Introduction

This is the Northern 90 Podcast with Pat Sweet, Episode 10.

Welcome to the Northern 90 Canadian Premier League Podcast, covering the beautiful game in the great white north. For more Canadian Premier League content, head over to Northern90.ca. That’s Northern Nine Zero dot ca.

Welcome

Hello, Canada, and welcome to the Northern 90 Canadian Premier League Podcast!

In today’s episode, I sit with the excellent Curtis Marshall of the A.F.C. Curtis YouTube channel to discuss the league’s top “under-the-radar” signings. As is usually the case, a minority of players get the majority of airtime, so we each chose a couple players from around the league who we thought fans should get excited about.

But before we get to the interview of course, we have this week’s CPL headlines.

News

In this week’s headlines:

  • In some very sad news, Marcel de Jong, widely regarded as one of the league’s top signings has sustained a season-ending injury. He suffered a ruptured achilles and underwent surgery to repair it.
    • My thoughts go out to you, Mr. de Jong, and to Pacific FC supporters everywhere.
    • On a more academic note, this is the kind of thing that, in a morbid kind of way, will be interesting to observe over the course of the season.
    • Obviously, I take no joy in ever seeing a player go down to injury, but it remains a factor in all sports, and it will be interesting to see how teams cope with this kind of thing, especially when key players are sidelined.
  • In more uplifting news, Canadian International Michael Petrasso has signed with Valour FC who was previously with the Montreal Impact. As I had predicted in one of my earlier episodes, coach Rob Gale is doing a great job of drawing on his experience as a former Canadian Youth National Team coach. Gale knows exactly what he’s getting with Petrasso, so this looks like it’s going to be a good fit for the club.
  • Finally, York9 FC announced that it will be playing its entire season out of the York Lions Stadium. Originally, the team was supposed to start games at Alumni Field and eventually move to York Lions Stadium, so this is good news in terms of continuity and the fan experience. The stadium will be one of the smaller ones in the league, but is modern, beautiful, and has a natural grass which is excellent.

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Next up, I speak with Curtis Marshall all about the league’s top under-the-radar signings to date.

The League’s Most Under-the-radar Signings

I recently caught up with Curtis Marshall of the excellent CPL YouTube channel called A.F.C. Curtis to discuss the players in the league that no one is talking about that we think everyone should be talking about. Curtis’ knowledge of the league and its players is second-to-none, and I think you’ll hear that come out during our conversation.

Without further adieu, here’s my conversation with Curtis Marshall.

What do you think?

If you’ve listened to the show, you know I love to hear from you guys. I’d love to know what you think of this deal. You can:

  • Leave a comment at northern90.ca/episode10
  • Write to me at pat at northern90.ca
  • Fire me a note on Twitter @northernninety

Next up, the mailbag.

Mailbag

Some great messages and ideas this week to share with you.

  • The venerable Jason Paul who co-hosts the Young Gaffers podcast wrote to share that he liked the last episode and to hear about the history behiond the Wanderers Grounds – thank you very much Mr. Paul.
  • There was some great feedback on the interviews with the fellas from Privateers 1882. Reddit users Ukie1978, t_bison, and feb914 all had feedback and suggestions. One common thread was to go a bit longer on the interviews, rather than the short clips, which I thought was a great idea, so thank you!
  • And one fan wrote to say that the show makes me sound like a regular Jeff Douglas, which is the highest praise I could possibly recieve. CBC listeners will understand the gravity of that compliment, so thanks so much for that!

Outroduction

That’s all we’ve got for the show today. Thanks again to Curtis for joining me for the show!

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Until then, have a great week.

 

Credits

Featured Image

Photo by Donnycocacola on Unsplash

Intro music

Move Like This by spinningmerkaba (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Texas Radio Fish, Alex Beroza, and Snowflake

Main Content Intro Music

260809 Funky Nurykabe by spinningmerkaba (c) copyright 2010 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

Mailbag Music

I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: J Lang, Morusque

Outro music

Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) by spinningmerkaba (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Morusque, Jeris, CSoul, Alex Beroza