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Serie A Summer Sit Down: Transfers, Club World Cup, and Nazionale—Ep. 271 · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: God, God down, settle down, God billion.
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  Speaker 2: Much you got back by now is your dumb dump
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  Speaker 2: it go? How is you dumb? Dump into it?
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  Speaker 1: Bet cap Yellow leave dump this doesn't pa Pierre.
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  Speaker 3: Le Papillo.
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  Speaker 4: Nineteen years ago. Today you're on the couch, guys Idrano, Johnny,
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  Speaker 4: I'm Nicholas, Episode two seventy one. And it's been nineteen
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  Speaker 4: years since.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: I think the three of us could say one of
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  Speaker 4: the greatest days at least of our sporting lives. You know,
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  Speaker 4: memories will hold on to our lives forever. But nineteen
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  Speaker 4: years later, it's a long time. It's a long time.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know when we're ever gonna get I forget
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  Speaker 4: ever we're gonna see this team another win, another World Cup.
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  Speaker 4: But first of all, guys Hider.
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  Speaker 2: Well, today's a good day, you know, joy night for
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  Speaker 2: US Italians. It's a it's a big day. So doing
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  Speaker 2: good on that aspect. But yeah, like you said, Nick,
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  Speaker 2: it's nineteen years already. It seems I want to say,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like yesterday. But we've missed how many World
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  Speaker 2: Cups along the process after that? So yeah, but besides that,
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  Speaker 2: doing good. Happy to be back recording a month that's
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  Speaker 2: gone by. Thank god, it hasn't been nineteen years since
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  Speaker 2: our last recording.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, I've been okay, it's been enjoying the summer.
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  Speaker 3: It's been nice halftime off and stuff. So been watching
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  Speaker 3: some of your women's serials. It's been great to watch.
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  Speaker 4: Italy only score only scores bangers in that tournament. Crusoe
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  Speaker 4: and Girelli a former UV player, current VE player.
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  Speaker 3: Ok, he has he has to put that out there
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  Speaker 3: as if not matters, I mean like it's I mean,
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  Speaker 3: like the event this is women's team has been fantastic
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  Speaker 3: lately anyway, so they do deserve some credit. So look,
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  Speaker 3: honestly speaking, their second in their group. They have a
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  Speaker 3: decent comfortable space between Portugal and themselves with a three
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  Speaker 3: point gap, and they're playing Spain next game, so we
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  Speaker 3: just got to make sure that we get a point
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  Speaker 3: versus Spain, and and then that was a matter of
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  Speaker 3: Portugal wins draws as long as like a Portugal win.
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  Speaker 3: Even at that, I don't know if differential is even
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  Speaker 3: the tiebreaker anymore.
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  Speaker 4: It is, but I think Portugal last sight check was
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  Speaker 4: like minus five.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were minus five.
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  Speaker 4: Portugal would have to make up a six goal differential. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so I mean still onside. But Spain's good team. Spain, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: a good team, of course. I watched the game against
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  Speaker 4: u I watched both games actually, but the last game
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  Speaker 4: against Portugal has been disappointing because you know, they had
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  Speaker 4: a comfortable, well not comfortable lead one nothing, but they
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  Speaker 4: were playing well, they had some chances and then Portugal
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  Speaker 4: came back, they scored a goal, was disallowed, they scored
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  Speaker 4: another goal, tied it up. But yeah, you know, Italy
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  Speaker 4: if you almost had to feel that they'd be disappointed
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  Speaker 4: not winning that one and clinching the spot. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: hopefully they they'll make it through to the quarterfinals in
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  Speaker 4: that tournament.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, they should destinies in their own hands,
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  Speaker 3: so to speak.
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  Speaker 2: So they've been playing well, so.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see why not. It's been some good soccer
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  Speaker 3: in that tournament. For any listeners that haven't had a
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  Speaker 3: chance to watch the women's Zeros, I suggest you do,
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  Speaker 3: because some exciting football happening in that tournament.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, back to you know, we're talking about the
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  Speaker 4: World Cup. You know today I was just looking at,
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  Speaker 4: you know, pictures on my phone from nineteen years ago.
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  Speaker 4: It's crazy how I was nine years old and I
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  Speaker 4: remember so much from that day. You know, I remember
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  Speaker 4: Adri I was so I was upset because we didn't
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  Speaker 4: watch it together. We watched all the knockout games together,
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  Speaker 4: and then you know, for some reason, in the final,
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  Speaker 4: my my parents said, okay, we're going to a family
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  Speaker 4: friend's house, so we watched it there. Obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 4: worked out at the end. But I remember, yeah, being
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  Speaker 4: pretty upset, but you know, it is what it is,
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  Speaker 4: still still great, great memories. Maybe next time it'll make
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  Speaker 4: a World Cup final, we'll have to make sure to
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  Speaker 4: watch it together, do you guys? You know, what are
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  Speaker 4: your guys memories that stand out from from that from
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  Speaker 4: that day nineteen years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, like you said, Nick, I remember that tournament almost,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, early, almost like it was yesterday, you know,
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  Speaker 2: watching so many games together, and we were what nine
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  Speaker 2: ten years old, so lucky enough to say that we
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  Speaker 2: you know, we remember quite a bit and you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of kicked off our cultural fandom in a sense
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  Speaker 2: during those times. So yeah, the final, like I remember,
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  Speaker 2: I I was watching it at home obviously and just
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  Speaker 2: after the final whistle and like, actually like it sinking
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  Speaker 2: in that like whoa, Italy won the World Cup and
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is like amazing and like just like
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  Speaker 2: going out, like going outside, like going to my like
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  Speaker 2: my window, and just like screaming, like yelling, and I
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  Speaker 2: had to win my neighbors. I was outside and you know,
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  Speaker 2: they obviously weren't Italian, but they were just as excited
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  Speaker 2: for us because we were just so like over the
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  Speaker 2: top like excited. So yeah, man, just you know, from
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  Speaker 2: the honkings of the horns, to waving the flags to
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  Speaker 2: you know, celebrating with your loved ones, they were just
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm being still so like relatively young and
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  Speaker 2: like embracing it and actually understanding it. I think I'm
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  Speaker 2: I think we're internally grateful for that, because there's there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of young, young Italians out there that you know,
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  Speaker 2: have yet to really you know, experience you know, glory
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  Speaker 2: and triumph like this. Obviously, the Euros is one thing,
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  Speaker 2: but the World Cup is is the is the king
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  Speaker 2: of all trophies, and you know, it's just a feeling
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  Speaker 2: that you would wish and hope that you know, all
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  Speaker 2: fans of We're gonna be biased and say Italian fans
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  Speaker 2: get to witness and and get to cherish. But it's,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, just incredible memories. Uh if you be
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  Speaker 2: watching it with with yourself, Nick or or or you know,
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  Speaker 2: back my house with my family, I mean, it's just
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  Speaker 2: it's just amazing. And like you said to open the show,
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  Speaker 2: just memories that we'll just never forget, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: like those players will always will always hold in a
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  Speaker 2: high regard always for our generation. You know, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of a lot of fandom started, uh during that time,
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  Speaker 2: like in our in our I guess age group, if
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  Speaker 2: you will, Nick. So yeah, just incredible memories and like
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  Speaker 2: you said, I'm hopeful and we're hopeful that maybe one
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  Speaker 2: day we'll get to uh, we'll get to witness and
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  Speaker 2: enjoy more memories. Similar to two thousand.
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  Speaker 3: And six, I myself was at home watching it, my
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  Speaker 3: mom and friends of like a like a family friend
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  Speaker 3: and stuff. And once once they won, we just made
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  Speaker 3: our way to literally hear in Montreal celebrate it a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It was pretty great.
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  Speaker 3: City was almost paralyzed essentially, so it was pretty cool
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  Speaker 3: coming in from the east. And now it's alternated, like
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  Speaker 3: it alternated now it's no longer little Italy. Well literally
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  Speaker 3: was still pretty full. When Italy won the Euros twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty one kind of shifted towards RDP, and I'm not
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  Speaker 3: a big fan of that, mind you whatever, it is
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  Speaker 3: what it is, because now you have people on RDP
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  Speaker 3: celebrating group stage wins. It's like cape, guys, come on,
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  Speaker 3: let's relax here.
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  Speaker 2: But do you guys say you watch fun when off
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  Speaker 2: that Spain game? Yeah no, but that's fine.
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  Speaker 3: That was a semi final win. That was in a
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  Speaker 3: group stage win.
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  Speaker 4: That's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: That's another thing.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, my car still has dents on.
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  Speaker 2: The what did they what did the pope? The Pope
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  Speaker 2: rode Johnny's car on on the front on the front hood.
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  Speaker 3: But uh no, I remember it very very well because
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  Speaker 3: I was lucky enough to be uh thirteen going on
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  Speaker 3: fourteen during that time, so still very strong in my mind.
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  Speaker 3: Will remember where I watched every game, who I was with.
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  Speaker 3: But the day was like blah blah blah. It was honestly.
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  Speaker 4: A fun summer.
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  Speaker 2: It was, it was, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was a fun way to spend summer when I
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  Speaker 3: was in uh and SEC two going to SEC three, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's what it was sex to going to SEC three.
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  Speaker 3: So Uh, great time, great time. We'd like to have
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  Speaker 3: that again someday, never gonna happen, we would like to
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  Speaker 3: have it again sometime, let's hope, hope.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny.
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  Speaker 4: I remember my dad telling me after after they won,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, when we're on our way to literal
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  Speaker 4: literally like you know, soak it in because this was
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  Speaker 4: you said, this is the first time one of your
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  Speaker 4: sports teams win something and it's you know, besides Italy
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  Speaker 4: winning the years. Okay, yeah, you've has this Scudetti, but
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  Speaker 4: no Champions League, like there's no ple. Yeah, the Saints
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  Speaker 4: won the Super Bowl as well, but have still haven't
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  Speaker 4: won the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 4: I like, you guys haven't won.
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  Speaker 1: The Champions League.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, get it, chops in terms of pinnacle trophies, like
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  Speaker 4: it's it's still it's still the one. But you're right
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  Speaker 4: little Italy if you you know, if like pictures, looking
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  Speaker 4: at the pictures I was looking at today, uh, compared
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  Speaker 4: to twenty twenty one, like twenty twenty one had a
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  Speaker 4: lot less people in little Lialy alone, like there was
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  Speaker 4: there was a ton of people in O six. I
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  Speaker 4: remember that very well. I remember one guy I remember
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  Speaker 4: specifically was a guy walked around in a Kobe Bryant jersey. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: this is ancient to antion into my mind. But but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: actually you know you know me, guys, I love my
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  Speaker 4: uh quizzes. So in honor of nineteen years, we gotta
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  Speaker 4: stretch our memories. Well more like you two guys. I
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  Speaker 4: came up a couple of questions, so we'll see how
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  Speaker 4: good you your memories are. It goes from easiest the hardest.
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  Speaker 4: So I think, uh, the easiest one, let me just
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  Speaker 4: pull it up one.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna still watch the easy one.
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  Speaker 4: Who led the team in goals during the six tournament?
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  Speaker 3: It was a tie, but there was like multiple players.
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  Speaker 4: You guys can look up no no cheating, right, there
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  Speaker 4: was multiple.
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  Speaker 3: Players with two goals.
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  Speaker 5: There was.
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  Speaker 3: There's loc who had to. I believe Matarazzi had to
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  Speaker 3: as well. Yeah, had one thought he had one? Also
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  Speaker 3: had one had one.
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  Speaker 2: One? You had it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: In the final what one minute did Mai score in?
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  Speaker 2: It was it was early.
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  Speaker 3: It was like it was like the thirty eight, thirty ninth,
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  Speaker 3: and it was it was later.
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  Speaker 2: It was it was earlier than that.
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  Speaker 3: No Frad scored first on the PK though then after
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  Speaker 3: Italy tied it.
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  Speaker 4: No, yeah, yeah, exactly, that's exactly it. Yeah, but it
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  Speaker 4: was damn I'm saying that was a dive by Maluda
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  Speaker 4: that should not have been a penalty.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, he nicked him slowly, but yeah, no, but
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 4: But it wasn't like thirty eight.
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  Speaker 2: It was earlier than that.
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  Speaker 4: It was earlier than that was.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty I want to say third, like thirteenth or something
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  Speaker 2: like thirteenth.
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  Speaker 3: That's way too early. That was probably the frad school
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  Speaker 3: was I.
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  Speaker 4: Remember twenty one nont close nineteenth nineteeneteen, malda Or scored eleven,
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  Speaker 4: scored the penalty.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I hit off the crossbar, went down behind the line.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, seventh minute early goals, really early on. And that
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  Speaker 4: was it. There was another goal though, I think it
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  Speaker 4: was around the sixty fifth sixty minute if I remember correctly,
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  Speaker 4: by it elite. I remember celebrating it, but it was
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  Speaker 4: quickly ruled off side. It was Actus, my god, who
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  Speaker 4: scored that goal?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, is this I can't remember.
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  Speaker 2: In the sixty fifth minute.
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  Speaker 3: This one actually stomped me.
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  Speaker 4: Because this is what It's not like you'll see it
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  Speaker 4: in highlights or anything, you know, No, one's talking about it,
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  Speaker 4: but there was like I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't even remember this to be ot to be fair
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  Speaker 3: with you, like it's that crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Uh wait wait what? Okay, okay, what what what position group?
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't a forward, It was a Ford.
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  Speaker 4: Sixty second minute on across from a pure low free kick.
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  Speaker 4: No think about guys who could get their heads on to.
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  Speaker 2: Toy.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: This one's actually easier speaking about that was the last
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  Speaker 4: or Maturati's goals, last goal for a notockout game in
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  Speaker 4: the World Cup. But who scored Italy's last goal in
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  Speaker 4: a World Cup.
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  Speaker 3: Its last goal and against in twenty fourteen?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well against against yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Si than that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, That's that's an easy one. Marquiso
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  Speaker 4: scored in that game as well. Those are the last
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  Speaker 4: two goals they got shout out of the next two
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  Speaker 4: games against cost Rica and you're white and guys, this
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  Speaker 4: is gonna get fun one. But it obviously hasn't won
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  Speaker 4: a knockout games since so six there have been eighteen
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  Speaker 4: teams who have one knockout games and role since what
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  Speaker 4: in the World Cup, likeighteen teams since it least last
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  Speaker 4: one a knockout game. So since this final. So in
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  Speaker 4: a tournament, you're saying, like, in the tournament in yeah,
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  Speaker 4: in the tournament knockout games they have So who have
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  Speaker 4: advanced to the quarterfinals since at least I don't think
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  Speaker 4: twenty ten, twenty fourteen, twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 4: eighteen teams? Uh, let's say, can you need Let's say ten,
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  Speaker 4: Let's see how many of you guys need?
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  Speaker 8: Russia, Yeah, yeah, Croatia, France, yeah, Portugal, Germany yeah, five, England.
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  Speaker 3: England, Spain, yeah, you say France already, yeah, you say it.
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  Speaker 3: Think I went back to our World.
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  Speaker 2: Cup my brain?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Ghana yep, Kraa, Netherlands.
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  Speaker 2: You're yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think you already said you're.
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  Speaker 2: Though I don't know, No, no, we did.
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  Speaker 3: That's eleven right there, Belgium or no, Belgium, Belgium. That's twelve.
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  Speaker 4: I think you got you're missing one European team.
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  Speaker 3: Then then there's obviously that there's like no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: hell and it's eleven. Twelve would probably be Morocco, yep.
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  Speaker 3: Thirteen would probably be Japan.
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  Speaker 2: No oh oh no.
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  Speaker 3: That was the group stage game that they won the
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  Speaker 3: by the bye.
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  Speaker 2: Don there one more European team?
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  Speaker 4: Though you said, yeah, one more European team, and I
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  Speaker 4: think you're missing Wales.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, I don't even know that was that
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  Speaker 2: was the Euro that.
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  Speaker 8: Was the Euro.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm getting confused to uh.
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  Speaker 3: You said Russia.
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  Speaker 4: Uh let's see.
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  Speaker 9: You say you're missing five, we're missing No, we're missed.
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  Speaker 9: We got at thirteen, I think no, no, we're at twelve.
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  Speaker 9: So missing six one European and then the rests.
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  Speaker 4: One, two, three, uh four, five, I'm counting. I'm counting
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  Speaker 4: five that you didn't say, unless there's one other one
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  Speaker 4: you said twelve, I'm I'm giving you thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: Brazil or is Brazil? Say Brazil? So Brazil is in there?
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  Speaker 4: Brazil's in there, because that's not to say it.
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  Speaker 2: Right Oway, Yeah, kah, who's the European thing?
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  Speaker 4: It's probably what are the four that I for sure
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  Speaker 4: know you didn't say.
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  Speaker 2: There's a.
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  Speaker 4: Central American team, South American team. Uh, European team and
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  Speaker 4: sorry to South American teams. Central American No, and not
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  Speaker 4: not Switzerland but close Sweden, Sweden.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Colombia is the other team. Fucking how much Rodriguez
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  Speaker 3: Tournament of the Year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and so I'll give you a hand these last
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  Speaker 4: two teams are teams that eliminated Italy or we're in
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  Speaker 4: the same group of as Italy in the last two
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  Speaker 4: World Cups Costrica.
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  Speaker 3: Slovania, No Slovakia.
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  Speaker 4: So wait what but we said, uh no, no, I
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  Speaker 4: did say sorry?
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  Speaker 2: Are you sorry? You did? But there's somebody else we're
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  Speaker 2: missing someone else?
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  Speaker 4: Who else made it through in twenty ten ten?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well Italy and eliminated.
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  Speaker 4: That group was essentially but they weren't in the same
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  Speaker 4: group that you're you're confusing the Euros in O eight.
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  Speaker 3: No Jesus Italy Frands were in the same group of
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  Speaker 3: twenty ten.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, they weren't really had an easy group.
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  Speaker 4: They had Slovakia, New Zealand and this other team that
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  Speaker 4: ended up winning a knockout game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, where wait where are they located?
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: In South America?
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Peru?
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  Speaker 4: No, yeah, you guys just want me to say it.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: No, no Venezuela, Ecuador. It's not Ecuador. No, what the
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: fuck's the other one? I said, Chile? No, it's not Cheer,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: it's not Chile.
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  Speaker 4: You think they would have won a game, but no,
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  Speaker 4: they hit they got a Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: True.
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  Speaker 3: The teams that they have essentially wasn't a group in
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  Speaker 3: Italy was in ninety eight.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, if you tell us the first letters
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  Speaker 2: are going to give it away p P.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, so I don't know if you said Spain.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did say so.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure you did say all these teams. So honestly,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: kudos Johnny. You did really well and you were you
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: were pretty fast on it too.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure you said all these teams You'rguay got
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: in Netherlands, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Paraguay, Spain, Columbia, France, cost Rica, Belgium, Russia, Croatia, Sweden, England,
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Morocco and Portugal. So all those teams have won ANCO
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: game since two thousand and six, and Italy scored goals,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: not even score goals played in one appeared. I could
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: go through the teams that have appeared in a NACO
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: game in the World World World Cup since six. Italy
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: is not there, but it's crazy a long time, so
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: hopefully twenty twenty six when we run it back.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: But we'll see.
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Speaking of which, perfect transition. Since we last spoke, Italy
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: hired Gatuso as the national team coach. I know it's
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: been a while, and you know, we had time to
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: gather our thoughts. My my first thought was, this is
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: a band aid solution. This is in long term not
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: I don't think that means it's the wrong choice. I
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: think it just means it's he's he's here at least
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: through the qualifiers. After that we'll see. I think he's
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: a band aid coach, but a good one too. Again,
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I don't think this is a bad hire by by Italy.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: I know everyone wanted Ranieri, who is really another band
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: aid coach. We got Gatuso and said, what I do
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: like about this hiring. What I do like about Gatuzzo
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: is is I know it's cheesy, but the great right,
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: the fiery, the firing is he He was on that
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: team that played the last knockout, knockout game for Italy,
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: you know six he won the World Cup. You know,
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: it kind of makes me think of d Rossi on
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: the twenty twenty one team, you know, even throwing vial.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: He may rest in peace as an assistant coach. These
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: are guys that have been there Mancini as well. These
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: are guys that have been there. They know what it
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: takes to win.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: So in that sense.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Having Gatuzla there is good. Is he a good tactician? Honestly,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: I know he you know, he had a short stint
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: on Milan that there was you know, mixed or mixed
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: feelings right from Melan fans. He lost, coach had to
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: split that as an interim manager. So what he's gonna
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: do with this team, I don't know, but hopefully he's
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: gonna kick them in their ass and tell them to
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: wake up, because that's what we need. We don't need
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: a guy who's going to go and do some quotes
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: in a press conference like Spiletti did about the philosophy
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: and his pet duck and this and that. Uh So
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: that's what I want to see from Guatuso. I think
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: the measure of success is as sad as it is.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: It's it's considered success if Italy qualifies for the World Cup.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: That's how that's how.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: The bar has grown the bottom we've come.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: To so barlow, hello, the bar has gone. Yeah, But
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: that's it's also step guys. First step is to qualify
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: for the World Cup and then you can set goals
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: once you get to the World Cup after but right now,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: it's it's about qualifying.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: I mean, listen, it's it's tough because as a as
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: an Italian Milan fan, I mean, Gatuzzo is you know,
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: holds up, holds a special place in in my heart
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: and a lot of you know, Mewan fans, heard Italian fans,
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: hearts and he's like the true definition.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Of Uno DINOI like, uh, really, you know, really worked
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: his way to become the legend that he that he
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: is again the end all manager fealy probably not, but
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I think, like you said, if just a bounce off
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: your points, I do agree, we need need, We need
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: somebody that's gonna light a fire under these players' asses
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: and show them and make them understand what it means
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: to wear the Adzui blue because honestly, I think we've
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: had a lot of guys just pretending that it means
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: something and is important and it really hasn't because of
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: the performances that we've seen on the pitch. And again,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: you want to name the player's fault, the manager's fault
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: f I GC Gravina Like we can go on and on.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: We've spoken about it, we can continue speaking about it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: It'll never end. But what this team needs what these
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: fans deserve, and is it'll be back in World Cup.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: It's as simple as that. Is Gatuzo that guy. We'll
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: have to wait and see. Is he going to be
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: the manager that's gonna unite this team and this nation
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: in this locker room? I think so absolutely. He is
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: that guy. He is that type of type of manager,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: type of type of human being, type of player that
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: he was right. Uh So listen, I'm was I shocked,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: maybe a bit. I didn't know if I didn't think
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: they were gonna we're gonna turn that quick left and
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: hire Gatuzzo. But again, when he was with Milan, it
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: was it was an interesting time at Melon. It wasn't
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: the obviously the Melons that we saw in the rast
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: last couple of years. And with the cards he had
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: at his disposal, he did, you know, the best he
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: was able to do. I think he was what a
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: point or a handful of points out of you know,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: top four that year? I think they finished fifth. Uh,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: he obviously got the boot. He went to Napoly, Uh
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: you know won the uh what was it? They won
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: the Capitalia right, if I'm not mistaken?
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so and taking over you know, uh, a legend
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: that you know, we all hold him to a high regard.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: In Angelotti right after that disaster that kind of in Sudapo,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: you know, Gotuzo came in, was able to ride the ship,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: you know, band the guys together and and you know whatever,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: not maybe have an ideal season, but ended off that
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: stints with the trophy in in claiming the cop Italia
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: for Fernapoli, and and he goes off to Spain, you know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the Valencia experiment in France, and then you know, going
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: to to Croatia. There he's he's been around, he's he's
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: he's really worked his way up coaching wise. I mean,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: obviously he's not the master technician tactician uh in world football,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: but he's a manager that I think is what Italy
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: currently needs. They don't need, uh, this fancy schman ceok
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: tik taka. We're gonna you know, toy with our opposition
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: and and and gonna play beautiful football. This team just
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: needs to win. They need to win. They need to
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: know what it means to wear the Italy shirt, because
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: it is your shirt that like it or not, weighs
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: a ton, uh, and he's going to make it clear
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: to these players that you know, the end goal is
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: is making the World Cup, and that's that's a clear,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: you know ambition for them. And he's a player that
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: he's a player, he's a coach sorry, that really cares
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: for his players. And I think, oh, I think I'm
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: hopeful that these players will appreciate his his approach and
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: they you know, unite as as one and and they
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: go on and qualify because at the end of the day,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: you know, unity within the clubs, within the teams, within
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: whatever it is, whatever it is is, UH is key.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: It's what won us, you know, the Euros in twenty
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: twenty one. UH many will say it was what won
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: us the World Cup. You know, like we said nineteen
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: years ago, it was the group. So Gatuzzo was in
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: that group nineteen years ago, and hopefully he's going to
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: be the one that guide us back to a World Cup,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: you know, twenty years after winning it in six So again,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I'm excited to see what transpires. I think obviously the
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: first test is in September, UH in the two two
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: qualifying matches. I mean, we cannot honestly, I don't think
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: we can be as bad as we've currently been so anything,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: any change I think is going to be a plus.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: And I know fans are gonna fans were very highly
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: critical when they announced them. And but at the end
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: of the day, make the World Cup is the only
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: thing that we need to worry about. And we all
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: know once a team enters a tournament, in this case
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: it being the World Cup, anything can happen. And we've
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: seen it time and time again. And you know, if
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: and when, hopefully Italy gets there, I'm hoping, I'm I'm
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: hoping that you know, we can we can turn some
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: heads again and and kind of be back to some
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: city is some serious culture and yeah, listen and he uh,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: he also kind of made some interesting points in his
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: press conference. I know it's kind of a while go
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: and we haven't we haven't spoken about many of this
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: in about a month's time, but you know, he wants,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: he wants to watch everybody. He has his eyes on everybody.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: He mentioned Quieza in his in his press conference at
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: the time, he emphasized that he needs to get some
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: some some good minutes and some some quality football this season,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: and that's what a lot of our players, our fringe
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: players are starting quote unquote starting players are players that
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: have been kind of in the rotation under spot. They're
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: gonna have to get some good quality minutes and and
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: hopefully have some good seasons entering the World Cup year.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: So that's what's most important. And I'm I'm hopeful that
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Coutuoso can and can band these guys together, like I said,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: and uh and put them on the on the right path.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: And it seems like they're all behind them too, right.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: He has good He had Buffon uh an six teammate
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: in his corner as well part of the staff. Right so,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: and he kind of referenced uh VP quite a bit
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: in his uh in his uh you know press conference
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: when he got announced. So you know, he he knows.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: I think he knows what to do and he knows
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the pressure. And I think if there's one guy that
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: can that can uh you know, amount to to something
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: with his pressures is a guy like Jotuzo so excited, curious, nervous,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: all the emotions. But I'm happy for for for Gatuso.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: He he deserves, he deserves, you know, uh, this this
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: this type of platform and uh, I've I even listened
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: to what I don't know many people who like to
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: to criticize and bash what Antonio Castano says and call
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: mcclown which half the time, and maybe that is true.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: But he spoke highly of Gatuzo and they've been obviously
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: close over the years with the national team, and he's
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: he meant he mentioned some pretty interesting points and some
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: good points. So but yeah, like I said, if there's
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: one guy that deserves, you know, success and you know
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: with a national team and and kind of bring it
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: away back, it's definitely Genootuzo.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, hard to follow a but all that that
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: was a good uh maybe what twenty minutes of Sorry sorry.
• 29:18
  Speaker 10: It's been marinating for a month, so uh, I could
• 29:24
  Speaker 10: obviously speaking from a like from his player perspective, you know,
• 29:28
  Speaker 10: like his his.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Anger and lust for victory on the field goes without
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: saying because that's just how he's always been. He's never
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: he's always been a competitor, and it kind of transitioned
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: to the way he manages and coaches too. He likes
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: to instill the fire into his players. And I have
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: to agree with the statement that Nick made earlier on
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: about him, He's not he's just a band aid solution.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: I'll say this as uh you know, he used to
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: manage Nopoly, and also looking at his track record as
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: a as a coach, he is a band aid solution.
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: He is.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: He's good at getting people in line and getting them
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: in the direction where they need to go. But in
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: terms of long term plan, he doesn't really have any
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: So I'm not saying he's not Like I wouldn't want
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: him in the main role. I would want him in
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: an assistant manager type of like I think he's the
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: perfect assistant manager. Like I don't think he is the
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: best manager. I think he's the perfect assistant manager.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: So short term.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Relief, I think he's great. I do believe that he's
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: able to get the team back on track and you know,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: kind of remind them why they're playing for this team
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: and why they're wearing the jersey, and you know, kind
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: of get them into trying to find success again and
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: find that pride, you know, find that embarrassment of losing.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: You know, you don't want them to like you when
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: you put magiazo like you're not supposed to like you're
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: supposed to feel embarrassed. Whenever you get any result that's
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: not a win. You know, if you don't have that
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: that type of you know, like feeling then you're not
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: you shouldn't be on the team. And I think the
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: twos needs to remind these players that if you don't
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: feel bad after a loss, you shouldn't be here. This
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: is not what but not sosunalious for It's it's it's
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: a country that has a lot of pride in in
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: their football history. It's a country that has a lot
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: of pride in their successes. And you know, we've been
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: like a permanent, like mainstay for the World Cup until
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: recent years, and you know we've always been, you know,
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: number one in terms of like when people think like
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: or not even number one, but like it was at
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: one point it was neck connect it was number one
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Italy or Brazil. And now it's like it's not even
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: in top five with the conversation, and now Italy's been
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: knocked out, you know, it's it's it's sad because at
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: one point the primetime game to watch was Italy Brazil.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: But now it's it's like, Okay, Italy's playing cool, let's
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: make fun of them, and it's like that's not how
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: it's supposed to be. So all in all, I just
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: hope that he rights some wrongs gets them to the
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: World Cup, and you know, I don't. I don't think
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: he's a type of coach that wins the World Cup
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: unless some divine miracle happens if they get there. But
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: in terms of like, you know, getting their head straight,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: I think he's great. And like I said, if he's
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: willing to take an assistant manager role and you get
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: somebody who's a bit more tactical, a bit more clairvoyant
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: in in what the direction the team needs to head
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: into as your manager, I think he's perfect for that.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: And I was discussing this the other night, like him
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: that I'll see people like that you need to have
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: on your management team. You absolutely need to have one,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: if not more, of those type of voices to kind
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: of like drill it into the players heads because they're
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: not angry for the sake of being angry. They're angry
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: to instilled passion in you. And like, these are types
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: of guys that you're willing to go to the front
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: lines for and die for them. Like like when Napoli
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: won the kope Ittalia, they celebrated it as if they
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: wanted scudetto. It was like, mind you, there was a
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: lot of emotion behind it too, because Catuzo lost his
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: sister around that time, and it was also you know
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: the middle like the start of the pandemic, and you know,
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: there was no fans in a stadium, but nonetheless, you know,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: like it was also against a very big rival. It's
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: like it's it's still the fact that you see the
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: players that were willing to look like as if they're
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: willing to take a bullet for the guy. So that's
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: what you want from your team. You want you want
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: players that are willing to you know, go to war
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: for their coach. So I really do hope that the
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: players find that because we do not the current core
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: of players, you know, like we don't want to waste
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: their time for for the national team, and we got
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: promising young players coming up and stuff that are getting
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: more and more interest and hype as the years go by.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: You know that, like our under twenty one team is
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: doing has done great in recent competitions and stuff, and
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: you know, like we've had another promised kid after promise
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: kid after promise kid. And we really hope that Amada
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: does actually the one to finally actually stick and be
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: that you know, superstar that we haven't had since the
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: days of bad Joke. Actually Balotelli actually, like I think
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: I've argued this already. I think I will Telly was
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: the last player we had that actually had potential to
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: be like a world star, like like a striker type
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: of thing before, because we haven't had one since that.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: So we need somebody to make this team offensively exciting
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: the back end. We're good with Dona Duma for but
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: like even have that, like, we won't have much time
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: left with Dona Ruma now. It's like, let's not waste
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: these primetime years for the guys. So anyways, that's way
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: too far ahead for now. Is a good short term plan.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: I believe it's it's it's a good hire. But as
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: long as it's only for like get them through the
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: World Cup and then see what happens to the World
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Cup and then afterwards, you know, think of something else.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: But it's a good band aid solution to give them
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: more time to find somebody. But the fi GC, now
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: that's the problem.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Think we all said, well we had to say, so
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: it was good to get it off our minds. And
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: as you know, we're talking about the World Cup and
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: there is another World Cup happening now, and I know
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: we're switching topics entirely, but Club World Cup. I know
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: we talked about it before, but I don't know if
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: you guys had a chance to watch it at all,
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: what are your thoughts Because me, I I wanted to
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: keep an open mind about it heading in. I kind
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: of was excited for it for Juve. Even though I
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: did I was worried, like, hey, what's the quality going
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: to be like? But it's it's been disappointing. It's been
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: a bad tournament, Like the qualities in there. You could
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: tell the players don't want to be there. They're tired,
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: especially the European teams. You know, yesterday not yes I
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: was it yesterday. I think I was watching Chelsea against
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: Fluminense and you know, at one point, the Chelsea players
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: are literally just standing there, just passing the ball between
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: each other, Like this is not the high quality that
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: we see in European leagues and Champions League. Uh yeah,
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: I don't. Part of me is also worried for the
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: World Cup next year. Even with the heat, with the
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: the storms that have interrupted the games at this World Cup.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking the next year's World Cup,
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: because at the end of the day, the World Cup
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: is World Cup, and it seems like no matter who hosting,
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: it's always going to be a spectacular event. But I
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: think FIFA did drop the ball with this Club World Cup,
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Like I know they needed a test event for the
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: World Cup next year. Like at that point, just bring
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: back the Confederation's Cup, you know, even if it's like
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: a sixteen team tournament. If you want to make it bigger,
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: bring it back. That would have been more exciting than
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: this Club World Cup. I don't know, what do you guys,
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: What did you guys think that I I.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Think, honestly speaking, where they fucked up was the timing
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: of the games. There was no excitement for it because
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: they're playing games in the middle of the afternoon. Everybody
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: was working, Like it's it's like you're not gonna have
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: people at the stadiums at two a two pm, like
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: when people were like on a Monday. It's like, hey,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: people have jobs, you know, Like it's this is not Europe.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Like they cater too much to TV market in Europe
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: and that's what and that's what caused this to look terrible,
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: you know. I I honestly think the Club World Cup,
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: on the contrary, was an interesting tournament, and I think
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: it was a fun, fun, different thing.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: It was exciting.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: I think they need to kind of adjust their qualification
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: things or how they work with a qualification system, because
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: I believe there should be some teams there that aren't there,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: and whatever teams that are there, I shouldn't be there.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: But I digress.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: It's more about like overall performances rather than recent performances.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: But still, I think it was just poorly managed in
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: in like when the games were played and where they
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: were played, you know, because people don't understand how big
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: North America is, you know, you know, especially the States itself,
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Like it's not big like Canada, but it's still big
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: in like North America, you know, and you don't have
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: like like well it's because you know, general motors and
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: everything like that. There's no good training system in the States.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: But because people were traveling from game to game, it's like, buddy,
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: that's not how it works here.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: We don't do that here.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: I think it was I think that if they actually
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: had competent people running the tournament, that would have been better.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: I like the idea, though, I think I think there's potential.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: There just is to be done better next time they
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: do this.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: Well, one thing, I'll say you forty three, you're right
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: about the timing, Like the three o'clock games. I feel
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: like it was still too hot for these games to start.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: You know, this is summer in North America's it hairs.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Who cares. They're used to playing in heat.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: That's why they play over the winter.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: They play in the Mediterranean in the late summers. The
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: season starts at the end of August in Italy.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Come on, but that's why the game stas what two
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: weeks three weeks.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: And the Club Worke Cup is only two weeks too,
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: So what like, I.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Don't play the games two weeks so I personally, personally,
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: I hope for the World Cime next year it's a
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: bit later start times four pm, five pm, six pm. Yeah, personally,
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: Oh no, they got to playing thirty five plus degree celsius.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Oh no, you know, it's not like it's if they're
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: playing in freaking Saudi Arabia where it's like fifty plus
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: degrees and they can't actually play in the day.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: That's why they played in the winter.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: But that's what I'm saying like it's there's a difference
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: between fifty like forty five to fifty degrees celsius versus
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: versus like thirty to thirty five. Like it's, yes, it's hot, Yes,
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: I totally agree it's hot, but it's not like your
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: skin's melting off hot. Like and you have water breaks
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: now in FIFA, like they relegate, like they they regulated
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: water breaks into the rules, like it's it's in the regulations,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: like you can have water breaks and stuff. Like these
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: guys are professionals, They're they're getting paid millions of euros right, Like, dude,
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: like they can play in the heat. These guys can
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: just fucking lay in the sun during the summer, you
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like fuck off, Like I I
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: don't believe into that ship. I don't buy it. I
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: used to play in these fucking summers and I'm a
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: fat ass and a half. I mean, like, and I
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: still would play in these fucking summers. These professional footballers,
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: like they're skinnier than I am, they have less body fat.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Go sweat off some extra calories.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Well, no, now, now the tables have turned,
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: because I don't know how I could fall off that
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: that that that speech, so I'm almost in like your position,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: maybe about five minutes ago, right five, But no, listen,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: I can't say I really caught a lot of it.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: I saw a lot of like the highlights and stuff,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: and I think it was it's always cool when I
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: always when these types of things come to North America.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: I think it's like that the fan engagement like has
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: been like something that's been really cool. I think that
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: it's like if you want to call a plus and
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: all this. I think a lot of the teams that, uh,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: you know, a good job, especially the Italian teams. I
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: was seeing you know, the the UV accounts and the
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: on the inter accounts, you know, very very cool moments
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: for that like, but at the same time, at the
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: end of the day, like after after a season, a
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: long season, and the off season in football or cultural soccer,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: whatever you wanna call it is very very short that
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: we know, so these guys are already not their mentally
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: to to to play. It's probably pretty clear. Have we
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: seen some exciting stories out of it? I think yes,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Like I don't know, like how many people would have
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: thought of you know, some of these Brazilian teams have
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: been doing as good as they were and you know,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: in respect to them, right, uh, you know, fighting for
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: for some pride on on. You know, a world stage
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: is is always big. But again, Club World Cup, I think,
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: like I said, good idea and like you guys said,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: good idea, execution, I think could be maybe tweaked. I
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: don't know, if it's an overhaul and maybe something that
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: needs to never come back. I don't know. I think
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: it is an idea that could be done again. But again,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: anytime it's it's a secondary tournament, like it's not the
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: end all, be all, end all type of type of matches.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: I mean the money that's allocated to it. I don't
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: know all the financials, but I don't know how high
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: they really are. I was I had well back then
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I read what you've need to like made out of
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: this tournament. It probably was a decent chunk of change,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: but I mean, I don't know, like the risk reward
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: is maybe not all there. But again it's it's I
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: think it's something for the fans to get excited about.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: But at the end of it, like you, like, I
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: don't know, like are the PHG fans we're gonna care
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: if they win the whole damn thing. Like I don't know,
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: like I don't think so right.
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: Like if you're winning the Champions League exactly right, So
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: it's like, you know you kind of have to like
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: you know, way way, you know way this, uh you
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: know the outcomes of this.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: So again, me personally, I mixed emotions. I didn't have
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: a like again, I didn't have like a team to
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: kind of like root for, like if me when I
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: was there, like maybe I've been more engaged probably, but
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: like again, you know, it's it's it is what it is.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: So a lot of teams, a lot of a lot
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: of more money in FIFA's pockets, right, I guess that's
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: obviously the end goal. And it's it's the sad reality
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: and the sad truth of things. But you know, it's
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: just it's just another tournament. And at the end of it,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: I think these players, we've said it since COVID for
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: fox sakes, like these players like don't get much of
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: a break, especially these high these these these clubs that
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: are pointing multiple tournaments throughout the year going into if
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: it be an international tournament year, a euro or cop
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: America or you know, a World Cup or what have you,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: and then you add in these other things, you know,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: the Nations League, the you know, the Club World Cup.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: You know, it's the international friendlies. Like I mean, it's
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: a lot of it's a lot of culture to be playing.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: So I don't know, do we really need it, Like
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, I don't know. It's
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: a good idea, though I do agree with the guys
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: here it is a good idea. I just think if
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: they maybe work around things a bit better, I think
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: maybe that the product will be better at the end
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: of it. But you know, I guess anything to get
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: you know the fans, uh, the fans excited, like in
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: the off time of culture. Uh is something that is
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: a market to be you know, uh touching upon. But
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, I think I'll just
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: let's just rest, get ready to recharge and and and
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: and go. Because by the time, you know, by the
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: time you know it, you know, the seasons already started.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: So you know, the end of August in what about
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: a month, month and a half time, we're gonna be started.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: We're gonna be thinking about you know, the start of
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: the city season, you know, started the Premier League and
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: all the top top leagues and these guys barely had
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: a break, So we expect the most for our players
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: and for our teams and for our clubs come the
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: actual season and these tournaments that kind of just are
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: there for you know, uh, you know, money gouging and
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: uh kind of just putting more money in FIFA's pockets.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's the real solution to anything,
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: so but again, good idea, better execution maybe can change
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: our minds. I agree. And uh, you know Italy.
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Italian teams didn't do so well obviously, just and uh
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: inter inter they started off well, finished first in the
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: group and then lost to Fluminen in the round of sixteen.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: It was too nothing. Uh. Uve also started off well
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: with wins. Was it all U all in allaying and
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: we died? Was it five nothing and four to one?
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: It kind of reminds me in the New Orleans Saints
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: in the first two weeks of the twenty twenty four
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: NFL season, put up like ninety points and then they lost.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Embarrassing just to go four and thirteen exactly.
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: This is embarrassing five to two against City. That kind
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: of that kind of that was the end of their
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: tournament because all they needed was a draw in that game,
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: and they would have faced Al Hilal, they would have
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: faced in Zagi in the in the round of sixteen.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: That they ended up beating City as well, but losing
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: to City. For Youve, it was meant that they were
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: going to play Real Madrid. Real Madrid was just a
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: better team. Yeah, sure, one nothing game, but they didn't
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: even they didn't even they weren't even going fifty for
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: said uh gas for Real Madrade in that game, so,
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: you know whatever. Disappointing obviously for UVE, but it just
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: felt like, what are they even doing here? They're not
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: even of the best teams of the world right now.
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: I know it's based on you know, coefficient rankings for
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: the past few seasons.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Another thing I just wanted to add in throw in
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: there was like another maybe bright side and again I
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: don't know how much it was for like a lot
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: of the other teams, but it's like there was some
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: shining moments for like some like unknown players and like
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: some younger players, and like I think that's like a
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: like that it can be something that's maybe touched upon more.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: I got like posposit all right, uh, you know, kind
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: of in his in that short stint like you can
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: say shine for you know, for lack of you know,
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: better words, like you know, like he had he had
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: some moments like he kind of maybe proved that you know,
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: he can he can hang with the scenes or squad
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: come the Setias season, so you know, you know again
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: you know, obviously yield is is is one of you's gems.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: But again he kind of again proved that you know,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: he's he's he's the guy, right. So I think those
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: types of moments were nice to see. But but yeah,
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it's like, what are
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: these teams doing there? Maybe they should be, maybe they
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: shouldn't be. But at the end of the day, we
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: all know it's it's a business, and uh the dollar
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: is worldly accounts at the end of the day exactly.
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: And once uh, once you was eliminated, you know, the ball,
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: the ball got rolling on Jonathan David transfer, which is
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: a huge transfer. As a Canadian Uve fan, I know
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: you guys probably don't like it as much, so Idri
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: you guys, Jonathan David on juve tjon Buchanan on inter uh,
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: no one, no one on on Nylan now, but uh,
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: this is a transfer. I'm I'm pumped about. Like you know,
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: I've been saying it maybe the past year or so,
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: this is probably the guy we want. He scored against
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: you in the Champions League. I don't know if if
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: it was October or November. I'll be honest, as much
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: as I love David and it's gonna be so cool
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: to see a Canadian national team player start on Canada
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: start on Juve. Uh, you know, at least within the
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: next few years. I don't think he's the player that's
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: going to push the needle. I don't think he's the
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: player that's going to make them win the Scudetto. We
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: know you've needed to move on from Valvich and obviously
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: it's not official yet, but they are shopping him around.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: I think he has one year left on his contract.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: The relationship's done, you know, he's it's not good anymore.
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: It's unfortunate, unfortunate the way his career kind of came
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: to a screeching halt with Juve at least this past season,
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: he just he just didn't look himself.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: He started off strongly, scored in his first game, and
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: it almost it was almost as if it was downhill.
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: From there. I don't know how many times have I
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: said it on this podcast. It's mental right with him.
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: With Valvic, yeah, he did score in the Club World
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: Cup on penalty, but you know, he really didn't do much.
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: Cola Money came in in January and kind of he
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: was the better striker the second half, and he's you know,
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: even Cola Moani. He's a type player that you wants
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: to keep. It would be nice to have him as
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: a backup to David. He's not, you know, a player
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: that you're gonna rely on starting. We kind of saw
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: that in the last few months. They kind of relied
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: on him a bit too much. But with Jonathan David,
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: he's he's he's a number nine, he's your striker. He's
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: a guy you want. What you've need is players are
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: going to get him the ball.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: He's not.
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: He's not really the players going to create for himself either.
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: We kind of see that with Canada.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: We see that.
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: I mean I didn't watch lil uh the goal. He
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: did score again to it. He did create in the
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: Champions League himself. He he you know, yeah, if he
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: has the ball in the final, in the final third,
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: maybe he could do something.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: But he's not.
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: He's not He's not a Ronaldo, of course. Uh, that's
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: gonna pick a goal out of nothing. Obviously, now with
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: Yieldez coming to his own, hopefully they're going to keep
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: Coquincise out as well. These are guys that could create
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: more for David All David, it really has to do
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: if those guys have the ball and they're creating is
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: is find himself in space. So again, I'm really excited.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: We'll see.
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: We'll see this type of player that if anyone criticizes
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: him and be like, no, no, don't insult my baby, please, yeah,
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: right for the criticism, Yeah, yeah, well again, yeah, well,
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: we'll see how it goes. He scored sixteen goals in
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: thirty one games for a little in ligue this season,
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: nine goals in fourteen in the Champions League though, so
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: I think that's that's a big number. That's what you
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: really needs. He's consistent though over five seasons with LIL
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: thirteen goals and I'm looking at the leaguer numbers thirteen
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: goals fifteen, twenty four, nineteen sixteen, So he peaked a
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: couple of years ago, but he's he's it's more or
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: less consistent right. So if you could get in the
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: range fifteen twenty goals for for you, I think it
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: will be a success. It's nice that that's a free transfer.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: They're not I know they're paying him a good salary,
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: but they're not spending seventy million on him like they
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: did with Wolvich. But uh, it's it's gonna be like
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: I said, I think you know the fact that it's
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: Canadian on you. I think I'm gonna have to get
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: every one of his jerseys first jersey, home jersey, third
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: jersey every year Canada, a special edition one, everything, everything.
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: So it's pretty cool. I know there was other striker
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: transfers today, rete Ye when he's going to Saudi Arabia,
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: I don't I forget the team. Yeah, but a year
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: I'll cut the Yeah, I'll be honest, I know, yeah,
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: I'll yeah.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: Apparently at is getting paid seventy million, so they're making
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: a massive profit. I don't know how much they paid
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: him last year. It's just about twenty five I think
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. Yeah, they're so they'll make you like
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: fifty million dollar profit almost. Uh so good business on that,
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: you know what. I'm not business side of things is
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: an amazing deal for everyone. Soccer side of things, I
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: don't know about I don't know. I don't know about
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: this right the Gee.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: He doesn't care, not clearly he doesn't care. It's it's
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: it makes he's making his money. Let him make his money.
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: Like I'll defend Gee here, Like yeah, first of all,
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: he's he's Argentinian Italian, so for him, the national team
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: doesn't have the same type of like drive as an
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: Italian growing up, and like you know in Italy would
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: want for this right, so you know, like for him,
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: like he's he's on it.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: But I don't think he would just want it just
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: to throw it away.
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: No, no, but let's be honest here, he's he's he's
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: on he's on Italy because he wasn't gonna be good
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: enough for Argentina. Like he saw that the opportunity was
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: there to be in to play for the Italian national
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: team rather than play for your Argentinian national team. Let's
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: let's call spatas bag We need to we need a striker.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Help.
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: We had a you saw that there was a mobile
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: like we didn't have like terms of like a solid
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: striker Argentina of good luck getting onto that roster. So
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: makes sense for him to be like, you know, fucking
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: why not try the Italian national team, you know first
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: of all. Second of all, right, like he comes to Citay,
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: you know, to probably make better, better strikes towards you know,
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: for the national team wins, right, which is fantastic. Right,
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: he had a phenomenal season. Now you're getting offered like
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: you're in your early twenties, you're getting now for twenty
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: million euros a year, no ship, you're gonna go like
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: like you like, people shout on Verati for this, and
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: Varati was still the national team, right Like people shout
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: on Varrati.
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: For going to but he was also thirty three years old.
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: What Varatti when he he was what thirty? What was
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: he thirty when he went Vati to PSG? Oh you
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: talk about PGS, So you're talking about when he went
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: to Salida.
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: It's different, that's the thing. I mean, it's Saudi Arabia
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: versus PSG. Like I would have liked to go to PG.
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: PSG was not the PSG in like that was when
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: they first got bought by the fucking Saudis and PSG
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: and they were spending money like crazy. They threw forty
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: five million at martinhos at Roma and they threw they
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: threw like thirty million at Piscata for for Verati.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: They were just throwing money left, right, yeah, yeah, Thiagota,
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: They were just throwing money at anybody and people were
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: going there.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: But it was still a five, like they not. It
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: was still a top five league.
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, was not a top five.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: Who was ahead of them was ahead of them?
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: Then MLS No, you got you Gott you got with
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: the prem you had La Liga. This is the type
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: of that rass they had the press you had said,
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: yah you Bundesliga. Right, And if you want to squeeze
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: the French league as the as in the top five spot,
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: there's an argument to be made, but it's not a
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: strong case.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, who is the who was the rival to the
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: league that would have made top five instead of France?
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Fuck I put the Turkish league higher there. Nonetheless, none
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: of the les we're gonna have to equip this just
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: for the fucking like back and forth.
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: But nonetheless, the guy's leaving for twenty fucking million euros
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: a year, Who get like, like, don't ship on the
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: fucking kid who cares. If he's still good enough to
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: be on an Italian national team and UH, and he's
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: still playing this in Saudi, then that's great. And if
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: he is no longer on the Italian national team, good
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: because you know what it is, it's it's like you
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: shouldn't you shouldn't be depending on uh a diaspora pickup
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: to to really like make to make your roster or
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: make or break. You should like Italy should be at
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: the point where it's like our striker should be okay,
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: next man up. If this is the thing where it's like, okay,
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: now that he's in Saudi Arabia, you know, his his
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: play might decline, you know. Now it's like great, now've
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: gotta finder striker. Well, that's more of an US problem
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: than a him problem. That's more of a an Italian
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: national problem than than than than a Tegi problem, you know,
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: because the guy he has like what ten years? When
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: you're a striker, it's hard you have like what ten
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: years to make your money? You have maybe depends on
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: like what kind of striker you are, Yeah, you know
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: what caliber of a player you are, which I want
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: ten at most ten years to make your money. You're
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: getting thrown twenty million euros and you're in your early
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: twenties for like the next what three four years?
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: Fuck that?
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: Take that Like he's gonna see more money than we're
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: a gonna see in our lifetime. So I don't blame
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: him for taking that money. And who cares if you
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: don't make the national team anymore? Italy should be good
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: enough that Okay, we don't have Tegi, who's next man up?
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: That's how we should be, like, you know, like it
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: shouldn't be like, oh.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: No, he's no longer in Italy and the quality is.
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: Gonna Okay, if this quality goes down, who cares? That
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: means because we should find somebody else. That's how it
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: should be. It's it sucks, but hey, you know what
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: at that point, you know it's like go get go,
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: go make that bank, but go in that bread. I'm
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: happy for you, man, and honestly, man like go like
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: if like, I don't blame him for taking that money,
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: because you know, I think it was a mac beajureman.
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: It said at best, you want loyalty.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: By a dog by eleven dougs.
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like like we don't if we can't shoot on
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: players for for going to chase that bank. Now, yes
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: it is Saudi Arabia. Yes, we know, we have our
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: qualms with how they're we know how they're not, how
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: they're doing things, and you know, like their their opinion
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: on a lot of things and what they do. I
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: totally get that, and trust me, I do. But fuck,
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: you can steal their money for for just playing soccer
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: at like average, be an average player there, go ahead,
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: steal that money, buddy, like at the end of day,
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: you're taking out of their pockets.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: Put in your own. Go ahead, Yeah I was. I
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: have mixed emotions personally, like, uh, I know Johnny's far
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: on on on his point of view and listen, I
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: hear it. I personally don't like the move, but I understand,
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: you know, the reasoning and and and and the why
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: behind it. I can't sit here and say, oh, yes,
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: I like that, mateo, that Deggy is going to Saudi
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: all whatever team he's going to. I can't say and say,
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: oh yeah, I like this move. But do I understand
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: the why, the the reasoning, you know, the monetary value
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: behind it, absolutely, like I do understand that. It's uh,
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: it's for me, it's a bit, it's a bit unfortunately,
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: not unfortunate. Maybe that's not the wrong word to use,
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: but it's uh, it just maybe wrong timing in terms
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: of like in a World Cup year, like I would
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: like because listen, I like Fortegi as as a player.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: I've said it on the show timeless times. It's a
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: shame that his stint in Italy was pretty short, you know,
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: coming from Argentina, went to Genoa, got flipped there, genera
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: made some some good bank, had a hell of a
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: season last year with Atalanta, got flipped again now today
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: to to Saudi and Atalanta made their money there. So
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: you know, in the business aspect of things, obviously everything
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: checks the boxes. Everything is great. But at the end
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: of the day, I can't say I like to move.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: I'll be honest, you know, for the quality of play,
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: for for for his I'm not gonna say he's gonna
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: decline because I think he's still gonna still still probably
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: do well. But and I think and I do still
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: think that is going to keep his eye on him.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: I don't think that that window is gone. But at
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: this on the flip side, if you want to look
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: at the other side of the coin, because you always
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: have to, he makes his money, like Johnny said, and
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: I agree with that. He's going to make you know
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: that twenty million a year. And again I don't know
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: how long the contract is, if it be two, three,
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: maybe even four years, And who's to say that he
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: doesn't come back to Europe and you know, after he
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: made his money and and and kind of run it back.
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: So anything is possible in that aspect of things. It's
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: just a shame that, you know, these Saudi coups are
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: just throwing money and and really I don't want to
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: say ruining football, but at the same time, it's it
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: kind of puts a damper on things for for some
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: of these for some of these for some of these players,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: because at the end of the day, it's like, you're
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: not gonna see this type of money, you know, like
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: pretty much anywhere else, like if they're even like out
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: doing the prem like when they're out doing the prem
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: it's like, you know, money talks, unfortunately, and where else
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: are you gonna turn. There's there's a few players that
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: have have refused, uh you know that that that's Saudi money,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: and you know, I respect to them as well, and listen,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: if it's gonna if it's gonna give you the you know,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: wealth to not only you, but you know, the other
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: generations of your family. I'm on board with that. But
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: at the same time, I think two things can be true.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: So I, like I said, I don't like to move,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: but understand the why behind it. So that's my thoughts
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: on the tag. I do hope he still has a
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: has a has a has a part by again, he's
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: gonna have to earn it, but I still think he
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: he can have a part of this national team. The Gatuzzo,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: him and Moisten had are gonna have, uh have big
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: seasons to kind of feel what they did last season,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: and I don't know if that's gonna be possible, but
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: we'll see. But yeah, I'm it's just it's just it's
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: just crazy, crazy time. I think is my overall overall thing.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: But he's making six times the amount that he was
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: in Italy, so that that speaks, uh, that speaks volumes.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: And it's unfortunate because they are our top leagues in Europe.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: You know, I can't compete with that, with that, with
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: those dollar values, but you know what what Saudi can pay,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: you know, and the quality in Europe, it's like you can't.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: You can't compete with either of those things. So we'll
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: see what things happened for the Tegy. I wouldn't be surprised.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: And I saw Patrick Kendrick tweet this out. You know,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: he's gonna go make his money and then kind of
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: and then kind to come back to Europe and after
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: he made his money and kind of still shine. So
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: we'll see if that happens and if that comes to fruition.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: But listen, I'm still a fan of the Tegy. I
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: hope again for what we have to see now is
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: that he still has a part of this national team.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: And if if it's not gonna be him, it's the
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: next man up. And on Johnny's point, I I do
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: agree with that. Then we'll see what happens there.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that that's my concern is the national team. You
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: know they have the big games coming up in the fall.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: Is he gonna you know, he he's still gonna be
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: on the team. I hope he has a good start
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: to the season there in Saudi Arabia. It's actually gonna
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: be playing with Pierre americ Obama.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: Yang.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: No, he left, he left left, Okay, so he left
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: on the free He's gonna use the free you know, Okay,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: he will praise him and okay, there you go. Yeah,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: the only the only other one we know there's Natural Fernandez,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: former Real Madrid player, uh, formercality player, So they're gonna
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: be linking up.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: Interesting there. Uh.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: The coach's name is just Michelle Michelle, no last name,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 4: just Michelle, Spanish coach, so we'll see. Uh yeah, what
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: I'm worried about is the national team again. Money wise,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: I think this makes sense if he's gonna get this money,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 4: uh you know, go ahead, good again, good for Atalanta,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: you know, also making the profit that quickly. But it
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: kind of reminds me the way Saudi is going on
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: and getting the players. It kind of reminds me almost
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: of the MLS like ten years ago, where they they
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: had some legitimately good players in the league. You remember,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: I know they were at tail end of their careers,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: but remember the Lampard's, Gerrard's, the drug buzz pure Lowska,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: trin Steiger him a big leader. After I feel like
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: I'm missing.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: Beckham is.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: With that lot a lot of course. Uh So it
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: almost feels as if Saudi is kind of getting these
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: players out of younger age. Uh, but just throwing the
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: cache if that's where the you know, the way the
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: world is, you know, the soccer world is going nothing
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: we can do it, you know, Look, Europe did it
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: for so many years, Man City did it, PSG did it.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: So just a different location, uh, in Saudi. But yeah,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: I hope he goes and has a successful season and
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: continues to be a striker for the national team, or
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: else we'll have to rely on Atalanta to develop another
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 4: striker for us out of out of in there. Maybe
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: we'll get him from Brazil this time Instaid Argentina. But
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: but again, well it's it'll it'll be interesting to see
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: the impact of this on on the national team. Obviously,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 4: Atalanta's missing a striker now, I know they Stove Scamaco
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 4: is coming back from an injury. I don't know if
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 4: they'll rely on him as their number nine.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: Am.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 4: I'm sure they'll go out.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: And I thought they were looking for I thought they
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: were looking at Lorenzo Lucas another name. Maybe We'salta anymore.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: See what Tolanta we're gonna get next season? Right, So,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: because I'm you know, it's it's you would each at
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: the Ante so Uh, I don't know if that that
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: doesn't doesn't roll off the tongue as well, right, And
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: so we'll see.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe a Croatian coach won't get won't go out
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 4: and get a Serbian striker.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know, probably not.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 4: But guys, this was a fun conversation.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: Well, we're not gonna talk about Alle.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if you want to mention Alle. I was a
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: bit shocked. Hey, I'm jealously you guys, maybe you're gonna
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: go out and win the Scudetto this year. Maybe maybe
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: when we do our preview, I'll put my money on
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: on Melan to win the Scudetto.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: You almost took the words out of my mouth. I
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: don't know. We'll see. It's just it's crazy how things,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: how things go. Uh. You know, it was announced that
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: I think we said it off air maybe about a
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: month ago, I think, or close to that. Uh, that
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: allegree was was hired by Milan and they just announced
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: him that his press cone friends the other day yesterday
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: or the other day whatever it was, And just crazy,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: Uh what is it?
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: It was like thirteen years ago, uh, thirteen fourteen years
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: ago that he was he was Milan's coach and now
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: he's back and uh you know he uh he won
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: his first school detto there right for Milan, and uh
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: obviously the years after that he had with Juventus and
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: uh the different criticism that he's gone along the way.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if I should be excited or
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: nervous or or what with this allegrity uh era for Milan.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, I'm I'm excited
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: to see what happens, you know, the signings that that
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: are they're trying to make, and you know, getting a
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: sporting director I think was the biggest thing whether won
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: the coach uh you know, organized and settled bringing today again.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: Love him or hate him, we have a fucking sporting director.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: We didn't have one last season. We had you know,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: the three Musketeers, Uh, you know up top that we're
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: trying to make decisions that clearly didn't work. So now
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: that they actually have a spoiling director, a competent coach,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: Setia you know experience, SETI, a winner, Uh you know,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: just has some attachment to the club from from years past.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: I think, uh, you know, can can can definitely do
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: some good things, uh, keeping some some main players obviously
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: it sucks to lose two uh, you know, two mainstays,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: and well that was kind of maybe before his his
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: uh you know, official announcement, but losing Ryan Theer's losing
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: Taylor Nandez uh to two big losses in my opinion,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: that are that that hurt and that suck and that
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: that really sting you know, mew and fans. But you know, uh,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: bringing in you know, hopefully the announcement will happen soon
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: of Modrich, which I never really would have thought would
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: have would have transpired, is pretty crazy to say. I know,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: guys thirty nine years old going on forty, I get it.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: I hear you. It's just gonna just to see his
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: class in a Milan shirt.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: Oh cool to say.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do agree with that it's his class coming
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: to Milan.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: And that he is. I won't I won't be an
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: idiot to shoot on it. Whether he plays five minutes
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: a game, whether he plays fifty minutes or a game,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Like, it's still it's still
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: gonna be cool to see MONDECENTI yeah, especially playing for Milan.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: So yeah, no, I totally agree. And you know, bringing
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: in a young which we spoke about the national team
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: a ton this episode as well, and bringing a young midfielder,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: young Italian midfielder, which is which is huge in uh
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: in RICHI I think is an interesting move. It's a
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: step up for him, I think in terms of in
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: terms of club that he's playing for, you know, going
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: in uh To, you know, a World Cup qualifying here
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: and it should be interesting. I hope, you know, you
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: can get the most out of I have this midfield
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: and uh you know, it's not official yet, but they're
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: trying to bring in either the Club buche h midfielder,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: the Swiss guy h yah Shari, who's you know, they're
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: they're they're not really budgeting over there at club bug
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: for not with for Noah lying it seems like it's
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: an easy, breezy, beautiful cover girl type of move. Uh
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: Noah laying is is a week for Melan For for
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: yah Shati, it's taking almost a month, so we'll see.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: But yeah, just keeping lay out and and and and
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: and making him obviously a focal point for this team
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: is going to be interesting. And I'm excited and but yeah, definitely,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: I know as the weeks go on, we'll we'll definitely
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: talk a lot more Marcato Mannez. But it's it's it's
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: it's cool to see, uh. I I agree back and
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: hopefully he can run it back and bring Milan their
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: their second star and the twenty school that too, and
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: and we can go on a bit of a run,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: you know, going forward. So excited for that and yeah,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: it's it's just crazy times In said, yeah, I think
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: that will do it for us.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 4: Now we'll do our Previeo show.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: Actually, one one more thing, I have two fingers out,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: one more thing. Sorry, devastating news. We didn't. I wanted
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: to bring it up at the beginning. I always we
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: always forget, and I try to bring it up at
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: the end just to kind of close this downer. But
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: the world of football has been all over the place.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: But it was a big shock the other day obviously, Diogogota,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: his brother Andre Silva, you know, tragically passing in the
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: car accident that they that they were in, you know,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: twenty eight to twenty five years old, the two of them.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: Just just a very sad, devastating situation. And just again
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: all the details you you kind of get mixed, uh,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: you know, mixed uh news in terms of what happened,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: you know, and just at the end of the day,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe they rest in peace. It's just a
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: very very sad situation, especially for Diogojota. Obviously that's the
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: name we we as cultural fans, kind of knew more of.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: He was obviously on the on the bigger, bigger of stages,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: uh in his footballing career. And you know, uh, the
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: fact of him just getting married a handful of weeks ago,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: having three young boys. If I'm not mistaken, I think
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: they're all boys, three young kids. Nevertheless, and it's, uh,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: it just leaves you know, it just leaves a whole
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: in your heart a bit, if I if I'm honest,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: you know, no, no family should have to go through that.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: That's that's uh that those are parents that lose two sons.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: It's it's a wife that loses a husband or wife sorry,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: that lose a husband. If if the brother had a wife,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: I don't really remember, but right alone, girlfriend loses a
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: boyfriend whatever, you know, young kids losing a father. These
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: are things that we should never have to say. It's
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: a very very unfortunate. It it pains me to say,
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: but it slightly reminds me of obviously the good Droe
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: brothers passing uh not too long ago as well, and
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: you know, for for any listeners and uh that are
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: also followed the hockey world, I mean the gold Droe
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: brothers passing was another devastating shock to the hockey world,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: you know, the sporting world as well, and you know,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: and his brother and DeSilva was was definitely another one
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: to add to that. Ways unfortunately that we have to
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: even say that, but it is the truth of the matter,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: and it's crazy him just because you know, Chota winning
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: the UH or the nation's league not too long ago,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: you know, just being a mainstay in Europe these past
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: you know, a handful of years, uh winning at Liverpool
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: and just kind of really being uh being a player
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: that's been just an overall you know, good quality uh forward.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: Uh is you know it is really the his his
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: his peak unfortunately so beautiful gesture I think from also Liverpool,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: you know, really announcing that you know, nobody will wear
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: that number twenty again, uh for for for Liverpool, I
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: think it speaks volumes, especially for for a club at
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: a high high class like Liverpool. I mean it's uh,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: it's it shows their uh you know their integrity and
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: in all this, so it's, uh, it's just a sad thing.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: And it's been a been a bit of a home
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: homage these past couple of weeks in the Club World
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: Cup and if it be the Gold Cop, if it
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: be whatever type of tournament or whatever's going on in
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: the cultural world of you know, paying respects to Dega
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: doing his you know, his celebration kind of with with
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: the video game a celebration and I saw Bope put
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: up to two zero for for him as well, and it's, uh,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: it's just something that pains you, uh as fans. So
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: we just want to say obviously, rest in peace, uh
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: for this tragic incident and his brother gone way, way,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: way too soon, because guys, at the end of the day,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: these are guys in and around our age group and
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: you never want to you never wanna wanna think of
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: that here that you know, it being a reality. It's
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: it's unfortunate, but uh, gone way too soon, but definitely
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: not not be forgotten.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. And as as you said, it reminded me
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: too much of the Gujo brothers, brought back those bad memories,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 4: so yeah, thinking of them and like you said, same
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 4: ajor as as. I mean, uh, he's six or seven
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 4: weeks younger than me, So I think that was like
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: when I saw the wake up call, Yeah exactly. Uh
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 4: so unfortunately we are as honest, I know, I know, Adri,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 4: you had something else you wanted to bring up.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: No, that was that was That was what I I
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: want to say, we should have maybe brought it up earlier.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: And again, uh, like we said with this episode, was
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: kind of we went into it kind of knowing it
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: was going to be a mixed bag of topics and uh,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: if you stick with stuck with us, whoever's listening, we
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: appreciate it, and we just want to you know, kind
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: of give you know, Yoga and his brother and this
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: over there there their respects and uh, you know, the
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: respects of their families and loved ones. And yeah, it's just, uh,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: it's unfortunate that we have to end the episode on
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: on a bit of a downer. But at the end
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: of it, I think they deserve they deserve the you know,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: talking about and and kind of remembering them, uh, you
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: know a bit. So well, I think we'll we'll probably
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: end it off there and again not to turn pages
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: all too quickly, but we do appreciate if you've stuck
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: with us, Like I said earlier, up until this point,
• 1:16:07
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• 1:16:09
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• 1:16:11
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• 1:16:14
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• 1:16:17
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• 1:16:20
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• 1:16:25
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• 1:16:27
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for listening, Johnne