on this beach today next to you here in manhattan beach right in los angeles is because of the power of the world cup and doors opened up on and off the field and that's why i hope twenty twenty six happens because i want some other players that we may not even heard of that's growing up the united states to get that opportunity and i milked it for all it was worth and had a blast doing it on and off the field i remember most of it not all of it i remember most of it it was great but ultimately i'm proud because i was part of a moment and a group of guys and just eight a revolution if you will that changed the way my country views soccer because it was the first time a lot of people ever saw soccer played at the highest level. in . central america the growth of panama and costa rica does that surprise you bearing in mind that in every region whether it be safe america europe or north america you have

the traditional big guns is that now being challenged by the smaller countries i think all over the world the smaller countries. are doing pretty well to organize themselves and be hard to play against and go into a qualification and go into tournament's with a real plan so. you don't see so many situations where teams are just getting along apart anymore i mean i think teams can hold together better and so that's the challenge to the to the top teams because if you're the better team on the day your ability to not only get control but to open teams up may chance to score goals. in germany still doesn't well that's one of the reasons that they're always in the top group. in other parts of the world you see you see challenges argentina's qualifying wasn't so easy so regardless of where you come from the challenge of. having a team that can step on the field and have real ideas and

a real sense of purpose and do it game in a game out that's still there for people to to work towards when jean foresee a time when the u.s. will get to semifinals finals and win the biggest trophy in the. again we have had occasional moments of reach and semifinals and finals but not consistently and so that climb to be in the top tier if you think about the men's international football. germany is always in the top tier i'll even say argentina and brazil are always in the top tier england has been then they're not even france even spain. you know the the achievement of spain to push into that group and stay there in this last period has been fantastic. there's no secret there it's work from bottom to top and top to bottom. the league has helped. you now see

a greater focus on youth development but i don't think that across all neighborhoods we're reaching out making sure all kids have opportunities in the game that the right ones are identified and push forward in the right ways that they get the enough of the right kind of training so i think we've got some decent starting points but across. the board in every way i think we just have to get better and you know that's that's no different than many other countries around the world you know the disappointment is. you almost can't put it into words it's it was expected because in this region some mexico really should be qualifying every time and it was the way we didn't qualify to go in the trinidad and to play with so little emotion. which is never something that we had a problem this is a surprise to you this is the big player in the rates among so many.

well only floyd not seriously i don't know i think they did because i think the they recognize that the region is getting better and some of the central american teams are getting better and they're getting better in great part because of the molest so many of their players play here. it's hard to put a finger on but there was just there's always been this grit with the national team that no matter what happens we'll fight through if there is a better team we can still be them and this team just didn't seem to have that especially in trinidad why i'm not sure but it is there's been finger pointing we just had an election today for a new u.s. soccer president leading up to that the rhetoric has just been believe a bull in some people wanting to blow everything up and start from scratch others realizing that it's not about blowing things up it's about finding what working and building on there and finding out what's not working and making sure that's better .

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a chance of course involved running manager of the newly formed los angeles hopeful cloak so much shot with one of two journalists about. of course the nineteen states men's national team not qualifying for the free world cup in the summer. to be joined by scott french of. skull first about the new road race why you finished playing fifteen years ago. aston villa diaby was on a pre-season. and we played the newly formed los angeles galaxy. six so the ground. must be quite noisy when you approach to a new quote by f.c. and see a burgeoning rivalry of the decades to come you know it is and what's really great is that the way l.a.s.u. has come out they're doing everything right they they're building an organization that's meant to last as we had another team here just a few years ago chivas usa which was built in the way you do. don't want to build

a club and so what did i do wrong in your opinion. one they didn't look at the marketplace and understand what it was that they should be doing the they really targeted one club a lot of the harra and that takes half the mexicans in los angeles out of it because they're rooting for america they didn't put a lot of money into the team itself it was it was an affiliate of guadalajara that they didn't care a lot about aliyev see has real money behind it it's got people who really care behind it and they've just gone out and been first class all the way. in the united states and i shouldn't. move forward absolutely but one thing that i think that a lot of the world doesn't understand is that the u.s. is a soccer and yes and. it's just that not everyone necessarily follows the same thing some people follow him unless some follow e.p.l. some watch just the world cup some follow the mexican league so you've got all

these diverse interests and the number of soccer fans here is a minute so i would i would estimate it's probably somewhere around fifty million people who actually follow soccer regularly and that's a population of a lot of these countries there is a need for us to come together and to figure out what's the best way as a nation to go forward and it's difficult when you're as big as we are and stylistically the game is played so differently on the east coast and it is over here and figuring out how to how to bridge all these things together it's a tough tough thing i don't have the answers i'm hoping that someone smarter than me does america is a soccer country america has a soccer culture and america has a soccer history the american soccer community is passionate it's discerning. i think it's one of the most educated it has to be because the inevitable compare and contrast with the rest of the world and i think to have that moment in two thousand and twenty six to say wow ninety four was great but you ain't seen nothing yet and i think it will be a wonderful place not just domestically for people to celebrate what soccer is.

become but internationally for everybody to come and to see how our country has changed over that twenty years how our culture is changed over the twenty some years and really celebrate a game that is in my estimation as american as football as baseball as hockey as basketball as anything that we have a. son in the early years growth followed by decline growth and decline a little bit of figuring out things the real turning point was david beckham coming here you know from that point on this league has been growing from string to string back and brought a lot of lot of attention to the league from elsewhere he also made players around the world say whom you know this is something to look at and m.l.s. is of all from there you know the bringing up of the targeted allocation money that they've got now some of the me mechanisms to build rosters they've gone out and they're bringing in really good young players especially from south america it's becoming a league that players want to come and play and because it's a great lifestyle here it's a good league it's

a competitive league the worst team in this league can beat the best team in this league on any day. if there was one moment he could buckle on the pitch off the pitch pre-match. view into eternity a world cup finals tournament what would it be. well for me it was. in two thousand and south africa you know we all talked about getting out of the group. in the third bunch against algeria landon's goal we had pushed through the whole game we had some things go against us in that group but we never stopped pushing and when he scored late the feeling that we shared on the field knowing that we had won our group that was very very special and you know that part of representing your country knowing how many people at home are going crazy at that moment because you. accomplished something as a team that they all have been part. thank you very much for joining me on the stan

collymore show a fantastic. good thank you very much thank you. and on the pitch or off the pitch in nine hundred ninety four. one thing. push the law is what i will cook was for you as an individual so you could be on the pitch or up to. a two things number one just to illustrate how focused and how. insulated you are in a world cup a couple years ago i was sitting around with some guys in one thousand and four and they started talking about things that they remember and some of them brought up the fact. this and i said what i know about and rechristened i remember that this is this this legend this political legend and this is this this international legend and they started talking about it and now in the recesses of your mind starts to come back and reconsider who was vital in terms of getting the world cup

to the united states in ninety four in the silverdome in detroit which is by way ten minutes away from where i grew up grew up so was full circle he came into the locker room and shook everybody's hand and these memories started flooding back and i was also focus of playing. exactly what i could about anybody remember that doc said it's good to meet you but i got to go out there faced with the other thing is and it's a little different than not remembering henry kissinger this one i do remember doing shots of tequila with the guys from metallica after the game against brazil. and that was fun that was a good. salute privily fifteen twenty minutes to change you can see the passion coming from every pool it also gives a wonderful excuse to come see. the redhead to the beach and he decided to wear jeans and a long shirt i mean man oh man. so much better it's all right to see. you . we've got

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that. russia's top diplomats accuses the u.k. of violating international law by refusing to cooperate with law school in the case of the former russian double agent poisoned in britain. meanwhile blatant russianness on an article some of the talking points being used by britain and its allies to blame the kremlin on poisoning exploit. his daughter. also ahead on the program this hour more than thirteen dollars in civilians mileage to flee syria's eastern in the largest of like. you ation from the earliest since militants took control there. with russia's presidential election fast approaching r t takes a look at how international media outlets are covering the campaign if they live

the same rigorous standards they would in their home country. one minute past midday here in the russian capital on friday march the sixteenth my name's you know male welcome to r.t. international our top story russia's top diplomat is accusing the u.k. of breaching the chemical weapons convention by refusing to cooperate with russia in the investigation into the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter with the story. the media conference was about some very serious matters that how to do with syria but. longest and most emotional answer was to my question about something that worries everyone

around the world the screwball poisoning scandal and all the international reaction that we've been getting to it in the last few days the top diplomat of russia began with saying some very critical things about the most influential news organizations in the west he said that basically they abandoned the standards of journalism and reduced their coverage of the story to two elements saying that the likes of u.s. president donald trump his french counterpart emmanuel macron and german chancellor angela merkel teaming up with to resume a condemning russia for being quote highly likely responsible for the attempted murder of mr scrape all the second element according to. saying that moscow denies it all while the russian top diplomat went on to say that all these media are failing to report on the fact that the investigation is still on go

and no specific results have been announced the fact that the u.k. government isn't being transparent enough and is refusing to grant access to elements of this probe even to the m.p.'s who are from the opposition and also refusing to cooperate with russia on many matters in this case. russia has requested the substance london has been handed over to moscow as per the chemical weapons convention ratified by russia and the u.k. so the fact that london told us bluntly that the u.k. won't talk with russia is a clear violation of the convention which sais that before a state can act in any way it is obliged to get in touch directly with a country which it suspects is the origin of a given toxic agent as a result of the attempted murder with the use of a nerve agent which is still being investigated where remember that london decided

to expel a large number of russian embassy diplomats from britain and the u.k. secretary of defense had some very nasty things to say about moscow when he was asked about russia's possible reaction to it well my second question for certain was whether he remembers when was the last time when a high ranking official of such a level addressed russia like that is absolutely atrocious treacherous and outrageous what russia to it and sold we have responded to thought country russia should go away churchill was a terrorist a liberal. we don't even pay a ten. to things like this anymore. the defense secretary seems to be a nice young man brutally how he wants to be remembered in the history books with

them recorded reports subaru probably works as a creation of something you know what you will i don't know judging by the fact that the russian foreign minister already had promised that moscow would expel british diplomats from russia and retaliation we understand that in the coming days things could only get worse. while prime minister treason here earlier threatened more sanctions against russia over the poisoning incident here's a look at some of the evidence being targeted so far. i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and that's something by the way in the kind of smug sarcastic response that we've heard from the russians that to me but tokens that indicates their fundamental guilt. france shares britain's assessment that there is no other plausible explanation and

reiterate its solidarity with its ally. this is not an isolated incident russia failed to ensure syria store it is chemical weapons programs. the attack console screen has taken place against the backdrop of a reckless at them of russian behavior. over many years russia these cells bury poison everyone seems to have made up their minds and the u.k.'s foreign secretary was blodgett inventive stereotypes in its blatant russian this the nerve agent sends a signal to all who may be thinking of descents in the intensifying repression of putin's russia nobody chalk the new noxious scare a nerve agent with obvious russian s. the chemicals even being featured in a t.v. spy thriller in a standoff between the u.k. agents and russians the show is marketed using the slogan diplomacy is overrated.

sleep about some. gas that was undetectable like a truck through it. is a coincidence. this is. the first. for us again we're off to be taking another tour for ourselves t.v. and cinema have made the. secret service is poisoning people plot an international feature after all even the most british of all agents james bond has also found himself amid some talks and driven storylines. so are we having a case of blatant bond business here but this is of course all fiction it didn't

happen in reality you avoid the culprits with the tainted record the one that stands out is the cia one of the key targets cuba has of late come undone t. fidel castro among the hundreds of alleged assassination attempts were cigars laced with poison and a contaminated pen so could these cells brew poisoning be blatant americanness one could stretch this logic beyond any reason and say for example the u.k. has been honing it skills in the death by chemicals business since shakespeare's macbeth busted blatant englishness the cia james bond shakespeare one thing all of my theories have in common is an insane age of conspiracy we're not taking them seriously neither should anyone but when it comes to russia and proof well we've already heard the d.n.a. arguments in the election meddling scandal but the story corps practices of the

russians who typically or most genetically driven to co-opt. perpetrate international law is being substituted for hashtags russia did it. highly likely. well we have been talking at length about the incident on the resulting buck clash with russia's ambassador to the pay the full interview which urged here later this hour. well the slew of allegations come just as russians prepare to go to the polls in sunday's presidential election our senior correspondent moroccans d. of looks at how public funded broadcasters in the west appear to be doing what russia has been accused of all along interfering goodness there's this russia story keep going you go by what they say on t.v. russia has now meddled in to fear within the corrupted practically every single

letter of the us constitution and they expect more the threats not going to go away the russians about that so long to have a fully expect though continue to be out do you have concerns that they might try and interfere in the u.s. midterms which are coming of course a good thing the cia and watch putin now expect to taste his own medicine a little of uncle sam's own meddling woring been happening for years you'd never believe how obvious they are about it the u.s. government's own broadcasting board of governors its cold war offspring voice of america radio liberty current cetera these guys will apparently go pretty far to so mistrust among russians to cool presidential campaign isn't going and people are saying some stuff today is violent.