yes,she is zealand's sofia vergara

All the presenters looked great, with their tailor-made suits and immaculate hair. Zealand looked like he came straight from a twitch session... which is true!

I always used to feel bad for Bradley Wright-Phillips because he was always used as the example of how bad the MLS was "Well, if Bradley Wright-Phillips can go there and score a load of goals, then anyone can" - and he even called himself a mediocre player in this interview.

Hahaha Wright-Phillips' response to you saying "pro-rel" was exactly the same as mine - that's so American!

It’s weird watching an American, addressing his demographic of viewers as British, because even a lot of British creators don’t address the British and Americanise everything. It’s nice!

I love that Zealand is getting all these opportunities to make these kinds of videos for us

Glad to see Bradley Wright-Phillips doing so well, and that he's had such a good career over in the USA. Met him 12 years ago when he was playing for my club Charlton; one of the nicest footballers I've ever met

Kevin (Patrick) Egan! I'll miss him in the WWE, though he wasn't super good in commentary. Nice to see him broadcasting for the MLS

As an MLS fan, I can’t believe you got to interview those people, that’s so awesome! I love the MLS

You should think about going to a USL game as well. They are thinking of doing pro/rel and are waiting for mid-season to come to a vote. Let's get the rest of the country represented!

Kevin Egan with the most slippery answer i've ever heard lmao.

It's awesome that you're getting the opportunities to do this kind of thing. Also as a Coloradan I love the Buffs gear!

Love seeing Patrick Egan in the MLS! Also, what was discussed from 9:20 sounds highly interesting! I'm in for that!

I mean this in the nicest way Zealand you got to figure out something with the hair lol.

Look at my boy! So proud of Zealand.

Nice to see Kevin (Patrick) after his time in wwe 2:08

The set is nice, wish they used it during pre-game more

I love how you address this topic with such honesty.

Brilliant video mate!

Really good content man

America should absolutely believe they can win the World Cup They probably can’t but that’s who they are, reckless optimism in the face of an impossible situation, it’s been good to see America taking it a bit more seriously

man i am so happy to see Z dojng well

Zealand was in love with the Latina hahahahahahahahah

Zealand and MLS crossover? Heck yes

Liam McHugh is the goat for NHL, might have to start watching

Zealand gonna be doing analysis on sky with Gary Neville soon

"It's unacceptable" is such a Bradley thing to say

This was great. Loved it

This was a really cool video Z, it's awesome you're getting more opportunities like this. Just wanted to address the "best league in the world" question. I don't think MLS should care about it. I think they need to focus on becoming an indispensable part of the global game by producing young talent, and using the money from their sales to further improve the youth system. You have to build from a foundation. It's my opinion that the Dutch/Portuguese model should be the ultimate goal for MLS. I don't think those leagues are concerning themselves about toppling the Premier League or LaLiga; they don't need to. So many talented players are developed from these leagues and any top club would be foolish to not recruit from them. They have an infrastructure in place that allows them to recruit and develop young talent, provide them with quality competition/experience, and hopefully move them on to the top leagues and get a lot of money from their sales, so they can keep the process going. They also provide incentive for older players who are past their prime, or good-but-not-great players because they still get the chance to play in top continental competitions. The MLS needs to focus on making itself a vital part of the bigger picture, not trying to stand out from it. Coming from an American, it's such an American way of looking at things lol. "If you can't get to the top, why bother?" I think it's the wrong approach, and will always lead to disappointment.

4:44 What's more, Almada literally became a world champion with Argentina! He played just a few minutes throughout the tournament, that's true, but still... 😅

These people seem great fun lol

Kevin Egan gave the best answer to the football/soccer question mentioning Calcio... I'm settled.

god i love liam mchugh (i swear im not biased as someone also named liam)

I love football. I love watching football. I really want to try and watch MLS this upcoming season. I’ve tried a couple of times to get into it but hoping it’ll stick this time. I think it would help if I could watch it with commentary in English. Hearing a penalty being referred to as a “peekay” or attacking being referred to as “offense” was just too difficult. Maybe one day!

Mayor League Football ⚽️

Zeelands going places. Well done mate, great little video. Are Americans actually becoming football fans or is it still looked down on? Really interested to know how the everyday people think of football over there

To be fair their hasn't been too many Almirón. Don't really watch mls but I'm glad to see them growing

I gotta love how everyone pretends the MLS isn't a Retirement league when so many of the best players are 30+. Best way to describe the league is a Retirement and Developmental League where older players come to enjoy their sunset years and young players come to learn from those players and market themselves.

BWP was awesome at Charlton, glad to see he is getting credit in America.

Interesting seeing you in a Buff's sweatshirt. Go Rams!!!

Antonella, you can be whatever you like, I'm happy. I've never seen her before, but she seems funny, bright and sharp, and is absolutely stunning.

Bradley was spitting 😭😭👏🏾

Thanks for dressing up for the occasion Zealand😆

"I believe that we will win" is hilarious

They gotta hire you

Z, any training tips, I'm still using the ones you recommended in 2021. Thank you in advance

I use both depending on who I'm talking to

ITS FOOTBALL!! end of! Had e ough of this debate 🤣

I have to ask, Z was this a last minute thing cause why did you wear the sweatshirt? Didn’t you go to UVA?

Go Buffs!

BWP is the player that made me stop thinking about MLS as a retirement league, tbf. A good Championship striker at like, 27/28, hitting his peak, going to America? That changed my mind about it big time.

Great video, but it only serves to reinforce to me that out boy Zealand has a GIGAHEAD.

Man, the profile shot is really doing Zealand's Vegeta-esque hairdo no service.

Liam McHugh is a broadcasting legend and inspiration, way to go Z

BWP: "I used to play football. (Not that one)"

Kevin Egan is such a goat

I love mccugh miss Jim on nhl broadcasts

Curious as to why you chose to wear a Colorado sweater. What is the relevance of your apparel decision?

Sooooo Kevin Patrick or Kevin Egan?

Funny to see you handing a Lav mic to people already wearing lav mic's 🤣

Pro rel....😂

Unacceptable made me laugh

I like to meet people in the middle and call it soccerball

well done for dressing up Z

Yes.

Having a sin-bin box in an european stadion is asking for trouble. That american commentator needs to come over for one of the derbies, even the police do not want to be close to some of the stands. :) Same would go for South America I guess.

Shoulda asked about the Open Cup.

Since anglophones aren't adult enough to decide by themselves, I use soccer and american football.

Can you make a video about the biggest Asian football Derby "The Kolkata Derby" please 🙏

Why the Colorado sweatshirt? Laundry day?

I mean - i just went to MLS official page list of clubs - there were 10 clubs with FC letters, 1 with full worded "Football Club" and one with reversed CF. 12 in total. How much used SC? 2. So by MLS own claim - it's Football ;)

Embrace the bald dude. Embrace it

It's funny how Z doesn't know what to do with his hands.

MLS's first biggest mistake was chosing their naming convention after MLB. Major League Baseball is called that because historically there were multiple leagues for the sport that competed against each other and could be considered the top competitive level of the sport with lower leagues in the pyramid of professionalism with various levels of association with the Major Leagues (AAA, AA, A, Rookie, Negro, Independent etc.). In Fact MLB is still technically composed of two separate leagues the National League and the American League even though functionally the have been the same organization for 100+ years and the rules sets between the leagues have been completely identical since 2022 with the volume of inter-league games being increased since 2022. Major League Soccer is a singular organization formed all at once from teams that didn't really exist until the league was created, rather than a conglomeration of multiple leagues into a single joint league system. This essential misunderstanding of what makes MLB quintessentially American (aka competition) reveals that MLS wasn't trying to create an interesting and dynamic soccer league with American characteristics but rather a league that is solely seeking maximum profits over everything else. I understand why the chose "MLS" as the initials since there weren't many other options The NASL and USL had stints being associated with failure so they obviously were hesitant to go back to that well. National Soccer Association (NSA) or National Football Association (NFA) could have worked but unfortunately the United States already has a massive organization that goes by the NSA, and the NFA would have Americans confused because we don't call the round ball sport that here because of the popularity of American Football. Some arrangement of the words American, League, and Soccer could have worked but then your would either end up with ALS or ASL (American Sign Language). Honestly idk what I would have named the league if we were to go back to 1995, maybe American Championship Soccer (ACS)?

4:45 - whO? OLymPyCs????

I can't see MLS ever becoming the *best* league short of some tragedy happening to the European leagues. _Maybe_ top 5, but not anytime soon.

Zealand, football or soccer?

Did the open cup question get vetoed?

The biggest impediment for MLS to be the best league in the world is the salary limit. Currently it is just over 5 million per team, that is the floor for a player on any average team in Europe. Raising the salary limit of 30 teams to double, would only be 10 million, that is the tax that Barcelona pays for just one of its players. Multiplying that salary by 10 would be 50 million... it is the budget of a small team in Spain.... Distributing the budget among 30 teams greatly limits the economy and prevents any club from standing out, therefore, in order for them to compete in Europe, the salary limit must be raised to 200-250 million, which is what the NFL currently has.

The Brits invented the term "soccer". The fact that they pretend like its dead wrong is hilarious.

What a good video. Thanks. Zealand should dress up next time.

What's Sofía Vergara doing as a host?

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Wish we had those Spanish guys on the English broadcast. They seem to be so much more passionate.

Americans... Bless 🤪

Kevin Egen is very corporate MLS with his answers. :)

You’ll never be the best league in the world until you change it to a relegation/promotion system. That’s just a fact.

Z, your hair seems to be relegating... Some loans maybe?

When I think of america and american sports there mostly comes one thing to my mind: Do the USA make their shit different just for the sake of beeing different? Like to take the promotion/relegation example, like everywhere on the world pretty much every sport works that way, where you have the dream that in theory you could take your local amateur team up to the top league. In america you dont even have to think about that if you dont have 1 billion for a franchise. It always comes down to money money money instead of making it actually interesting. I could never watch a sport where my team would go "cmon lets lose the reast of the season so we have a better draft pick". MY TEAM LOSING ON PURPOSE - i could never see myself cheering for something like that.

No Matt Doyle 😭 💔

Blue card is a bad idea unless you change substitution rules.. you will end up with teams bringing in even more defensive minded players and it will be the nail on the coffin of the nr 10 and technical dribbly type of pure footballers.

Can the US win the world cup? Can the US be the best league in the world? These two questions are tied to the promotion and relegation question. I think the current system holds the league back (as does the way rosters are put together). You've got a closed system with no opportunity for progression or regression and no real stakes. You've produced a few decent players and look, anything is possible in tournament football but over the long term, if you want to be successful on a global level you need promotion and relegation and crucially you need to move the game from the suburbs to the streets. Of all the prominent sports in the US, basketball is probably the closest to football in terms of being a grassroots game. Football, like basketball, is a street game at heart. Also, Messi going to MLS was a big financial boon, sure and it got eyes on the league from around the world. But all that's really happened is that Messi's presence has exposed just how poor the league is. As amazing as Messi is, he shouldn't be able to just stroll through defences the way he has been. Finally, to round off my negative rant, "I believe that we will win" is a chant? Come on guys, do better. Throw in some swear words, rework the lyrics to a catchy song, imply that the opposition striker couldn't score with a hooker in Vegas. Get creative. Throw off the shackles on monotony and get rancid.

You should go to a few USL games. USL isn’t that good but for some reason it just feels more natural to me when watching it

I hate the "it's not soccer, it's football debate" because the Brits came up with the term Soccer. There's a reason it's Soccer in Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, and India (they're all former British colonies). Lastly, if it's "not soccer" then why is there a British show called "Soccer Saturday"?!?

MLS gets more mad at them for saying Open Cup

in England, a long long time ago, we used to say "a soccer" in referance to "an association rules" football game. as other forms of football died off around the turn of the 20th century, the term became less widely used. our culture evolved and by the time our expats were already using football as a generalised term for association rules games of 11v11. American eggball was named football because the egg is a foot long in length, and its barely even a ball. USA will never understand the culture round football in the rest of the world since you just dont have local teams that are deep routed into the community, i think you guys use college sports in a comparable way to how us Brits (specifically the English) use football to establish a sporting connection to the local area, which is just weird to the rest of the world. your country is so massive that for a pro/rel system to work, you'd pretty much have to have state championships at a lower tier of a football pyramid

MLF

29 teams is disgusting. Why not just have a 30th team

nooo zealand dont take that shit mls money

"I can't say football, because i am not English" Dude the whole world calls it football. I think this should be enough proof: US guys are not from this planet.