Episode 734 – The AFTN Soccer Show (World Cup Preview Part Three with Thomas Müller, Rayan Elloumi, Deedson, and Asa Rehman)
We’re back with another AFTN Soccer Show packed full of World Cup chat and interviews, in the third and final of our preview shows for the tournament.
With the World Cup kick off just around the corner, we’re joined by Global TV’s Asa Rehman to look at how ready the Canadian team feels for the tournament, how they looked in their two recent friendlies, who we expect to get the start on Friday, and hopes and expectations against Bosnia and for the tournament as a whole.
We also bring you our final three group previews, as Zach breaks down Germany and Group E, Asa looks at the Netherlands and Group F, Doug Pirie and Gordon Henderson join us from the Scottish podcast Glory Days of Gold to look at Scotland and Group C, and we chat with FC Dallas’ Haitian winger Deedson about his country reaching their first finals since 1974.
Plus we chat with Thomas Müller about being a pundit and not a player at this year’s tournament, his advice to the Vancouver Whitecaps players heading off to their first World Cup, and bring back some South Africa 2010 memories for him with the help of that year’s Panini sticker album. We also sit down for a chat with Whitecaps 18-year-old striker Rayan Elloumi about the breakneck year he’s had, getting the call to Tunisia’s World Cup squad, and his own World Cup memories from tournaments past.
All of this plus we look at some of the IFAB rule changes for this year’s tournament, we move onto the letter Y in our Canadian Soccer A to Z series, music-wise, legendary Scottish band Deacon Blue continue their residency as our Artists of the Month, and we’ve got another new Scotland World Cup song in Wavelength.
Here’s the rundown for the main segments from the episode:
01.20: Intro – thanks to our Gold Tier members
05.00: Canadian Soccer A to Z – Y
10.45: It’s game time – is Canada ready?
37.40: Group E Preview – Curacao, Ecuador, Germany, and the Ivory Coast
60.00: Thomas Müller talks World Cup memories and his new role as a pundit
67.45: Group F Preview – Japan, Sweden, The Netherlands, and Tunisia
89.00: Rayan Elloumi interview on his first World Cup with Tunisia
108.00: Group C Preview part one – Brazil, Haiti, Morocco, and Scotland
130.25: Chat with Haiti winger Deedson
135.35: Group C Preview part two
160.55: Rule changes and new laws of the game at this year’s World Cup
177.10: Wavelength – Belle and Sebastian – It Only Takes One Lion
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