A deep dive into international soccer around North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Get to know the nations of Concacaf and learn about the soccer, countries and cultures that make up world soccer’s most interesting confederation. Hosted by Eric Schmitz, Donald Wine and Jonathan Slape.
Live. Laugh. Concacaf.
"Concacaf is a vibes based economy."
Episodes
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
A special CONCACAF LASER FOCUS as the guys take a look at Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States but a full Concacaf member. After looking at the history of the island and the soccer culture, the pod welcomes former Puerto Rico men's national team player Jacob Conde (30:52), who earned seven caps with El Huracán Azul from 2016-2019. After Jacob and Eric reminisce about their shared alma mater, we hear stories of first the call up, an away trip to India and competing in Concacaf Nations League. Finally, Eric gets to play the often imitated but never duplicated feature: REAL TEAM OR FAKE TEAM (67:50).
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Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
The most wonderful tournament in all of sports returned for another edition in the September FIFA window, so Donald and Eric had to talk about it! From League A to League C (or from League C to League A) we've got it all covered, highlighting Anguilla's historic away win over Turks and Caicos, Saint Lucia's big window in Grenada and Nicaragua leaving it late twice. After recapping CNL, the topic is the USMNT and their long awaited hire of Mauricio Pochettino to take over the bench.
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Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
On this episode, we head to the "B" of the ABC islands to do our CONCACAF LASER FOCUS feature on Bonaire. A special municipality of The Netherlands, Bonaire is one of Concacaf's non-FIFA members, but we talk about the challenge and effort to fix that, along with flamingoes and other fun stuff. On REAL TEAM OR FAKE TEAM, Jonathan tries his best with all the SVs.
Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
On our next CONCACAF LASER FOCUS we head to Central America to talk Nicaragua. As Americans, it's a complicated history with Nicaragua, as Eric and Jonathan discover that it hits even closer to home for them. A discussion about what got Nicaragua where it is today and the soccer that they play. Donald gets up for REAL TEAM OR FAKE TEAM.
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Friday Jul 12, 2024
Friday Jul 12, 2024
With the dust settled for the most part, the guys chat through Copa America 2024 and review Concacaf's performance in the tournament, highlighted by Canada's run to the semifinals with Jesse Marsch. While their coach is doing alright, not the same in other parts as we talk the United States finally firing Gregg Berhalter, Heimir Hallgrímsson leaving Jamaica hanging and the weird situation in Mexico with Jaime Lozano. In the end, we discuss what we learned about Concacaf in this unique tournament.
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Monday Jun 03, 2024
The biggest island of them all wants in! News broke recently that Greenland has sent a request to join Concacaf after failing to join UEFA. In what we call A DEEPER DIVE, Donald and Eric are joined by Paul Watson of The Sweeper to break down how we got here with Greenland, what to know about The Polar Teddy Bears history, their journey to this point and what we can learn from their recent friendly against Turkmenistan. Is a Concacaf away trip to Nuuk in our future? What happened to those stadium renderings? Are they going to need to join the Caribbean Football Union to do this? We discuss that and much more in this special episode!
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Thursday May 30, 2024
Thursday May 30, 2024
It's a busy June ahead, and Donald and Eric are here to catch you up on the latest Concacaf news! For the 2026 hosts, Jesse Marsch takes over in Canada, Mexico changes their group, and the USMNT looks to replace the injured Sergino Dest. Round 2 of World Cup qualification begins and we preview our key matchups in the June window. Then, we talk some other notes around Concacaf, including the big news that Greenland has applied for membership!
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Tuesday May 07, 2024
Tuesday May 07, 2024
The fourth edition of the global sport's most prestigious event is here and Mexico has still never won one. Concacaf held the draw for the 2024/25 Nations League on Monday, May 6th and we have all the details for you, breaking down the format changes regarding host sites and all of the groups in from League C to League A.
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Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Donald and Eric are back with a new CONCACAF LASER FOCUS, this time heading to South America(?) to chat about Guyana. Not French Guiana, the former British one. A booming economy, a Caribbeanish culture and one of the best young goalscorers in the region: Omari Glasgow. Donald tries to stump Eric on REAL TEAM OR FAKE TEAM (26:12).
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Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
We’re on the road to Frisco! No really, we’re on the road. On location from the mean streets of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, we provide a recap of the Nations League semifinals. We also touch on the vibes based economy that is World Cup qualifying and prepare for today’s Copa America qualifiers.