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6-19 H2: More World Cup Action w/ Niko Moreno · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Breakout, Christopher, get live when you by.
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  Speaker 1: Across the street from Lumenfield.
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  Speaker 2: One hour before on this radio station, you can hear
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  Speaker 2: the US in Australia and the World Cup match from Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: the first men's World Cup match ever in the Pacific Northwest,
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  Speaker 2: is live on our air play by play at noon.
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  Speaker 2: The pregame show starts at eleven thirty where the prefunk
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  Speaker 2: of the pregame show live from Jimmy's on First, across
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  Speaker 2: the street from Luminfield, where the headline news of the
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  Speaker 2: morning is Christian Polisic will not play the US star
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  Speaker 2: their best player. Guys wearing gals wearing T shirts in
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  Speaker 2: this bar and across the street walking down occidental number
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  Speaker 2: ten Polistic will not play cap strain US men's national
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  Speaker 2: team and Fox Sports reporting that about a half hour
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  Speaker 2: forty five minutes ago, and that means a pope pirie
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  Speaker 2: of options for coach Mauricio Poa. Chattino and Masvin and
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  Speaker 2: I have talked about that, but needless to say, without
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  Speaker 2: their best player, their job has gotten harder against the
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  Speaker 2: soccer ruse and their counterattack speed and their back line
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  Speaker 2: at five defenders and putting a six to six center back.
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  Speaker 2: To talk about that and much more, is Nico Moreno.
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  Speaker 2: He's in the columnist for MLS Espeniol. He's also Fox
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  Speaker 2: thirteen Sports Soccer World Cup analyst along with mos Vita.
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  Speaker 2: He joined us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline because I
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  Speaker 2: assume he's already in the stadium. On Monday, he was
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  Speaker 2: sitting in my press box seat, so I'm sure he's
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  Speaker 2: already in the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Hello is Nico, Hey Greg, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually not.
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  Speaker 4: I was trying to get a little bit more of
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  Speaker 4: the fans coming into the stadium, and he has been incredible,
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  Speaker 4: So I'm not in yet.
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  Speaker 3: I was waiting for, of course.
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  Speaker 4: The kJ R call and then once I'm done here
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  Speaker 4: out they hitting upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm in the north side where most of the fans
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  Speaker 4: are coming in, where the main supporter side of the
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  Speaker 4: Uisban national team came through. It has been absolutely incredible.
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  Speaker 4: I've saw Rocky Balboa, ann Apollo Creed, I've saw three
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  Speaker 4: Founding Fathers. I've seen you know, all kinds of amazing
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  Speaker 4: costumes here today.
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  Speaker 3: The people are feeling it.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of Aussies, a lot of yellow all around.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been incredible.
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  Speaker 2: You've seen a statue of Liberty walking. I saw that
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  Speaker 2: a couple of times on occidental.
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  Speaker 4: I have not that one has not come through here
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  Speaker 4: just yet. I'm waiting for that other founding father as well.
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  Speaker 4: But it has been incredible. The people have really shown
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  Speaker 4: out today. I think that Seattle has put a staple
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  Speaker 4: and said you know, we are here. I think that
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  Speaker 4: for the future there is the possibility for this being
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  Speaker 4: a real home base for the USB's national team. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited the people have come out. I did not
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  Speaker 4: expect any less, and this does feel bigger than anything
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  Speaker 4: n IFY Championship, then MLAST Cup, then Least Cup, I
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  Speaker 4: mean everything, it.
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  Speaker 3: Just feels below it. He's been incredible.
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  Speaker 2: For the reason Nico says it's larger than the NFC
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  Speaker 2: Championship in the Seahawks Title Games is because it's global,
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  Speaker 2: and because the people here are from Australia and they're
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  Speaker 2: from Mexico, and they're from England, and I've seen people
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  Speaker 2: from Scotland. Of course, Belgium is the team is based
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  Speaker 2: at the Sounders facility. This whole World Cup, Bosnia and
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  Speaker 2: Herzegovina will have people in here early next week, but
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  Speaker 2: when they play against their side against Cutter, Cutter will
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  Speaker 2: be here. So it's a global event that so much
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  Speaker 2: larger than the NFL on a global scale, that's hard
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  Speaker 2: for us to inside the United States understand.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a fact that across the world.
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  Speaker 2: I mean twenty five, twenty seven and a half million
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  Speaker 2: people watch this US play Paraguay and at first droom
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  Speaker 2: stage match, creaking a soccer record for television viewership last week.
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  Speaker 2: Because today's a Juneteenth holiday, it's probably to break that record.
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  Speaker 2: Is already getting reports that this will break the record
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  Speaker 2: for the most wagered soccer match ever in US betting history.
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  Speaker 2: To get in price for the tickets that are now
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  Speaker 2: thirty three hundred dollars the last minute price for tickets
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  Speaker 2: on the online sites that have the remaining seats left
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  Speaker 2: again eleven thirty pre game twelve o'clock live US and Australia.
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  Speaker 2: You can hear the game live here on ninety three
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  Speaker 2: point three KJRFM and he go within the last hour.
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  Speaker 2: The word is that Christian Polistic will not play. How
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  Speaker 2: does this affect the United States and their task today?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, it definitely brings some concerns and maybe
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  Speaker 4: some question marks in terms of how effective or if
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  Speaker 4: you can replicate what you did against Paraguay.
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  Speaker 3: However, I do believe, and.
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  Speaker 4: This comes from someone that's pretty close to the USBs
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  Speaker 4: national team, that downgrade that dropped from Christian Pulisic, it's
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  Speaker 4: not as significant, can't as maybe it would be if
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  Speaker 4: it was a Tyler Adams or a Jedi Robinson, because
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  Speaker 4: there are some quality options there, I believe, And I
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  Speaker 4: haven't seen the starting eleven, hopefully that's not out quite
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  Speaker 4: just yet, but I believe Tillman is a guy that's
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  Speaker 4: very gold dangerous that played in those inside channels, just
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  Speaker 4: like Christian Pulisic would.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, with this system, this three four two.
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  Speaker 4: One that the US national team play, those wingers are
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  Speaker 4: inverted wingers.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna play in the inside channels.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that whether it's Timothy Tillman or you
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  Speaker 4: could put Arison there, there's some quality guys to take
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  Speaker 4: that torch and try to do some of the things
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  Speaker 4: that Christian does.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Greg Niko Moreo joining us live here on NIP
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  Speaker 5: Record three kJ RFM from outside the stadium before he
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  Speaker 5: heads in the covert for MLS Espanol and Fox thirteen
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  Speaker 5: Sports here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: MASI to go ahead, Yeah, No, I mean I think the.
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  Speaker 6: Just right now is that Ricardo Peppi will will step in.
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  Speaker 6: And that's what we've seen in terms of all the
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  Speaker 6: we said this earlier segment in terms of online and
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  Speaker 6: everything like that, but you never know until they step
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  Speaker 6: out there.
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  Speaker 1: But so the you'll go to a four two three one.
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  Speaker 6: And Toniko's point, yeah, I mean there is a drop off,
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  Speaker 6: but it's not significant because of you know, the talent
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  Speaker 6: that's there.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right. I mean, I think the way that
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  Speaker 1: belonging is.
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  Speaker 6: Playing is is is what's critical, and search your desk.
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  Speaker 6: What you're getting from Tyler Adams is is.
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  Speaker 1: Important and that's what you need to replicate.
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  Speaker 6: You gotta attack the wings and then come back as
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  Speaker 6: Brian had talked about, and then you got to come
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  Speaker 6: back inside. And I think you know Peppy can do
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  Speaker 6: that to a certain extent, but obviously you're gonna lose
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  Speaker 6: that far speed on the left wing.
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  Speaker 2: Nico, how equipped are the US to make a long run?
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  Speaker 2: Your expectations sky high to the four to one win
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  Speaker 2: over Paraguay, how do you see the US team shaping
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  Speaker 2: up the rest of the tournament.
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  Speaker 7: I have this team with the possibility to get to
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  Speaker 7: a semi final. I mean you have to believe that
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  Speaker 7: this is this team's chance to be a dark horse.
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  Speaker 7: And that is something that I stand strong on. You
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  Speaker 7: have the both in generation. You have a team with
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  Speaker 7: a lot of depth. You have a Fochectino that has
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  Speaker 7: inserted that South American identity into this team in terms
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  Speaker 7: of play, in terms of galvanizing this group around. Whether
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  Speaker 7: it was criticism or lack of believe in this team,
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  Speaker 7: I sided in the training two Virginia death tells me
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  Speaker 7: this team is confident. I hear from McKinney about how
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  Speaker 7: good the group if all of that to me calls
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  Speaker 7: out for a dark force. So I have them going
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  Speaker 7: yet as far as the semi finals.
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  Speaker 1: So Pochettino changed them tactically.
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  Speaker 2: You talk about attitude and bringing the South American style.
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  Speaker 1: Tactically, how are they different?
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  Speaker 7: They're just better in possession and more dynamic and understanding
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  Speaker 7: and attacking space figuring out exactly how to.
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  Speaker 3: Make those hard runs.
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  Speaker 7: You saw McKenny able to open up a lot of
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  Speaker 7: space when he came to an excellent Perwaian team that
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  Speaker 7: only gave up ten goals in South American qualifiers. We
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  Speaker 7: are the hardest qualifiers in the world. They beat Brazil
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  Speaker 7: to ones, they beat Argentina as well, and this US
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  Speaker 7: West national team was able to dismantle them. With that
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  Speaker 7: ability to move around. I think that using the inside channels,
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  Speaker 7: they using Christian politic in the ability to connect is
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  Speaker 7: something that he has burned into these teams. And when
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  Speaker 7: you come in to pay a team like Australia, they're
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  Speaker 7: going to play in such a deep block. That's going
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  Speaker 7: to be the key. It's not just about getting the
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  Speaker 7: ball wide and trying to stretch out that defense, but
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  Speaker 7: it's about having patients and allowing those triangles in tight
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  Speaker 7: spaces to develop. So those connectivities, those associations between Saleman
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  Speaker 7: or McKenny and Bulligan and all those guys in the
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  Speaker 7: final third, that was the really break down the walls
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  Speaker 7: that Australia has been a put in front.
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  Speaker 3: Of you today.
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  Speaker 2: Nico Moreno, MLS Espanol and Fox thirteen Sports World Cup
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  Speaker 2: analysts joining us and become plumbing hotline from right outside
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  Speaker 2: the stadium, across the street from where I am and
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy's on first eleven thirty pre game here on ninety
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  Speaker 2: three point three official national pregame show in the live
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  Speaker 2: broadcast play by play, the only place in the radio
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  Speaker 2: here in Seattle. You can listen to it at twelve
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  Speaker 2: o'clock US and Australia from across the street at.
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  Speaker 1: Moonfield at twelve noon. Nico.
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  Speaker 2: Let's look tournament wide, Bigger lens the incomparable Liono Messi
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  Speaker 2: with three goals in his first career hat trick the
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  Speaker 2: other night for Australia against Algeria. France started slowly, then
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  Speaker 2: poured it on the second half to beat Senegal three
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  Speaker 2: to one. Brazil has in Spain struggled in their first matches,
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  Speaker 2: Spain tying nil nil. Where do you see the US
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  Speaker 2: fitting among them? Belgium is a possible round of sixteen
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  Speaker 2: opponent back here in Seattle July sixth, But when you
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  Speaker 2: look at the entire field, who do you see still
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  Speaker 2: is the favorites and who the US can knock off?
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  Speaker 1: Those top five six teams in.
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  Speaker 7: The world, well, none of those to tier teams that
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  Speaker 7: I wouldn't put Brazil in the top tier aspects of
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  Speaker 7: the tournament. Yes, they are royalties.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, they are.
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  Speaker 7: One of the best, if not the best soccer nations
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  Speaker 7: in the world. But this is not the Joe Goo Bonito,
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  Speaker 7: this is not the Ronaldinho, the Ronaldo. Brazilian teams that
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  Speaker 7: were used to see in USADAM struggle against Morocco, they
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  Speaker 7: struggle in common goal qualifiers in South America. So I
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  Speaker 7: don't have high hopes for Brazil. I think France is
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  Speaker 7: still the best team right now, right next to Spade,
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  Speaker 7: regardless of that draw.
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  Speaker 3: I do believe that.
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  Speaker 7: The US national team is more in the tier of
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  Speaker 7: dark horses. With Colombia, with Ecuador, those are the teams
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  Speaker 7: that maybe you didn't think that we're going to be
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  Speaker 7: able to go far, but because of the grouping, because
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  Speaker 7: of the fact that they're hosts, they can get far
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  Speaker 7: into tournament. So they are long ways, maybe two three
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  Speaker 7: steps down from those.
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  Speaker 3: Elite teams that you're mentioning.
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  Speaker 7: I would add England in that atmosphere of elite team.
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  Speaker 7: You know Portugal day they drew against Congo, but they
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  Speaker 7: have a very good quality rout So those are the
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  Speaker 7: top tier teams. US's national teams still two to three
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  Speaker 7: steps below that.
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  Speaker 2: Niko, what are you expecting today US Australia live on
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  Speaker 2: ninety three point three at twelve noon kickoff.
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  Speaker 7: I'm balled on my prediction, baby, I really am. I've
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  Speaker 7: got a three zero win for this US national team.
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  Speaker 7: I think that they'll get a goal in the first half.
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  Speaker 7: They'll obligate, They'll force these Australian team to play them
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  Speaker 7: up in open space, not against the run of play,
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  Speaker 7: and they'll be able to find spaces to get that.
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  Speaker 3: Three zero win.
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  Speaker 7: I was closed on my first prediction against the very
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  Speaker 7: good Perwayan team. I had three to one.
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  Speaker 3: I was below one goal.
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  Speaker 7: But I think that today the expectations, the objectives needs
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  Speaker 7: to be a clean sheet against an Australian team that yes,
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  Speaker 7: they could be showing the counter, but this US's national
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  Speaker 7: team is equipped to fix those moments to transitions. They
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  Speaker 7: very quick defenders and I think that they'll keep up.
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  Speaker 3: With the Ouzums.
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  Speaker 2: So if they win. If that happens and they win
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  Speaker 2: and Turkey loses tonight to Paraguay, US wins the group
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  Speaker 2: with one game still to play in the group match,
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  Speaker 2: you Paraguay, you see them?
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  Speaker 1: Can they beat Turkey?
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  Speaker 2: After Turkey smart and from two oh lost to Australia.
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  Speaker 7: Uh yeah, I mean, honestly, that is probably the most
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  Speaker 7: difficult game to decipher for today. But I do think
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  Speaker 7: that there's a possibility there, and I think is of
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  Speaker 7: Pchattino has already told this team that he doesn't want
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  Speaker 7: to know anything about the result. He wants this in
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  Speaker 7: to get out there and just get this win. But
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  Speaker 7: I do think that the results will come to fluition
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  Speaker 7: and it will materialize if the US possessionals think to
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  Speaker 7: get this win today.
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  Speaker 2: Nico, I will let you get in the yard. I
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  Speaker 2: will see you in there in about a half hour's time.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you mans, Nico Moreno.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you Greg. You are amazing man.
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  Speaker 7: I would not be down here just waiting to get
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  Speaker 7: in for anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: I think you.
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  Speaker 1: I know that they are.
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  Speaker 3: I love the radio that you know.
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  Speaker 7: It's just amazing. You guys go a phenomenal coverage. Thank
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  Speaker 7: you KJR, Thank you Grig Bell.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you. Niko Moreno, well checks in the mail. We'll
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  Speaker 2: tell him in the press box. And if you have
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  Speaker 2: MAZ you were shaking your head at three. No, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, and uh, Nico's great. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a tough match. I really do. I mean, having.
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  Speaker 6: A watched the US practice, I get their confident And
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  Speaker 6: we did hear from so junior desk yesterday, and we
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  Speaker 6: also heard from Christian wal Dan and I think Australia understands.
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  Speaker 6: Remember they played these two teams played before two to one,
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  Speaker 6: and Polistic was got injured in that game, and then
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  Speaker 6: Christian ro Dan had an assist. I was on the
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  Speaker 6: run up for the and that was in the run
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  Speaker 6: up and it was actually brought up yesterday a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: And and how'die Wright had a brace. I think this
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  Speaker 6: is going to be a tough game. Both teams respect
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  Speaker 6: each other, both teams are going to this with belief.
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  Speaker 6: It's interesting again Quin said, hey, you know what, they
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  Speaker 6: played Mexico in the run up. They understand what it's
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  Speaker 6: like to play in a stadium where they are the underdog.
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  Speaker 6: And they were asked yesterday Australian coach about the communication
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  Speaker 6: and also actually was their captain let us Harry Sutter
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  Speaker 6: was asked about that. So we don't have to communicate
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  Speaker 6: too much, right, You're not gonna be checking off when
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  Speaker 6: you step up to the line. If you're like in
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  Speaker 6: a football game, but he said we're gonna try to
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  Speaker 6: be compacted. I really think this is gonna be like
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  Speaker 6: a boxer's you know, heavyweight match a little bit here.
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  Speaker 6: I think the first five ten minutes and we's gonna
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  Speaker 6: try to feel each other out. You know the US
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  Speaker 6: show they're gonna try to go up, but Australia is
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  Speaker 6: going to stay compact. And I wouldn't be something to
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  Speaker 6: look at the twenty minute mark. I think that's when
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  Speaker 6: you will see the game begin to unfold. But the
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  Speaker 6: first fifteen minutes I think both teams have been just
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  Speaker 6: gonna try to find their footy. USA is going to
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  Speaker 6: look to a US without pollusing right like. Then it's
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  Speaker 6: not gonna step out there and say well here we go.
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  Speaker 6: So there's a little jestment that's there, and then the
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  Speaker 6: game will unfold.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's two to one, two to one, and
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  Speaker 2: in the forty five seconds we have left Masa. Where
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  Speaker 2: do you see Christian Roldan's roll off the bench second half,
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  Speaker 2: seventieth minute type substitution.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think he's gonna yep?
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  Speaker 6: I think he comes to second half do you yep
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  Speaker 6: out late? And then what kind of impact? I think
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  Speaker 6: it's I think it's just more to keep the game,
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  Speaker 6: to distribute the ball, and that's what he'll come in for.
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