Podcast #48: Austin FC’s First Designated Player, a Shirtless McConaughey, and Lionel Messi Walk Into Our Podcast

Show notes from Episode 48 of the Austin Anthem Podcast: The longest-running soccer podcast in Central Texas and your number one source for Austin FC, Austin Soccer Supporter, and Austin Community news.

Podcast Notes: Austin FC’s First Designated Player, a Shirtless McConaughey, and Lionel Messi Walk Into Our Podcast. August 27, 2020

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Massive news week! Austin FC signs Cecilio Dominguez, the club’s first DP. We talk to Roberto Rojas about it. We recap the supporter Q&A we had with Matthew McConaughey. Other news includes Messi leaving Barcelona, NWSL coming back, and we catch-up on world soccer.

Austin FC Updates

• Austin FC’s first Designated Player signing.
• Wishlist for other DPs
• MoC Meets with Supporters
• Stadium topped out

Anthem Updates / Upcoming Events

• Community Tifo Project. Swing by an announced pick-up spot or DiY your own piece of a tifo banner we’ll “quilt” it together from all the pieces.
• New merch available
• We’ve added the 100 year war verde t-shirt to our store.
• Also the new Grackle Drum t-shirt. — The MoC wants “More Drums in our stadium than any other in the world”, we’ll make sure that happens.
• Last but not least: Our new Verde “For Club. For City.” shirt. Nothing sums up what we’re about and what we suspect most of y’all listening are about as well. Representing the great city of Austin. Representing Austin FC.
• Also, after selling out, Little City Coffee is back in stock with new grackle mugs. $19.99 and next day delivery in Austin. They’ll even throw in a bag of Grackle blend.
• Circle Brewing also quickly running out of their limited edition Circle/Anthem gaiters. They’ll throw in a 6-pack of any of their beers and a $5 card for the Anthem store with one of those: $20 bucks! Great deal!
• Transit for Austin: Project Connect has been approved by the Austin City Council and the Capital Metro board and is headed to the November ballot. Critically for us, it would add a stop on the Red Line at McKalla. We’re super excited about this plan and look forward to sharing with everyone how they can get involved to get this long overdue investment in our city’s transit approved on the ballot. More people getting to the match in more ways will help reduce gameday traffic and put us on the path for a much more sustainable future.
• Josh from our org team was on the Glenn Davis Radio show again this week. Talking supporter culture and the new DP signing. If you missed it, you can catch Episode 52 online.

Major League Soccer

• Back to the actual season!
• St. Louis City SC name, branding discussion. St Louis FC folding in wake of MLS coming to town.
• Inter Miami first win and get it in #FloridaMan derby

NWSL Updates

• Players going to Europe: a one-off or a sign of things to come?
• No formal season… but they’ll be back with a fall series in September.

World Soccer Updates

• Champions League Final: Bayern 1, PSG 0
• A Canadian wins the Champions League before an American
• Europa League Final: Sevilla 3, Inter Milan 2
• Transfer rumor mill: Thiago Silva, Ben Chilwell, and Kai Havertz. Possible move for Jan Oblak. Thiago to Liverpool. Suarez to PSG? Sergio Aguero leaving Man City?
• Messi moving? Informed the club he wants out. He’s coming to Austin (wait! what?) To Manchester City to MLS?
• Gonzalo Higuain to Inter Miami? New coach Andrea Pirlo says that they’ve mutually agreed to move on from one another.

Interview

• Jorge Chavez interviewed our Paraguayan analyst Roberto Rojas of BeIN Sports about Cecilio Dominguez, Austin FC’s first Designated Player.

Wrap-up

• Our Spanish-language podcast has its own stream. Go to ElHimnoDeAustin.org or search “El Himno de Austin” on your favorite podcast app.
• 2020 Membership Kits and merch are on sale at the online store. Check out our new verde shirts and fall collection.
• Austin Anthem is the Supporters Group for Austin FC. If you’re not already a member, sign-up online at AustinAnthem.org. You can follow us on all the social networks at “AustinAnthem”
• 2020 Membership Kits and merch are on sale at the online store. http://store.austinanthem.org/
• Austin FC supporters can join the discussion in our Austin Anthem Grackle Nest Facebook group and the Austin FC reddit.
• The intro this week is by Austin Apologue.

• This week’s outro music is “Becca” by James Ethington III. You can learn more about James at `james.ethingtoniii’ on Facebook, ‘jamesdethington’ on Instagram, and find more of his music on Spotify.
• Being the live music capital, if you’d like to send us music to use in the pod or know some musicians who might be interested, drop us an email at podcast@austinanthem.org. We’d love to showcase more music and musicians to Austin soccer fans.
• The Austin Anthem podcast is recorded here in Austin, Texas. This episode was hosted by Conor Heferrnan and Jorge Chavez.
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