There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

I'm a bit for homebody and I love a 5.

But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period.

And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

It's Friday, December 2, 2022 from Peach Fish Productions, it's the Gestai Mike Pesca.

And all of America, and I'm also going to assume all of Holland, as they don't like to

call it, will be coming together with entirely different outcomes in mind as the U.S. plays

the Netherlands, one of the best teams in the world in the world cup.

Now next week, after the match on the show, I will be speaking with Pulitzer Prize winner

George Dorman, who wrote a great book about U.S. soccer called Switching Fields inside

the fight to remake men's soccer in the United States.

And so thanks for joining me then and thanks for joining me now, George.

Oh yeah, thanks for having me, I appreciate it.

So what I want to ask you now is our one question, one question only segment in advance of this

match, drawing on what you know about not just the 22 people on the field, but the entire

system that systems that build up those people, that propped up those people, that found

those people, what does your knowledge of the systems tell you about what we might see

on the pitch come Saturday?

You know, I think the word I would focus on is sort of synchronicity, right?

Like in countries like the Netherlands, there is a synchronicity in how they develop players

from a very young age up, and while they have like several pro teams that might be developing

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