Colin Cowherd Podcast - Pulisic's World Cup Fallout, Inside Jaylen Brown Trade, US Soccer's Future
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So I went to bed last night at 7.35, took Theraflu. I broke my fever, so I'm okay. Stomach's a mess. It's a Midwest thing, whatever. But we had this planned and I think it's fitting because there's so many things I want to talk about with Danny Parkins. So, you know, listen, every four years, after we lose in the World Cup, the drum beats, it's our culture, you know, it's our youth movement. But I did think it was kind of instructive that Carly Lloyd, Stu Holden, Alexi Lawless, all kind of had the same drum beat, which is, hey, Christian Pulisic, nobody wants to hear about rest. This isn't baseball. You don't have a game tomorrow. We don't want to hear about rest. And I think it's fair, and I'll tell you why.
Pulisic's 27. Messi is a smaller athlete, has never missed a World Cup game, and you know he hasn't been healthy 100% of the time. We know Pulisic's not Erling Haaland. He's not a soccer version of Gronk. But he gets banged up a lot. He's 27. But there is an indifference or a lack of urgency sometimes that comes off as condescending from Pulisic. Like he's above it all. And we don't like that from our athletes. By the way, if you said that in Argentina, the Argentinian press would savage you. If you said it in Greece or Italy or London, you'd get crushed for it. I think my knock on Pulisic is that this is different than the other sports. It's every four years. Soccer already faces a little cynicism because of the flopping.
So you kind of fake injuries all the time. So like when you come up and say, all right, I can still see on the pitch. You can still move. I don't want to hear about rest. I don't think that's unfair. I think it's pandering to call that unfair. I think that's very reasonable international soccer commentary by Carly, Stu, and Alexi. Of course.
I mean, he, after the game, said that he thought he maybe sprained his ankle. We expect you to play through a sprained ankle. I mean, if it would have come out afterwards that he would have ruptured his Achilles, you know, no one would have said anything, you know, but it was like, wait, you you kicked the other guy. You kind of stubbed your foot into the ground. You were hobbling around out there. We like we expect you to be able to hobble that off. And I'm not saying that I could do it, but I am saying that world class athletes should be able to do it. And this is the thing. I am not a 24-7, 365 soccer person, but I really prepped very hard ahead of this World Cup. I take my job very seriously with how first things first overtime is going.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:56
2
Why did Colin miss The Herd and how does his health affect today's show?
5:56–7:50
3
What triggered the controversy over Christian Pulisic saying he needed rest?
7:50–9:56
4
How do experts evaluate Pulisic’s World Cup commitment and injury history?
9:56–31:41
5
What does the World Cup reveal about the current state of US Soccer development?
31:41–1:02:37
Speakers
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