Destination New Jersey: Club World Cup reflections, Ecuador & Canadian Soccer
Football Daily
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Kelly Cates and Rory Smith continue our countdown to the 2026 World Cup. Nedum Onuoha joins just under a year away from the start of the World Cup in the USA, Canada, and Mexico.
After the chaos of the Club World Cup, the panel discuss the extreme weather in the States, the Americanisation of the sport, player workload, and how politics could shape the tournament.
South American Football Journalist Marcela Mora y Araujo joins to give the lowdown on dark horses Ecuador, and CEO of Canada Soccer Kevin Blue has the track on Canada ahead of a home tournament for Jesse Marsch’s side.
Timecodes: 02:45 Club World Cup reflections 07:20 Extreme weather 11:50 Affordability of the World Cup 13:20 Americanisation of the sport 20:00 Player welfare 23:45 What are we most looking forward to? 26:40 Dark horses Ecuador 28:40 Marcela Mora y Araujo on Ecuador 37:15 Venezuela to qualify? 39:35 Kevin Blue on Canadian soccer
5 Live commentaries: Fri 5 Sep 1930 Chelsea v Man City in the WSL, Sat 6 Sep 1330 Arsenal v London City Lionesses in the WSL, Sat 6 Sep 1700 England v Andorra in World Cup Qualifying, Sun 7 Sep 1200 Liverpool v Everton in the WSL, Tue 9 Sep 1945 Serbia v England in World Cup Qualifying.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | This is the Football Daily podcast with Kelly Cates. |
| 0:08.8 | Hello and welcome to the Football Daily podcast with me, Kelly Cates, |
| 0:12.4 | as we continue our countdown to the 2026 World Cup, |
| 0:16.1 | 320 days away from the World Cup final in New Jersey. |
| 0:20.5 | We'll look back on the Club World Cup as a dress rehearsal for next year's main event, |
| 0:24.4 | for better and for worse. |
| 0:25.7 | And we'll look at Ecuador's golden generation. |
| 0:28.2 | The CEO of Canada Soccer will also join us later on. |
| 0:31.1 | And alongside me, Rory Smith and Nader Manua is with us for the first part of the show. |
| 0:36.0 | Rory, we've already started on our journey to New Jersey. |
| 0:40.1 | What are you enjoying most about it? |
| 0:41.8 | Yeah, we've been to what was Pakistan already, Kelly? |
| 0:44.2 | We've covered some ground. |
| 0:46.0 | We've travelled the world. |
| 0:47.9 | Nadem, first experience of destination in New Jersey. |
| 0:50.6 | It's still a long way to go until we get there. |
| 0:53.4 | But once you start working on World Cup programs, it starts to feel real and imminent. Yeah, I would agree. Do you say 282 days? Is that what the number was? That's going to be sticking my mind. I think I'll wake up tomorrow. That's 281 until it's that New Year'sy final. But it is, it's going to be like Shawshank Redemption. |
| 1:13.1 | You're going to be carving dates in the side of the wall. You know, it does, obviously, you know, time. We all know how it works. But being at the last World Cup, there are so many things which I thought would definitely have changed by this point. I thought like Messi would have retired. Rinaldo would have retired. This guy would have retired. there's no way they'll be involved in the next World Cup. |
| 1:08.9 | This next World Cup is going to be a whole new generation. |
| 1:11.4 | They're still playing and it's |
| 1:30.8 | coming up very very soon. So yeah, we'll be seeing the same faces again, won't we? But when you hear |
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