9/01 Angel City FC vs Bay FC
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
We're gonna be a.
Look at that back to back
matches at BMO Stadium.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Sorry.
Hold on.
What?
You might, what the (bleep) is this?
Oh, are the headphones
are like coming apart?
Like they're wearing out and flaking.
Oh, sorry.
I thought it was a bug and
I was trying not to scream.
I was like, what the
(bleep) is on my neck?
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Welcome to
Casual FC, an Angel City match preview
and footy therapy pod, featuring two
podcast certified footy therapists.
I'm your host, Mario Salazar
with my, you're gonna hear
her yawning co-host, Angela.
Look, we've told you guys,
we've told everybody before
what time we usually record.
We usually record Tuesday night.
I do a crazy amount of editing.
Not I don't do a crazy amount of
editing, but I edit like crazy and
then get it out Wednesday morning.
We are recording today on a
Monday night because Angela's
got cool adulting things to do.
but Monday is also.
Yeah, you're gonna go to the
Pantages, gonna see some fun stuff.
But Monday is also
Angela's really long day.
She wakes up super.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
45 guys and it's currently nine 40
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: So
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
I had a yba mate at 1230
to make it to this point.
So sorry if I'm yawning a lot.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: we've got a,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: talk
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
there's a lot to talk about.
So sorry that it's gonna be a long one.
We'll try to push through some of
these and not get too sidetracked.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: LOL
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
this is our match preview
for the last San Andreas Cup.
Match the battle for second place.
That's what I'm calling it
because San Diego already took it.
they already ran with it.
All right, so this is for our next
match on Monday, September 1st,
which is Labor Day against Bay FC.
We're gonna look, we got a back
to back home matches at BMO.
So we're gonna be at BMO Stadium.
The match will be at 6:00 PM You can get
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
at two.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: fan fest
starts at two, which means, you can
get there early, get your face painting
and your temporary tattoo going.
If you can't make it to the game will
be broadcast on the CBS Sports Network,
which we're not fans of here, but
that's just because of the availability.
also will be on the FanDuel network and
that just means just get to the game.
I'm pretty sure you can find tickets.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah,
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
It's not gonna be,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
available.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
it out.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: if you can't.
Watch the game or you can't be there.
You can always listen to Isaac
and Tracey on iHeartRadio.
Super easy.
Download the app.
It has its own station.
It has the logo on there.
Super easy to listen to and it's great.
go.
We were posting a couple of, I reposting
a couple of Isaac's, Instagram things
where he has his audio going from
the game and it's just amazing.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
It's electric.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: it is,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
if you grew up listening to Vince
Scully or Chick Hearn, you know
what a good sports commentator is?
you understand how important it is to
not always through those big moments or
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
get the timing right.
Isaac's got the juice,
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
like he's got that in that
build up, ah, ah, so good.
And then you just let the crowd roar
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
it's so important because.
that's the good stuff.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: I reposted one
of 'em where he basically mashed together
like a highlight reel of the game.
And I, when I reposted it, I think
just really large, I put close
your eyes and listen to the audio.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yes.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: And people
gave me thumbs up for that one.
because it was a story, it's gone.
But, check out Isaac Lowenkron,
Instagram page and it's an amazing one.
Just do yourself a favor and
listen to it with your eyes closed.
It feels like you were there.
And it's also gonna be broadcast on KF
WB nine 80, which will be in Spanish.
And there are a couple of theme
nights slash giveaways, at this match.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
So it's LA day.
Do I know what this means?
No.
Am I down for it?
Obviously.
have you met me?
Have you met Mario?
we ride for LA all day.
the giveaway, I think it's a gate
giveaway too, is a mini skateboard.
We were joking before
we started recording.
It's gonna be like tech deck,
so it's gonna be like 1999,
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
That's what we assume.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
again.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: I
assume it's gonna be tactics
like tech little fingerboards
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
yeah, like the whole game.
like just, yeah.
they're probably gonna get outlawed
from the Stadium, like they're gonna
get taken away by your homeroom
teacher, that kind of thing.
There are also two different special
ticket packs for the Kings fans who
want to get a collaborative beanie.
Those are gonna be available, so get
those orders in if you haven't already.
and then
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: it.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
college like Beerstein,
Angel City logo on it.
And like I said earlier,
fan fest starts at two.
Come hang out, come party.
I have friends in town, so I won't be
there until closer to kickoff, but, yeah,
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
The.
Just as a, just a reminder, the
La Kings Beanie and the College
Shine are special ticket giveaways.
So you have, it's not, don't expect to get
one if you didn't buy an actual ticket.
It's a special ticket got, if you
go to the ACFC website, there's
links to how to get them directly.
usually it's a, don't get weirded out.
Nobody's trying to steal your information.
It does actually lead you to a website
called VO, FEVO that whenever there's
a special event or group ticket
or whatever, that's the system.
Yeah,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
and for season ticket holders, if you
log into the account manager, then you
can find it there, check your email,
they'll link it, all that good stuff.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: so
this last weekend after we won it was the
season ticket holder event at the aquarium
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: The
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Pacific.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Angel Sea-ty
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
Angel Sea-ty It was very cute.
it was roughly one gazillion
degrees with 400% humidity on
saturday it was so freaking hot.
it was hot inside.
It was hot outside.
It was just uncomfortable.
The players were even just like,
why is this happening to everybody?
this is so terrible.
but it was really fun.
They had four different stations
where you could meet six players, like
they had, six players at each one.
I want them, them being the team, the
front office to figure out a way so
that everybody gets to meet everybody
without burning out the players.
Like I feel like we need to have
multiple events, break it out like
few thousand people at each one
instead of everybody all at one.
'cause it's overwhelming
and it's hot and it's a lot
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
all you do is wait in line.
so Eva, my mom and I all agreed
we were gonna go to table four
first, which was, Matisse, Angelina
Anderson, Sarah Gorden, Megan Reid.
M.A.
Vignola and Ali Riley.
oh, of course we all go
straight to defense, of
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
it was super fun.
every player we met was so nice.
Everybody, we got to see so many
2 27 friends, Angel City friends.
We met new people.
I had a couple people being like,
wait, are you Angela from Casual FC?
And I was like, hi.
If you said hi to me, there was
like two or three people who said
hi to me and honestly tried to get
me to come cut in line with them.
And I felt really bad because
the lines were so long.
Just the check-in line
was like three miles long.
thank you for the offer.
One, I felt too bad and it was
too public to scooch in a line.
and DM me your names because I
was like, I know who you are,
but I don't remember your names.
There was like three of you, but hi.
Thank you.
I hope I lived up to the shenanigans.
Like I said, everybody was so nice.
The team ended up, like collectively,
each table all agreed on their own to
stay later to keep signing for people
that were still in line because an
hour and a half is not enough time.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah, and
from the Discord, it sounded like there
was a couple of issues maybe at the
beginning, like getting in, and then
they sorted it all out so people started.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
thing that I don't think a lot
of people took into account was
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: I
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
no service by the beach.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: so don't
download your tickets when you're there.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
exactly.
but it was very fun.
I will say I finally got to tell Sarah
Gorden how much I love watching her
go from soccer run to 400 her run.
And she was like, how do you know this?
And I was like, oh, I
threw, like I was a thrower.
She was like, oh God, you're a track kid.
we were like, oh, okay, hold on.
So she's like, when do you notice it?
And I'm breaking down her game.
She was like.
Oh my God.
Yeah, I totally it was just
like, yeah, that's actually it.
I had them sign different Parkside cards.
I have.
We had a blast.
Yeah.
M.A.
is a friend of the pod, her
family is, so we finally got to
meet each other in real life.
And it was just like my mom was
ahead of me and she was like, that's
Angela from Casual and that's Eva.
She was like, oh my God.
Like we got on picture or on camera.
Emma's reaction to my
mom telling her that.
'cause she's ah.
And then the best part was that Sarah.
'cause we were ta, Eva and I both were
like talking to players at the same
time and Eva was saying, I've been
a fan of the league for forever and
it's just so nice to see you getting
like what you deserve to Sarah.
in Chicago she was not.
Sarah Gorden now is not Sarah Gorden.
When she started in Chicago,
was a lot happening in Chicago
for better and for worse.
She wasn't playing a lot.
There was a lot of things.
But she was like, who are your
favorite teams before Angel City?
goes, Orlando.
And Sarah goes, okay.
okay, like you've seen some stuff.
And she goes, and then Eva
goes in sky blue, who is now
Gotham and Sarah just goes, Ooh.
And we have that reaction
on pictures, just oh dang.
Like she suffered.
Eva did.
So she knows the grind.
And like we said, it's all cyclical,
but it was a blast from that table.
We went through that first.
and then we ran downstairs.
It was less sweaty, somehow
outside than it was inside.
But went to the second table, which
had a lot of the newer players.
Riley Tiernan, Macy Hodge,
n House Doorsoun, and Savvy King.
'cause I, Macy Hodge is pumped.
We have merch out for
good Morning lesbians.
It was.
She was like, hell yeah.
So we have to DM her and tell her.
it was just really nice
to see savvy there.
Everybody was like, oh
my God, we're so happy.
She looks so good.
She's such a joyful presence.
Like she just has a light about her.
And I'm very happy that she's on our team.
I'm very happy she's doing better.
All the good things.
It was really fun.
The panel with Strauss and
Parsons was really interesting.
granted again, Monday night,
we're gonna release this.
Everything's gonna go live,
so as well just say it.
They alluded to like Julie Dufour
leaving, had already been announced.
They alluded to two more internationals.
Katie Zelem, Alanna Kennedy
leaving as of Monday night.
Rumored for London City.
Linus Michelle King's team.
It's a lot.
I'm, I said it in another discord.
Sorry, I'm not cheating on our discord.
I have, there's multiple that
I'm part of that because of how
difficult this year has been.
Personally, this feels like a
personal attack of taking Alanna
Kennedy away from me now that she
was finally back in the league.
But, I'm grateful that she
was on the team easily.
One of my favorite players.
As long as I've been following
international soccer, I wish her
Katie Zelem and Julie before the best.
Genuinely, like they
deserve the playing time.
They deserve the respect on the field.
They deserve all the good things.
So good things for them.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
Yeah, it's unfortunate.
okay, so first of all, I
didn't know you got a reaction,
photo, video, something of M.A.
hearing,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
mom 'cause she like handed the camera
her phone to that were taking pictures.
So they like, we didn't even know
and we were looking at 'em on the way
home 'cause we went and got ice cream.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Okay.
Because I, I start getting texts
like after the event from Angela
being like, and I met M.A.
and we talked to Sarah and then
makes, see, know, and then like,
all this, just like this and that.
But then it's all this it's this stream
of text and then, I am, I'm at home.
I couldn't make it down.
So again, long Beach is far for me
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yes.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: and I was
just like, okay, I'm not being jealous.
Not being jealous.
Oh, you got to meet M.A.
Okay.
Not being jealous.
Not being jealous.
So I am Uber glad you got to meet her.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah,
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: I will hope
that I get to meet her too at some point.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
really silly and
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Oh, we know that.
We, we see that, we see
the personality there.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: and
then, so I'm gonna say my piece about
this, and we're just gonna move on and
talk about upcoming stuff and whatnot.
There's so much speculation
around what's going on with Syd.
People were like, is she there?
Is she not there?
It was becoming this whole like buzz
around the event and the discord on
the, in Reddit, like literally the
whole internet like having a freak out.
If it's, if the year that I've had,
if the year that Mario's had is
any indication of what the actual
fuck is happening in the world.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: If the year LA
has had the way we kicked off the year.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
this year is not good.
Collectively as a group, we have
to let Syd do Syd and take care of
Syd and take care of her family.
And all we have is speculation.
All we have our rumors and things people
are making up and being like, what,
maybe it's this and maybe it's that.
Maybe she just is going
through some shit and
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
time and maybe there's so many,
maybe it's this, maybe it's that.
Maybe it's Maybelline.
I don't care what I want.
Is for Syd to take care of
herself, get her, get life right.
Get things feeling better, whatever it is.
Body, mind, soul, I don't care.
care of yourself.
get right.
Come back when you're ready.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
Yeah.
We,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
it, implode.
I know this from personal experience, so
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: and we
know this from her own personal
experience of she's rushed it before
and then she's gotten reinjured
or, it just leads to other things.
And again, we have no
clue what's going on.
We're just saying give all
of these people some grace.
Like they're all humans.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
other athlete are human.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: They
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: And
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
They feel so disconnected from normal
people reality, but like they're not
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: yeah,
and everybody just chill out.
Stop being some keyboard warrior
about Like I, I've done investigative,
like I know it can get a little
toxic sometimes the fandom.
So just remember these are people,
what you type, what you say, what
you put out there, especially if it's
completely made up, can affect people.
stop it.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
And that's part of why we do
the podcast the way we do.
There's such a big difference between
critiquing a team and criticizing a team
and we tow the line at times it's been
warranted, but there's, one thing to
raise questions like, what's going on?
How is this happening?
what are the X's and O's that got us here?
those questions are completely valid,
but it's when you start getting into
like character attacks, maybe don't,
and I don't want that as part of our
little corner of on the internet.
So take a deep breath.
She'll open up about it when she feels
the time is right or she won't guess what?
None of our business, which leads us into.
The Chaos Award.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
So the Chaos Award, we have
the ever present injury bug.
and.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
is trash.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
And this is, these aren't just
injuries, these are s seis.
wait, were both of them s se
Yeah, both of 'em were s seis.
So
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
or go ahead.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: I
was just gonna say that, Barbara
Banda, we knew she got injured
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: because
of the start, stop, the game that,
honestly should have been canceled.
or just from the beginning,
rescheduled for the evening
and be like, it is what it is.
And, if there's no broadcast of it,
ultimately, if there was no broadcast
of it because there was no spot on CBS
to show it, whatever, it'll be on NWSL
Plus for a replay or quickly unlock it
on NWSL Plus and let everybody watch it
there, but it should have been pushed.
it's hot as hell out there and,
like it's, it affects everybody.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
out here, and we get like more mild
summers compared to a lot of places.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
I don't want Missouri Summer.
I have friends in Missouri.
They don't want Missouri Summer,
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
So Barbara got, she was
injured during the match.
and that injury turns out to be something
bad enough where now she is on the
SEI list for the rest of the year.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: she
has an avulsion of her adductor muscle.
Your adductors are the muscles in your
inner thigh that pull your leg back
into your body, like to the midline.
An avulsion sucks it essentially,
and TMI, if you do not do well with.
Body things like fast forward like 15
seconds, essentially it disconnected.
The anchor point came off of the bone.
Yep.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: who's
done that in her ankle, it hurts real bad.
so yeah, that's an SEI you gotta
wait till shit reconnects itself
and you have to rest a lot.
then she groom in the Chicago match
Chicago, Seattle, where Alyssa Na
scored her crazy banger of a goal
at the death in her 200th cap.
She groom goes out with a
broken leg and a blood clot.
these aren't, these aren't normal.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: I didn't,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
I feel so bad for both of
them because they're awful.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: I didn't hear.
I didn't, oh, I heard shit groom that
the SEI, but I didn't hear what it was.
Holy
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
the what?
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Oh man.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
And then we have the ever
present excused absence.
Which now is people are
finally understanding.
This means a lot of different things.
It means I had a family event, it means
I had a doctor's appointment, or I
got back late or something like that.
It means maybe somebody's getting
traded and they're having meetings and
they can't be on the active roster.
It means a mystery.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
Yeah.
the way upper leg was,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
upper leg,
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: it was a
little bit higher than her upper leg,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
bit higher than the upper leg.
Yeah, more like midsection.
'cause she's pregnant.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Okay.
Now tell me how Eva putting her foot in
her mouth is part of the chaos award.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
because we, I, we couldn't put,
she was helping me write notes
when I was cooking the other night.
She was like, we have to put
this because it was so funny.
I can't put what I said because
I don't want Mario to see before
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
you want the reaction here?
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
We're, the match is fine.
It's mostly okay.
There's no like egregious bad calls,
but there were some dumb things that
happened and the head referee was
named Christian, or like hollering,
everybody's Christian, get it together.
Like your shirt's yellow, pull the card.
you know what color card to pull.
Just not even like heckling,
just being like rowdy.
it wasn't like
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
It was just like, And
towards the end of the game
everybody's just oh my God.
Oh my God.
it's before the goal.
It's just, it's getting stressful.
And Eva goes, because
there was a missed call.
And she goes, where are
your values, Christian?
And then just goes, God.
start laughing so hard, I can't breathe.
My mom is cracking up.
Vero and her mom are laughing.
There's a family that sits
like down into the left of us.
they all are just like, oh, no.
He was just like, no.
Yeah.
Where are your values?
Christian is quite a
thing to holler a game.
And there was like, of course,
dead silence right after.
It's not when everybody's cheering,
because why of when would it be?
Because
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
embarrassing.
Then it's not silly.
So ta-da.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
I know 2, 2 7 gets a little
rowdy, everybody in the area.
Yeah.
Yeah.
so I, I can imagine that if it
went silent and then that came out,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Oh my God.
She,
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: it
was louder than it needed to be.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: yes.
It was louder than it needed to be, and
then it was just like, oh no, how do I
take those words and put the, them back?
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Did she audibly say, oh, no.
Okay, so that makes it even better.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
It came out, she finished saying
his name and then just went, oh no.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: See
if she would've left it at that,
nobody would've like better than I.
But,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Yeah, they would've
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: all right.
Well, with our amazing match that we're
gonna be talking about real quick, the
rest of the weekend did us some favors.
yes.
So Chicago and North Carolina, tied
three, three Bay, FC, bay FC and
Washington beat B Bay FC three to two
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
And that's the game at Oracle,
which we'll talk a little bit later.
So that game set an all time
attendance record for women's sports
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: at Oracle Park.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
at Oracle Park.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: we
have, Gotham and Utah, they
drew zero zero, which again.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
job, Utah.
Thank you very much.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Helped us out.
Kansas City, beat Portland two
to nothing Seattle tied with
Houston one to one, also helpful.
And then racing Louisville,
beat San Diego one to nothing.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Bonkers.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: With all of
that, it, all of those things in the
Discord, we kept checking each result
because each result is, we're getting to
that point where we're starting to, like
the table's getting really tight and we're
starting to look at what if this happens?
If that happens, this happens.
we're doing all the permutations.
The whole group is right.
Permutation, Primo is coming, but the
whole group is doing it right now.
So we were being super close about it.
but again, this should actually
have, should have been in the
Chaos award, Ludmilla with the
hat trick in under 10 minutes.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: dude,
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: I.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
we won.
Any other week of the week.
It's everything.
I'm sorry, you have a Ludmilla
Just had a hat trick in 10 minutes.
I can't vote for my own team.
That's like insane.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: It's okay.
I'll vote for our own team.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Chicago tied it up.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah, I,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
minutes
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: I
had a hat trick in under 10
minutes to tie up the game.
come on.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
it was like 10 minutes and nine
seconds or something like that.
Which essentially because
soccer timing is weird as less
than 10 minutes, but bonkers.
So
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: yeah.
Quick recap.
Let's go.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
We won nothing.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yes,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
A miracle.
I've never wanted a referee to blow
a whistle faster, I swear to you.
He was like, I'm gonna wait.
were like, Gretchen, get blow your
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: I.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
whistle.
Ah, Orlando did not score.
We walked away with three points made up
one goal in our goal differential quest.
In the 87th minute, Alyssa
Thompson hit a banger a goal.
was beautiful.
I feel like everyone
blacked out for a second.
'cause
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
of those wear your ears hurt.
You're screaming so loud, like
every jumping up and down.
It just was like,
was breathed back into the Stadium.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: also, watching
the game, I was watching it on TV at home.
and we know that Alyssa
Thompson likes to get dribble.
She likes to, to dribble the ball.
and a lot of times I feel like
she keeps it too long, right?
There's times where she's trying to
run through five players and I'm like,
just, this is the one time, or that I'm
like, it's okay to pass it backwards.
Just pass it backwards, And.
I wanna say that I feel not even two
or three minutes before that goal,
she was in the exact same spot on the
field right down by the, by the line.
She was dribbling and completely lost it.
And it was a carbon copy.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
on that play.
So
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: What?
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
the play where Alyssa scores March's
on her, she dribbles around Marta's
feet get tied up, something happens.
She rolled and I was like, oh my god.
So quick rewind.
Before the game, Angel City posted a video
of Alyssa and Marta head to head, and it
was Marta on the ball just dancing on it.
And then it was Alyssa doing same.
Then it was like, this is
like past, present, future
in one video in two people.
And it was amazing.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
I think that was a.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
watched it like six times.
I made my mom watch it.
I made Eva watch it in the
car 'cause we were eating.
And I was like, I don't know, there's
just something special about this video.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
That's exactly what happened
in the lead up to this goal.
Alyssa was like smooth, so smooth.
Like she worked Marta on that
and cooked her a little bit.
Like she spun her enough
to get around her.
That ball went through five
or six defenders to get into
the net on the opposite side.
on Friday my mom texted me, have
you watched the videos of the goal?
And I was like, yeah, why?
She's did you see what Marta did?
And I said, no.
After the goal Marta turns around,
pulls her jersey up over her head,
like flips it from the bottom up.
I know she cussed in probably
four different languages.
English,
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Oh yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Swedish, like
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
But at the same time, like
there's so much respect there.
It was amazing.
Our first half to second half improvement,
You want your team to go in, let's
say you go in Tide, which we did at
Zero, we went in Tide at halftime.
You want your team to come out with a
different game plan, like you have time
to regroup, you know what they're doing.
the general vibe.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
shifting to make good things happen?
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
And we can clearly see
that in, in all the stats.
Like I, in one of the, in our footy
therapy on the Discord, I think Alicia,
like all, she didn't even write anything.
All she did was post the
stats from the Stadium.
And I'm like, I looked at those
and I was like, holy crap.
So I'm just gonna run through
these tracks real quick.
Okay.
We had 58% ball possession.
We had a total of 23 shots.
Last time that we had 23 shots
was a four three win against
the spirit earlier this year.
We held Orlando down in the first half.
We had, so like we said, there
was a shift between the first
half and the second half.
First half there was four shots.
four shots attempted
versus two from Orlando.
In the second half, we had 19
versus only one shot, from Orlando.
And during that second half there
was zero on target for Orlando.
So like we were frontline
middle line, back line goalie.
Everybody was on it that night.
Like it was amazing.
We had seven shots on target.
We had 87% accurate passes.
We committed 12 fouls, so
we did win on that one.
I think they had 11 and then
we ended up taking 10 corners.
Cedar-Sinai corner kicks.
So
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
10 to three too.
Like we had such a
exorbitant amount of corners.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
interesting thing was in the
beginning of the game, were rushed.
Like you could tell Orlando
came out pressing hard.
They were pushing the ball.
Hannah Seabert in like the seventh
minute had this sick ass save.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: The kick save.
Yeah.
It is just amazing.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
goes outta bounds.
Everybody's like bonkers.
The entire momentum of the
game shifted right then.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: After
that, it was ours to lose and we actually
held onto it and I'm so proud of them,
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
So this is, I, and I just posted today
a clip from our last episode about the
rollercoaster of being an Angel City fan.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
I said, we start to trend up and some
weird shit happens, and then it's
all, everybody's leaving transfers
by every good international player.
I love you.
I miss you.
please write.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
I don't know.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: But I,
again, this is all, part of the crazy
love that we all have for this sport.
And we understand, but we
don't want to admit it.
so it let us be in our feelings, but,
whatever conversations were happening from
the Utah match to this match, whatever
tweaks, knobs were turned, positions were
moved around, whatever, timing, whatever
you wanna say or whatever was said, it
looked even though the first half and
the second half had completely different
dynamics, there was still a lot more of
a Sure footedness in that first half,
like the entire game compared to Utah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
this is the first time we've
played Orlando where Seb Hines
hasn't outcoached our coach.
Because Sep Hines will OutCo and he'll
out sub and he'll Shins is amazing.
So I'm very proud of Angel City
and I hope the trend continues.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
very proud of that match.
Very and really hoping that this Yeah,
does continue that this is signs of
something turning and something kind
of heading in the right direction.
We're not that far off, yeah.
So we're going to hit a couple of
real quick footy therapy, points.
Ethan with our haiku.
Hot damn what?
A game nerve-wracking through the
first half at with a golden boot.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yes.
Oh, and shout out to Ethan, who at
the season ticket holder event was
wearing his Angel City law firm shirt
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yes.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Kennedy, Kenny Kennedy, uh, Sarah, Sarah.
There's another one and then it's Find us.
So thank you.
Apparently people like his shirt
and they know where to find us.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Yeah, that's awesome.
we only do these things to make
ourselves laughs and glad when
other people find it funny too.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yes.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: all right,
max got lucky facing Orlando without,
Banda midfield showed up for the
first time and God knows how long.
I think Hodge is seriously the key there.
And again, we're the episode's gonna
go long, so there was a lot of other
ones that were just midfield was great.
we're so happy that we won, most
complete game against the top four.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: to
piggyback on what Max said, we got to face
them without Barbara Banda and without
Ovalle and like the Magician, which I knew
she had a nickname in the last episode,
and I completely spaced on what it was.
And she is the magician, like
she's Beautiful on the ball.
I'm so grateful we don't have to play them
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: I.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
the regular season.
So And then Ruby came in the, on the
Instagram and said, my soul left my body
for a bit, I dunno if it's back yet.
ha LFG.
And then Rachel came in and said,
did we just dominate Orlando?
did we did what?
And Zach said the news I needed
this week, three points baby.
He was at a conference over the
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Colorado and was like sending me pictures
of trees and I'm just like, miss a forest.
But we do have an Australian fan
because of Alanna Kennedy, who is
now like a friend and it's so great.
And her message was LFG even had my
son up cheering for the quote unquote
American Matildas and with a laughy
face and The rumors had already started
when I saw it, and I was like, don't
cry, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry.
no.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
I, yeah, same thing.
When I saw it, I was like, oh,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
But thank you for tuning in and
thank you for buying a shirt, and
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: yes.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
telling people about us in Australia
because you guys are homies.
Down under.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: and
hopefully you'll keep following the
NWSL and keep following Angel City.
'cause why not?
It's free internationally on
NWSL Plus, so there you go.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
there you go.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: All right.
Now let's check out the
standings real quick.
Same as it has been this whole time.
We're just outside of the playoff picture.
We're currently in 10th place with
20 points, but like we said, a lot of
the matches this week went our way.
We are now one point
away from eighth place.
Eighth place is at 21.
Ninth place is in 21.
We're in 10th with 20.
That's one, one win.
And we can leapfrog.
And that just means that
everything is so important going
for the rest of the season.
We're playing for winning or at least
trying to get that w And I know that
they all are trying and like it's,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
to be like, let's have fun.
It's
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: yeah, no.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
but Try stuff that's beneficial.
Don't just try shit to try shit.
There's a difference between throwing
spaghetti at the wall to see if it
sticks, and it's a system that'll work.
And throwing spaghetti at every surface.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: really
it all just all comes down to let's
keep the high from this wind going.
And let's keep in mind that
we are only one play one point
away from the play offline.
So that makes, and then, everything
else is really tight from there.
So ignore what Kansas
is doing in first place.
they're amazing.
They're a fluke, they're whatever.
and then everybody else is like
theoretically within reach, but at least.
A good,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
teams that
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
reachable.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Right
now it looks like we can get in
there and maybe hold it to the
point where we're not just hoping to
squeak into the playoffs this year.
and we can solidly get
somewhere in the middle.
but it all comes down to, how
we end up with the season.
And with that, let's
preview our next match.
Bay FC at BMO.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
So rewind to the, season ticket
holder event with the conversation
of Alex Strauss and Mark Parsons.
It was a very interesting conversation
in the sense that they're like, yeah,
everybody has to buy in order for
this to work, and things are gonna
get hairy and things are gonna be
weird, but it's okay to be skeptical.
yeah.
Everything is up in the air right now.
Nobody really knows the answers,
they're being figured out one by one.
And if, I think I said this a few
episodes ago too, of if nobody buys
into a new system, nothing changes.
You have to have buy-in, you
have to have cooperation.
difficult, don't get me wrong.
It's not 'cause an easy thing for coaches,
for general managers, for whatever.
it was interesting because they
essentially said you have every
right to be skeptical, but change
doesn't come without changes.
And that's when they were
talking about the players.
'cause they alluded we had one player
already was announced, we have two more
internationals that are leaving the team.
And everybody was like, like
the sigh that came out of the
collective room of 2000 people was
just like, like you, it was that.
Like why again, is this happening to me?
I don't know, what do I know?
I'm just a girl with a microphone,
but Parsons was saying that he enjoys
the challenge of rebuilding teams.
He did it in Washington.
He did it in Portland, and
now he's doing it here.
he mentioned too, that when he was
coaching Washington two seasons
ago, I think it was Washington
or North Carolina, I don't remember.
He was coaching for like a hot second.
He said when we played at BMO, if
the crowd got too loud, to be like,
like the keeper would go down to
reset the team so they could like
collectively get together and hear
each other because we were too loud.
So like they know.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: So
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
we have
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: it up.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: that.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
please get louder,
his tenure in Portland, look to that.
To see the height of what is
possible under his direction.
There's been teams that work, teams that
don't work, but it's a 2017 Portland team
won that was like absolutely bonkers.
Good.
That's the team that I like easily.
One of the best teams I've ever seen
play in eSport, like so cohesive,
so together, and I'm excited to see
if we can emulate something like
that within the next few years.
So yeah, I think we're headed
in the right direction.
It's just difficult and none
of us can trust it, given the
last three and a half seasons.
But we have two clean sheets in a
row, of them resulting in a win.
Hannah Bert's been fantastic.
Again, I don't know who we're gonna see in
goal, if it's gonna be Hannah or Angelina.
I'm fine with either one.
Frankly, the only real difference
is that Hannah has more.
International experience.
Like she's got a few years on her
in the game outside of college.
So maybe we lean towards Hannah as
Angelina can grow and train with the
national team and get stripes there.
I don't know.
I don't care.
I'm fine with it.
I,
it's interesting the dynamic there.
Maybe they switch off.
Who knows?
But I like it.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: They're
both solid choices, so it's
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Yeah, it's a
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: It,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
They're both really good.
We like, we haven't seen, Hannah
Stombaugh yet, I don't think
there's been a good opportunity
to see her outside of a friend.
but yeah, I am, I'm excited
to see who we get in goal.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: but
the biggest interesting, like caveat for
me is that BFC is hurting from losing
that game at Oracle, record breaking home
game, and then you drop three to two.
They're gonna be extra hungry
for a win because that's
what happens after you lose.
You wanna make up for that.
the game at Oracle was insane.
We watched the majority of it
and yeah, the pitch looked great.
Honestly, there's been years
passed, bygones gone by.
NWSL was played on baseball fields.
You could tell in a bad way.
This one you could tell
in a very good way.
Like you knew it was Oracle Park there.
Like some of the grass
was different colors.
'cause like obviously it was laid over,
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
like you, you can tell.
But it wasn't tore up.
It didn't look bad.
It looked really great.
I'm very proud of everybody who
put this on, everyone who like
facilities and ops and all the things.
Good job.
it looked amazing.
for BFC, we need to look at Kelly Hubley,
who is a long standing NWSL player.
She was.
On that 2017 Portland team that
I mentioned as a national team
replacement player, that's when she
got called up after going undrafted.
So she got that call up.
She worked her way up to starting
and she signed a long-term
contract with the thorns in 2018.
So she's got the championship stripe,
she's got that, veteran experience
in the game against the spirit.
She actually had an own goal.
The second goal that was scored
was an own goal and it was her,
and she was able to then go and
score and clean up after herself
essentially and wash that goal away.
she's very resilient.
Like it's not the kind of thing
where she just gets in her head and
loses her connection to the game.
She kinda digs in her heels a little
bit and says, no, not tonight.
that's something you have
to be very careful for.
She's also really tall, so
she's dangerous on set pieces.
yeah, number 11, she's a defender.
She's fantastic.
She's Kelly Hubley.
And then I've talked about Rachel
Kundananji much the World Cup, through the
Olympics, the last two and a half seasons.
if you know me, you know
I love African soccer.
It is disrespected,
underappreciated, underfunded.
They deserve the world.
Kundananji is a zombie
and national player.
She scored everywhere in
every way, essentially.
She had a brace in the Olympics.
She had a great goal
at in the Oracle game.
She's a permanent threat.
The last time we matched up against
them, her and Sarah just battled it out.
And it's crazy to have a game where
Asisat Oshoala doesn't even play.
Assad didn't play in the
game against Washington.
Rachel Kundananji just held it down.
And for those who don't know, I
highly recommend looking it up.
Last season,
this was after the trade,
Paige is in Houston.
Rachel Kundananji stood on
the ball to taunt Paige,
and that is the most beautiful display of
disrespectful respect, or like disrespect.
I, it was insane.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: in the game.
And wasn't there like a little come here.
Yeah,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
were just like, let's go the whole game.
Just like messing with each other,
taunting each other, all that.
She'll take you down
with a smile on her face.
love it.
That's the kind of competition that like,
brings me joy of just oh, you wanna play?
Play?
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: I,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
let's go.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
FC has a really good roster.
having the confusing season.
But there's been a lot of injuries.
Emily mange is now out on maternity
leave, so there's like a mixture
of things happening up in the bay,
but never underestimate arrival.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: they
are done in 12th, but it's not
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
It's not a far away
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: It's not
afraid of a, yeah, it's a three point 12,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
We know what that feels like.
Yeah, just a three point difference.
to now shift to Angel City,
I'm going to highlight three
defenders because of course I am,
I haven't done this in a long time.
I've tried to be very diplomatic.
Talk about people who score, talk
about people who hold the midfield.
Not tonight, because there's
a lot of past, present, future
happening and I'm very excited.
So I'm gonna start with I
future, the future for us.
now for the rest of the world.
Sara Doorsoun, who's coming
to she has amazing hair.
She's really nice.
She even made her laugh because
she was like, yeah, I'm so
excited to see you play.
And she goes, ha.
No pressure.
was great at the season ticket holder
event, but she's a center back, which
is great because we have very little
depth in that position with savvy out,
she won a bronze medal at the 2024
Olympics with the German national team.
was also on the second place
team in the 2022 Euros.
In June, she announced her retirement
for from international soccer.
So she's no longer with the German Squad.
I'm excited.
I'm very curious to see how she settles
into our back line see her impact.
I assume we're gonna see her soon given.
The world, given the state of the team.
curious to see how and who
and all that good stuff.
yeah, like I'm excited to see her play.
I've seen her play internationally
in bigger tournaments, but not club.
So I have generally very little like
knowledge and I'm very excited to watch
her play and see the dynamic on the pitch.
And everybody knows I love
defense, so like just gimme it.
And then we have Megan Reid, who's
really over the course of her career
with Angel City and in the league
has been the person to step up when
needed, which I feel like is very much
a testament to like her as a person.
You're an EMT, like you step
in when needed, your job.
And she did that here.
Nielsen went down, she stepped up.
Paige came back, Sarah went
down, or Sarah went down first.
So she came in the first season and then
with Paige getting traded, she stepped
in there it's just okay, here's my time.
She's been an iron woman.
She's sturdy as hell.
Like she'll body somebody into the sun.
Like she's not going to back down.
She's very quietly aggressive.
And it's very cool to see
that type of presence.
'cause you have defenders that
will hit you like a truck,
she'll hit you like a truck.
You just won't see it coming.
it's not like a loud truck, it's like
an electric truck, It's not this Mac
truck that like vibrates down the street.
It's just this like smooth
cruiser that's just like whap.
she's if there was a most
improved over the last four years,
I'd probably say it was her.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah, she her
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: the
sense of she's so much more surefooted,
she's so much more confident on the pitch.
I would.
I'm just, I'm happy she's
still with the team.
She's been an insane very
crucial part Angel City success.
She's the reason half the
reason why, honestly, that we
kept the score in what it was.
She just held it down.
Her and Sarah locked in
and just had a great game.
But yeah, I love Megan
Reid and she's great.
And then I got her
autograph and she's funny.
And that's it.
She has a cute little
dog, or not little dog.
It's like a lab, but all dogs are puppies.
And then last but surely not
least, Ali, Riley, I will cry.
The
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: return of cap.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
We've had multiple episodes without tears
coming back from an
injury that takes your.
Confidence in your body away
from you is so important.
I didn't have nerve damage in my hip.
It was all muscular, I was
crooked for six months.
At 20 years old, not stand up straight.
My leg was all jacked up.
It was a whole thing.
So I get it
when Ally is like up and crying.
'cause I didn't get that.
And I'm so freaking happy that she does.
the same age.
She's a couple years younger than
me, so I'm just like, yeah, go run.
Please for both of us.
how close are we to
seeing her get minutes?
I have no idea.
I frankly don't give a shit.
Like she's on the active roster, dressed,
she's ready, and that's all I need.
She's had a bitch of a
year, like the fires.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
everything.
Like just, I'm just so happy to
have her back, to have her back
with the team and the community.
I didn't cry at the season ticket
holder event, but I avoided talking
to her a lot for that reason.
So I get to cry here in public
in front of just as many people,
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
And I won't clip this and tag her, but
No, I,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
about it.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
yeah, but I'll think about it.
it, it was amazing.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: just
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: It.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Your hips are important.
You cannot them.
They have to keep moving in order
for you to literally do anything,
including like breathing, going to
the bathroom, standing, everything.
And when your hips are
compromised, good luck.
You lose all sense of everything and yeah,
for her.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: the posts,
I didn't see the post till like 10,
15 minutes before the game started.
I was doing the social media
thing of going through and I was
waiting for the lineup to, to get
posted to repost, but then I saw
the video of Allie walking out with the
kid on and everything, and I'm like, oh,
she's, she's on the, she's on the roster.
She's backpack not, oh, she's
training or she's doing some
light touching, light touches.
like she's full on.
put me in coach.
So
that is a huge step.
and if we just look at the
parallels of of press, right?
She came back from a long period
of recovery, came back from an
injury, and it's not like we're
gonna put press in 90 minutes
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Right.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: away.
the, I think the first game she
came in, she had five minutes.
it was like a,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
it would've been more, but the
referees didn't see her and she hello.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Hello.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Excuse me.
Excuse me sir.
Excuse me.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
I'm Christen Press.
I'm here to sub
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: so yeah,
like the, just if you wanna see the
analog of what we should be doing
is, look, they're ready to go.
They're mentally ready to go.
You're always gonna be.
More mentally ready
than your body might be.
But you at this point, when you're
starting to get like to the point
where you're suiting up, it means
you've shown the progress, you've
shown the grit, and you're ready to go.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
the physical and mental progress because
days when your body's ready and your
brain isn't, and there's days when
your brain's ready and your body isn't,
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Oh, yeah.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
they don't always line up for a while.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
That's a huge step.
Getting to hear the fans from
the field rather than the suite.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: it's
a whole different experience.
I've been down on the field
doing the, like doing the
holding the crest, pre-match.
so like that it whole different experience
hearing it from down there and being
a player like that and just, it's, it
just the fact that the cameras were
focusing on her when she had the bib on
and it doing her warmups, at the end,
at towards the end of the first half.
And like towards the end of the
second, like it, that's a huge moment.
And
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: And a
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: we're so ex.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
that first game.
You're not always gonna see somebody
back because it's that, it's acclimating
to the sounds of the stadium, the
warmups, the cool downs, and like
getting that muscle memory to re-trigger.
So who knows?
We might see her on Monday.
We're the last game in the weekend,
so we'll know all the results from
everything else and we'll see.
we have to win, but we'll see
really, truly what's needed.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
million goals
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: exactly.
Every game.
every game.
we need all the other
teams to just keep tying.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
Ties.
That's it.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
Score as many goals as you want.
Just tie it can be a five,
five, it can be a six.
Six, just that's fine.
Just tie.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
tie, Let us creep back in.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: So
we're super excited for Ali.
We can't wait to actually
see her on the pitch.
We wanna see her on the
pitch the right way.
and if everything goes to plan and she
can get some minutes on Monday, we'll
getting minutes on home turf on home
field, we don't have turf on home field.
with the home crowd, that
place is gonna explode.
let's hope for the best.
our history between the teams Bay
had this weird ass run where like
they just haven't tied with teams,
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yeah.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817:
for a whole year.
All of last year, they either
won or lost, they didn't have any
ties, which is weird and abnormal.
But with us, we've won once
and we've lost three times.
But you know what?
Neither here nor there.
Let's try to get another
win on the column and.
Fight for that second place
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angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817:
luck, and I put it in my backpack
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yep.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: and
then I'm gonna transfer it to a clear
bag and then I'm gonna take it to BMO.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yep.
There you go.
We'll be there.
All right, with all of that,
see you guys on Monday.
Have a great rest of your week.
Weekend.
We'll see you then.
angela-guest812_1_08-25-2025_213817: Yep.
Happy Labor Day.
Go protest or something.
Love you.
Bye.
mario_1_08-25-2025_213817: Bye.
