Episode 624 – The AFTN Soccer Show (Don’t Try This At Home - Whitecaps win one and lose one, new MLS roster rules, Canada NTs)

We’re back with another AFTN Soccer Show packed full of Vancouver Whitecaps, Canadian national team, Copa America, and Euro 2024 chat, and we're joined once again this week by Felipe Vallejo to talk about it all.

It was a two-game home stand for the Whitecaps this week and to quote Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, you win some and you lose some, and I've lost the will to lose. That about sums up how I feel about the 'Caps home form, where they've now dropped 16 points so far this season. We look at the main talking points coming out of the win over Kansas City and the loss in the seven-goal thriller to Houston, including the concerning knee injury to their talismanic captain Ryan Gauld.

The MLS transfer window is open. The Whitecaps rumours haven't been plentiful but the club will definitely be making some additions, but may also be losing some players. We look at the apparent imminent arrival of Colombian defender Edier Ocampo and the possible departures of Fafa Picault and Javain Brown, plus we look at the new MLS roster rules and how they may impact the Whitecaps in this transfer window and beyond.

And there's still time to talk Canadian Premier League, League1 BC, and the Canadian national teams. Plus Cork band The Frank and Walters continue as Album of the Month, we take you back to 1974, and we've an England Euros 2024 song in Wavelength now that they didn't win it and aren't quite as insufferable!

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Here’s the rundown for the main segments from the episode:

02.08: Intro
05.12: Whitecaps win at home to KC
14.20: Gauld injured as Whitecaps downed by Dynamo
45.33: Home form continues to plague Whitecaps
53.32: This Week In Whitecapsland 1974
59.40: New faces imminent but will Fafa and Javain move on?
78.20: The new MLS DP and U22 roster rules and the Whitecaps
92.00: Edier Ocampo to Vancouver transfer rumours
99.40: League1 BC semis set as Whitecaps women add players
107.12: Devin O'Hea joins Pacific and CPL round-up
129.55: Good start for Canada U20s at CONCACAF qualifiers
133.33: Canadian women set to kick off Olympic defence
136.45: Wavelength - Big Shaq - Like Wot