Episode 541 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Dig Out The Orange Ball - 2022 Christmas Special)

It's Chriiiiiisssssstmaaaaaassssss! The weather outside may be truly frightful, but fear not because we've got a bumper AFTN Soccer Show Christmas special to keep you entertained. There's fun, there's games, there's music, and there's lots of football and Christmas chat. You can play along with all the games during the show, including our latest Jeopardy rounds, which you can find the questions for HERE. We talk about the proposed expanded club World Cup coming in 2025. Could we see it held in the US and Canada? And with that in mind we have an early look ahead to the 2026 World Cup. Plus we delve into our all-time favourite World Cup mascots and shock results. All of that and we hear what Christmas is like in the Axel Schuster and Stephanie Labbe households, we talk about our favourite Christmas movies, and bring you three more songs from AFTN's 2022 Festive 15. Here's the rundown for the main segments from the episode: 01.36: Intro 07.15: Football Jeopardy 31.55: An Axel Schuster Christmas 44.23: Outburst - Football Edition (part one) 54.05: An extended Club World Cup for 2025 70.47: Christmas Movies Flash Five 91.27: Outburst - Football Edition (part two) 106.22: A Stephanie Labbe Christmas 111.13: An early look ahead to the 2026 World Cup 118.55: World Cup Shock Results Flash Five 135.53: 20 Questions - World Cup players 149.30: World Cup Mascots Flash Five 167.15: Wavelength - The Whitehawk Isolators - Christmas For All