Just like a never ending game of snakes and ladders, Vancouver Whitecaps got themselves off a two match slippery slope, finding a rung to take their trajectory upwards again in a match between two teams that feel like they would struggle to find consistency in the dictionary.
Chicago Fire came to town and left on the end of 3-2 victory for Vancouver. We look back at the highs and lows of the match and the players' performances, hear from both head coaches, Chicago's Veljko Paunović and Vancouver's Carl Robinson, and chat about some of the latest Whitecaps news, from the continuing Davies to Europe rumours to the new U23 team the 'Caps are in the process of setting up.
We've got two interviews for you this week. The first is with Chicago's World Cup winner, German legend Bastian Schweinsteiger who talks to us about his move to MLS, Saturday's match and playing on turf, and his thoughts on Alphonso Davies.
Next up is Whitecaps goalkeeper Stefan Marinovic as we take a trip down World Cup memory lane armed with some Panini sticker albums. We find out the first tournament he can remember watching, how this year wasn't the first year he came heartbreakingly close to being at a World Cup, and look back at New Zealand's 1982 and 2010 World Cup squads.
All this, plus lots of World Cup chat and orld Cup Wavelength continues this week with Weezer.
Here's the full episode rundown of the main segments from the show:
04.39: Vancouver Whitecaps v Chicago Fire match analysis
18.07: Coaches audio - Veljko Paunović and Carl Robinson
25.24: More Whitecaps v Fire chat
37.00: Bastian Schweinsteiger interview and discussion
46.26: MLS and Whitecaps news of the week
56.39: World Cup chat
77.27: Stefan Marinovic World Cup Panini Memories
87.00: World Cup 2026 chat
96.50: Wavelength - Weezer - Represent
101.45: BC Soccerweb headlines - inc Can PL chat
Episode 399 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Over The Turnstiles with guest Steven Agen)
Episode 398 - The AFTN Soccer Show (True Colours with guest Joel Waterman)
Episode 397 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Clouds Of My Dilemma with guest Jonathan Tannenwald)
Episode 396 - The AFTN Soccer Show (A Slow Life featuring Ryan Raposo, Jaap Stam, and Christine Sinclair)
Episode 395 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Clarity Just Confuses Me with Andy O'Brien, Howard Webb. Marc Dos Santos, and more)
Episode 394 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Something For The Weekend with guests Alan Koch, Ranko Veselinović, Axel Schuster, and Jake Reid)
Episode 393 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Show Me Magic with guest Phillip Dos Santos)
Episode 392 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Happy Together with guest Marcel De Jong)
Episode 391 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Out Of The Basement with guests Fredy Montero, Janio Bikel, and Marc Dos Santos)
Episode 390 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Popular Culture No Longer Applies To Me with guest Marco Carducci)
Episode 389 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Football Fairy Stories with guests Marc Dos Santos, Andy Rose, and Axel Schuster)
Episode 388 - The AFTN Soccer Show (We Are All Slutsk with guests Marc Dos Santos, Mark Pannes, Lucas Cavallini, Kendall Waston, and Jeff Paulus)
Episode 387 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Celtic Connections - Ben Fisk, Jasser Khmiri, Football Manager tips with Rituro, and what might football look like when it returns)
Episode 386 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Living In A World Of Isolation with guest Jonathan Tannenwald)
Episode 385 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Let's Have A Horo Gheallaidh with guests Mark Pannes and Jake Nerwinski)
Episode 384 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Pruning The Peacock - LA Galaxy v Whitecaps preview show)
Episode 383 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Giving It Laldie with guests Mark Pannes, David Milinkovic, and Johnny Russell)
Episode 382 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Back At It - Whitecaps v SKC preview show)
Episode 381 - The AFTN Soccer Show (The Ways Of The West with guest Marc Dos Santos)
Episode 380 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Happy Families - Whitecaps v Timbers, Western Conference preview, Canada comes to Victoria, CPL chat)
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