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Brian Dunseth on the USMNT vs Australia today in World Cup, Pulisic OUT, Superstars showing out in group play + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: to one a f M.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to our.
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  Speaker 3: Number two on the Shan O'Connell Show.
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  Speaker 1: We are less than an hour away from the US
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  Speaker 1: men's national team versus Australia at Lumenfield in Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna be a fun one. Fingers crossed.
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  Speaker 1: We hope bad news for team USA today as Mauricio
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  Speaker 1: Poschatino confirmed that Christian Polistic will be out today. Ricardo
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  Speaker 1: Peppi to get the start, joining us to talk about
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  Speaker 1: this matchup and of course that injury news. Brian Duncith Dunny,
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  Speaker 1: the best voice in soccer analysis west of the Mississippi,
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  Speaker 1: west of the Atlantic.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, Donny, welcome to the show. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it? Well, man, I think that venmos getting
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  Speaker 2: more and more expensive every time I joined the show,
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  Speaker 2: So thank you mo man.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so, how dire is that news?
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  Speaker 1: In your opinion that you know, not altogether unpredictable, but
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  Speaker 1: that Christian Polistic is not available for US men's national
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  Speaker 1: team today?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I think there's two ways to look at
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  Speaker 2: it one is devastating for Christian Polistic because he's laid
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  Speaker 2: his body on the line time and time again. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you go back to the World Cup and guitar where
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  Speaker 2: he scores that goal against Iran and he's forced to
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  Speaker 2: head straight to the hospital because of the collision afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: He is the face of US soccer. And I say
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  Speaker 2: that with all due respect to the other captains in
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  Speaker 2: the squad, guys like Kim Marie, Chris Richards, Tyler Adams,
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  Speaker 2: West McKinney, etc. But there is a silver lining, and
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  Speaker 2: that silver lining is Since last summer, the US men's
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  Speaker 2: national team has played without Christian Polistic on a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of occasions. They went through the games against Turkey and Switzerland,
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  Speaker 2: through the Gold Cup last summer where Diego Luna shined,
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  Speaker 2: and then in the fall the injury against today's opponent
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  Speaker 2: in Australia. He was knocked out in the first half
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  Speaker 2: over in Denver, and then subsequently missed the games against
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  Speaker 2: Paraguay and Uruguay in Philadelphia and Tampa Bay respectively, which
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  Speaker 2: the US won. So the one thing about the way
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  Speaker 2: that Mariso Pochettino has built his system is that it's
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  Speaker 2: not predicated on just one player, And again I say
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  Speaker 2: that with the utmost respect, because Christian Polistic is an
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  Speaker 2: amazing talent and because of his stardom, every opponent is
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  Speaker 2: going to isolate him as the first person that they
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  Speaker 2: have to limit his ability to break their down their
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  Speaker 2: defense and limit his ability to cut them apart in
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  Speaker 2: the midfield. So, as you said, not surprising based on
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  Speaker 2: what we had seen and the fact that he hadn't
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  Speaker 2: been in full training for Mariso Pochettino. But again I
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  Speaker 2: have full faith in this group. And again another wrinkle
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  Speaker 2: shown by Mariso Pochtino to start Ricardo Peppi Flowbaligan Wester, McKinney,
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  Speaker 2: serginiast Anthony Robinson in the attacking phase of play, with
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  Speaker 2: both Tyler Adams sitting a little bit deeper and Malick
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  Speaker 2: Tillman popping up in more dangerous spots. I think this
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  Speaker 2: tweak is to surprise Australia, force them to sit maybe
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  Speaker 2: a little bit deeper. They'll start with a five four
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  Speaker 2: to one formation. But this is a team that, for
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  Speaker 2: whatever reason, this country, this team has sounded the rally
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  Speaker 2: cry because of what they perceive is disrespect from a
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  Speaker 2: couple of American pundits that have turned them into nationally
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  Speaker 2: hated figures, Mike Grilla being at the top of that list.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the layup comment gets printed on Australian T shirts
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  Speaker 1: and just recycled through Australian media so aggressively. And look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm all for some bulletin board material, but what kind
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  Speaker 1: of a threat are the soccer rus And I guess
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  Speaker 1: why are they a threat?
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  Speaker 2: I mean they are incredibly physical, you know, and the
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  Speaker 2: fact that they shocked a lot of people in the
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  Speaker 2: group by beating Turkey a two nil despite facing thirty
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  Speaker 2: shots without conceding a single goal. So defensively, they've got
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  Speaker 2: great size between Tutar and Burgess and Sirkack getting forward
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  Speaker 2: with Lecky and Tree. The number nine in particular, he's
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  Speaker 2: got a very similar athleticism to what we have in
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  Speaker 2: flow ball. Again, our striker who scored those two goals
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  Speaker 2: against Paraguay I probably deserved the third because of the
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  Speaker 2: nuance of the stupid off side law. And again it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a team that and please, please, if you're watching
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  Speaker 2: this game, don't let the amount of possession fool you
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  Speaker 2: in favor of the United States. You know, I think
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  Speaker 2: the Soccer News came in right around twenty eight percent
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  Speaker 2: possession of the ball, so they are more than comfortable
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  Speaker 2: sitting to keep the game in front of them and
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  Speaker 2: then very quickly transitioning playing the ball up over the top.
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  Speaker 2: The US has got to be very very careful of
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  Speaker 2: simple unnecessary fouls anywhere in their defensive half. Because of
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  Speaker 2: the quality of service and the size and aerial strength
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  Speaker 2: of Australia, They're going to be looking for margins, and
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  Speaker 2: those margins primarily are going to come from transition opportunities
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  Speaker 2: and set piece opportunities. So the US has to be
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  Speaker 2: very acutely aware that when they're going to be at
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  Speaker 2: their most vulnerable, it's actually going to be in possession
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  Speaker 2: with the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Forgive me for being a little reductive here, but this
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  Speaker 1: is this US men's national team roster is small. Like,
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  Speaker 1: there's not a ton of big guys. There's not a
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  Speaker 1: ton of weight, There's not a ton of physical size
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  Speaker 1: on the roster. Visually when you look at the actual
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  Speaker 1: weight and height numbers, it's just it's not a physically
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  Speaker 1: large team. And you're going up against someone that's you know,
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  Speaker 1: physical bullies like Australia. Does that matter because it's soccer.
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  Speaker 1: It's not football we're talking about. But I imagine it
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  Speaker 1: matters on some level.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean set pieces are going to be oh
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  Speaker 2: see the conversation. But I would remind everybody Matt Freeze
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  Speaker 2: six o five, goalkeeper Chris Richards is about six before
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  Speaker 2: Tim Raims right around six to one. You know, when
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  Speaker 2: when when you talk about Alex Freeman, whose dad's Antonio Freeman,
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  Speaker 2: former wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, He's about
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  Speaker 2: six to two. Jedi Robinson over on the left hand
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  Speaker 2: side about six two six three Kilman six's one.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Peppi is about six to one as well. So they
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  Speaker 2: have size, but to your point, they just don't have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that whole king strength. What I would
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  Speaker 2: say is in the run of play, O. See, this
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  Speaker 2: is a win for the little guys. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: always talk about size and we talk about strength, and
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  Speaker 2: you got to have this and you gotta have that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you you you look at the dynamism from
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  Speaker 2: some of these smaller players. You know, we we were
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  Speaker 2: watching a guy like Lionel Messi in this US team.
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  Speaker 2: You'll talk about Tyler Adams, So you talk about Sergenio deak.
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  Speaker 2: There's a weird, nuanced conversation if people are open to
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  Speaker 2: it that you know, these little guys are so technically gifted,
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  Speaker 2: so fleet of foot, so quick in transition moments and anticipation,
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  Speaker 2: that it actually beloved them not to be with that
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  Speaker 2: size and strength that we constantly talk about. So again,
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  Speaker 2: physicality is going to be the name of the game.
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  Speaker 2: I call it doun sethary, I call it the dark arts.
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  Speaker 2: I think the manipulation of the opponent as well as
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  Speaker 2: the referee is something to keep an eye on. But
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, you've got to figure
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  Speaker 2: out a way to emotionally regulate yourself over the course
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  Speaker 2: of ninety minutes, something that I personally wasn't great at
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  Speaker 2: throughout the course of my career because I just wanted
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  Speaker 2: to smack somebody for stepping out of line. But obviously
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  Speaker 2: in the context of the World Cup, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: be very, very acutely aware of your emotions and making
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  Speaker 2: sure you kind of regulate them correctly.
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  Speaker 1: It's been night officiating has not been a big story
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  Speaker 1: so far in group play, which in my opinion, is
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  Speaker 1: always a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: Am I seeing that.
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  Speaker 2: Right you are you are and I think that everyone
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  Speaker 2: who's stepped them a lot out of bounds. In particular,
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  Speaker 2: I would I would probably use Katar last or yesterday
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  Speaker 2: afternoon against Canada in the horrific leg break with Ismail
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  Speaker 2: Cone doing a double pib FID fracture with about sixty
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  Speaker 2: five minutes left. And then the opening game down in
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  Speaker 2: Mexico City was South Africa seeing two reds against Mexico,
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  Speaker 2: and I actually have that game South Korea South Africa
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  Speaker 2: on Wednesday, which Moka and the one captain that scored
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  Speaker 2: the goal, he picked up his second yellow, so he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be missing in that game and it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a must win after they drew late and
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  Speaker 2: then one to one draw again to Chechia. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: referees have been good. Is there like, listen if you're
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  Speaker 2: asking me, is there moments where I'd like to see
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more leniency with the idea of you know,
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  Speaker 2: eleven versus eleven on the field until the final whistle,
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  Speaker 2: of course, but again you have don't I don't know
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  Speaker 2: oc how to properly put this into words for kind
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  Speaker 2: of the average American sports fan, the idea of this
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  Speaker 2: World Cup representing your nation, you know, it's it's the
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  Speaker 2: young inner child of all of us. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: take away the game of soccer, whether you're talking about baseball,
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  Speaker 2: youre talking about football, you're talking about basketball, whatever your
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  Speaker 2: flavor sport there is. You know, when we had our
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  Speaker 2: heroes as little kids, these are the opportunities for these
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  Speaker 2: guys to be their own hero, you know, to be
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  Speaker 2: the hero that they looked up to. And what I've
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  Speaker 2: constantly been talking about, and I had a conversation with
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Adams about this ahead of the Germany game in
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  Speaker 2: Chicago when I was a part of Turner's coverage CNT's coverage,
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  Speaker 2: was he said, you know, we didn't know what we
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  Speaker 2: didn't know heading into Qatar, and you know there was
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  Speaker 2: a youthful exuberance to that, but now we kind of
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  Speaker 2: understand how to prepare for this World Cup. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: the conversation kind of leaned into the idea of you
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  Speaker 2: know what in nineteen ninety four that Tony Meol was
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  Speaker 2: the Alexi Wallis's Marcello about Boas, the John Hart's Tabramos
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  Speaker 2: is Eric and all this what they were to me
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  Speaker 2: as a sixteen year old in southern California, that couldn't
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  Speaker 2: afford tickets, but was just obsessed with the US men's
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  Speaker 2: national team. They realized that, like those guys, this is
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  Speaker 2: their opportunity to etch their name and stone for you know,
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  Speaker 2: the the in eternity of US soccer folklore. And on
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  Speaker 2: top of that, you know, for those that don't understand
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  Speaker 2: the power of the World Cup, I would suggest it's
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  Speaker 2: something alike the Americana version of how we get behind
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  Speaker 2: our US athletes during the Winter Olympics, the Summer Olympics,
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  Speaker 2: how we consume the Super Bowl, how we consume what
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  Speaker 2: we just saw with the Knicks in the NBA. You know,
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  Speaker 2: add that all up, roll into a ball injected with
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  Speaker 2: steroids and launch it to the moon. And that's where
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  Speaker 2: your start to even comprehend what this means to football. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, these guys, if we break it down to
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  Speaker 2: its dumbest form, that they're playing for their their inner child,
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  Speaker 2: they're playing for their families, they're playing for their countries,
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  Speaker 2: but they're also playing for their futures. And in real time,
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  Speaker 2: it is an opportunity to attain that legendary status, that
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  Speaker 2: hero status, or unfortunately, that villain status that sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: see based on the emotion of the game.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought.
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  Speaker 1: Up the heroes thing because we've been treated in these
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  Speaker 1: first few games to like the big names in soccer,
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  Speaker 1: the big names in world football having incredible performances.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Holland with.
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  Speaker 1: Two Bape scored two goals, hat trick for Messikin with
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  Speaker 1: two goals, and the conspicuously absent name on that list is,
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  Speaker 1: of course Cristiano Ronaldo and an underwhelming performance by him
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  Speaker 1: and by Portugal.
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  Speaker 3: He's forty one years old.
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  Speaker 1: His coach was asked about benching him and dismissed the idea.
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  Speaker 1: The conversation around Cristiano Ronaldo being pasted it or maybe
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  Speaker 1: even hurting his team at this point, is it exaggerated?
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  Speaker 3: Is it appropriate?
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  Speaker 1: Give me the expert opinion on Ronaldo in this World
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  Speaker 1: Cup tournament.
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  Speaker 2: The direction shoes to go down, I would probably leave
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  Speaker 2: a basket. Sierranrie so near the end of his career,
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  Speaker 2: had similar challenges as Christiano Ronaldo does for both club
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  Speaker 2: and country, and that is when you are such an
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  Speaker 2: iconic figure both on and off the field. And my
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  Speaker 2: easy analogy would be, if you're an introvert, you probably
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  Speaker 2: lean towards Lionel Messi. If you're an extrovert, you probably
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  Speaker 2: lean towards christ Joanna Ronaldo. The difference between Lionel Messi
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  Speaker 2: and Christiana Ronaldo right now is that Argentina is built
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  Speaker 2: to accentuate all of the positives for Lionel Messi and
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  Speaker 2: protect all of the negatives, meaning that they are going
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  Speaker 2: to play for him within a system that's been incredibly
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  Speaker 2: successful for the Winds in Copamerica as well as the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup. The difference is that this team Portugal, you're
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  Speaker 2: you're built with superstars that we saw throughout PSG's run
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  Speaker 2: to the Champions League. Guys like Bruno Fernandez, guys like
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  Speaker 2: Bernardo Silva, guys like Vitima, guys like Juan Pedro. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it is built with superstars as well, but you're asking
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  Speaker 2: Christiano Ronaldo to lead the line, whereas in Argentina, Leno
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  Speaker 2: Messi is sitting in the pocket just a little bit
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  Speaker 2: higher in that central part of the midfield and still
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  Speaker 2: has front runners like Latara Martinez and Julean Alvarez. That
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  Speaker 2: that asks different things of defenders because they have different
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  Speaker 2: player profiles. So I mean, the reality is that, listen,
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  Speaker 2: we hold these guys to such highest team because they've
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  Speaker 2: set the bar so high, and when they don't attain
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  Speaker 2: those heights, while others are doing something that we expect
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  Speaker 2: them to do, all of a sudden, it's very very
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  Speaker 2: easy to dismiss them. So I think as the tournament
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  Speaker 2: goes on, will have a better idea of truly who
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  Speaker 2: Portugal is. I mean, listen, I think I could probably
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  Speaker 2: try to argue it both ways that Christiano Ronaldo in
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  Speaker 2: this lineup is better than not being in the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, Portugal really doesn't have a
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  Speaker 2: player that can do what he does or has a
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  Speaker 2: player that changes the complexity of the attack. All due
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  Speaker 2: respect for Gonzala Ramos or even if you're I don't
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  Speaker 2: know who Rafa Leo if you want to play him
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  Speaker 2: as a hybrid of a nine, but he's not really
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  Speaker 2: a nine. So there's real nuanced the conversation. But the
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  Speaker 2: reality is this was always going to be the biggest
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  Speaker 2: challenge the moment that Roberto Martinez left Belgium took over
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  Speaker 2: Portugal and had to manage the situation of Christiano Ronaldo
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  Speaker 2: as well. And this is something to keep an eye
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  Speaker 2: on throughout the tournament. His sister's Instagram slash social media
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  Speaker 2: accounts that is very aggressive, very very very aggressive.
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  Speaker 3: I saw that. And a universal truth in sports is.
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  Speaker 1: That when mom or brother or dad or sister starts
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  Speaker 1: spouting office, it's usually not a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's it's uh. I mean, it's if you
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  Speaker 2: go to any of the pages in Europe, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: on the it's one of the headlines. So we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what it looks like coming up for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the tournament for them. But in reality, it most certainly
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  Speaker 2: is going to be a challenge. But again I think
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  Speaker 2: there's a it's more about the respect and by the way,
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  Speaker 2: as we talk about, you know how this point in
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  Speaker 2: that game was for Portugal and Christiano Ronaldo, what absolute
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  Speaker 2: story that was for Dr Congo and what they were
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  Speaker 2: capable of doing. I mean when when you think about
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  Speaker 2: the reasons why this World Cup was expanded to the
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  Speaker 2: amount of teams it is, this is another perfect example.
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  Speaker 2: Cape Verdie is another example of where you know, these
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  Speaker 2: pipe dreams can become these beautiful realities.
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  Speaker 3: If I call you at.
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  Speaker 1: Three thirty mountain time today, may be four o'clock mountain
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  Speaker 1: time today. Are we talking about the US having secured
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  Speaker 1: a place outside the group in the elimination rounds like
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  Speaker 1: Mexico did last night?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean theoretically they already have with the win
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  Speaker 2: against Portugal because the third you know, being a part
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  Speaker 2: of the best three teams. But I can promise see
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  Speaker 2: that Marisa Pochatino and his staff, having been around him
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  Speaker 2: for the better part of the last two seasons, they
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  Speaker 2: will not rest on their loyals laurels and with that
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  Speaker 2: kind of Argentinian fight and flair, and remember he represented
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  Speaker 2: Argentina and played with me and o Messi back in
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  Speaker 2: the two thousand and two World Cup, they are very
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  Speaker 2: very clear with that was just the beginning, and that
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  Speaker 2: sense of urgency, the directness in play and their ability
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  Speaker 2: to punish the mistakes of their opponent is going to
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  Speaker 2: be the bare minimum they've set the bar, and that
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  Speaker 2: will be the level of expectation with or without Christian
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  Speaker 2: Polistic on the field. And a side note to that,
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  Speaker 2: remember that second half when Christian Polistic went out and
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  Speaker 2: Maleck Tillman went up and played in that kind of
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  Speaker 2: left center pocket. It looked different but was still effective.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's what they're going to look to
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  Speaker 2: continue to replicate this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: As long as we're talking about Post Chattino, if Brian
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  Speaker 1: Dunsith gets called up to be the coach of the
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  Speaker 1: US men's national team in a World Cup, you're a
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  Speaker 1: fashionable individual.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I know the shoes are going to be on point,
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  Speaker 1: but are you wearing a jacket and tie on the sideline?
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  Speaker 3: Are you going with like the casual set like Post does.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm more. I was actually shocked to
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  Speaker 2: see Posts. Not that he didn't look good, because I
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  Speaker 2: thought he looked sharp, but it was just a different
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  Speaker 2: type of shark. Well, since i'd be sponsored by Nike,
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  Speaker 2: you know, i'd have my Jordan ones, my old school
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: og Jordan one's on. I'd probably have like a nice
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: pair of like I don't know, Lululemon men's, like stretchy
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: black pants. I'd probably have like a smart like T
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: shirt on, like one of those nice expensive one and
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: then have a have a lighter jacket on. But funny enough,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: we were God, what city were we in? I think, uh, where,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think what city where we we might
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: have been in? Oh, I know we were in Austin
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: for the Ecuador game last September, and Bosatino and I
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: were dressed and I'm not jokin oci. We were a
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: look alike, like you would have thought that our moms
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: dressed us that, like we were twins and we had
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: to wear the same exact thing. Because he looks at
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: me and he goes get bass and I was like,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I know, right, And so we had a we had
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: a nice little giggle because we were we were like
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: white sneakers, black pants, black shirt, black kind of light
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: jacket on, and we we kind of giggled about that one.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: So that that would be kind of my casual look.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: But again, I think it's game dependent. And don't think
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: for a second, whoever that stylist is for him, isn't
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: going to gear him out to look sharp to.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: The I mean, throw make throw up a little more
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: formal on all right, that's my stance on the matter.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Like you, we're You're the US men's national team coach.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Right now. He did look cool. He looks cooler than
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I ever will.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: But let's yeah, you're. All I know is that if
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: you're wearing a suit and time the sidelines in the
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: middle of summer here in the US, you are sweating
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: through orifices you weren't sure that you're even aware of
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: being able to sweat through. So yeah, you got you
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: gotta do whatever you gotta do.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Donny, enjoy the game today.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Thanks for your insight and your expertise as always, and
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: we'll chat again soon.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you, brother. Thank you.
• 19:31
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