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After Solana helped Hoch win a bet during the Arsenal - Atletico Madrid Champions League semi-final, Solana tries his best to explain how the Champions League works.
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00:00you're into this soccer match huh yeah no i mean this is big this is a champions league
00:04semi-final second leg i gotta be honest i so i you know i don't understand anything about soccer
00:09and you know i'm a big afc bournemouth fan yeah and they're having a season right now where
00:18my friend jim frivola who should be the next athletic director at the university of miami
00:23we will get into that one day um but afc bournemouth is going to be eligible to play in the
00:33champions
00:34league yes so maybe so i don't understand what that means i didn't realize that premier league teams
00:43it's like so it's a separate i i mean this is really i i'm kind of embarrassed it's not i
00:50just
00:50don't know anything about soccer i'll explain it to you okay the champions league is the top
00:58club european competition so the top teams from all the different european leagues
01:06epl they of course are a more prestigious league they send more teams aren't they the most prestigious
01:13league yeah but i think la liga and spain barcelona real madrid they they would probably
01:20argue even though it's right now it's not comparable it's definitely epl the bundesliga
01:24which is the german league all these these top european leagues but also every country france
01:32belgium club team they send the top teams to go play a club competition a european club competition
01:41to annually crown the best european club team where the best soccer is played that is the champions
01:49league and that is the champions league however going on right now this is the semi-final the
01:53second leg so if arsenal holds this result they're up one nil they drew one one in madrid if they
01:59hold
01:59this result they will play in the champions league final which is a neutral site one winner take all game
02:06against the winner of the other semi-final which is paris saint germain they're the reigning champions
02:12they won it last year um and they just played a cracker of a match five four at home they
02:19beat
02:19the best german team which is the champions league which is essentially a tournament yes from what i'm
02:25gathering yeah is it all like uh and like a a four-week period or is this one of those
02:30things
02:30where it's like there's legs throughout the year so there's there's a qualifier so you play like it
02:35used to be group stage now it's no longer group stage it's a point system so you play a bunch
02:39of
02:40different teams that all made it they all qualify from the years past so like bournemouth if they
02:44qualify if they end up with a top seven position they'll go to there's champions league and then
02:51there's the europa league and then there's conference league there's three different european
02:56competitions champions league is the top that's that's what you want to win these are all tournaments
03:01these are tournaments throughout the season right which is why the nba wants to implement the nba
03:09in-season tournament this is like that mls turn not mls turn the league's cup that and inter miami
03:16was able to participate in people can they can rotate in the europa league and champions league
03:22can be different teams every year it's going to be different teams every year i mean the top of the
03:26top are always going to qualify well not necessarily like it's it's happened before where tottenham
03:31was in the final they're one of the premier league teams tottenham hot spa they were in the final of
03:37the
03:38champions league but didn't qualify for the following year champions league they just happened to hit a
03:43run of form in those champions league games so you could be having a bleep season in your actual regular
03:50season but because at that point maybe you're prioritizing your the the health of your players
03:57for those champions league games you can go out and win a a a comp or a european title which
04:03is why i don't
04:04understand why the american sports fan doesn't embrace the in-season tournament look at me look
04:09how dumb i look when you're talking about this this is exactly why we don't embrace it like i'm i'm
04:14i'm a
04:15sports fan i'm 56 years old and i'm having a tough time understanding all this that's exactly i'm the
04:22exact reason when you when you when you these are all european teams you're talking about yeah but but
04:27there is a conca calf champions cup which was remember when we had witty on where's conca calf
04:33is the governing body in the uh pacific so we're european league champions league and now conca calf
04:40and la liga no i'll explain it to you how you can understand every single continent has a governing
04:49body of soccer federation fifa oversees everything then there's com the ball where's don garber fifa
04:59com the ball then there's com the ball which is south america conca calf which is north america
05:07central america i'm the ball put on that that terrible tournament down here no com the ball did the copa
05:13america yeah right that's so common balls copa america there's a copa libertadores which is i can't
05:19the south american equivalent to the champions league all right so like right now my team
05:24nacional is playing well that's not a club team it is now yeah i thought it was a national team
05:30so
05:30national is in copa pal national national is not national even though they're called national they're
05:36called national but they're a club team in uruguay this is getting so this is european that now we're
05:41there now we're uruguayan club national the football that's my my team i always thought that was the
05:47uruguayan national team no you're telling me there's a national team la celeste la celeste okay
05:52oh so last they're playing they're playing the copa libertadores which is the champions league
05:57in south america inner miami we had witty on and he said the most important thing for inner miami this
06:03season as they've already won league's cup and they've already won the mls title was to go deep and
06:10ultimately win the conca calf champions cup which includes the best mexican teams it includes the best
06:16teams in the mls mexican or south american right no mexican just mexican the mexican teams the
06:23mexican club teams and the central america brings us back to cinco de mayo solana i'm trying to draw
06:27like a food pyramid of soccer no the best soccer the best clubs are undoubtedly in the champions league
06:35undoubtedly they play in europe undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly the best teams play in europe hands down
06:43my wheelhouse everybody's got their wheelhouse and what'd you say undoubtedly undoubtedly
06:50you keep putting a b in there yeah i don't know why that word escapes me currently i don't know
06:56what's
06:57going on it's not that hard i know i feel i feel dumb i feel dumb and i ask questions
07:03because i really
07:04don't understand it but let me let me let me explain how board myth i just want but i it
07:09you get you gave me
07:10too much i'm just going to concentrate on the best european club teams compete in the champions league
07:16which is a tournament but but they have to qualify may qualify for champions league and that is so but
07:22just listen we have 30 nba 32 nfl they play and get the best team at the end simple and
07:29and in europe
07:30and in every soccer league around the world they do the exact same champions no no no no it goes
07:37too much
07:37don't don't get it twisted don't get it twisted the premier league that's a separate outcome premier
07:42the right now liga right now arsenal and manchester city are playing in the premier league arsenal
07:52has points and if they win out their crown titles their crown champions of their domestic league of
08:00the english league that's like winning the nba title they're gonna win right manchester city is in in
08:06the race as well even though yesterday they had a tough result no but why why there's a league
08:12they're gonna win the championship they can win then they go and have to play in another league
08:16championship you want to you want to so there's there's no there's no winner there's no top dog
08:22yes the champions league is the top dog listen think about it this way you win the nba right but
08:29now there's a tournament call it the olympics if you want now there's a tournament for the best team in
08:35the nba or the top four finishers the top four finishers in the nba are now in a tournament with
08:42the top
08:43four european basketball teams as well you still want to win your nba championship you also want to
08:50win this next tournament or league which is where which is where i believe we're headed to 100 now
08:58that you're explaining it i understand and i believe we should be heading in that direction because there
09:04are great international basketball teams as we see when there's international play and could you imagine
09:09if barcelona the basketball team we're talking basketball real madrid the basketball team
09:14played let's say this year the minnesota timberwolves or one of the top teams they would qualify right
09:19and there was an upset like the the drama nba fans would be heated their blood would boil the nba
09:28players themselves would be embarrassed if they lost to that caliber of team and that's the type of upsets
09:34an opportunity you get in the champions league where arsenal manchester city real madrid will play
09:41a team from belgium or club bruges for example or a team from um from bulgaria or a team you
09:50know what
09:50i mean and they get the opportunity to face giants to understand this i don't know what the hell he's
09:56talking about you're behind me and that's fine that's going to happen a lot on this show but we're
10:00going to come back to this we're going to come back no i'm starting to get it can i can
10:05i just
10:05explain the board situation but it lasts too long it lasts too damn long it doesn't you got to play
10:12this season and then take this season to go to that season it's all going out at the same time
10:16on that
10:16season and cut out of this to go to national team we haven't we haven't even got we haven't even
10:21gotten
10:21to the domestic cup competition domestic care about cup and the fa cup we like we haven't even we
10:27haven't even brushed the surface but hoc board myth right now is in sixth place they're not in a
10:33champions league spot right they're in a european competition spot which would be nice which would
10:40no that's huge even it for board myth to go to the to the euros would be huge however up
10:46the cherries
10:47up the chair however if arsenal wins the champions league which is a very big possibility they're up
10:54nothing they're going to the final they automatically qualify which adds one extra spot from the english
11:01premier league so that helps bournemouth so they now essentially be a top five finish because arsenal
11:08doesn't even count and they go play champions league football which for bournemouth a club that maybe what
11:14five six years ago wasn't even playing top flight football in in england is literally unbelievable which
11:23is why i told you jim fravola changed the trajectory of afc bournemouth and that's why he will make a
11:31great
11:31athletic director at the university of miami in fact um may qualify for a super bowl through the league
11:38league you got a chubby solana he loves this you get excited about this fool i do i want to
11:47learn
11:47this i do want to learn it's too much because because you're playing in the concert to play in
11:53the premier to go to the la liga to go to the european cup to go to the championship when
11:57you say it's too
11:57much are you suggesting it's not gonna work to go to club competition to go to best euro league i
12:02don't
12:03understand because my friends are the same thing my friends was not it's not american 17 games go to
12:10the playoffs the playoffs window down to a winner right but this is this is the playoff we need
12:14simple we're americans we need simple don't we need more no we don't as as american ufl why does it
12:22why why doesn't the ufl work why doesn't xfl work it's trash and it's some trash i guarantee there's
12:29trash soccer teams out there no no but they don't but they don't qualify for the champions
12:33league that's the whole thing they don't qualify for the and we can't bring them over here because
12:36there's not football or there's not quality basketball around nobody's talking about this
12:40being in the nfl but there is quality basketball around the world without the nba players yeah yes
12:47without if the nba if the nba guys don't go back to play in france nba guys don't go back
12:52to
12:52playing playing and they don't have a chance to be the nba what you say they don't have a chance
12:57but i don't i'm not saying i'm not no nba like nba friend like france no wimby stand on
13:02the spurs there are friends can go france can come and beat the spurs there are when there are
13:08club team no way there are club teams in turkey fenner botch is one of them there are club teams
13:12in
13:13the super league in europe they do the exact same type of tournament and they are quality club teams
13:19i'm not saying that the talent is similar but because they play a physical brand of basketball
13:25that i believe could compete in a one game sample size not in a seven game but in a one
13:30game sample
13:31size against some nba teams there's quality competition there's nba players well the thing
13:35is though they wouldn't be playing some nba teams they'd be playing in this scenario the best nba team
13:41right but so in a one-off game what's the name you just said i believe it's singularia singularia
13:48could get in the playoffs right now beat the knicks look at look at um uh in the olympics singularia
13:53beat the knicks right now look at in the olympics crowder look at in the olympics where you literally had
13:57france play the u.s close you have teams like lithuania but with the nba players playing with
14:03nba i understand that but the entire french roster are not all nba players right but who's the best
14:10nba players on france i realize that but but the talent i'm telling you is not as i don't this
14:16is
14:16getting too i wanted to i wanted to learn about soccer i'm not interested i'm not i want to watch
14:21no
14:21cam now now i understand why people were so excited about bournemouth potentially being in
14:27the possibility and the revenue of the champions the revenue would be astronomical just even if
14:32they don't get out of the the preliminary rounds in the champions league right the revenue for a club
14:36like bournemouth um is is astronomical it changes their next 20 years right their program right the the
14:43the the youth leagues that they're going to have the way that they're going to be able to develop
14:47talent that stadium will receive major upgrades if you can play in champions league soccer vitality
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15:15points i apologize to
15:17the listeners who do understand that i don't understand it and i you know i have friends
15:22my my one of my best friends works for afc bournemouth he's the co-ceo or something like that
15:27um and and i wanted to see why on our thread are up the cherries thread they were so excited
15:34about the
15:34potential of a champions league appearance now at least i understand it it's huge hawk i get it no i
15:41get
15:41this game's on cbs right now the network which means in europe that everything is shut down to
15:48watch this tournament arsenal has a chance to win the premier league for the first time i watched a
15:56video today google gmail was created in 2004 twitter in 2006 and facebook in 2004 nobody in england that's
16:05an arsenal fan has ever been able to send out a gmail a tweet or a facebook post about them
16:12winning
16:12the premier league and if they win the premier league which they have right now in their graphs
16:17they just have to win out there's three games left and they win the champions league how often does that
16:23happen you win the and the champions league not often rare error i mean for a team like like arsenal
16:29thierry henry was on their squad the last time that they won the premier league like they're they're
16:33consistently chokers they're the biggest chokers in the premier league and they have the opportunity
16:39right now they're up one nil like this is massive in the football world all right i found this to
16:44be
16:44delightful i know a lot of the listeners didn't and i apologize if you didn't i found that to be
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17:12about having a bag when be no bag solana's got a bag i finally uh succumbed to pressure from my
17:17brother
17:18uh to to join his his soccer podcast because i'm like i gotta talk soccer like i'm done then all
17:24of a sudden you get it here yeah now the the hell with daniel see ya
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17:44just
17:44missed an easy wide open goal overall pick arsenal this is premier league no this is champions i'm
17:52sorry i don't know what you talked about that's all right that's all right we'll get it takes a
18:00while draw me a graph i'll i can't draw graphs that's not my wheelhouse i love when people look
18:05at a graph and they know exactly what's going on i look at a graph and i get more confused
18:09spider graph venn diagram i got none of that okay somebody says jesus christ i'd rather hear wmba
18:16preseason talk than solana going on about soccer well i tried that last year and hock and crowder
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