May 19, 2025

Episode 672 – The AFTN Soccer Show (Glad All Over - Whitecaps draw in Austin, Bjorn Inge Utvik, Can Champ preview, troubled times for BC's CPL sides, FIFA Congress)

2 hours 42 minutes

We’re back with another AFTN Soccer Show packed full of Vancouver Whitecaps, Major League Soccer, Canadian Championship, Canadian Premier League, and general football chat.

The Whitecaps put in their worst performance of the season, but still came away with a battling point in a scoreless draw down in Austin. We delve into the main talking points coming away from a match that was an off day for many and unfortunately all in the same game. A mere blip or some cause for concern that the brutal schedule is catching up with the 'Caps ahead of their CONCACAF Champions Cup final?

That schedule continues apace as the 'Caps kick off their quest for a Canadian Championship fourpeat in Winnipeg. We preview the Valour game and hear from their head coach Phillip Dos Santos. Plus we sit down for a chat with the man whose penalty in last year's Voyageurs Cup final clinched the vital victory that set up this year's historic Champions Cup run, Bjorn Inge Utvik. We chat with Bjorn about that spot kick, the tournament, the cup run, having a fellow Scandinavian as head coach, and life in Vancouver.

Plus we round up all the week's action in MLS and the CPL, look at the FIFA Congress coming to Vancouver next year, and music-wise Scottish band Baby Chaos continue their residency as our Album of the Month, we've a Britpop classic from Pulp, and we celebrate Crystal Palace's historic and joy-inducing FA Cup win in Wavelength.

Here’s the rundown for the main segments from the episode:

01.27: Intro - East Fife are going up and a lot to make us glad

12.10: FIFA Congress coming to Vancouver in 2026

18.05: Whitecaps fail to impress in scoreless Austin stalemate

39.46: MLS round-up as results good for Vancouver

57.07: CPL review - record crowd and teams in trouble

108.51: Britpop discussion - Pulp

114.40: Whitecaps face Valour in Canadian Championship

129.30: Bjorn Inge Utvik interview

140.50: Crystal Palace's FA Cup win a joy for fans of unfashionable teams

151.06: Wavelength - Doc Brown - OMG (One More Game)

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