NextPod is a weekly look at North American soccer prospects. Primarily focusing on MLS Next Pro, the Canadian Premier League, USL and NCAA soccer, hosts Duane Rollins and James Grossi are on the hunt for the next stars of MLS and European football. Published each Tuesday.
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Podcast covering Women's soccer, from the NWSL, to the USWNT and CanWNT with an eye open to the International game. Hosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Jonathan Tannenwald @thegoalkeeper
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Weekly Olympic Podcast hosted by Duane Rollins and Kevin Laramée Armed with years of experience and a unique perspective, the 5 Rings Podcast is back just in time to get ready for the biggest games of all time! Since Sochi 2014
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The World of football, with a soccer perspective. This is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting Network With Duane Rollins and Kevin Laramée. Live Monday to Friday at twitter.com/soccertodayspn and podcast available everywhere.
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Hosted by Duane Rollins and Kevin Laramee The Two Solitudes Soccer Podcast is the Original Premium podcast covering the Canadian Premier League, even before it existed! To access to premium feed, go to http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetwork Until next time, have a great soccer!
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NextPod Soccer Podcast: Season 2, Episode 6
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Amy Walsh joins the show to talk about the women's professional player pathway in Canada ahead of the inaugural season of the Northern Super League, Jesse Marsch urges the acceleration of player development for the men's national team and touches on the role the Canadian Premier League can play, and Andrew Olivieri looks ahead to the men's U-20 nat…
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NextPod Soccer Podcast: Season 2, Episode 5
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The boys talk League1 BC with Michael McColl of AFTN and have a look at the Canadian Premier League U-21 minutes table 11 rounds into the season.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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NextPod Soccer Podcast: Season 2, Episode 4
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The boys talk League1 Alberta with Scott Strasser of the YYC Soccer Podcast and dive into some of the draws and schedule drops for a busy summer ahead.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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NextPod Soccer Podcast: Season 2 - May 29
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The boys return with a look at the League1 Ontario season and an interview with CanW17 coach Emma Humphries.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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NextPod Soccer Podcast: Season 2, Episode 2
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James and Duane react to Canada's elimination from u17 women's World Cup qualifying after a 2-1 loss to Mexico and then look ahead to Men's u20 qualifying with head coach Andrew Olivieri.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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NextPod Soccer Podcast: Season 2, Episode 1
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The boys are back after their holiday break to launch season 2 of the podcast. In today's episode, they are joined by Canadian u20 women's head coach Emma Humphries to talk about the Concacaf qualifying tournament. James and Duane also get into MLS and CanPL training camp news and talk about the need for the CanPL to get young players under contrac…
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In the final show of 2023, James and Duane talk to John Molinaro about the state of development at Toronto FC, wrap up the u17 World Cup, set up the women's U17 qualifying and touch on developments in the League1 pyramid. We end the show by reflecting on 2024 and looking ahead to season 2 of NextPod.…
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In today's NextPod, James and Duane lament another oh-for World Cup for Canada after the u17s lose against Mali and then talk to Ben Steiner of CB Sports about the 2023 USports men's and women's championship weekend.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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NextPod Soccer Podcast -- Special u17 FIFA World Cup Edition
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In this special edition of the podcast, James and Duane look back on Canada's first two games at the 2023 FIFA u17 World Cup and set up the team's final game against Mali.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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NextPod Soccer Podcast for November 10 - FIFA u17 Men's World Cup Preview
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In this special edition of NextPod, the boys preview the 2023 FIFA u17 men's World Cup. With appearances by Canada Soccer's Men's National Youth Excel Director Andrew Olivieri and MLSSoccer's Charles Bohem, who looks at the USYNT and the role of NextPro in shaping the roster.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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On today's show, James and Duane are joined by Austin FC's Sal Mazzaferro. The Canadian defender talks about his first pro season in the MLS system and his future plans. The boys also touch on the 2023 Canadian Premier League final, whether young players get enough of a look in the playoffs, what makes a successful pro academy and on the legacy of …
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Duane and James set-up the 2024 CanPL Final and talk u21 player of the year with CanPL.ca's Mitchell Tierney.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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In this week's NextPod, Duane and James are joined by former US international and Houston Dynamo legend Rico Clark to talk about his first season as head coach of Whitecaps 2. Rico discusses the role of MLS NextPro in the development pathway, how to balance wins and losses with other development needs, what he's learned about himself as a coach and…
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NextPod Soccer Podcast for October 3
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CEO and co-owner of League1 Ontario champions Simcoe County Rovers joins us to talk about the success of the club, its place in the Barrie, Ont. market and whether they might have CanPL or Project 8 aspirations in the future. That and James and Duane breakdown all the news in Canadian development circles for the week.…
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Duane and James are joined by CS Saint Laurent's sporting director Rocco Placentino. Rocco talks to us about the difference between development today and when he was a player, building the Quebec League1 championship roster, how much he's looking forward to competing in the Canadian championship and how Quebec needs more professional teams -- he ev…
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James and Duane are joined by Canada Soccer's Mike Vitulano to talk about the Canadian men's u15 program, development in Canada and how the CSA identifies talent. We even ask the big question: are we too reliant on the three MLS academies?By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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Duane and James discuss the end of the League1 Ontario season with the voice of the league, Pierce Lang. They then look ahead to 2024, with a chat with Connor Vande Weghe, who is the Sporting Director at the newest League2 Ontario side, Sudbury Cyclones.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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In a special Labour Day Weekend edition of the podcast, Duane and James are joined by Canada Soccer's head of referees to talk about the development of officials. The boys also touch on the League1 Ontario final (next week's show will be all in on a season review), CanW17 qualifying and Metropolitain University of Toronto forfeiting games because o…
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NextPod Soccer Podcast for August 29
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The boys start the show off by reacting to the breaking news of John Herdman leaving the CanMNT to take over at TFC. After that they quickly bring on the voice of League1 Ontario, Pierce Lang, to set-up this weekend's final. Then they have Travis Clark of TopDrawerSoccer.com on to talk about Canadians in the NCAA in 2023. They even threw in a littl…
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In a news bits n' bites edition of the pod, Duane and James have a look at the League1 Ontario men's playoffs before talking about the Sudbury Cyclones joining the L1O system at the recently created League2 level. Duane dreams of a league of cities that start with B (Belleville, Brampton, Barrie, Brockville...) and James humors him in this dream. T…
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In a news round-up edition of the pod, James and Duane breakdown the exciting news that HFX Wanderers are getting involved in League1 Atlantic on both the men's and women's side and react to the surprising announcement that the league intends to launch in 2024. They also discuss Canada's performance at the Concacaf u15 boys event and what kind of a…
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As Duane was off gallivanting around Niagara, James went solo on this holiday weekemd edition of NextPod. He spoke to Charlie O'Conner-Clarke of CanPL.ca about the York United u21 minutes situation, as well as general CanPL youth news and trends. James also touches on the BCL1 finals, the L1O women's final, the Interprovincial finals and the u15 Bo…
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James and Duane start by lamenting the Canadian women's crash out of the World Cup and talk about things that need to happen on the women's development side. They celebrate the retirement of one of the O.G. Canadian homegrowns, Ashtone Morgan, update the League1 BC and Ontario playoffs and then they invite CBC.ca and 49-sport.com's Ben Steiner on, …
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In this week's show, James and Duane are joined by AFTN's (aftn.ca) Michael McColl to talk about the final week of BC League1 and the upcoming playoffs. Along the way, the boys touch on the Women's World Cup, League1 Ontario's stretch drive, Vancouver FC's integration with the BC soccer scene and tease the podcast's upcoming USport coverage.…
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James and Duane are joined by League1 Ontario's Pierce Lang to check back in on how the 2023 season is going, talk about the league's top pro prospects, how Pro/Rel is shaping up, the magic of Vaughan SC and more. We even squeeze a little CanWNT talk into the mix!By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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After taking last week off to celebrate Canada Day, James and Duane are back this week to talk Canada at the Gold Cup, with an eye towards the younger players that got a look there. They discuss the lack of opportunities that young guys are going to get going forward with no Olympic Qualifying to look forward to and lament the state of youth perfor…
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In this week's NextPod James and Duane are joined by League1 Canada President Dino Rossi in an exclusive interview about changes to the third tier of the Canadian pyramid. They discuss expansion to Atlantic Canada and the Prairies, referee development, promotion and relegation and more.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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In this week's NextPod, James and Duane talk about the MLS Next tournament and look at the performance of the three Canadian MLS academies in the event. They talk about what the role of private academies is in the development structure and then end by going a bit off the brief of the podcast to breakdown Canada's loss in the Nations League Final. D…
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In a solo effort this week, James is joined by the CanPL.ca's Benedict Rhodes to talk about Olivia Smith, the CanWNT roster, CanPL u21 minutes and to wrap up the FIFa u20 men's World Cup.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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James and Duane celebrate the Canadian under 20 women's qualification to the World Cup, but ask what needs to happen to make them competitive at that World Cup. They also wonder why there isn't a women's Canadian Championship yet as they review the men's event with a look at what young players stood out this year.…
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Duane is back this week and talking to James about the Canadian women's u20 qualifying tournament so far. The boys then lament Canada's struggles on the u20 men's side before getting into a discussion about youth dual nationals and asking how we can attract more people to watch League1 games.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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In this long-weekend edition of the podcast, James goes solo in a conversation with Quebec Soccer Magazine's editor Quentin Parisis about the development scene in Quebec. After that we get the thoughts of CanW20 coach Cindy Tye as we head into the final qualifying tournament for the 2024 FIFA Women's Under 20 World Cup. If you listen long enough yo…
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After a week off for Duane to go be cultured in Stratford, the boys are back discussion whether TFC is a good place for young players right now, the Quebec development situation, wU20 qualifying and the early trends in CanPL u21 minutes for 2023.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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James and Duane are joined by the voice of League1 Ontario, Pierce Lang, to talk about the state of L1O in 2023, it's importance to the game in this country and the role that it plays in women's development. after the interview, the guys look at Canada's dominate performance at the Concacaf qualifying tournament for the CanW20 World Cup tournament.…
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In this week's NextPod Duane and James are joined by AFTN.ca's Michael McCool to discuss TSS Rovers upset of Valour in the Votageurs Cup and the state of development in BC.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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In this week's NextPod, Duane and James preview the 2023 Canadian Premier league season, with an eye towards the u21 rule and by looking at the trends emerging in how players are coming into the league. They end the show with some thoughts on how they see the season playing out and we hear from several of the league's coaches on the prospects at th…
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In this week's NextPod James and Duane discuss the challenges faced by small teams in playing in the Canadian Championship and encourage listeners to support TSS Rover's ticket exchange -- get more information at https://www.tssfc.ca/. They talk aboiut the Hamilton United partnership with Forge FC, breakdown the Canadian GA Cup results and end the …
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In this week's NextPod. Duane and James go a little off-topic to discuss the Canadian men's national team's two wins during the international break. Don't worry though. They do work in a development angle, by asking when it's time to start looking at younger players on the senior national team. They then look at the first week of MLS Next Pro and s…
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In this week's NextPod Duane and James address rumours that TFC's Bob Bradley struggles to work with young players, we look at a couple signings to TFC2 and the choice those players made to go to MLS NextPro over CanPL before ending the show with a debate of what exactly the definition of "prospect" is.…
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In this week's NextPod Duane and James talk about the MLS NextPro schedule drop and some of the new rules that the league will be testing out this year. They take stock of the play of young players at the three Canadian MLS teams so far in 2023, discuss the Generation Adidas Cup and end with a discussion about the future plans of the Canadian Leagu…
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In this week's NextPod, Duane and James talk about the Leagues Cup and whether it might be an opportunity for young players to play, Kadin Chung's release from Toronto FC and immediate signing for Vancouver FC -- does his failure to stick in MLS hurt the CanPL? Finally, they chat about the value of MLS to CanPL loans.…
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In the first episode of NextPod, Duane and James look at the problems at the Canadian Soccer Association and how they might impact development, wrap up the Concacaf u17 men's qualifying tournament and talk about the three Canadian MLS teams approach to homegrown players.By Duane Rollins & James Grossi
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Qatar 2022 World Cup Final Preview Argentina vs France - Soccer Today with Kevin Laramee
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Join sports statistician and soccer expert Kevin Laramee as he breaks down all aspects of the Qatar 2022 World Cup Final between Lionel Messi's Argentina and Kylian Mbappé's France. Stats, standings, brackets, comparisons of offenses, defenses, starting XIs, and more! Who will stand in the confetti on Sunday? Kevin will be on CTV News Channel at 6:…
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Qatar 2022 World Cup Final Preview Argentina vs France - Soccer Today with Kevin Laramee
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Join sports statistician and soccer expert Kevin Laramee as he breaks down all aspects of the Qatar 2022 World Cup Final between Lionel Messi's Argentina and Kylian Mbappé's France. Stats, standings, brackets, comparisons of offenses, defenses, starting XIs, and more! Who will stand in the confetti on Sunday? Kevin will be on CTV News Channel at 6:…
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Argentina vs Croatia Preview - Soccer Today with Kevin Laramee
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High-quality recording of Kevin's Twitter SpacesBy Kevin Laramee
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Argentina vs Croatia Preview - Soccer Today with Kevin Laramee
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High-quality recording of Kevin's Twitter SpacesBy Kevin Laramee
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Qatar 2022 Quarterfinals Preview, Hazard Retires From Belgium, and Luis Enrique Quits - Soccer Today with KevLaramee
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In this episode, Kevin previews the Quarterfinals matchups with head-to-head records, stats, predictions, and a breakdown of what to expect Friday and Saturday. Plus, he gives his thoughts on Luis Enrique quitting Spain, and Eden Hazard retiring from international soccer. Catch Kevin’s latest articles on soccertoday.ca Subscribe to Soccer Today’s c…
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Qatar 2022 Quarterfinals Preview, Hazard Retires From Belgium, and Luis Enrique Quits - Soccer Today with KevLaramee
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In this episode, Kevin previews the Quarterfinals matchups with head-to-head records, stats, predictions, and a breakdown of what to expect Friday and Saturday. Plus, he gives his thoughts on Luis Enrique quitting Spain, and Eden Hazard retiring from international soccer. Catch Kevin’s latest articles on soccertoday.ca Subscribe to Soccer Today’s c…
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Nancy Leaves Montreal for Columbus, Who's the Number 1 Candidate to Replace Him, Koné to Watford & Johnston to Celtic - Soccer Today
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In this episode, Kevin talks about Wilfried Nancy leaving CF Montreal for the Columbus Crew, a certain timeline of some events that have happened, and a context on the last few months in Montreal soccer. Then, he looks at 2 potential candidates, a pragmatic/realistic choice, and a fantasy choice, and argues why he believes his pragmatic choice is a…
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Nancy Leaves Montreal for Columbus, Who's the Number 1 Candidate to Replace Him, Koné to Watford & Johnston to Celtic - Soccer Today
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In this episode, Kevin talks about Wilfried Nancy leaving CF Montreal for the Columbus Crew, a certain timeline of some events that have happened, and a context on the last few months in Montreal soccer. Then, he looks at 2 potential candidates, a pragmatic/realistic choice, and a fantasy choice, and argues why he believes his pragmatic choice is a…
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