PawedCast Episode 334: Orlando City News, OCB Stays Unbeaten, Academy Teams at Generation Adidas Cup, and More

Welcome to the first week of a new era for The Mane Land PawedCast, as we pivot to a twice-a-week system, and drop the Orlando Pride from this show. Our coverage of the NWSL side is being repackaged as its own dedicated podcast, which kicks off this week.

It was absolutely the wrong week to switch formats when you consider that Orlando City didn’t play this week and neither did the Pride, however, that was also the appeal of doing it this week. There were (and are) bound to be hiccups and so it’s better to have those when there’s less content.

The idea of the switch of this show is simple: our show is rather long for a weekly soccer podcast and it’s hard for listeners to find enough time to listen to them all the way through in one sitting. We can bring you more detail and still give listeners a more digestible show if we switch to two episodes per week. This is the first of the two you’ll get this week.

Since Orlando City was off, we opened the show with some information about our move from SBNation to our own independent site (we hope you like it), the launch of SkoPurp Soccer: An Orlando Pride PawedCast later this week, and the format change for this show. We also touched on some international news that affects one of the more prominent Lions, Facundo Torres.

With the senior Lions off, we went into much more detail in our analysis and recap of Orlando City B’s 2-0 win over Inter Miami II on Easter Sunday and discussed the honors that Favian Loyola captured after that win. We also discussed the OCSC academy teams at the Generation Adidas Cup tournament. Both the U-15 and U-17 squads had solid runs and were among the academy teams that impressed in the competition, along with the usual suspects (Philadelphia and FC Dallas, to name a couple).

And that’s our show. Remember, if there’s anything — and we do mean anything — you want us to address on the show, just ask us anything by tweeting it to us at @TheManeLand with the hashtag #AskTMLPC.

Stay safe and enjoy the show!

Here’s how No. 334 went down:

0:15 – Updates about the new format of this show, what to expect from the launch of SkoPurp Soccer: An Orlando Pride PawedCast later this week, and Facu has a new gaffer with Uruguay.

12:56 –A deep dive into OCB’s 2-0 win over Inter Miami II on Easter, with Lynn and Loyola handing the Herons an L.

25:34 – The OCSC Development Academy U-15 and U-17 squads did the club proud with their runs in the 2023 Generation Adidas Cup. The academy is on the right track, folks.