Ryan Gauld: The Captain is back! The long road to his Whitecaps return, as well as thoughts on his countrymen at the World Cup
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It's the Kirsten Price from the Historic Wall Center. We welcome back to the program a sight for sore eyes last week for Caps supporters, their team captain, midfielder Mr. Ryan Galt. How are you, mate? Good to see you again.
How did Ryan Gauld describe his feelings about returning to the Whitecaps after eight months out?
Good to see you both. I'm doing good. Doing good. Glad to be back in the pitch.
To say the least, it's great to see you back for the first time in eight months. How did it feel when you stepped foot last week at Swangardt?
It was good.
Everything's been feeling good. That break we had there for the World Cup kind of gave me a good time for myself just to give me time to get back up to speed a little bit and play a little bit of catch-up. So, yeah, I'm feeling good and looking forward to the next few games we've got coming.
Did you wrap up the training during that break or did you give yourself another chance to recover? How did you use it?
It was more about catching up because even before the break I started feeling good and started taking part in training. So it was more about kind of closing the gap on the fitness and just trying to put myself in. as good a position as I could for when the game started up again.
And do you still have a little bit of pain management after a game? You played 45 there a week ago. Do you still have a little bit of pain management there, or are you pain-free?
No, I'm good. I'm feeling good. Obviously, it's been a long time since I've been training fully and involved in games, so... just not rushing that is, is going to be a big part as well of not, um, making sure, you know, I'm here for, I'm part of it for, for the long run, not just in the short term.
Don't want you to relive the last eight months. Not a fun question, but what took so long, Ryan, why was it a long recovery?
Um, uh, I'm not too sure. Um, to be honest, but just, you know, from the start, um, I could just, you could tell when, when something wasn't right.
How did Ryan use the World Cup break to manage recovery and rebuild fitness?
And then, um, I probably rushed things myself, you know, being told to be in with six weeks and then it reaches eight, 10 and still not feeling good. I probably tried to, to rush it when I shouldn't have, um, which wouldn't help things. And then, um, just with, you know, the location of where the injury was, it was, um, a place where it's apparently just takes a long time to recover clearly. So, um, there was that. And then, um, in January, when we, when we looked at things again, um, It was just decided the best route was a surgery. And yeah, it took a little bit longer again to recover from than we thought. But thankfully, it has helped now. And I'm finally feeling good.
Did misery love company? Because you had a lot of it. I mean, the only thing I can think of is that the rest of the team was decimated by injury as well. So you had a lot of mates there on the side and in the gym and on the bike. And like, what a ridiculous run. The fact that you guys are still a first place team is remarkable. Giving the injured starting 11 would probably give the starting 11 a pretty good run for its money.
Yeah, I think that goes to show the good work that goes on in the training ground and everything that goes on behind the scenes. It doesn't matter who's been in and who's been out. Everyone's come in and done a job. It just shows the depth that we've got and the quality we've got throughout the team.
Yeah, Sam Adekube, Ranko Veselinic, they're naming their firstborn Ryan after getting very close with him in the training room over the last few months. What's the status for tomorrow, Ryan? And when do you think you'll be able to go full 90?
I think a few more games and then I'll be able to, you know, hopefully be fit enough to go 90. And yeah, until then, you know, it's just... playing at as high an intensity as I can in the minutes that I get so that my body is in as good a place as possible for whenever I'm called upon to play the 90.
Is the ceremony of starting and playing a first half, is that annoying that you go through all of that to just play 45? What's the easiest thing for you to do right now in terms of deployment?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–0:18
2
How did Ryan Gauld describe his feelings about returning to the Whitecaps after eight months out?
0:18–2:11
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How did Ryan use the World Cup break to manage recovery and rebuild fitness?
2:11–9:42
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Why did Ryan's injury recovery take longer than expected and what led to surgery?
9:42–14:06
Speakers
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