World Cup Final Groups: France, Norway & Dark Horses | Tyler Kern, Arman Kafai | Groups I-L Preview

Alright. Welcome in everyone to the third and final installment of the Sunset Soccer Club's World Cup previews. Today, we are doing groups I, j, k, and l, if I can remember my alphabet well enough. Welcome into the show. I'm Tyler Kern joined by Armand Kaffai. And we are breaking down the final four groups here in the World Cup. Coming up is starting later this week, so we're really cramming these in. We hope you have time to listen to this before the matches all start. But Arman, welcome. How you doing, man? I'm excited, man. I'm a little beat because I'm, you know, I'm actually not gonna be working for, a month, so I have to do a bunch of work. But it's super exciting. Right? We're two days well, when this comes out, I think we'll be a day away from the So World we are we're right there, guys. We made it. We survived. We made it. It's here. We've been looking forward to this for so so long, and now it's finally here. By the way, however you are enjoying this podcast, make sure to, you know, subscribe, stay up to date with the latest episodes, all the Give us a like. Give us a like or a a nice comment or something like that. Comment on Arman's hat or his jersey. Yeah. My hat is basically, like, cover on like, comment on my jersey is better. Yeah. Exactly. The hat's or the garbage background I have right now. Figure poison. Just whatever. If if this is an audio medium, then don't worry about the background. Regardless, we we are happy you are consuming this podcast however you are doing it. Look. There's so much to talk about in the world of soccer. We're not gonna get into Liverpool's new manager that can wait till after the World Cup. The US lost to Germany two to one in their final tune up match. I don't even think it's worth diving too too deep into that either, unless you have any massive thoughts about that, Arman. I thought The US looked great. So I kinda thought so too. I think the patterns look good, I think The US looked pretty strong. So, again, like we kinda talked about, these friendlies just don't take too much into them. Take away patterns of play and take away ideas. I think The US ideas are really sharp, especially with who we presume will be their first group, basically, maybe plus or minus two guys. So that's all it is, man. Like, I think they look good, so super excited. I'm with you. I thought they looked great. Also, I got a text from my always pessimistic uncle who lives up in New Jersey who said this team sucks, and so No. Is that a good or a bad thing? You know, I'm gonna call because I get litmus test. Like I'm gonna call I'm gonna call it a great thing. So that's The US. We don't need to dive too too deep into, that friendly. A lot of the same things that we kind of talked about from the previous ones. But let's get into this World Cup preview here starting with group I. Group I has France, Senegal, Iraq, and Norway in this group. A fun little group, honestly. Let's start off talking about France. Obviously, France is a powerhouse. I mean, they've made the last two finals. They won, two World Cups ago. They fell in just an epic match in 2022 in the final to Argentina. But they've made they've won this tournament twice. They've made the turn the final four times, and this is their seventh time seventeenth time to qualify. They're ranked third in the FIFA rankings in