8/9 Angel City FC at San Diego Wave FC
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
No, we're camping out on the couch
today, so it's like there's just
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
It's just stuff everywhere.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
trapped, stuck in the blanket.
Oh my God.
Hold on, please.
sorry.
I'm trying to get them out of the blanket.
Oh, there you go.
Okay.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
cold open right there.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I'm trying to get them out.
All right.
You ready to go?
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Hi everybody and welcome to Casual
fc, an Angel City match preview and
footy therapy pod, featuring two
podcast certified footy therapists.
I'm your host Angela Morales with my ever
faithful, wonderfully, schedule changing
and, flexible co-host Mario Salazar.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I'm gonna be flexible
for about two more weeks,
and then I am most likely
going to go back to work.
and then dun, dun, dun.
Although at this point I'm like
itching to get back to work.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
something to do.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah, there's only, I went, I went and
knocked out all of the kids back to school
stuff this morning, but I got it done in
an hour because I went early to the store
and there wasn't very many people there.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I had my list that I can just be like,
check, check, check, check, check.
And then I was done, and then I would
get home and I'm just like, all right,
shit, that was like the, that was
like the main to-do on the list today,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
That was supposed to take three hours?
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah.
Yeah.
I'm, it.
Excited.
'cause it does mean that, basically the
medical professionals are checking me off
and saying, Hey, you're doing well enough.
I'm most likely gonna be work from home
for a while, which is great, that my
office is flexible enough for that.
mainly because I don't, I'm supposed
to maybe start like physical therapy
by the end of the month and and I
have no idea how intense or very
laid back that thing is going to be.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
a little bit of
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
like in my head it's either gonna
be I'm gonna get there and they're
gonna be like, you need some work.
Or they're gonna be like,
you don't need to be here.
it's n no.
so we'll see.
We'll see.
But, super flexible
for the next two weeks.
And then after that, back to the
normal, like back to the normal grind
of ah, it's coming out tomorrow.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
speaking of, so this episode is going
to drop on Wednesday the sixth, and
we're previewing our match against
San Diego Wave FC on Saturday, August
9th at Snapdragon in San Diego.
Kickoff is at seven 30.
be part of the ION double header.
So be I on, I it will be on I on tv.
Wow.
That's hard.
but if you aren't near TV or don't
feel like downloading the ION app.
Download the iHeartRadio app and
listen to Isaac and Tracy blow
you away with their fantastic
calls in amazing soccer knowledge.
yeah, I'm pumped because is is
there something else possibly
going on that same day, Mario,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
There,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: in?
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
there is an amazing watch party
going on for everyone who's not
gonna make it down to Snappy.
I will reiterate our now traditional.
a away day mantra of wear your sunscreen.
You can still get sunburnt
when it's overcast.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
There are that we are very good friends
with that have forgotten their sunscreen
at home, have gotten to their hotel, and
for, forgot the sunscreen in the hotel.
Get if you are the game, which you most
likely are because that's what you do,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
naming names.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
if you go down there, if you're gonna be
tailgating, the game's gonna be at night,
so by that time I think you'll be fine.
But if you're gonna be tailgating, if
you're gonna be out and about, Yeah, just
know that the sun gets pretty intense.
wear your, wear the sunscreen, there
is no shade around that stadium.
All the trees are brand new.
The trees that are there.
Last time I was there, which was the first
year, there was like no trees whatsoever.
'cause the parking lot was
like gravel at one point.
or the area that I parked in was gravel.
and the stadium itself has no shade.
that's not too much of a problem
this time 'cause it's at seven 30.
Either way even and being down in
the San Diego area, there's a lot
of overcast, that kind of rolls in
and then burns off really quickly.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
just know that when that's there, you're
still gonna get your ass burned, so you're
still gonna come out like a baked lobster.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Same thing at BMO.
That's just the weather
in Southern California.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
So with that, please remember to
your sunscreen, but if you are not
traveling to San Diego, if you are.
At home and thinking, wow, watching
this game would be so much more
fun if I had a bunch of other
people that I can watch this with.
If that's not where
your head is, I get you.
I I'll, I wanna watch the game by
myself too, but if you do wanna
watch it with a bunch of other people
that all are rooting for the same
team, we've got the thing for you.
All right, so as we've been saying
for the last couple weeks, we
have our watch party that we are
hosting with a show of our own,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yay.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
at the Great and Amazing Watch
Me Sports Bar down in Long Beach.
We're gonna be starting
everything around six o'clock.
Get there earlier.
There's whatever time you get there,
there's going to be sports on, there's
going to be good food and good drinks.
So get there whenever you wanna get there.
but our kind of officialness
is going to start around six.
a show of our own again, is a, women's
sports memorabilia show, event.
They've held a thing at, watch me
before, and we're gonna be doing, really
more focused on a trading card event.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
but there's, you never know, there
might be some more stuff there.
there might
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
to give away.
I'm just
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
we'll have, we'll have giveaways,
we'll have free cards, we'll have,
probably have stuff to buy, stuff
to trade, stuff to learn about.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
there.
Parkside is the brand that
makes and distributes all of
the NWSL trading cards, and
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
trading cards.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
So they'll have representation there.
we.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: this.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
And it'll be a great, so if you've,
if, if you're on the Discord,
you'll know that when you first
join the Discord, you get to choose
whether you are a casual, casual, an
advanced casual or an expert casual.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
You'll definitely have the
whole gamut of people there.
So if you just want to even learn
about training cards in general,
the NWSL trading cards, are there
trading cards for other leagues?
Are there trading cards for other sports?
All of that stuff you
can definitely find out.
And I'm most likely, I'm pretty
sure that there's not only going to
be soccer trading cards there, but
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Primarily, yeah.
And also at Watch Me there is a
trading card vending machine, the old
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Oh yeah.
That's truly I, yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
bring quarters.
I'm sure they can exchange them, but make
it easy on the bar, on the kitchen, bring
quarters, you can get, single cards.
Some have autographs, some are like relics
where they have pieces of jerseys or
the ball or something like that in them.
They have amazing cards in there.
I have limited myself to not participating
in that to this point at Watch Me.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
But you're gonna have
to do one at this part.
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
if you shop at Aldi and you
have Aldi Quarters, bring 'em.
Yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
and it is Long Beach, so we are
going to be, it will most likely get
a little chilly towards, game time.
and everything is gonna be
pretty much on the patio.
so unless you're lucky enough
to grab a seat on the inside.
so bring a, bring a jacket, bring
a light sweater, bring, bring
the summer sweater, and then
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
hoodie and you'll be fine.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
you'll be fine.
and.
I will be there.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yay.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
There's been many, an
event that I cannot make.
I will be there this time.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
both of us will be there.
it'll, it's gonna be fun.
win draw loss, most likely a win.
Please.
we need it.
Please, please win.
I'm gonna tell everybody to
keep sharing this episode.
Bring that luck in because
we, yeah, we need that win.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
need it.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
but we, it'll be a, it'll be a blast.
It'll be fun times.
There's great drinks.
the food is, is great
caveat for everyone going to this event
snack a little before you get there.
And I only say this because not only
watch me, any restaurant that has a
packed house will have a slow kitchen.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: yes.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
No matter what.
So unless you ordered a plate of
fries, that's just gonna get fried
up and then being like, here you go.
Everything's just gonna
take a little bit longer.
Just give them a little grace.
They're gonna be full.
It's, it's not a question of if they will
be full, they will be a packed house.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I'm not sure if the sparks are playing.
I should totally look, but there's
gonna be a lot of sports regardless.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yes.
So overall, please come down.
It's gonna be a fun time.
tell your friends, things that they
have done before is that they've
tried to slowly expand into the
patio, as, as more people show up
just to help accommodate people.
that's always, hopefully it's gonna be
that way and we're just gonna have a blast
and nobody's gonna have any bad times.
don't bring that energy.
Bring the fun,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: It's
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
bring the,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
super chill, super relaxed.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
if you are new to the game,
come just come hang out.
If you're local, it's
gonna be a great time.
Everybody's
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
to make sure you have a good time too.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
And like I said, everything
from diehard fans and experts to
the casuals are gonna be there.
So if you have, if you have a
question about a player that's on the
field that you just don't know yet,
someone will have an answer for you.
like everybody is, has always been
friendly, has always been cool, has
always been down to be like, look, we
wanna get you in this, you wanna learn
whatever you wanna learn, let's go.
You don't wanna learn anything, cool.
Let's have fun.
So it's, it's for everyone.
So with that, we do have a
little bit of a chaos award.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah, it's me.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
We, we had, we had.
Occasionally on our discord, we'll, do
we always do text, like match updates,
as everybody's watching the game.
occasionally when schedules work
out, we do live audio, like group
audio sessions on, on there.
and then just be able to chat
and hear with each other.
And as we're watching, Angela
goes, oh my God, guys, I forgot.
I can't believe I forgot about this.
I can't believe I forgot about that.
Oh God, I'm the problem.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
so in recapping the episode in my
brain a day, like the half, like the
episode dropped at seven or 8:00 AM
probably one o'clock that afternoon.
I was like, I didn't
talk about me official.
What, big fish comes back to
the NWSL, comes back to America
and I forget to talk about it.
So for those who don't know me, official
been playing for Chelsea, had been hurt.
It has a controversial, I would say,
experience with both US soccer and the
NWSL because they're tripping sometimes.
but she's returned to the rain
or returned to the NWSL on the
Reign and it's a big game changer.
And I am pissed that she
made her debut against us.
One 'cause I forgot to talk
about it, two because, ugh.
and then Sophia Huerta is back
from injury and this was also her
debut game back because it's after
the break and it's the first game.
Yay, yay, yay.
those were big impacts for us, obviously,
and I really wish I had talked about them.
Yeah.
so then the second reason, thir second,
third, fourth, fifth, I don't know.
This reason I'm also the Chaos Award is
because I totally forgot to recap the
signing that Angel City partnered with
Parkside and Burbank Sports cards to have.
I, I didn't talk about it at all.
I was there, Eva was there.
We had a great time.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
And you
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
now follows us on Instagram.
We're we're friends now.
yeah, so
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
and,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Riley Ri
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
swag.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I spent a lot of money also
buying trading cards that day.
but we met Ri Tiernan and Macy Hoge.
Obviously they're doing the signing.
Everybody's doing that.
and then.
when we're up there talking to
them, I told them about the podcast.
They were all super pumped about it.
They have stickers now, but we talked
good morning lesbians with Macy
We, and then New Jersey over here.
Eva and Riley Tiernan were like,
oh my God, you're off this exit.
So cool.
And then we talked some old NWSL
stuff about Riley Tier and sister.
Super fun event.
We had a great time.
Saw friends, made new friends, and then
they had a raffle at the end of the day.
First thing they raffle off
is a Macy Hodge jersey first
ticket they pull is mine.
And I was just like, what?
And the funny thing is, is I,
Eva was like, you are so awkward.
Like, why are you being like that?
And I said, because I almost said very
loudly what the actual f And there's
like a 7-year-old standing right next to
me and half the Angel City, like front
office team that comes to these events.
And I was like, ha.
And then,
and then at that point.
I'm trying to recoup to be like,
oh my gosh, the only thing I can
think to say are curse words.
So then I'm like, oh
no, my brain is broken.
It's a good time.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
honestly, it was a very fun event and I
hope that they do more of these one for
the players, for Burbank sports cards.
'cause it's a family
owned operation up there.
It's what, third generation?
What Burbank?
second.
They've been open since
the sixties I think.
Yeah, they've been open since the sixties.
And this is their biggest location.
It's super cool.
it's really fun.
They're all really nice there.
They have quarter cards, they
have fancy expensive cards.
They have you can just sit there, grab
a box and like shuffle through cards
from like specific years of baseball.
It's very fun.
They have Pokemon cards, they've
got Panini, which does a lot of
basketball international soccer.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
usually World Cup stuff.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
So very cool.
Very fun.
And then we got our cards graded
because then now they're like
official, like authorized signatures.
It was of a good time.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Nice.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
So
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Nice.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: It's
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah.
Yeah.
we'll talk about what, we'll
talk about what happened.
another chaos award really that happened
and we don't have this written down and
and I only know this by the highlight
clips, but the banger that Marta scored.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
In the Brazil, Columbia game.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Marta.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
award doesn't always have to
be like a weird negative thing.
It's just gonna be
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: that
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
fan.
Yeah,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Award.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah, yeah.
but that highlight of that
banger is just it just a rocket.
It was a rocket from,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
from outside the
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
from outside, way outside the box.
No, she was way further.
She was, I, yeah.
Yeah.
And.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
other side of the bitch.
Felt like it though.
Like the vibes for sure.
It felt like it
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
so yes, if you haven't seen that
one, go back, go, go, go into some
social media account that's doing
wo so content and you'll see it.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
attacking third's.
A really good play.
Jumping
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
and yeah, it was fucking amazing.
so with that, let's talk about
the, quick roundabout of the scores
that happened, around the NWSL.
we have, of course, Casey winning another
game, two to zero over, Louisville Kham.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
really quick, after the episode dropped,
Kansas City, signed Ali Sinner Utah.
That's the big breaking news, frankly.
What the hell?
As far as I know, we don't really
know what, if anything, Utah's
getting in return outside of money.
So is a big deal because center,
not only like she has scored in
large capacity and in great fanfare
on the national team, she's have
four international goals already.
She has won for a club.
She's very low scoring club wise,
but in, in international place,
she's like a whole different person.
have a feeling this has a lot
to do with Utah as a whole.
so I'm very curious.
What happens in who else leaves Utah?
I have, I have, some thoughts.
I have some ideas on who
that's gonna be next, but for
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
A future episode
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
In a
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
the discord.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
when that news breaks,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah, but that was a
big signing for Casey.
Not only are they top of the
table, clear and away favorites.
on, on the top.
Just on the top.
there are two levels above
everybody else right now.
So
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: good.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
it, they're having a, a stupid year.
they were having a good one
last one, but Orlando just had
a better one, and this year.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: now.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
And they're they're basically saying,
look, look, it wasn't a fluke.
Last year was not a fluke,
and we're this good.
So yes.
KC won over Louisville, two to nothing.
Chicago and Gotham, tied one to one.
We'll talk about that one.
North Carolina and San Diego drew
at Zero Zero Bay and Houston also
drew at two and two, and we had
Washington over Portland two to one.
Then the big kind of surprise of
the weekend I wanna say, is Utah
Evening out with Orlando one-to-one
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: yeah.
Also really quick, in former
Angel City Player News,
Simone, Charlie got activated.
Simone, Charlie got minutes.
Simone,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Nice.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
her two new acls and a
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212: I.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
bunch of recovery and hard work and
amazing effort is back on the pitch.
as is Luana who's been going through
cancer treatment the last year.
So just so happy for Orlando.
Everybody here knows I love this team,
but Simone, Charlie, if you had any
interactions with her while she was
here in la, like on crutches most of the
time she hasn't been on the pitch since
2023 when she got hurt with us she tore
her other ACL like in training once she
had gotten cleared from the first ACL.
I'm so happy for her.
She is such a good person.
She's so sweet.
She's so kind.
She's so giving of her time to the fans.
if any Orlando fans listen to this, shower
her in King's Hawaiian rolls and keep her
safe and Luana, just cheer her on, send
us good, we'll send good vibes to her as
well to stay cancer free and to continue
to just heal and and all the good things.
And I'm gonna stop talking about this
'cause I'm already getting emotional.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yay.
So as you're getting emotional,
let's talk about our game.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Far less emotional about that.
Shocking.
Shockingly,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
so Angel City traveled up to Seattle.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: did.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
we did not get a result.
We wanted.
I was zero to two.
We lost, really, I should say two to zero.
we lost either way.
Doesn't matter which way you
wanna put the two to zero.
we got a goal by Fish Luck,
as she came in, right?
She was subbed in and then she scored.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Which is the same thing she did
to us in BMO two seasons ago.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
and then there would've
been a almost second.
It was, it was initially by
the commentators awarded to
Fishlock, but it turns out it
was really more of an own goal.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: I
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
and it was,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
about this given the conversation that
occurred in the Discord video chat.
We're all frustrated that Fishlock
scored because as I'm about to say,
we didn't really have an answer for
her in the midfield, in the defense.
Like she's just that good.
But we needed to match
up against her better.
she scores this banger.
I'm like, damn it.
We're all just like
grumbly, grumbly, grumbly.
Mario comes in 10 seconds later
and goes, she should score again.
So she gets her 45th goal 'cause she's
at 44 right now and I don't like that.
The other four people on that, on that
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I would.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: voice
chat start screaming, what are doing?
How dare you put that in the universe?
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I didn't say she should SI didn't say
she should score again against us.
I was saying I hope she gets
another one to even that out.
It's one of those things where like
you two, when you're, when you're
setting the volume on your TV or
your radio, it's a five or a zero.
there're really, there's very few times
where an even number is, is an okay thing.
It, it's, it's, it's a me thing.
I know.
And, but a lot of other
people do this too.
So when they flashed up 44,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
you don't say those things
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
you flashed up 44.
In my head I was just like, oh
God, that bothers me so much.
so yeah.
But I wasn't saying
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: I
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
for her to score on us.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
and they said, oh, bet, bet.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Okay.
In my defense officially,
she did not score.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
But if we hadn't grazed the ball,
barely, she would've, then it
would not have been an own goal.
It would've been on Jess Fishlock.
I'm just saying that Mario's little
caveat of it's not my fault is wrong.
I'm also, when it comes to
watching games like that, I my
best to keep my own personal
superstitions and stresses myself.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
and at one point,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
out of my body.
The second Those words
left your mouth just
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212: at
one point in the pod, Angela has admitted
that she is not very superstitious,
but she's a little stitious.
So
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I was very
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
came out, it came out full force.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
There's certain things you don't do and
that's what you, that's what you did.
You did the don't, you don't dos.
Ah, ya, ya, Nino.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
okay, so what, what did we see as
we were the one, the one thing I
really noticed was it felt like all
of their passes were really heavy.
And I think you guys were right.
I think you guys started talking
about it's probably the pitch.
It's probably the,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: turf.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
the them playing on turf and not on grass.
the ball tends to roll a little bit
differently, but it just felt like
every single, like it felt, again, we've
talked about how things are looking like
they're working out, yet they're still
like a little bit of something missing
every time they hit it to each other.
It was like they were
pissed off at each other.
Like they'd kick that ball so hard.
It was getting a lot to, they would kick
it so hard to each other where they'd
like, they'd, that first touch was always
so heavy that they would almost lose it.
So I would say.
A third of the time that they had
that first touch, they lost it.
It was like a turnover,
like they turned it over.
It was just like so
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: in
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
frustrating to watch.
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
second half too.
'cause the first half was, looked
really good and my notes they said we
looked really good until we didn't.
Because that's essentially what happened.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I shouldn't,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
they brought in me official,
which we have lovingly started
to call One Fish, two fish.
And it's, they had a lot of their better,
more veteran like NWSL stalwarts out
or coming back from international play.
So like minutes, that kind of thing.
The second those players
came in, different team
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
and they just kept making subs
and on the, the voice chat, it
was just like, oh shit, shit.
Oh shit.
no.
It was like, oh, dammit, here we go.
that's exactly what happened.
So going into the second half,
I was fine with the draw at
zero zero if we just held it.
Locked him down.
Cool.
That's fine.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
And yeah, we were fine until we weren't.
And then one fish, two
fish came in and said, no,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
that's not what we're gonna do tonight.
And I said, okay, fine.
I'm sorry.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
fish, fish luck came in first,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: yes.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
the game, and then Mia came in, at 10
minutes later and then just kept it going.
And then she cooked like
three of our players, just,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
it's me official.
That's why so mad.
I didn't talk about her.
She's gonna cook the whole fricking team.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
so yeah, it was, I, I wish I
would've watched that first half
and not felt as I, I don't know.
Maybe I would've felt even more
because like it would've been like,
what was happening on the first
half and why can't we do that?
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I honestly don't have bad
feelings about this game.
And I'll talk about that a little
bit more later once I get into what
I'm talking about for the next game.
But.
genuinely think this is just taking
what they've been doing in training
and trying to execute it on the pitch.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
is that you have a completely
unknown in another team.
You
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
And
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
your opposition
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah, and it, it's just like the,
the thing that everybody hates
is, it's, it's a turf pitch.
It's one of the few, still left around
where it's like Seattle and Portland.
Yeah.
two, really two places that
are abundant with water yet.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
so the, the turf is always
gonna play different.
It's also gonna play different as to
how some players want to play on it.
very famously there was like,
it, it's always a story.
When it's it's gonna be that.
So it's not really a story, but they
make it a story, in the men's game
whenever the, the kind of veteran
players are like Messi's first time when
he was about to play on a turf pitch.
there was this big thing
about is he even gonna play?
Does he wanna play on turf?
he has veto power to be like,
no, I'm not gonna play on turf.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
do, like our women's national team, a
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
don't know it's in their rider that
they do not play on turf because of
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Oh, the na the national teams
don't play at all on turf.
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: of
injuries and additional things that come
with playing on hard plastic ground,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
And that, that was the other thing
is that in our chat, the question of
where is press, came up and then, and
then I, I brought up like, I think it's
probably because of the, the turf pitch.
do you want to, especially at
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
a lot too.
It was like very slick.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
especially at the point
where we were talking.
in that game, which it was, it was
getting towards the point where,
we only had 15 minutes left.
I know we wanna bring press early, but
also do you wanna risk the rest of the
season again without press for a game
that's getting away from us already.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
bringing press in wasn't going
to be the game changer that we
always hope it's going to be.
In this situation, there was
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212: a
couple things that were just a little bit
out of our control, or that seemed like
maybe it was a little too much for us to,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Overcome.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
the, the individual moments of brilliance
weren't going to overcome the entire team
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Mm-hmm.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
that we were facing.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
part of it is that Seattle has
Laura Harvey and they've had
Laura Harvey for a very long time.
Those, there's a group of players
that have stayed in Seattle.
Now understand the mindset, understand
the, the play, the everything, so they
can then play or coach on the pitch.
We're not there yet, but I have a feeling
next season we're going to be there.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Granted, obviously not to the same
degree but of greater, benefit to us.
But yeah, so we put up on Instagram,
let's process this together.
The fish lock in Seattle got us
like in parentheses, lock the
fish in Seattle, the fish lock.
Got it.
Cool.
Great.
We're all on the same page.
Zach came in, so happy to see June
and then a rocket ship strong.
We couldn't lock emoji out.
Fish lock, like fish emoji, lock emoji.
Still struggling to go a full
90, which yeah, very much are.
I think a lot of it honestly has to do
with injuries and recovery from injuries.
'cause right now we have a few people.
That would normally be there, not there.
and we're also testing out
a whole bunch of new shit.
came in and said, is there a
rule on how long we have to
wait to sub in the second half?
you'd be surprised we're getting
62nd 70, 60 to 65 minute subs.
I'm fine.
We're not coming in at 82 anymore
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
there,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: like
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
there is, there is no rule.
There are personal rules by the
coaches that they have their own
rules of this is when I do it.
At no earlier.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
And she also said, at least it
Sparks won for la Holy shit.
That game went into double
overtime into triple over time.
It was insane.
It was a very stressful night
for sports in this household.
Mirna said, where was press, which
we're all pretty sure to do with
the turf, the sleepiness of it.
'cause people were slip
sliding all over the place.
And in a way that doesn't
normally happen on
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
Yeah.
And turf will have a higher probability
of getting that ACL injury, or
just really any type of leg injury.
So unless you're super comfortable
like Seattle is playing on it,
because that's what they're practicing
on and that's their home field.
Yeah.
You don't, you don't want Yeah,
that's, that's why she wasn't really
on there as early as we wanted.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Trent said, sad.
God is so sad.
And I think that was the part everybody
was really like pumped for this game
and then it was just like, dang it.
and then our buddy Doug said, wondering
why we keep trusting gas station sushi.
It looks so good in the
case, but it never sits.
Give it time.
This is different.
This isn't gas station sushi.
This is Whole Foods or
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
first time I,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: we're
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
the first time when I first read
his comment, I was like, huh.
Yeah.
I took it literally and I was like,
I, I, I wouldn't be trusting gas.
Are you trusting gas station sushi?
And then I was like, okay, okay.
I understood.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
We went from gas station sushi to
Ralph's, Whole Foods to Air one.
We're, we're at Air One Sushi right now.
We're like trustable, but
it's still pre-prepared.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
you know what's a, a nice little easy
hack for like dinner is, going to
Whole Foods and instead of getting
the sushi that they're making, just
getting a bunch of the sashimi and
then building and then just 'cause
it's already like sliced and portioned
into moola and then you just make it.
Yeah, exactly.
And and it's amazing 'cause then, the kids
get to roll it and it's a big fun thing.
It's make your own food
night and they love it,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
That's good.
I wish I liked fish.
just, it's just not for me and it's a
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Oh yeah, that's right.
We were talking about
something and I was like,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I'm just like, no, thanks.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I was like, there's this, there's
this great restaurant we can go
hit up before the, before the game.
And you're like, I don't really like fish.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: that.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
All right, well on Discord, fish Luck.
fish Luck, Cassandra, Cassandra came in
with, fish Luck Brings Energy and Grit.
Same thing Sid brings for us.
Just shows how much we miss
her and we need more of that.
A leap in the stands.
Crazy.
Sally rip a jersey off and get carded
for the game winning goal type.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jan Anthony, it feels like they
were, it feels like they were
finally given the initiative to play.
They win.
They want to play when they want
to play, and they were confused.
And,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah, and that's a
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
to make when you're given the freedom
to fly, but you're not used to that.
It's is this okay?
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
And like I said, I think a lot of that
too is just, just the conditions and
the, the, I still go back to I feel like
all of their passes felt very heavy.
They looked very heavy.
And I think it re and it just,
that did not help them trying
to progress, trying to advance,
trying to, keep the momentum going.
And so it, yeah, it, and again,
we're building and
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Mm-hmm.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
know, we, we we're gonna start running
at a time soon, but we're building.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yep,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Joel came in with, still
dreaming of a midfield.
Alanna Kennedy looked gassed
in the final 30 minutes.
Lots of hesitation.
Confusion and passes.
Just a bit off.
Beating San Diego is a great
way to get Strauss' first win.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
that's true.
I feel like beating San
Diego feels like 10 points.
What I mean, like it's just Yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah, yeah, yeah.
oh, that means it's the next game.
I didn't even realize that the next game
was going to be US San Andrea's Cup game.
Okay.
All right.
And then Ethan came in with a haiku, which
we realized we didn't get a haiku last
game, but then again, we will let that go.
It was a friendly, take
the time off that you need.
We.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
sure did.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Not by choice, but we did.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: By
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
so Ethan, with our high cooking,
coming in saying, we finding rhythm
added some needs to form squad.
Welcome back Endo.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
So with that, let's check out our
positioning and the standings.
At this point, we're halfway through,
so I think it's gonna be important
to keep checking in on this.
glad to say we are, not glad, but,
we are solely in 11th place, so
we're no longer tied for 10th.
We have a 11th all to ourselves.
with the loss.
We didn't go anywhere, but we didn't
fall, which was frankly amazing.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
so we're still looking for that magic.
and we feel it that it's coming.
Don't lose faith, but,
don't lose the hope.
But yeah, we're in 11th.
We're so close, right?
Like we're, we're just, just those
few little spots and it's still,
I believe it's still tight enough
where we can like, make some moves.
It's not like it's,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
of Kansas City, it's, it's.
malleable at this point.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah.
'cause I'm looking at the, I'm
looking at this right now and we're
in 11th, eighth place is Gotham
right now, and they're at 19.
So we're only four points
away from the playoff line.
and then, it keeps progressing from there.
Will we catch up to Kansas City?
No.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
they'd have to lose every game on out.
No, no goals.
Everybody would have to eat
away at their goal differential.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah, but it's, this is not like the way
it was last year where there was like a
definite do not cross this line of the
top half teams and the bottom half teams.
Right now we're seeing a little bit
more, flexibility, a little bit more
movement in what we, what we're doing.
So let's just keep it going.
so yeah, 11th place and hopefully we
get the win at Snapdragon Stadium.
So let's talk about the
San Diego Wave preview.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Alright, so there's a lot to talk about
with this game, especially for Angel City.
our back line is still recovering
from injury and a reshuffling.
We don't necessarily, I mean we have
Megan Reid, but aside from Megan, we
don't have another center back at the
moment, the, a true, true center back.
We have a lot of Kennedy who
spent the majority of her
career in that position, but has
transitioned a defensive midfielder.
So filling the gap right now, as is
Megan Reid, but for, my God, I'm drawing
a blank 'cause my brain doesn't work.
What is her name?
It's Sarah and it, her
last name starts with a D.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Dorson,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: what,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
are you signing Dorson?
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: yeah.
We're waiting for her to come in
and obviously savvy like needs
to recover and take that time.
so there's a lot of shifting
going on in the back line.
the biggest thing for me honestly was that
we need to get better shots on target.
We're getting the chances they're just
not going where we want them to go.
We skied a few, we had one off the
cross bar, it was like we're we're this.
It's what we've been saying.
We're just tuning all the knobs, but we
haven't gotten the calibrate correctly.
a lot has been improved though, and I
think that needs to be congratulated.
Yes, we still have a million questions
about our midfield, same thing there.
There's a whole bunch of people hurt.
I think there's gonna be a lot of answers
given over the next few weeks as people
are healthy, as people start playing more.
we're going to continue to look
different because from Saturday.
Yes.
The game was on Saturday.
I was like, what day was that?
from Saturday in Seattle to this
weekend, is going to be another big
jump because they spent a month in a
bubble stuff out, and now it's putting
it into practice and see what works
for real and what works, not so much,
and, and making those adjustments.
And I think that's going to be the
biggest part from a spectator standpoint.
if I take myself out of like soccer
brain and I'm just there to have fun,
we look like a real competitive team
for the first time in a very long time.
And it looked like it was on
purpose, it was intentional.
It was like the team knew what they
were doing and everybody else, like
everybody knew what their jobs were.
We had the happy accident of the second
half of our second season, I really
feel like this time is the, the tide
turning and this time is for real.
Where we look that good
'cause we are that good.
It's just managing this new system,
figuring it out, all that good stuff.
The last thing is like any, any team,
regardless of level from literally like
T-ball or like whenever you start getting
competitive in sports to professional, if
you have full buy-in from everybody, if
the team, if willing to make sacrifices,
player will, players are willing to
sacrifice minutes or playing time or
whatever position seniority, the more
buy-in there is from every person at
every level of the team, the faster and
the more aggressively we start pushing
That's what I think people
have to remember is that
process is still happening.
Like from everything we've seen,
everything we've heard the team has
bought in, and now it's putting that
buy-in into practice and saying,
okay, what's our starting lineup?
Because that's all up for grabs still.
It's essentially starting the season over.
So it's who is doing
what, are we making subs?
What is our game plan moving forward?
who's leading this part of it?
Who's leading that part?
who leads the charge when there's a foul?
every player has a
different role on the pitch.
And right now all of that got thrown
into a blender and is resettling,
and that's what we're gonna see
happen over the next couple weeks.
And that's what is keeping me very
excited is that the buy-in is there.
You don't see a team.
You don't see a coach
who's lost his locker room.
He just got it.
he
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
If he would've,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
it's, it's still so fresh and so new.
A month and a half is like zero days.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
if we were talking about him losing the
locker room by this point there's just,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
There's bigger problems.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
there's nothing to be done.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: the
team all from top to bottom is under that
understanding of this is gonna take time.
have four years, or three and a
half years of habits to deconstruct,
systems, to rebuild trust, to rebuild
relationships, to, to rebuild and fix
and mend and all that kind of stuff.
There's so much underlying that has
to be recalibrated and figured out.
And that doesn't happen overnight.
It doesn't happen in a month, and
that's really, and that's the hard part.
Just as a fan, you want it
to happen now because, hello?
He's here.
Duh.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
But takes time.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
dunno.
Yeah.
It, yeah.
It, it takes time.
and like we said, are we gonna, are
we gonna see everything gel this year?
yes.
I do believe so, like gel to the
point where we wanna see it like,
like we're like clicking, we're
having, we're having fun again.
not enough fun to start
the wave, but fun to
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
everything on the pitch.
And as you can see by both
our faces about the wave.
no actually.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
at the worst times,
Savvy's down on the pitch.
They're trying to start the wave.
I'm ready to go six sections over and have
a conversation with some adults like no.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
so yes.
Are we going to see this, gelling?
yes, I do believe so.
Whether it's going to be, in
the next two matches or so.
I said when, I think when we were
talking about the preview, I think
I said like the first three or so.
are we gonna see it here or
are we gonna see it like.
on our like, decision day
match where we're like, holy
shit, where's that team been?
it will happen.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yep.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
it's just a matter of, of
when, and yes, it takes time.
And really I think that the only
solution or the only thing that will
build it up as to like we're doing,
we, we can get there as quickly as
we can, is just the consistency of,
of the practices and then honestly
just the consistency of our health,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Mm-hmm.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
the team's health.
Like we've, in our entire history, our
entire long ACFC history, we've just been
dealt some shitty ass cards health wise.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Health wise for sure.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
And I, I'm not deep diving into a bunch
of the other teams, so I don't really
know if they have similar situations
and to some degree, but it just as us
as the fans here, it feels like, damn.
And then, all the other nicknames
that we have for our team, rehab
FC being one of them, right?
like we would get players coming in
and we're like, oh, great signing,
but wait, aren't they injured?
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Mm-hmm.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
so they're,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
say this because a lot of
people had issue with it.
No one knew the severity of
SID'S injury when she was traded,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah, I, and she, I don't think she knew.
So
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
doctors didn't know, she
didn't know the team, didn't
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
team knew.
sometimes that happens
and it sucks tremendously.
No more than for the player.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
So caveat.
'cause there's been some things said over
the last couple years that I'm like, wow,
you've never been hurt like that before.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, and I'm not singling that out.
I'm singling, I'm talking Yeah.
I'm talking about the, the general
of hey, a lot of the players that
we've gotten have come in with
something that we've been like,
we're the, they're not coming in,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Mm-hmm.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
we haven't signed them.
They're coming in into practice on like
Monday and they're playing Saturday.
Like they're not starting right away.
It's oh yeah, no, you won't see
them for another two months.
So so all of that in our past history
is the stuff that we need to purge,
modify, get used to face the reality of,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Mm-hmm.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
and then move forward from.
And so that does take time.
all right.
So who are we watching out for?
on our wonderful friends from the South.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: So
San Diego is having a very good season.
I saw this weekend it was like,
this is the most wins that they've
started the season with, which feels
crazy, but have a French coalition
right now with Kenzie Deli, Delphine
Cascarino, and Perle Morroni.
Two forwards in a defender coming
in from different French teams,
wreaking havoc a little bit like Dali
and Cascarino can score like crazy.
fully think they have unleashed,
haven't fully adjusted to the NWSL
yet to get that, prowess, wrangled.
let's hope they don't
do it on, on Saturday.
Let's just, our defense
is gonna lock it down.
That's what's gonna happen.
But all three of them are
very, very good players.
On and off their national team, that
kind of thing where it's that's a
dangerous attack because you have
players who are from a similar
system coming in at the same time.
When they played opening,
no, not opening day.
when we had media passes,
second, was it opening day?
No
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
No, it's a second,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
second one.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
whatever.
When they were up here.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah, Dali and Cascarino were
the ones giving the presser.
And it was like, oh, they're
just getting used to this crap.
They're, they're excited.
Like they're hungry, they're excited.
French team, French players are
like for those who remember Clarice
Labon, like Amand Enri, they're
very fluid, they're very like our
American stereotypes of France.
Yes.
On the pitch, like very, structured,
but very fluid at the same time.
Very good.
Just in general.
it, it's interesting to me
that they haven't had as
much success as you'd assume.
That's, my, overview of the
French Coalition that San
Diego is currently building.
So Ken Kenza Dali is a
forward, she's number 10.
Delphine Cascarino is also a
forward number 20 and Perle
Morroni is a defender number 75.
they also have a couple former Angel
City players in DiDi Haracic who's their
backup keeper and Savannah McCaskill.
Those of you who are a long time Angel
City fans will remember her for her bun.
Which has been called a
croissant, depending on if
it gets knocked off center.
is a player, I think is
the best way to put it.
Some people love her, some people don't.
And I feel like that's the vibe across
the league and the different player,
the, the different team she's played for.
Some people love her, some people don't.
she's very, yes, they, that's the word.
Not so much controversial,
very polarizing.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
she is known for getting frustrated if
a call, if she thinks a call is missed,
falling, like sliding on the grass.
She, she is very good at the yoga superman
position of being on your chest with
your arms in the air and your legs up.
yeah, so you'll see her in the midfield.
She's number 21.
If you've watched an Angel City
game before last season, you've
seen her in black and pink.
like I said, DiDi's their backup
keeper to Kailen Sheridan.
DiDi is now wearing number 31
and then under the category of
damn good, I have Kaly Sheridan.
My notes just say Canada keeper.
Stupid.
Good small goal.
Gay, married, about to be a mom.
Seems vco.
IRL.
That's my entire thought process.
Right now I'm running on
like very few hours of sleep,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Which, if you want a, if a deeper
dive, I'm pretty sure you covered
Kailen Sheridan in in our last one, so
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
single game.
She's so good.
I love watching her play.
It's frustrating that we play
her so often and have played her
so often, both internationally
between the US and Canada and,
angel City and San Diego.
But she's a very, very steady.
keeper.
also very well respected within the league
because of how she treats other teammates
like other, her teammates, other teams,
players, other keepers specifically.
Anytime a keeper is like down, down,
she'll run and go check on them.
and granted, like her
and DiDi are our friends.
They were keepers together at Gotham.
Was it sky blue when they were there?
Sky blue and then Gotham.
Yeah, sky blue.
And then Gotham Dei was
Kaylyn's back up there too.
So there's a long history with them.
But I remember one game Dei went down and
like I blinked Sheridan's girl, you good?
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah, she ran.
She ran across the pitch and
she was like checking in on her.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
And it says a lot.
She does seem very, very cool.
She recently
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
DiDi spent a lot of time, she
took her time when she went down.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
an actual injury.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh yeah, I remember that one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm just saying in general, she was like.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
But Kailen Sheridan, very cool.
just seems legit, like as a,
as a person, not just a player.
from, they do have two s seis,
which will be interesting.
And then they had two players playing
in, Copa Medica, which was one
Columbian player, one Brazilian player.
So who knows if they'll
be activated or not.
Depends on this week and when they
got back and all that good stuff.
So it'll be an interesting matchup
on the side just because it always
is it's, it's one of those things, no
matter how good or bad your team is,
when you're matched up against like
your nearest rival, bet I could be
zero 400 that season and I'm playing,
I'm matched up against my rival team.
We'll do everything I can to win.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212: I,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
You play up.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
as an honest question, I wonder, I
wonder who the team sees as that.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Mm-hmm.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Active rival.
Do they see very much, because San
Diego came in at the same time?
it was like it media went.
You guys are rivals.
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
have the Chanclasico.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
the fans kind of embraced it, but it
wasn't like girl for rivals like the
Derby, it wasn't that at the beginning.
And it, eh, still I would
argue still isn't, but
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I'm from here.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah, there's, there's a
definite la there's a definite
La San Diego City thing.
but yeah, I just, I I wonder what the
players would say if you ask them,
like between all the West Coast teams.
'cause like you would honestly say
like the West Coast teams are probably
going to be who you would consider your
rivals or like who you would consider.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: you
have Portland and Seattle with the like
Cascadia Cup, like that's a huge rivalry
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Oh yeah.
But that's a rivalry that goes like.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: back
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
That goes back way back.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
the league.
So like
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
But still big time and it's
tried and true, so I don't really
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: I
would also be curious to see who the, our
players actually see as like their rival.
Rival.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah.
But like you said, it, anytime
there's a close proximity and
again, the La San Diego rivalry
of just the cities in general,
as those rivalries grow, usually you
can throw any type of record leading
into it out the window because it starts
to become like a, an unpredictable,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: It
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
it unpredictable chaos.
Like it becomes a chaos match.
And you know what, if this is
what the San Diego matches become.
I'm all for it.
I would, I would be like, we can be
top of the table and then come to
the San Diego match and then not be
sure at all if we would win or not.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
this into the universe.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I'm just saying the chaos.
I want the chaos.
I want the excitement.
I want something.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
stressful.
We, we differ in our desires
for chaos and the reason behind
them, but it's still the same.
we
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
really good matchups and really
good unpredictable games.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yes.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
And with, with that, unpredictability
is a big key factor for Angel City, And
so right now we've seen Alanna Kennedy
and Sarah Gorden as our center back duo.
we were discussing it this weekend in
the, the voice chat during the game.
Alanna Kennedy is probably most veteran
connection and consistency in that
position since Paige was on the team,
like most years in the league, most
years internationally, most years
just with experience at the this
club level and playing in the NWSL.
The only other person Sarah has
played with on the back line with
that much experience is Paige.
'cause Megan Reid now, like now she has
three and a half years of experience, but
that first season was brand new to her.
And granted Sarah was out that first
season, so it was her and Paige.
But we haven't had a world.
Where we have a center back duo
that like just chills back there.
We had Megan and Paige.
Sarah and Paige and Megan
as the sub, and then Savvy.
And now it's Megan, Alanna Kennedy, or no?
Yeah.
Megan, Alanna Kennedy and
Sarah and now the other Sarah.
But we don't know yet.
'cause she's not here yet.
so the consistency right now between
Sarah and Lonnie is important and I'm
hoping, granted, I see Alanna Kennedy as
a midfielder now more than a center back.
I say that as I'm wearing a
fricking alley Krieger shirt.
Jesus.
but she's still so solid on the
back line experience alone and
that's super important to remember.
Wow, this all shakes out.
Roles are changing in real time.
Like you're seeing players who normally
start 30 minutes at the end of the game.
Seeing players who we've never seen
before, people are getting playing
time for the first time, really getting
our legs under us to figure this out.
I'm not sure if there's minute restriction
coming into play with that, but like M.A.
has been coming off the bench
behind Evelyn Shores and that could
be, I have a few theories, minute
restriction, one of them for M.A.
So it's like you get fresh
legs at the end of the game.
Two, we haven't seen Evelyn
Shores at this level.
We gotta get her up to speed, so give
her more minutes in the beginning.
M.A.
can come in with fresh legs.
That's really I'm thinking.
But to have M.A.
come in in the second half
as like a finisher is scary.
And then you add in like fresh
legs where you have energy.
Plus you're that good to both defend
and move the ball up the field bonkers.
no, thank you.
Do not want, it's like when you
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
somebody get subbed in, like we were
saying this weekend, I was like, oh no.
Oh no.
Oh no.
that's what it feels like
when somebody like M.A.
comes off the bench in the second half.
It's oh shoot, let's go.
So that, that's changing every little mid
or every little like subset of the team
is shifting and changing and figuring
out who goes where and who does what.
even like Christen Press and Katie
Zelem, kind of preface this earlier
in the season of I don't see
Christen Press as a starter anymore.
see her as that elite
finisher of a, of a game.
To either score when it's needed or
be that consistent threat to draw
the defense to open up other people.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
same with Katie Zelem.
We're people are, granted she kinda had
a weird moment in the game that gave up
a goal, but she's still fantastic player.
That's one game.
Doesn't change that.
and her role is changing as well
in the midfield, so I don't know.
We'll see.
But what I see as the
future is our frontline.
It's fine to see daughter, Jan's daughter,
Alyssa Thompson and Riley Tiernan,
that's not even taking into account.
June Endo, Christen Press, Sydney
LaRue, the other people on the pitch.
You can score, like I said, last episode,
like the three of them is insane.
Finds has this like grittiness about her.
Alyssa
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
She was
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: like
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
scientists was
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
she's spicy.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
she was playing, she was
playing her ass off that game.
yeah, she.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
in the friendly too.
Like she plays her ass off.
So I'm excited to watch her mature
and grow in style of a game,
because playing in Iceland is
different than here, obviously.
there's different things that are
acceptable in other leagues that
aren't acceptable here that you
have to adjust your brain around,
which she's still obviously doing.
It's been two games or
three games technically.
But once our offense and our
midfield really click, we're scary.
we're scary now as a threat.
We just haven't advanced
that threat to be like.
Active.
We're just like, what is it?
Like orange level warning.
We're not like red yet.
We're almost, we're cooking,
we're not like high heat cooking.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
So there's a lot to, right now with
this team, and I just wanna remind
people that, because there's a, it's
so easy right now just ride it all off.
We're used to having to
write it off, and right
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
It,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: okay.
It's,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
it's, it's too easy to look at the
standings and the, just the raw number
of like how many wins, how many losses.
it's too easy to look at that
and write everything off.
I think, I think one of the reasons we're
here, and the, one of the reasons we
wanna be doing this is there is n not only
nuance, but there are stories to tell.
There's, there's talent to be shared.
There's amazing players that are there,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
for one reason or another
are just not working out.
And
we know that there's potential.
We, the team knows that there's potential.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
think they feel it though this
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
different way where it's
oh no, all know it's there.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
The fans all know it's there, but
we can see it and we can feel it
and we can see the progression.
And it's starting to get to
that point for the fan base
of oh, that's what that means.
it.
And that's, it's difficult to
comprehend when we're in a city that's
used to winning a lot in everything.
difficult when you go through a rough
patch, but is cyclical in sports.
And our time will come and our
time in the sun will be amazing.
And all of this will be worth it
because we have finally a system.
That knows how to build and knows how
to rebuild and knows how to push us
forward in a way we haven't had before.
We have experienced leadership
essentially who are good at what they do.
But yeah, so the matchup history between
us and San Diego is a lot overall.
It's what?
That's 4, 9, 12 games.
We've played them across the board.
Regular
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: we
have three wins, two draws and two losses.
So very even
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
the challenge cup in the summer cup and
all the other things, one win, three
draws, one loss still exceptionally even.
So when, like I said earlier, even if a
team is running the table you're playing
like your nearest rival or like team in
the next city over, like bet bets are off.
All bets are off.
, Yeah, overall this matchup
is exceptionally even.
Even one doesn't feel like it.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Yeah.
so I hope for good chaos.
I hope for
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: chaos
on behalf and in favor of Angel City.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
yes.
Yes.
I hope our, I hope that we get good chaos.
I hope that our team
puts on their sunblock.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: The
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I hope that it's,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: fans,
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
hope that, I hope that the, the weather
is great and, for sure it's not a hope.
It's gonna be a fun watch party.
with all of that, our next matchup is
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Down in San Diego.
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We'll share repost, we'll do whatever.
It's, it's fun.
We'd just, we'd like to see, who's
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It's gonna be down at
Snapchat and stadium.
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We'll probably be there a little bit
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angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yep.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
and it brings us good luck.
We will take all that.
Good luck.
We'll throw it on the Pacific Surf liner
and we'll send it down to San Diego.
and we'll make sure the team gets
it and really, really make sure that
we have a fun time on the bitch.
so with that,
thanks for listening.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Why did I blank out?
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Yeah.
See you at, see you.
Watch me.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
See, see you all Watch me.
Bye.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Ah.
Shit.
Did I just mess up the recording?
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
No,
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
Are you sure?
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I, I think everything's fine.
I
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212: Okay.
Because I know sometimes if I like
swipe out of something, my video
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
touching the screen.
angela-guest395_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I didn't.
I just tried to scroll up to more words.
chancla--sandalia-_1_08-04-2025_164212:
I think of the, the opening scene
in Jurassic Park or the second scene
in Jurassic Park where he's like.
You touch the screen.
What, what?
You touch the screen.
Stop touching the screen.
All right.
