In this episode, Joe and Rob start off by chatting up Matthijs de Ligt when he was asked if he preferred Manchester City or Barcelona (2:45). We then immediately welcome in Guardian Australia’s Ante Jukic to discuss Germany’s recent stumble, Usain Bolt’s footballing success, and the Croatian National Team including the great Luka Modric (3:30). We finally get to present our trivia question surrounding the Women’s World Cup on the heels of the US Women’s National Team qualifying for France 2019 (23:50). In Opening Thoughts, we discuss the firing of Leonardo Jardim and the hiring of Thierry Henry at Monaco (24:30). We then jump into our other topics on the night including a 2 for 1 on Messi being offered a contract at Manchester City, as well as the comments on him by Diego Maradona (29:50), and the news that it appears that the Columbus Crew have been saved by the Haslem family, and how that could effect MLS expansion, as well as entry into a combined Liga MX/MLS and possible Copa Libertadores competitions for other MLS teams (34:35).  We give you a host of matches to watch this week (40:15). We close with the trivia answer (43:10) and a preview of next week's show.