Casual FC

Angela Intro: Bam,

Mario Intro: I'm, like, covering
myself so I don't even know how I look.

How do I look?

How do I look?

How do I look?

Let's go.

Angela Intro: Wait till this plane goes
over because I don't know if it picks up.

Mario Intro: Oh, I should
probably turn off my heater.

Angela Intro: Hold please.

Okay, for real.

featuring two certified
podcast foot, rewind.

I don't know how to read.

Hey everyone, what?

Mario Intro: I'm sorry, just
the reset that And It's just

Angela Intro: customer service voice,

Mario Intro: okay, sorry, sorry.

Angela Intro: okay.

You ready?

Mario Intro: Let's go.

Angela Intro: All right.

Hey everyone.

Welcome to Casual FC, an Angel City match
preview and footy therapy pod featuring

two podcast certified footy therapists.

But today, today we're adding
soccer terms, refresher class

the list of things we do.

I'm your host, Angela Morales,
with my ever creative, ever,

Doodling co host Mario Salazar.

Mario Intro: Hey, everyone.

yeah, we are doing a
revisit of our Soccer 101.

we were talking about what shows
to be planning while we were

getting ready for this next season.

You know, we have a little off season
time, and we realized, we that our soccer

101 terms that we did last time was before
we went onto this beautiful video app

Angela Intro: Yeah.

Mario Intro: everything was just
being talked about and it was kind

of hard to visualize some things if
you're a visual learner so here we are

Angela Intro: All right.

So like Mario said, this is our little
soccer explainer for the newbies,

the casuals, or for your friend.

That's never ever paid attention
to anything sports related and

wants to come to a match with you.

Just just get him the quick and dirty.

That's what we're going to go through.

Mario Intro: this will be a really
great like 101 for all the questions

that they're going to ask you during
the game that you'll also be explaining

Angela Intro: so either have them

Mario Intro: Yeah,

Angela Intro: emotional support
juice pouch because after the

Mario Intro: mine's gone.

Angela Intro: need it.

we're recording this on a
different day than normal.

It's National Girls and
Women in Sports Day.

So happy day to all who celebrate.

And yeah, let's rock and roll.

Tell me about the beautiful game.

Mario: All right.

Well, this is Soccer 101, brought to you
by the shenanisode series of podcasts.

I don't know what I'm talking about.

Basically, we're just going to go through
all of this stuff brought to you by us.

and hey, a little plug, join our discord.

It's a fun, you can ask
whatever questions you want.

Everybody's really nice
and, we have a good time.

So here's your footy refresher.

Angela 101: before too long, Katy
might name a plant after you.

Mario: Oh yeah, yeah, we got,
we got a plant name after us.

That's pretty cool.

all right.

So our footy refresher,
we're starting off with.

What is it called?

It's called soccer, football, footy.

Honestly, call it whatever you want.

It's, you know, we're not, we're not
going to be sticklers or, there is no,

right, wrong way to call the sport.

Some people are going to be a holes
about it and let them be a holes

about it because they're just a holes.

But, beyond that, call it what you want.

the fun little fact that we had
about all of this was the fact that

Soccer is actually an English term.

real quick backstory on all of that is
that, a lot of people in Oxford used

to put ER, at the end of the word.

Sports in order to just kind of like,
it's, it was slang talk basically.

and so they used to say a sporter was
like a general person that played sports.

a rugger was someone who played rugby,
and then a soccer was someone who played

association football or soccer for short.

So soccer was the term for a
person that played, soccer,

football, and, so really it's.

It's theirs.

the word soccer was recognized,
a recognized way of calling

association football, which was
soccer basically, up until the 1970s.

And then, people in the UK, it started
becoming popular in the US and they were

like, no, we can't call it that anymore.

And so they decided to go
back to football, whatever.

It's called what you want to call it.

But just have fun with it.

alright, and our next little thing,
Angel City plays in the NWSL, the

National Women's Soccer League.

There are multiple leagues now, by
this point, that you're watching this.

There's the USL Super League, there's,
which is the other Division 1 professional

women's soccer league in the US.

It's a thing, we can talk about it later.

Angela 101: Welcome to

Mario: Um.

Hehehe.

Angela 101: for soccer or
any other women's sport.

Mario: Yeah.

and then, there's the WSL
League, over in the UK.

And then there's also the brand
new Canadian League, which I don't

actually know off the top of my head.

Angela 101: League or something like that.

I don't remember the name.

I haven't

Mario: Yeah.

Angela 101: memory yet.

Mario: Yeah.

So all of those, and that one
just started like this year.

So all of those are out there.

Important thing to know, Angel
City plays in the National Women's

Soccer League, which is the NWSL.

We also play at the beautiful
BMO Stadium right in downtown LA.

It's right next to the Coliseum,
right across the street from USC.

It's by the museums, the

Angela 101: Expo

Mario: The Natural History
Museum, the Science Center, Soccer

Built, Purpose Built Stadium, and
that's where Angel City plays.

And it is the best.

Angela 101: It's a fantastic
stadium, genuinely.

Mario: Just go.

Just go.

there's no reason why you
shouldn't go to a game.

Just go.

It's going to be great times all around.

and of course we have our supporters
section, something that is.

Well known throughout, people that watch
soccer or that think about soccer is,

all the kind of very kind of rabid fans
and, the American League is no different.

We have our supporters section and our
supporters section is actually called

La Fortaleza, means the fortress.

And it's on the northern
end of the stadium.

It's standing room only.

It's pretty steep because
of the standing room only.

And, It just creates a
really fun atmosphere.

the supporter, all the different
supporters section, supporters

groups are in this section,
drumming, chanting, waving flags.

So if you really want to be in the thick
of it, this is the section to be in.

If you like a seat to yourself,
like Angela and I do, then there's,

there's three other sides to
the stadium that you can be in.

Angela 101: like 15 years younger,
I would probably have seats.

the north end, like in La Fuerte
Alisa, like I'd be like front row.

But

Mario: Yeah.

Angela 101: body hurts and stadium seats
are already bad enough and you want me

to stand on concrete for four hours?

No, it's not gonna

Mario: Yeah, and I mean, the game
is not for hours, but supporters,

they are there before and after and
you know, they're there to support.

So, yeah, it's, it's fun times though.

It's a really fun experience
to be within all of that.

And, and just experience a
game from that vantage point.

It's Alright

Angela 101: basics of the game.

The clock is a running clock.

It's especially if you come
from any other time to sport.

That's not soccer.

two 45 minute halves.

So 90 minute total match,
but the clock doesn't stop.

There's no timeouts.

is just continuous.

kind of makes sense, but we're trying
to keep the flow of the game, which

is why there's no, designated timeouts
or stops in play the way there is in

basketball or something like that.

I'm probably going to end up making a
lot of basketball references because I

feel like that's an easy comparison and

Mario: that's your best
analog to, compare to?

Okay.

Angela 101: the board.

If you look at like basketball,
for example, basketball,

four quarters, halftime, like
everything is kind of the same.

Men's basketball, school you're playing
in quarters, college you're playing in

halves, pro you're playing in quarters.

It's really dumb they do that the women
used to do it too and they were like

that's why are we changing the system
because it doesn't happen overseas.

And the answer, the NCAA said it
was too hard to change for the men.

So take that with what you will.

But the women in college four
quarters, just two halves.

Just, just putting it out there.

So it's very difficult
to make the difference.

but it's basically to just keep
it the same across the board.

Make the timekeeping very simple.

You can ref in one league
and it's the same in another.

there's not.

All these other rules based on the
leagues, which is really helpful.

so time.

You kind of know what it is.

You kind of don't.

It's basically all of the time where
the game actually stops, there's

reviews, where there's a player down.

Hey, excuse me, hydration breaks.

If It's a million degrees and
the humidity is through the

roof and nobody can breathe.

got to let them like recover
because their bodies will shut

down and nobody wants that.

Nobody, nobody wants injuries.

Nobody wants passing out like
in general, just day to day.

Nobody wants that,
especially on a soccer pitch.

it's also for any big reviews.

VAR a lot in something that
was a video assisted review.

The video assisted referee is.

Problematic, but here we are.

We have to

Mario: Yeah, it's gonna
take its own time to explain

Angela 101: Sometimes it's

Mario: is, and that's more in advance.

Angela 101: minutes.

yeah, but that's why you'll see sometimes
depending on the different stations or

different stadiums you're in, you'll
see 45 minutes and then it'll just keep

counting up, but it's still the first
half or you'll see 45 minutes plus.

You know, and it's counting
up in time that way.

So you sometimes you see two different
clocks, but that extra bit over 45

minutes is considered stoppage time.

Mario: Yeah, and there's a fourth
official who's, keeping track of time

along with the center ref, and that
fourth official is the one that, is

the one that decides, how much time.

So they're just kind of keeping
track of, like Angela said, injuries,

water breaks, things like that.

And then they'll be like, oh, an extra
three, three minutes really, you know.

although in more recent times,
they've been getting a little bit

more, here's an extra 15 minutes.

Oh, and then the second half
and also an extra 15 minutes.

It's been,

Angela 101: hours.

Mario: yeah, yeah.

It's been getting a
little bit out of hand.

But the whole point of it was, and I,
and I honestly think they're, my gut says

that they're going to roll back on that,
but what they were doing is that they

were trying to account for the actual
time wasted, but then again, if you,

really when you start thinking about all
of this and the stoppage time and added,

because the clock doesn't stop, it's also
because they're running on an entire year.

Angela 101: Yeah.

Mm

Mario: the entire football field's
worth of space, and they're constantly

running for those 90 minutes.

In basketball,

Angela 101: There's a

Mario: running on a court,

Angela 101: start and stop.

Mario: you're,

Angela 101: sprint team.

Mario: you're sprinting on a really small
court that fits within the goal box, and

I'll show it in a minute when we look at
the field, fits within that space, and

You're doing short sprints and then you're
stopping because someone got fouled and

then you have to take a shot like and
then in American football like You're

setting up you do a play where you like
move two inches and then you reset and

you do it all over again and it's just

Angela 101: you switch,

Mario: Yeah,

Angela 101: there's a lot of
different reasons why other sports

stop and soccer doesn't, but

Mario: yeah

Angela 101: it's just one of those
things to take into consideration.

So then we have stoppage time, right?

There's also extra time.

So extra time is essentially overtime.

for matches that need a decision.

tournaments, single elimination games,
you go into extra time, you play

an extra 15 minute period, you have
halftime again, you play it again.

Cool.

If the game's still tied, you go into
penalty kicks and everybody stresses out.

Nobody can breathe.

It's a whole big stressful thing.

But if somebody scores in
that extra, either extra time

period, you got to play both.

Someone scores, game over.

To break the tie, I should say,
because multiple people could score.

But yeah, extra time is stressful.

So when it comes to scoring,
obviously you want your team to win,

A win means you get three points.

So you get your score, right?

Let's say it's two to one.

Your team wins.

Angel City in this case.

They get three points added to
their point total for the season.

Goal differential is something we'll
talk about later, but if you win, you get

three points and that goes in one column.

If you lose, none.

Obviously the other team gets those three
points, but if you tie, there's a draw.

Each team gets one point
because you participated.

And yeah, like we said, yes, you can tie.

It feels very counterintuitive to
most sports and most competitions, but

Mario: I, I, I like it.

I mean, I like the, the
idea of being able to tie.

It's just, it's, like you said, it's
not, there's a full season, right?

There's, 30 something games,
you know, if baseball could tie.

Angela 101: No,

Mario: anti American, but,

Angela 101: honestly.

Mario: but there's like a hundred and

Angela 101: 162

Mario: yeah,

Angela 101: you have to make the decision.

It's also a

Mario: but

Angela 101: game because when
you're running anywhere between

six to ten miles a game,

Mario: in 90 minutes, yeah,

Angela 101: regardless.

These are top notch athletes.

You're gassed because your body is spent.

You need more.

You need to put more energy in to be
able to put more energy out and you don't

have any reserves in the tank after that.

Mario: yeah, once you get to the,

Angela 101: Still.

Mario: once, once you start getting
into that extra time where it's

oh, they've played for two hours
now and they've been running like

crazy, you notice the drop, so,

Angela 101: hoping that
somebody subs in for you

Mario: yeah.

Angela 101: you've been in for that long.

Mario: So yes, you can tie.

so with all of that, all of that
gets put into a table, right?

Three points for a win,
one point for a tie.

that ends up helping out, you know?

It's basically the way I explained
the tying thing to a friend before

was like, you can think of it
as a point for participating.

But it's also, you were good enough.

To hold the other team to not score on
you, or not score more than you, right?

so, the effort was there.

Of course there are games where it's 0
0 and it was just a complete bore of a

match, but there's also games that end
up 0 0 that were exciting and amazing.

And so, you know, there's a spectrum
there, but the whole point of it is

that you can have the excitement.

You, your team played a certain
level that kept the other team at

bay, and that deserves a point,
you know, to, to all of that.

But it's not, it's not divided
where it's oh, you get two points,

Angela 101: Mm hmm.

Mario: because of the tie,
and everybody gets two points.

No, no.

There's one point that's lost.

So like at the beginning of the
season, you can think of what's the

possible point total that you can
have if you went undefeated, and

then Anytime you tie, that one point
just kind of goes off into the ether.

Angela 101: Yeah.

Mario: yeah, but in the end,
there are two trophies, and this

is mainly an American thing.

Angela 101: Mm

Mario: Uh, in pretty much any other league
around the world, the champion of the

season is the team with the most points
at the end of the season, and that's it.

But we gotta be America.

And we need playoffs.

So with that being said,
there are two trophies.

There's the most points at the end of the
regular season gets the supporter shield.

and that is something that has come
around from like the fact that, you

know, that's what the, the legacy
kind of championship thing is.

it's also presented by the, the,
the ideas it's presented by the, the

supporters, all the fans that have come
day in, week in, week out, with that.

And we have this beautiful.

Brand new shield.

The, the, the shield, the shield from two
years ago was literally a cookie sheet.

it was Like, the winners were gonna
bake some cookies on that thing.

It was really sad and kind of offensive.

Angela 101: something that
could, like, yay, we won.

Mario: I think someone found the engraving
website where you can order your own.

Angela 101: Probably.

Mario: was like,

Angela 101: it felt

Mario: it was off the shelf.

Angela 101: what was that store
that used to be in the mall?

Things Remembered.

Do you remember that?

Where you would

Mario: Yeah.

Yeah.

Angela 101: photo albums, vases.

Mario: It was pretty much one of those.

So that's what, that's what
the old supporter shield.

Now we've got this beautiful, badass

Angela 101: big.

Mario: shield.

It's literally a shield.

so when Orlando won it this,
this past season, Marta held

it as like an actual shield.

there's a handle in the back.

It's,

Angela 101: Captain America,
but she's Captain Brazil.

Mm

Mario: but yes, that thing is, it's big.

and so with that thing, You
move on into the playoffs.

So depending on how you ended up in
the standings, you take the top teams

and you move into a playoff and that's
where you start getting these extra time

gains because it's single elimination.

You kind of go all the way
through the end and the playoff

winner wins the championship cup.

So just like in any other American sport,
If you get hot at the right time, and

can make it through the playoffs, you
could be the one that squeaked into the

playoffs, but still win the whole thing.

So,

Angela 101: you

Mario: with that,

Angela 101: like Orlando
did this last season.

Mario: yeah,

Angela 101: Run the

Mario: you can be like,

Angela 101: literally be
in first place, and then

Mario: dominant, and then yeah.

Angela 101: just blow through teams
like it was no big deal in the playoffs.

Storybook season for sure.

Mario: Yeah, so, those are all the
basics of your food refresher on where

we're at, what we're playing for.

So, now, let's talk about All
our little refreshers of on field

shenanigans that happen on there.

Angela 101: I just

Mario: So,

Angela 101: I love these
graphics coming up.

So like I said, my ever creative
co host made these slides.

So thank you very much.

They are great.

Mario: so the, thank you.

Well, the first, we'll just
talk about the, the field.

So the field, it's this
big rectangular field.

You've probably seen it before, in soccer.

It's referred to as the pitch in soccer.

There's a center circle.

Center circle is where
you basically just start.

That's whenever you, after a goal
or at the beginning of the game or

beginning of the half, you put your ball
in the center of that center circle.

All the players kind of
have to stand around it.

Think of the basketball
key in a free throw shot.

And that's where you start.

You kick it off and then
you get the game going.

And that's where you start.

It's just, yeah, that's what it is.

then you have the touchline, which
is the long line, in the rectangle.

if the ball goes out on that end,
on either one of the long ends,

Angela 101: Completely

Mario: be a throw in completely.

So that is a thing about,

Angela 101: line.

Mario: that is the thing about
soccer, is that, you can, you can run

outside of the line and still dribble
the ball and it still be, in play

because the ball, the full sphere of
the ball needs to be past the line.

And that's the same thing for goals.

If it, if a goalie stops the ball
at the line, it's not a goal.

It has to completely pass the line.

So with the touchline, if the ball goes
out on that side, whoever kicked it out.

Or whoever was the last team, to touch
it before it went out, the opposite team

gets to throw it in, and a throw in is
basically, you know, it's one of the

only times, really, that most of the
main players get to use their hands.

Beyond that, it's just
feet, and body, and head.

Angela 101: Yep.

Mario: Only.

And then, next we have the end line,
which is the short side of the rectangle.

And, if the ball goes out from
here, two things can happen.

One, if it's Our own team in the,
if it's our defensive half, so where

our goalie is and we knock the ball
out on this side, then the ball gets

reset on one of the corners and the
opposite team gets to kick it from the

corner and try to score from there.

If the other team is the one that
knocks it out of that end line,

then we get to reset the ball.

Yeah, yeah.

the penalty box is the
giant box that's here.

That is the goalie safe zone.

The goalie is the only player that
can touch the ball with their hands

throughout the game, but they can
only do so within this big box.

And when I was talking about
the basketball field, basketball

field, the basketball court
earlier, the basketball court.

Regulation size basketball
court fits within this box.

So that shows you the scale
that people are running

Angela 101: Yeah,

Mario: during these matches.

Angela 101: is very much
a game of sprinting.

Soccer is a game long distance
cross country runs in a box.

Mario: Yeah.

Yeah, hence, hence why I got
into cross country running after

after I stopped playing soccer.

All

Angela 101: Track

Mario: right, and then

Angela 101: a field and
that's where I landed.

Mario: So within this penalty
box also is if there is a foul

within this box, that is what
constitutes that penalty kick, right?

And the penalty kick you, the opposing
team gets to set the ball and the

nice big dot in the middle of that
and go one on one with the goalkeeper.

So you kind of, you know, you want to be
extra careful when you're in that area.

The goal box itself is the smaller
box that's right in front of the goal.

And when the ball went out of that end
line side and we get to kick it off from

the goal box, it means that it can be
placed anywhere along the line of that

box to be reset, restarted, kick the ball
out, and kind of keep going from there.

and like I said, if we If anything
happens, if there's a card, if there's

a foul, if there's something that
happens within the penalty area,

there's the penalty spot that, you
get to go one on one with the keeper.

And then what else?

Oh yeah, and then the corner kick.

So, there you go.

All of the kind of general things
you want to know about this.

next we are talking about our positions.

We have 11 players on the field.

And The goalkeeper is, the first one
and you know where they're going to be.

They're going to be the one with the
big old gloves and is going to be

standing right in front of that goal.

Then you've got a defensive line.

Then you've got the midfield
and you've got the forwards.

this is a very kind of standard
way of placing everybody.

We will.

Eventually get to a point where
we start talking about tactics and

how these players can move around.

that will be a future
episode if you're interested.

But for the gist of it, there are
10 players that are kind of in the

field playing plus the goalkeeper
as the 11th player, on the field.

And then they just kind of go at it.

Yeah, there's not much you can do.

and really in, in, The best way
that you can kind of explain this

is the forwards are the ones that
are going to go all the way towards

the other side and try to score.

Mainly the midfield, they're going to
try to score, but they're also going

to hang back and kind of try to be
that, stopping point if the ball starts

coming the other way and the defense is
the defense, you know, you know, like

clap, clap, defense, that type, yeah.

Exactly.

so there you go.

And then we get to the rules
and here's a very truncated and

very light version of all this.

We're not going to get deep into stuff.

If you want to, we can probably do another
one of these with like full on rules,

but the main ones that you want to know.

Angela 101: all.

Yeah.

Mario: Yeah, the main, the main things
you want to know basically is when the

ref blows the whistle, if there's a
card that comes out, because if there's

a foul, and the ref is well, you know,
that was a foul, you shouldn't have

done that, but let's keep going, you'll
just hear the whistle, they'll reset

the ball, and then we'll keep going.

When the card comes out, that's
when everybody gets riled up.

So a yellow card, it's essentially
the ref saying, hey, stop that.

You know, slap on the wrist like

Angela 101: done it a couple times.

I told you to stop.

I blew the whistle.

We had a foul.

Now you're in trouble.

Mario: Yeah, so here's,

Angela 101: you.

Mario: here's your warning, right?

In, in soccer you only get two warnings.

So, two warnings, two yellow
cards, equal a red card.

So, when you get that
second yellow card, you,

Angela 101: You're

Mario: oh shit, and then
you get that red card.

So, two yellows equals the red, ref is
basically saying, hey, I told you to stop

that, now you gotta go, you gotta leave.

And, you know, when you get
that red card, basically, you're

you have to leave the pitch.

you can't be on the you can't even
be on the sidelines anymore, you

have to go to the locker room.

Yeah.

Angela 101: ejected when you get a

Mario: Yeah.

so you can have the two yellow
cards that will equal a red.

You can also get a straight red.

And that one, if you go, basically
zero to a hundred and you get that

straight red, the ref is basically
saying, what the hell was that?

Off with you, go, get, get, so, an

Angela 101: or

Mario: egregious fuck, yeah.

Angela 101: like where you're
going for blood and don't do that.

Mario: Yeah.

Yeah.

Angela 101: accidentally, like there's
a collision or something like that where

it ends up being like really bad, but,
and somebody gets carded like that,

but ideally you don't want a red card
because what happens is with yellows,

with reds, you accumulate the infractions.

you end up getting suspended
after a certain number.

So don't.

Mario: And the other thing with a
red card is you are being ejected.

So that player has been
ejected from the game.

Like I said, they gotta
go to the locker room.

They can't even be, on
the sideline anymore.

And that team doesn't get
to replace that player.

So now when the teams were even playing,
10 on 10, now the other team, that got

the red card is playing one person down.

And so now it's 10 on nine and.

Then tactics change.

Then you gotta like,
especially if who got the red?

Was it one of your attacking,
kind of scoring players?

Was it one of your defense?

And now you have to, you know,
you, it, it affects the game a lot.

So it's a reason why refs don't
want to give the second yellow.

Angela 101: like they

Mario: and so the Yes.

Angela 101: telling you
like, hey, cut it out.

I don't want to, I don't
want to ground you.

I don't want you to get in trouble.

this is dumb.

You know better.

And then you get the red card and you get
the, I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.

Go to your room.

And it's oh, yeah, that's what
that, that's what that is.

Mario: Yeah.

So the straight red here, like we
said, it's like an egregious foul.

There's another way of getting a red, and
it's called the Dogso Red Card, and yeah,

so the Dogso Red Card is the denial of
goal scoring opportunity, and it basically

means that you fouled the player, and
it could have been an easy, light foul,

like it, you know, it could have been a
yellow card type foul, but because the

player was on a breakaway and was the last
player There was no other defender there

and so you're basically your last ditch
effort was to like try to slide and tackle

them or something or didn't deny them
of that opportunity if they had a clear

shot that could have resulted in a goal.

Straight red.

There's no, there's no arguing about it.

There's no, did the, did,
what does the ref think?

It's this one's the most clear
cut way of getting a card.

It's also one of the
dumbest ones to get a card.

And, you get that red card.

Now, One of the other things about
red cards is that, as we were

saying, the yellow card, you can
accumulate them and then you can get

suspensions later on if you get too
many over a certain number of games.

Red cards automatically suspend
you for the next game also.

And if you get a straight red, I don't
know if they still do, do they do this

in the NWSL where if you get a straight
red it's like, up to three games?

Angela 101: I think it depends on what

Mario: On the severity, right?

Angela 101: I think it
depends on severity.

Mario: Yeah, yeah, but either
way, at the minimum, you get

suspended for one more game.

So you get, you get thrown
out of that match and you get

suspended for another one.

So, it, it, it's an event when
a red card comes out, but, yeah.

And then let's talk about the TIFOs.

Angela 101: stuff.

So a TIFO.

Essentially, like Mario said
in the slide, big ass fan art.

We saw one a little bit earlier when
we were talking about La Fortaleza.

Or it was like, ah, So
teams around the world.

make, not even the teams, I
should, let me clarify, like

rewind because this is important.

The supporters of teams make these.

They can be big, they can be
small, they can be homemade,

There's so many ways to make TIFOs.

The biggest thing is
that they are fan made.

They're made by the supporter
sections for the team.

That's like the number one thing.

The cool thing about
TIFOs, so TIFO is actually.

Italian slang.

And it comes from Tifosi, which is the

Mario: Yeah.

Yeah.

Angela 101: Which is wild because
it's like that fever causes delirium

and fans are like, they're fanatic.

So it's you're so into it.

You're, there's a quote from
Bring It On in the beginning where

she's she's got the fever, people.

And that's what I think of.

has nothing to do with Bring
It On because it was meant when

the whole plot of the movie was
different, but it doesn't matter.

know too much about that movie.

If you've listened to literally
any episode of this podcast,

you probably know that.

TIFO, like the, the history
of TIFOs is just really cool.

And it's, it's such a cool thing
when you're in the stadium.

And that's like part of the reason
why I like sitting opposite supporter

sections, because I want to see the TIFOs.

want to see the artwork.

I want to see the science.

I want to see the presentation of support.

That folks are, are giving to this
team and like the one picture in the

middle, La Fortaleza, was so impactful.

we joke here that I cry all the time.

So does Cap.

So does Ali Riley.

And when this went up, and we'll never
forget that because the cameras were

on her and she didn't realize why, then
the TIFO went up and she just was like,

on the pitch just happy season opener.

then I want to say the first, the one
on the right is from the first season.

And yeah, that

Mario: the one on the right, it was the
very first one, yeah, and that one came

out and then the, the one on the left
was for the Pride match, I believe,

Angela 101: Night, yeah,

Mario: yeah,

Angela 101: Didi Heritage
was our goalie at the time.

She's no longer with the team,
but that's like her as the

beacon of pride for Angel City.

And yeah, it was, it was fantastic.

I know a couple of people who have
been in the design teams and have

worked on the TIFOs and it's just, it's
such a group effort put together by

hundreds of people and it's fantastic.

It's fantastic.

Fantastic.

Okay, so this is the biggie.

first want to the designation
it's not offsides.

There's not an S at the end.

It's just offside.

Mario: I, my slide got corrected.

Yeah,

Angela 101: nope, delete.

So the thing is, the offside rule
is essentially The prevention of one

player just chilling near the opposing
goal, like one player on your team

on the opposite side, chilling by the
defender, the opposite team's goal.

So you can just launch a
ball and they can score.

If you do watch basketball,
you can cherry pick.

You can throw from baseline to baseline.

can inbound the past, the whole length
of the court, no big deal in soccer.

One, it's very hard to do that.

Two, throws off everything,
and it's really weird.

So

the, the, the idea that all of your
attacking players moving with the defense.

Like everybody is kind of in this
match going back and forth and.

You'd like, because you don't
want somebody just hanging out on

the opposite side of the pitch.

You have to be strategic.

Your defense to be strategic to
move with those opposing forwards.

Your forwards have to be strategic
moving with the defense on the other

team because what happens is that,
okay, so Angel City has the ball.

We're moving up the pitch.

Our most, our forward most
attacking player, so the.

The forward who's the
closest to the opposing goal.

So in this case, where that dotted
line is, little pink, little pink one,

that person cannot be ahead the very
last defender from the other team,

which is that makes sense because,
know, there's still that opposition.

There's still that level of defense,
but when the ball gets passed

forward by the pink of teams.

player, like their midfielder,
their defender, whatever.

If that player, so if the, the pink player
by the dotted line knows they're faster

than the other person, can just take
off and, and book it towards the goal

Mario: the,

Angela 101: the ball's
going to go overhead.

The thing

Mario: yeah.

Angela 101: you can't go
past that defender until the

ball is in forward motion.

Mario: Yeah, it's at the
point of contact for the ball.

as soon as the ball is kicked, that is
where they draw the line when they start

looking whether it was offsides or not.

Angela 101: It's basically like
the starting gun in a race.

Like the ball gets

Mario: Yeah.

Angela 101: when you can go.

essentially the starting gun.

if you, if you're, you could be in line
with someone, I, like just same, basically

holding hands, standing there together.

And if you're just faster than them, cool.

if you start running before
them, then no, you know, offside.

That's, that's essentially it's,
it feels hard, but it's not hard.

It's hard to explain.

But it's not a

Mario: It,

Angela 101: once

Mario: it's not a hard concept.

I think, I think what
it is that it's a hard,

it's not a hard concept, it's a
hard thing to see in real time.

Angela 101: Yes.

Mario: Especially when you're at
different angles throughout the stadium

or even when you're like watching it on
tv or thing like it's kind of hard to

see it in real time and that's one of
the reasons that you know you have the

center referee the referee that's kind
of running around the field with every

with all the players and then you have a
referee on each line that is looking to

see if the ball goes out of bounds now
that referee that's on the line Their job

is to keep pace with that last defender.

So they're the ones straight directly
in line with that last defender.

So they're the ones that have the
clearest view of was that other

player ahead of them or not.

Angela 101: Right.

Mario: but everybody else is in a stadium
that's either up high or to the side.

So it's, it's, it's hard to see in
real time depending on where you're at.

So it's, it's one of those where once you
see it enough, It'll start to make sense.

You can understand the concept,
but until you actually see it,

in progress, it's, it's, yeah,
it's, it's kind of baffling, but.

Angela 101: concept to explain
which makes it difficult to see and

then it's just difficult to see.

It's, it's a conundrum.

Okay, so rapid fire extra terms.

We've got basically a vocab list.

Mario: Okay, yeah, and these can always
go into more depth, in, in later episodes

if, if we need to, but a lot of these
are really just kind of what they are.

So we've got, The Derby or the
Darby if you want to pronounce

it the way the English do.

the Derby Match or the Rivalry Match.

It's just, it's what you would call
technically, the, you know, the, the

Dodgers versus San Diego or the Dodgers
versus, the Giants or, you know, yeah.

so, we have been.

kind of placed with, San Diego
and with Bay FC as our rivals.

are they truly our rivals?

I mean, I don't know.

We kind of have some
history and some beef with,

Angela 101: the last

Mario: Portland and, you know, with, with,
who else beyond, Portland, Seattle, yeah,

Angela 101: Utah,

Mario: Utah.

Yeah.

Angela 101: and San Diego are the
West Coast teams, which you're going

to end up seeing more of normally.

But don't know.

I mean, California itself is place.

And we have five states in one and sports
rivalries within the state are bonkers

and I love them so much, mostly because my
teams are good and we win a lot of them.

I'm an L.

A.

girl through and through.

I did see with everything that's
happened in the city this last month

and a half, there's been a lot of fun
conversation of does LA even care?

people are like, talking shit
left and right, they're talking

smack, and it's okay, so?

I don't care, I, this is my city.

Mario: Yeah,

Angela 101: the Bay Area.

some, some big animosity, and
then people come here and it's

oh yeah, I don't really care.

Or San Diego, same thing, I, I don't care.

But.

It is very fun to be part of a sport
fandom, which is essentially what

fanbases are, just big fandoms of

Mario: yeah,

Angela 101: teams that are so, so,
so, competition inducing and inducing.

oh my

Mario: yeah,

Angela 101: this team.

I love that part of sports.

I love this group so much that
this one is just terrible.

Why?

Because they're there.

They just exist and I hate

Mario: yeah.

Angela 101: hate them.

Mario: The, the part of LA that people
think is the la that doesn't care.

It's typically the kind of the,
the glitzy, paparazzi where the

hollywoody, la which is not la,

Angela 101: not LA.

Mario: right.

The real la.

Angela 101: that

Mario: cares.

Angela 101: doesn't care about what other
people think about it, which is true.

Mario: Oh yeah, that's true.

No, but what I was saying is
just it's one of those questions

that like, do they even?

Angela 101: people, whatever.

Mario: Yeah, yeah.

Angela 101: back to whatever
city they moved here from.

Mario: You also, you also have to
talk about the fact that like, when

people also ask oh, does LA even care
like, about their, their, their team?

Angel City averages like
20, 000 people a game.

people care.

Angela 101: People

Mario: but we're also in LA.

There's The beach, there's
the mountains, there's

Angela 101: There's two to three

Mario: museums and

Angela 101: given day of the week.

Mario: yeah, sports wise, there's a ton.

And then there's also just other
things to do in LA that's just kind

of like competing for your attention.

So yeah, LA people care.

So,

Angela 101: Absolutely.

Mario: all right.

Angela 101: we're a loyal
base for better, for worse.

Mario: All right, the counterattack,
very self explanatory.

If we were, heading, if whoever,
whatever team has the ball and they're

kind of heading towards the goal, if
they get stripped from the ball and

the other team just kind of starts
attacking the other way, they've been

countered, they're countering the attack.

So there you go, pretty straightforward.

playing from the back, it's a
term that you might hear a lot,

in broadcasts or, you know, when,
when you're watching things, about

the sport, it really means that.

Angela 101: Angel City game, the last

Mario: Yeah,

Angela 101: Yeah,

Mario: past coaches.

it basically means that, we are holding
and controlling the ball from that

defensive line before we move it up.

So we're letting that defensive line
kind of hold up play, slow the ball

down, and then start moving it forward.

Instead of just saying here, lob it to
the front and let the front just keep

attacking and like doing it that way,
and letting them control the match, it's

letting the defense control the match.

a switch, basically switching sides.

if you were on one far end of the field
and you passed it to the other end, so

if you were playing on the right, you
passed it to the player on the left.

I know I showed the wrong
hands, but whatever.

Angela 101: it's

Mario: That's,

Angela 101: What are you talking

Mario: It's called a switch.

Parking the bus.

that is a term that you'll hear a lot
also, especially when a team is, ahead

and really wants to kind of just lock
down the three points, lock down that win.

A lot of the players will start falling
back into a more defensive position.

And instead of you know, the, the four,
the normal four defenders that you have

in the back, you'll have Half the field
playing defense, and so now there's this

kind of big wall of defenders that the
other team has to try to get past, and

Sometimes those can be pretty boring,
sometimes they can actually be pretty

exciting, depending on how, you know,
attacking minded the other team is.

So, eh, it is what it is.

A brace is when one player scores
two points within the match by

themselves, and a hat trick is
one player scoring three points.

And there is also a seldomly
used term, but we like to kind

of reference it whenever we can.

The perfect hat trick is someone
who scored with their left, someone

who scored with their right, and
someone who scored with their head.

you get all three.

Angela 101: Which is wild.

All right.

So we also have play in the advantage.

So this is when you have the
ball, you get fouled, but.

It doesn't really impede anything.

So the, it's just play on, you
just play on, you play through

it because you recovered.

There's no sense in stopping the game
when it doesn't actually change anything,

which honestly, this might be my favorite
rule of soccer because sometimes there'll

be something that happens in basketball.

I've been watching a lot of basketball
lately and I'm just like, why

did you just, nothing happened.

Like, why did you, why did
this have to stop the ball?

Like when the shot clock.

expires, but the other
team is, has the ball.

don't stop the ball
and stop it completely.

Just keep going.

So,

Mario: That's, that's, that's my
main annoyance with, the other

sports, where the, clock stops.

It's you, you, it's,
I know it's strategic,

Angela 101: yes.

Mario: Cause you're playing
within the, you're playing

within the rules of the game.

So there's,

Angela 101: it's just logistics and dumb.

Mario: but yes, the number one rule
with the idea of playing advantage,

which sometimes some players
tend to forget, and then that's

when, the fanbase will get upset.

You play.

Till the whistle.

You play to the whistle.

If you don't hear a whistle,

Angela 101: You play

Mario: there was no foul.

you can be upset and mad as pissed
off as you want, but if there was

no whistle, you did not get fouled.

Angela 101: Yeah.

Mario: So,

Angela 101: And that's one of those
things that I think a lot of try to

instill and somehow, at a young age,
you play until you hear a whistle.

it's really hard to remember that
when you just got body checked

Mario: bodied or something.

Angela 101: and nothing happened.

Mario: Yeah, yeah.

Angela 101: as somebody who,
body checks on people in her,

in her lifetime, that's on

Mario: Oh no, I,

Angela 101: up.

Mario: yeah, yeah.

Same, same thing, same thing.

I've, I've pushed and been pushed.

So,

Angela 101: So

Mario: yeah.

Angela 101: So six point game.

This is when teams are very
close in the standings.

And we said, you know, you win a game, you
get three points, but when you're playing

a team, let's say you're within two
points in the standings, you win the game.

That means the other team gets zero point.

You can essentially jump six points
because they're getting zero.

You're getting three and
you're putting them like behind

Mario: They can't make
up those three points.

that is three points that went
away that they can't make up.

So

Angela 101: So it essentially either
opens or closes a gap by six points

because of the jump that happens
when you win a situation like that.

Mario: Yeah, yeah, especially if you,
if you were on the lower end of that,

Angela 101: Mm hmm.

Mario: if they were ahead of you,
however many points, say they were

ahead of you four points or whatever,
and you won that match and they

lost, they don't move from their
position, but you got closer to them.

So it's a lot of those matches
when, especially it's more talked

about when it's like further
on and along in the season,

Angela 101: Yeah.

Mario: it's a very kind of.

important way to designate like a game
that's kind of has higher stakes to them

Angela 101: So this is a really fun one.

I'm not sure where this term came from.

I've tried to look it up and then I
forget halfway through, but or getting

megged is when The person who has
the ball is going to their defender

and granted, most of the time the
defenders are running backwards or like

sideways and you know, all which ways.

it's when you're dribbling the
ball with your feet, obviously, you

essentially pass it to yourself through.

Mario: their life

Angela 101: their legs, like as
they're running and the ball just

goes, shoop, right on through.

It can also be a pass, but it's even
cooler when you just dink it to the

side and they go, it goes through
their legs and it, it's one of those

things, like when it's done, right?

It stings.

It's ooh, you know, oh, dang,
they just got magged hard.

oh my gosh, but.

It's always fun to see when it happens,
whether it's to your team or not.

it's just, it's just cool.

A bicycle kick.

If you are an Angel City fan, you
know, you know we have merch related

to bicycle kicks because the Sydney
Leroux in the last game of a season

where we ended up winning five
to one just blew everyone's mind.

If BMO had had a roof, it
would have been blown off.

it was insane.

This ball was goal attempted.

It got blocked by the keeper.

It comes back out and she's facing
in the most perfect direction to

just up, essentially do a half
backwards cartwheel just flip her

whole body over to score a goal.

So a bicycle kick is dope.

That's it.

Mario: yes

Angela 101: It's

Mario: yeah you'll see you'll see
people try it and when people try

it people get excited but then
ultimately go like well mom right

Angela 101: Yeah.

Mario: it's one of those things
where like In order to pull it

off, you, you have to go 100%.

Angela 101: Yeah,

Mario: you, there's no half,

Angela 101: it at

Mario: you can't half ass it.

Angela 101: the one Syd did, and she's
known for being a prolific scorer,

but also like a trick shot scorer by
accident because she just practices them.

And now that her son is old enough and
loves soccer, they practice them together.

And she had been teaching
him how to do a bicycle kick.

And then the opportunity
literally presented itself.

And she was like, here you go.

And the video.

of them practicing in their backyard and
then it happening and then Cassius in

the stands like freaking out crying oh
my god a bicycle like it's perfect it is

absolutely perfect definitely go look it
up we've posted it a million times we'll

post it a million more times i will watch
it until my eyes bleed it's wonderful

and then we've got the penenca
which is essentially A really

interesting way insult a keeper.

it's, so you're taking a PK, you're
on that little dot, pressure's on,

you just chip the ball, like in golf,
where it's bink, and you just get it

up high and over, and it's a soft kick.

It's not this rocket that
you're used to seeing.

It's just a little sup, And it can throw,
it's when like pitchers go from throwing

90 miles an hour to 65 and it messes up a
batter because it's so slow in comparison.

Mario: Yeah.

Yeah.

Rookie of the year.

It's just the floater.

Yeah.

Angela 101: coming, something coming at
you so fast then it's just this little

like soft shot like barely touched and
then if it goes in it's oh damn it.

Yeah.

Mario: commitment, but it's also a,
there's been attempts at a pun and go

where You know, the whole thing is selling
that you're going to be like launching it

and then doing that little dink, right?

But, there's been attempts
where like they do that and

the keeper doesn't fall for it.

So they just kind of stand there while
you kind of lob it and they're like, nope.

It's just no, what are you doing?

And there's other times where
like the keeper goes for it and

completely dives one way or the other.

And then you've just kind of

Angela 101: This

Mario: lobbed it, chipped it in.

Angela 101: all slow.

Mm

Mario: to recover and come back to
get it, so then it's just it's a

dirty way to rub it in the face.

It's not a dirty goal, by any means.

it's a goal, but it's, it's, it's, yeah.

Angela 101: Alright, and like
the bonus term is shithousery.

We talk about it a lot because
there's been a lot of shithousery.

It's kind of when everything starts, it's,
it's soccer's version of a shenanisode.

It's when everything
starts to go off the rails.

fouls, there's chippy plays,
there's pushing, there's shoving,

there's garbage, there's garbage
time, there's time wasting.

The keeper's go, move up the field,
you know, you, you stop the ball

and then you lay on it and then
you take 10 seconds to get up.

it's ways to waste time, essentially.

Mario: Yes, yes, it's, it's the,

Angela 101: not fine and it's a problem
and then the refs get involved and

they're like, hurry up and then you get
in trouble and then you get a yellow

card and then it's a whole thing.

Mario: it's fine when it's us.

When it's not us.

It's, it's a way to really, really
piss off the opposing team and

the opposing team's fan base,
especially when you're doing it like,

Angela 101: At

Mario: you know, at another stadium.

but yeah, it's, it's kind of like,
you know, I was mentioning the, the,

my annoyance of like fouls and stuff
like that in, in like basketball or

football or whatever, you know, all
the kind of time resetting and things

like that, but, this is essentially,
you know, our version of it.

The clock doesn't stop, so,

Angela 101: yep,

Mario: know, what are you gonna do?

Are you gonna keep dribbling the ball
and possibly lose it, or are you just

gonna take your time and walk it?

And if a defender comes over, you're
just gonna hold it away from them,

Angela 101: hmm,

Mario: know, kind of playing keep away.

Angela 101: it, yeah,

Mario: or, or, basically, it's, it's
time wasting in the best, most creative

ways you can, if you're about to throw
in the ball, you, you get ready, you're,

you're gonna throw it, you're gonna throw
it, and then you're like, oh, wait, no,

you take it, and then you leave the ball
there for your teammate to come get it.

Angela 101: It's, parking the bus
in the most annoying way possible.

Because when you're

Mario: yes.

Angela 101: bus, there's a
defensive strategy there.

You know the other team is in a time
crunch, they've got to score, and then

all of a sudden every single person
on your team turns around and plays

defense and faces up and is let's go.

Bet.

bet you get past all, all 10 of us.

When the shithousery comes in
is when it's oh, we're winning.

I'm gonna lay down.

I'm just going to lay down and play dead.

Like I'm, I'm going to
make sure I have to tie

Mario: Oh,

Angela 101: times or

Mario: yeah.

Angela 101: a cramp.

Oh, I have like my hair.

Oh, you know, like whatever it
is like, Oh, something happened.

Mario: At one point, At one point, I know,
a lot of times it happens towards the

end of the game, but, I always wondered,
especially this past season, if DeeDee's,

was just, constant shithousery every time
she, went down and had to get the, medical

team and, so it was, it was bad enough
where everybody just knew, water break.

Angela 101: Yeah,

Mario: just, just go, go get your
water, because they were gonna

treat her for a few minutes.

Angela 101: injury, though, because she,

Mario: Yeah.

Angela 101: there was, there was,
especially towards the end of the

season, there were times where
I'm like, that's not a normal,

Mario: way to, to, to go down, yeah.

Angela 101: it norm it would come across.

Mario: Yeah, but I also wouldn't put it
past her that there was a couple times

where she's oh yeah, oh, oh my leg,

Angela 101: yeah.

Mario: you know, so.

Angela 101: I drank too much milk
before, you know, like drank,

I ate too much before I went
swimming and I have a side cramp.

Mario: So, thank you everyone,
that was our Soccer 101 course,

and we have a Soccer 201.

coming up, we are going to be talking
a little bit more about positions, the

players that are in those positions,
what roles they kind of play, and we

hopefully will have a special guest,
to help talk about all of that.

And that will be coming up next, so
hopefully you can join us for that.

And, yeah, if you Liked what you heard?

Hit the subscribe button, follow
us for the rest of the season.

We will be covering Angel City,
and the NWSL in general, but, you

know, with some rose colored glasses
for the majority of the season.

Angela 101: Rosa

Mario: if, if you like what you
heard, go check out casualfc.

com for all the pod links, all
the merch, all the everything.

Links to other women's
sports podcasts too.

There's a bunch of great stuff on there.

Follow our socials at
casualfcpod on Instagram,

TikTok, threads, and at casualfc.

com on BlueSky.

So follow us there.

Come join the Discord.

We have the links in our
socials on how to get there.

The Discord is fun.

It's a great group of people.

we get to talk about the games, we get
to live chat about the games, at times,

and, it's just a really fun place to
be and a really fun place to learn.

And then, if you want to support the pod,
best free way to do it, comment, and hit

subscribe on whatever platform you're on,
leave us a review, share one of our posts.

I mean, it costs you nothing.

And, and it helps us out a lot.

or, we also have a merch
store, if you look at casualfc.

com, there's a merch link, and we
have stuff coming out, we have some

things planned that we're bringing up.

I've got a new job, so things are
moving a little bit slower than, than

planned, but, we do want to get some
kind of fun stuff out during, the season.

And, if you just don't need extra
shit in your house Then you can

always support the pod by buying us
a coffee if you go to buymeacoffee.

com slash casualfcpod.

you can, it's an easy way to throw
us a buck or two, to help us kind

of keep going with what we're doing.

And, this has been a great passion
project for Angela and I and we

just want to keep this thing going.

And, hopefully you guys
are along for the ride too.

Angela 101: mean, that'd be cool.

Mario: Just join us.

Angela 101: talking into the void forever.

Mario: I mean, we have fun talking to each
other, so you know, if you want to join

in on our conversations, there you go.

So, with that being said, we'll catch
you on the next one, we'll catch you for

the rest of the season, and let's go.

Angela 101: See you soon.

Bye.

Mario: Bye.