Episode 755 – The AFTN Soccer Show (You Know It Isn’t Finished Yet – Whitecaps’ records continue to fall, MLS playoffs set, CPL playoff round-up, University soccer nationals)
We’re back with another AFTN Soccer Show packed full of Vancouver Whitecaps, Major League Soccer, Canadian Premier League, and university soccer chat and interviews.
The Whitecaps’ best-ever MLS regular season wrapped up this past weekend with a comfortable victory in Montreal. We pick over the bones of that one, look at all the Whitecaps club records that went tumbling this year, and cast our eyes over the MLS playoffs to come after the dust has settled on a dramatic Decision Day and the match-ups are now known.
It was also a dramatic weekend in the CPL. We look at the big talking points coming out of the two semi finals and give our picks for the end-of-season CPL awards.
It’s a big week for university soccer here in BC as the province hosts both the men’s and women’s U SPORTS national soccer championships. We look ahead to the men’s tournament to come in Victoria and chat with UBC Thunderbirds’ head coach Mike Mosher and standout forward Henri Godbout. While on the women’s side we chat with UBC head coach Jesse Symons, Thompson Rivers Wolfpacks’ Mark Pennington, and Trinity Western Spartans’ Graham Roxburgh ahead of the women’s championship in Vancouver.
Music-wise, we’ve decided not to go for an Artist of the Month for November, and will round the year off with more selections of songs from C86 bands, this time featuring The Pastels, The Mighty Lemon Drops and The Bodines while we have a song about Millwall in this episode’s Wavelength.
Here’s the rundown for the main segments from the episode:
01.22: Intro – wild weather, foggy FA Cup, Scotty Arfield’s black and gold army, thanks Gold Members
10.10: Belal Halbouni – you got this
16.00: Whitecaps see more club records tumble
22.00: ‘Caps cruise to Montreal win
51.45: MLS playoffs are set after dramatic Decision Day
71.25: Whitecaps News of the Week – jerseys and international call-ups
79.35: CPL semis create talking points galore!
109.10: CPL end of season awards – our picks
119.40: It’s U SPORTS soccer nationals week here in BC
152.25: Wavelength – Mark Gorman – No One Likes Us
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