Jon Arnold discusses the start of Concacaf World Cup qualifying, as well as how Curacao, Suriname, Cuba and Jamaica have all gone about strengthening their squads
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🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Jon Arnold joins the show to discuss all-things Concacaf. How did Curacao land Guus Hiddink, who will be the next (relatively) unheralded national team to make a run at the Gold Cup, the role that the FIFA scandals has played in the instability at numerous national federations, and much much more! Plus, a group-by-group look at the first round of Concacaf World Cup qualifying. Who will make it to the next round, who won't, and why you shouldn't bet on any of this!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:02.0 | Hello and welcome everyone to the Total Soccer Show. My name is Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:24.5 | With me today is a gentleman who dives deep into the world of Concaf and has detailed match summaries of games you might not know even took place like Haiti's U23s playing an amateur Mexico national team. |
| 0:34.9 | That's how I'm phrasing that. It's John Arnold. Hi, John. Thank you for being here. |
| 0:38.5 | Hey, my pleasure. |
| 0:39.4 | Good to be here. |
| 0:40.4 | So is it the amateur Mexican national team or is it a team of amateurs that were like |
| 0:46.1 | subbing in for a Mexican team? |
| 0:48.0 | It is the Mexico fan national team. |
| 0:51.1 | That is who went to Porta Prince and played Hades U23 before they went to |
| 0:56.5 | Olympic qualification. The thing is, it makes it, it was a crazy story when I wrote it, but the thing |
| 1:00.9 | that makes it even crazier is like basically a week later, the real senior Belize national |
| 1:05.8 | team went to play the real senior Haiti national team and got stuck up. I mean, like their bus |
| 1:10.7 | was held hostage by |
| 1:12.3 | armed gunmen. Not a good situation. And Haiti's in a rough patch right now, but the Mexican fans |
| 1:18.5 | came out okay. Well, they got destroyed on the field, but they were safe and sound. So that is definitely |
| 1:25.9 | good by comparison. |
| 1:31.0 | I read about that in getting Concaft, which you've been doing. |
| 1:33.1 | When did you start doing that? |
| 1:35.9 | Yeah, I started about a year ago. |
| 1:39.5 | I guess two weeks ago was the year anniversary. |
| 1:45.0 | The pandemic was terrible, is terrible for everyone for a lot of different reasons. And of course, like, people suffered much more serious things than I did. But I left |
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