ExtraTime Radio: Frank Klopas (Montreal Impact), Justin Meram (Crew SC & Iraq)

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Andrew Wiebe

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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The big news in MLS on Monday revolved around Designated Players, those coming and going. Tim Cahill is gone after agreeing to terminate his contract with the Red Bulls. What will his MLS legacy be? Giovinco, meanwhile, is coming, leaving Juventus early to get his Toronto FC career started ASAP. Farther north, Impact boss Frank Klopas is looking for a striker of his own. Will it be a DP? Can he lead Montreal to a Liga MX upset in CCL?

In the second segment, Columbus Crew SC winger Justin Meram joins the guys to tell stories from the Asian Cup. Iraq and Meram made it to the semifinals before bowing out, but they got the rockstar treatment all tournament from more than a million Iraqi fans in Australia. What's next for Meram at the international level? What did he take away from the whirlwind experience?

In the mailbag, a listener revisits the Ronaldinho conundrum as the magic one wears out his welcome at Queretaro and Simon gets called a hypocrite. You'll have to listen to find out how he reacted.

Email us at ExtraTime@MLSsoccer.com or tweet us at @ExtraTimeRadio.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Extra Time Radio.
0:04.0	Yeah, usually on these interviews, we like to talk about the current stuff going on with guys.
0:08.0	We had a play by the name of David Beckham.
0:11.0	I don't know who was called in.
0:13.0	Yeah.
0:14.0	Is there a name for this thing?
0:15.0	Is there something like if I was to go to the barber and say I want X,
0:18.8	then he would know exactly what I was asking for?
0:21.9	Yeah, tell me you want to Bobby Shittle work.
0:23.7	In desperation mode, not really muster the kind of energy and the kind of desperate attacks
0:30.4	that I think you would have seen out of a team at home desperately needed a goal and I say desperate three four times because you have to be desperate
0:38.0	He's hinging his emos copse cup hopes on you Simon down, if you're a soccer person,
0:44.0	you are a little bit embarrassed by it.
0:46.0	Two goals.
0:47.0	Simonborg is going to disagree because I remember a time about a month ago
0:50.0	when he told me that he'd rather have a Lamar Nagel on his team
0:52.0	to blame McDonovan.
0:53.4	I think that's a bunch of garbage.
0:55.0	That's why he's here.
0:57.0	Oh, from New York, New York, you're listening to Extra Time radio on Sirius XMFC Channel 94 and MLS Soccer.
1:05.0	It is Monday.
1:07.0	I am Andrew Weebi.
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