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A special trip to the San Siro for Milan Derby - Ep. 298 Ft. Franco Palumbo · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: It's a full house. For episode two ninety eight of
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  Speaker 1: The Couch You guys uh Nicholas Jhanny Adriano joined the
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  Speaker 1: bar our good friend, friend of the podcast for many years.
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  Speaker 1: Franco another guest. Third straight week, we have someone new
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  Speaker 1: on for Montreal Street prankl my.
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  Speaker 2: Guy, Hey, how's it going? Honestly super excited. You know
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  Speaker 2: when I got a text from Nick, like I mentioned earlier,
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  Speaker 2: it was like getting called to the big leagues from
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  Speaker 2: the miners. So it was it was you know, it
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  Speaker 2: was just I've been so excited since I got the
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  Speaker 2: text that, uh yeah, just looking forward to it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think we've we've spoke about soccer and sports in
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  Speaker 2: general before, but to do it on your podcast, it's
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  Speaker 2: a It's a good feeling for sure.
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  Speaker 3: That's amazing. Franko, where you you you give us all
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  Speaker 3: this praise.
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  Speaker 4: It seems like we feel like I'm a hops fan
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  Speaker 4: with the Montreal Canadians.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand that a rocket like.
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  Speaker 2: Not listen, this is at our age. I think talking
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  Speaker 2: about sports, this is what you know, turns me on
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  Speaker 2: almost you know, it's You're the most excitement I think
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  Speaker 2: I get in in a in a week. So but no,
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  Speaker 2: I think I mentioned this to Nick another time as
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  Speaker 2: well as that I respect what you guys do because
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  Speaker 2: I know there's a lot that goes behind the scenes
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  Speaker 2: with having a podcast, and so you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: you know doing it for how long? I thought you
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  Speaker 2: guys did it for only five six years? Nick just
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  Speaker 2: told me you guys it's been running on eight years.
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  Speaker 2: So that's incredible. Uh, And just thank you for doing
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  Speaker 2: your thing. And I'm glad you have a big following.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's well, it's well deserved. Appreciate it, Thank you,
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  Speaker 2: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just going to pull up this picture actually,
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  Speaker 1: so I said, you knew us, you knew the Couch
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  Speaker 1: guys before the Couch guys. This is our famous picture
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  Speaker 1: from twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you came to the Impact game, the Impact Roma
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  Speaker 1: game and you're you're your next g and you're not
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  Speaker 1: in the picture. We didn't take a selfie with you,
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  Speaker 1: but you're there. So that's how we.
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  Speaker 3: Have another pick. So I don't know, have the other
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  Speaker 3: pic nic in your in your backyard? There the the
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  Speaker 3: other game that one too.
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  Speaker 2: I made your Instagram Profra as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we have to go on that one. We have
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  Speaker 4: to find that one and put it out to.
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  Speaker 3: Find that one.
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  Speaker 1: I'll pull it up. I'll pull it up soon.
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  Speaker 2: But you guys, from that picture, I had no idea
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  Speaker 2: you guys were taking a picture.
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  Speaker 3: I was like this. He was like a stupin. He
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  Speaker 3: was like a laser focused, right, he was like this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how much I could have been focused there was. It
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  Speaker 2: was an impact game. So I got the picture before
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  Speaker 2: they were called clip their foot, yeah before before you know.
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  Speaker 2: It's like BCE, you know, but yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: From This is from September twenty twenty. Yeah, they were
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  Speaker 1: playing the Nations. Like I forget who they were playing.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was in the Netherlands, and I forget
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  Speaker 1: they won that game, I think.
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  Speaker 2: So all I want to say is that again clueless
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  Speaker 2: as ever, they not get the memo with the Italy jersey,
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's that seems to be my trend.
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  Speaker 2: Uh just show up and uh and provide a couple
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  Speaker 2: of laughs and yeah exactly. You look like you know
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  Speaker 2: what's happening, but you know it hasn't worked clearly.
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  Speaker 1: J Jhen. You you've been quite so far. You want
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  Speaker 1: to ask Franko our famous question that we asked all
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  Speaker 1: of our first time guests.
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  Speaker 5: Well, essentially, you know, like, how did you become Well wait,
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  Speaker 5: hold on time.
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  Speaker 3: This is Franco's first time on the first time. We
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  Speaker 3: were saying it earlier.
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  Speaker 2: It made me work for this one.
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy. Just feel bad.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, soggys on the bus before getting.
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  Speaker 6: Here, you know, okay, frankl Well, won't you till the beds?
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  Speaker 6: You know the team that you support, how you became
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  Speaker 6: a fan of that team? You know why you continue
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  Speaker 6: supporting them?
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  Speaker 3: Blah blah blah. Yeah, cultural story, frank I think you.
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  Speaker 2: Are gonna slowly regret having me on because I like
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  Speaker 2: to talk a lot.
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  Speaker 5: It's you, buddy, It's okay. It's a teacher in us man.
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  Speaker 5: That's how it works, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So, when I was around eight years old, my neighbor
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  Speaker 2: that lives right behind me, he uh. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: live an Italian community, you guys, you know heard of
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  Speaker 2: it before se Lenard and every one on my street
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  Speaker 2: is pretty much Italian. And so my neighbor in the
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  Speaker 2: back working at Alta m shout out to Vince. He
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  Speaker 2: gave me my first Milan poster of the roster. I
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  Speaker 2: want to say it was like maybe the two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and four thousand and five roster. I was around those years,
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  Speaker 2: so those players like cafud the obviously Maldini, Nesta and
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  Speaker 2: I came prepared by the way. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you saw, look I got my little you know, look
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  Speaker 2: at that here. Yeah yeah, yeah, but yeah, my dd
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  Speaker 2: just kicked in. But anyway, just to top it off, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so he gave my first poster. And growing up in
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  Speaker 2: the Italian community, like saying, lean art, everyone in my
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  Speaker 2: class or in my school follow the team. So obviously
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  Speaker 2: the top three teams were the most common, so ac In,
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  Speaker 2: Terror and Uve. And there was a particular hatred, well
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  Speaker 2: I won't say hatred, but hostility tour between the Milan
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  Speaker 2: and US Juventus fans in particular, So you know, every
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  Speaker 2: time the uvfan would mention something, I always wanted to
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  Speaker 2: kind of outsmart them. So I would kind of do
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  Speaker 2: my homework and do my research on Milan, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's where it all started. But I've always played.
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  Speaker 2: I played since I was four years old, so that
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  Speaker 2: was that too sparked it. And then obviously the two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and six World Cup. You know that too, you know,
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  Speaker 2: allowed me to watch the games, and I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: mention this because from I want to say two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and eight to twenty twelve, I was watching games almost
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  Speaker 2: every Sunday. I think that team those those years really
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  Speaker 2: you know what kind of my prime time in terms
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  Speaker 2: of watching Milan soccer. And I don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: guys remember this, Adreno, I don't know if you know
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  Speaker 2: remember this. Do you remember Alexander Pato's first game?
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  Speaker 3: Of course?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so I think, yeah, So that game I remember
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  Speaker 2: like it was yesterday, and I remember at that point
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  Speaker 2: I was watching it so religiously that I got both
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  Speaker 2: my parents involved, and my mom I think, became a
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  Speaker 2: bigger fan than I was. So that game, I remember
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  Speaker 2: being like because they had an older team, right, they
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  Speaker 2: had an older team, and so he was kind of like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, hopeful youth that just came in and hopefully
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  Speaker 2: would spark a new beginning. So that was that was
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  Speaker 2: some of the memories. I do remember watching the game,
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  Speaker 2: and ever since then I've always followed them. But I
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  Speaker 2: have to say after they got rid of Thiago Silva
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  Speaker 2: and Ibrahimovic. The first time, I kind of I was
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  Speaker 2: a little bit angry at the management, so that you know,
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  Speaker 2: I started to follow it less. And but I've always
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  Speaker 2: kept tabs on the team since then.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and uh, and Franco, like we've had Lucas Scott
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  Speaker 4: and a couple of weeks ago from t s and
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  Speaker 4: six ninety and you know, obviously a mean found himself.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, no matter when you get into the fandom,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's amazing to still see, uh, you know that
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  Speaker 4: love of the team still go on today, if it
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  Speaker 4: be in a big quantity or a small quantity.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you went through the banter era, right, Franco
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  Speaker 4: as we like to call it, right yeah, yeah, so
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  Speaker 4: and and you're still sticking with the team. And I
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  Speaker 4: said that to him a couple of weeks who also
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  Speaker 4: say it to you again. So it's it's a big,
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  Speaker 4: you know, shot out to you because you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of fans of teams that you know that
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  Speaker 4: you know, they when they're winning is is when they start,
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  Speaker 4: you know, really getting behind the team, and when they're
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  Speaker 4: losing or when you know they go to a dark period,
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  Speaker 4: you know they kind of fizzle out, so these fans
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  Speaker 4: like yourself that you know, even though like you said,
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  Speaker 4: maybe not on the same level as it wasn't you
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  Speaker 4: know the twenty eight, twenty eight to twenty twelve years,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you're still you still have some touch with
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  Speaker 4: the team.
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  Speaker 3: So obviously I.
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  Speaker 4: Commend, we commend fans that you know still sticks true
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  Speaker 4: to to the colors.
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  Speaker 3: No matter what.
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  Speaker 4: And another thing I wanted to ask you before we
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  Speaker 4: kind of shift gears, Franco.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you know, I like the kind of ask this, but.
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  Speaker 4: You know, inspirations of players, who did you kind of
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  Speaker 4: look towards if it'd be on Milan obviously the Italian
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  Speaker 4: national team. You know, just who who are your player
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  Speaker 4: who are your guys growing up?
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  Speaker 3: For for for culture?
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  Speaker 2: So I have to say, for me, it's an easy
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  Speaker 2: answer because it's gotta be Geneo Gattuso. I always I
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  Speaker 2: not always, I say, like you know, growing up, I
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  Speaker 2: was more of a fullback, so right or left back playing,
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  Speaker 2: but then I evolved into a defensive midfield. So I
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  Speaker 2: would always look look at Gattuso, the passion he had,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the fearlessness, you know, just going you know,
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  Speaker 2: defending the top top players in the world. I think
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  Speaker 2: for me, you know that I really looked up to him.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, even if you know he's wasn't the
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  Speaker 2: most you know, exciting player to watch to me, just
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  Speaker 2: watching him and seeing what he can do. Uh, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, defending the top quality players, it was. It
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  Speaker 2: was something because because I played that position. So I looked,
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  Speaker 2: I looked to him, and I actually met him. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if I ever told you the story.
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  Speaker 3: Uh possibly maybe, I don't remember. I was refreshing memory, Frank.
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  Speaker 2: So I worked at a soccer store called Passion Soccer.
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  Speaker 2: Of course I don't exist, and so I was lucky
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  Speaker 2: enough shout out to my manager Johnny at the time
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  Speaker 2: he he got invited to the not another one Johnny Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, Johnny's are good people for sure. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he he invited me to an event in Laval hosted
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  Speaker 2: by Jivova. I don't if you guys know that that company. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they were having a I believe, like a recruitment process
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  Speaker 2: where they were kind of recruiting some some players to
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  Speaker 2: bring to Italy from from Montreal. And you know, they
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  Speaker 2: were just talking about the program and obviously they had
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  Speaker 2: some representatives Gattuso being one of them, the main one.
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  Speaker 2: And as soon as I found out that he was
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  Speaker 2: gonna be there, I kind of begged on my knees
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  Speaker 2: and so, you gotta, you gotta get me to this,
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  Speaker 2: to this event, you know. So I got there and
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  Speaker 2: so he arrives, and you know, he was nice. He
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  Speaker 2: signed a bunch of autographs. I had my jersey there
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  Speaker 2: with his name in the back, got him to sign it.
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  Speaker 2: And I always grew up like every every event, you
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  Speaker 2: know that I went to. My mom always said take
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  Speaker 2: as many many pictures as you can. So obviously one
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  Speaker 2: picture was not enough. I said, I need another one,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I found an excuse, said, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a little blurry. I took another pisode he went.
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  Speaker 2: So the first picture he was all smiles, second picture
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  Speaker 2: like total no smile, no, and then the the last.
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  Speaker 2: I ended up taking a third picture. He looked like
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  Speaker 2: he wanted to kill me, like.
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  Speaker 3: He know, we all know he could. He has it
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  Speaker 3: in him to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes he does, and I was I was generally
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  Speaker 2: afraid when I saw that picture. Yeah, I said, wow,
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  Speaker 2: thank god I did not go for a fourth. Uh
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  Speaker 2: yeah it was but no, it was it was a
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  Speaker 2: great experience. And yeah, no, I he's gotta be my
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  Speaker 2: my answer for for that question.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank, We might have to pull up that picture
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  Speaker 1: so we could share it here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, very sad news that lost.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yes, your computer phone.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what happened is obviously over the years, this picture,
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  Speaker 2: I want to say, at least eight years ago, if
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  Speaker 2: not nine, and so I've baby gone through maybe three
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  Speaker 2: or four phone if not five. And yeah, the other
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  Speaker 2: day I was looking at I was hoping that Google
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  Speaker 2: Photos would have would have kept the record, because I
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  Speaker 2: do have pictures from that age. It's probably in the
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  Speaker 2: It's probably in the archives somewhere, but I remember looking
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  Speaker 2: looking for it once and if i'll look, i'll look
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  Speaker 2: for it again. If I could find it, I'll definitely
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  Speaker 2: send it to you guys. But yeah, and I'll send
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  Speaker 2: you the angry one for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Franco, Franco, what's the saying? Sometimes the picture is worth
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  Speaker 1: worth a thousand words, This one is worth ten thousand words,
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand exactly our French classes. Yes, yes, someone went
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  Speaker 1: up to the teacher, you know, we had to present
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  Speaker 1: a picture or whatever, and that's what that was. That
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  Speaker 1: was his whole project.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so we knew he didn't study or practice
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  Speaker 2: anything beforehand. So but he actually got a better mark
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  Speaker 2: than us because he spoke French like he was a Francophone,
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  Speaker 2: so uh, you know, he didn't really need to look
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  Speaker 2: over his notes and he knew that. So that that's
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  Speaker 2: where confidence gets you sometimes rights, you know, take it
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  Speaker 2: till you make it, so.
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  Speaker 3: To speak, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, Franco. The picture I want to share here
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  Speaker 1: is your picture at the San Seattle and this perfect
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  Speaker 1: transition now because this is the reason we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: have you on. You made it to the San Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: You're the one out of the group that's most recently
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  Speaker 1: been at the stadium, and you got to see the derby,
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  Speaker 1: the Meline Inter Derby on March eighth, match day twenty eighth.
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  Speaker 1: I know you were mentioning it before you went with
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  Speaker 1: your friend who was an Inter fan, so it was
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  Speaker 1: a perfect, perfect time. Yeah, just tell us you know
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  Speaker 1: how that came about, because look, we know you're a teacher,
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  Speaker 1: a teacher, Franco. That was probably March break probably perfect timing, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just how did you end up with
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  Speaker 1: Melan at that game? And even just getting the tickets.
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  Speaker 1: What's that process like?
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  Speaker 2: All right, So it wasn't an easy process like as you.
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  Speaker 2: As I've already mentioned, I've been a Milan fan for
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  Speaker 2: for a while, for a long time. It's always been
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  Speaker 2: a childhood dream of mine to go to the San Zero,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and even though I don't watch it as
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  Speaker 2: much as I do, uh, I've always had that dream
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  Speaker 2: in mind. And my friend that came to me, his
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  Speaker 2: name is Alessandro and he him as well, so him
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  Speaker 2: on the other side of the spectrum being an inter fan. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: he he had the same dream as mine as mine,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, it was one of those things that
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  Speaker 2: we just brought up, you know, casual get togethers, you know,
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  Speaker 2: saying you know, one day we should do it, one day,
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  Speaker 2: we should do it. And then recently, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: found out when they were playing and he said, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, I'm like, like, you said, the stars aligned
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  Speaker 2: because it was during spring break, and I said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I said, why don't we just do it? And he's
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  Speaker 2: like yeah, but he's like, don't joke on me.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, if if you say they gotta do
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  Speaker 2: it now, it's now or never, you know. So uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're getting out of age where you know,
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  Speaker 2: our friends are getting married, and so it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: getting it's gonna get more and more difficult. Said, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, let us do it. And the process is
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  Speaker 2: not easy. As you know, tickets don't last on the
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  Speaker 2: official website very long, so you have to kind of
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  Speaker 2: either get them on the official website or a resailer.
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  Speaker 2: And unfortunately, we were late, so we had no choice
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  Speaker 2: to get a resailer, which you're paying like top dollars
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  Speaker 2: dollars for it, and you know, that kind of discouraged
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  Speaker 2: us a little bit, but then we said, you know what,
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: you know, it's now or never, so we we did
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  Speaker 2: it anyway. And yeah, so you know, it's funny because
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  Speaker 2: I have a student of mine who's a big Napoli fan.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to my class because you know, they're probably
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: gonna end up watching this later the they so he's
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: a big Napoly fan, and I kind of bugged them
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  Speaker 2: last year to going going to Naples for five days
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  Speaker 2: to watch Anapoly game, and then I ended up doing
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  Speaker 2: the same thing with Milan. So yeah, anyway, he so
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  Speaker 2: we get to Milan and obviously the game the stadium
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  Speaker 2: you can see it from you know, miles and miles away.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's massive, it's huge. I think that's what kind
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  Speaker 2: of stood out to me, just the sheer size of it.
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  Speaker 2: And you guys seen pictures of the Sansu, right those
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  Speaker 2: four I think, I think those four famous pillars that
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  Speaker 2: it has. I never really knew that you and you
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  Speaker 2: know adrenal because and and Nick that you you guys went, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: do you guys remember did you guys walk in those pillars?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, walking in those pillars crazy for ten minutes. That's it, okay,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: And and I realized, like, what, there's no better mechanism
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: to get up there. But I think it was all
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: part of the full experience. And and one thing because
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: because I was trying to like describe outside of the stadium,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: and the best thing I can describe it, it's almost
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: like a tailgate. But you won't see people playing beer pong.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: You won't see like people just getting totally slaughtered. Everyone's
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: just enjoying their porkeetta sandwich, you know, and just having
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: a beer. And it's just like it's very like calm
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: but chaotic at the same time, if that makes sense.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: And I met I think five different people and they
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: all came from different parts of the world. Yeah, so
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: I had the guy next to me drove twenty hours
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: from northern Germany in a Winnebeg to watch the game.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: So I loved hearing those type of stories. I think,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: you know, sports in general, but that Milan game brought
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: so many people together. It's incredible. So yeah, the stadium
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: was rocking. I was standing, I was My seats were
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: on top of the inter ultra fans. Yeah, yeah, and
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: they loud. They were very very loud. I commend them
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: because I you know, they were in some cases louder
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: in the Leland fans, which were the home team that game.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: And so yeah, it was That's what That's what I
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: think stood out the most, was the whole atmosphere. The
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: game itself, like very defensive, like we talked about earlier,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: they did, you know, after the second after the first half,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: they really held back to that one zero lead, so
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of typical SETI soccer in some cases.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: But now the atmosphere was was incredible and and I'm
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: so happy I went and I actually went and we'll
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: see an Atalanta game the day before and that was
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: that was obviously smaller scale, but yeah, we was a
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: great experience as well. The fans were into it. Ultras,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: believe it or not, are really passionate fans. A lot
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: of them were pointing middle fingers and getting yeah yeah yeah,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: like like if you look at them wrong, it's like no, no, no,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: the you're an enemy, you know. So yeah, I know
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: both both games were fantastic, but the Milan like there
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: was so loud the inter ultras that you can't even
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: understand what they're saying. That's how loud they were. You
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: can't understand a word they were saying. Like I was
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: literally trying. I was really trying to make out but
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: had no idea. And uh, you know, then then finding
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: out of who was there, like so Jiramo's uh you know, Ibrahimovic,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Pato like a lot of players with the interviews came
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: out later like it was just a special moment and yeah,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I had I had no regrets. It took it took,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: uh you know, it was. It was a lot to
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: get there, but I'm definitely happy I went.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I was gonna ask a lot. So it's a new
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: stadium there, Yeah, so how did you find that that
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: stadium especially cord to this that not it's not that
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: it's sorry, it's not a new stadium but recently renovated.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: So how did you find the experience? But I forget,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I forget the sponsorship name of the stadium.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Whatever it is.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: No, but the what are the sneakers called.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: New Balance.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Change ban?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, everywhere, so the exactly sponsorship is written everywhere. Okay,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: So Milan it's my first love. I love Milan with
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: all my heart. The city, you know, it's fantastic. But
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: you know, in two days you can pretty much do Milan.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: So that's what we did. So on Thursday Friday, we
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: we completely did Milan and there wasn't many places left
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: to see. Uh, so we said what are we gonna do?
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Like we were literally we got back in our room
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: at midnight and we said what are we gonna do? So, uh,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: my friend thought of the idea to go watch another
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: soccer game and I liter and I told him, you're crazy,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Like there's no way, you know, you know, we already
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: spent so much money. He's like, no, no, it's it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: It's probably cheap, and let's look into it. And we
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: looked at everything, believe it or not. Nick I looked
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: at even vent this game and realized that to Reno
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: is about two hours and a half. I said, you
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: know what, that's maybe something closer. And I said, I
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: looked up the Atlanta to find out they weren't bet Gamo.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: By the way, beautiful place, I have to say.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I've heard nice.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really nice. It's on a hill, it's you know,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the views are spectacular. Not mind you, I'm talking about
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: this place like I've been for like three days. I
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: was there for four hours. Literally, I got on the train,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: got there, how to rush to the stadium, how to
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: get her you know, tickets verified? Yeah, I had enough
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: time to eat a planino and a beer outside the
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: stadium and then went straight straight there. UH for fifty
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: three year old sat right next to the UH our
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: second row, so there was only one room in front
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: of me, which was incredible. You can't complain, No, no,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: you can't, you can't. And you know, and and again
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: it's a smaller stadium, like you said, newer stadium, and
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: you see that right away, like like San Zero looks
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: like ancient compared to this, this this stadium, but obviously
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: much smaller scale. And yeah, but it was it was nice.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: It was very communal, like I found like like I
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: found like everyone knew each other. You know, you only
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: have that vibe like everyone kind of knew all the
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: fans knew each other.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: So we had that same kind of experience.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: I don't know if Nick would agree, but in at
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Luji Farrads in Geneva we went to some Doda Podma
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: and you know the game, the game was what it was,
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: but no in Geneva, so so you know, it was
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: it was that always we felt I could be for myself,
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I think Nick would probably agree, but that tight.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Tighter knit, smaller scale because.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: You know we had gone to you know, from the
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Olympico to to the Lucifer Artists and then to Sanserto,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: you know, seventy thousand plus, so you know we kind
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: of got a taste of each I don't want to
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: say each category of stadium in set. Yeah, but you
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: know we kind of got like an appetizer of different
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: scale of of fandom.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: And how was the Olympical.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Well, for me, the Olympical is is pretty it's sick
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: like I mean zero no, no, I think it's less.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: I think in terms of capacity capacity size, if I'm
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: not mistaken.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: You're so far from the field though, there's the tracks,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: so you really get we were sitting close.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Like but you're close before at the same time, if
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: that makes sense.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Franco. So but again I've I gone, I've been again.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: You know what was it to the last year? Excuse me?
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Back in October I went with my brother.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: We went to go see a national team game, so
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: it'll be pulled Belgium for the Nations League. So that
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: was spur of the moment, spur of the moment too,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: and and it was pretty cool. We had a bit
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: higher up and you kind of saw a bit better.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: And there must get it. Talents from everywhere, like you
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: must get that was that was. It was cool to
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: the to the bottom and even from other countries as
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: well for sure.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that that was.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: That was a cool experience. But I find the whimpical great.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: But again, like just to tie into your point of
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Atalanta that not small scale but like smaller environment, close
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: knit tightness.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: I would probably compare it to when we went.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: To the fred Atisa for for some daudio Padma back
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: in twenty nineteen, because from the vendors outside, to the
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: fans inside, to that that uh that like season ticket
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: holder fan that we had like Jordanala in his back
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: pocket and he was doing back and forth.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know if Nick remembers, but please.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Just reminded me of something.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Well, now we're getting the presentations over here by the teacher.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: I have exactly what you're talking about of Atlanta right here,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: holded and it looks like it went through World War Two,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: but it's there, and so no, I know exactly what
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: you're talking about. And you can't emulate that like that passion.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: You'll never get that here, like you'll never get that
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: passion from the fans that you'll get in in a
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: soccer And I think in those events you really see
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: that that soccer is the most popular sport in the world,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: like it's it's it's it's not even comparable, like it's
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: it's more than just a game over there. And I
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: think that's what's very special about watching a game in Italy, surely.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: And I think that's what it comes down to at
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: the end of the day. Like I think you said,
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: the best, everyone knows each other.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: It's a community.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: It's something that uh it's circled on the calendar. People
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: gather whether it's at the cafe, whether it's at the
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: bars near the near the statuo, whether it's inside the stadio,
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: if they have season tickets weak you know, like there
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: was that funny video back at the Maradona a few
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: years ago where some people to trade lasagna, Yeah, passing
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: out plays of lasagna to people.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Right, It's like you will never experience that here.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Like even actually a video recently, but I don't know
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: where the game it came from. Definitely a SETI a game,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: but a guy was making, like I want to say,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: a foot long panini in the front row, full of
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: different cold cuts, and he was like in the middle
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: of a game, like he was just full on. Yeah,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I think it was.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I think that was in Spain.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, it was in Yeah, you know, but that that happens.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: That happened to me at the Mata Donna.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: Not not a panino, but like essentially, like I was
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: at the Matadonna to watch the Monopoly game a couple
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: of years ago, and I went to Italy and the
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: guy setting next to me like a halftime, like he
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: opens up a lunch box.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: This guy, he's got a bunch.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Of piscott.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, no, it's so bad.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: That's it, you know, just they're like, fuck, you know honestly,
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: actually I would take it if I had an espresso
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: with me and stuff.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: But no, it's it's it's amazing.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: It's amazing and and and Johnny, you know, just like,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: how is that feeling, like feeling that that building in
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: the Anneapolis stadium like that must have been incredible.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, like like uh like even that at the Olympical.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: At the Olympical, every second line.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Is the chants are incredible. You don't you don't know
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: what's going on. You feel so pressure to be part
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: of those chants, like you want to just be part
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: of that that moment and not like, Okay, I'm currently
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: watching Gomorrah. Okay, you know you guys are more Yeah,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: of course I could just imagine just based on that,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: because you see the passion from the show. Okay, these
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: are actors. I can imagine the passion from that stadium
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: and that fans because I don't know about you, but
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be caught dead in the middle
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: of the night in Naples. The people that are nuts, like,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: let's just be honest, they're full on crazy, and I
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: respect them completely. Because it's all passion. It's all passion. Uh,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: And so that that's another thing. I would love to
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: watch the game there as well.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: I mean too, I would like to go.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: A lot of the people in the co A lot
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: of the capitals there are actually members of the Gama.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: So it's like it's like you don't want to get
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: caught on the wrong side or pissing them off. Whatever.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Love it, but but it's funny because I get involved
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: in the chats and stuff. There was at one point,
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: you know, we're chatting about the VESUVI and I'm like,
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: I turned to the connective elopment, like is it just
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: like a bit of racist versus us or whatever. It's like,
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: oh no, it's only good if we be we're singing it.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: We can sing because if we say, I'm like, I'm like,
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: is this like our ed word?
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Like what's going on?
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I'm making a stupid joke.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: You could.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: Like, Okay, let's sing this song. That's like ever since then,
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: like the whole like Visuvia, it doesn't bother me.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: It's ours. It's just it's like they brace it.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: It's like, yeah, obviously take the chat biggest chant against
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: you and just spin into something positive. So uh, honestly,
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: like it's uh, it's I have to agree with you.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: It's just getting involved. If any listener has the opportunity
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: to go to watch a Gate Citi game in Italy,
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: no matter where, it's I heck, I even want to
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: go watch a Fiorandina game at the franky. It's like,
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: it's it's just even I didn't like, I didn't care
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: about either team, but it was just nice to watch
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: and it was a great environment to be in. And
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: like just here into Tifolsi chanting and stuff, like the
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: Ultra is like they have some really good chance and
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: it's like unique chance too. It's just the environments and vibes.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Like they can't.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Like if I was living to pend On, whichever
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: city it was, I would I would get season tickets
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: for fuck even if it was I don't know, fucking Pisa.
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: But you know, like I would go watch a game,
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: especially the pizza.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I'm not going for the power, I'm going for the game.
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, especially a pizza in town. So it's very cheap
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: to live there, Yeah, Jenny.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Even even my brother who doesn't watch sports for ship,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: even him went to a Bologna Uve after studying three
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: months in Bologna. It's like, if you're in Italy, you
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: got to go to a soccer game. And look, between
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: all of us, we've all gone to see games of
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: our favorite teams, but we've all gone to see games
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: of not our favorite teams. You know, I think that's
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the beauty of it. Look, we live. I don't know
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: how many kilometers away we are from Italy, got knows
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: how many, but we were there. We had to go,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: you know, for me Andronos, we had to go. You know,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: we wanted to go, just get that different experience at
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Luji Frats. Franko, you went to Atalanta, Johnny, you went
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: to Fjordentina. So I think that that's cool. And you know, you, Franco,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: you're talking about eating these pot kata sangwiches before the game,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: and it brings back memories when we were there. Adrian,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure we had a Sangwige said the Sansiato
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: as well. It wasn't the sansiat I remember having one
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: outside the olympicicle. And it's nice how these little trucks
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: are up And like you said, Franco, it's it's not
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: like in the you know, you go to the States
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: for an NFL game, there's tailgating. People are doing it
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: on their own. It's these are businesses that are set
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: up and and it's cheap too. You gotta sandwich five euros.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: You know, you gotta beer five years whatever it is.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know how much it is now, but it's
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: it's a fun experience and it's so different than going
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: to a sports game here. Right, You go to a
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: soccer game and Italy, you're expected to chance, You're expected
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: to be crazy, you know. Franco we were talking beforehand.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: So I was at the Habs game yesterday in the
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Digarday section. At times it felt like I was the
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: only one cheering. I was lucky because there was these
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: two guys behind me younger than me, one Habs fan,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: one Bruins fan, and their friends. So they're kind of
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: going on it all games. So you know, I was
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: not to.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Be at least fan right now. Yeah, they called the
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: yacht Club for a reason, so yeah, very corporate, Yeah,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: very corporate. No, yeah, you're right, you're you're one hundred
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: percent right. And so two things that I remembered. One
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: I also went to see so even obviously Milian's by
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: far my favorite team. But I in twenty seventeen, I
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: went to go see Barcelona Real Madrid Super Cup and
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: to see how passionate they are there. Like I think
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: that's like almost as close as a San Zero because
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Barcelona is you know, it's one of the most I
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: feel like international followings, you know, in terms of people
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: all over the world. And yeah, like you know, it's
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: just to see. Like I give this example the other day,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: like when we have a Canadians game, Like you know,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: you go park at the Bell Center. You know you're
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: going to be in traffic for at least an hour
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: or two after the game is over. You go at
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Barcelona there was over ninety thousand people. I was there
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: an hour after the game and there was no one.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: It was a ghost town. Like the traffic flowed, there
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: was efficiency, there was management like everything. Mind you have
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: to people took their vestpas and their scooters. But still
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: you know it it it it it's like wall. It's
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: like because it's there's there's structure. I find even at
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: the San Zero game, there was structured. There was fifteen entrances,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: like you know what I mean. So it was very
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: efficient and you couldn't like remember my entrance, like there
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: was a lineup and the other entrance there wasn't. I'm like, well,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: can I just go to the endine? No, your ticket
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: says number five. You got to go to number five.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: You know. So there's a lot of efficiency there, and
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: you know, I think there's a lot of history that
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: that that goes into that stadium, like you know, I
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: don't know, do you guys know when Sinceria was built,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I probably should have looked as up.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I'm actually just pulling that up now. It's it's old
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty six. Ye, nineteen twenty six. Obviously it's been
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: expanded and renovated since the years, because the biggest expansion
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: was for Italian nineteen ninety. Okay, but its current fortune
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: is one hundred year years sorry, the foundation has been
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: one hundred.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Years yeah wow, okay, yeah. Yeah. So it's going to
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: be kind of sad to see it go, but it's time.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: I think it's ultimately time.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: Well, I have to go to a debt before it
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: goes down, so I have to I have to pull
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: a Franco and go I don't know, yeah, before it
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: collapses there.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: But well, I think it's November right right now, they're
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: scheduled I think November of what year they might before sorry.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: November of what year? Franco in November for how many
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: years now?
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: With Italians? Italians? Yeah, if they do it like like
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: the tomorrow, it's tomorrow, I'll never call ice drink. Yeah,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: it's going to be done the day before, right. Yeah.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: When we went in twenty nineteen, we're saying, oh, we
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: got to go before this thing closes. It's been it's
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: going to be seven years. Yeah, and so they were like,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: but that's Italian, Like did you know, but did you
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: find the like conditions of the stadium. I don't know,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: if you w into the washing middle there, did you
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: find like the conditions of the stadium were.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Bad, terrible terrible? Like you guys went, what twenty nineteen
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: you said, oh my god, no, no, it's gotta be worse,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Like I felt like I was one of the high
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: schools I worked out. It was terrible, terrible, terrible. I'm
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: not giving any names there. I don't want to, you know,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: not the one I'm in right now. Just no, no,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: but definitely terrible, like paint off the wall, pistains everywhere,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: smell the smells you kind of start with an R
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: by any chance.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: No, no no no, I've been to U pretty good,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: but no, just just to give an example, honestly, it
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: was it was yeah, like I like we were all
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: in the washroom looking at each other and in the
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: big line and we're like, oh my god, do you
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: smell that? Yeah? I smell that. Like it's really it
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: was really bad. Yeah. And another thing I don't know
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: about you guys, Uh, do any of you have any
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: tickets to go see the World Cup or No?
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: I do not, but I have a friend.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: It was okay, I think I have a better chance
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: of meeting the then getting those tickets. I honestly those
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: tickets and that's my.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Pope actually the old one, the one that passed.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: But last week, yeah, I had a dream that the
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Pope gave me a tour of the Vatican last week.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: I'm never chocolate before bet again. So, uh, point being
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: that they were very difficult to get tickets. Uh, my
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: friend I felt really bad for him. He tried all
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: four rounds to get the tickets. Uh. And it just
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: because because apparently it's random, Uh, they didn't we couldn't
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: you couldn't get it, so he bit on every round
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: and so this was like also a reason why we
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: went to the game, because like, you know, if you
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: can't go to World Cup, might as well go.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: To to the derby for sure.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: And it's crazy. I met a guy from Switzerland and
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: he told me it was super easy for him to
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: get tickets because he said that he just subscribed paid
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: two hundred year old and it's going to every Switzerland
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: game that they have in North America.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: So I was like, what am I doing when I
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: live here and I don't even I can't even get
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: a ticket.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: It's because they're trying to milk the North Americans for
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: their yeah, which is fucking wrong, but for being local
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: and having they think we're rich over here.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Franko, I don't know, but.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: This is clearly Aptino like trying to milk as much
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: money as possible for FIFA, Like it's I.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Think it's just proved that the FIFA is so corrupt,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Like it's it's beyond beyond that.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: That's all loose. Yeah, I know, but that's what's what's
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: the truck back up it?
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, these conversations if it's the cameras on. If
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: the cameras off, we know, we know we're going to
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: have a conversation with you. Frankly, that's that's that's a given.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: But just just back to the game before we kind
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: of move on to you know, a bit more.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Current current Melan or current city out whatever.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: But yeah, the game itself like what you saw on
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: the page, which obviously as a fan, you know, both
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: of us are fans of Milan, and you know, the
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: the debby is always a special game on the calendar,
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: no matter what it is, what the standings are, who's where,
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: what players.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: It's a deadby, it's it's a special game. Obviously.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: The the kind of the buzz around the game was,
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: you know, obviously if Inter wins scudetto is we can
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: call that kiss that goodbye. You know, Inter gonna run
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: away with it. Personally, I felt even before that game
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: it was pretty much out of reach. But yeah, yeah,
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: we can. We'll talk about that later. But they had
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: a chance, obviously to close the gap to seven points.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: If not, it was going to be a thirteen point gap.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: What you saw physically on the pitch in terms of
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: the game play, the estup goal, I know you mentioned
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: moderate a bit earlier off air, just your your your
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: your thoughts on the game itself and and what you
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: got to witness live instead of being on your couch
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: in front of a screen.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: So yeah, So the gameplay was was, like I said,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: very defensive. I think what set out to me was
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: the play of the midfield, in particularly defensive midfield. I
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: think modridg and Barella were both the keystones of both
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: their teams. I think that you know, every play, either
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: defensive or offensive play went through Modrid and and for
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: inter was Barella. I think that's what set out for me.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: I think the stupin goal was if you really break
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: it down, it was a really good set not not
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: set play, but I would say, yeah, yeah it was.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: It happened very quick, so it happened very fast and
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: it kind of started from nothing. So I think that
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: what stood out to me. I was like, wow, okay,
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: I didn't realize that that play could have even happened.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Uh So that was that was fantastic. I think that
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: you know, both teams were very they had a game plan.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Like he could tell, there was there were there there
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: was there was a lot of structure on both ends.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: I think Migno. That's how I say his name right
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: to go Mano, sir. So he he didn't let in
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: any rebounds. So even though he didn't have many chances
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: against I have to say he didn't. The ball wasn't
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: loose for very long like he was. He was pretty
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: much absorbing all those those balls, whether it was a
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: corner caick. So uh, he impressed me. Modrid impressed me,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: I think. I think who didn't impress me was Layout.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: I think he he lost a lot of balls, like
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: his first touch wasn't great. And I think that's what
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: you know. I've been following his career for a while now,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: and I think that's something that I was kind of
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: waiting for him to to do something special. I know
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: that he's not the most consistent player, but I know
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: for him it doesn't take with all the talent and
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: phil he has, I know it doesn't take much for
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: him to get to get one behind the net. So
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: I one in the net so uh, and that didn't happen. So, yes,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: he did get stubbed off, but I think before that
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: he didn't really he didn't even have a really good chance.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: What else, what else? I think, Yeah, that's pretty much
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: it Like I said earlier, Madrich, he he really impressed me.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: There's a play I don't know if you guys saw
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: a clip from that game or he had four guys
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: on him and head down and still got to pass
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: through and uh and it led to a good, good chance.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: So I think he really impressed me. I think I
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: think our young defenders to impressed me. I have to say,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: you know, the winter, Uh, you know, I liked the
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: way he played, you know, so so so I liked
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: him and yeah, overall I think obviously stup on the goal,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: but he he was playing well before that as well.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: But to beat in there, we needed to be on
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: our game, like you can tell, like we needed to
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: be uh you know solid you know, and some are
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: some are played good like give credit to him like
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: he he he had a good game. Just that goal
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: he had no he had no chance like you know
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: they they you know, he was in the box. And
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: so yeah, I think, like we said earlier, Aleg he
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: played it to a t. He wanted to play defensive.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: It doesn't always work, as you know, we've seen it
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: before where that style of play. You know, he can't
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: sit back for too long. But it worked, you know,
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: it worked. I think the other than Barrella, there wasn't
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: many inter players that were really taking too many chances. Yeah,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: they weren't taking too many chances, I think, you know.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: The kind of first thing was to keep possession. It
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: almost felt like we were playing Barcelona, you know, because
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: they were just keeping possession over possession. But yeah, we're
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: all not the most exciting game. But the goal I
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: have to say was a very strategic goal in the
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: sense that the ball was moving moved quickly, which didn't
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: happen too often in the game, and that's a o'reall
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: very structured defensive game.
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: So I noticed that, like a lot of people are
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: really changing their tutn Leo, and I'm somebody to say
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: after I as an outsider looking at I've always had
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: like like high regards for Leo. I always constantly try
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: to take him in my Fanta calcho, Like I know
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: that this man can on a turnat of a dime
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: just become one of the most like world class world
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: beater players if he wants to be. And I know
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: that one of his issues have been, uh, you know,
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: motivations or like when is he able to do that?
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: For Melan or not.
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: Do you feel that Milan's lack of a striker throughout
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: this because he always plays left left wing right.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken.
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: He always you know the fact that Melan has a
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: lack of a striker and he's got to make up
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: for that's probably one of the issues for him this season.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: Could it be maybe because under allegity, it just doesn't
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: suit his style, Like this season is obviously not his
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: best season. It's a bit off. Let's be like, I
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: don't I don't think it's is, but it is obviously
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: out of character, is it. I know you said that
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: he seems like he's you know, he's starting to be
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: off of it. Do you think it's just Leal being laut?
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: Could it be from a legacy? Could it be a
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: lack of a striker? What are your theories about his
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: performances this season so far for Milan? Because zign games left.
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: Obviously we're reaching the end, but you know at the checkpoint,
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: right like.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, I go first because.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: I might start breaking here, I don't know.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: But well I'll keep it short because like for me,
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: like to me, I think just his touches were off.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: I think that Obviously he has all the talent in
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: the world. He's played with with Ronaldo, you know, with Portugal.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: You know, he's kind of he's he knows how to
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: play with skilled players. He knows how to get into
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: good spots. I think, you know, I think we can
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: all agree that the most difficult thing to be as
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: an athlete is consistent. And I think that's where but
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: now we're I think the rope is getting or the
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: leash is getting a little tighter because he is what
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: twenty six years old? Yeah, so you know his his
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: prime is far yes, now it should be now exactly.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: So I think that that's where we're at right now
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: with as miland fans, is that we're waiting for something
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: to happen. We've been waiting for something to happen, and
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: because we know he has all the potential in the world,
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: and you know, and I think it could still happen.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: But obviously his lead is getting shorter and shorter because
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: now he's been with Milan at least three or four years.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: It's it's not more, it's so, what's coach to six?
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: Five, six, some of that seven maybe I'm not even
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: sure now.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: And I think you said it best like he's at
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: his prime right now, Like now is this should be
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: his prime? So I think, yeah, I was waiting for
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: something that never came. So that that's that's kind of
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: my whole summary of his play. But obviously I'm watching
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: I watched one game in person, and to be honest,
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: I haven't watched too many games on the on the
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: on the television, so but from what I see, he
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: he hasn't reached his full potential. That's that's that's what
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: I've I've noticed.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, No, listen, I think you you give some good points, Franko.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: Obviously he's been in the news lately. If if anybody
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: has followed Melan or saw the you know, the lots
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: mean game, obviously there was there was some some obviously
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: big disappointment right after the game that you did go
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: to Franko and watch live you know, the dead beat.
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: You know, we had a bit of I mean for
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: me personally, you know, as a fan, you kind of
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: always want to have that hope and and that that
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: you know, potential of overcoming something. Let's say with the
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: seven point with the guy closing the seven points with
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: inter slip up against Atlanta with the draw.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: To step up.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: You want, you know, want everybody to step up in
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: that game against Latso and and obviously you know we'll.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: Probably bleed into that.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: But that didn't happen obviously with the result one nil
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: uh to Latzo over the weekend. And you know, the
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: substitution earlier, early substitution of Leo has kind of been
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: going making the rounds, and obviously his reaction to the
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: substitution was being criticized heavily by pundits across the pond
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: on our side, people that do content in and in
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: and around our space. So which again and is meriton
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: for sure? For me, I'm a fan of Layo, so
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: I like him as a player. I like him as
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: a player, right, but are is he perfect?
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: No? What I saw in in that that would all
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: Know what you want to call it? Dust up with
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: leg And then they're saying obviously with Pulis as well.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: For me, the biggest.
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: Problem to bounce off of what Franco was saying with
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: Layo is is consistency.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: Like you said, that's that's number one. It's when he's on,
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: he's on.
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: When he's off, he's he's he's completely shut off. The
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: problem is that I have also with that is that
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: he's playing in a three five two formation and he's
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: not a striker, nor is Pusch. Now we're expecting these
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: players to produce at a level that we know they
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: can produce in their position. Not a choice, right, you know,
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: they're they're both wingers, you know, I know.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Probably for a long time.
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: So he's been on the team a long time, exactly right,
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: So they're not that was not a striker.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: You know, we always bitch and moan about Leal.
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: He doesn't show emotion, he doesn't show greenta, he doesn't
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: show character. He's walking. Is this the time he does
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: show a bit of emotion and a bit of you
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: know right that that that that fire?
• 49:18
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: You know he's getting bashed for it because it's coming
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: at a time where he's getting subbed off.
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: He doesn't want to get subbed off, and he's throwing
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: a tantrum like they.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: Say no sorry, adrenaline. Question. Is he the type of
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: player in your opinion that if you do start him off,
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: is he going to start to see the sense of
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: urgency You think he'll he'll have a response from him
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: if if.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: He starts, if he starts on the bench, starts off,
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: the off, the off, the like.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: If he's not a starter, he's not following if you
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: want to response from the following game. Is he the
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: type of guy? But you know, now, no things getting serious.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: But I do agree with you. I think that you
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: got to put him in the right spots.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah he's listen, he's not.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: I think he could come off the bench and be
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: an impact.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: But he's the number.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: He wears the number ten for Milan. He's not wearing
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: the number ten for with all due respect Pisa, right,
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: he's wearing the number ten for Milan, top player, top
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: dollar in terms of the finances for this player. And
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: he needs to produce and that's I'm not taking that
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: away from anybody that critsizes him, because I criticism too.
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: He should be producing more. But the guy is not
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: in his preferred position. We need to see that fire
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: when he's on the pitch, for sure, But I think
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: to play the other side of the coin, you know,
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: with Leao, it's you know, those are facts. He's playing
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: in a three to five to two position, which he
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: clearly does not like.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: He's clearly not a striker. He's he goes for runs.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: Nobody passes him the ball.
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: I know that was a big topic talk talking point,
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: and he kind of had a dust up with Puasich
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: that bled into the locker room. Apparently today, you know,
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: the last couple of days if they've kind of resolved it.
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: But you know, it's one of these things where you know,
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: you wanna, you want to work magic with you know,
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: you're and you're still trying to pull the rabbit out
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: of the hat, but you know that rabbit is not
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: coming out of the hat.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: It's one of these things.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: So and I could be wrong, but I think in
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: the city, because it's so defensive, being a striker is
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: probably the most or one of the most difficult.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, because they're on you right, like you know,
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: we always like to bash on on Vlaovich too right
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: for you. Obviously this season has been kind of our
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: nerrve because Jonathan David right, you know, like in the
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: past it was Valvis, now it's Jonathan David right, you know,
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: and back and forth.
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: Right. So, because in Italy they want you you're you're
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: you're up there, you're you're the striker. They want you
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: to score.
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: You need to put the ball in the back of
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: the net, for your fans to be behind you, for
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: you to have that confidence, for you to be loved
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: by by everybody. So they al is not producing that
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: in the same breath. I think he still has the
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: most goal contributions on the team.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: So it's at this point.
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: I forget how many, but you can pull it up.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know what I.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: Mean, who else do you have at this point?
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: Like who else do you have? Yeah, exactly hasn't scored
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: To take that opportunity, like, who do you have that's.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: Exactly the post hasn't scored in twenty twenty six. Yeah,
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: ful Krug is coming off the bench.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: He produces some sort of thing, but it's it's cut
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: and dry, you know in ku ku again, same thing.
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: So listen, I don't think this formation suits this team
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: with the players that they have to optimize their top qualities,
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: because we know pusch Leau. These guys are creative players
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: that can take a man on, that can that can
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: find can can find the net when they're in their position.
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: We saw it like it's it's it's no surprise, Like
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: it's no secret either, like we we.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: Know if they're in their position.
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: Not they're going to score every game, but they're going
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: to be more in the game and more productive. So listen,
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: I I see the I warrant the criticism online. I
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: don't blame him for being pissed off either in the
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: same breath, but again, you're a leader. You're supposed to
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: be one of the top players on this team. You
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: have to show that on the pitch. On the pitch
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: as well. You can't just throw these tantrums off when
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: you get subbed off. Again, I understand the frustration one
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: hundred percent, because, like I said, you're not in your
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: correct position. You're not you know, you're not getting serviced
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: from the players that are supposed to.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: Deliver you that service.
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: And you know, you get subbed off in the sixty
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: whatever it was, sixty fifth minute, not even in an
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: important match, which again can close the gap to something smaller.
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: I think it's could have been five point gap.
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: You know if with the intern now it's up to
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: eight and we're at nine games left, and you know
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: it's that slight hope that we maybe had is slowly
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: phizzling out. So again on lew actually I understand, but
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: at the same time he has to understand that he
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: wants to be the number ten. He wants to be
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: the face of the like we say in North American sports,
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: the face of the franchise. You have to deliver on
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: all fronts. And that's on and off the picture as well.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: So just to sum up, I'll make it very quick.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: Two things. One, we forget that on that goal of
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: a stupid and he had a touch, so he he
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: made it. He had a touch, you know. And and
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: and important for sure because it led to the goal.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: So that's so that's one thing. So just kind of
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: put a you know, uh, make it a little bit
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: more positive. And the and the other thing, uh, just
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: to make it a little funny, is which Ibramovich should
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: we put on that number ten role we got the
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: Do we bring back the old one? Do we bring
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: back maxim Do we put Maximilian his older son. Oh,
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: we even have Vinnie, I think all of his sons.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: He just you know, he has a management role now
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: He's like, let me just put all the sons in
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: the midline academy. So my question is which one do
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: we use? Now?
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: It's uh, you know what, I put my hands up.
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: We have a guy that come out that that don't
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: even optimize. So that's a whole other conversation for another day.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: I think, Franko, yeah, I know you're the expert, so
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: I'm glad I'm learning.
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: I remember the other day I looked up I looked
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: up Ibrahimovich because he's literally on the Melan fan page like.
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: All the time.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: He's interviewing a bunch of stars, and uh, and I said,
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: did you And then he said, did you know Vinnie.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: I'm like, who's Vinnie? Fernie has a has a son
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: named Vincent and so, and I found out they're all
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: on Milan like they have we have all this son.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, okay, there's a little corruption going on,
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: but it's.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: Okay, Franco. So despite the win, there's still eight points
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: behind Inter. I mean they kind of lost, not a
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: lot lost it.
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: This weekend, but they already lost.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they lost against Latsio this weekend, but they had
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: a chance to catch up just a bit. I mean,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Scudetto out of pretty much out of the question, right,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: and you know, you'll in top four.
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: The fifth place, and I think than they are of
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: the Scudetto.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, right, heels right now, not play. I believe there
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: was one point.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: One point, so so basically obviously mean fans, the goal
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: is definitely to finish top four, probably even finished top two,
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: you know, just to finish top two, right, champions, that's
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: what four, right, Yeah, that's what you want to see
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: the rest of the season.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, so you know, I think I could be wrong
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: at general, but it's still an improvement from last year, right,
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: because that's.
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: Last year was last it was a terrible year. We
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: finished what seven eighth six eight?
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: So yeah, so top four I think right now, it's
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: it's definitely a big improvement from last year.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: And that was the goal to right, to open the
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: to open the season.
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: That's what he said is the biggest target is top
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: four obviously as fans want more, especially that we were close,
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: uh you know with with the Scudetto, and so you
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: know it's for me just before you go on, Franko,
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: it will be a check mark, I guess in terms
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: of allegrities target.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: And the club's target, but we all know down deep
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: it's for Mela and it's or or or nothing.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, no, I agree with you one hundred percent.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: Uh maybe who knows, next year we can do the
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: opposite of inter right, we we we kind of finished
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: in the top four and then win all the events
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: like the Champions League and so, but when is the
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: last It's been a while we won a Champions League,
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: like early two thousand, seven thousand and seven.
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, last the Italian team hasn't been since twenty ten,
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: obviously into the traveling twenty ten.
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: So yeah, the Italian league as a whole. We haven't
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: seen some glory in Champions League in a long time.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: No, And I think, sorry, just to sum it up,
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: I think, uh, you know, we always compare to those
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: glory days, like you know, between A two, two thousand
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: and fivey ten. It'd be good, It'd be good for
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: the country, it'd be good for for everyone. I think
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: if we can have you know, a big if you
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: can have one of our teams in the international state,
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: for sure. Uh.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: I was gonna ask another question, but ark about glory days.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: This is actually a perfect transition because I did want
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: to talk about this with everyone. Guice eight DS.
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: I knew this was coming.
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: Got eight ds, Well when this when this gohoes live
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: and this air will be a week away.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Uh. Franco. First of all, well, not only for Franco. Everyone.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: How nervous are you, guys? Because me personally, I'm like
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: waking up and say, okay, X amount of days left? Okay,
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: when's the when's the call up list gonna come out?
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: There's been so many rumors Friday player, that player. Okay,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: it's Friday. Good to know. I'm I'm freaking nervous, guys.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you're feeling. Franko, I don't know you. Johnny,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know you seem like you keep busy, so
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: maybe you have your mind off of it. But I'm nervous, guys.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like not as confident as I should be. Maybe
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: I I wish I was a more confident. I think,
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: you know, the feats versus Macedonia and some of the
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: lower tier teams. You know, doesn't you know, kind of
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: scares me a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, it haunts me
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: exactly and scares me a little. I think our roster,
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: to our squad doesn't There's no one that really kind
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: of I think gives fear to the opponents. I have
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: to say, uh, Skamaka impressed me a little bit, and Atlanta,
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: but again him, you have to put him in right
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: spots like he's a he's a glorified poacher, like you
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: have to really feed him the ball. But he's a
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: pretty good finisher. So but but but Milan, Yeah, sorry,
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: Milan Italy. Yeah, it's it's it's it's been tough to watch.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: It's I have to say it's been tough to watch.
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: But honestly, I have hope. I think if we get
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: in there, there's we don't know what can happen, you know,
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: I think we just got to get in there. I
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: think in that group a uh, you know, it's a
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: pretty good group to be in. Uh, you know, because
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: all things considered, Canada, you know, obviously living in Montreal,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of hype for Canada. But I think
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: they don't have a lot of experience in the big stages.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: Uh so that might you know that that's gonna hurt
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: them a little. Morocco is a good team, so you know,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: I'm a bit afraid of them. But ultimately I think
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: we could win. We could win the group like we
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: could if we're in we could ruin it. I don't
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: care who we have on the roster. Uh, you know,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: we have, you know, so many guys that that want
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: like Buffon and some you know, I think even Bonucci's
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: in that in that management and that you know, we
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: have guys that that's been there before. Yeah, I got
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: to So we have guys that have been there before
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: that should guide this team, should you know, uh provide
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: them the like just let's just lead the way, you know,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: because I think there's a reason those guys are on
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: the team. Yet is the roster as good as it
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: once was? No, not even close. But I think that
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: you know, these are all guys that are the best
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: players on their respective teams, like all of them, Like
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: they're all, uh, you know, these are all like great,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: great players on their team, so we just have to
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: them to show on international stage. I think that the
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: last a lot of cohesiveness in the team. I don't know,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: if they just have to go out to get a
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: beer together, I don't know. I don't know what it is,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: uh improve the team morale, because you know, when you
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: watch a game and it's you know, like when I
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: see them getting angry at each other, that can just
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: be passionate. Like that doesn't necessarily mean there's hatred between players.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: I don't want to start rumors out there, but there's
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: there's missing, like you know, like when we talk about
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: guys like pyr Low and and you know, like like
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: some of the players if you look at two thousand
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: and six World Cup, like some of the players I
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: don't even know who they were going into the game,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: Like who is Grosso going into that game? Who is uh?
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: You know, yeah, who are these some of these players
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: like Massimo Odough you know who that guy was. But
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: they made the team and they showed up one I
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: count right, So it's like that's what they have to do.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: They have to realize that this is the biggest stage
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: they're ever going to play it, right, So it's like
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: that's what I want to see. I want to see
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: their best game because it's now or never. It's now
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: or ever. It's a beatable team. They're lucky that at
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: this point we're playing teams that we can beat. We're
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: not playing you know, France or you know England or
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: any of the top European teams. So let's let's let's
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: let's win these games.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 7: Johnny before I the sad news is that I don't
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 7: be able to watch the game because I was supposed
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 7: to coach a game for my bat and girls soccer
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 7: team on last Wednesday.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: But we had an ice storm.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 5: Ice storm. Oh yeah, it's like such an ice storm.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 5: That's again right, I got rescheduled.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: To this Thursdays.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: Sorry not this, Yar's next Thursday. So so how's your
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: team doing.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 5: We just beat hurt Celia today ten zero, So that
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: was nice.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: Nice, No, just putting it out there.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, uh no, No, my girls are good.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: We got a couple of double A players on the roster,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 5: which really helps a lot, especially when you play futsali.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 5: Their their passes that they make is just phenomenal.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: Are we really lost? H you're taking notes?
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 5: Of course, I don't know how to play soccer, so
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 5: I need I'm just kidding take notes to this year.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 5: All I know is that one day, if I actually
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 5: go for my coaching license, you know you'll see me
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: yell for on the touch line for.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: As long as we meet it we meet in the
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: final one day as coaches, and if that ever happens,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: we're going for a beer after, no matter no matter who, if, if,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: if it means anything.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 5: The only games that we've lost have always been by
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 5: one goal, and that one goal has always been an
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 5: only goal.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: So like an only goal.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 5: So just saying, I'm just saying, like my team, you know,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 5: and last season they.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: Didn't win a game.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 5: This year we're contending for the finals. So I'm just saying, I'm.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: Just saying that, Wait, is that Jian Year? Is that movie?
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: I can.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: Special one.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 5: If I speak, I would be in big trouble. Uh
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: but yeah, it's going very well.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: Excited for it. Uh. Now I have to also coach.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: The flag football team, so there's there they're putting. Yeah.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I love it.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: Like I coached, I helped out with the outdoor teams
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 5: for soccer, both boys and girls. I'm coaching the girls team.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 5: I'm helping out with their hockey program, like I'm assistant coaching.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: I got it's just a hockey program.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: It's like it's like it's like.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 5: A hockey youth hockey for youth. It's just like a
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 5: like a lot of the girls at the school that
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 5: never had an opportunity to play hockey growing up or whatnot.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 5: They get second donated second hand equipment blah blah blah. Yeah,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 5: yeada and we do. We get one hour free ice
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 5: time at the ray Borg Arena and uh on Fridays
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 5: and we do drills and we do scrimmages and stuff
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 5: with them, and I'm kind of teaching them like, oh, look,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 5: I'm in the offensive zone with the puck. Who's gonna
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 5: be here with me? What do I do?
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: Who do I?
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 5: Like just to give them, to develop them a bit
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 5: of sense of, you know, how to play the sport.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: Uh So I do that.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then now.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: Women too, from like Bauer and like don.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 5: It's it's all, it's all donated second and stuff. Sometimes
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 5: they get some good stuff. Sometimes it's not the it's
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 5: not the craziest thing, but it's still solid good.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: We had that at JFK as well when I was
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: on stage there, and yeah, it's good. You know it's
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: some of these players never saw ice before or never exactly.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: It's great exactly.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 5: And then now there's a flight football season starting up
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: and they want me to beat thisstant coach for the
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: girls team.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: So you're a busy guy.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 5: So that's why for me, I've been so distracted that
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 5: I'm like I'm all over the place. Obviously, just like
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 5: compounded this with like teaching and stuff. It's just my
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 5: brain is so out of it. Plus I deleted Twitter,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: like I still have an account, but like I deleted
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 5: the app up my phone because I realized it was
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 5: getting be too agitated too much. And I'm like, I
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 5: so I haven't really been like in the realm that
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 5: much as I used to what all those factors included.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 5: I'm not feeling too nervous about it, but I'm also
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 5: more negative thinking about it than positive thinking because of
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 5: just like you know, the history of well, yeah, when
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 5: we were in a situation, things don't go well, so
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: I might I don't have high hopes with the team
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 5: because you know, I've been disappointed before. So I'm not
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 5: holding my breath. But I hope they proved me wrong.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 5: I hope they proved me wrong about for me.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 4: Listen, we've spoken about it many times on the show.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 4: You know these are this is it's a must win.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: We have to be at the World Cup in June,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 4: Like there's no two ways about it.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: I don't care how we get in.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: We need to get in, like Franko said, and like
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: we all know, supporting Italy for as long as we
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: have Italy in the tournament is is just a different animal,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 4: Like anything can happen Nick, I know you have your
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: finger up.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: What's he pointing at his pointing out the jersey? There
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: it is, Yeah, I love it number one.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: It's okay, Nick, remember one?
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, four fucking stars that on that jersey. Right.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: So no, but in all seriousness again, I think I
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: said it previously, and I know we've said it just
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 4: as a trio here on the show.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: Uh, we have to we have to be there, we
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: have to get in there.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: It's there's no two ways about it, you know, Uh, Northern.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: Ireland and then it's what Bosnia or Bosia hearts Covina
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 4: and uh and Wales.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: If if we pass, there's playing one or two games.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: It's two games, right, so it'll be games. We have
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: to win two games exactly, and.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: We're playing Ireland again, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland, and then.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: We play the winner.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: Uh, then we'll play either so right Winter, Bosnia or
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 4: or Whales.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: So but yeah, again it's it's gonna be where it's
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: gonna be.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 4: Guys, Like, you know, I'm getting I don't know if
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: I'm more nervous.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: I know next time he's a bit nervous again.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: I think I'm getting like anxious, like like just that
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: anxious feeling of like it's so approaching, because I remember
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 4: we were speaking many moons ago and it was like, OK,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 4: yeah it's in March. We'll see you in March. And
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 4: you know, now March is here, and we had obviously
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 4: our friend Yacho last week and uh, you know now
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 4: now it's here, like it's it's gonna be a week
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 4: away when this airs.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: So listen. Obviously, the the.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 4: Recent injury bug, it seems with some of these Italian
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 4: players is kind of a bit of the news online
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: right obviously, So now he going down to today with
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: with a bit of a knock there, and in the
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 4: game against Barcelona he got stubbed out. Everybody's holding their breath,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 4: So that adds to the you know, the anxious feeling
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: and just maybe the nervousness a bit, because uh, if
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: it's not him, he's probably one of the top players
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 4: on the on on the roster. So I think we
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: need all hands on deck, We need everybody on board and.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: And whoever that is.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 4: And you know, the call up with I've been hearing
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: it Gatuzo is probably name it on Friday. Uh so
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: for us in two days time, when this airs, you
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 4: know that it'll be the following day.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 5: But.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: Accountable injuries right.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: Now, Yeah, well it's it's where you know, Delorenzo's out,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 4: which again for some people that's probably a plus. But
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 4: you know, uh, there's there's a whole list. I even
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 4: forget a bit of them. But you know, I got
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 4: you know, Leoni, if you would be.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: A call up, you know, uh.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 4: In the starting is like hasn't been really that big
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 4: of an impact, right, So again, I don't know who's
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 4: going to be called up for these players that are
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 4: you know, on the fence or injured.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: I know this might force.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 4: Maybe Gatuzzo to bring up and all up some of
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: these players that we want to maybe see on the roster,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 4: some of these younger talents.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: Why not, man if they if they show in practice
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: that they that they because in my like, from my
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: point of view, I think there's a lot of spots
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: that are open. I think there's a lot of spots
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: that are that you know, they're not confirmed by any means,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: I think other than Bastoni Brella like like Uma obviously
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: is you know a given, but I think those that
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: are two and and the rest you know just kind
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: of uh see a practice see who kind of shows
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: the you know, shows how hungry they are, shows mad
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: they want it. It's just crazy to say that, you know,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: so close to the World Cup that we're having like
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: almost a try out. But it is what it is.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: No, but you're you're, you're, you're right.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 4: And and again like I'm I'm curious to see who
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 4: will be called up? Uh what you expected to be
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 4: on Friday, I'm curious to see who he ends.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: Up calling up. And because I know whoever he calls up.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 4: Or whoever he doesn't, there's gonna be there's gonna be
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 4: talking points around it, like there will be things that
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: we said, that's exactly that's what that's what we know
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 4: how to do. So but again, whoever it is, you know,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: hatred or dislike of that player aside, the job still
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 4: has to be done, like it has to be done.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 4: And I just think I said a couple of weeks
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 4: scored or last week or whatever it was, I don't
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 4: care if they score off the head, off the shoulder,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 4: off the ass, off the back.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: Then express so it doesn't it doesn't matter.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 4: Maybe they need like the baseball team, they need the
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 4: espresso on the on the bench right to join the team.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: They need, they need the Espress.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: Have to play both Charlie for the whole ninety minutes, do.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: Whatever whatever it takes. Like we need to be, uh,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: we need to be at the World Cup.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: So again playing are they playing in Bertigamore actually.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 4: Inbed, Yes, yes, inbo so you know first hand with
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 4: that will be like Franco for winnessing a game there
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 4: so west and I think it's uh that it will
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 4: be a plus. I think being Inbedtigamo, I think it's
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 4: it's it's like still a neutral ish ground and uh
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 4: and a place where I think can be that intimate
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 4: feeling like you were mentioning earlier Franco kind of you know,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 4: united uniting all Italians at the stadium and everybody who's
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 4: gonna be watching.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: You knows across the world.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 4: So again anxious, excited, uh, maybe a little bit nervous,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 4: but at the end of the day, the job has
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 4: to be done. So for next Thursday will be the
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: first test and you know, hopefully it would be the
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 4: following Tuesday on the thirty first.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: To see who we play after that at three o'clock.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: Because of the time change.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, how fast are we finishing work on
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: that day.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like I said, I got to coach a game
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 5: right now afterwards, and my game's at three thirty, so
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 5: I'll be like on the bench by about micro on
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 5: the job.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: But yeah, Franko, Uh, you've known us for a long time.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: It feels like we could talk to you for another
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: three hours. Uh, we'll have to end it here. We'll
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: definitely have to have you on another time, my guy. Yeah,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: thank you, thanks for coming on. I know it's been
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: all the time coming. Like I said, you've known, you've
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: known us before we were the culture guys. So yeah,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: and ninety eight episodes. I know you're not so much
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: on on social media and all that, but I don't
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know if if. Usually what we do is
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: we ask people, Okay, do you have something to plug,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: if you have anything, shout out that you want to do.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: Frank I want to shout out my students. Shout out
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: you know my students. I have two students, Victoria and Chris.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: They asked me soccer questions every day and they actually
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: pressure me that, you know, keep up the date with
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: all soccer news, and so kudos to them, kudos to
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: the soccer team. We have a you know, we have
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: a big game coming up. I have to get rescheduled
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: like you, Jenny, due to the ice form. So you know,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: just Loy McDonald and and you guys. Shout out to
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: you guys for you know, I feel like we're into
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: Charles right now, just just uh setting a coronet or something.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: So it was awesome. Thank you so much for having
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: me on and anytime, guys, anytime love. I loved it
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: and like I said, I felt like I was in
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: the big leagues. And uh, you know it's true, it
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: really is. You guys do a great job and keep
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: doing what you're doing. And that's it. Guys. It was
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: great to see you.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: No, I listen, Franko, that that means the world honestly,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: not not only because I W'm not saying that because
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 4: you're a friend.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: Of ours, but it really means a lot because you know,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: not that we.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: Do this for all the gory and all the all
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 4: the accolades and and all that, but you know, just
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 4: to get you know, true heartfelt. Uh you know, words
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 4: of if it be encouragement or if it just being
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 4: whatever it is, you know, for us, it goes a
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 4: long way. So again we appreciate your time because we
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 4: know as having a fellow teacher on our on our
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 4: crew here with Johnny always being busy, we know what
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 4: it takes to kind of take some time out of
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 4: your schedule to uh to come on and just you know,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 4: shoot the ship and talk culture like we always do.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: So again, Bro, we appreciate your time. Uh and uh yeah, Man,
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 4: just happy to have you on.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: And hopefully it's not the last.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: That means a lot now, I love that honestly. You know,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: you could, you know, let me know any time and
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: I'll try to make time for it because it was
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: a blast. I think being on the podcast or hire
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: my own podcast anything to do with sports. Next year,
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: I'd like to start a sports club at the school too,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: So that's something that you know, I think we're all
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: passionate about. And yeah, thanks for having me on, guys.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 4: Absolutely man and uh West and guys, hopefully this is
• 1:15:53
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• 1:15:55
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• 1:16:06
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• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: I'm a rookie, so it's okay.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: It's okay, don't worry. You know, you know you can.
• 1:16:17
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• 1:16:52
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• 1:17:00
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• 1:17:02
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• 1:17:06
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• 1:17:09
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• 1:17:32
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