9/7 Angel City FC at NJ/NY Gotham FC
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: it's
fucking still 85 degrees outside.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
I know.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: It's gross.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
This is disgusting.
This like hurricane, whatever.
Broke up.
Get it out.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: I don't
know if I'm gonna find it again.
A little weather map of like today,
and apparently there was this
storm cell that was literally only
over Sherman Oaks and Studio City.
it's like this sliver, this
hotdog, everything else is
completely clear and it's just me.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Hey everyone.
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 super dad co-host Mario Salazar.
He came to the game solo with the kids
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah,
made it with the kids and survived
and took pictures, sent them
to grandma, sent them to mom.
Like all that.
it was fun.
It was fun.
And they had fun.
We won.
So that makes it even
more, of a special thing.
They had a blast after the game
crawling on the seats, just like
down the line with nobody there.
kids find their joy in places.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
before they get in the car.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
Hey, brush their teeth in the stadium
before we left, because I was like,
you guys are going to bed right now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did the whole thing.
Got them home when they were knocked
out and then put them into bed.
It was all good.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: Wow.
10 outta 10.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: It actually, it
went really smoothly and I'm very happy.
this is our match preview for the
next match on Sunday, September 7th
versus the New Jersey, New York Gotham
FC at Sports Illustrated Stadium.
It's going to be at 2:00
PM on the West Coast.
It's gonna be on ESPN, which
means perfect time to go have
lunch at a bar and watch it on tv.
and if you can't watch it on ESPN at
home or in a bar, check out iHeartRadio
with Isaac and Tracy, and they will
make you feel like you are in there.
Just, put on the cans and
just let yourself be in it.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
the match on iHeart
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
the first time.
'cause she didn't end up
making it to the game.
I'm getting texts the whole time.
You didn't tell me if they were this good.
You didn't tell me that I was gonna
get all the information I always want.
What the heck?
So now she's like, how
do I bring headphones
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: Like
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: I've tried, the
pre, pre Angel City, but I did try once.
'cause like I, I really like
the radio answer for LAFC, but
the delay is just too much.
I can't like, like we're there lying?
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
we were a like small radio,
a Dodger Stadium family.
So know.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yeah.
The delay is built in.
You're fine.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah.
And then there is, I think the
official watch party is gonna be
at Untamed Spirits in Silver Lake.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Oh, did it get released?
Oh, they mentioned it.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
But I don't think they've
put like the graphics out.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Okay, as
soon as they come out we'll share them.
watch me.
We'll also be doing a
watch party on Sunday.
so you've got two options there, and
I'm pretty sure there's a few more
out there, for, your gathering needs.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
All your gathering needs,
just go anywhere and be like,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: It's on ESPN.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Chill out.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah.
It should be a really good game.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yes, it will be.
And we'll get to that.
But, we've got some
celebrating to do first.
so we'll get to that.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Before that gonna talk about the
Alyssa of it all because as it stands,
it's currently Tuesday night, 2nd.
Tomorrow at 8 0 5 is when news will drop.
Peru episode goes live.
information comes yay.
But whether or not she goes to
Chelsea, we're gonna be okay.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
We're gonna be fine as
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: Our
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: cia.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: it
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
like this is the thing I think
a lot of people struggle with,
especially more casual fans.
No offense obviously, like in the
name, but the thing to remember one
Alex Strauss is building his team.
There's gonna be a ton of change.
We're gonna survive it.
But there's been a lot, so much
of, there's been so many people
just writing off Angel City because
of the rumors of Alyssa Levy.
This is a team sport.
The ball doesn't get to her
without all the other people.
Like she can't carry a team by herself
and she hasn't, this is collective effort.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: not
to take anything away from her either.
'cause that's not it.
It's understanding that shit gets wild.
And and I think I mentioned this to
somebody who sits behind me at the game.
I feel like fans in the US.
I aren't used to this because NBA,
you just trade, like you trade teams.
team, it's all in the same league.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah, there,
there is, there aren't big leagues
everywhere else around the world.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Oh, she's going to WSL.
Oh, she's going to La Liga.
Oh, she's, like whatever you go outside
of the United States, totally normal.
It's just like
ripping off, like not even a bandaid,
like a wound ra, like a big old scab just
ripped when something like this happened.
And I get it.
She's homegrown, she's hours.
Like still so young, but
like the way I see it go.
You don't know when your career can end.
Get that bag.
That's not a salary cap league go.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
go learn from Sam Kerr.
Go get more cohesion with Kat Macario.
Go learn some things.
I have questionable feelings
about Lauren, James, whatever.
But go learn new things.
That's what Alex Morgan did.
And then she came back and was hell.
So go learn from Lucy Bronze.
Learn from Naomi Germa.
Like whatever.
Just go.
Go be young.
don't stay here.
Not right now,
but just go.
And if she feels this is the right move,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: 21.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
21.
Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: go.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: it's difficult
for the fandom, here to accept that one of
our key player, our marquee player, like
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: big name
that we have, the big young prospect
that's been getting better and better
is, seemingly being traded, but one
we gotta remember, rules have changed.
This is not a blind trade anymore.
She's totally, if as things
were happening, she was
totally part of all of this.
It wasn't like they came to her
at lunch one day and was like,
guess who's going to Chelsea?
and again.
Although everything says that it's a
for sure thing that's gonna happen.
and everybody's expecting to
break the transfer record again.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
I'll be pissed.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: I think
everybody will be pissed if it doesn't,
but, two, so two things about that.
one, the transfer window for the
WSL doesn't close till Thursday.
So they have a Thursday deadline.
If they can't get to the agreement,
though, there's no agreement and she
stays here slim possibility at this point.
but it's as Angela was saying,
there's other opportunities elsewhere.
Yes.
There's a thought and
opinion of the NWSL being.
One of the, basically one of the
top leagues or the top league where,
you know, it, it really comes down
to kind of opinion sometimes or
bits and pieces we start poking
at, is the English League better?
Is the Spanish League better?
Is NWSL better?
All of that comes down to the
fact that everybody is leveling
up, everybody is getting better,
and that's better for everyone.
and two, if you're used
to like baseball, right?
the idea of like a farm league and like
you're, you get someone when they're
really young, you get them through
training, you get them through the minor
leagues and you build them up, and then
eventually you'll sell them for, when
you trade them or you sell them, like
they're gonna be worth a lot of money.
So your investment is just
coming back like tenfold.
Doesn't happen necessarily in the US with
US soccer as much, but there are teams
that are known as selling clubs, right?
Like clubs that are like, we're
gonna sign young prospects.
And our main thing is, yes, we're going
to play to win, but we're also going
to play to train them up so that they
can move on and we can make more money.
After all.
It is a business.
So there is a little bit of Angel City
I mean with the marketing FC of it all
and the, and the way everything's been
going, it hasn't quite gelled the way
it's supposed to or the way the team, the
ownership would've liked at the beginning.
But it looks like we're
finally getting there.
Like we have a lot of young talent that
has come in that is really good and
has more room to grow and can only be
like, look, everyone be ready for more
people to in the coming years move on.
And that's not a bad thing.
And I think.
We keep, as we always keep talking
about like the women's game and
things like that, it's every single
one of these transfers recently
has broken the record, right?
We had Germa then we had, recently who was
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: Oval
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Valle coming,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
The magician.
I can't talk.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: coming
into the NWSL, as a transfer record.
And now everyone's expecting
Thompson to be this new
transfer record breaking thing.
And that's just a good thing for everyone.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: But
yeah, go get your bag like.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Like honestly, that's how I see it.
I'm like, you're stifled monetarily
in the us just salary cap wise, that's
how the league is being run right now.
That might change, who knows?
But now, in this moment, go
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
just go.
Just go live.
Go do something cool.
You didn't get to study abroad in college.
study abroad.
But
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: saying
all of that, we're gonna be
okay, but we're gonna be sad.
it's a huge part of the team.
It's a huge part of, it's a
huge part of the marketing.
Like her face is on everything.
she was in the post for the game
for the match day from the team.
Like she is a face of the
team, so it's gonna hurt.
But as the team proved, yesterday, wow.
Yesterday,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
They got the
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: they've got it.
They've been figuring things out.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: it's all good.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: we
have transitioned from being lost in the
sauce to having the sauce, and I like it.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
it's starting to, to gel.
So I'm like, I'm hoping
that it just keeps going.
It just keeps going.
so with all of that,
another little quick, note.
Big thanks to listener Fabi.
She messaged us early morning
yesterday and said, Hey, having
issues, can't make it to the game.
Wondering if you guys can find someone.
And it was great.
We posted about it.
We were able to find someone who
actually got through to us from, watch
me reposting us, which was great.
Watch me, reposted us.
They follow watch me.
They were like, oh yeah.
I go to, I go there to watch the games.
and so hopefully a new brand new
listener, Lila and she text me, on
Instagram during the match saying
that she had literal goosebumps.
she was so excited where she was
sitting, where she got the tickets.
It was an amazing experience and we won.
just thanks to all the wonderful
people out there that are just like
listening and being like, we've
gotten requests before to be like,
Hey, I've can you if you need them.
We've got some extra tickets
and things like that.
And whenever we do that, there's usually
someone we know like right away that
we know was looking or any other thing.
But whenever we get a chance
to, we'll throw it out there.
And then, sometimes we get a bunch
of requests, sometimes we don't.
And you never know.
But, I'm really glad that, that she
had some, a great time and thank you
to Fabi for, an amazing experience
for someone and a new fan for the pod.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
friends.
Good
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yes.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
We did it.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: See,
that's the good luck that we
say that we package together.
yeah, it was early enough in the morning
that I could include it in what was sent,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Almost like packing, texting.
Mario, can you make a graphic?
Can you do something?
I'm, I gotta check out like.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: and I was in
the middle of making pancakes, so Okay.
And the Chaos Award for this week.
If we hit these things real
quick, honestly, Kansas City
clinched the playoffs already.
It's week 18.
it feels really early to be clinching.
so yeah, Alison Gale, who we've.
Talked about on the pod before.
we love her kind of content and the
standings matrix that she does before.
she did mention that Orlando clinched
week 17 last year, so they've got
that little edge, but still it's
only week 18 and they've already
clinched their like, yeah, we're good.
and at this point,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
City's on a tear.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yes,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
it just is what it is.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
they're over 10 points clear.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
I know.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: they have
a plus 20, it, I think it was 25
'cause I mistook it for their games.
Played, goal differential.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: No.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: So they're
on another level this year and yeah.
So congratulations to Casey.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Sure.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah.
it's bonkers.
having, I was gonna say KS award
NWSL after dark on a Monday
night like holiday was enough,
but that's, that takes the cake,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
the goal differential, if nothing else.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: I, yeah,
that goal to differential is insane.
I will say that the, n Ws after or
dark energy though, it, even as I
was like reposting stuff, I think
at like halftime, even the NWSL
was like, this is getting spicy.
This is spicy as game.
it was getting chippy, it was getting
physical, in a good way where it was
very just aggressive and I didn't,
there was a few moments of whoa.
cool your jets, that's,
you're, that's a little danger.
That's a little reckless.
but there was a lot of.
There's a lot of really good, like
just bodying and a lot of really
good, just like head to head and
it made the game really exciting.
but
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
mom texted me that Isaac said
neither team was ready to, or
willing to walk away with a draw,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
which we, neither one could, like both
teams, angel City and BFC are like.
Right there.
So it's like both teams have to win.
Both teams have to lose for the
other team, like just, it's a lot.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: to
the second half of the season we are here.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: but it ended
up really getting really exciting.
we will get to some of the
highlights as we, get to the recap.
So what about the scores
around, around the league?
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: All
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
some of these scores helped us,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
yeah, they, yeah, they did.
Thanks for the draws friends.
Houston, Louisville, drew at
one, Chicago and Washington.
Drew at one, Gotham beat Orlando two.
Nothing which was bonkers.
There's a draw at nothing between
Seattle and San Diego, Utah.
Beat Portland two to one.
City obviously won, but
beat North Carolina, which
allowed us to jump them win.
And then we won.
we were, the last game of the
weekend, we're playing BFC at home.
We'd never beat them.
We'd never scored against them.
Like not one goal against BFC.
You know how irritating that is?
Like I'm glad I didn't recognize
that when we were recording.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Outta five matches.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
yeah, five matches, no goals, but
like with the amount of draws and
whatever, but we won two to one.
Riley scored, Myra and Niho scored
at point in the second half.
I 70 something.
I don't know, I didn't write down.
I came home, pulled up my iPad
and just started like typing,
just like screaming my feelings
stream of consciousness because it
was electric and the sparks won.
Like the last time Angel City won like
this, the Sparks went to double overtime,
and then won against the Seattle storm.
They won in regulation against
Seattle last night to keep
their play up, hopes alive.
So I love this for us.
I love it.
It,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
There was lots of people.
Riding high.
And I think all of us
were, all of us were,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
like the that got me through work today.
That and caffeine.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
honestly, all of the highlights.
All of, everything that came
outta that game, were just great.
Every time you, every time I saw
another post, I was like, oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
The feeling's back.
Feeling's back.
It feels good.
it was great.
there was just some
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
It was fun
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Riley was cooking.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
cooking.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
just, what was it?
Like five, six?
Five, five defenders, maybe seven,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: six,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
something like that.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
knows
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: knows?
Doesn't matter.
The entire back line just danced around
all of them and then threw it into the
pocket and then just amazing Gold number
eight now has broken, the Angel City.
Goal scoring record in a se in a season.
So she's, come on.
Rookie of the year.
Come on.
If it's not rookie of the
year, what are we doing here?
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
We had a set piece goal.
have been screaming about
our set pieces since day one.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Cedar Sinai
has been screaming for the set peace call.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Like we did it, I feel like Monday, like
it was a clean slate going in
and then all of a sudden it was
like, oh, we can just do that.
So we do it.
Oh, we can just score off a corner.
Oh, we can just use a throw
in as an essential corner.
Oh, okay.
Cool.
Oh, we can just put people in
other positions and it works.
Oh, cool.
Like
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
finally, it works.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Oh guys, we got to see M.A.
up top.
I've been waiting for this.
I knew it would happen.
I'm gonna talk about her
later because of course I am.
But yes, we got M.A.
up top.
Megan Reid versus Rachel Kundenanji
again, shut her down effectively.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: the back
line was doing amazing work, but,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
good.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: and was, she
was getting, Rachel was getting mad.
She was getting pissed off.
anytime.
Okay.
So Kundenanji is fast, insanely fast.
Like anytime there was a sprint.
Everybody in our area
was just like whole crap.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: You
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: just,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
saw like our whole section, everybody
did that Slowmo standup where
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yeah.
Yeah.
I, Reid did an amazing job but the
times that Gordon and Kundenanji,
I honest, I would want, there
should be an NWSL combine of just
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Please
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: because I wanna
SI wanna see Gordon versus Kundenanji
on the like a hundred meter sprint.
Like just,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
you say 100.
I say two or four, but that's a track kid.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
I wanna see a
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: I, yeah.
You wanna see that last kick?
Yeah.
Okay.
I'll go to two, I think four four's, a
four's, four's border lining distance,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: no.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: border lining.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
It's one lap.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Full at a full sprint.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
who could give a shit.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
I'm like at a full sprint.
Other than that one lap is a lot.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
I wanna know what they would,
if they would run sub 60.
of course they would.
But yeah, I re I would wanna
see that because Sarah, remember
Sarah ran 400 hurdles in college
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
and runs like it and it's my favorite,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: this was
an, this was another match where sea,
where was just a wall was just amazing.
The goal that went in was an
amazing save, but it was a fluke.
It was a fluke bounce.
That's really what it was.
It was an amazing save.
Yeah.
Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
someone else's stride to just score.
And Gorden with a goal line save
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yes.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
save of the week.
Sarah Gorden.
was that?
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
There's so many good things that
were happening in this game.
Tiernan not, got the first goal early on.
Wanted that was going, was
gunning for that second goal.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: But something
I found interesting that she kept
doing was that she kept driving it
all the way down to the end line.
And she was essentially trying
to do like an Olympico goal.
She was trying to curve it, lobb
it and curve it in by herself.
it was almost there like at
least two or three times.
It was just like,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
The best thing I think from Monday was
that the whole team was willing to shoot.
Like everyone was ready to
score and it's gonna come.
Shooter's gonna shoot the shots will go in
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yeah.
And like we were saying.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
girl, I just want you to score.
We're all like, we're rooting for you.
Like typical Tyra Banks
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yes,
SveindÃs was on all cylinders.
Just,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
so good.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: it was
stuff that we wanna see, stuff that
we know is like you're almost there.
You need that one little thing to
like just put you over and it's not
necessarily a thing that you need
to tweak or you need to improve.
It's just like you yourself need to
like pop and then like flood gates open.
M.A.
had some amazing run-ins.
She had amazing passes.
She was moving that ball around.
She did get a clear shot that
just went a little high, but
honestly, just right place, right
time, that's a big part of it too.
So all of that is exactly what we
wanna see and hopefully this is
just glimpses of what we're gonna
get for the rest of the season.
Like we said, we were
never completely out of it.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Nope.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: There
was definitely a feeling that.
we were heading, we were
trending in the wrong direction
no matter what we were doing.
This is turning the tides a bit
and it, and if we just keep going
with that momentum, we're always
gonna be more hopeful about this.
Because
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yep,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: we, we
weren't that far off the entire time.
yes, it's been not a great season,
but we're not that far off.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: over
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
and it's, if you ever need to pick me
up a shot of adrenaline, watch the clip.
Angel City posted of Ali Riley
of the game against Orlando.
That pre-game huddle had me in
tears, had me ready to run through
a wall in her honor, like I would
an ocean for Ali Riley after that.
I know how you don't, so go watch it.
If you're having a bad
day, you'll be fine.
Everything will be better
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
and I'll cry about it forever.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: with all
of that, of course our footy therapy
was on a high, we were all loving it.
So after, after the header, after
the winning goal, they played Golden,
which is, the top song right now.
It's a K-pop Demon hunters thing.
we watch it multiple times a weekend.
I'm, it's a thing.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
along?
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah, we went to the singalong.
Yes, we did.
so as soon as that, like
we were all cheering.
My daughter was cheering, my son was
cheering, and then as soon as they both
heard it, they were both sinking along.
So were a bunch of other kids around us.
so with that, they played
Golden on the winning shot.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: Oh.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: my ask was,
what's your three point winning song?
Also, how you feeling special?
Shout out to those.
That actually indulged me in my prompt
and actually, and went along with it.
I got, I think I got maybe three
or four responses that were like
in the vein of what we were trying
to do, what I was trying to do.
Either way, everything was, all up high.
Zach, they sealed the hun moon.
I feel like take down was a apropos
so dang excited for the win.
And then Yesi said Laona because
that's what's been playing in the
stadium for the last two wins.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
part walking out.
They started playing it again, and
the exact same moment, this complete
stranger is walking towards me and
both of us just like immediately
started doing the exact same dance.
I don't, just the little,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
I don't know how to describe it.
You don't know you're doing it until
you're doing it, but Eva goes, wow,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: all we have
a couple of messages from Discord,
also, Ethan with our Hiku of the Week.
Hodge did not dodge Ouch.
Myabi and Iceland fire Riley to the house.
And then also said, and I'm not saying we
won because all of 2, 2, 3 was singing All
Star, but can't say it wasn't the reason
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
yeah.
Oh.
Also if you heard the Sarah
Gorden chant after that save.
You're welcome.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
they came out from 2, 2 7.
Courtesy of,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
the majority of the section
doing it like a few others.
It was, it got going
almost a whole minute.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: and then
I will say Cassandra will always
indulge me in my puns and everything.
indulge my question.
Posted the move in on a theme
song from the Jeffersons,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
yep, that's what we're doing.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
so didn't read the prompt that
you posted, and I was like, why
are people singing the songs?
And then Jeff said,
good news by Shaboozey.
And I was like, what does that mean?
I get it now because I'm
not gonna answer the prompt.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
We don't answer the prompt.
I'm throwing out the prompt Most of the
time I'd get, I just get like an eyebrow
from Angela when I have the prompt.
'cause it's some,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
is silly
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: it's some
silly like pun that I've thought about in
the two minutes of I need to post this.
yeah, Jeff came in with, I need some, I
needed some good news after this week.
So proud of the team.
They're mentally locked in.
Goals from the rookies.
Let me go back up to the
pronunciation for this news.
Reaction and celebration
is what it's about.
we had her welcome.
She had her welcome to the NWSL
moment, with Hodge Out Next game.
Unfortunately, she did, most likely out
next game because of card accumulation.
I wouldn't be surprised if, she gets
the start time will tell, but I think
we'll be okay with, Alyssa, as much as
it pains me, we've, we beat Bay finally.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Also, if you didn't see it, so Niho
scores, she runs over kisses the
crest screams a whole bunch, and then
did you see what she did at the end?
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: The, when
she sat down in her, like the, in the,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Theta like video game
tribute That's damn man.
All in the fields.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: That
it, what a game to do it in.
It was a riding high game.
it,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah.
those who don't know, Diego
Holta was a men's soccer player.
He tragically passed recently, like
a month or two after you got married.
Like tragedy on tragedy.
And the soccer world is reeling still.
And there's been tributes after
tributes, like cellies are the best
way to tribute somebody like that.
And it's been really cool.
So many people have earned
the respect of other players.
Like you don't know the impact somebody
has until something like that happens.
Yeah.
That's all comradery.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yay.
and then real quick, just a few more,
max said stress reminded, must have
reminded Gordon of her true self M.A.
can ball.
she can really ball.
Vedis continues to just be so entertaining
to watch First Game at Left Wing where
they've actually gotten the ball to M.A.
and she did really well.
Tearing and scoring again, is big.
on, and then honestly, we
just get more, we get more.
Yeah.
What was,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
say, I have to point this out because
she was really proud of it and nobody
caught it in Discord, but Eva's talking
about Venus and just she's, her first
goal is just gonna be a total banger.
And she this during the game, she's I
can't wait her for her to find this goal.
it was
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: It was good.
I love it.
It was, I gave her the thumbs up
on the discord where she posted it.
Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
proud of it.
All
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: right.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
standings because Permutation
Primo is making his trek He's not
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: yet,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Now,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: he's
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: next week,
I think next week we're gonna start,
we're gonna start looking at that.
right now we're in ninth place.
We're only one point behind Gotham,
one point behind the playoff line.
but everything is as is most of the time.
The table is really close together,
like the groupings are insane.
So here's the long view of it all.
We're one point from the
playoff line at the moment.
We're only three points off,
like the fifth, sixth place.
There's only nine points off for
us to secure or to secure, wrong
word, for us to be in the, in,
home match playoff territory, One
through four, get home matches.
and then if you want to go super long
view, we're 24 points off winning the
supporter shield and getting first place.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: LOL.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: but only
nine points from being in that kind
of being in the home playoff territory
and being one through four, like
that's insane how close everything is.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
to fourth place right now is
the, is Orlando with 28 points.
So we're five points outta that spot.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
And that shifts and that change are
just obviously, but that's a big deal.
And it's, it doesn't feel like a
far like it, it's not far away.
It doesn't feel like a joke.
Or like LOL, maybe we win a game now it's
damn, how many more are we gonna win?
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
Yeah, I, that's exactly the
attitude we gotta keep going with.
'cause it's so close.
Like nine points is a lot.
Three points is totally doable.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Three points at a time.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yep.
Three points gets a squarely, like in the
middle of that, we're not gonna be like
as much as we, as much as we get to this
point of the season where we're like,
we just wanna squeak into the playoffs.
We just want to just
get in one more point.
Nah, no.
let's solidly be in there.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah, absolutely.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: All right.
let's talk about, our match in New Jersey.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Okay.
So big deal one, because Gotham is
right above us in the playoff run.
But season, if we rewind, do
the little like wiggly screen,
like it's saved by the bell.
we rewind to last season, we had two
wins in a row, and then we played Gotham.
And then we had to restart again.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
We're in the same spot.
We win on Sunday.
So first three win streak in team history.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
it's depressing.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
But it's a big deal.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: is huge.
It's huge.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
more than three games in a
season, thank goodness, but
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
and a streak is fun.
So why not?
We've been unbeaten for what?
12 but not wins and I wanna win.
So that's a big deal.
This is a six point game.
is the first six point game we have
really had this season because we win.
We get those three
points, Gotham gets zero.
We go, suck us and move up, ideally,
but more than one goal so that we
chip away at that differential.
But I'll take one goal.
take a one goal win.
It's still a win.
Three
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
points.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
is three points.
One goal is still three points
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
And the crazy part is that
today, Tuesday, Gotham is playing
in El Salvador for concacaf.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: for in
the Women's Con, champions Cup.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
why are we doing this?
I, anyway, I'm curious to see
how they show up on Sunday.
They won tonight two.
Nothing.
I don't remember against
which team because I, not
pa I have too much going on.
but they played and they started a lot of
their subs or so, like they started the B
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Against Orlando.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
say the like second string 'cause that
sounds shitty 'cause that's not true.
they started a lot of younger players,
a lot of players that don't get a
lot of playing time in the league.
So you can't count them.
But they might be able to run them if we
can run them out the gym or off the pitch.
Cool.
Because I will say at one point last night
we were doing this thing, the
ball would get into the midfield
and they'd bring it back, back
into the midfield, bring it back.
And I was like, what the hell?
And then all of a sudden they brought it
back and shots found this like a fricking
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
And she just took off with a long ball.
And I was like, more of this.
it was just this like boom.
And then all of a sudden, like you
know when you pulled the little thingy
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: the pl
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
machine?
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
plunger on a bit motion.
Yeah,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
good.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: I agree.
They were doing some really great, like
lob passes, getting it up in front.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: and I would
also agree that the whole little pass
back, pass to the side, less of that,
a couple of them to draw them in, but
like less of it because there, were
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
like first time I was like,
what the hell are you doing?
The second and third time I
was like, there's a system,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: there.
Yes.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
team was moving as a unit
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
and I was like, oh, okay.
We're not just scrambling.
Something's going on.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Although
there was a couple, there was a couple of
them where they were going a little too
far back and Rachel was on their asses.
And so it was a little too much.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Chill out
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: oh yeah.
And then by the way, the 2.0,
Gotham win was against Orlando.
So it was a big win.
No, the one, this past weekend
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: Oh
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: that
they won, they beat Orlando two.
Oh.
Which, yeah.
And then they're in El Salvador today.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
two, nothing.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: and they won.
And then now they gotta travel back.
gonna get some tired legs.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Something's gonna be tired.
not gonna be me.
it will be me, but it won't
be me on a soccer pitch.
Gotham won the championship two years ago.
Big deal.
Ali Krieger.
Megan Rap's last game.
It was insane.
I cried a lot.
But they're in this we a super team?
Are we not?
Are we as good as we say we are?
Are we not?
So they have amazing players and
it's stressful if one of the best
keepers in the world in Ann-Katrin
Berger, A KB, as people refer
to her, she is Germany's keeper.
I was reading up on her history
before this insane, she gets
called up to the Euros in 2022.
They don't play, they don't play her.
She sets the whole tournament.
they were, runners up, I think gets called
up again the next year to the World Cup.
Doesn't play Germany, doesn't
make it outta the groups.
Gets called up in 2024 for the Olympics.
She's a starting keeper.
So I think there's a trend
like maybe put her in the box.
But she's fantastic.
She's sane.
She's just insanely good.
She's well known for her ability
to block PKS and also take them.
Her and a listener are actually very
similar in how they play their skillset.
It's terrifying when we have to play
Germany right now, especially 'cause
it a listener's not our keeper anymore.
But it's very different.
Episode A KB played every
position before she was 16.
Attacker like striker,
midfielder, defender.
And then was like, I don't wanna run
anymore, I'm gonna just chill here.
Like she jokes about it like yeah, I
got lazy, I'm just gonna be a keeper.
She was diagnosed with
thyroid cancer in 2017.
Recovered was in remission.
2018 she's playing again like bonkers.
and now she's engaged to just
Carter, who's her teammate
in New York, New Jersey.
Gotham and Jess Carter is on
the English national team.
'cause people are being racist huge.
Anyway.
A KB is amazing.
She's gonna be their keeper.
She's also like super intimidating.
She's probably my height.
It's not like she's six five, it's
not like it's a basketball player,
but she has, she carries herself
in such a way that demands respect.
It's not oh, that's nice.
She's their goalkeeper.
It's oh shit, she's their goalkeeper.
and then so you kinda very quickly go
from super defense to super offense.
Jalen Howell, I believe she got
traded this year if I remember
correctly, but she's just three
career goals professionally, and two
of them are this season with Gotham.
She was the number one draft pick
and had a rough time adjusting.
And it's not something that I've
really seen in conversation in
women's soccer, but it's a big
conversation in women's basketball.
The fact that when you're the
number one pick or you're like.
The coveted person coming out of college
or coming out of the youth system.
Making the jump to being a
pro can be really difficult.
It depends on the team, it depends
on the environment, obviously,
but the adjustment just mentally
can be really hard her podcast.
A bird's eye view, a
bird's eye view, super.
Talk to Kelsey Plum about this.
'cause KP went from being the all time
highest scorer in college basketball
gets the number one pick, goes to a
bottom barrel team, and then is expected
to drop 30, 40, 50 points every night.
Like That's not feasible.
It doesn't make any sense, but they
have a really good conversation
about the pressure that comes
with being the first pick.
And Jalen Howell fell
victim to that in a way.
She's had injury, like there's
been different things obviously
and playing in systems that don't
work for her style of play, but
it really feels like Gotham is it.
And I'm really happy for her because
when you go from like top of the top
and falter in that adjustment, people
are so quick to just call you washed,
you're not good, throw you to the side.
It's like adjustment takes time.
Like not a machine
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
maybe.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
it's rare that top picks stay
in, in most leagues, like the,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yeah.
You might get like maybe the
top pick is the one that kind
of stays, but like baseball top
picks are usually relegated to,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Topics,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
like minor league.
Yeah.
They barely make it, football.
They might end up getting, cut, like
it, any type of draft system like that.
It's, yeah, it's a lot of pressure
and yeah, it's a very different
transition between, the type, the game.
and then also at that point, you're.
Coming in as one of the smallest ones too.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah.
You don't, you're not built yet.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Your body's still developing.
Your brain's not even fully developed,
there's a jump in everything.
very excited for her.
She's very good.
And then to go from
very good to super good.
We talked about her when
we played Gotham at BMO.
Esther Gonzalez.
She's just who she is, like shutting her
down and frustrating her will give us the
biggest chance to come home with points.
So ideally, we want a similar
performance from Sarah and Megan
the back to just piss her off.
Piss her off, and stop her, not
piss her off and make her score.
Esther has scored 12 goals
for Gotham this season.
No one else on their team
has scored more than two,
so we shut them down or we shut her down.
Odd swing to our favor.
Ta-da.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Sorry, I was sorry.
I was trying to find the, the
current, golden boot list, but
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
It's a stare.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yes.
Yeah.
Spot number one.
Spot number two.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
just her and man, she's fun to watch.
It's irritating.
Like it's one of those where
you love watching her, except
when she plays your team.
Yeah.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: Ugh.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: keep
an eye on her for this match.
But go ahead and watch them goin matches
after this one, and then be like, yay
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: this one.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: Boo.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yay.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah.
Not yay.
But that's Gotham.
They're a fantastic team.
I didn't even talk about Roosevelt
or Emily Sonnet or Jess Carter, or
there's so many big profile names.
They're a fantastic team.
Expect greatness.
That's why there's.
Parody in this league compared to others.
but now ba time for Angel City.
Time for me to yell about
everybody and be so excited.
Obviously I'm like riding high.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
It was great.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yes.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Maiara Niehues Brazil.
She's currently in the U 20 level
in Brazilian soccer, which is dope.
probably get a call up in the next year
or two, which is gonna be terrifying.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
I just saw your second note,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
My sec.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
your second note on her.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: yep.
So she scores on Monday.
It's her first NWSL goal.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Her 19th Pro goal.
looking this up.
I'm so pumped.
I'm like, oh yeah, on Wikipedia.
And then I see her birthday
I was like, oh, August 11th.
ha.
In high school I had a crush on a
guy, and that was his birthday, and
then I saw the year she was born.
My from high school is
two months older than her,
and I feel ancient.
I saw it and I was like, ah.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Oh,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
and I misspoke.
At first I was like, she was born
when I graduated from college.
I was like, no.
High school.
She lost it.
She was like, no.
She's I can't wait.
Once.
People were born after
you graduated high school.
And I was like, oh God.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Oh God.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Mack Whitman, who's also on Gotham and is
the youngest person right now, probably,
don't know, I don't wanna know frankly,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: I,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
born.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: let's just,
let's do month and day birthdays.
let's not bring years into this.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Oh, like my high school
diploma's older than her.
That's depressing.
Don't get, don't grow up.
It's bad.
But back to the soccer of it all.
The very cool thing that Pre Angel City,
she was playing at sporting CP in Portugal
with none other than Hannah Seabert.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Oh,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
there in 2022.
They both came here
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: nice.
I did not know that.
All right.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
I didn't either.
I knew she had played overseas,
but I didn't know where.
then I was looking up and
I was like, wait a second.
That's what I thought.
that's super, super cool.
I'm so excited to see her play more.
I'm excited to watch her cook.
She's good.
And I think, I don't remember who said it.
somebody in the Discord with Hodge Out.
Yeah, Jeff.
With Macy Hodge being out on card
accumulation, we're most likely
gonna see her play the majority
of the game, is so exciting.
'cause score again, nobody's gonna be mad.
Nobody.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: More
goals just means everybody's happier.
no, nobody's gonna tell
you not to do that.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
exactly.
Please more goals, eat 'em up.
And then
number 16 on the field,
number one in my heart, M.A.
Vignola, friend of the
pod, family of the pod.
Really?
So for those who are newer to
Angel City, was our second signing.
signed Chris and Press, we signed M.A.
and everybody was like, who is that?
She was playing in Iceland.
She had suffered from a hip injury.
She came over, we rehabbed her.
She made her debut in the Cuba Medica Cup.
In the cup?
No, it was Copa and Angelina.
That's what it was.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Oh,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
Yeah,
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: okay.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
because I was excited about that.
'cause it's almost my name.
And now we just have
Angelina so it works out.
But that's when she made
her debut in that friendly.
So people didn't see her for the first
couple months of the season and all
of a sudden you're like, who is this?
She wears 16.
16 was my mom's number, like
when she was playing sports.
So it's like near and dear.
She plays soccer the way
my aunt played basketball.
Like it's just.
I feel a kinship to M.A.
and now like knowing
her, it's yeah, I get it.
Yeah.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
There's a reason why.
There's a reason why.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
And to give some backstory, she
went to Tennessee, go Falls, like
this is a PAT Summit household,
pat Summit family over here.
If you know anything about women's
basketball, the Queen, we are
a Tennessee family, not Yukon.
So in sophomore year, they transition
her forward to outside, back, and now, so
she grows up being a forward and then she
moves to defense and look what happened.
She is back and that's why it
makes so much sense that she
was an attacking defender.
Because she just knows,
she knows it in her bones.
And I'm so excited that
we got to see her up top.
it's like those skills are a
little rusty, but who cares?
get going real fast.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
It's like riding a bike.
You get, you figure it out real quick.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
And to the team she played on
too Tennessee were amazing.
She's the 2019 all SEC first team
in her senior year, SEC conference
in general, insane every sport.
She played with Michelle Alozie
who is on the Houston Dash.
She's fantastic.
Bunny fricking Shaw, who is a
Jamaican national team player.
She plays for one's?
Light Blue Man City
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yes,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: I
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: man.
City, city.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
that's what she plays.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Ooh.
I might have to, I
might have to edit that.
'cause,
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
I need to know.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: it's city.
Man U(nited) is red.
Man U(nited) is red.
But I'm just saying Man U(nited)
and Man city mixing up those colors.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
know it's
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: It's like,
it's a little, it's a, it's a little
blood crip thing like, you know.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
It's the closest I'll get,
but yeah, like she had prolific teammates
who have gone on to play for different
countries, different teams, like she was
in the mix with very good soccer players.
She is a very good soccer player.
She got her first call up in the
US soccer system in the U 17 level.
she didn't get called up
until September of 2023.
So her first senior team call up,
she played, against South Africa.
I think it was.
Bring her back for more Emma.
Please.
But I would love to
see, Emily Fox and M.A.
and sonnet and Giselle
give me that back line.
And I'm a happy camper.
dope.
But why is she so versatile?
Because she's played different positions.
She knows how they work, she understands
the game, and she can play anywhere.
And she does.
And it's wonderful.
Like it was really cool.
At one point our players kinda
got scrambled a little bit.
M.A.
ended up the back.
Madison was up top, and they just
perfectly realign themselves as
the ball moved on the other side.
It was great.
think we've seen off ball movement
like that ever in Angel City.
In dope.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914:
things were moving as a unit.
Very much Very much There was a big
difference between this game and a lot
of the other games that have happened
in the first half of the season.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: Even
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
against Orlando?
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yeah,
there's, I think there's a lot
more of an understanding of, a
situational understanding of like,
where you're at, where everybody
else is at, why you should be here.
I think it's, yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: is.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
I don't think we've had that before.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: And God M.A.
is due for a goal.
She is so close.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
this season
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
but we need more.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
savvy braids in.
Do you wanna know why?
No.
Hold on.
Let me grab it, because
today I got the mail.
In the mail, the Pronto, which
for those of you who don't collect
cards, like trading cards, a
pronto is like an on-demand card.
I have this one.
It was after MA's goal.
And it was great June 7th,
but it came in the mail today.
So I'm like super pumped.
I'm just, I'm so excited for her.
I'm excited to see her
in a new position for us.
Obviously not for her, but it's so good.
And there was something really
interesting that Sarah Gorden said
in the presser she wishes Alex
had been her coach 10 years ago.
So that she, what she's
learning now, she's I would be
a completely different player.
for the younger players, M.A.
included, she's not like
she's still in her twenties.
Yep.
We are ancient.
to have coaches like that, that can
completely change your mindset completely.
See how completely change
how you see the game.
It is fantastic, especially if you're
to it, and it really seems like so
much of the team is so very excited
to see how we show up against Gotham.
Matching up to them during the
regular season looks dicey,
but it's just been weird.
We, I feel like we can scratch the first
two years of just sure, we have one win,
one draw, and five losses against Gotham,
and we'll see what happens on Sunday.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: yeah.
putting that second win is not.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
No, not at all.
Not at all.
I'd love for it to happen.
But Sunday, September 7th, 2:00
PM Pacific, 5:00 PM Eastern
time on ESPN iHeartRadio.
Nothing official socials as of yet.
But Untamed Spirits watch me
will be showing the match.
Make everybody else it where you are too.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yep.
And with that, yeah.
we are, everybody just keep
riding high on that win.
Let's keep the vibes going and,
let's just get to this game.
excited, right?
Excited for this kind of re.
Re-energized, team and hopefully
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angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
expect big Rutgers showing up.
Lots of Rutgers, lots of Nans and their
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yeah.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914:
family.
She's from Jersey.
She went to school in Jersey.
Her sister went there.
Sister played for sky
blue, which was pre Gotham.
Lots of Tiernan family lore in this game.
mario_1_09-02-2025_214914: Yep.
So it's gonna be a good one
and it's gonna be exciting.
So with that, see you guys next time.
angela--hot-dog-_1_09-02-2025_214914: Bye.
