Episode 710 – The AFTN Soccer Show (Filling Up The Spaces Inside My Happy Head – Whitecaps reject Miami’s Blackmon bid, Camp Poutine, Canadian Soccer A to Z, Vancouver FC add five)
We’re back with another AFTN Soccer Show packed full of Vancouver Whitecaps, Vancouver FC, and Canadian men’s national team chat.
The big Whitecaps news of the week was them turning down a somewhat aggressive play from Inter Miami for MLS Defender of the Year Tristan Blackmon. We chat about the bid, Axel Schuster revealing that Miami wanted to pay for him in instalments, how it all seemed to play out in internet whispers, and what it means for the ‘Caps going forward. Plus we talk about WFC2 looking for a new head coach as Ricardo Clark heads south to become an assistant at Seattle.
Camp Poutine has kicked off in California for the Canadian men’s national team, with three Whitecaps attending. We look at the squad and ponder who from it are still on the bubble to make the World Cup squad and who have the greatest opportunities to impress and break into that squad before June.
All of this plus we talk Vancouver FC additions, move onto the letter B in our Canadian Soccer A to Z series, and music-wise, Television Personalities continue their residency as our Artists of the Month, The Mighty Lemon Drops are the latest band to feature in our 40th anniversary tribute year to the C86 movement, and we have another World Cup themed song in Wavelength.
Here’s the rundown for the main segments from the episode:
01.30: Intro – FA Cup drama, logging matches, calendar shoot
15.50: Canadian Soccer A to Z – B
26.30: CanMNT Camp Poutine and the battle for World Cup places
48.30: Whitecaps shun Miami’s Blackmon advances
74.00: WFC2 looking for a new coach
83.40: Vancouver FC confirm coaching staff and add three
102.35: Wavelength – The Pathetics – World Cup 2010
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Ali Ahmed’s transfer to Norwich city is absolute poetry. The Canaries Zach.
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Who are the top ten west coast media whores? This is a list with many candidates. Let your listeners and readers fill it. It would be great debate Michael? I’m sure you have a few names you’d like to put on as well. I’ve got my number one. I ask the listeners: Who’s number ONE?
Would love to hear your list first!