
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: once you get into Europe, it's it's a bit of
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: a different different story because I don't think they're that
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: far off. It's just it's not obviously as strong and
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: competing with you know, the Risks exactly right, like they
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: arrest everybody they bring on their all their subs. Let's say, yeah,
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: some of them are good, like I like some of
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: their players, but it's it's for said, yeah, I think
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: you can kind of you know, go by and kind
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: of let that slide. But you know, in Europe it's
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: a different ballgame, like you guys were saying. So I
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: totally agree on that. But I don't think they're far off.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: But I think, you know, they they are still a
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: strong squad because listen, like in seat, yeah, they're they're
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: they're they're strong.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Like you know, I saw I was.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: Watching I think the match on on the weekend over
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: the weekend, and you know, Napoli dominated from the get go,
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: and you know, it almost seemed like I didn't even
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: think that, you know, Yvea was gonna do anything to
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: come back into the game for how much they were
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: dominating at the beginning. So you know, I guess kudos
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: to Yuva to to kind to get back into it,
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: but it almost seemed like it was just a bit
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: too much for them. So you know, a bit of
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: rocky you know games that not we had. I think
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: it was it was a good it was a good
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: wake up call and a good performance at home. Uh,
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: beating I guess you know, you can say a direct
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: rival right at the top. So and it's something that's
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: again I think, still escaping juve right and in the
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: results against direct competition, is that what we love being
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: Uh they're not beating the big teams.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Or yeah, I mean they beat inter they I mean,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: if you want to put.
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: Last, I remember they tied, they drew against Milan.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah that was the result. They lost against Aroma.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: And they lost against Napoly so it's it's been like
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: a mixed mixed bag of results against you know, your director,
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: beating the amount of six straight now, right, guys, sixth
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: sixth straight.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: Especially at the Madonna since twenty nineteen.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and and again the last decade. Yeah. And
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: another thing, you know, kudos to talking about the mad Donna.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: It's it's another or you know, Chapeau to Tunapui. You know,
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: they're in the calendar year twenty twenty five. They were unbeaten, right,
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: thirteen wins, four draws, no losses. So that that that
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: says something that they've kind of made, you know, for
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: now at least, I don't know how long it will continue.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: But you know they made them out of Donna, you know,
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: a fortress. So and we said it before the matchup.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: You know, the part was the last week or whatever.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: You know, it's we didn't really see a U a win,
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: maybe a draw, but it almost seemed like it was
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: written in the stars for Napway to pick up the points,
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: and you know, ultimately they did.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: And guys like I send it to you pretty much
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: when the lineups were announced, I said, you know, good,
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: good game, Johnny, because right when the lineups are announced,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: no striker, you're playing Yieldez as a false nine. Uh position?
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: He never plays for me. I think that made no sense.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: I think you've lost it right there. Yes, David came
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: on the forty fifth minute.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: This is what I'm sorry you're interrupret but like this
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: is how I'm saying.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like I don't know what he's doing exactly exactly
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: that falls on that falls on him exactly.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: He kind of kind of put the team together and
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: put everybody in the position that they should be playing exactly.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: And look today, I'll gi, yeah, I'll give him credit
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: today because he made the change, taking off Si Grotha
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: for sal putting on a penda for localality instead of
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: making a straight straight spot for David. And that's when
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: they scored the goals. You know, I know, okay, I
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: understand it was McKenny that scored the first goal, but
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: it was after the change information and obviously David stays
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: on gets the second goal, so I you know, I
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: got to give him credit today. But look, and so
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: like you said, it's the players are there. It's I
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: think at the end they you know, we've talked about
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: it on the podcast. It's a whole it's just been
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: a mess the past couple of years. There's been no
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: projects or they've been in and out of projects. There's
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: no stability players coming in and out, and right now
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: I think there's no coesion you want in and out.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: It's exactly what it is, exactly, there's no coesion. Even
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: a guy like your Groova comes.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: And has flashes but barely plays.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: He barely plays, But also is he pushing the needle
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: that much even when he plays.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: Like he's barely on the pitch, So how do we
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: know enough? No, I mean I don't know, Like like
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: come to this South. I think he's a good player,
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: like he needs to start, so I understand, you know,
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: he's probably playing above the Grova, but I still don't
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: know what the grove the grove of brings. Like again,
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: I know, I know I'm not a Yuvea fan, but
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: we don't even know, like it's it's still a mystery
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: for me with this the Grova guy. He's I think
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: he's he's very technical and he likes to take his
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: man on which I think we lock in Siya quite
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: a bit with with technical players that like to take
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: a man one on one. But again I don't think
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: he hasn't gotten enough minutes to really say in my
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: personal opinion, I know you guys watch more than me,
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: but it's if you move the needle or not. I
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: don't know. Because he doesn't play enough, you gotta watch
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: you too. No, no, I'm okay. I love you, but
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: I'm well but no, no, that's not just my point
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: on the Grova. But again, you have some some some pie.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: I think he's he's going to which is good.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: He can surprise me.
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: But just a touch on what Ang said, like, I
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: think he does have a very strong point by saying
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: that on paper, Juventus has a roster that you can
• 51:24
  Speaker 5: seriously argue they should be competing, they should be you know, making,
• 51:28
  Speaker 5: they should be there.
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: Now it's I think it's just more of a fundamental problem.
• 51:33
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's just like as we discussed so
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: many times before another Juvent ten on the pod, where
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: it's like you can bring in manager after manager after manager,
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: but the problem is the problem is higher up.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think.
• 51:44
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's it's I think it's just as
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: an organization there's an issue. I mean, hey, don't get
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: me wrong, as long as you made struggles. I'm happy,
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: but that's just the right enemy.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: But it's somebody.
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: But obviously as trying to be a neutral and you know,
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: this is a setting podcast, you know, I got yeah,
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: I feel for the human teen in a sense where
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: it's like they're gonna be like this consistently, uh, until
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: the mentality changes upstairs.
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: Like you can spend all the money in the world, but.
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: You know, like uvent this is not the Juventus as
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: it was before. But not mind you, none of the
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: city A teams are the city teams of before. You
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, we have to people need to
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: understand that no city A team is the final destination
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: of a player anymore. It's not, you know, like they're
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: not They're not coming here and they want to play
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: their entire career here. Is like like all city teams
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: are basic. You know, they're all stepping stones. I all
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: wanted to stay. But that's obviously a different conversation for
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: from a different time. But more or less, they're all
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: stepping stones. So it's you have to you have to like,
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: first of all, change that alure, but also it's culture.
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: I think I think the best way can describe it
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: as the culture.
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: It doesn't feel like they have that culture anymore, you know,
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: And I think that's what the issue is. You got
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: to find a new group of people to establish that culture.
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: And no disrespect to the talent that Yielda's has, But
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: Yielda's isn't that player that screams he's gonna establish that
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: uvent this culture in the team, you know what I mean.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: He's one player. I mean it's hard, but I agree
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: with you.
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: But you need but you need people like you need
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: to like you need to get Italians that either developed
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: through your system or you know, as they poach from
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: other clubs that you know what, like I will die
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: for the badge.
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: On the jersey. I don't feel like any player is
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: doing that. I don't think.
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: I don't think there's most players in the city out
• 53:40
  Speaker 5: there doing that anyways. Like yeah, like, don't get me wrong,
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: but what made you vent this strong back then was
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: that you know, you had Marquis on the midfield, You
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: had the BBC BBBC triple BBC over the no, yeah,
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: BBC would be bb Bbcbucciachillini and and before like you
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: had guys that you know, you know on the on
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: the emblem like they they fought for that emblem.
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: So you know, maybe a lot could Telly is that fighter.
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: And I think that's why a lot of you attracted
• 54:12
  Speaker 5: to him because he's probably one of those guys that
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: would probably if you asked the push camp to shove,
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: you know, like he would.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: Fight on and off. Man, he doesn't have it, he doesn't,
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: but in terms of.
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: Skill he doesn't. I'm not like you know what I mean,
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: Like I meant more like in a sense of like
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: is he is he proud to be playing for Juventus?
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: He's definitely probably the on that roster I would under
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: the pro for sure. Yeah, yeah, he's probably the proudest
• 54:35
  Speaker 5: to put on that jersey. You know what I'm trying
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: to say?
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, one game it's.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: And then the other game, Okay, he fights and and
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: it's kind of like he's up and down. He's he
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: can be a really good player and then he can
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: just have.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: A bad game, right, Like that's that's that's exactly, and
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: and again like you know, it's it's it's kind of
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: being a dead horse of and going back and saying
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: because we've said it so many times on the show,
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: but and any setia or culture fund knows, like the
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: era of the bungeetra that that doesn't exist anymore, right
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: in Sadiyah, Like we don't have that anymore. And that's fine.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: Like we're into a new modern game, which is which
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: is okay, but you know, we kind of have to
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: you know, building in a different direction and we can't
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: just hope on, you know, for for the next Maldini
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: to come, for the next Piero to come, for the
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: next talk T to come, like that those era, that
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: era is gone, So what I don't what, I just
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: kind of pisses me off. And that's going back to
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: the Adzuri topic that we had earlier a conversation and
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: even in said, yeah, the fact that not being able
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: to to wake up and fight for the badge and
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: fight for the shirt, I feel like that we've also lost,
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: which is a shame because you should know the history
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: and you should perform at your best, you know, week
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: in and week out. And that's the only thing that
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: kind of like maybe pisses me off a bit. But
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: besides that, like we can't expect you know, these these
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: players to work to work miracles. So but on the
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: u of a topic, I mean I think I was
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: listening to other people other even Teamy talk. And besides,
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: like Yield is Turam and and maybe Bremmer because Bremer
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: now after these injuries, it seems like he's not that
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: cornerstone anymore. Like I feel like the team doesn't have
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: like a true backbone anymore. Like who are their cornerstone players?
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: Like it's hard to really name them because there's very
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: very few of them. So there's good players, don't get
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: me wrong, and I agree with you guys that they
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: should be up there competing, but just to build, right, Yeah,
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: it's and it's like two and a half because Bremer, unfortunately,
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: the injuries have have caught up to him. And it's
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: a shame because you know, is a really good defender.
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: But maybe you want to throw in this out because
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: he brings a bit of a spark. But besides Yields
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: and I guess you can say Turam, even though he's
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: on a bit of a downer currently, it's the only
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: two people that you can really maybe build their own
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: for the future. I don't know if you agree, disagree,
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: if I'm talking on my ass.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, yeah, even Yield is like
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: he's good. He's great, that's for sure, but not del Piero.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: He thinks he is. He's kind of Look, he.
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: Took the tent too soon. He took the ten too soon.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Look what twenty years old. I know he's young.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: I think everyone is taking the ten too soon.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, even Boh my goodness, Yeah, yeah he is.
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: You're right, it's insane.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I think we need more consistency out of
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Yielder's I think that's it, you know, even the striker
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: positions one that's kind of e looded. You've in the
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: past few years pretty much since Ronaldo left. I I
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: really hope for for Jonathan David to succeed. He's been
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: played better now that uh, you know, ever since Fallovich
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: got hurt. I think he just needs a bit more
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: consistent playing time, a bit more confidence. Right at the
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: same time, he's a player that he's not going to
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: create things on his own, maybe like vabag does. He
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: needs service and when he doesn't get the service, he's
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: on an island and that's where you need that's where
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: you need. Deal this. I don't know if you feel
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: the same about that, Angelo, but no I do.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel exactly the same. Yeah, because Jonathan David
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: is a great player, but he obviously needs support. Yeah.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: It almost feels like, Look, there was a comment from
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: Marquiso kind of criticizing David that he doesn't run fast enough.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, that's his style of play, Like we
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: knew that. Look, we've watched him for many years now
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: with the national team. We could give the stoutings, we
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: could have given the scouting report before he was signed up.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: You know, it's like how he's playing, I'm not surprised,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: it's but when you give him that chance, he's going
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: to put it away. I know he missed one chance today,
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: kind of awkward, you know, back to the net. Uh,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: But when when the chances are there, he's going to
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: finish them. So I do want to see him continue scoring.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: For you, but I also see I also find fans
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: are very reactionary too, right nick, Like, for sure, they
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: they see like he scored in bunches that I live
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: in France and they're like, okay, well that's going to
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: automatically translate. It does not the case in Italy, right,
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: we all know that growing up, you know, watching Seia,
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: Like it's not it's not the same league. It's it's
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: totally different the way the way it's structured, right, and
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: the way it's you know, tactically so much more advanced,
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: and it's it's it's like a chess match every game,
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: and some of these strikers it's tough to get your
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: goals because of how you know, so it you know
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: the other team is defensively, so you know, fans are
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: very reactionary. I don't think. I do think David is
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: a good player. I don't know if it's in a
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: U of a shirt is where we're going to see
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: him be at his best if I'm honest, And again
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: I said I think last week, you know it's time
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: Hotel and it's up to him if he wants to
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: to take this this time right now, with with a
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: guy like Volvish injured and to really take the reins.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: And like I said last week, so we'll all right,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: so he want that's Andrew, this is his chance, this
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: is this is his opportunity. Soars moving up there.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: Well, bless blest thing, Angelo. Before we wrap it up,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: you've a Bologna this weekend pretty much a big game
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: for you. Either two points behind Bologna. Bologna is in fifth,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: it's in away game. It's it's a challenge, right, We're
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: talking about you against the top teams. This is this
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: is their opportunity. I don't know.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: When you wins, yeah.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Two one to one, Jonathan David scores one of them,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: I'll I'll.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: Take that recency biased. I think it will be a
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: nice one one draw, a classic Bologna you have a game.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: Uh that was my initial thought, but I'm gonna go
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: with the win.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: I'll take that.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: I really thought of a tie, but it's I would
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: I would probably see a tie as well. I don't know, Johnny,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: if you if you agree, but.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 5: I mean, I just want to see maybe like an
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 5: Osolini like uh sisar cack banger like he did against Inter.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, that was beautiful love.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, and that's like the scudo deciding goal.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: You never know it.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: Sony did it when me on one in twenty twenty two,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: so against Inter, so you never know.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 5: I I uh, I honestly think it's probably gonna be
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 5: one of those actual weird scenarios where Bologna wins. I
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: I don't think Juventus is gonna be that challenge. I
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 5: feel like Bologna has a bit more confidence going into
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 5: this matchup than you be does be bro.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: It lives for run.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 5: I do lift it for being a you behater, but
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: but but it's it's like, I I don't I'm not
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: a like it's it's it's sad to say, like Uve
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 5: is not that dominant Juventus anymore. It doesn't feel like, Okay,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 5: every Uventus on the calendar, you're like, you're hoping for
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 5: a draw, you know what I mean?
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: Like it's it's that fear to play them is gone.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: It's crazy, man, No, But I don't know.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I would probably say draw draw.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: I have to ask, uh Angel because my brother lives
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: in He's in Bologna this year this semester for school,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: and he told me he might go to the game,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: So I have to I'm gonna have to ask him
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: to to to see if he's gonna go to that game.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: He's not not a soccer fan at all, but he
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: might go. I was bugging before before he went. I
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: told him you got to go to at least one.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. Well plays you know.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: I was gonna actually ask you guys before we close out,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: what are your thoughts on senior.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: He doesn't even have a team. Well there, I saw
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: that lat, I saw the Yeah, he wants to try
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: to reunite with Saudi again. Have money, you know, like
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: he already collected. And I think he's good.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know like he he you don't want to play.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: He just wants to stay napoly and eat pizza.
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  Speaker 3: I don't blame I don't blame him. I would like
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: to do that too, but unfortunately we have to work
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: over here across the pond. So but but no, just
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: quickly on my like, I'll give my thoughts first. I
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: think a return Todata, I think is is is probably
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: what he needs. I guess if you want to say that.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: I know he's kind of getting up there in age.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: And obviously the TFC experiment was what it was. I
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: know fans will go say they hated it. Some fans
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: say they liked his time and appreciated his time. But again,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: you move forward.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: It is where it is.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: But I think, uh, a return toat is the thing
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: that's gonna be the best for him, Like on a
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: personal level, forget the football inside. I think you can
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: probably almost close that chapter and then he.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: Just needs to play find the team and just play.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: And if it's going to be under Saudi, a manager
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: that he had, you know, great years with, I I
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: don't see a problem with that. It just can be
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: weird for me to see him in a different blue
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: in Italy. But because I honestly didn't think. Again, nothing
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: is nothing is set in stone. Like we're saying a
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: lot of hypotheticals here, but I never would have thought
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: he would join another it's a team in Italy. We'll
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: see if it does transpire to be Lazo to reunite
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: with Saudi, or I don't know, he goes to I
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: don't know, you ever stopped you where's.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: Going to go?
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Who knows, Maybe he'll go to Benevento, since it's
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: in the comp.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: He has, he has options.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know, you know.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: Because said see, yeah, maybe he wants to be a
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: cult hero again. I don't. I don't know. But listen,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: I know maybe you have a different opinion on because
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: you know he was pointing in your city. I know,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know, But for me, I've always been a
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: fan of his. Looking from Afar, it's a shame how
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: things kind of ended on these last but also the
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: way he treated fans here wasn't the greatest.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which I understand, maybe because he didn't perform as expected,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: but you know he shouldn't. He should at least be
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: a little bit like his behavior was just terrible. Yeah,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: I know, I like, it's yeah, I actually, I'm friends
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: with a lot of the TFC players and he's actually
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: and see he's the only player, like Italian player that
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: didn't even come to my show.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: Really interesting unfortunately.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: Came bern I came. I'm friends with Dulinko, like very
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: very stunk.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: It's a shame. It's a shame because I think there
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: was there was an opportunity there.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: I mean right, yeah, yeah, interesting.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 4: I think honestly speaking, like it was just the money chase.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: That he did.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: I was literally about to say, yeah, it was just
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: the money chase.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 5: He didn't do it because he was excited for he
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 5: was like if I'm gonna get fifteen million dollars fifteen million, yeah,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: pretty much.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: Like it's it's yeah, like without even working.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah exactly.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: It's uh.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: For me, it's so weird.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: After all these years, the only person I was ever
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 5: going to be loyal to Anopoly Jersey was a Euroguayan
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 5: named Edison Cavani. Where he's like, he's like where he's like,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 5: he's like, only on any time I ever come back
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 5: to city is to play for Anapolis, Like I'm not
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 5: going to go play for another club besides them, and
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 5: senior born and raised in the city, Like he's choosing
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 5: like career wise, it makes sense. It makes sense in
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 5: a way that it's like he's going to Saudi, who's
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 5: you know, familiar territory. He's back home in his country's
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 5: you know, it's it's.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: It's it's it's a it's a it's about a one hour,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: one hour and a half drive.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, it's my cousin driving is there in a
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: half hour?
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 5: Those speech trap on the highway by the way from
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 5: from if you're coming from Roma going down to Anopoly,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 5: Like my zeal was just speeding through and I'm like, yeah,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 5: I know these things are not checking the He's like
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 5: like some of them not even turned on, like because
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 5: it's not even like they just they just getta tie
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 5: from when when when he went one check checkpoint to
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 5: the next, and then that's how they calculate to see
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 5: if you're speeding or not. And it's like, honestly, it's
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 5: like he's like, these things are they're full of ship,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, yeah, I agree, it's.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: Anyway everybody's speeds, that's why.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 5: But in all seriousness, it's he's just doing it for
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 5: the familiarity of it, and you know, in terms of
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 5: career and being a player, great, but being Anopoly fan,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 5: it's like, I don't know, buddy, like well.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: I also I also saw him on the what was
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: it Viva Football there the Cassano podcast there with Vento, and.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: He was on.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: He was on there because they they're they're going they're
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: going around like different cities and they're actually doing like
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: a live live show type of thing, and they didn't
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: in on when they were in Naples, and uh, you know,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: he wants to come back to it. I mean, it
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: makes sense. He wants that familiarity again and and kind
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: of coming back home, which which is totally makes sense.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: And he still has in the back of his mind
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: to to wear the Adzuri blues. So again, that's for me,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: it's a bit of maybe a bit of a stretch,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: but you know, that's that's that's what you know, he
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: thought he has a rapport with Gatuzzo, and you know
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: that's kind of what's in his head from what I
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: was listening and watching on on that show. So we'll
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: see again. To wrap it up, I think it's just
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: a shame how it ended up in Toronto, and.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: But you know, it is what it is.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: We can't we can't control that. It was a shame
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: too because when when when we went to see well,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: me and Nick were there when we went to the
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: Well versus TFC that year where it was in senior
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: Bernardeski and and you and didn't. I don't think it
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: was I.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: Think a separate years, crecious separate. And then Bernardeski came
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: another time, stayed for six months, I believe.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so sorry we saw Yeah, I'm sorry it
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: was separate games. But it was a shame because you know,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: you really want to see in senior. I know he's
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: obviously the biggest player of that time, you know, in
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: the league, and you know Bernadeski comes like no problem
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: to sign, to take photo, to talk in senior. It
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: was you didn't. I know he's short, but.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: We didn't even see him right, So no, to be
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: honest with you, I kind of lost respect for Insenia
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: only when he did one little skit, so like there
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: was like four or five games that he didn't play
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: and he was he said he was injured. Then when
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: Inter Miami came to play TFC, he came on for
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: the last ten minutes just to change his like to
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: exchange jerseys with MESSI like, yeah, what were you doing
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: in the last five six games when we need you
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: to play?
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: And I understand yeah, no, I totally understand the frustration
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: from TSC's fans. I mean, we would all be the
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: same way if that was you know, our our team
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: we support, so it makes sense. Again, it's a shame,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: you know, it is what it is. We'll see what
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: happens in the future for for Lorenzo and c if
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: it if it be Saudi's not Lazzo or or whoever else, uh,
• 1:10:22
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• 1:10:28
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