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 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)
Episode 268 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Quaking In Our Boots - San Jose and Dallas Review/Preview show)
Episode 267 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Busy Bees - Houston analysis, San Jose preview, Colin Elmes, Nick Soolsma)
Episode 266 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Current Direction - Vancouver v Houston Preview)
Episode 265 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Stinko de Mayo)
Episode 264 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Loony Tunes - Minnesota v Vancouver Preview)
Episode 263 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Taps-Aff)
Episode 262 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Feeling Salty)
Episode 261 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Hit For Six)
Episode 260 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Bring Me Sunshine - KC Preview Show with guest Johnny Russell)
Episode 259 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Bad Weekend with guests Jordan Harvey and Russell Teibert)
Episode 258 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Coming Home - LAFC Preview Show)
Episode 257 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Salt Pinchers - RSL analysis)
Episode 256 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Snowballs - RSL Preview Show)
Episode 255 - The AFTN Soccer Show (Crew Cut - Columbus Postgame Show)
Episode 254 - The AFTN Soccer Show (So Solid Crew? - Columbus Preview Show with guest Jordon Mutch)
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