The AFTN Soccer Show Episode May 21, 2025

Episode 672 – The AFTN Soccer Show (Glad All Over – Whitecaps draw in Austin, Bjorn Inge Utvik, Can Champ preview, troubled times for BC’s CPL sides, FIFA Congress)

10:59pm - 1:55am

We’re back with another AFTN Soccer Show packed full of Vancouver Whitecaps, Major League Soccer, Canadian Championship, Canadian Premier League, and general football chat.

The Whitecaps put in their worst performance of the season, but still came away with a battling point in a scoreless draw down in Austin. We delve into the main talking points coming away from a match that was an off day for many and unfortunately all in the same game. A mere blip or some cause for concern that the brutal schedule is catching up with the ‘Caps ahead of their CONCACAF Champions Cup final?

That schedule continues apace as the ‘Caps kick off their quest for a Canadian Championship fourpeat in Winnipeg. We preview the Valour game and hear from their head coach Phillip Dos Santos. Plus we sit down for a chat with the man whose penalty in last year’s Voyageurs Cup final clinched the vital victory that set up this year’s historic Champions Cup run, Bjorn Inge Utvik. We chat with Bjorn about that spot kick, the tournament, the cup run, having a fellow Scandinavian as head coach, and life in Vancouver.

Plus we round up all the week’s action in MLS and the CPL, look at the FIFA Congress coming to Vancouver next year, and music-wise Scottish band Baby Chaos continue their residency as our Album of the Month, we’ve a Britpop classic from Pulp, and we celebrate Crystal Palace’s historic and joy-inducing FA Cup win in Wavelength.

Track Listing:

Away From The Numbers
Sarah Jickling · None
Go To Hell
Baby Chaos · Safe Sex, Designer Drugs, and the Death of Rock and Roll
Common People
Pulp · Different Class
OMG (One More Game)
Doc Brown · None
Away From The Numbers
Sarah Jickling · None