Soccer Down Here

Reaction Monday kicks off another week of SDH AM We go over the numbers and the sound from the loss in Chicago We hear from 929TheGame's Abe Gordon in Hour 1 We hear from Ronald Hernandez and head coach Ronny Deila as well In hour 2, we drift into "Soccer Is In Session" as we preview the Class 4A boys title game with Westminster's Scott Snyder and Marist's Micah Akin We wrap with your thoughts on the day's news out of Brazil

Welcome in for another edition of the Morning Espresso from the SDH Network, brought to you by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta's premier undergraduate learning experience and soccer powerhouse. Atlanta United came back to level their match at Soldier Field on Saturday, forcing an own goal, but then conceded a late winner to lose in Chicago. Go back and listen to the conversations I had with Ronny Deila and Ronald Hernandez after the match, the frustration is felt by everyone at the moment and they've got to find a way to turn that around quickly as they're next on the pitch in Austin on Wednesday (with gameday high temps set for 106) and back home to face Philadelphia on Saturday. Minnesota dealt Miami their 4th loss in their last 5 games, and barely had the ball in doing so. Danny Musovski in rarefied air for Seattle with goals in five straight games for the Sounders, scoring in their 3-1 win at Houston. NY Red Bulls defeated LA Galaxy 7-0 Saturday night, the worst ever loss for the Galaxy in their 30-year history. Vancouver, after their comeback 2-2 draw against LAFC last night, leads the Supporters' Shield race in MLS while Atlanta is in the bottom five in the league standings. A Classic El Clásico as Barcelona defeated Real Madrid for the fourth time this season, the first time that's been done since 1983. Madrid scored twice in the first 15 minutes through Kylian Mbappe, whose hat trick was wasted, but Barcelona had taken a 3-2 lead 20 minutes after his second goal and then added a 4th before halftime. The second half saw Mbappe complete his hat trick, a number of controversial referee decisions, and Barcelona celebrate essentially winning the league title as they only need one more point in their remaining matches. The managerial carousel is spinning in Madrid, as we expected. Fabrizio Romano reporting this morning that the deal is done for Xabi Alonso to join Real Madrid, and it will happen in time for the FIFA Club World Cup this summer. It will be a three-year contract. The semifinals are set in Mexico's Clausura as Club America will face Cruz Azul and Tigres will face Toluca. Alex Zendejas scored both goals in Las Aguilas win to set up another Mexico City derby, he has to be part of the USMNT this summer as he's had another strong season for Club America. Crazy scenes at the end of the Nottingham Forest 2-2 draw with Leicester as confusion over a late substitution and injury led to sort-of owner Evangelos Marinakis going out on the field and yelling at manager Nuno Espirito Santo. Bad look, but jumping to say that Nuno should resign over it was also over the top. Inter has cut Napoli's lead in Serie A down to one point after winning in a thunderstorm at Torino while Napoli was held to a draw by Genoa in Naples. Plenty more in the Espresso video and audio forms including my thoughts on the whistles at Trent Alexander-Arnold in Liverpool, the dangers of fan-led pitch invasions in celebration, and the risks of pregame and postgame social media trash talk from clubs. More Espresso tomorrow on the SDH Network, presented by our friends at Oglethorpe University.

Howard Hamilton, the creator of Soccermetrics, looks at Matchday four just past in the Copa Libertadores... The road teams had the day most of the time... Howard has your look back...

Studio analyst for MLS Season Pass/AppleTV Ozzie Alonso drops by to talk about Atlanta United at the one-third mark- with some conversations on how he would talk to them in the locker room Plus, his superlatives across the league one-third in

Beyond Goals Mentoring's Michael Parkhurst talks about the difficulties of turning negatives into positives- and staying positive. Plus the new soccer experience in Rhode Island and the latest with ATLUTD...

Freestyle Friday has guests to break down ATLUTD and the stories of soccer Beyond Goals Mentoring's Michael Parkhurst talks about the difficulties of turning negatives into positives- and staying positive. Plus the new soccer experience in Rhode Island and the latest with ATLUTD... AppleTV/MLS Season Pass studio analyst Ozzie Alonso looks at ATLUTD and his top stories from the first third of the season... We preview the weekend in MLS and overseas plus the GHSA semifinals results...

Presented by Kaiser Permanente It's the day for the boys semifinals in the GHSA We go over the girls semifinals scores from Thursday and have visits from Chad Griffin from Hebron Christian and Chaz Kicklighter from Tattnall County to find out about their seasons and their semis as well...

Welcome in for another edition of the Morning Espresso from the SDH Network, brought to you by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta's premier undergraduate learning experience and soccer powerhouse. It could be one of the most lucrative matches in the history of the game in the Europa League final as Manchester United will face Tottenham Hotspur with a Champions League spot on the line. The winner could earn over $130 million by being in next season's Champions League. For Spurs, it could mean Ange Postecoglu stays in his job as manager. For Ruben Amorim and Manchester United, it could mean they can go out in the transfer market and spend a bit while hopefully not having to lay anyone else off. In Spain on Sunday, the Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid could either essentially decide the title for Barca or open the door wide open against for Madrid to come back in the final three weeks of the season. The remaining schedule definitely favors Madrid, and a win would put them only one point behind Barcelona. In Portugal, if there is a winner between the eternal rivals Benfica and Sporting, that team will have the head-to-head tiebreaker in the league standings with one round of matches to go. Both teams are currently tied on points. A draw would make the final weekend very interesting with lots of scoreboard watching. In MLS this weekend, the big game is in Chester as 2nd-place Philadelphia hosts Eastern Conference leaders Columbus. Charlotte goes to Nashville, Austin goes to Cincinnati, and Miami travels to Minnesota. Sunday Night Soccer is a great one with Supporters' Shield leaders Vancouver hosting LAFC. We'll get the weekend started at Soldier Field as Atlanta United faces the Chicago Fire. Pregame coverage starts at 1:30 on 92.9 The Game with Abe Gordon and Madison Crews, Mike Conti and I will take over ahead of a 2:40pm kickoff. In girls high school soccer semifinals last night, we had both 3A semifinals on the SDH Network as Jefferson and Oconee County booked their spots in next week's final. Buford and Roswell have a chance to finish unbeaten as they advanced to their respective finals next week. Boys' high school semifinals tonight all over the state of Georgia before next week's championship game at three different sites.

Presented by Kaiser Permanente We have your girls brackets for the semis plus Metter HC Corey James talks boys semis vs Atkinson County Whitewater Girls HC Sean Estep talks the season and preps for Oconee County Jefferson Girls HC Molly McCarty talks about geometry and Cherokee Bluff

Sounder at Heart and Pulso Sports Niko Moreno drops by SDH AM for his Thursday spin around MLS and an Open Cup discussion in Tacoma We talk LAG, Seattle, Austin, Philly, Columbus, and the weekend that will be

GOLTV's Nino Torres comes fully loaded on SDH AM on Thursdays This time, we look at UCL and Inter's win We go to Portugal and talk about a big relegation battle We go to South America and talk about how things are out of hand in Peru

Chicago Fire play by play voice Max Anderson drops by SDH AM to talk about the first few months of the Gregg Berhalter Administration in Chicago previewing the ATLUTD match

A stacked Thursday Thoughts on SDH AM We go over the one cupset from last night in Open Cup Max Anderson, Chicago Fire PBP, joins for the opposition research for ATLUTD GOLTV's Nino Torres talks everything from UCL to South America and Portugal Pulso Sports/Sounder at Heart's Niko Moreno talks about MLS and Open Cup, in the review and the preview

The 3A girls semifinals take center stage on the SDH Network tonight as we'll have both matches available with radio calls starting at 6pm. Whitewater hosts back-to-back state champions Oconee County in Fayetteville while Jefferson hosts Cherokee Bluff. Go to soccerdownhere.net and click Listen, then select your match or bounce back and forth. Welcome in for another edition of the Morning Espresso from the SDH Network, brought to you by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta's premier undergraduate learning experience and soccer powerhouse. PSG has made their second Champions League final, defeating Arsenal 3-1 on aggregate, 2-1 yesterday in Paris. Luis Enrique has been the best manager in the world this season and he has remade this team in his image and achieved incredible success. They have to go through the 3-time champions Inter to lift the trophy, and remarkably, it's the first time these teams have ever met in official competition. The goalkeepers have been stars in the semifinals. Yann Sommer made a couple of mind-blowing saves on Lamine Yamal of Barcelona, Gianluigi Donnarumma turned into Superman as soon as he saw the English flag again and also stood on his head to lead PSG. I disagree with Mikel Arteta when he says that Arsenal were the better team in the competition, but I do think he's getting unfairly dragged in the media. He took a team without a healthy #9 as far as he could this season. They have to get that position right to compete with the best in England and in Europe. He's one of the best managers in the world today, give him the right squad to truly give him a chance to win a major trophy, I don't think he's had that yet and has done as much as he could. MLS won 15 of the 16 Round of 32 matches in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup over the past two days. The Pittsburgh Riverhounds needed a stoppage time goal to upset NYCFC to keep it from being a clean sweep. Philadelphia needed penalties to get past Indy Eleven, multiple games needed extra time, Austin was 2-0 down at home to El Paso but stormed back to win 3-2. Good news on the business front for MLS as well, their sponsorship revenues are up double digits in 2025 compared to the same timeframe in 2024. 5 clubs were named in Sportico's Most Valuable Soccer Clubs in the World's Top 20, with 19 clubs making the Top 50, the most of any league in the world. While revenues aren't matching the top European clubs at the moment, security of the format along with top-notch infrastructure and ownership collaboration and cooperation have given MLS clubs a strong floor from which to grow their valuations. Arsene Wenger made the news yesterday, saying that his proposed change to the offside rule is imminent. Based on the way these rules have been altered in the past, that's not true. The trials of the new rule (essentially going from if any part of the body is offside then it's an infraction to if any part of the body is onside then it's good, giving the attacker a body length) have not been successful and more are needed to see if this gives the attack too much of an advantage. I do believe that the rule needs to be tweaked in light of video replay being used, but more testing is needed rather than something rash. Plenty more in the video and podcast editions of the Espresso, please check them out. More to come tomorrow morning on the SDH Network.

Presented by Kaiser Permanente We look back at the quarterfinals matchups on the boys side and get you ready for the state semifinals on Thursday and Friday Heather Richardson, head girls coach at Social Circle Megan Hill, head girls coach at Buford and Aaron Paul, head boys coach at Morgan County all look at their classes and programs as parts head to the semis

MLSSoccer.com's Dylan Butler drops in to SDH AM With the season one-third done, we look at the surprises (VAN and LAG), and the tops of the conferences (PHI, CLB, MIA) and the chaos of places like SJ, ATX, FCD, and RBNY

Tyler Pilgrim from Scarves N Spikes drops by to talk about the draw at home by Atlanta United to Nashville and looking forward to Chicago Formations, personnel, and questions at this point of the season...

It's a Wall Pass Wednesday on SDH AM Tyler Pilgrim from Scarves N Spikes drops by for the hour one look at Atlanta United- looking past Nashville and into Chicago MLSSoccer.com's Dylan Butler breaks down the league We also look at Open Cup results and matchups plus your AM news

Lloyd Owers, Technical Director for the Marshall Islands Soccr Federation, visits from England to break down the news about the successful Kickstarter campaign to have an 11v11 tournament in Arkansas in the late summer

Tuesday Thoughts go worldwide on SDH AM Lloyd Owers, Technical Director for the Marshall Islands Soccr Federation, visits from England to break down the news about the successful Kickstarter campaign to have an 11v11 tournament in Arkansas in the late summer We also look at the week that was in MLS, preview Open Cup for tonight, and go through the AM news to start your day from overseas