08/02/24: Team USA’s knockout quest

This is Early Kick Off from the Men in Blazers media network and presented by our great friends of the pod STōK Cold Brew Coffee, all your global football stories straight from the back pages of Europe's newspapers in around 10 minutes.

On today's episode: The USMNT face Morocco in their Olympic quarter-final on Friday; the USWNT take on Japan on Saturday in their first knockout game; former Leicester City manager Craig Shakespeare has passed away; Nico Williams stays put at Athletic Bilbao; midfielder Mikel Merino could be set to join Arsenal; and Lamine Yamal faces a dramatic teenage heartbreak.

Football don't sleep, and neither do we.

This episode was made in the UK for Men In Blazers by…

Host: Sammy James

Producer: Mikey Watson

Assistant producer: Elizabeth Barnard

Researcher: Jack Collins

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