The Soccer Thread Podcast

MLS IS BACK tournament might be starting soon, if there are healthy players to play in it. Liverpool won the league, but we've known that since November. But thank god for Mourinho.

There was a bit of soccer in Germany, there was an email about food and drink. Mostly I'm just surprised we didn't get into debates about Klement's vs. Usinger's but maybe we can get back around to that next week.

Soccer is back and now we're all Bundesliga fans. Hurray!

It's about coming fru dat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvB3Ec1dvTg

We watch a classic, the 2011 World Cup quarterfinal between the USA and Brazil. Hope Solo was good, Wambach was better than we remember somehow, and Marta was the best of all. But best of all, we find out we have a new listener!

Dan gives us a great warmup, featuring sober Mike vs. not-that-sober Colin in a memory contest, then we transition into tiki taka after watching the "manita" Barca 5-0 over Madrid in the Camp Nou, fall of 2011. This pod is too long but you have nothing better to do, do you? Don't be coy, we know you aren't doing shit.

Next week we are watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAbX7wld9vg

Happy Easter, Happy Passover, and Happy Social Distancing. Welcome to the church of early 90's soccer. We finally watch a game of soccer that is mostly shit, and somehow that makes us happier than anything. May your haggadahs be liberal and your water bottles spiked. Amen.

No actual pod here, just giving you the link for this week's re-watch: 1990 WC R16 matchup, Brazil v Argentina. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3DDJXfOBP8

You can't stop us from talking about eaglets, but you can make us talk about other things too. This week: 1970 World Cup final, which turned out to be a pretty good watch for a men's league game.

Colin's gone, but the rest of us manage to talk plenty anyway. Reading vs Listening, Messi vs Eto'o, Ronaldinho vs Salgado.