We’re back with our 2023 Christmas special! Another AFTN Soccer Show packed full of Vancouver Whitecaps, Major League Soccer, and Canadian soccer chat, but this time with added festive fun and games! It'll all get a bit messy or maybe it's just a cheese dream.
The Whitecaps' 2024 schedule dropped this week and forget Santa Claus, it's Lionel Messi that's coming to town in May. Barring injury, Christmas has come early for 'Caps fans who want to spend their cash gifts on some football fun. We delve into the good and the bad aspects of the schedule, chat about the Messi circus, and look at the two latest Whitecaps additions - draft picks Eliot Goldthorp and Nicolas Fleuriau Chateau.
Our feature interview this episode is a player that will be well known to Whitecaps, TFC, Pacific FC, and Vancouver FC fans, Canadian defender Kadin Chung. We chat with Kadin about the highs and lows of his career so far, coming to play for his new hometown team, and look ahead at what's to come. Plus we find out what Christmas is like with the Chung family and with his teammate Callum Irving's family.
We also look at the US Soccer Federation standing up to MLS in the US Open Cup row, chat with Canadian Players of the Year Jesse Fleming and Stephen Eustáquio about their busy year and Christmas plans, find out if Canadian women's national team head coach Bev Priestman is able to get a break this Christmas, whether Whitecaps midfielder Ali Ahmed fancies a chocolate digestive, and just what is Tristan Blackmon's favourite jam?
Harjeet Johal joins us for the fun and chat and play 20 Questions, plus we continue AFTN's 2023 Festive Fifteen with numbers 6 to 4.
Here’s the rundown for the main segments from the episode:
01.45: Intro - getting ready for Christmas aka buying too much cheese
11.55: A Callum Irving Family Christmas
14.36: Messi coming to town as MLS schedule drops
36.45: Anyone Fancy A Chocolate Digestive - Ali Ahmed
38.11: 20 Questions - Whitecaps edition
44.26: Festive Fifteen #6
48.29: Whitecaps add two intriguing draft picks
59.35: USSF stand up to MLS in US Open Cup row
74.46: Tristan Blackmon's Favourite Jam
76.45: 20 Questions - CPL edition
86.01: Festive Fifteen #5
90.25: Kadin Chung interview and discussion
121.40: A Kadin Chung Family Christmas
123.45: Festive Fifteen #4
129.00: Jessie Fleming and Stephen Eustáquio on a busy year and Christmas plans
135.55: 20 Questions - Canadian national team edition
144.40: Bev Priestman's Christmas plans
146.00: Wavelength - Armchair Loyal - All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit
Episode 495 - The AFTN Soccer Show (No Sitting Back with special guest Emma Humphries)
Episode 494 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Canadian Men’s National Team Year In Review)
Episode 493 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Canadian Premier League Year In Review)
Episode 492 - The AFTN Soccer Show (2021 Christmas Special with Vanni Sartini, Ryan Gauld, Max Crepeau, and Brian White)
Episode 491 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Whitecaps Year In Review with special guest Ryan Gauld)
Episode 490 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Play The Drum A Little Louder with special guest Nikos Overheul)
Episode 489 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Purple Reign with special guest Maxime Crepeau)
Episode 488 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Hustle and Bustle)
Episode 487 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Dreams Can Be So Cruel Sometimes)
Episode 486 - The AFTN Soccer Show (World At Their Feet)
Episode 485 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Moving On To Something Better)
Episode 484 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Listening To The Music With No Fear)
Episode 483 - The AFTN Soccer Show (On The Sideline Screaming Away)
Episode 482 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Feeling Good?)
Episode 481 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Rising Temperatures)
Episode 480 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Fallen Leaves)
Episode 479 - The AFTN Soccer Show (White-hot)
Episode 478 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Making Moves with Axel Schuster, Pa-Modou Kah, and Bobby Smyrniotis)
Episode 477 - The AFTN Soccer Show (On The Rocks with special guest Florian Jungwirth)
Episode 476 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Lost in the Forest of Fruition)
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