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#134 What is the A-League Men, is it the same as the A-League, and how has Australian club soccer evolved over the years?

Soccer 101

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Soccer, Sports

4.9853 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Graham and Taylor discuss all-things Australia, without attempting to do accents or make jokes about shrimp and barbies. Instead, they focus on The A-League Men: the history of the league, how it has evolved, why it rebranded, current controversies, and future growth possibilities.

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itches you never knew you had. I stole that line from Ryan Bailey, and think it still works. My name is Taylor Rockwell and this week we're heading

0:58.4

to the land of Bluey and Bingo to discuss the A-Leaks, or more specifically, the A-League men,

1:04.9

which is, I will admit, when I first was researching this one, a documentary I thought was

1:10.5

about the men of the A-League, but that is not the case. We'll get into that distinction here in a few. First, I should introduce my co-host. It's Mr. Graham Ruffin. Graham, I thought about setting you up with any number of bad Australia jokes or an Aussie accent. Instead, we're just going straight forward with this one mustn't do an accent mustn't do an accent

1:28.0

hello taylor rottwell how are you hello i am i am well now amongst the many interesting things i

1:33.1

learned about the a league in preparation for this episode one of them is that graham watches the a league

1:37.6

graham let's talk about it so a league games are just well timed for me on a saturday morning so

1:43.4

there's normally a game on

1:44.5

around about nine or ten in the morning for me. So it's just, there's nothing else on TV that I want

1:49.1

to watch at that time. And so I can't, I can't profess to being an expert because it's very much

1:55.6

sort of background watching for me as I'm having a coffee or a bacon sandwich or whatever and

2:00.2

kind of playing with

2:01.3

my daughter. But yeah, I will have an A-League game on in the background on the Saturday morning.

2:06.1

It's enjoyable. Like there's a, I'll talk about a little bit more about this later on, but there

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is like a chaos factor to the league that makes it enjoyable for me to watch.

2:15.7

We need to find a weekend in which there's, like, maybe likeby, al-Ley and Zemaleck, so that you could just really go through each time zone. You could start with the A-League, A-League men, then you could go to like something in the Middle East, then you could go to Europe, then Western Europe, then you get East Coast U.S. for MLS, and then maybe West Coast MLS to round out the day. And then you really watched global football.

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