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 379 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Driving The Fun)
Episode 378 - The AFTN Soccer Show (A Glove Story with guests Max Crepeau and Thomas Hasal) [NSFW]
Episode 377 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Clear Dream with guest Amer Didic)
Episode 376 - The AFTN Soccer Show (They're Back Again with special guest Lucas Cavallini)
Episode 375 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Snow Days with special guest Ryan Raposo)
Episode 374 - The AFTN Soccer Show (The Roaring Twenties - End of Year Review Part 2, Predictions and Wishes, and Tosaint Ricketts' Football Firsts)
Episode 373 - The AFTN Soccer Show (2019 The Year In Review - Part One)
Episode 372b - The AFTN Soccer Show (2019 Christmas Special - Part Two featuring Derek Cornelius and Scott Sutter)
Episode 372a - The AFTN Soccer Show (2019 Christmas Special - Part One featuring Andy Rose)
Episode 371 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Think Tank with Lucas Cavallini and Axel Schuster)
Episode 370 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Don't Mention The VAR with special guest Axel Schuster)
Episode 369 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Rules Are Made To Be Broken)
Episode 368 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Giant Steps featuring David Norman Jr, Bob Young, and Whitecaps of the Decade)
Episode 367 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Cobblers featuring Axel Schuster, John Herdman, Rob Gale, and Fredy Montero) [NSFW]
Episode 366 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Skin Tight featuring Don Garber, John Herdman, Derek Cornelius, and Marcel de Jong)
Episode 365 - The AFTN Soccer Show (The State of the Whitecaps 2019 with special guest Marc Dos Santos)
Episode 364 - The AFTN Soccer Show (For All The Marbles featuring Marc Dos Santos, Jake Nerwinski, Marco Carducci, and Scott Strasser)
Episode 363 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Ghost Moog with special guest Fredy Montero)
Episode 362 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Guilty Pleasures featuring Rob Friend, John Herdman, and Jonathan Tannenwald)
Episode 361 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Eating Goals with Nick Rimando and Kyle Beckerman)
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