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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
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Andrés Cantor talks calling the 2022 World Cup Final and looks ahead to World Cup 2026!
Subscribe to The Cooligans Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros bring on soccer broadcasting legend Andrés Cantor to chat about all things soccer. The guys revisit the 2022 World Cup Final and talk with Andrés about how the greatest moment of his career was also his most challenging. Christian and Alexis then discuss Andrés' journey in broadcasting and how he eventually passed down his love for the game to his son, Nico. They also get to know Andrés on a more personal level—learning, for example, about his dislike for sauce on food. Later, Andrés shares some of his favorite memories of the late Grant Wahl as they remember the beloved soccer journalist. The guys also ask Andrés the hard-hitting questions in another edition of Pro/Rel. (0:30) - Andrés Cantor joins The Cooligans (3:30) - Reliving Andrés' 2022 World Cup Final call (9:00) - Andrés' broadcasting journey (17:00) - Andrés' World Cup partnership with Buchanan's Whisky (27:30) - Remembering Grant Wahl (31:30) - Andrés plays the Pro/Rel game 🖥️
Yahoo
30-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Does Thomas Müller lift Vancouver to MLS title contention?
Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros of 'The Cooligans' discuss the 35-year-old German's discussion to sign with the Whitecaps and if he can help the team towards its first ever league title. Hear the full conversation on the 'The Cooligans' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript Thomas Muller reportedly is set to join Vancouver Whitecaps. But we're looking at their season and saying, is this the player that puts them over the top? Does this make them title favorites? I don't foresee this being the move that immediately makes me think they're better than Miami. The Whitecaps are title contenders without Thomas Muller. I think they're Western Conference title contenders. I don't know if they're MLS Cup title contenders just yet, because to me you have to be like Philly. Philly is in first place in the East. I still really consider them title contenders, cause you haven't proven it to me when the when push comes to shove. You know, in MLS you need to be able to catch momentum towards the end of the season. It's smart to bring in signings now. I think that's smart, right? Get it out of the way, like learning, and once you really have cohesiveness, now starts, you know, MLS playoffs. But think about the stalwarts who are having a good season, Nashville having a pretty good season. FC Cincinnati's who are having a very good season, play teams like that that you know they can put it together defensively, you know they can play well in the playoffs. Are those the teams that, do you think all of a sudden Whitecaps now jump over those teams in your mind, come playoffs? The last few games, um, they've looked not in the form that they started the season in, but I don't think there's any real reason to worry. I think overall it'll be a net positive for them. And I agree, and then from the business side, because Vancouver, you know, there's murmurs of moving the team, they were up for sale supposedly last year. Here we go. They have to go up against motocross and then their playoff games get moved and all this other stuff. They gotta get their own stadium. Just signing a player of this caliber and cachet, I think just does something for the sporting side of the team and, and then kind of just helps with whatever is, you know, Don Garber was talking about efforting getting a new stadium. Because they're playing at BC Place, it has become an issue, and there aren't enough available dates, and they get bumped, and all this other stuff. So I think Vancouver Whitecaps have a lot to be happy about. And this is also the first time we've spoken about the Vancouver Whitecaps for 20 minutes, and probably like in all the, the one thing I will say, though, is I think his career in Europe was mostly over. He would have been riding the bench anyway, at least for a contender in the Champions League. So this is smart. Close
Yahoo
28-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Should players prioritize their national team or club team?
Yahoo Sports contributors Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros are joined by USMNT & MLS legend Landon Donovan who weighs in on players' decisions on when to take breaks with their respective national and club teams, specifically highlighting Christian Pulisic's decision to not play in the Gold Cup. Hear the full conversation on the 'The Cooligans' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript One of the narratives that involved you a little bit was, during the Gold Cup, uh, as we learned more about it and we started to see that, Christian Ballistic and Marissa Postino weren't necessarily seeing eye to eye about Christian Ballistics absence from the team during the Gold Cup, and a lot of times people used your, you know, uh, sabbatical and, time away from the national team as a reference point to that. It feels like those were a very different set of circumstances. Did that upset you at all? Did that piss you off?, No, it doesn't piss me off. And just to be clear, by the way, I like Christian. I'm giving my opinion based on all the years that I have played, right? And what I think. It is best for a national team player and one of the leaders or some of the leaders of the team. It doesn't mean it's right, it doesn't mean people have to like it. Um, to be very clear vis a vis Christian. I am never, ah, critiquing him taking a break, he's played a lot of soccer in the last few years. My critique is. Who he chose to take the break from, and the same with Jedi Robinson. They both at the end of their seasons with Fulham and AC Milan respectively, could have taken the last 2 or 3 weeks off when their team was not going up, not going down, had nothing to play for. Instead, they chose to keep playing. And then take 3 or 4 weeks off during the summer with their national team. So my, my beef was not with them taking a break. They all deserve a break. It's that they didn't prioritize their national team a year in front of a, a year ahead of a World Cup at home. And I would not have done that. I did not agree with that, and I'm going to say that now, if there is more context or something I am missing here or there's a mental health issue or some issue in the family or something going on, I will say I was wrong. I will say I take it back. But guess what, that never happened, right? So they just wanted to take a break and they prioritize their club teams over their national team. That's fine, that's their choice, that's their decision. I would not have done that. Close
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Who are the European transfer window winners so far?
Yahoo Sports contributors Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros explain why Liverpool and Chelsea are the winners of the European transfer window. Hear the full conversation on the 'The Cooligans' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript The transfer window isn't over yet, but as of right now, you have to say Liverpool is the transfer winner. They are absolutely putting in work. I have a list of their transfers right here because I didn't want to make any mistakes and let her check and let the comments go crazy. Uh, but they've absolutely put in work. Obviously, we are you know Floriverts, incredible Kirke, incredible Frimpong, incredible. They've also brought in some additional bodies like Harvey Davies, Woodman, Pepsi. I hope I pronounced that correctly. The basic point is though, when you look at it, and we talked about this last week, Liverpool said, all right, we won the league easily, right? In pretty easy fashion we won the league. Well, yeah, we didn't do that well in Champions League once we got to the knockout stages, right? They got bumped out, they were on top of the the league phase. How do you, how do you make yourself better than you were last year? And that's, you gotta make yourself better on a global stage versus just in the Premier League. In the Premier League, well, you have to do is keep pace with everyone else cause you're already better than everybody else. How do you, and they're gonna retool to try to beat you. How do you get better in Champions League? How about you go out and get pretty much the number one wonder kid in all of the sport in Florian Virts, and you pay in ungodly amount. I mean, what is it? 120, 125 million, which feels like too much. It's a lot of money for. I mean, even seeing that, like Virts is good. Am I crazy for thinking that it's a little too absolutely incredible 125 million. It seems like a lot of money. My winner is Chelsea, the best club in the world, I guess right now. For the moment, winners of the Club World Cup and watching them play in person as well, you see the, I mean, John Pedro, I think might end up being the signing of the of the season, as far as how effective he was and he came from vacation and was like, hey, I'm already in form to be playing, so I think he's gonna end up being probably the one of the better transfers of the season. Close
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17-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Is Liverpool gearing up to be the next European powerhouse?
Yahoo Sports contributors Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros highlight Liverpool's recent success and discuss how they're making moves to turn themselves into a European powerhouse team. Hear the full conversation on the 'The Cooligans' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript So as far as Liverpool and the moves that they're making, it does feel like they are planning for the future. Staying at the top is clearly what they're trying to do. These moves, can they go on a similar run to what Manchester City did in England, try to dominate England and maybe Europe as well with the signings that they have? Right, because it's an interesting point because if you look at last season, Manchester City very clearly showed a few, a few sort of dents, if you will, in the whole system, right? They took a step back; they left a bit of a gap for someone else to take that place. Arsenal, at the beginning of the season, you would have if I would have told you, hey, Manchester City is gonna have a struggle even getting back into a Champions League spot, I think we all would have said, oh, then Arsenal probably wins the league. They finished in second to a resurgence. Liverpool under Arneat, a new manager, can they repeat that? Can they not only move on from that to being in the upper echelon of the European conversation? Right, like we talked about your Real Madrids, your PSGs. They're clearly making the signings. And they're clearly moving in the direction of that being the case. So that means that everyone else has to get as strong, and that's the big problem with the Premier League. Can you get stronger than the strength that is gained by other clubs in the league? I think from looking at the signings, you're talking about a club that finished first easily, getting better. I still have to see how everyone else is handling that, and that's everyone else in Champions League. I have to see how Arsenal's handling that. I have to see how Manchester City's handling that. I have to see how some of the newcomers, you know, your new Nottingham Forests, if you will, some of those folks are handling that. To me, looking at the way Liverpool are making signings, they're clearly hoping that they become, they're making signings with the plan to be one of the biggest teams in Europe. Close
