Com. Do you live from our Elliot Avenue studios of Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. This is Saunders Weekly with your host Jackson Felds. Well, good evening, everybody, Welcome into Sounders Weekly. Jackson Felds here for the next hour talking all things Seattle, Sounder, ZEPC, soccer and local soccer. Lots to go over tonight. We will react to what happened this last Saturday. Of course, we will visit with Ari Lillian Wall of MLS
soccer dot Com and Andrew Harvey r Putis on Soccer Expert. They'll be coming up towards the end of the hour to take us around the league and around the sound special chance today to talk to an Apple TV broadcaster, the former voice of the New York Red Bulls, who the Sounders are going to be facing coming up this Saturday back at Loumin Field. I'll give you broadcast details on that in a moment. Steve can Jelosi is the play by play voice
for Apple TV, one of their many voices. Former voice of the New York Red Bulls will be in town this Saturday for Sounders and New York at Looman Field, so we'll talk to Steve coming up here in about twenty twenty five minutes and look ahead to this Saturday's match. Details on that very quickly. Sounders hosting New York. It's going to be a seven o'clock Providence, Swedish prematch show and a seven thirty kickoff, and not only this match,
but a lot of matches, most matches coming up through the summer. We'll be on ninety three point three FM, this station you're listening to right now, so stay tuned. You keep your dial too and set your preset ninety three point three FM. They will have your Sounders matches for the foreseeable future. I'll always say if there's something different, stay tuned to this show on Tuesday's at seven, stay tuned to my Twitter at Jackson B Felds, and
I'll tell you if if it's anything different. But as far as I'm told, expect Sounders matches on ninety three point three KJR FM coming up here, including this Saturday's match once again seven o'clock Providence Swedish pre match seven thirty kickoff. Now you can gear tickets to this match if you want to go SOUNDERSFC dot com slash tickets Sounders FC Soccer is presented by Providence, Swedish official healthcare partner of Sounders FC. You can also watch the match that Steve is calling
who's joining us here in about twenty minutes. You can watch his broadcast and his call on MLS Season Pass on the Apple TV, and of course is always listen in Spanish language on l Ray thirteen sixty. But listen. We need to just start and react to what happened last Saturday in Vancouver. I will quickly say that Sounders FC Soccer is presented by Providence, Swedish official healthcare
partner of Sounders FC. So let's dig into it because this wasn't pretty, and it wasn't fun, and it's not gonna be fun to talk about. But you know, if you listen to our postgame show, myself, Michelle Ludka, Keiley Dunning, andrews Hurst, we reacted what I thought was in a fair and harsh tone, which was the only tone that I think that this game deserved because the Sounders losing to nothing in Vancouver in a match where I mean I sent the gift out on my Twitter of a sloppy Joe's because
in the first half it was extremely sloppy. Both sides were extremely sloppy. A couple chances for each side in the first twenty five or so minutes of this game. Sounders had a great chance in the third minute. Corner comes in Gomez Andrade's header goes just wide right. That was probably Seattle's best chance all day. Another chance came about twenty minutes later. Oriyaga came down with a corner kick after it was headed from Freddy Montero. Ori Yaga shot went
well wide. But I mean that's two chances in the first twenty minutes and that was it. The Sounders go down one nothing. Vita As scores in the forty fourth minute, right before the halftime. Obviously, as with any goal before a half, that's gonna make the team really down going into the break. But then they come out of the break and again Seattle just didn't
wake up. Fifty eighth minute, Ryan Gold scores a goal. I think it might have been officially called an own goal for Stephen Fry, but you know, credit to Ryan Gold. He put it in this really tight corner right at the near post, and then Stephen Fry's leaping hand, so that
was the goal that made it too nothing. But then we get into the last thirty two minutes of this game plus stoppage, and this is where there are big issues because Sounders at that point down to nothing, and I mean Steve Zaguani set it up quote you can accept a loss, but sometimes it's more about the way you lose. And they way that this Sounders team lost on Saturday in Vancouver was extremely frustrating and disappointing because when they went down to
nothing, there was no hope, no belief. Vancouver continued to dominate in all areas made Vancouver. I wouldn't say they took the foot off, but the Whitecaps just continue to have complete control of that match. Well up to nothing duels won. They obliterated Seattle in that category, and there really was just no energy in that second half after the Sounders went down to nothing.
And I understand it's a two nothing lead, but I mean I'll count that by saying too nothing is supposed to be the most dangerous leading soccer, right, And the Sounders looked like they just was like, all right, we're down to nothing, games over, we have lost. That was extremely disappointing the way that that team played, and I mean, you look at the first you know, sixty minutes of that game, and the fact that even when it wasn't too nothing, they're just it was sloppy. It didn't look
like you had a lot of energy involved in that game. Brad Evans had the tweet that he sent out, which I know got a bunch of run on social media, and in case you missed it, I don't know what or who this is referring to, but he tweeted out during the game, I will say, if you don't want to play, then just tell the coach. No idea who that's referring to, but you know, I would just kind of echo that, Yeah, there looked to be a lack of energy, a lack of caring, especially when you went down to nothing.
And Andrew's first our board operator for Saturday Saturday's broadcast. I think he nailed it on the postgame show when he said this was a Cascadia Cup match, This is supposed to be a rivalry match, where the heck was the rivalry? I mean it's sort of like Brian Schenzer said after the four to one loss of Portland, I don't feel like this felt like a rivalry game. Isn't Vancouver also a rivalry. Isn't this supposed to also be a Darby? And it just it never felt like that. Even from the jump, it
didn't feel like that. And when you went down to nothing to a rival and it just didn't look like I mean, I don't know, it's just it's massively frustrating. Steve Zakwani said, never really believed that they could get back to two two. I mean he said the words it kind of laid down after the second goal, and I really saw that as well. And it's just, you know, come on, guys, I mean, at this point, you look at what's happened in the last five games. The
last five games, they have one win and four losses. The loss to Kansas City at home, the loss in the Open Cup at LA. You got the one nothing win at Houston that was thankfully because you went two men up in the seventy somethings minute, so you finally get a win out of that because you were two men up. Loss at Austin last Wednesday, which was massively frustrating, and then loss at Vancouver. I mean, this is
a really bad stretch right now, one and four. This needs to change now, and whatever it is a spark, some sort of care something from this team. I mean, there's a lot that they're missing, and we can get into the injury situation in a moment, but this is gonna take more than just you know, getting guys healthy to get back at it. And with that, I'll let me play this comment here from Steve Zakiwani.
This was during the game. It was about the eighty ninth minute he made these comments and when I heard these from their call in Vancouver, my ears stood at because I think Steve Zacciwani nailed it on the call on Saturday night, as it sound as seemed. At some point you expect to bring back Christian Rodunn, Rahl Ruie Diaz. Yes, you'll be a different team team, but still way too much quality and depth in this group to have the run of results they've had. And it's also not just the result, it's
the performance. The performance level has dropped significantly since the staff the season. It's not one player or two players, it's multiple players. You have a level on the field. If two or three off, you can still win. When it's five, six, seven, eight, not at the best. It becomes very hard in MLS to not only win to let alone get a draw. And that's what we're seeing, Lady. Too many guys having knights off at the same time, and that's how in the team right now.
I think Steve Zakiwani nailed it right there. Too many guys are having nights off, and on Saturday in Vancouver it felt the entire team had an off night. I didn't see a great performance by anybody, and that is a scary scary thing because yes, you look at the injury situation right now. I mean, yes, Leo Chiu knew who back, but Christian rolled on still in concussion protocol. Team's obviously taking the long term approach on that.
So we will see about Christian. I've seen him around. He's in good spirits, but you know, you know, we'll just see when he can get out of this protocol. Rallids. He's apparently back in full training this week, coming back from his hamstring strain. What does that mean?
Obviously, Brian has said that they want to make sure that this is the last hamstring strain because he has had a number of them in the last twelve plus months, so need to make sure this is the end for Rowlids issues with his hamstring, So yes, he's training in full this week, but we'll see if that actually means he'll be able to take part in Saturday's game against New York. Callen Rowe has the niece Brainy. Ethan Doublair has an ankle sprain, So yes, there are these injuries. But I would also
say that, and Steve said it right there. Getting Christian and getting Raoul back in that's a couple players. But they're starting on Saturday in Vancouver. It's hard for me to just jump in and say that that's a different result. Maybe Christian is the person that brings that Northwest grit that this team needs right now. But I think at the end of the day, you look at what's going on with the team as a whole, and it's just strating.
And you look at what teams have done recently who are playing the Sounders, who have come off bad records, and I mean, we go back all the way to Portland, when the Sounders lost in Portland by a score of four to one. We can go back to that and show that they are O four and two before beating Seattle Kansas City O seven and three on the year before beating Seattle Austin last Wednesday. They were oh four and four
before beating Seattle. Vancouver had two straight losses before beating Seattle. This narrative that Seattle is the team that other teams can get right against and finally get a win if they've been struggling to get a win for a while, it just continues to get reinforced. When you go up to Vancouver, you give up a goal, and then once you give up the second goal, I
mean other teams. Like if New York is watching the tape on Seattle's match in Vancouver this week and they're kind of trying to break down how they can break down Seattle and tactic wise, we can get into that in a few moments. But if New York's watching that and they look at how Seattle mentally
and emotionally and just the body language. After Vancouver scored a second goal, new York saying, we gotta jump on them early, We gotta get off on the front foot, we gotta go for an early goal, because look what happens after the teams score early on Seattle. They can buckle. And that is a worrying thing that if the Sounder is getting this narrative and getting this rhythm of if they give up the first goal, then other teams can just lay it on them and just make them lose belief. That is not
the narrative and not the thing you want to be known for. And the Sounders are starting to develop that. I don't want to say it's a full blown, confirmed narrative at this point because it's still early in the season. This is only a five game stretch now plus Portland, but still like this is something that the Sounders need to get rid of. It won't just take Christian rolled on and rolleryd has to end this. The whole team needs to snap out of whatever funk they're in. You know, we made the joke
on the postgame show. It's like Ted Lasso and this isn't a spoiler if you haven't seen season three or anything, but you know, the teams in a funk and Lasso takes them to the Underground Sewers of London. Not saying that Brian Schmitzer takes this Sounders team to the Underground Tour in Pioneer Square,
but do something something to snap these guys out of it. There needs to be some spark because this is a team right now that just doesn't have that belief, which is very concerning, you know, going into some x's and o's. Here, one thing we saw that Austin did on Wednesday is Austin came to Seattle and played with a back five. Now that's where, of course, many of you who are in the soccer lingo no. That means
you have three center back defenders and you have two outside wingbacks. That is different from what the Sounders typically run, which is a four at the back, where you have two center backs, you have a left back, and you have a right back. So basically what it shows is teams who start with a back five or back three sometimes they'll be listed as which is the same thing as a five. When teams come in with a three or a five, they're going to be playing a bit more defensive and let Seattle maybe
have more of the ball get him on the counter. However, it ends up shaping out. They know that, Hey, listen, Seattle, we're gonna have an extra defender there in the back. Good luck breaking this down. Austin did that, Seattle had an extremely hard time breaking them down in the first half. In the first I don't know seventy some odd minutes before Freddie Montero got that goal in last Wednesday's match, but Austin had a back five, and then the Vancouver Whitecaps, seeing that, also rolled out a
back five, and once again it gave the Sounders fits. So Seattle's got to figure out how to solve this back five situation because when they face teams who do put it an extra defender in, the Sounders have not been able to break it, have not had the creativity, or have not been able to find that final ball in order to get a goal in the back of the day. They just haven't. I don't have the answers, and I mean Brian Schmitzer and his coaching staff. They're gonna need to find them,
and hopefully they find them quickly. Is New York Red Bulls is this Saturday back at home and this team needs to get back there in the wind calm. Yes, they're still second place in the Western Conference. I will mention a bunch of teams below them have at least one game in hand, so that second place spot is a little bit deceiving right now. This Sounder team needs points and needs to get back in that wind calm. Quickly, so
hopefully it happens. Let's turn the page. Let's start looking ahead to that match. Steve Canjelosi is a play by play voice for Apple TV, the former play by play voice of the New York Red Bulls. We are going to be chatting with him in just a moment looking ahead this match. Will also visit with Ari lillianel of mlsccer dot com and Andrew Harvey. They will take us around the league. But before we break, I will quickly tell
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Today we'll take a break. We'll be joined by Steve ken Jelosi, the play by play voice for Apple TV, former voice of New York Red Bulls. That's next on Sounders Weekly Sports Radio at ninety three point three KJRFM. Now back to Sounders Weekly on your home for Saunders FC. Celes Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM. Welcome back to Sounders Weekly. Jackson Felts here, thanks for joining us here on this Tuesday night, seven DA eight
pm every Tuesday talking Sounders FC Soccer. Well, thank you for spending that first segments listening in the you know, kind of the reaction from that really disappointing match the Sounders had up there at Vancouver. We have to kind of go over these frustrations and go over the disappointments because it's the reality of this team right now. They need to get it together, so hopefully we see that coming up. In just a minute, we will be joined by Steve
can Gelosi. He is a play by play voice for Apple TV, where the Sounders you can be seeing them play New York Red Bulls. Coming up this Saturday seven o'clock pre match seven thirty kickoff, also ninety three point three kJ FM Sounders playing the Red Bulls on this station Saturday at seven pm. I will be joined by Steve in just a moment. He's also by the way, the former voice of the New York Red Bulls. So very very
perfect there. While we get Steve all situated, I will quickly tell you Sounder fans that Sounders FC and Boeing are teaming up to support the Washington Youth Soccer Community Corner on match days this season. Join us in stadium as you welcome Washington youth soccer players and coaches to cheer on the Rave Green courtesy of Bowing. All. Right, there he is, let's bring him on. The former voice of the Red Bulls current voice of Apple TV MLS Season Pass,
Steve can Gelosi, joins us right now. Steve, Welcome to the show, my friend, how are you, Jackson? Thanks for having me so much on sided for this for a couple of reasons. Number one, Seattle is one of my favorite cities in the United States. I've been there many times, but I haven't called a Sounders game. I was checking my notes in my office. I haven't called a Sounders game in four years. Wow. And the reason for that is because, as you mentioned, I
was the regional voice of the Red Bulls for a long time. The teams didn't play each other very often, and when they did, those matchups would often be taken by the national partners. So even though I did a few games for ESPN, I had not called the Sounders in recent years. So I'm looking forward to getting out there. Well, it'd be great to see out here at lumin Field, great to have you should be a beautiful I believe it's supposed to be something like eighty degrees, Sonny. Just a beautiful
night for soccer in the PNW. Coming up this Saturday, Steve, we will talk a bunch of New York Red Bulls and all your expertise for carding that club and what they're bringing to town before we get onto them, just as somebody who's done a bunch of broadcasts, and I know you have checked out Sounders Whitecaps, the two nothing loss that I really don't want to talk too much more about, but I gotta get your two cents on that match
and what you saw from the Sounders coming into this big game against New York. I probably can put it this way succinctly. I saw a team uncharacteristically to me, that wasn't paying enough attention to detail, and by that I mean passing choices in the midfield that I think led to turnovers and a team that I know disappointed its coach in the sense that they didn't win a fair
number of duels. And you look at the opening goal scored by Vita in the forty fourth minute of that game, and it's Alex Roldan losing an individual battle, but also just not making the right choice just to get the ball out of the eight team. So there was a failed clearance on his part,
and those mistakes that I think will bite you. I thought the team was probably at its most dangerous when Montero and Eber started to play together in a two striker alignment late in the game, but that then the issue was decided. These are things I think good players and good coaches solve in short order, and I think Seattle checks most of those boxes. I know this recent stretch up three defeats in the last four games might be sounding some alarm
bells in the Pacific Northwest. I wouldn't go there just yet, not yet anyway, But some things that need to be corrected, absolutely, things that need to be corrected for Seattle's sake. Hopefully that indeed happens this coming Saturday. Steve Canjelosi is our guest here. He is the play by play voice for this match on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV, former voice of the New York Red Bulls. All right, Steve, let's jump in and get to your expertise on New York. Come into lumen Field. Your thoughts on
their season so far this year. Obviously getting a win this last week, but what have you se from the Red bull so far in twenty twenty three on replacing a coach already with the season less than halfway complete. So we're
seeing a team that's checking all the boxes defensively. And the fact that they're doing that in a year in which they bid farewell to their captain and a former MLS Defender of the Year, Aaron Long, that is a feather in the team's cap because even when the team was struggling under Gerhard Struber who's since been replaced by Troyal is Saye, their defense performances were extremely strong and the
record probably wasn't reflective of how well they were playing. Their expected goal differential was among the best in the league, and it was the best in the Eastern Conference, despite the fact that up until a week ago they were sitting in last place in the East. So there were some issues with them not being rewarded for the things that they were doing well. But to cut to the point here, this is a team that shot the ball a lot and
rarely put it into the back of the net. I called their game ten days ago and I still remember me saying on the air they had the fourth most shots in the league and yet somehow they were tied with Kansas City for the fewest goals in MLS at the time. Now they're coming off a very big win, an important win for them at home against Montreal. So this is a big point in the season for them. Since Troy Lassain has come in, and I hesitate to call him an interim head coach because they've promised
him the job for the balance of the season. Jackson, they say it's his show for the rest of twenty twenty three. And you know the Red Bulls calling card through the years, right, They employ that high press, that chaotic feel to any game and a lot of times it's certainly not either watch. But I think under the same they'll value the ball a little bit
more moving forward. What they do with it, well, it has to be exponentially better than what they've done on the ball up until this point, the two goals in the victory the other night were very important, I think to the team's psyche and getting players healthy is an extremely big thing right now for this group. Yet, Da van Zier just returned from his suspension and
Lewis Morgan maybe will be in Seattle for that game Saturday night. We're not sure you Okay, that's certainly names to watch there and Steve you know on that point, I mean, Seattle is also a team that's trying to get healthy with Christian Rodan and Roll Ruy Diaz, no idea about them. But you know, on that point of naming names for the Red Bulls, let's
just throw it hypothetically. If the Sounders fall again on Saturday night against New York, what names will Sounder fans be walking out of the stadium lamenting, Oh if only we had done you know, shut down ex player. You know, where is New York going to be able to have success at Looman on Saturday? Well, I'm still wrestling with whether or not Corey Burke is
a ninety minute player. I think with all the fixture congestion this year in MLS, they're going to be nights where they do need him for something close to ninety minutes his role in Philadelphia last season, and the Union just didn't want to pay him, which is why he's a Red Bull now. His role last year was just that guy as a second half sub who was so useful in that role, a big, powerful striker who would come in Layton games when the wear and tear was evident on opposing defenders, and that was
a good fit for him. I'll take this fact to Lewis Morgan, whose name I invoked, and I have to be careful here because I'm not sure how much he's going to be ready to play and if he'll get the green light at all. But Jackson, you're talking about a player who was the team MVP last year, who had fourteen goals for the club last year, scored in the playoffs, and so far this season he's only appeared in three MLS games. That explains a lot of why this team has not scored more
consistently. Van Zier obviously made headlines for all of the wrong reasons. He just concluded the six game suspension the Red Bulls decided to just dip a toe in the water. He came on in the second half as a sub and that victory over Montreal over the weekend. My guess is that he will get his first MLS start post suspension on Saturday night. This was a big ticket
item for a team that doesn't spend a lot of money Jackson. This was a high profile acquisition from abroad, and this was a player who has a game winning goal on his resume already. It was one of the feel good moments early in the season for this team when they didn't have many And and I'm still figuring out what he is. He's not a number nine, he's not a number ten. He's somewhere in between. He's just a good player, and obviously he's trying to act make himself back into the good graces of
the fans and also the locker room as well. But to think this man doesn't have potential to be a game changer on given nights, I think any coach or opposing team who feels that way would be making a mistake. Yes, Steve, you're talking about Dante van Zier. As he mentioned, they're suspended six games for the racist language in the game against San Jose a while back. What's been the reaction from fans and from other teams. How have
people reacted to this really disturbing situation. Well, when the six game suspension was announced by n last some of the supporters groups at Red Bull Arena decided to show up for the very next game I think it was against the Houston Dynamo and then walk out in the opening minute of the game. It's hard to say how much he will be accepted by the team, but I can tell you what the club has said publicly that unanimously he was supported in his
return by the rest of the Red Bulls players. I spoke with John Tolkien, who is the terrific left back of this team, has a chance to compete for the United States this summer and either the Gold Cup or Nations League or both if things go well. And I saw him out because he's become in many ways kind of an unofficial spokesperson for this group. And he said when van Zier began training again with the team a couple of weeks ago, even though he was suspended, he was allowed to train with the club.
I guess the CBA dictates that, but he said the players met by themselves and they said, if you were someone who was saying the worst thing you've ever said and that was made public, who would you want supporting you? And the players came to the conclusion that their role in this moving forward was to support Dante Vans here. So that was that conversation opened the door for a second chance. Steve. Lots of really good info there, really good
info on the Red Bulls. We'll look forward to seeing you out in Seattle this coming weekend. We should have an exciting match at Looman Field on Saturday night. So safe travels and we'll see you here at Seattle soon. I'm sure our paths will cross this weekend. Thanks a lot, Jackson be Well. That's Steve can Gelosie, former voice of the New York Red Bulls now voice on Apple TV MLS Season Pass, where you can watch his call of
Sounders Red Bulls coming up this Saturday. I will also tell you that you can listen to this match seven o'clock pregame, seven thirty kickoff right here on Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM this Saturday for Sounders and New York. And I should mention not to discredit Steve or anything, but for home
matches, including the one this Saturday. If you are watching the match on Apple TV and you're watching on your television at home, if you go down to the bottom right corner, I believe it's bottom right, not bottom left. If you go to the room of the bottom right corner and look for all those different options and different listening methods and stuff, you can set a bunch of different settings. They're on Apple TV. One of the settings you
can select is listening to the home radio call. You can do this for all home matches. So I would encourage you to whenever the Sounders play at home, whenever you bring up the broadcast they're on Apple TV and you're watching them from home, you just bring up the home radio call and you will be able to hear Danny Jackson and Steve Zakwane, Michelle Ludka. You'll be able to hear kjr's broadcast right there on Apple TV. So make sure you
do that for all home broadcasts. All right, let's say a break. We'll come back and talk to Ari Lillion Wall of mlsccer dot com. He'll take us around the league, and Andrew Harvey will take us around the sound at l ATS. They're both next on Sounders Weekly Sports Radio at ninety three point three KJRFM. Go back to Sounders Weekly on your home for sunders FC, Seattle's sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFL. Welcome back to Sounders Weekly,
everybody. Jackson Felts, You're good to have you with us on this Tuesday night talking to all things to Seattle Sounders FC Soccer. We will go around the league in just a little bit with Andrew Harvey, our Puget Sound soccer expert. But now once again it's time to welcome on Ari Lillion Wall of MLS soccer dot com to take us around the league. Before we do, I'll tell you that bud Light was brewed to be a delicious and easy to drink beer. Bud Light easy to drink, easy to enjoy. Pick
up bud Light at your local retailer today, Please enjoy responsibly. All right, joining us right now from MLS soccer dot com is Ari Lillianwall. Are good to have you back on the show, my friend, How are you?
I'm good, Jackson, Thanks for having me back. Well. Ari, we have unfortunately a lot of frustration and disappointment to get to with what's happened with the Sounders against Vancouver. Will ask you about the game coming ahead against New York, your thoughts on the Red Bulls, and then everything else
going on around the league. Before we get to any of that, we've been teasing for weeks now that you would have some news to share about some new venture you got going on. Why don't you tell us and all of our listeners about what you have up your sleeve that you're getting ready to do. Yes, Sir Jackson, I'm ready to plug it. I've been planning on getting into this world for a long time, but haven't had the resources
and technological wherewithal to really pull it off. But I'm going to try and be like you, man, I'm going to try and get into the podcasting and audio content game. I'm still in the preliminary stages of launching it, but I have all my gear. I'm ready to lay down some cakes. I'm gonna be dishing some takes on the sounders because I think that's what the most people, what most people know me for and follow me for. But I also want to get back into the Seahawks scene to do a little Seattle
sports take athon. Like I said, something I've wanted to do for a long time, and I now finally have the resources and the technological help that I need to make it happen. I'm a little technologically an EPT, but I've enlisted to help of the gen Z generation to help me with that side of it, So I'm ready to go. I'm hoping to lifen stuff down this week and I'm pretty sure I can make that happen. But if not, everyone just keep an eye out for that. If you follow me on
Twitter, I'll be promoting it there. And yeah, I appreciate. This is the first time I've publicized this, so I appreciate you given me the chance to dish that news. Of course, absolutely are I'd be fun to hear another Seattle sports podcast. I'll for sure be dialed into it. Are you pro Geno Smith or anti Geno Smith's new contract. I'm very pro Geno Smith in general, and I'm pro the new contract. I very much believe here into that last year though I thought he was lights out. I thought
he played amazing great well. Ari's podcast that I believe what doesn't have a name yet? Right, you used the word to take a thon. I like that, but no, no, no official name yet, right, no official name yet. We're working on that, but that'll be out there soon. Great, all right, We'll continue to share details as the week's progress there on Ari's new podcast, A Venture Are Let's Now that was so much fun. It was a piece of positivity. I actually got to smile
tonight. Let's get back to the frowning Sounders losing to nothing against Vancouver. What did you see, Buddy, Well, what did your eyes tell you about that game? Yeah? I don't really have any revelatory takes on it, Jackson. I thought it looked pretty much like what we've been watching for the last four or five weeks. In MLS, a lot of times your form is determined by the health and availability of your top players. That's how
it works for most teams in this league. So I don't think Seattle is necessarily unique in that they're struggling with some of the absences they've had, so that part of it doesn't necessarily surprise me. But I do think the disappointing thing is that you know, this is a team that was supposed to have
depths that could deliver results. I think we all looked at the roster before the season and felt like when there was going to be inevitable stretches where they have to make do with some of their top guys either injured or unavailable for whatever reason. You know, I think we all thought that they would be able to handle that and at least keep stacking results with some sort of consistency, relying on their depth pieces, and that just hasn't been the case the
last few weeks. So the only thing I can really say about it is the situation that they're in. They need to get old ideas back on the field and healthy Christian rolled on. You know, I still don't really know the exact timeline or prognosis on his concussion issue. Obviously, that's the type of thing where you have to make sure there's absolutely no chance of a long term issue before you get him back on the field. You know, until they get those two guys back, I don't really know that. I that
I expect much different than what we've been seeing. It seems like they need those two guys that badly. I've watched enough MLS to know that absences like that they can make it different. So, you know, without predicting what I think is going to happen, I do think that if you get those guys back fit and playing regularly, I would. I would be pretty surprised if you didn't see results take up from there. You know, I know that's not what everyone wants to hear, and I want to hear it.
I like hearing the fact that, like, all right, maybe we are just this away because there then there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and I'm looking for a light right now. Well, and not what people might I don't want to hear in terms of it comes off as an excuse, and really they should be able to be taking points even with those absences. They should, like I said, this was a roster that was supposed to be able to do that. So the fact that they're not
doing that, that's a problem. Arillion Wall is our guest of MLS Soccer dot Com again. Make sure to stay tuned for more news on his new podcast coming out, and it's at Ari Lillian Wall on Twitter. I'm sure he'll share stuff as well. There are Let's jump into our sharp vision opponent
outlook New York Red Bulls. This is a team out in the Eastern Conference that Seattle rarely gets to face, and unlike a lot of the teams that have been recently beating Seattle, Ari New York got will win this last weekend.
Tell us about your thoughts on the Red Bulls. Yes, they just went through a coaching change a couple of weeks ago, and I can actually tell you about their new coach, Troy la saying quite a bit because I'm from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and I'm a diehard New Mexico United fan, and Troy la San was actually the coach of our team on the USO launch, during the expansion season and for the club's first couple of seasons in USO, and I think he is pretty much the perfect guy for where their
club is at right now. You know, they were in flux with Gerrards Druber not getting results. They've had a bunch of controversy that sort of royaled them, and they needed a guy to steady the ship and really kind of change the culture. And his work at New Mexico United, he did a great job at establishing the culture there. I can tell you that, So I think it's actually he's the perfect guy to take them over. And they've
been playing much better since he took over. They made a little run in the US Open Cup and they've they've started turning around and we play a little bit. So I think their outlook is a little more positive that it has been certainly, and they're riding that new coach bump right now. And so I mean, it's another tough game for Seattle. It's another one of those one where you look at the table and you see that they're averaging one point
one four points per game. You might not think and it will be a difficult game, but I can tell you that they are. They're certainly playing a lot better and Troy Les Sain has done a pretty impressive job so far. Well, they have a bunch of draws. I believe they have like a league high seven draws this year in a three four and seven records.
So yeah, for Seattle, just another difficult game. And I'll quickly tell folks in terms of that preview four New York that tonight's opponent, ALEC was presented by Sharp Vision, Modern Lasic and Lens, the official Lasic partner of Seattle Sounders FC. All right, let's jump around the rest of the league and one of the games that stood out for me it was the Hell is Real rivalry Columbus Cincinnati, and since he expanded their home record right now to
eight O and O in that win in Hell Is Real. Your thoughts on that big rivalry game. Yeah, I gotta say FC Cincinnati is in one of the all time most impressive turnarounds for an MLS club that I can remember in the last few years. I mean, this is a club that was pretty much a laughing stock for their first three years in the league. They
were bottom of the league table three years in a row. So I think you just have to give Pat Noonan and Chris Albright, the new head coach and sporting director there that they brought in ahead of last year, I believe. I mean, they've done a phenomenal job. This team's nine to one and three, leading the Shield race two point three one points per game. I mean they're putting up LAFC type form. You know, their goal differential and numbers like that aren't quite at LAFC level, but in terms of their
record in points per game, they're leading the Shield race. They're playing great soccer. The Hell's Real game was a fun game. Yeah, they wanted three to Luciano Acosta, one of the best players in the league Weekend week out, great playmaker. He scored two goals in this game, and like you said, eight O and O at home. I mean, that's impressive. They really turned TQL into a fortress and they've taken results in four out
of their five room games this year with three draws. So, you know, I think early in the season with Cincinnati there was questions as to how real it was, how sustainable it was. Is it a mirage? Are they really this good? They look like a Shield contender to me. You know, they've started to score more goals and their defense has been very solid all season. So I mean, I think out East there you're looking at them as very much a factor and they'll probably be up there near the top
of the week for the rest of the season. Yeah. Five points clear at the top of the Shield standings right now on LAFC in Nashville. Impressive
what Cincinnati's doing. Let's stay out in the East really quickly. And last thing for Ari, Lillianwall of MLS Soccer dot Com, the other team that was challenging for the top of the East in terms of those standings a few weeks ago was New England, and New England appears to have fallen off Ari and the headline by what they did this last weekend, which was a three
nothing loss at Philly that fallows up a two one loss at Miami. So what's going on with New England or the Revs finally fallen off and kind of returning to form? You know, I think it's a little premature to say that. I think I think this game was more about Philly looking like themselves than necessarily I'm going to say anything about New England falling off. Philadelphia was struggling a lot earlier this season to balance Champions League. They were not able
to do that as successfully as LAFC has been. Pretty much no MLS team I've ever seen has been able to balance it as well as LAFC has. Philly has had the more typical go where you kind of suffer in league play while you're in Champions League. So I took that result as more of a sign that the Union might be back on track than anything for the rev I look at where they are still at one point eight five points per game.
I think they'll be fine. But I do think you can look at that and anyone who is hoping that the Union We're going to be struggling all year, I think they might actually be back to their form. That's the takeaway I would go with there. Okay, all right, good stuff there are
We'll continue to talk on a couple of weeks. Next week we will have no Sounders weekly, so we will will continue to talk in a couple of weeks ahead about what's going on around the league, and a couple of weeks we'll also have the second leg of the Champions League Final LAFC and laon to talk about as well, So talking in two weeks Ari and we'll look ahead to concacaffein hopefully some better things for the Sounders before then. Sounds good,
Thanks Jackson. Good stuff there from Ari, Lillian Wall and once again make sure to check out his podcast. More details on that as the weeks progress. But from around the league, it's now time to go around the sound. We've had so much depressing and sad and frustrating news regarding our sounders today, so much down from what happened against Vancouver and now looking ahead to New York. That listen, I'm very excited because it's now time to take us
around the sound. Andrew Harvey, our Puget sound soccer expert, and Andrew gets to give us the one piece of good local soccer news. So, Andrew, if you can, why don't we start with the dessert before the vegetables tonight? Absolutely, we can definitely start with the good news. Jackson let fcs off to a rip roaring start in the US League two campaign.
After a convincing four one win in an international friendly against the Vancouver Whitecaps U nineteens last Thursday, the club went on the road and she lacked only Town FC to Oapen's regular season four nil. Stoskorzanowski has two goals in each of those contests and looks to be a dominant punishing presence up top for the club this year, for which COMBA Defiance player Danny Roblas also opened his Ballot FC
account, scoring the final goal in Sunday's win. Ballot is back at inter Bay this Friday night for an early season top of the table clash against Lane United FC. That match would kickoff at seven pm. You can catch me on the live broadcast on the club's website, Go ballotfc dot com or its YouTube page. To combat Defiance dropped a one nil result on the road to the Vancouver Whitecaps FC two on Sunday. It was just the club's second loss
of the season. Definance their back at it on Friday, when they'll host Los Angeles FC two for the first ever meeting between the two sides. That match will kickoff at seven pm at Starfire and can be viewed on Apple TV Oil. Rain got off to a slow start at home against Gotham FC on Sunday, dropping a four one result after going down two nail in the first quarter hour. The Rain will remain at home this weekend, hosting angel City
FC on Saturday at twelve thirty before the Sounders play at seven thirty. The Rains match can be viewed on Paramount Plus. I'm Andrew Harvey and this has been around the Sound Andrew Harvey. There are Puget Sound soccer expert taking us around the sound and finally they're a good piece of news. We got the Dessert Ballard with that win, so congrats to them. We'll catch up with
Andrew in a couple of weeks. No Sounders weekly show next week, so we'll catch up with Andrew in a couple weeks to look ahead to the next Ballard match and what's going on there with Tacoma and Rain. But bad news there, Bad news for the Sounders, bad news for Defiance, bad news for Rain. It was a no good, dirty, rotten, not so fun week for our local soccer clubs outside of Ballard FC. But onward forward and we time to look ahead and hopefully get back on track regarding your Seattle
Sounders. Let's go over one more time before we end tonight's show. The match details and if you missed anything on tonight's show, make sure you check out the full podcasts, which can be found on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts, just search Sounders Weekly, also nine three three KJR dot com and the Sounders on demand page. So broadcast details for this match ahead. The Sounders are back at home, back at Emerald Queen Casino
Pitch at Luminfield this Saturday, facing the New York Red Bulls. It is going to be a seven o'clock provident Swedish prematch show a seven thirty kickoff there from Lumenfield. You can also watch the match via MLS Season Pass on the Apple TV app or listen in Spanish language on LRA thirteen sixty. And if you want to go get your tickets today, visit SOUNDERSFC dot com slash tickets to get your tickets to this Saturday's Sounders match. So Sounders FC Soccer is
presented by Providence, Swedish official healthcare partner of Sounders FC. Listen, we gotta get back on track. It was frustrating, disappointing game up there and Vancouver. Somehow, some way, hopefully this team can find that spark and can change this. The back around one and four in the last five games for the Rave Green. They need to snap out of this funk and get back to how they were playing early in the season. Hopefully we see that.
So we will talk to you on Saturday for Sounders and Red Bulls. They're at seven pm right here on ninety three point three KJR FM. You can listen right here on this station for not only this Saturday's match, but matches here coming up throughout this summer. Stay tuned, so we'll talk to you on Saturday at seven for Sounders red Bulls. Have a good evening. Fox Sports Radio coming up next