PSG Win Super Cup 2-1 vs Aston Villa, Messi Returns In 3-2 Loss To Leon, Xavi Hired By Netherlands

Project 90 Soccer: We are live, Marco. Welcome to another episode of the Project Ninety Podcast. My name is Antonio. Antonio. And I'm here with as always, the big man, the big boss, the Office Depot Club of Leon Super Fam. Boy, do we have something to talk about today? Marco Munoz. Marco, how are you feeling, brother?

Marco: I am feeling great, Project 90 fam. Anto Leon

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah. Yeah.

Marco: just went to Miami. And they beat Messi, Miami, Casemiro, Rodrigo DePaul, whoever you want to throw in there, Leon

Project 90 Soccer: Yep, all of them.

Marco: got it. Leon got it on El Platano Daniel Arciga with two crucial games. So this guy's on fire. He's not even a number nine. Man, all three Leagues Cup games. This guy scored.

Project 90 Soccer: Arcilla, right? He's got like four goals, I think, this this league's cup so far.

Marco: Yeah.

Project 90 Soccer: Then there's obviously Dominguez, but before we dive into that, I just want to go over the topics real quick. We're gonna cover the WEFA Super Cup final that we saw earlier today, right? We're gonna touch on this Leon beating into Miami, three to two, moving on to the knockouts. And last but not least, man, some new some big news coming out of Europe for the Netherlands. Xavi Hernandez signing through 2030 to be their new head coach. We'll touch on that. Now, before we get into this WEFA Super Cup final, Marco, I have some big news, man. Some big news for the Project 90 sphere, if you will. This little this little family we're creating. I have some big news. Now I don't know if you know or notice today, but today we hit a milestone. 20,

Marco: What do we got?

Project 90 Soccer: 25 subscribers on YouTube. Let's

Marco: Yeah!

Project 90 Soccer: go, baby. Round of applause.

Marco: So ima imaginary confetti coming down right now.

Project 90 Soccer: Yanny, I'm gonna insert some fucking applause right there, dude, because what a what a what a big deal. You know, every subscriber counts, hitting 25. We're at the quarter century mark. It's been about, I don't know, six weeks, five, six weeks. Episode 17, here we are. We got 25 loyal subscribers. We love each and

Marco: I love y'all.

Project 90 Soccer: love each and every single one of you. It's hey, we're very we're very honored to be your host for this podcast. So thank you very much. And yeah, just wanted to drop that in there and Marco, here we are. Wef a super cup final. WEF Yeah. Yes.

Marco: Well, first of all, shout out to the the 25 subscribers. Tell your tell your friends, tell your family members, like, subscribe, turn on those notifications. Just

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: hey, hey, just go check out Project 90. Give these guys a shot. And if they like it, stay and stay for the stories. And fact check me, because sometimes I'm wrong. Actually, a lot of time I'm wrong.

Project 90 Soccer: Dude, where we be saying some dumb ass shit sometimes. And it's fun, dude. Yeah. It's a good time.

Marco: So fat fact check me. Yeah, fat check me all the time, but without further ado, let's get started with actually let's go in reverse. Because I think the hot I I think the I

Project 90 Soccer: Alright, hit it. Dude, run it. Dude, dude, fucking run it.

Marco: let's run it, baby. I think the hotter topic is Chavi landing, the Dutch job, which

Project 90 Soccer: Okay, yeah.

Marco: I think came out of nowhere. I didn't hear any rumors. z zero. Zero. I thought he was

Project 90 Soccer: I heard zero. I heard nothing, bro. Nothing.

Marco: I thought for some reason he was in the cold right now after leaving Barcelona. So I don't know. But what do you think about the hire? 'Cause I know the Dutch, just like the the just like the Italy, they like to hire their own countrymen. So this is big statement.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah, no, I was looking into it because I was I was curious about, you know, the Dutch notoriously have coaches from the Netherlands, and I was curious if they had ever had a foreign coach, and they actually have. and I I wrote it down right here. It was the he's the first foreign manager in forty-eight years for the Dutch. The last guy being Ernst Hoppel, who's an Austrian manager. He took he took the Dutch to the nineteen seventy-eight World Cup final. Okay. That was the very last foreign coach that they've had. Obviously, we know they've never won the World Cup. Okay. They've made the final most recently in 2010, where they lost to Spain, which that was a good final considering neither one of them had won before, right? And ironically, Chavez was on the team. And now here he is taking over for the Netherlands, which you know there's rumors of Roberto Martinez. You had mentioned that, and I actually heard that today during the WEFA Super Cup. Someone there was like a comment made by one of the commentators. So As it was getting announced that Xavi was hired, they were still talking about the rumor of Roberto Martinez earlier

Marco: Mm.

Project 90 Soccer: today. And I heard absolutely nothing about Xavi. So do I think it's a good move or is he a good is he a good coach or manager for the Dutch? Honestly, I don't I don't know. I you know, he hasn't really I know he's coached some big teams, coached Barcelona, obviously, but did he he coach Barça? Yeah, he coached Barcelona.

Marco: And we and anybody that goes to Barcelona with

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: with a stacked team like that is gonna get some results.

Project 90 Soccer: Mm-hmm.

Marco: and and before you finish, yeah. I don't know if he's the ideal guy because this style of play, I just don't know if it fits the style of play of the type of athletes and players that the national team relies on right now.

Project 90 Soccer: Uh-huh.

Marco: I I see a lot of b a lot of more speed and and counterattacks, but I don't know. Chavez maybe maybe he'll slow that down and maybe he'll have a new system. Going in with with with the orange squad.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah, the Dutch style versus like the Spanish style that he, you know, played in number one and then coached and ended up coaching in. What I see from Chavez, I see it almost like a like a Pierlo situation, right? Where he was a great player, all these things. Then you get the big club to hire him. Juventus hired Pierlo, didn't didn't go great. There's nothing spectacular happening there. Same with Chavez, you know, he gave I believe he gave Leminium all his debut. He gave a lot of these players their debut, but still You know, it's not to say Pierlo or Chavi can't be great coaches, but we just have yet to really see sort of like what is Idan has done where he just came in guns blazing. Yeah, he took over Real Madrid, but yet he still won three Champions Leagues in a row. Just kind of like, you know, a statement.

Marco: Yeah, Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona.

Project 90 Soccer: Barcelona, Barcelona.

Marco: We we get we like to get our Chavi Hernandez and Chavi Alonsos confused around here.

Project 90 Soccer: Chabi Alonso. Dude, Tangent, which I'll bring up at the end. I I Chabi hearing that name real quick. We brought up Como yesterday. Okay. This is like totally random, but they just tied Arsenal at the Emirates today one to one in a friendly, which I thought was it's a pretty big deal, right? Ch Champions League

Marco: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Project 90 Soccer: finalists, this and that. We were just talking about how Como's gonna shock everyone. But back to Chavi real quick. this is one of those things where I just think we're gonna see. We'll see. I don't I don't really know what to expect. Yeah, Frankie DeOn, all these players, they're kind of on the out. you got Virgil van Dijk's getting a little older. So they have Chavi Simons, they have great players, they have a good team. Is Chavi the right man though to manage a national team where they're giving, you know, not as many games as a club, right? There's not as many like you have to go out there, you to perform, you have those limited games that you do have, and you got to get results. So I don't know, we're gonna see.

Marco: And and and and and names like Chavi Simons, he also needs to get health healthy. He missed out. Yep.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah, that's true. Yeah, he missed the World Cup. Yeah, he did. I think it would have made a huge difference. They have Denzel Dumfries as well. He just made the move to Real Madrid.

Marco: what

Project 90 Soccer: Mm. No.

Marco: I would have liked to see is give my guy Ruit Van Nisseroy a shot, man.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: give give this guy a shot. He's been around the coaching systems, he's been an assistance, he's taken over as an interim. and I think for a second, right, he had taken over as an interim with the with the Dutch squad. so would have been it

Project 90 Soccer: I believe he did. You're right. You're right.

Marco: would have been nice to see one of my favorite goal scorers coming up as a Manchester United fan alongside the other guys, the other red devils for him to get a shot. But who knows? Maybe he needs to get some more experience on his repertoire. But then again, you can't really say that if you're gonna hire a guy like Chavi Hernandez, who right off the rip was able to get a good opportunity. But wishing them the best.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: but unfortunately I just don't I don't see him with them winning. This is a I'm crystal ball right here, not winning the World Cup in twenty thirty.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah. Yeah, man. It's like they're still chasing that, right? They have not won the World Cup. So you think, you know, they made the final, they've lost the finals, they've you know, they've competed. They've obviously been like a dangerous team at times. And you would think they'd be like, All right, it's time to fucking get serious here. Like, let's really bring in someone that's gonna like win this shit. It's gonna take us there. And picking Chavi just doesn't seem like the right guy. He's gonna take them through the you know, into the Euros now. They gotta qualify, obviously. And then into the World Cup. So is this gonna be like a productive four years for the Dutch, or is it gonna just be another four years where nothing comes from it? We have to wait and see, you know, if even makes it four years, like who knows at this point.

Marco: A quick segue on I know a couple episodes ago we talked about great goalkeepers

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: with these national squads and cause I know we touched on Banyana or every case may be. But the Dutch, bro, they haven't had anybody super solid since I don't since I think Edwin Vandesar. That guy was that guy was amazing

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah, he was a big one.

Marco: under the the post.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah, he was good. They had I remember that Stecklinberger or Stecklinberg

Marco: Mm-hmm.

Project 90 Soccer: and just but that team, that generation with Vandersar, like you're saying, they had I mean, they had some some killers on the team. They had

Marco: A lot. Yeah.

Project 90 Soccer: a squad, dude, like the Aryan Robin and and you know, then you think of like the Milan days where they had the Von Bostons and then the Rude Hewlett and all these so they've had like

Marco: They still can have wins, crazy.

Project 90 Soccer: Dude, they've had world fucking class players, right? And they just have not been able.

Marco: World best player.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah, literally, literally like the best players. Vanisel Roy, like you said, literally one of the best strikers of all time, if you really think about it. I mean, that guy was he even he was unbelievable at Real Madrid. Some of his goals, bro, are nuts. So

Marco: Manchester United, he was huge.

Project 90 Soccer: Man United, yeah, that's true. I forgot about that too. Man United, he was a beast. So

Marco: Yeah, that's where he got a lot of his reps.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah, I don't I don't know what's what's in store for the Dutch. it's not that they've lacked quality or good players, you know. Maybe it's the coach, maybe it's just the timing, maybe it's just coming up a team against a team like Spain in two thousand ten where they're just ultimately better. You know what I mean? So

Marco: Also also idea maybe w some future pod like a fun episode, putting the old school versus well not new school anymore, and for example Van Bustin, Van Bastin and Van Nistoroi, a little comparison.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we could. We got hey, we gotta we gotta cook up some of these episodes because we have so many of these ideas. Good filler episodes, they'll be a lot of fun. Maybe we'll get Gustavo in there. Shout out Goose if you're listening right now.

Marco: There you go. Goose.

Project 90 Soccer: All right, dude. So that's Xavi Hernandez. We're gonna see what happens there. But let's move on real quick to the Leagues Cup. This we just touched on it at the beginning, but obviously we looked it up or I looked it up. Club Leon won two thousand twenty one. They won today against Intel Miami, through to the knockouts. you know, not many of the Mexican teams, some of them are doing well, right? They're getting these wins, but Club Leon, they just, they've been, they've been fucking getting shit done in this League's Cup, right? So how do you feel about this, man? You're obviously you're the you're you're wearing their jersey right now, for God's sake. I mean, how do you feel about this team? Is there anybody that really stands out to you more than someone else? Or do you is there someone you want to see out there that's not been out there? Educate me a little bit 'cause I don't know jack fuck all about Club Leon, quite honestly.

Marco: Club Leon, Panzas Verdes, Donde

Project 90 Soccer: Clube Leon. Ooh.

Marco: La Vida no vale nada.

Project 90 Soccer: Hmm.

Marco: Such a huge win today. They've been on fire in the Leagues Cup. ebbs and flows in the Liga Mekis for for the past few years. But to your point, and I was incorrect last episode. I drew a blank until I rewatched it, saying that no Mexican team had won the Leaks Cup, but Leon won the Leaks Cup in twenty twenty one.

Project 90 Soccer: Yes, one of the first ones.

Marco: So exactly. So there's some history there to where there anytime we talk about these cups is gonna be a little bit of history with Leon's name attached to it. So

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: yeah, man, huge win. Obviously, Messi came in in the second half and I was watching this guy and he was walking, but anytime the ball will come into play or some type of danger, Messi would be right behind it. And

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: kudos to him for having such a tough past couple weeks with the with the passing of his pops. And him still being able to go out there, throw a jersey and give it a hundred percent. But now huge shout out to Tuleon. They're able to hold it down in the back, in the midfield, creating a lot of opportunities. And ultimately I think the defense for Miami was creating a lot of holes to that were creating a lot of the the counterattacks in the second half, allowing

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: for allowing for these opportunities to transpire. and just some some some dumb misplays on on Miami's end, but I don't know, bro. The the way the first half was going, I thought it was gonna be Miami 3-1. You had

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: said it yesterday, and I was like, you know what? Anto's right. It's I think it's gonna be 3-1. And then once Messi came in, I'm like, well, there goes the game, right? but

Project 90 Soccer: Right. Yeah.

Marco: man, Cambindo, as soon as he came in, the coach, he was able to make the right adjustments. Instead of leaving El Platano up top by himself, he was able to get Cambindo and Cambindo was creating a lot of opportunities, which Off the off the chest, baby. What thought that chesser he had to do that jersey was able to bring it down for Arcilla and

Project 90 Soccer: Ha ha.

Marco: scored a banger of a goal. So shout out to V E R for making sure that the goal was cleaned.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: And man, we were able to get out of there with a victory. So Leon moves on. Miami stays home in the humidity and focus on the MLS season.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah, man. And to get the win in Miami as well. it's it's just a it's a big win, man. You know, they came out from Mexico. All these teams have been coming up here. There's been I looked it up for the Leagues Cup. There's only been three games hosted in Mexico. The the most recent one was, I think, the other day. It was Digres, I believe, or someone one of those teams, and they hosted it.

Marco: There's one tonight too, right?

Project 90 Soccer: There should be one tonight, probably in Mexico as well, but majority, like ninety nine percent of them have all been here in the States. So For them to come up here, get a win, take advantage of their opportunities, shut down a pretty, pretty on fire Miami team. You know, they they haven't they didn't have Luis Suarez, they didn't have another one of their main attackers. But either way, you know, Messi took the field. I was shocked to even see him on the bench. I was hearing rumors that he was gonna stay over in Argentina for a little while, but it's good to see him on the field. I thought he was gonna come on and just fucking just let it all out, right? And just let it all out. Unfortunately, it'd be Leon. to to receive all that, but it didn't happen. Leon held on. They got their goals. They're on their they moved moved on through to the knockouts. So yeah, I look forward to following along. I've never really followed Club Leon much, but I'm excited.

Marco: Well, now you're following from now. Plus, I gave you a jersey. I gave you a freaking

Project 90 Soccer: hell yeah. I know, dude.

Marco: jersey. I was expecting you to throw it on today, but I get it. You got Gerona or St. Pauli, whoever that is.

Project 90 Soccer: Girona, girona!

Marco: Nice jersey. They're in the second division. Shout out to them. Bet best of luck, but man, you really broke my heart by now wearing your Leon jersey. But next next game. But

Project 90 Soccer: Put it on next time. I'll put it on next time. Swear.

Marco: I do want to duck, I do want to touch. I would have liked to see Casimiro more involved in the game.

Project 90 Soccer: Mm-hmm.

Marco: And it seems like as soon as Messi came in, rightfully so, best in the world.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: one and two, best in the world. So a a lot of stuff was going through him, right? Rodrigo Lopa, it seems like it's automatic. As soon as he gets the ball, I'm giving it straight to Messi. So Casemiro

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: wasn't too involved in the second half, and I would have liked to see more of that. because we know what Casemiro can do. He's he's been at the biggest clips for a reason, and he still has a lot on the tank. So Would have would like to see more

Project 90 Soccer: Does

Marco: of that, but I'm glad it didn't happen. So

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: Leon can move on and and get the dub.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah, you you're glad you didn't see none of that tonight. You know what I'm saying? big shout out on Miami too. I've been watching their left back, Noah Allen, right? He's a US international. He's probably early, early twenties, twenty years old, something like that. last game getting three assists, right? And ever since I saw him make his debuts, maybe I don't know, two seasons ago, I wanna say, he's really starting to like make a impact every single game, right? Not only defensively, but now in the attack. I don't know. I just I I I heard Taylor Twellman say it once during an MLS game that with this new sort of new cycle starting for the United States that he'd like to see maybe No Allen get a get a call up just to check him out in the camp. And I c sort of agree with that, having seen him play for this Miami team the way he has been. but yeah, man, they're done. What's up?

Marco: Did did US qualify for the Olympics?

Project 90 Soccer: I don't even know, dude. I think they take their U twenty threes though. That'd be a good tournament for He's under twenty three. Yeah.

Marco: how how old is he? How old is he? Yeah, see I was that's what I was thinking. I mean, perfect opportunity to get some some reps in. I mean, it just reminds me of Johan Vasquez with the Olympic squad.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: that was a great showing on on his end, and he ended up after that become undoubtedly a starter for Pumas and ultimately

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: was able to go to Italy and now playing with Genoa, Il Capitano in Genoa and Balladau.

Project 90 Soccer: Yep. Yeah, no Allen right here, dude. Twenty-two. Twenty-two years old. He was born in Florida. Came up through the Academy in Miami. So he's one of those players, you know, young American players, sort of like Kevin Sullivan in a way. They're just a new generation just coming through. So it'd be cool to see them. And also from Miami, bro. I didn't know this until tonight. Yannick Bright, the kid who scored the sec the second goal, bro. This kid's Italian national. He's born in Milan,

Marco: yes. Yeah. Yeah.

Project 90 Soccer: bro. I had no idea. He went to I think it was New Hampshire for college or something like that. But I had no idea that he was even an Italian international player. So shout out to him, dude. I'm looking forward to seeing maybe he's probably on some of the youth national teams. I don't know.

Marco: He he was a little sketchy on a s on a couple plays. I don't know if you watched the

Project 90 Soccer: He was.

Marco: whole game, but he was a couple he was a little sketchy. I

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: and I and I if I'm not mistaken the second or third goal he had I I don't know, he he swung and he missed. But I

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: have to go back and and and watch the replays. But yeah, young guy, huge career ahead of him. So yeah.

Project 90 Soccer: Twenty four. Twenty four years old. Yeah. No youth national team experience. Doesn't look like he's one of those players on the Italian sort of radar at the moment, at least, but

Marco: Not yet.

Project 90 Soccer: not yet, right? But it was cool just to find out that they got an Italian international on the team. It's badass. All right, moving on. Look, what's up?

Marco: Hey sorry.

Project 90 Soccer: Drop it.

Marco: Did you watch the penalty shootout yesterday?

Project 90 Soccer: The hoop.

Marco: the penalty shootout in the Leeds Cup yesterday with Kaylor Kaylor Navas start starting starting

Project 90 Soccer: No, who was I saw him score.

Marco: the the the kicks.

Project 90 Soccer: Dude, fucking cool as a cucumber, dude. Yeah. He plays for who's that

Marco: That's a

Project 90 Soccer: Pumas?

Marco: Pumas and that's a damn shame because three other guys missed. And h him who's

Project 90 Soccer: God.

Marco: a freaking goalie scored. Terrible. Pumas do better. Practice PKs.

Project 90 Soccer: That's dude, that's it's it's such a shame, dude, when you get like an underdog, if you will. I guess you can call him an underdog or someone to make it like you know, grind their way through a game all the way to through to penalties and then just completely fuck it up. Like tr like terribly though. Not even just like miss one or a good save or like completely just the worst penalties you've ever seen. And nothing I I could ever think of when it comes to that, you see a guy like Navas score a goal so

Marco: Yeah.

Project 90 Soccer: composed like that. And then you see some people that are attackers or midfielders completely miss the target. And it's like, what does it come down to ultimately? It's like composure, just calmness, right? And you could just tell because in reality on paper, like I always say, like those are the guys that should be making it every time. It's a penalty kick. Put it on the spot. You're midfielder, you're a forward, you're a striker, you have the upper hand versus the goalie, and then you get your goalkeeper to score, but then your attackers can't. Right? Terrible.

Marco: And ve well said. And before we move on, one last thing on Miami and Leon.

Project 90 Soccer: Go ahead.

Marco: I don't know if you saw a Lionel Messi's statement. finally break breaking silence on everything that's been going on. He mentioned that he doesn't know if he's gonna continue playing anymore.

Project 90 Soccer: Whoa.

Marco: Because the one of his biggest reasons why he was playing is him and his dad were gonna finish everything off together. And now that he's

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: not there, right. this could be a publicist that wrote this. I don't know if it's verbatim.

Project 90 Soccer: Right.

Marco: But for him to say that, a guy who's won everything, everywhere he's been except PSG.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: I you know I gotta throw that in there. I don't know,

Project 90 Soccer: You gotta throw that in there, dude.

Marco: man. If he called it a day, I wouldn't be mad at him.

Project 90 Soccer: You know, I heard he put a statement out, which is why I was even more shocked he was even at the game, right? But to think of Messi potentially just retiring in this fashion, right? Just losing the final. Apparently he was at the World Cup just because his dad wanted him to go and like play, you know, you could still do it, so go do it. seeing him now say these things, seeing him show up to this Miami game, get in the game. And now you're starting to wonder, well, is this the last season then? You know, will he play in the Copa America for Argentina? He hasn't announced any sort of retirement from the national team or nothing, right? He hasn't said anything. But now obviously his dad died, and these statements come out, and you just wonder, you know, is this is this how the legend goes out? I personally would hope not. I'm sure everyone's probably gonna encourage him not to. Like, don't go out like this, go out on like a high note. but ultimately the guy's been doing it for like fucking fifteen, twenty years at the literally just the The highest fucking level you can do it at. So you can't really blame him if he does want to retire, spend time with the family. But I could also see him doing the complete 180 and just staying in the game and just fucking tearing it up for another two or three years, right?

Marco: We shall see.

Project 90 Soccer: We shall see. But today there was the big game, exciting game. I don't know if you got to watch it. I saw snippets of it and then I caught the full game highlights after just to kind of refresh myself. the WEFA Super Cup final. PSG versus Aston Villa. You know, two to one for PSG, right? Win their Super Cup. Unayamory's the he's the Europa League master, the king of the Europa League, but he cannot seem to get his hands on that fucking Super Cup. And

Marco: No over four.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah, man, it's fucking it's not it's probably not a good feeling for him, but yeah, PSG came out. Aston Villa came out swinging. It wasn't like a, you know, possession was swayed towards PSG in the beginning, but I saw at half. Aston Villa had more shots on goal, so It was it was fairly an even game. I mean, what what did you take out of this game? What did you see? Did you think that it was a dominant performance? You think it was even? What did you think?

Marco: Well, I was able to catch the second half. I was being a responsible individual when I was at work, keeping

Project 90 Soccer: Damn.

Marco: ta keeping tabs on the game on my phone. But yeah, I got home just in time, and honestly, man, from what I saw, Aston Villa was trying to make things happen. they have this 17 year old kid up top that looks like he's 30 that was able to get

Project 90 Soccer: Yes.

Marco: on the scoring sheet on his very first game with Aston Villa, which I instantly started following the kid. I'm like, this guy is gonna be

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Marco: Really good. Anyway, that aside, PSG is just too good, man. The players that they have,

Project 90 Soccer: Class, bro.

Marco: Duwe, how quick he has you on on your toes, that look like offsides, but it wasn't. He's just super fast. I mean, they had a Marcola on the bench.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: Mar Marquinho looks solid in the back. Dembela is always doing Dembelli things. And there's a point of the game in the second half where I look over to PSG's goalkeeper and I'm like, he's just chilling.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: There's nothing crazy going on his way. Unit Emery trying to make the adjustments. He throws Abraham in. but ultimately, man, they just didn't have enough in their arsenal in the second half. And ultimately, PSG gets the Waffle Cup.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah, it's pretty wild seeing Barcola, guys like that on the bench, who has been linked with Liverpool, I've been seeing, so he might be on his way out. But yeah, no Majo's his name, the forward, the striker. Seventeen years old. I didn't know I didn't

Marco: Majell. Brian Margel.

Project 90 Soccer: know he was seventeen. I didn't even know that was his first game, to be completely honest, until after the fact when I when I looked up some of the highlights again and did some research on it. This kid, bro, had hell opportunities.

Marco: So

Project 90 Soccer: Hella chance is like a big fucking problem. He's not playing against any defenders either. I mean, he's like Marquinhos. He's got like some real experienced defenders back there. And he's giving them a run for their money. But dude, he's a fucking animal. Like this dude's a unit. I saw Imbolo in the in the World Cup and I thought that guy was an absolute unit in a tank. This kid right here, bro, like beats his ass, if you ask me, dude.

Marco: He's he's dense.

Project 90 Soccer: Dude, this kid is a fucking wall just standing there. Like he's like a pillar. You know what I mean? Winning headerns just Who? Who?

Marco: You know who he reminds me? You know who he reminds me of? He a little thinner though? the guy that played Major's career in the championship. They used to call him the Beast. Yep. Huge tank of a guy. He does, he does, yeah.

Project 90 Soccer: A Kim Fewa or Kim yeah or whatever. Yeah, yeah. Dude, that that guy's got a podcast, bro. Shout out. I've I saw his interview, we're talking about Mourinho with Mourinho as well.

Marco: Mourinho, huh.

Project 90 Soccer: That guy is fucking I used to see him play, dude, and I was like, This guy's huge, bro. He used to move though too. Like he was

Marco: Hey,

Project 90 Soccer: quick.

Marco: imagine you're on a date with this guy. Things start going well. It's after dinner.

Project 90 Soccer: Ha ha.

Marco: He paid for dinner. He win

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: and dined you. You guys had a couple of drinks. And he says, hey, let's go back home. You entertain it, and then you find yourself underneath or behind or in front of him. That guy's going to do work.

Project 90 Soccer: Gonna do work, you're gonna regret doing it, and you're probably not gonna go out with him again. Like, just be honest, dude. Guy's a monster, bro. But this Majo kid 17, dude. He do you realize? Like, I was a fucking sophomore in high school when this kid was born, and he's right here playing PSG in the super cup final on a fucking Wednesday. Right? Badass. I'm excited to see where he goes this season. Now, for Aston Villa today. Look, they had McGinn on fire, solid, just solid player every time. Plays those balls, and he's good on the wing. He he really is good at delivering crosses. Buendia, the Argentinian, good player as well. Ironically, they had Luca Dinier, right, for France. He used to play

Marco: Yeah, yeah.

Project 90 Soccer: with Villa, transferred over to PSG like last week. Literally just played the bench today and won a trophy, right? Very interesting how that works. But yeah, Tyrone Means came on. We didn't see Ollie Watkins. but ultimately, dude, Vadasvilia, right? The Georgian fucking superstar. That guy is no joke. Like he really

Marco: Yeah.

Project 90 Soccer: is like peak level, top tier, just fucking talent. Dembele was kind of, hm. And then Due is just doing what he does, right? Just quick on the ball, just causing problems, dribbling, layoffs, passes, fast, very fast. So I'm not surprised to see the score line, to be honest. Two to one. Yeah.

Marco: Quick thought.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: Majo. He came from playing in in the French league with

Project 90 Soccer: Mm-hmm.

Marco: with with the with the with the B squad and and the first squad. So I had a quick thought. I'm like, this guy was born in England, but since he played a lot of his, let's just say, younger career in France, what

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: if he gets picked and now he starts representing France? That'll be crazy. Just just

Project 90 Soccer: I don't I mean

Marco: a hypothetical theory I'm just throwing out there because of all the non French guys playing in in France,

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: a national team. So I was i I wouldn't be surprised if this happens.

Project 90 Soccer: I mean the way this is looking, this kid is six foot four, bro. Six foot four absolute unit, born in Enfield, England, it says. Okay, he played at Metz in France, made his debut there, and got transferred over to Aston Villa. He's already on the U seventeens as of twenty twenty five for England. This kid's about to get a call up probably this year, is what it's looking like if he fucking keeps doing this shit. but I mean You think of it, he didn't just get a debut. He didn't just go on the field for the last ten minutes or whatever, you know, let him get his debut or whatever you want to call it. He literally started his fucking game. He was like chance after chance, headers battling for the ball, ends up getting one in the back of the net, which was not an easy goal to score. That he the one that he did score. So yeah, man, I'm glad I saw him play today. I'm glad I know who he is now because I have a feeling he's gonna be a big deal for the English national team coming soon, especially with Harry Kane getting up there in age. You know, to have a youngster like this, like ready to go and just totally different player profile than what they have right now. They don't really have a guy like this. I think it's gonna make a fucking big difference for England. So I'm excited to see where that goes for him. Yeah, man. So th two to one. I guess three to one. Didn't pan out. Two to one. But that's the WEFA Super Cup. So now we have in about week and a half time, weeks time, the twenty second of August. I the set of kicks off. All these leagues are kicking off. PSG was ready. They were fired up. They're hungrier than ever. Aston Villa was fucking firing in all cylinders. And the tangent I brought up earlier, Como going to Arsenal, going to the Emirates, getting a one-one draw. Which they're both in the champions league. Right, Arsenal made the final, Como made the champions league this year. And what a game from what I understand, right? And what a place to get a draw. What a way to introduce yourself on a stage like that. I don't know if Como's really been playing internationally like that against teams like that to to really size them up, go give a hard time. I think that's a good indicator for how they're gonna do this season, right? Where they are as where they are as a team. ours yeah.

Marco: We also gotta remember that was Fabriga's home for a while. So

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah.

Marco: although he let's say Arsenal's not playing the type of play that he was playing back in the day or when he was playing, he understands the moment. And perfect example, he can tell this player is like, look, X, Y, and Z. And that'll immediately

Project 90 Soccer: The atmosphere and everything.

Marco: lower down their shoulders and and they just focus on playing. So this guy knows about big moments that used to be as home when he was at Arsenal. He knows what the Arsenal system is about. So it doesn't

Project 90 Soccer: Mm-hmm.

Marco: surprise me that his team goes in there and is able to get that result.

Project 90 Soccer: Yeah, it's not shocking to me at all. Like I said the other episode, like I think Como's the dark horse. Top three finish. Wouldn't be surprised if they give the top spot a run for its money in the City A this year. That's it, man. That's it for this episode. Let's wrap it up. You got any last words before we close this thing out?

Marco: 25 subscribers. I want to see 26, 27 on the next one. So give us a follow. Let's go.

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