Alejandro Bedoya

Who was our first ever guest?

Alejandro Bedoya.

I didn't know you were my first guest then because I didn't do the Bedoya pod.

That's correct.

well.

moving away from fashion joseph remosif wants to know which union player current player or not has impacted your development the most

well kavin has impacted my development since i was what 10 but I'd say Alejandro Bedoya, for sure.

When I came into the team, obviously we know what Ali brings.

Quick note about the second team, right? I don't know if you guys saw the story today.

Alejandro Bedoya, uh, who is obviously a national team player, plays there.

During the World Cup, they were all given a couple of weeks off.

Cavan didn't want any, any time off.

Andre Blake's still here.

Who knows what happens with Alejandro Bedoya? His contract's up after this season.

Yeah.

Do they say, "You know what? We'll give you a deal for the, the sprint season"? Who knows? But this team's so different, but to still have a player like Andre Blake that's still been a one-man show, one-man club, I feel like that's gotta be pretty special for Mark McKenzie to come back to that familiarity with Andre still here.

Mm-hmm.

Do, we don't wanna do the Andre, I mean, Alejandro Bedoya thing.

No, no.

I think Giovanni Sakara's out of like-

... know how they feel about it, but yeah.

Um, okay, so we got a lot to talk about, especially the US Men's National Team, and we are very excited for it because Alejandro Bedoya, who has joined our family at Kickback, um, is gonna come join us.

He's been in camps himself.

He obviously is playing currently with three of the members that were called up, uh, for the first time, most notably Cavan Sullivan and Neil Pierre, and Frankie Westfield.

All right, well, let's dig into the biggest topic of the day, and let's start with the US Men's National Team roster release, the first camp post-World Cup.

And to do so, we have one of our own, uh, a member of Kickback here.

You know him as a USMNT player, Philadelphia Union player, and mainly the best player to ever come out of Boston College on the men's soccer side, with Alejandro Bedoya.

What's up, Ale?

Even though the results haven't been the best, I always feel the love from the fans when we walk out.

So you've only been here for a couple of months now, but you've already started to step into a leadership role alongside some players who have been here for a really long time, like Andre Blake, Alejandro Bedoya, Quinn Sullivan, Nathan Hariel.

What has it been like for you to start to step into that kind of role here, even after just a short time?

I mean, it's something I want to, but as a new player, it can be challenging as well, going into a new changing room and start dictating things or leading other players.

I think part of that's Quinn being on the team, like, knocking him down when he needs to.

I think a lot of that is what Philly has built, which is you've got the guys like Alejandro Bedoya and other pieces in that team who know to, to sort of welcome young players in, but also tell them to get in line when it's necessary.

And I think you see it in his game, which is he doesn't take extra touches.

He doesn't try and turn the game into his 1v1 situation.