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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Gold Cup Diaries #5: Jesse Marsch's Mafia - fun and games can't hide the serious side to Canada's star coach

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

This one was recorded before Canada v Guatemala - no spoilers!

My update on the quarter-finals are coming up later today. But in the meantime, here’s a few things I’ve noticed about the former Leipzig and Leeds man at the helm for Canada.



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0:00.0

Good evening, good morning. Great Truman Show there. Yeah, welcome to Canada against Guatemala.

0:07.0

You can see their purplosity. There's huge perpulosity everywhere. That's because we're in the Minnesota Vikings Stadium.

0:16.0

It's climate controlled, as they call it, air conned, cold, which is fantastic.

0:21.6

There's a roof.

0:23.6

And today at 3 o'clock my time, first of all, we'll see Canada, Guatemala in the quarterfinal.

0:30.6

We immediately followed at 6pm by the US against Costa Rica.

0:35.6

That profiles is a bit of a gangbuster game.

0:40.3

Brought to have lived through my first tornado warning, strode manfully through my first

0:45.3

tornado warning, which really means, rolled over and went back to sleep back to the National

0:53.3

Alert, made my phone phone explode and a siren

0:56.5

went off like a bomb sign, a nuclear warning outside the hotel window loud and proud and

1:04.5

didn't wake anybody up and the tornado that followed probably would have done a bit of window

1:09.9

rattling big old hotel didn't fall down a bit of window rattling. Big old to tell, didn't fall

1:12.6

down thankfully, a bit of damage done. First tornado manfully coped with. Look, tomorrow morning,

1:20.5

my tomorrow morning, I'll be letting you know who's gone through to the semifinals of the Gold Cup.

1:25.4

But I've always thought that maybe rather than the

1:28.2

actual football in this tournament, for you guys that follow Revista de la Liga, maybe it's the

1:32.8

anecdotes behind the scenes. So I'm queuing up a little look at yesterday's prep up with Canada and

1:40.2

Jesse Marsh. Jesse Marsh, I'm warming to, Certainly in the relationship you have as an interviewer,

1:46.0

producer, reporter, players can speak for themselves.

1:49.0

But he's forthright, he's got a million words bursting out of him all the time.

1:53.0

Many of them at the training ground swear words, which I absolutely

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