Caught Offside: World Cup Draw Reaction Special
Caught Offside
Caught Offside
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🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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IT'S STARTING TO FEEL REAL.
The day began with 4 pots and ended with 12 groups! Andrew and JJ give their full reaction to the USMNT's draw including a couple matchups that bring some recent bad blood. What are the expectations and what is your level of excitement? We discuss.
Then, we go full throttle into the other 11 groups. From the giants to the minnows, from France to Uzbekistan, we'll cover it all on what is essentially day 1 in our run up to the 2026 FIFA World Cup!
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| 0:00.0 | Caught Offside with Andrew Gunling and J.J. Devani. |
| 0:07.1 | Oh, yes. Caught offside from just outside of New York City from an apartment in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 0:13.7 | Andrew Gunling, J.J. Devani. What's up, brother? |
| 0:17.7 | Well, that happened. |
| 0:20.6 | I love this day. |
| 0:23.6 | Did you? |
| 0:25.3 | Yeah, this is like this all feel like this work. |
| 0:29.1 | So I have a few takeaways from today, but I'll, before I get to the soccer ones, |
| 0:33.0 | I would just say that this, this World Cup here in the United States, we've known about it for so long. |
| 0:42.8 | So in my head, it's just felt so far away for so long. |
| 0:47.3 | Like I was always, like, I just have these moments of like, oh my God, like by the time that USA World Cup rolls around, my kid will be 10 years old. You know, and I'm thinking that when he's three, when he can barely speak. You know, and like just all that stuff like this World Cup, you know, you look at this group of players for the U.S. And like we've seen them come all the way up. And we've known pretty much for their entire relevancy. We've known that |
| 1:11.3 | like it's all building to this. We're going to have a World Cup at home for this group of |
| 1:16.0 | players. And it's just like it all felt so far off. And today was really the first day where I was like, |
| 1:23.5 | oh, we're here now. Like this thing that has been just like too far away. |
| 1:29.0 | Like I'm excited about it, but it just didn't feel, didn't feel tangible. |
| 1:32.5 | I couldn't touch this thing. |
| 1:34.1 | Like it's too far. |
| 1:35.5 | It's here. |
| 1:36.1 | Like today as I was watching the draw and watching the names get pulled up and seeing our group, |
| 1:41.8 | I was just like, oh my God. |
| 1:43.5 | Like the clock has started. This is this thing is |
| 1:47.7 | finally happening. We can, like we've been talking about and talking it up and we've been doing |
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