#191: El Salvador, Canada & Honduras previews with Jon Arnold

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Adam Belz

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4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The US faces El Salvador, Canada and Honduras in the first window of the Ocho, the first week of September. Jon Arnold, arguably the leading expert on Concacaf as a region, joins to help us understand these opponents before we try to get back to the World Cup, the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Recording this early to give folks plenty of time to consume the episode before Sept. 2.

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0:00.0	The end. World Cup qualifying for the US begins in two weeks and it's El Salvador, Canada and Honduras.
0:21.0	Here to talk through what's going on with these opponents is John Arnold. He's the
0:24.8	senior MLS and Kankakaf writer for The Striker, a Texas-based soccer news operation.
0:29.8	He's got a good newsletter called Getting Kankakaftaffed that takes a much more curious and
0:34.4	neutral approach to the region than you see in most US men's national team coverage.
0:38.8	Glad to have you, John, thanks for agreeing to do it.
0:42.0	My pleasure.
0:43.2	I appreciate that.
0:43.7	It is a more neutral look, I guess.
0:46.0	And curious is the right word.
0:47.3	It's, you know, sometimes we dig into like, why did a bunch of Mexico fans go down to play
0:51.8	Haiti for a U23 match?
0:54.0	You know, like those are the things we get into.
0:55.6	So curious, I like that.
0:57.0	I'm glad to be here and looking forward to getting into the chat.
1:00.0	That was a good one.
1:01.3	That was an especially good one, The one about the 23 size.
1:05.1	Especially now, you know, and it's like,
1:06.8	this is extremely off topic already,
1:08.4	so maybe that's an indication of how things are going to go
1:10.6	with me as a guest, but with so much in Haiti, it's just like, man, it's so difficult
1:15.3	to get there and so difficult to make it work.
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