Episode 82: World Cup Primer with former player/coach Thomas Rongen
Kanell & Bell
CBS Sports
4.8 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Danny Kanell and former soccer player/coach and current CBS Sports HQ analyst Thomas Rongen break down all you need to know about the World Cup, including the magnitude of the event outside the U.S., the importance of North America landing the 2026 bid, the best player in the world, his pick to win it all and more! Danny then reacts to some new rules in the world of sports before 5-star Q&A Friday! Hosted by: @dannykanell Guest: @TRongen Produced by: @E_DeBerardinis
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Off the Venge with Danny Canell. |
| 0:02.9 | And Raja Bell. |
| 0:12.9 | Saw the future of football right before your eyes. |
| 0:16.1 | Just yell it out, man. |
| 0:16.9 | He can't go to me. |
| 0:18.2 | What is going on? |
| 0:18.9 | Welcome to Off the Bench with Danny Cannellnell and rajah bell big props to my man |
| 0:22.7 | rajah who filled in wednesday road solo drove the show he did a fantastic job i have a proposition |
| 0:28.2 | too for debo the producer i'm going to say we need to just like hosting duties let's just roll them |
| 0:33.5 | we'll flip-flop every other day that worked for me but I don't know if Rajah would do that. He was sweating it pretty good, but he's off on vacation. So, we have my man, Thomas Rongin. |
| 0:42.0 | How are you doing? I'm doing well. By the way, I have a triple head fake from downtown |
| 0:46.4 | Amsterdam, fading away as well. I don't know if you remember James Wordy. When I first came to this country, I was with the Lakers, James Wordy, out of here, |
| 0:55.1 | you can't block that stuff. |
| 0:56.4 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 0:57.0 | Right. |
| 0:57.6 | All right. |
| 0:58.2 | So you're a multi-sport athlete. |
| 1:00.4 | If it hits the rim, I wouldn't take the three points. |
| 1:02.5 | Right. |
| 1:03.0 | Right. |
| 1:03.3 | All right. |
| 1:03.7 | I don't know if I'm multi-sport. All right. So you can fill in for Raja, not only in the podcast, but if there's ever a pickup basketball game, |
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