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Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Foxports Radio and noon to three Eastern, nine AM to noon Pacific Find your local station for the herd at Foxportsradio d. com or stream us live every day on the iHart Radio app by searching Foxports Radio or FSR You're listening to Fox Sports Radio John Strong a few hours from now he'll be heading To the venue, USA, Bosnia and Herzegovina tonight, John Strong, the voice of USA soccer He is now joining us and he is joining us live. He's called USA, France, Argentina, England, Brazil. You just watched Harry Caine with a couple of goals. England now It's going to go to Mexico U Wow. what do we does let's talk about before we get to the game tonight You know, everybody, you know, I feel like Portugal' too reliant on Ronaldo who looks his age Brazil is good. They don't feel as dynamic. take France out of it and messy out of it I mean, England looks, I don't know who I like in that one. What did you make of England today I think this was an example of and I think we talked about this last week. soccer is a different type of sport. You can make life reallyally difficult for a superior on paper opponent If you're organized, if You're doing the work defensively and the fact that DR Congo scored as early as they did That was really significant. That set the tone for the thing It's an interesting thing you bring up of sort of the level of reliance that teams have on stormers At the end of the day, that's the whole point though. You're going to have to rely on those guys. England have quality players, but they needed to have a special player And that's what they have in Harry Kane. And I think I don't know if we think of Harry Kanaine in the same terms as we think of Messi or Ronaldo or Imba But maybe we should because he's put up numbers this season at his club team in Germany. He's putting up numbers at this World Cup that are the same as those guys. He's got more World Cup goals than Pelle now And I do think that combined with the rest of the quality England have You add in harricquane to that, that's a differentiator. But listen, this is a different buzzaw that they're walking into in Mexico City. A Stadiest Tea two miles high in elevation, heat. Not the best air quality and about one hundred thousand Mexican fans screaming at you and a Mexico team that is feeling confident. they're riding the wave of momentum They know exactly what they are. They're going to do the same thing to England that DR Congo did That is a massive, massive game coming up th this weekend Match up with Bosnia and Herzegovina tonight. What will it look like in your opinion I think it would be unfair to overe emphasize how defensive Bosnia and Herzegovina will play They're absolutely going to look to sort of what we say is a low block. So they're going to start the game in their own half, looking to compress space, looking to defend But they've got quality attacking players as well. and you're seeing some of the goals that they scored. Karamala Begvich is eighteen years old coming off the left wing Esmir Bai Rkarovich, on the right, this is the kid that was born in Wisconsin. His parents fled warfare In Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early nineties, they built a new life for themselves in Wisconsin And they raised their son as a Bosnian. And even though he played for the U.S. at youth level began his career with the New England Revolution. He as he said, he was always going to represent his country, his parents' country. They have quality players. They're highly motivated. I think for the U S Early goal is so important Get out in front, force Bosnia and Herzegovina to have to come out and play an attack And they can't just compress that space. I think it's one of the things Clint Dempse said a lot yesterday in our studio shows. The longer this goes where it's either zero, zero or, heaven forbid one nill to the Bosnians, That's going to make things really difficult for the US. because then you get impatient and then you get reckless and that's where problems can get worse. Does this feel I mean you did World Cup at Russia, Qatar Um, and I you know, every I'm almost cautious. to be overly complimentary in this sport of America But I watched the Russian World Cup, you announced it. I watched Qatar. It didn't feel this big. It didn't feel this loud I mean, it's just this feels like nothing I've ever seen before For I guided to the booth Has it transcended sort of every other World Cup you've been part of It has. I don't think there's any question about that. I mean, we do things bigger here. Our stadiums are bigger. The scale of our country is bigger. The amount of millions of people we can have Watching a game on television is just bigger than most other countries and This has been exactly what we would have hoped that not only do you have people that have come in from overseas, Not only do you have immmigrant communities in the United States that are from a lot of these countries. I mean, I know right now there's a lot of Senegalese Americans that are in Seattle. My parents are at that game in a little bit. between Senegal and Belgi But then also the way adding American sports fans This whole point is this is the legacy from nineteen ninety four That was still the most attended World Cup in history until this one. Yeah. But the way that that transformed the sport in a slow generational way and we're seeing that now where we're filling these stadiums and We have blockbuster television numbers and We see on the talk shows and on the TVs and airports, everyone's paying attention to this. This is exactly what we would have hoped But absolutely I think the United States, along with Mexico and Canada can feel very proud of the tournament that we've put on, the way it's been supported, the way it's been run, still some time to go. But I think this has been a smashing success. You've seen France up close. Is that the best team you've ever called a game for They are the most dynamic attacking team How you define best, again, Argentina until someone figures out how to beat them, they're still the best, right? I mean, I would surprise none of us to have another France Argentina final. Those have been the two best teams, but France are scary good And they've been able to even since the last World Cup Uman Dembele got healthy and he's had a couple great seasons. Michael Elise has emerged now as this remarkable two way midfield player And Killian Ebape is just one of these guys where the World Cup comes around, he puts on the blue shirt of France and he becomes superhuman. And the goals that he scored yesterday in that game against Sweden Few players in the history of the sport can score goals like that He just raises his game to a different level. So France are scary good. But as I said, Argentina have an edge to them. They have a will to win to them That is just as terrifying for any potential opponent. We're going to see them a couple days against Cape Verde. That's going to be a fist fight. That's going to be a tough game But Argentina is very good at finding a way Balligan Pullisic, Weston McKinney. People look at that as our top three. I think the depth goes beyond that. if if I said John, we know our top three the striker Pulisic who's our kind of magic Johnson. He can score, but he's such a playmaker. Weseston McKinney midfield. Who else do you really needs to shine play to his best level for us to keep advancing. I think Malik Tillman would be next in line and he's someone who I think goes below the radar a little bit because he's not a very flashy player But he takes a lot of set pieces He's going to be the type of guy that that, you know, Bosn and Herzegovina. They're going to make sure Boligan's got two guys around him at all times. Pelissa' got two guys around him at all times. We got to know where Weston McKenney is So Malik Tillman is the type of guy that can pop up in those spots and Serino Dest as well. And we spoke with Serinio yesterday He gets this wonderful twinkle in his eye when he talks about those moments when he's on the ball and he can just try to invent stuff. This is exactly the type of game that is going to very possibly be one By everyone other then pololistic vallleagan a Weston McKenney because they're going to get all the defensive attention. And so can you have someone else pop up in a key moment? Make a key play Everyone's going to have to have a good game today. But as I said, I think it very likely comes down to some of those other guys. When that ball falls to them in the box They got to score. You're going to get one shot at it and you got to put it away Your third World Cup, man's World Cup Um, is this the bigiggest game you've called. in macro hereere Now there's expectations. We've moved past. Wouldn't it be cool, John if we won to We need to win tonight or You know This is different. in my life, Johnna, I vote knockout stage is always like God if we could just win one. I was so happy last time, just getting a draw with England in the group stage. I don't feel like that anymore. Where is this rank for you personally I actually think you've nailed it. This is the most unique game that this US men's team has ever played They've never been in a situation like this where it is d or d stakes. It's a Wld Cup knockout stage game But they're expected to win. They're supposed to win. It would be hugely disappointing if they don't win. It's different than playing the Netherlands. att the last World Cupver, Belgium, the one before that and it's different than other situations in the sense that you're going to have I mean twenty million Americans potentially tuning in more than that, maybe Prime time on the East coast You know, in a week when people aren't necessarily in their normal rhythms here were the first of July. And people are going to be tuning and expecting to see this team do well, not hoping they can pull off and upset. So This is, as I said, a very unique opportunity My hope is that these guys can rise to the occasion because their reward for doing that is the next biggest American soccer game in history, which would be in a few days in Seattle and to go back to Seattle with that incredible atmosphere the other week against Australia And now in around a sixteen game, you're talking about really making serious history. and now you're talking about can they make a quarter fininal And now you're talking about really major the whole country' dialed in. This is a special unique opportunity for these guys and that's kind of my thing is' I want to see them take advantage of it to reward themselves for their hard work and to set up the next big opportunity. John Strong is always good to seeing you. Thank you so much for stopping by I appppreciate call. than Thank you. You bet JMac Where'd you put your money tonight? USA, baby Bringing this one home easily, easy. Easy money as the kids like to say Well, they're big fail. There is no easy money. Yeah There's no such thing, obviously, I'm kidding. But yeah, strong articulated well. There's a big physical Bosnian team. They're going try to body us, push us around. and you know, we don't take that crap Bosnia tonight We will try to do what we have done previously when we faced teams that were favored, junk it up, muddy it up, be physical U, I mean that's that was always our counter attacking style. Yeah, which was we could score, but we needed great goal teending goalkeing and we also needed to, you know, murky it up a little bit There we are. Be sure to catch live editions of the Hard weeekdays in Non Easter nine AM Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS one and the Hard Radio app. It's me, Rob Parker. 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Terms and conditions apply need to hire? This is a job for indeed sponsored jobs. JayMac with the News No, no, no, no no. turn on the news Heird line new All right, let's go to the game that just wrapped up England against the Congo Colin. It was a thriller. your guy, your countryman, Harry Kaine with the header to tie it in the seventy fifth minute. courtesy you have Jack Gordon, the suuper subub who came on. Gordon was excellent with two assisted about twenty five minutes of action. And then Kain with the game winner a few moments later In the eighty sixth minute an absolute missile. Here's Darren Fletcher with the call. Goosebumps scard Hurricane ! Mesin Bryain Sir Harry, he's just done the business for England big time. Now who else? King Harry? I'll tell you what, F this finish gets it out of his feet shift, bang. What go, What a brilliant goal. When you're in the mess, when you're in the mire, when you need somebody to step up, look no further than England's captain, Harry Kay I love them. I love those guys. Majestic Rell. Colin, he has more goals as Strong said than Pele in the World Cup. Pele was supposed to be the greatest player of all time. Okay? Harard Kain is so underrated and I'll just I mean, like when I watch that game winner, he's falling down. If you watch after he shoots it, he falls down. It's like one of those Patrick Mahomes throws That's just like, oh my gosh, how's he doing that? That's unbelievable. Look at, he's falling down and fires it still into the top shelf I that's that's just want to gets you out of your seat like whole Sunday night eight Eastern Azteeca Stadium. Yes. Harry Kan and the Brits against Mexico That will be. It'll be the most electric game arguably so far in the World Cup. Just in terms of. Oh, it'll be Azteka is insane. Mexico hasn't been this far in a while. It's been a minute. England comes in, you know, they're not going to have the crowd there, shocker And one of us may have just been looking at flights to Mexico City, but you know, that's another story. All right, let's move on to the Mexico aspect, Colin off what they did last night. again, they face England. They just destroyed. Ecuador U last night. I mean, it was not even close. This team came out flying firing shots from everywhere. The teenager Mora a head or wide and I'm like, oh, man, Mexico iss going to kill him And they end up winning against Ecuador to nothing It was such an unbelievable vibe there on the screen. And we have a call from Derek Ray on the first goal from Mexico last night, here it is And look at the green space he was able to run into PulanQignionz and that's how to do it. Mexican magnificence and a splendid finish by Kiniones for a third goal at this World Cup. Well it's to perfection, the timing of the run. there is no No chance. He's seen this before. He's done this before. He's certainly near post but he buries it and the stadium has gone wild That's so good. So you never want to look ahead, Mexico. obbviously you got the England match Sunday, eight Eastern on Fx. shouldhould Mexico win that. Then they're done playing at home. They come to US. soil. They would likely face likely Brazil. Well, first of all Mexico does very well stalking American stadiums win Mexico fans so that it will still be overwhelmingly a home game for Mexico. one hundred percent. And by the way, Mexico four games have not permitted a goal yet, Colin. Look at the celebrations in Mexico City That looks like New Year's Eve. I mean, come on. Can you imagine if Mexico won? Gst England or Brazil? No the whole It would just be great. Anything seems possible at this moment. All right, Kolin, we'll wrap up with a little bit of NBA here and there is a report. rememember the whole stuff about Oh, Anthony Davis. He could wind up with the warriors with W with LeBron. Yeah, that was all a pipe dream from Rich Paul. So the wizards apparently are not even listening to trade offers for him. They're saying it's not happening Ay is eligible ome august sixth for a contract extension. Hold on to your chair. He's eligible For four years two hundred seventy five million dollars because he's been all NBA That wouldn' AD sixty eight million a year. I don't think any same person on planet on Earth give that to an aging anth. I can't believe they gave T yum That four year deal. They could have moved off him in a year. like I I I don't get it. Well, that's the problem. L Anthony Davis sees that like Trey Young has you gave him that much money? Well, you got to pay me. So now you've got this weird like Anthy Davis doesn't want to be there unless he gets paid. The wizards aren't dumb enough to pay him, but they need him. Can they find a middle ground like a two year deal? Becauseuse you need him, Colin. You got De Bonza, Trey Young. I think this is a play in team, maybe a playoff team top eightid in the East if everybody's healthy I just I don't know what you do with Davis. You can't He's unreliable. The pieces don't fit, you know. I mean, maybe LeBron or a magic Johnson could walk into this league and overcome it But generally speaking, I mean, Magic had great success early because he inherited a great owner, a great GM, a great coach, and Karem But by and large, young people like I think Darren Peterson for Utah, they've got this collection of really young interesting players. I think he'll absolutely average twenty to a game and elevate them to a like a six seat or a seven or an eight seat. I can see that. But generally young players to flourish like a Mahomes, you know, you need the right coach, weapons. you need Washington, I don't think it necessarily fits and you know I just you again Larry Bird end up getting a great GM and a quality coach and Kevin McKale and Most young people who flourish like AJ De Bona, they really they come into a good situation. LeBron I mean was very rare when there was dysfunction everywhere in Cleveland. He gets them to a finals. they got swept. by Duncan in the sppurs, but he got into a final. I mean, the last, I mean, think about this. The last two seasons, only one rooookkie has walked into the league and averageed twenty points and that's Cooper Flag and that's because he's He's takaking most of the shots. Like De Bont says, you know, Trey Young's going to take a lot of shots. Let me ask you though, we just spent a couple days talking about big guys getting paid If ADC's Walker Kessler, who's twenty two and has't accomplished Jack Squad Okay, getet four years one hundred and thirty milk Don't you think Anthony Davis is going to be like, guys, look what I've done. lookook what I'm capable of. They just traded me in Dallas for Luca Dantchich and you don't want to pay me anything Does Adie have a case to say you're fine, fine, Gy forty million for the next two years? Nobody Nobody that's paying attention paying Anthony Davis No way. No way. I still can't believe Toronto gave up to first, two pick swaps Brandon Ingrham, Grady Dick U two seconds. for a thirty five year old Kawai who's going there for a payday. D't just. In the West, somebody says shocks. We gotta contend with Wendy We might as well get Anthy Davis have him play less minutes half the season and save him for a playoff series. I'll tell you now, AD it is prime As a defender, if he's healthy againgst Wemby, I like his chances. He's gonna do well. Yeah in his prime F years ago Minimum, J Mac with the news Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping back. The Hed Le news. We've been so lucky at Fx. Sometimes you just get lucky, right? You're a network and you get the Super Bowl and you know, the packers end up being in it or, you know, you get you get the eagles in it or a big brand. This World Cup, if you would have written five things we needed United States not only wins but is exciting. England France, Argentina. Messy or greatrape Mexico Looks unbeatable I mean, now you, Netherlands is now out in Germany, but those aren't in the States. those aren't big brands. England's a big brand No question. Mexico is a huge brand in this country. We're a brand I I think Canadians, Canada winning, Portugal's still in it. Spain still in it. Like everything's worked. The weather's been great. They got a heat wave in Europe. now we're getting a little warm now, but U The stadiums have been great. Remember, when you and I know everybody gets very uncomfortable just saying, you know, listen, we have we have ice air conditioning and public bathrooms. We are built for the Olympics and the World Cup. You can hold it in Los Angeles And the stadiums are there. USC UCLA so far, the Rose Bowl I mean, we just have an infrastructure that other countries do not have And it has just been Perfect, Mexico, England, Messi, France, us, Canada It is just all worked out. US and Bosnia tonight in Herzegovina at eight Eastern on Fox Liveve in Chicago, it's the Hurd Be sure to catch live editions of the Hd weeekdays in New Eastern nine AM Pacific. Hey guys, it's Dasha here. The World Cup brings cities to life. Streets buzzing, crowds gathering, every goal sparking celebration. Moments like this are impossible to miss, but some moments are so quiet They slip right past us. 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Just go to indeed dot com slash podcast right now. indndeed dot com slash podcast Terms and conditions apply Need to hire? This is a job for indeed sponsored jobs. So Rich Paul LeBron James agent works for Clutch Sports, owns it said Leaving The Lakers. wasn't just about the money 'sich Pul Once he got to a place to where he said, listen, man I understand where things are And I get it. I know that's where I could probably make the most money you know, for me where I'm at today, you know, it's probably not the best thing for me to do. I probably would just go away from that. So And I said, are you one hundred percent? Sure