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LIVE: USWNT v COLOMBIA Postgame | 2025 SheBelieves Cup | USA 2 Colombia 0 | Goals from Cat Macario of Chelsea and Ally Sentnor of the NWSL's Utah Royals! · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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OK, we are live welcome to into the channel live podcast
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primarily about women's football.
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I am host Dino de suspicious and as always, I am joined by my
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host Mr. Grant angle. What is up man?
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I'm. Feeling all right, buddy?
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That was a pretty good football match we just watched.
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And you know, if you ignore all the other news in the world, I
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would almost venture to say that I'm feeling fantastic after
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that. Yeah, man, that's been my move
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for like the last, what is it 100 days or so?
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I don't know. It depends on where, where we
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want to start the count from. Anyway.
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US was actually Team 2 Columbia nil hard fought, I would say.
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And you know, I, I was going to mention this to you.
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I adopted your, your counting of, you know, the 15 minute
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periods. And what I've started doing is
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scoring them as like boxing rounds.
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So I in the first half I had 10-9 Colombia, 1st 15.
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And then I had US women's national team carrying the day,
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the 2nd 15 and the 3rd 15 going into halftime.
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But what did you see kind of early?
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What were your early impressions of the match kind of like once
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things start to settle down a little?
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Bit, I mean, early it seemed like they were going to try
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that. Sorry.
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It seemed like Colombia was going to try to get Kaiseto and
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Ramirez out into space. And in my notes, I said, OK, not
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a terrible strategy. Let's see how long that lasts.
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And to be honest, it didn't really last that long.
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I'm just checking the chat here. We got we got blue in the house.
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Appreciate your blue. I mean, you know, we try to get
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back to as many people as we can in the comment section, but it's
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always great to rock with rock with our people live.
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So definitely happy to have you. Apologies.
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I was a little checked out on your answer.
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Can you can I? We were we were winded back.
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What did you see here? Yes, we're doing early.
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Match Yeah. Oh, see, that's where I went
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wrong. See I'm I'm parched.
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There it is. No, it's understandable.
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Don't worry about it buddy. Blue, if you've got some nearby
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now, that would be the time to crack it.
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A Rolling Rock, perhaps from Beautiful Rd.
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Pennsylvania. Cheers to you.
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Yeah. I mean, I it felt like Columbia
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had the right idea early trying to get Kaiseto and Ramirez out
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into space. Ramirez, like from the jump, she
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was playing physical. I thought that was a good idea,
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but it just didn't last very long.
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They the USA, started to dominate the run of play
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relatively early in the proceedings and they just never
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really let up. Yeah, I think things kind of
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settled in a little bit. You know, this has been a little
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bit of an Emma Hayes calling card where it sometimes could
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feel like the US is playing a little too fast.
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And it's like, I get that we want to get out and run and kind
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of get out and play. But you know, now with the
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midfield that the team trotted out today, coffee heaps Haran,
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I'm sorry, coffee heaps, Johannes.
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I'm still getting used to that. I think that was a a real
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strength and and a place where I don't know that was that was
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that was a place to kind of like establish, you know, some
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control of the match, which I think they did.
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You know, they kind of slow things down a little bit.
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We're able to get players up field.
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I want to talk about Yasmine Ryan, like kind of flew under
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the radar, but sort of had an awesome game involved in both
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goals. You know, big place.
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You obviously get the assist to Macario for the first one and
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then starts the action, you know, with a take away, getting
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the ball back to Mikone, you know, over to Sentinor for the
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fucking missile. That was awesome.
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But yeah, I think Colombia, well, First off, they shouldn't
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be the 21st ranked team in the world That that's that's
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absolutely absurd. That feels more like a top ten,
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top 12 kind of team. They were at full strength, Good
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start, but I think they got stymied a little bit by by the
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US defense and the midfield as well.
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Yeah, I mean, the midfield was absolutely dominant.
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I mean, you, you get it right on the head with Johannes Coffee
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and then Yasmine Ryan. She was getting it done on the
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offensive side, but she was also drifting back on defense and
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making some important plays back there, too.
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It just like it just felt like Colombia wasn't able to get
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anything really going after the first couple minutes.
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I mean, I think when we talk about the midfield, but I think
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when we're talking about this game, I don't know if we've said
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her name yet, this was a Cat Macario game.
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She was absolutely dominant even before the goal.
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She was helping dominate the run of play great passes, getting
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into dangerous areas, had Columbia on their heels
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relatively early. I just think, you know, I, it
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just didn't seem like I, I agree with you, Colombia shouldn't be
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#21 in the world. I think they should be higher.
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It's just they just don't have the depth yet of, of the USA.
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So it's it's hard to win in a spot like this.
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Yeah, I would agree with that. I mean, I think thinking back,
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we're winding back to the very start of the match.
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I was a little worried, you know, because you see Ramirez
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and Qasedo, you know, when they're leading the break, you
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kind of get to figure like, OK, well, these might be the two
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best players on the pitch. Or, you know, I think if they
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both hit their peak, that's certainly possible in any given
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day. But we were talking about a
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little bit pre show Chi Sato kind of totally neutralized by
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Emily Fox and the rest of the US Women's Action Team defense.
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What do you think USA was able to do against Kai Sato?
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It felt like she never really was able to get going.
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She had a couple, couple moments there where she was able to find
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some space. But I think the US started to
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anticipate some of her movements and some of her crossovers or
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just sort of like change of changes of direction.
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I'm not sure if that was just film or if, if they're just a
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little bit maybe closer to Kaiseydo's level from an from a
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football IQ standpoint. But did you see anything maybe
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from Fox? And I'm, I'm really happy that
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we're going to get Fox Kaiseydo again in the Champions League
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When when that get when that gets rolling.
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But what happened with Kaiseydo today?
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It felt like, and I thought the on the broadcast they mentioned
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it maybe once, they might have mentioned it twice, but I think
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the key was Foxes. She seems just more and more
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comfortable over the past year or so getting forward and she
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was just kind of pinning Kaiseto back and with her and Ryan had
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some pretty good chemistry there.
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I know we had talked a lot about in the Olympics, Emily Fox and
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and Trinity Rodman had some great chemistry on that right
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side. Feels like Fox is an intuitive
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enough player to kind of have that with anybody.
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You have Horan in the middle there who's who plays nicely
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with with Fox as well. And then to to our guy Blues
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point in the comments. There were so many bright spots.
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Not only did you have Fox and Ryan playing well, but then you
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just have Johannes serving up these genius passes on the wing
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and you just, if you're Kai Sedo, you have to be back there
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to help. Yeah, absolutely.
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I'm glad. I can't believe we got to about
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the seven minute mark to we got to Lily and her contributions,
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the ball she put over the top that Yasmine Ryan got to.
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This doesn't usually happen to me at all, but the the angle
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that Lily hits the ball, I'm like, Oh my God, did Lily just
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really kick this one out of bounds?
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And then when you see the replay, some wicked backspin on
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it, the ball just dies. Like if I was just like Phil
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Mickelson out there, just placing it right in a spot.
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The ball like just dies in the grass.
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Yaz is able to just run right onto it in the to your point,
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Kat Macario there to have like a really special moment to kind of
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cash in on that one. Lily was really great in this
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one, but also not not her, not not her like I think we've seen
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her play better even in even in some spots.
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It was great that she got the full 90, but I feel like she had
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a good game, but maybe not like not nowhere near her peak, I
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don't think. I think, you know, like and
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there's a lot of flux too, when and when you think about the
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line up, you know, no espresso in this one.
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We did have some coffee and Las cafeteros on the other side.
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So you know, like a little bit a little bit mixed mixed bag
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there. But I think she would there was
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some still there's some still chemistry building happening
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this evening. But even with that, young
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Johannes was able to kind of like really make an impact on
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the game and then, you know, have a hand in that first goal.
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Yeah, I mean, I think I'd agree we've we've definitely seen peak
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Johannes, you know, really dictate the terms of a match.
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I would say she was on the on the good to very good to great
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sliding scale. I would say Johannes was was
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very good. I, I, I thought the passing was,
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was really putting Colombia in some tough spots defensively,
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even before, even before that incredible backspin pass, which
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I'm glad you mentioned it because you on the replay, you
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could see it so clearly that the backspin on it.
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I was like, holy shit. I mean, and it was perfectly
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placed. It was weighted just just
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incredibly well for Ryan. But even then, before that she
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had a couple long passes where in my notes, I I think I'd
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wrote, yeah, I mean, it wasn't exactly ground breaking, but I
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wrote Johannes passing is creating problems for Columbia's
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back line. And then like I that was in
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somewhere in the 2nd 15 minutes and then it was right into the
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3rd 15 where she gets that, that assist, which which reminds me,
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and maybe in the real record books, maybe there is not an
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assist for Lily Johannes on that play.
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But luckily we got the ITC record book.
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There's got a very clearly I'm saying that's got to be an
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assist. It's already in there.
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There it is. I mean, she was, I mean, she is
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just such a genius player at 17 years old.
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We'll we'll talk about Ali Sentinor as we kind of present
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as we kind of go through the match.
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But Johannes at 17, Centinor at 21.
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I would I would be concerned. It doesn't mean they're going to
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blow everybody out of the water every match, but every other
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team should be looking at that and being and thinking we might
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be in trouble. I mean, they would be dead on
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for thinking that because those two players were awesome this
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evening and a little mini pat on the back.
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But you know, we talked about going into this tournament when
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the rosters dropped. I, I remember having the, the,
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the, the notion that this could be an opportunity for one of
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these attacking players, especially no triple espresso,
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like somebody could step up. I think we talked about, you
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know, Yasmine Ryan talked a little bit briefly about
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Sentinor Mercario, who you also mentioned Sentinor might be that
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player that really is like, yo, I'm here.
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I'm not sure you could keep me off the field with, with what
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I'm able to do. But before we get there, I want
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to talk a little Myra Ramirez, because she was a beast.
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She's always a beast. She's a handful.
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Like defensively, she basically turned Terra McKeon and Emily
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Sonnet into a tasty bucket of BBQ chicken after the first goal
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and then missed a Bunny like a very, you know, uncharacteristic
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miss from Maya Ramirez. And I think had the effect of
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maybe deflating that Colombian side that is your, you know,
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when Kaiseto's not able to kind of get going, Ramirez gets a
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chance like that, which she I mean, she buries that 8 out of
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10, nine out of 10 pretty much all day to miss that one in that
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spot. Tough for Ramirez, but but what
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do you see from her overall in this one?
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Yeah, I mean, she tried, I think we had mentioned earlier she she
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tried to set the tone physically early, which is always a good
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move from her to kind of kind of impose her will.
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I thought Mickey Own bounced back from that pretty well
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throughout the course of the match.
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It's it is funny that you said that you feel like Ramirez makes
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that 8 out of 10, nine out of 10 times.
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My notes also say Ramirez misses a chance, that she probably
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scores 90% of the time. So I didn't go with the numbers.
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Like you, I I chose a percentage, but when she when
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she totally blows past Sonnet in the middle of the 18, I was
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like, oh, well, that's a goal. And I couldn't believe that she
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skied it over there. I think you're right.
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That felt more like the spiritual Backbreaker, which is
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tough when you're only down one NIL heading into halftime.
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But like, if you're if you're best player or at worst, if
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maybe somebody might rate Kaiseto over Ramirez, I
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wouldn't. But I I would see the argument
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possibly when your best player, your #9 misses that chance.
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It it felt like, OK, this you might be in for a long one
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because you might not get many more of those.
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Yeah. That was that was really tough.
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And I think looking at the stats here, Columbia managed seven
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shot attempts, none on target. That was pretty much the one I
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think that would have changed the entire tenor of the match.
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And she had space and time like, you know, not that she rushed
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it, but she almost could have like wound up a little or even
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like peaked up at the goal and then kind of try to place it a
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little bit in a little bit of of a cuter way.
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But All in all, you know, she she missed that one.
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And goes into halftime one NIL. Is that right?
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Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah.
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Goes into halftime one NIL at the half.
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Well, I guess what were what? Like what what where was your
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head at at halftime? Like was it, you know, did you
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kind of feel like, I mean, cause from my standpoint, I was like,
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OK, Columbia got off to a good start.
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US grab control of the first half, the last half, you know,
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last 30 minutes of the first half.
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And then it, you know, you, you, you factor in the goal and of
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like a very team natured goal to kind of put them up 1.
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You know, Myra misses that chance.
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It kind of felt like the US should have been in a little bit
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of cruise control, but at the same time, they didn't look
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extremely fluid. I think probably having to do
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with a lot of roster kind of upheaval, a new we've never seen
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this line up for sure. But what kind of like what was
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your mindset halftime going to the second-half?
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What were your expectations? Yeah, I'll read you right from
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my notes because at the half I always try to take jot down some
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stuff I want to say Shanice and Panda both in the in the in the
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comments. Thank you for hanging out with
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us. Shanice describes Johannes as a
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true box to box midfielder, 100% right.
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And Panda points out the midfield was midfielding for the
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first time in a long time. I mean that was that was really
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especially true in the first half that those were things that
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really jumped out to me. So straight from my notes I
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wrote, Colombia was dangerous, was able to look dangerous at
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times, mostly early, but they couldn't keep any kind of
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dangerous possession going. And USA and this is where the
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midfield comes and they were just swarming to the ball in
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waves and they made Kaiseido almost completely invisible out
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there. I think she had like 1 semi
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dangerous run. And then the last thing, the
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last two things I wrote not to, not to rehash things we already
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said, but Kai Sedo versus Fox in the Champions League, give me
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two matches of that immediately. I'm looking forward to that.
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And my players of the half, Mercario, Johannes and Sentinor
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and I didn't even know what was awaiting us on the other side of
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halftime from the Sentinor. But I she was, she was dangerous
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the whole time was was able to play the ball off the sideline
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multiple times and, and get into dangerous areas.
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I just thought, you know, we have a 25 year old, a 17 year
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old and a 21 year old. It's absolutely dominating the
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game. Yeah, totally.
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And I I want to throw in Jenna Neiswanger as well with regard
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to somebody who had a strong first half and I was talking to
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you about this little bit pre show Jenna Neiswanger for the US
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women's national team. Much different than club level.
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You know, Jenna Neiswanger for whatever reason.
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Maybe it's just sort of like some familiarity or maybe like
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seeing Fox on the other side just kind of, you know, balances
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things out. Maybe they can bring some of
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that chemistry over to Arsenal. We'll keep an eye on that.
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I want to read some Alex my Alex Sentinor notes from my from my
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book. So I wrote Sentinor some
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moments. Exclamation point bawling,
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please. Bigger holy fuck that was for
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the the goal was the holy fuck was the goal moment right, but
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makes sense that that goal to put the US up to I mentioned
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Yasmine Ryan, so she gets to take away deep in Colombia
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territory, gets it back to Terry McKeon, who then gets it back
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forward to Sentinor. I mean, I let out an audible, I
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don't know, probably the highest pitched squeal that I've let
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out. You know, maybe since since pre
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puberty. That was incredible.
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I I can't remember. I'm sure you're going to know
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this because you're much more of AUS miss national team
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historian, but have what? When was the last time the US
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had a player that had that level of rocket in their bag?
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Because I think, you know, we saw Fox do that for Arsenal this
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past week now, but Centenor, that's, that's her game.
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That's, you know, and they mentioned on the telecast that,
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you know, she, she went on Samuel's podcast and talked
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about her, you know, needing to develop her header, you know,
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game and just be more of like a, like a striker.
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And that was just on full display.
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But when, when was the last time the US had a player capable of
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that? If, if, if they've ever had a
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player kind of capable of of doing that at any kind of
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consistent level. OK I'll ask you flatter me by
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referring to me as more of AUS women's national team historian.
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I appreciate that. I'll ask the chat to help us
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out. The first two players that came
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to mind. I started to chuckle there when
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you mentioned that she was on Sam Mewes's podcast because Sam
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Mewes could score from range, had an had an absolute laser off
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of her right boot. I would say Carly Lloyd had that
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in her bag where she can score from distance.
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Those are the 1st 2 that come to mind.
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I know I'm I know I'm missing a few, but when as the play
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happens, Centenor collects the ball from Mickey own, you know,
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as soon as she makes that one cut inside and she's getting as
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soon as she makes the cut, she's like, I'm getting this on my
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right foot and I'm going to fire.
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I don't care that I'm like 25 yards out.
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She might have been she might have been further than that.
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I think so. And, and as soon as she cuts
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and, you know, she she knows she's going to fire her and she
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just launches it, you know. Colombian goalkeeper.
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Is it Catherine? Just want to make sure.
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Yeah, Catherine Tapia, who's a cop apparently.
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We found out on the broadcast. Completely frozen has no chance
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at it. I would have liked to see the
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body Cam footage as that goal went in from Centenar.
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Yeah, Tapia, the right to remain silent on that one.
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So we we laugh about like being like rooted to the spot.
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So Centenor pulls the crossover and like sits down the defender
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and then you you rarely see the frozen goalkeeper, so frozen
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that she that just falls. Backward.
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Yeah, that was great. Just like oh.
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My. God that was insane.
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Shout out to our guy Blue, who also is calling out Centenor's
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defense, which I thought was extremely spirited,
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entertaining. It was great to see set and
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we're just mixing it up and then just happy to be like, you know,
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I have attacking players here. You know, I, I play in Utah
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where I don't necessarily have this for sure.
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I I'm going to get the ball and with my accuracy and my touch,
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I'm going to get the ball up field and I'm going to play some
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defense here and really mix it up, which was so cool to see
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because Columbia came out really physical, really trying to set a
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tone. And I think the, the 1st 10
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minutes I wrote down. So coffee takes a shot to the
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face, you know, early 38°, you know, was the weather report.
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So that couldn't have felt good. Pavi took a shot as well.
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Nice swung or went flying out of bounds at one point.
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Tara Mikon as well. So it it was, it was definitely
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a physical match up. Really cool to see Ali Sitnor
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kind of mix it up or be happy to.
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Yeah, I mean she has a lot to her game.
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I'm I'm glad you point out that she plays bigger than she is
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because I always, always forget. I think she's listed at 5 foot 3
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and I I she doesn't look like that on the field in in any real
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way. So I mean, we talked about her,
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you know, pre match in our in our last episode where we kind
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of previewed the she believes cup or I think we talked about
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her when when the roster came out.
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I mean, she's just it, it's easy to say because she's the number
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one pick. I think it's cool that she's the
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number one overall pick in the final NWSL draft ever.
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That'll be cool trivia as as her as her career goes on, She just
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couldn't be any more of a can't miss prospect.
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She is a superstar. There is there is no doubt about
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it. And, you know, we don't, we
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don't have to talk about all the machinations now, but you're
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right where you have to find a way to get her on the field with
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triple espresso. So I, I, you know, I don't know
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how it's how it necessarily is going to happen, but Emma Hayes
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has to find a way. Yeah, I agree with that.
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I mean, I think it's a tough spot because you think about
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maybe we could think about that front 4.
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If you consider like include like the 10 in that set, you've
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got obviously Sophie Wilson, Swanson, Rodman, then you've got
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Macario. Sentinor's in the mix there.
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Jaden Shaw is probably on the outside looking in, but like I,
21:43
I do kind of feel like Sentinor's going to push for one
21:46
of those spots. Maybe it's the Swanson spot.
21:49
We'll have to kind of keep an eye on that.
21:51
But either way, Sentinor's coming.
21:53
Like, I think, I think it's only a matter of time before, you
21:57
know, she's she's at the Sharpie level of, of getting penciled
22:01
into the line up. Any other big takeaways from the
22:07
match? You know, I, I just think, I
22:11
know we talked about the midfield a little bit.
22:13
I, I just want to say it felt like Laci Santos did everything
22:17
she could. I mean, it was she it was a
22:19
scrappy performance from her, but her Restrepo and Usmay, you
22:25
know, again, I I hate to like repeat it, but they couldn't get
22:28
a damn thing going there. There were also moments where
22:31
they're trying to play the ball forward and it just felt like
22:33
Coffee and Johannes are just converging on the ball and just,
22:37
you know, popping it out and there's Ryan standing right
22:39
there in perfect position to start getting the ball forward.
22:43
Yeah, I mean, that's the kind of midfield play that we want to
22:47
see. And I wonder when you talk about
22:49
that, that front 4, you know, maybe because of and Macario
22:53
looks great and I hope we never see her get injured again.
22:57
But maybe in that rotation, perhaps Sentinor could spell
23:01
Macario in certain matches or if you have a quick turn around,
23:04
you know, maybe you want to be careful with Macario's injury.
23:06
I could see that. I'm with you though.
23:08
You know, they played Sentinor. She played a lot on the left
23:10
wing today. It could be it could be a
23:13
situation where she spells Swanson occasionally.
23:17
So a lot of a lot of good problems to have for USA wasn't
23:22
Colombia's night doesn't really it doesn't take anything away
23:25
from them. I think their their manager.
23:28
I want to Marcelia, Angelo, Marcelia, you know, he had
23:32
pointed out like the things they're working on is like their
23:35
physical conditioning, their ability to play at pace through
23:39
long stretches. I think that dude has the right
23:42
idea. I think he's done an admirable
23:43
job coaching that side. And, and I think he's he's on to
23:48
the right things of like, OK, if as we kind of build our depth as
23:52
a squad, we just need to make sure that we are as well
23:55
conditioned and as tough as possible.
23:58
Yeah, totally agree with that. Definitely trending up in terms
24:03
of, you know, kind of like world they're going, they're going to
24:05
be a force I think for the foreseeable future here
24:08
especially. I mean Myra I think is
24:10
definitely, I don't think she's 26 yet.
24:12
Sure, she might have just recently turned 26.
24:14
And Kaiseido definitely still a baby as well.
24:17
And they've just got professional players like up and
24:19
down the pitch, you know, both of the Audioses, Lacy Santos,
24:23
you know, they brought on Ana Maria Guzman later who was
24:27
involved in a near GOAT. Like, you know, Colombia
24:29
actually had some looks late, I think the last 10-12 minutes.
24:32
You know they were able to kind of find some crevices but not
24:36
really able to kind of cash in on anything big in terms of the
24:41
EU s S next match up I'm looking at the line up here trying to
24:49
think through who I would be excited to see suit up.
24:53
We also got some Michelle Cooper minutes in this one.
24:56
I thought she played really pretty well.
24:58
Yes, yeah, I totally agree. That's why I want to jump in.
25:01
I thought, I thought Michelle Cooper fit in really nicely.
25:04
She came on for Yasmine Ryan. She immediately played physical.
25:08
I I can't remember who it was. It might have been Katusbe who
25:13
they both go for a ball and like they just like it's it's one of
25:17
those where both players feet hit the opposite sides of the
25:20
ball and Katha Usman like just bites it because Michelle Cooper
25:24
is just a Mack truck out there. It might have been Usman.
25:27
I can't remember which Colombian player it is, Forgive me, but
25:29
like, and then the camera goes to where you just hear go and
25:34
you know, I'm not laughing because she's in pain.
25:36
But it's just like it was, it was very clear that Michelle
25:40
Cooper amongst professional athletes is still is a real
25:44
force, is still a percentage like just more physical than the
25:49
other great athletes out there. Yeah, absolutely.
25:52
And I think is smooth on the ball, is smart, you know, kind
25:56
of like it has good, good placement when she's crossing
25:59
the ball in. So I'll be excited to see
26:02
Michelle get some more minutes. No Claire Hutton today, No Emily
26:07
Sam's, no Emma Sears, no Alyssa Thompson.
26:12
I guess we'll see if there's if there's any line up machinations
26:15
going into the Australia match up in Australia.
26:18
I I didn't catch too much of that one versus Japan, but I
26:20
know they got smacked pretty good.
26:23
I I feel like it'll be a good. So I mean, we'll see because I
26:28
can see Australia kind of bouncing back and, you know,
26:31
trying to summon a little bit a little bit of like kind of like
26:34
professional or or national pride in this one against the
26:37
USA before what could be a massive, you know, final match
26:42
against Japan. But what are you going to be
26:45
looking for against Australia? Like, kind of like knowing that,
26:49
you know, they've got talented players.
26:52
I think chemistry wise, they're they're for whatever reason, you
26:56
know, they they haven't really been able to.
26:57
They just don't look that cohesive, you know, kind of like
27:01
without Sam Kerr. Yeah.
27:03
But from the USA standpoint, what are you going to be looking
27:07
for when those two teams speed up?
27:10
Well, I'm surprised that I'm going to be the guy to do this.
27:12
I, I know you mentioned her and I'm also I'm surprised she
27:14
wasn't the first name you mentioned.
27:16
I want to see Emily Sam's play. I, I'm good now.
27:19
I think I got one of my one of the things that I I first
27:23
thought of when I saw the line up pre match was OK, It makes
27:27
sense. I know we had talked about could
27:30
we see Sam's and Davidson as the two center backs.
27:34
Davidson doesn't appear in this match.
27:36
But when the line up comes out and I go, OK, we're going to see
27:39
Mickey Own and Sonnet because it maybe it doesn't make as much
27:44
sense to play Mickey own and Sam's, even though I believe
27:47
them both to be excellent center backs.
27:50
You just don't have enough national team experience between
27:54
the two of them. So if you're going to play
27:55
Mickey Own at center back, you should probably start Sonnet
27:59
next to it. We we had talked about two the
28:01
kind of the some of the similarities, pardon me, some of
28:04
the similarities between those two players.
28:07
Maybe next match, I think I'll I'll place one sports take bet
28:11
chip on. I think we'll see Sam's and
28:14
Sonnet in the center back rolls against Australia.
28:17
Interesting. I, I actually, if I had to make
28:21
a pick there, I, I would actually expect either Sam's and
28:25
Davidson or Sam's and McKeon. And the reason I say that is
28:30
because I got the feeling and yeah, shout out to our guy Blue.
28:34
I totally agree with you and Claire Hutton.
28:36
Definitely want to see some Claire Hutton minutes next time
28:38
around. But I got the feeling that Emma
28:42
Hayes was like, let me throw these two players and obviously
28:47
Emily Sonnets, you know, a, a tried and true, you know, US
28:52
women's actual team player at this stage in her career,
28:55
utility player, maybe not starting centre back, you know,
28:58
at the absolute apex of of international football for this
29:02
team. But I think Emma Hayes kind of
29:05
wanted to put both of those players out there, Sonnet and
29:08
McKeon, and just be like, OK, Kaistedo, Maya Ramirez, let's
29:12
see what you 2 can do. I'm going to kind of throw you
29:14
in into the hot water a little bit and kind of see what
29:17
happens. Emma Hayes has been kind of
29:19
famously talking about wanting to be too deep at every
29:23
position. And obviously I know I, we know
29:26
that Germa's got one of those spots.
29:28
We imagine that Emily Sam's got maybe one of those spots, maybe
29:32
not as tight a grip, but pretty tight.
29:36
And I thought Emma Hayes was trying to just kind of see what
29:39
she had with a couple of defenders.
29:40
It's like, hey, if if things get tight and I have to go to these
29:43
two players at center back, what, what would that look like?
29:47
Yeah, that, that's an interesting way to look at it.
29:50
Yeah, I guess I could see that if they go, if, if she chooses
29:54
to go, we're live, baby. Luckily I hit the cough button
30:00
there. If she choose what a perfect go,
30:04
you know what? That's why the cough button
30:05
exists. If if she chooses to go full
30:09
rotation, then yeah, I I think that would be really cool to see
30:12
a Sam's Davidson pairing. I wonder, like, you know, it,
30:18
it's a four team tournament you're basing it off of.
30:21
I mean, obviously every team's going to play each other, but
30:23
you're this one's ultimately going to be decided by points
30:26
and and goal differential. I mean, we could just line up
30:29
and it's USA versus Japan. Whoever wins gets the trophy.
30:34
I wonder how much I, I wonder how much that really factors in,
30:38
if it's like, OK, well, maybe I'm running a risk with, with
30:42
Davidson and Sam's instead of Davidson and Sonnet or Sam's and
30:46
Sonnet or something like that. But I mean, the way I always
30:48
look at it, I know people will try to crap on like a League Cup
30:51
and be like, ah, that trophy doesn't matter as much.
30:54
I do think the overarching feeling for professional
30:56
athletes and professional coaches is, are we playing today
31:00
or is is somebody going to get a trophy at the end of this?
31:03
OK, then I'm going to play. I'm going to try to win.
31:05
Like it's not like they don't look at any trophy as like, oh,
31:08
I don't care about that trophy. It's like, no, I won as many of
31:11
those as possible. So when I retire, I can look and
31:13
say, look at all the, look at all the hardware I won.
31:16
Yeah. No, I totally agree with that.
31:19
I mean, yeah. I mean, there's a coach like
31:24
Emma Hayes. She's probably doing calculus at
31:27
levels that we that will never approach.
31:31
Yeah. Probably about it.
31:35
I want to look ahead of here a little bit.
31:36
We talked a little bit about the Australia match up Sunday.
31:39
That's happened Sunday, 5:00 PM Eastern and then the other
31:42
Sunday match Yep, Colombia, Japan, that one's going down
31:45
2:00 PM Eastern. So by the time USA kicks off,
31:48
we'll know what the Colombia Japan result is.
31:51
I'm kind of hoping I mean, I, I love this Colombia side.
31:54
You know, even though they, they played physical, I, I was kind
31:57
of taken aback by and I, I always forget this, like I'm a
32:00
just a general fan follower of global women's football.
32:04
I kind of like love all of it. I am AUS as actual team
32:10
supporter. I'll I'll say that and a
32:12
follower for sure. I, I will root for them
32:15
absolutely, But I, I root for football.
32:18
That's that's kind of like my, my rooting interest above above
32:21
all else. With that said, I do want to see
32:24
Japan beat Colombia and I do want to see USA beat Australia
32:28
and I do want to see those two teams head into that final match
32:32
up, you know, for, for those she believes marbles and then kind
32:38
of see who comes out the other end because you look at that
32:40
Japan line up, I, I, I didn't get a chance to watch it, you
32:44
know, fully locked in. I'm going to go back and kind of
32:46
like catch up on it definitely before Sunday's action.
32:50
But you just look at who they had out there and it they're
32:53
just absolutely stacked, you know, and they're unpredictable
32:56
and they've got great chemistry. You can just have to see that
32:58
from jump. That would be an epic, epic
33:02
final match day match up if both those teams can kind of go into
33:06
that game 2O and O. Yeah, for sure.
33:10
I and I'm glad they set up the schedule that way.
33:12
I don't know, You know, it's not like Australia and Columbia or
33:16
the Washington Generals out there, but something makes me
33:19
think they kind of set the matches up that way, thinking
33:21
that could be a a live possibility.
33:24
And yeah, I mean, those two teams playing for a trophy, I
33:28
think it's it's something something we want to see.
33:31
So, you know, I, you know, Shanice points it out.
33:33
She likes the mix between experience and letting the kids
33:36
cook. I think.
33:37
Well, I think that's going to happen every match in this
33:40
tournament, even if they're playing Japan to to win it
33:43
almost. I mean, she's almost left.
33:45
It's not like like she, Emma Hayes could could field a team
33:49
of 11 super experienced starters.
33:51
So they got to be some kids on there no matter what.
33:54
But I I think she has the benefit of the kids she's
33:57
putting out there. Also happened to give her
34:00
probably the best chance to win. Yeah, yeah, I was just looking
34:03
at the kids. The kids joke.
34:05
Appreciate you Shanice for for chiming in.
34:07
But yeah, Emma can trot out, I mean, almost like a 25 and under
34:11
squad, you know, that's competitive and and maybe this
34:14
Australia matchup is is the one to kind of make that happen
34:18
because they've they've looked off kilter for a for a bit.
34:21
But you know, you look at Sentinor, you look at Johannes,
34:24
Emily Fox is still in in that age age band, the Thompson
34:27
Twins, Clara Hutton, Michelle Cooper, still just a year or two
34:31
in the end of yourself. So that could definitely happen.
34:35
Would love to see that. And I think I think there's some
34:37
appetite for it for sure from Emma Hay specifically for kind
34:41
of not necessarily wanting to turn the page, but there's
34:44
something about, you know, establishing the a philosophy or
34:49
your philosophy under the broader US and national team
34:52
philosophy and doing that with players that have made it.
34:55
I think on the telecast they mentioned that maybe 13 or 14
34:58
players have made their USA debut under Emma Hayes in just a
35:02
short period of time. So I think that's kind of where
35:06
things are trending. This Australian match up that I
35:08
think is something to keep an eye out for.
35:10
What's that line up going to look like?
35:12
Is the youth movement fully kicking into gear?
35:15
You know when they roll the ball out there on Sunday.
35:19
Yeah. I, I, I, I'm anxious to see it.
35:22
I think, I think that's what we can bet on.
35:24
I think we will see it versus Australia.
35:29
And then you just, you know, and maybe just as you said, rooting
35:32
for football, that might lead to us getting a dog fight out there
35:36
because you know, the Aussies, they got it.
35:38
They, like you said, they got to try to bounce back in some way.
35:41
And if they if they go out there and see a bunch of 25 and
35:44
unders, they might think, OK, this is we do have a real shot
35:48
out here. They they, they're going to have
35:49
to feel their best lineup to kind of get that bad taste out
35:52
of their mouth. Yeah, absolutely.
35:54
And you know, they still got Mary Fowler or they still got
35:57
Cat Lee, LA Carpenter, a ton of a ton of talented players for
36:00
sure. So they could definitely make it
36:03
a game. They've got the talent.
36:04
You know, it's just going to be a matter of can they put all
36:06
together on the road here? All right, man, great, great
36:12
opening to the She Believes cup. Anything else that you'd like to
36:14
hit before we get out of here? I think the one last thing, and
36:19
I know we don't always have to hit everything in our notes, but
36:21
I just want to point out that block Lily Johannes had it right
36:24
around the 80th minute where when they show, they show the
36:28
replay, Johannes is not in the frame.
36:30
And then as the Colombian player goes to goes to hit the shot,
36:34
Johannes comes flying in with the sliding block.
36:37
I mean, man, that is that is a superstar player at 17 years old
36:43
and just the IQ is off the charts, man.
36:46
So I mean, it's just like I you can't leave that match thinking
36:51
anything other than what we were saying when the roster was
36:53
named. There cannot be another roster
36:56
moving forward that doesn't heavily on us on it assuming
36:59
fitness. Yeah, yeah, I love seeing her.
37:02
I I thought about what you said on the show a couple shows back.
37:05
I love seeing her in the lineup and then she got the full 90
37:07
plus. So that's the first time that's
37:10
happened. Pretty awesome to see.
37:13
Forgot to mention it on top. Congrats, man.
37:16
Episode 100 for your guys. Look at us.
37:19
Look at us hanging out. Shanice, we appreciate you, blue
37:23
panda. We appreciate you.
37:24
We're all celebrating 100 episodes together.
37:27
We want to hit the, you know, we want to hit the button go live
37:30
to celebrate this big US women's national team win.
37:33
But yeah, it's been, it's been a good run for us too, you know,
37:36
letting, letting the old guys cook as well.
37:39
There you go. Yeah.
37:41
You know, approaching their 40s, maybe in their 40s.
37:44
Who's to say that's nobody's business but.
37:48
I wish I was. I wish I was afraid of my 40s.
37:52
With that in mind, I think it is fitting because you and I have
37:55
to, you know we have been Emily Sonnet enjoyers.
37:58
I got to watch your live here for that one season for Seattle
38:02
Rain. So let me just say this.
38:05
It feels like there is some synergy there.
38:08
We love the way Emily Sana plays.
38:10
We love her mentality. She celebrated her 100th cap
38:15
today. Let's go.
38:17
And this is the 100th episode of the end to the channel podcast.
38:21
I feel like that only means that we have to induct Emily Sonnet
38:26
into the ITC Hall of Fame. Let's go.
38:29
Unbelievable. Unbelievable by you.
38:33
We're a committee, so I mean, I need the cosign from you. 100%
38:38
cosign. I mean, you know, I've talked
38:40
about Emily Sonnet plenty of, plenty of time in my past.
38:44
That's exactly my kind of player.
38:46
Just mix it up there for there, for all of it.
38:50
She's just there for whatever's happening.
38:52
She's there for it. Love watching her play.
38:56
I I just kind of want I don't know, I, I, I, I almost want to
38:59
go back and and watch, you know, some old Emily Sonic tape, you
39:03
know, just to kind of see what what I missed.
39:05
You know, obviously I'm only a few years into into the women's
39:08
game, but total cosign. We were talking about a pre
39:11
show. Emily signed it.
39:13
Only the 4th player inducted into the ITC Hall of Fame.
39:17
That's incredible. Yeah.
39:19
As a recap, Aaron Cuthbert, I Tana bow, my tea.
39:22
Orlando Pride legend Corey Dyke, who gave you the salute on our
39:26
show? Of course, automatic hall.
39:28
And that was a Yeah. No, five year Grace Beard.
39:30
She goes right in for the salute.
39:33
Emily sought it on. I mean, get her the green
39:35
jacket. Yeah, I guess.
39:36
Yeah. Our logo's green.
39:37
We can we can just like put together some kind of green
39:40
jacket for her theoretical Internet digital green jacket
39:44
for Emily. So Congrats to you on on this,
39:47
this, this crappy accomplishment of getting into our shows Hall
39:49
of Fame. But yeah, 100 episodes, 100
39:52
caps. Love the synergy, love the
39:54
alignment written in the stars. There it is.
39:57
Yeah, We are the we give out the ethical green jacket, not from
40:00
that golf tournament that some people care about.
40:02
We have the green jacket that is that is built on good things.
40:05
So yeah, Congratulations to Emily Sonnet.
40:09
Wonderful. All right, man.
40:13
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, she's her phone's ringing
40:16
off the hook right now. I'm sure.
40:18
All right, man. I think.
40:19
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