How will VAR affect the World Cup? PRO refs Mark Geiger & Jair Marrufo explain
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Andrew Wiebe
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🗓️ 17 May 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
PRO referees Mark Geiger and Jair Marrufo stop by on their way to Russia to help you understand how VAR will affect the World Cup and bring you behind the curtain in MLS.
Plus, Wiebe's adopted club comes up clutch with the upset in the US Open Cup, Bobby explains how to beat Atlanta United, the guys debate which New York manager is more vital for his respective club and Calen Carr stops in to talk The Movement and much more.
- 5:08 – Upsets galore in USOC action
- 11:16 – World Cup absences: Who will be hit the hardest in MLS?
- 16:17 – Bobby on how he'd beat Atlanta
- 19:40 – Enner Valencia and Keisuke Honda to MLS?
- 23:29 – Who would be missed more? Patrick Vieira or Jesse Marsch?
- 31:46 – Jair Marrufo and Mark Geiger on VAR and preparing for the World Cup
- 49:07 – ExtraTime Radio Mailbag
- 58:07 Calen on winning USOC with the Chicago Fire
- 1:04:34 – Parity in MLS, good or bad?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Extra Time Radio. |
| 0:03.5 | So what are you guys going to do? |
| 0:05.6 | You're going to continue to be a bunch of soft, |
| 0:07.4 | underperforming tattooed millionaires? |
| 0:09.3 | They said all along, we're not, the perfection is not possible. |
| 0:11.9 | We just want to get the big decisions right. |
| 0:14.0 | What are we doing? What are we doing? |
| 0:17.0 | Green room getting hot? |
| 0:18.0 | Everybody up here every single day goes into the office into the laboratory |
| 0:24.7 | To try to cook up some great stuff for you guys |
| 0:27.8 | The right answer was a goal in Times Square so we could do buts up, but that was a |
| 0:30.9 | That's why he's here. |
| 0:33.0 | Oh, from New York, New York, |
| 0:35.0 | you are listening to Extra Time Radio, |
| 0:38.0 | Driven by Continental on MLS Soccer. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Andrew Weebi, in the room Dave Goss Bobby Warsaw here with me another |
| 0:47.2 | Thursday another show FC Wichita shocking the world in the US Open Cup. I'm repping them. I am so wrapping. How much |
| 0:56.7 | swag do you own from them? I don't own any swag, but I have begun the process of |
| 1:01.9 | procuring sweat. |
| 1:03.0 | Have you ever financially supported them? |
| 1:05.0 | I have not. |
| 1:07.0 | You've never been in Wichita. |
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