Lobbing Scorchers is a Seattle Sounders and MLS focused show brought to you by Sounder at Heart. Hosted by Major League Soccer's Ari Liljenwall and Producer Noah Riffe. Join us as we lob our scorching takes on the American soccer landscape, Seattle Sounders, Major League Soccer, USMNT and more.
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Noah talks with Femi Awodesu, a Houston Dynamo defender and former Penn State Big Ten Defender of the Year who went undrafted and now into the starting lineup. Femi talks about life, Nico Lodiero, and making YouTube content on his off time. Follow Femi: https://www.youtube.com/@femiawodesu SPONSORS Haxan Ferments - Specializing in unique, small-batch fermented hot sauces and vinegars, Haxan Ferments is handcrafted in Georgetown and made with the best local ingredients from across the Pacif...
Ari and Noah dissect the Seattle Sounders' devastating 3-0 loss to San Diego FC, analyzing lineup choices, defensive failures, and overall game management. They explore potential roster solutions, discuss the performance of key players like Jesus Ferreira, and debate whether San Diego is the league's best team. The hosts also weigh in on Craig Weibel's performance as GM and entertain the idea of signing a big-name player like Kevin De Bruyne.
Tom Bogert joins Lobbing Scorchers to discuss the Seattle Sounders, Ryan Kent's signing, and the team's current form. The conversation covers Pedro de la Vega's injury issues, Jesus Ferreira's role, and concerns about Seattle mirroring Sporting Kansas City's struggles. Bogert also shares his thoughts on Peter Vermees' departure from Sporting KC and the Club World Cup charity match.
Ari and Noah dissect the Seattle Sounders' draw against San Jose, focusing on tactical adjustments, player performances like Rothrock and Rusnak, and the ongoing debate around Ferreira's role. They analyze key moments, including Rusnak's equalizer, and discuss the team's overall performance, highlighting both positives and negatives. The episode also covers MLS news, including a potential Club World Cup spot, and Sporting Kansas City's struggles.
Cory Hinthorn, GM of West Seattle Junction FC, discusses the team's values, player development, and rivalry with Ballard FC. He emphasizes community involvement, affordable access to soccer, and the impact of potential pro/rel in US soccer. He shares insights into team strategy, player recruitment, and the club's mission to provide opportunities for aspiring pros.
Ari and Noah dissect the Sounders' scoreless draw, highlighting missed opportunities and injury woes. They also dive into a heated debate about the USMNT's performance and potential new signings, including Ryan Kent. The hosts also cover winners and losers from around MLS, adding their signature scorching takes.
Ari and Noah dissect the Seattle Sounders' recent loss to St. Louis, questioning Jesus Ferreira's performance and discussing key moments. They debate lineup decisions, analyze referee calls, and address the team's overall performance amid injuries. The hosts also delve into MLS executive opinions on the Club World Cup and potential rule changes to encourage team spending.
The hosts review Seattle's dominant win against LAFC and their disappointing Champions Cup exit, discussing key player performances, injuries, and tactical issues. They also analyze winners and losers from around MLS and feature a blazing hot coach press conference.
Ari and Noah dissect the Seattle Sounders' recent loss to Real Salt Lake, focusing on an own goal and overall team performance. They debate Nouhou's value amid criticism, assess the team's depth, and preview the upcoming CONCACAF Champions Cup match against Cruz Azul. Other MLS results are reviewed, with shout-outs to the show's sponsors.
Ari and Noah recap the Seattle Sounders' 2-2 draw against Charlotte FC, analyzing goals, key moments, and the unfortunate own goal. They discuss team strategy, individual performances, and fan reactions, while also looking at other MLS results and a fiery coach press conference. The hosts debate the team's overall performance and future prospects.
Concacaf Champions Cup is off and running and the Seattle Sounders are off to a roaring start after Wednesday’s 3-1 Leg 1 triumph in Guatemala. Can anyone stop the FC Dallas boys? Did we just witness Pedro de la Vega’s breakout? We discuss that and more in our very first Dub Pod of 2025. Later on, we hit an Agenda Check that might ruffle some feathers among the anti-Craig Waibel community and hit a couple of other Sounders-related headlines, including rumors linking Obed Vargas to the Ered...
The Seattle Sounders’ preseason is officially a wrap after a pair of scrimmages against Louisville City FC. With just one week left until the real games start, we hit one last preseason game review and dive into our broader takeaways from an impressive training camp that saw the Sounders score 19 goals. Elsewhere in MLS, we have an exciting blockbuster trade as the Lucho Acosta-Evander saga has officially been resolved, giving FC Dallas a new superstar and leaving the Portland Timbers in a tough...
After a brief hiatus, Ari is back from Mexico and we are back with some more coverage of the Seattle Sounders and MLS offseason. The Seattle Sounders are in Spain and have played a couple of preseason matches and Pedro de la Vega is cooking, giving us a chance to do our first unofficial game reviews of 2025. Later on, we discuss whether the Sounders should be playing in the US Open Cup and dive into some juicy headlines from around MLS. SPONSORS Haxan Ferments - Specializing in unique, small-bat...
We are back with another offseason episode as the beginning of the 2025 season draws nearer. With the Jesús Ferreira and Paul Arriola trades now official, we grade Seattle’s offseason thus far based on all their moves to date. We also have a handful of headlines from around the league, including more transfer movement, a couple of new coaching hires, and chaos and turmoil engulfing Austin FC. Donate to LA Fire Relief: https://www.gofundme.com/f/lafc-podcast-raising-money-for-la-wildfire-victims&...
We are back with another offseason episode as the 2025 season draws nearer. Have the Seattle Sounders painted themselves into a corner with their recent roster decisions? We discuss that topic, along with some thoughts on the future of Obed Vargas and a silly season rumor linking the Seattle Sounders to Marcus Rashford. SPONSORS Full Pull Wines. Become a paid subscriber to Sounder at Heart. Follow Lobbing Scorchers: YouTube Instagram TikTok Ari Liljenwall Noah Riffe Lobbing Scorchers is a produc...
We are back with an offseason episode with some headlines around MLS to cover, including a new sporting director for Atlanta United with Seattle Sounders ties. We also update the Seattle Sounders’ ongoing pursuit of an FC Dallas duo and give our thoughts on the team’s offseason to date. With the release of the 2025 MLS schedule, be sure to tune in to the Lobbing Scorchers YouTube on Friday at 7:30 pm ET for our live reaction show! **JOIN US FOR OUR YOUTUBE LIVE STREAM ON FRIDAY** SPONSORS Full P...
Seattle Sounders forward Jordan Morris joins Noah for this special episode to talk about his work off the field with the Jordan Morris Foundation and his mission to support and inspire kids living with Type 1 diabetes. Then we chat about the 2024 season, the emergence of a new persona, and his 2025 ambitions with the Sounders set to participate in the Club World Cup. SPONSORS Full Pull Wines. Become a paid subscriber to Sounder at Heart. Follow Lobbing Scorchers: YouTube Instagram TikTok Ari Lil...
MLS Cup 2024 is a wrap and we’re back with our first offseason episode. Lobbing Scorchers was on the ground in Los Angeles for the title match, and returns with some tales from the New York Red Bulls beat and postgame locker room. We do our game review and give the LA Galaxy their due, then hit some of the early offseason items as the focus shifts to 2025! SPONSORS Full Pull Wines. Become a paid subscriber to Sounder at Heart. Follow Lobbing Scorchers: YouTube Instagram TikTok Ari Liljenwall Noa...
The Seattle Sounders season is over after their 1-0 loss to the LA Galaxy at Dignity Health Sports Park in the Western Conference Final. We lay down one last L Pod of the season with Sounder at Heart overlord Jeremiah Oshan from Los Angeles as he joins us for our game review, Agenda Check and your questions. In another exciting development, we also successfully fired up our first-ever Lobbing Scorchers postgame live stream! Stay tuned for more of those this offseason and in 2025. SPONSORS Full P...
Ari and Noe recap the Seattle Sounders' epic 2-1 victory over LAFC in the Western Conference semifinals, highlighted by a Jordan Morris game-winner. They break down key moments, discuss player performances, and preview the upcoming Western Conference Final against the LA Galaxy. The episode also covers MLS coaching changes and listener questions.
After a bit of downtime during the international break, we are back at it in a big way with a jam-packed episode. A lot has happened since our last show, including the demise of Inter Miami, Lionel Messi and Tata Martino as part of a Round One that saw all three of the top three seeds in the East eliminated. Meanwhile the Seattle Sounders are training ahead of this Saturday’s Semifinals matchup against LAFC who they will play for the approximately 27th time across all competitions this season. W...
With Noah out of commission for the week, Ari wins yet another battle for technology and lays down the Solo Dub Pod coming off the Seattle Sounders’ Round One Best-of-3 Series victory over the Houston Dynamo. As always, he hits our Agenda Check and takes your questions, before reacting to a wild slate of results from the start of the playoffs, including a highly comedic defeat for our friends the Columbus Crew. SPONSORS This podcast was made possible through the support of Full Pull Wines. Becom...
It’s a Playoff Dub Pod as the Seattle Sounders won a riveting, high-octane Round One Best-of-3 series opener against the Houston Dynamo at Lumen Field on Monday night. That gives the Sounders a 1-0 lead ahead of Game 2 in Houston on Sunday. We break it down in our game review, take your questions, hit our agenda check and react to the other results that have taken place around the league so far in the playoffs SPONSORS This podcast was made possible through the support of Full Pull Wines. Become...
It’s not every day your arch-rival has one of the most catastrophic meltdowns in MLS history, but the Portland Timbies did exactly that in the Wild Card round of the MLS Cup Playoffs. We break down the fine points of their 5-0 defeat to the Vancouver Whitecaps, Evander’s postgame tweets and Phil Neville and Ned Grabavoy’s blazing hot press conference. After that we go through our playoff brackets and make our picks on who we think will make it to MLS Cup. SPONSORS This podcast was made possible ...
It’s a Draw Pod as the Seattle Sounders closed their 2024 regular season with a 1-1 Decision Day draw against the Portland Timbers. We’ll break that down in our game review, hit our final regular-season agenda check and bring on special guest Max Bretos voice of LAFC and Apple TV announcer for a playoff preview. Follow Max: YouTube Twitter Soccer OG Podcast SPONSORS This podcast was made possible through the support of Full Pull Wines. Become a subscriber to Sounder at Heart. --- Follow Lo...
The Seattle Sounders but we still threw together an arguably-too-long pod, starting with going over this year’s 22U22 rankings. We then tackle the end-of-season awards discourse, with Ari realizing mid-pod that he was going to change multiple of his votes. Those two things took up pretty much the whole thing, but we briefly preview some Decision Day action and shoutout Obed Vargas for his first senior El Tri cap. Paul Rothrock Story: https://sounderathe.art/kShzLR This podcast was made possible ...
Ari and Noah recap the Seattle Sounders' victory over the Colorado Rapids, discussing key players like Rusnak and De La Vega, and debate whether Brian Schmetzer deserves Coach of the Year. They analyze the team's playoff chances, Rusnak's stats versus Nico Ladero, and address listener questions, while also diving into MLS news and a coach firing.
We’re back with one of the best Dub Pods of the season as the Seattle Sounders obliterated the Vancouver Whitecaps 3-0 at BC Place in Matchday 36. Georgi scored his first MLS goal. Albert Rusnak has 15 assists. And Paul Rothrock continues his ascent into the Major Leagues Soccer elite. We break it all down in our game review, hit our Agenda Check, take your questions and discuss Inter Miami clinching the Supporters’ Shield. Support the show by subscribing to Sounder at Heart and get 1 FREE month...
We’re back with a good, solid Dub Pod as the Seattle Sounders took on the Houston Dynamo at Lumen Field and emerged with a 1-0 victory. The Sounders are officially headed to the playoffs and Paul Rothrock got a game-winner, which we break down in our game review. After that we hit our Agenda Check, take your questions and close out with some takes on the other results from Matchday 35. Support the show by subscribing to Sounder at Heart and get 1 FREE month! This podcast was made possible throug...
It’s an unfortunate Draw Pod this week as the Seattle Sounders relinquished a last-minute lead in Wednesday evening’s 2-2 result against the mighty San Jose Earthquakes. We break down the defensive lapses that led to the pair of unfortunate concessions in our game review but also celebrate some more red-hot form from Jordan Morris. Later on in the show we also hit our Agenda Check, take your questions, highlight our Blazing Hot Coach Press Conference of the Week and talk winners and losers from ...
