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Speaker 1: The volume. Today's World Cup draw reaction is presented by Haleon,

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Speaker 1: the maker of Advil, Centrum, Toms, Censedine, and Voltaian. They've

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Speaker 1: teamed up with US Soccer for the Assist the campaign,

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Speaker 1: celebrating all the moments of support that make the big

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Speaker 1: goals possible, because every goal starts with an assist. In

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Speaker 1: the history of the United States men's national team. The

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Speaker 1: man you're looking at has the most goals and most

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Speaker 1: assists in the history of our country. And we have

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Speaker 1: ourselves a World Cup. Let's go to Group A. Now

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Speaker 1: I'm less familiar going forward, but it's Mexico, South Africa,

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Speaker 1: South Korea and a European playoff winner. My take on

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Speaker 1: Mexico is and I noticed this over the last two years.

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Speaker 1: I think they had regressed. I felt like when the

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Speaker 1: Americans played Mexico, I thought they lacked a certain level

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Speaker 1: of skill. I felt for the previous half decade. Has

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Speaker 1: Mexico in the last twelve calendar months. Are they back

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Speaker 1: on track or or are they still I don't feel

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Speaker 1: they're quite what they were.

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Speaker 2: Mexico used to scare you, right, and I'm talking big

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Speaker 2: teams in the world would really hate to play against Mexico.

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Speaker 2: There are not many teams in this tournament who would

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Speaker 2: fear playing against Mexico, even in Mexico. And the reality

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Speaker 2: is calling they just don't. You talked about the US

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Speaker 1: They don't have the talent.

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Speaker 2: They don't have the talent. And Christian like Christian Polisic

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Speaker 2: is the best player in the Italian League, which is

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Speaker 2: a statement that's wild to say, but he is. Mexico

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Speaker 2: doesn't have anyone near that level. They don't And so

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Speaker 2: when when people are frustrated and in Mexico, I follow

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Speaker 2: it because I revealent this when they when they are,

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Speaker 2: when they're below par and they're not playing well, I

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Speaker 2: love it and I revealent it. But but the reality

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Speaker 2: is they just don't have the horses. And you can

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Speaker 2: be good at all the things whatever. Soccer is such

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Speaker 2: a unique sport. You don't get eighty possessions a game

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Speaker 2: like you do in the NBA. You don't get twelve

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Speaker 2: and forth, and one play makes the difference, and they

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Speaker 2: don't have enough players that can make that difference. And

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Speaker 2: so I worry a little bit about it about them

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Speaker 2: in this World Cup because they're lucky. They got a

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Speaker 2: pretty easy group. But I don't expect them to be

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Speaker 1: Okay, Group B to me is pretty thick Canada, Qatar, Switzerland,

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Speaker 1: and a European playoff winner which could be Northern Ireland,

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Speaker 1: could be Italy. That feels fairly formidable to me. It's

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's hard. I said this to a friend this week,

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Speaker 1: and it's hard for me to get my arms around

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Speaker 1: the Indiana Hoosiers being a college football power because I

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Speaker 1: had a workable TV the last fifty years. Like, I

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Speaker 1: don't get it. I don't think unless you fallow you

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Speaker 1: know this. But Canada is really formidable. They're good, they're

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Speaker 1: well managed. Group B to me, on its face, is

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Speaker 1: it stronger than our group?

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Speaker 2: D Oh, yeah it is. Switzerland are a very good team,

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Speaker 2: very good team. And the kicker is if Italy get

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Speaker 2: out of this intercontinental playoff that they have, which most

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Speaker 2: people expect them to. They're not in a great way

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Speaker 2: right now, and they haven't been for probably a decade,

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Speaker 2: but they're still Italy. It's not a it's not a

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Speaker 2: novel team coming to their first World Cup. These players

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Speaker 2: are savvy. They play at big clubs all around the world.

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Speaker 2: They know how to win soccer games. The best part

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Speaker 2: about the draw calling being in the room there is

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Speaker 2: the storylines that develop quickly. It's just like when the

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Speaker 2: NFL schedule comes out. It's oh, it's Mahomes and Allen

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Speaker 2: and you love the storylines. Canada has their first match

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Speaker 2: in Toronto. If Italy get through this playoff, it'll be

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Speaker 2: Canada Italy in Toronto where there are gazillion Italians.

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Speaker 1: What's the most international city in North America?

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Speaker 2: Correct, and there's Italians, I mean everywhere. It would be

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Speaker 2: so electric, so electric to have Canada Italy in the

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Speaker 2: first match for Canada and a World Cup at home

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Speaker 2: playing the Italians, I'm very much hoping for it.

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Speaker 1: To me, Italian soccer has always been more defensive, can

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Speaker 1: be physical, kind of a pragmatic style, a patient style.

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Speaker 1: So even really talented Italian teams, as tell me if

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Speaker 1: I'm wrong here, a little chippy, physical, want to be

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Speaker 1: how I interpret Italian soccer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but even a bad like so Mexico is not

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Speaker 2: talented right now. This generation is which takes away basically

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Speaker 2: what they like to do. Italy can have the least

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Speaker 2: talented players on the field, but they're so smart and

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Speaker 2: they're so clever and they're so savvy that they can

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Speaker 2: win a game, right, they can win a game that

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Speaker 2: they have no business winning. And they've done it over

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Speaker 2: and over through history, and that's what makes them really interesting.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Group C. That's Brazil, Morocco Haiti in Scotland.

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Speaker 1: Brazil is going to be your favorite. Morocco probably lodged

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Speaker 1: second by Brazilian standards. Where are they?

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Speaker 2: They're a really interesting team also because they're not in

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Speaker 2: a good way. They finished fifth in their qualifying, which

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Speaker 2: is really hard to believe. They're always one or two,

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Speaker 2: are at worst third in their qualifying. For the first

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Speaker 2: time in their history, Colin, they are being coached by

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Speaker 2: a foreign manager in Brazil, which is it's really bizarre

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Speaker 2: for Brazil to be coached by a foreign manager. Carlo Ancelotti,

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Speaker 2: who was the manager for Real Madrid for a long time,

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Speaker 2: very good manager, but this is the first time. Never

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Speaker 2: in the history of the World Cup has the team

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Speaker 2: that won the World Cup been coached by a foreign manager.

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Speaker 2: So if Brazil were to do it, that would be

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Speaker 2: the first time, so they will be a really interesting

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Speaker 2: team to follow. You talk about talent though, oozing talent

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Speaker 2: all over the field, so play I doubt it. He's old,

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Speaker 2: he's at the end. Okay, it's hard enough for sure,

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Speaker 2: But Vinnie Junr they've got a ton of talented players.

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Speaker 2: But it's going to be really interesting to see. Do

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Speaker 2: not count out or sleep on Morocco. Morocco got to

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Speaker 2: the semi finals of the World Cup in guitar four

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Speaker 2: years ago and it was not It was not a

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Speaker 2: one and done. Their youth teams are consistently getting the

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Speaker 2: creating a program and a conveyor belt that keeps producing

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Speaker 2: good teams. So they are a very good team.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Group E is Germany, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Carra Cow

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Speaker 1: Ecuador's a. Ecuador's got generated pretty beast. Germany. I believe

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Speaker 1: in the last World Cup Landon, Germany was going through

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Speaker 1: a transition. They'd gotten old. If I recall, I think

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Speaker 1: I'm right on that. We can edit it out if

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Speaker 1: I'm wrong, But I believe the criticism was they just

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Speaker 1: hadn't transitioned and this is the way it works in

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Speaker 1: World Cup. So every four years sometimes it's like this

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Speaker 1: is just we got old. Where's Germany at now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes you get old at the wrong time, right,

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Speaker 2: And so ideally the federation plans these things out. But

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Speaker 2: the problem is is then you have a coach who's

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Speaker 2: trying to win this weekend, and so I'd rather play

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Speaker 2: the thirty year old than right, even if it's better

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Speaker 2: three years from now to have played the eighteen year

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Speaker 2: old Germany, I don't They don't scare anyone, but they're

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Speaker 2: still Germany and they have good players, solid players. I

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Speaker 2: expect them to win this group. But I would not

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Speaker 2: be surprised if Ecuador finds a way to maybe get

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Speaker 2: a point against Germany and then win their other games

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Speaker 2: by a better margin and sneak through us first. But

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Speaker 2: Germany will advance. I expect them to be the group

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Speaker 2: winners too.

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