We're back with another packed episode of the AFTN Soccer Show for your listening pleasure, and it's a special Canadian Premier League themed show ahead of the new season that gets underway on Thursday.
In this episode, we continue our chats with head coaches from around the league and bring you three feature interviews, from three teams with very different expectations this season.
We kick things off with the champs, as we sit down with new Pacific FC head coach James Merriman to chat about defending their title, the comings and goings in an eventful offseason, fighting on three fronts, and more.
It's also been an eventful offseason for FC Edmonton, and not one you'd wish on any coach. With the team looking for new owners, the playing and management team decimated, and the league taking over the team and providing loan players, head coach Alan Koch has certainly had his work cut out for him. We chat with him about all the turmoil, building a squad, and what we can expect from the team this year both on and off the pitch.
Continuing to move east, we end up at York United to chat with another new head coach, and a man we know very well here in Vancouver, Martin Nash. Nash has moved too York after three years as an assistant at Cavalry. Can he take the team forward after they reached the playoffs for the first time? What will a Martin Nash team look like on the pitch? And how has he found the adjustment to being the main man in the dugout? We talk about all of that and more.
Plus a quick discussion about all the teams in our season preview, some AFTN CPL power rankings, and Armchair Loyal are back in this episode's Wavelength.
Here's the rundown for the main segments from the episode:
02.10: James Merriman interview
36.06: Alan Koch interview
69.33: Martin Nash interview
91.40: Pacific FC discussion
104.36: FC Edmonton discussion
110.00: York United discussion
114.40: CPL season preview and power rankings
125.47: Wavelength - Armchair Loyal - Young Gifted and Right Back
Episode 342 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Punk Rock Football with guests Ali Adnan, Marc Dos Santos, and Will Cromack)
Episode 341 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Vancouver v Portland Preview Show)
Episode 340 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Come What May - Colorado v Vancouver, Scott Sutter interview, Whitecaps scandals, CPL, MLS)
Episode 339 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Living In A Basement - Colorado v Vancouver Preview Show)
Episode 338 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Away With The Ferries featuring David Clanachan, Michael Silberbauer, and Stephen Hart)
Episode 337 - The AFTN Soccer Show (All Our Eggs In One Basket with Marc Dos Santos, Max Crepeau, and Steven Beitashour)
Episode 336 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Game of Moans)
Episode 335 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Kicked In The Head - Whitecaps v Galaxy, Zlatan, MLS, CPL, football clichés) [NSFW]
Episode 334 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Zlat's What I'm Talking About - Vancouver v LA Galaxy Preview Show)
Episode 333 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Logical Thinking with guests Jon Erice and Willie Johnston)
Episode 332 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Slipping Block - Vancouver v Seattle Preview Show)
Episode 331 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Band of Brothers with guests Atiba Hutchinson, Mark-Anthony Kaye, David Edgar, Russell Teibert, and Marcus Godinho)
Episode 330 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Never Ending Staircase featuring John Herdman)
Episode 329 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Compass Points - Houston v Vancouver Preview Show)
Episode 328 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Utah Saints And Sinners)
Episode 327 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Keeping It Real – RSL v Vancouver Preview Show)
Episode 326 - The AFTN Soccer Show (New Squad Attacking Formation - Vancouver v Minnesota, MLS Week In Review, Abuse In Football)
Episode 325 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Back With A Bang? - Vancouver v Minnesota Preview Show)
Episode 324 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Full Of Beans with guest Marc Dos Santos and Fredy Montero)
Episode 323 - The AFTN Soccer Show (There's Somebody At The Door)
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