Episode 727 – The AFTN Soccer Show (The Chance Of Defeat Is Not In My Nature – Whitecaps dominate Colorado, More #SaveTheCaps chat, Ranko Returns, Nikola Djordjevic, Liam Mackenzie, MLS and CPL round-ups)
We’re back with another AFTN Soccer Show packed full of Vancouver Whitecaps, Major League Soccer, and Canadian Premier League chat.
It was an emotional night at BC Place on Saturday. The Whitecaps wrapped up their last home game for three months with another win, as hundreds took part in a prematch #SaveTheCaps march. We pick over the bones of the game and look ahead to the grueling eight-game away swing the ‘Caps now face before they return back home in three months time and how Jesper Sorensen might approach these games in term of squad rotation. The latter is helped by the return of Ranko Veselinovic and we chat with the Serbian centre back after he play his first game in over nine months with WFC2.
We talk a lot more about the #SaveTheCaps campaign in this week’s show as well, as more concerning murmurs come out around a relocation of the team to Las Vegas, and Whitecaps Brian White and Tristan Blackmon share their perspective of what it’s like being a player on the team with all of this chatter around.
We have three interviews with you this week as well as we catch up with three young guns. Two Whitecaps, Nikola Djordjevic, who made his first team debut last week, and Liam Mackenzie, who is lighting it up with WFC2 after his return from injury. We also catch up with former Vancouver FC player James Cameron after his move to Colorado Rapids 2.
All of this plus we round up the weekend action in MLS and the CPL, move onto the letter R in our Canadian Soccer A to Z series, music-wise, Inspiral Carpets wrap up their residency as our Artists of the Month, We’ve Got A Fuzzbox and We’re Going To Use It are the latest band to feature in our 40th anniversary tribute year to the C86 movement, and we’ve got a York City song in Wavelength to celebrate their dramatic return to the Football League.
Here’s the rundown for the main segments from the episode:
01.21: Intro chat – a week of late goals drama!
11.10: Canadian Soccer A to Z – R
22.50: Whitecaps wrap up home stand with just three points dropped
32.00: #SaveTheCaps march draws big numbers
44.00: Whitecaps dominant once again in win over Colorado
63.35: Eight games on the road now awaits Whitecaps
69.43: Ranko Veselinovic interview after his return to the pitch with WFC2
76.00: Colorado’s Matt Wells’ postgame thoughts
89.20: MLS round-up
103.40: More #SaveTheCaps chat
111.11: Nikola Djordjevic interview and discussion
124.05: Anyone Fancy A Chocolate Digestive – Nikola Djordjevic
126.45: Liam Mackenzie interview
132.48: James Cameron interview
143.00: CPL round-up
161.30: Wavelength – Chuitar – It’s Going To The Wire
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