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
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Episode 287 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Alphonso Über Alles - Whitecaps v Minnesota, Davies to Bayern, Doneil Henry interview)
Episode 286 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Darwinism - Vancouver v Minnesota Preview Show)
Episode 285 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Seattle Flannel - Sounders v Whitecaps, Davies transfer talk, Whitecaps' woes, Can PL, Josh Simpson, David Clanachan)
Episode 284 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Cups Runneth Over - Seattle v Vancouver Preview Show)
Episode 283 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Capital Punishment - DC v Vancouver analysis, World Cup, Dale Mitchell, Colin Elmes)
Episode 282 - The AFTN Soccer Show (First Big Weekend featuring Bastian Schweinsteiger, Stefan Marinovic, Vancouver v Chicago analysis, and World Cup chat)
Episode 281 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Fire Starters - Vancouver v Chicago Preview Show)
Episode 280 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Kicky Kicky Kick Kick - Vancouver v Colorado analysis, Kendall Waston, Tim Howard, World Cup chat)
Episode 279 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Sideshow Meh - Vancouver v Colorado Preview Show)
Episode 278 - The AFTN Soccer Show (The Spice Of Life with guest Rob Friend)
Episode 277 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Unionization - Philadelphia v Vancouver Preview Show)
Episode 276 - The AFTN Soccer Show (World Cup Fever with guests Kendall Waston, Efrain Juarez, Aly Ghazal, Anibal Godoy, and Harold Cummings)
Episode 275 - The AFTN Soccer Show (System Addict with guests Stefan Marinovic, Simon Colyn, and Marco Carducci)
Episode 274 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Horseplay with guests Tommy Wheeldon Jr and Will Cromack)
Episode 273 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Moving On Up with guest Alan Koch)
Episode 272 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Quick On The Draw - Colorado v Vancouver Preview Show)
Episode 271 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Déjà Vu Again - Vancouver v New England analysis, MLS and Canadian PL chat)
Episode 270 - The AFTN Soccer Show (All Revved Up - New England preview show)
Episode 269 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Never Say Dai - Dallas v Vancouver analysis, Marcel de Jong and Kekuta Manneh interviews, Canadian PL chat)
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