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- [Claudio] How far are we, sir?

- [Driver] Um, two or three blocks.

- [Claudio] Expectations are big,

you know, it's a challenge.

If, if you can't deal with it,

then this isn't the club, you know.

(dramatic music)

There's no book you can go to, to say,

okay, how do you manufacture

an identity or a purpose?

They're here to succeed.

(crowd cheering)

- [Crowd] NYC, NYC, NYC!

- I'm an American. - So what?

- I'm not saying, you can't watch soccer.

I'm saying it stinks on ice.

What are you doing watching it?

- If nobody wants to see it,

why it's the most popular sport in the world?

- I'm talking about MLS soccer,

specifically the New York City Football Club.

Manchester City and the Yankees coming together.

$100 million entry fee.

That's a big number.

- We have to ask the five boroughs

what they want on the badge to represent them.

- We have the Yankees, who are always competitive.

Um, I think it's a great partnership.

That's a huge move for the MLS.

The MLS doesn't have a big

national media contract right now.

It's tiny.

- [Reporter] First employee and it's not really a surprise,

just when you look at the resume.

Claudio Reyna is gonna be

the Director of Football Operations.

Four World Cups.

He was called to 111 caps with the US national team.

And guess what?

Four seasons with Manchester City.

- There is so much talent

in New York City that I believe in.

For so many years, soccer has been

sort of trying to be relevant in the US.

And you can feel that it's coming.

As a player, he was the first

to score 100 league goals.

He was the youngest ever active MLS coach.

He took RSL to their first ever MLS Cup in 2009.

I would like to formally present

our first head coach

of New York City Football Club, Jason Kreis.

(crowd applauds)

- I wanna win.

I wanna represent this club the way

that I know it deserves to be represented.

- Jason, welcome to New York.

Just wanted to know why the team hasn't won any games yet.

(crowd laughs)

Like I said, welcome to New York.

- I think he really has a chance of success.

You have a very ethnically diverse population here.

Soccer should be a successful sport here.

And if it succeeds, it could be a catalyst

to really help the MLS for the first time

become a major sport in the United States.

- [Jason] I'm anxious.

I'm anxious, I'm nervous.

Seems like I wake up every single morning

thinking about how we can get more players

and where we can find these players.

- Hi. - Hi.

- [Jason] Good to see you.

- Coach. - Hiya.

- How are you? - Good.

- Good to see you. - What's up, man?

How are you? - How are you doing?

Good? - Very nice.

- You okay?

- [Jason] Good to see you, yeah.

- Good trip?

- [Jason] Yeah.

- [Brian] Talks are really progressing

well on David Villa.

- Okay.

- From Atletico Madrid.

- [Brian] Frank Lampard, from Chelsea.

- [Announcer] Lampard shot.

(crowd cheers) Oh, my goodness!

- Lampard, in particular, I mean,

he's very, very keen to be part of this project,

and he's a great professional,

I've known him since he was very, very young.

- [Man] I mean, he's Chelsea's

greatest ever player arguably.

- It's gonna be nice to go to see some

of these players and agents and say,

we actually have a player.

(men laughing)

We have some players.

You wanna come play with them?

- [Man] Yeah.

(crowd cheering) - Now, which way do we go,

straight?

- How are you guys doing? - Real good.

- Oh, that's good.

- Claudio, can I have a picture with you?

- Yeah, of course, yeah.

- [Man] It's not easy to be Claudio Reyna.

- Selfie!

(crowd chanting)

(crowd roars)

- Now, when was your last season here?

- 2007.

- '97?

- 2007. - 2007, I was gonna say.

Can't be right.

- [Jason] He wants to come to New York.

- Who does?

- The player that just entered the field.

- 26?

- Yeah, he used to play for England a bunch of times.

- You're scouting right now babe.

- Yeah.

(crowd cheers)

- Well, that was it.

You said it was coming, there it was.

- [Announcer] And Manchester City has done it.

Premier League Champions for 2013-2014, Manchester City.

(group applauds)

- I'm very proud of what's been accomplished

over the last six years.

But the challenge is now, the next six years.

We have to raise the bar.

What we're doing in New York is extremely exciting,

it's a totally different experience.

It's starting a new franchise from scratch.

We have to be the best club, not in England,

in Europe, here in Manchester.

We have to be the best club in MLS in New York.

We have to be the best club in Australia.

We have to create a global football platform

that no one else is doing.

We have to set the tone,

and we have to make people understand,

the world understand, that this is a new model,

and this is a successful model.

These are big expectations, and we can do it.

- [Son] Here it is,

all our names. - Nice.

Very nice.

- [Man] They love the football.

- Yeah, they do.

Don't you think it's even more

than American sports fans and American football?

- One guy starts to sing, and the whole stadium

follows suit, I can't figure how they do that.

- [Jason] We could've made the easy decision

to stay in Salt Lake, to continue to coach a team

that I was extremely familiar with.

We had said, you know what?

We're gonna do it differently this time.

We're gonna take that risk.

One of the biggest concerns and worries was,

am I gonna be able to work with,

big players, and big profiles and big personalities

like David Villa and Frank Lampard?

They need to be not only terrific players,

but guys that you can count on to lead the team,

to show the rest of the group

what it means to be a team member

and to hopefully help me to spread the message,

of those things down to the players.

(somber music)

(crowd cheers)

(dramatic music)

- [Translator] Be a founding member.

To be the first player for New York City Football Club.

(group laughs)

- [Reporter] The entire globe

gravitated today towards soccer.

- [Announcer] And Dempsey's scored

incredibly within seconds.

- USA won, they did it.

They did the impossible.

Getting Americans to watch soccer, that is.

- [Crowd] USA.

I believe that we will win.

I believe that we will win.

- This is bigger than a moment, it's a movement.

- [Reporter] Good old American grit

and guts, that underdog mentality.

- [Reporter] So the United States advances

even though there was a loss to Germany.

- [Reporter] The United States

was knocked out of the World Cup today

with a 2-1 loss to Belgium in extra time.

- You guys captured the hearts

and the imaginations of the whole country.

It was unbelievable.

- The sooner you place an installment,

the sooner you make the seat selection,

'cause it's based on when you became a founding member.

So, you have all the time until the end of August

to make a decision of where you wanna sit.

- Our parking, excuse me,

is for our premium locations,

and that includes Legends, Champions and Delta.

- Uh, and like I said, if there is anything

you need, I will be your contact here at the club.

- [Claudio] It was a story before and now,

now the story is coming to life.

You could start visualizing the team,

that's what I'm really sensing and feeling

from, you know, the people that I'm talking to

other clubs in MLS, coaches, friends of mine.

That it's starting to get real.

Hey, guys, it's me, yep.

- [Jason] Hello.

- [Claudio] Hey, what's up?

- [Jason] Hey, how are you?

- So I was gonna try to connect with Brian

before this call, but we didn't have

enough time, so I actually told him

if we can connect around 2:00, so--

(Jason laughs)

- You know, the idea of you guys

going down and seeing some players from Colombia,

and we were never presented these players, is crazy.

You know, I mean, that's not good,

especially when we have 24 slots to fill

and every position to fill, you know?

- So, they're saying if they don't recommend them,

they don't wanna chase up our recommendations?

- Wow.

I wanna also kinda find a solution,

because, you know, moving forward,

we need to know the best players down there.

- My dad is from Argentina, his passion is soccer.

So, from a young age, it's all I did,

and I played with him and my brother,

and you know, it was my love right from the beginning.

I was the weird kid who played soccer.

Can I jump in?

My mom and dad made the sacrifice

to give my brother and I a better life.

Yes! - Goal.

- 1-1.

We're gonna have to really earn New Yorkers' respect

to make sure that we show passion every time we play.

- [Announcer] And Yaya Toure and former teammate,

of course, shaking hands all smiles.

- Everton.

- And then they went away, so I had a period from,

you know, 1980, '81 till '96, 15 years,

there was no professional league in this country and so,

when FIFA brought the World Cup in '94,

part of the agreement was you have

to start a professional league

and grow the sport in this country.

It's definitely turned the corner, and it's here to stay.

- Well, actually you're the technical coordinator

and Oscar--

- [Ferran] The main difference between football

or soccer in the US and in Europe

is that they have a salary cap.

This means the maximum amount of money

that you can spend on the whole squad,

and this is about $3 million.

That means that a player would make 100, $200,000 a year,

while the players in Europe make two or $3 million a year.

There's only three exception.

Three, what they call, designated players

to whom you can pay as much as you want.

- Oh, that's a big deal.

- Yeah.

I apologize.

- The next slide is just target players.

Mikkel Diskerud, he's an American playing abroad

in Norway, a very good player.

He'll start today against Colombia.

He was, like, man of the match

for the US in the last two games.

He would be a big name here, for this market, there's a lot,

he's well-known in the US national team.

He's not a global star, but within the US, domestically,

he's very well-known, very well-liked,

and he is a very good player.

On the left are potential designated players.

- Well, I think, for this group it's worth spending

one minute on the financial repercussions

of the designated players.

As it is now, we have for the third DP,

one million, and if we have one of these guys,

it's gonna cost more than one million.

If we have another big star, which is not planned,

but if we decide, because it becomes available,

another big star, that would be

six million more in the budget.

The system has so many rules that makes it different

from everywhere else in the world.

And it works against inflation,

because teams do not compete against each other.

- [Claudio] Now there's guys that we have to go after

that are, you know, fit into our salary structure,

so there's probably 30 that just quickly

we can't even go after because,

kind of to Ferran's point earlier,

they're just too much money, they don't fit in.

(gentle music)

- [Jason] I have a very good understanding

of what I think about you, David, as a footballer.

But I'd like to know about you,

David Villa, as just a person.

- [Claudio] His father was a coal miner.

- Oh, wow.

My approach to the game, and my approach

to leading the team is one of flexibility,

so I like to hear other ways, and I like to hear feedback.

- [Claudio] I understand he's like,

an extended arm of you on the field.

Understand that we have to be examples of leaders, you know.

Me, you, Frank, him, always, no?

Coaches,

and within the group--

- Yeah, and he can't do that unless

he fully understands what I'm trying to say,

so he needs to be asking me all the time.

(dramatic music)

- [Claudio] Yeah, well we spoke to him for a while,

but reality is, he didn't,

he wanted to get to the World Cup.

A lot of work goes behind the scenes,

to do a deal like this, but at the end it's all about

bringing the player here to New York.

And we're really excited about Frank joining us.

- Oh, thank you guys. - Guys, wait.

We're gonna move everyone over there.

Frank's gonna participate in this.

We'll do one-on-one.

You can still talk to Claudio or Tim or whoever,

but you gotta go that way. - That way, right?

(crowd cheering)

- [Reporter] Big news!

David Villa, one of the greats

of Spanish football, would you believe it?

He's coming to Australia

to perform for 10 games in the A-League.

And this is part of the legacy that will be left

by Manchester City's purchase

of what is now Melbourne City.

(smooth jazz music)

- This is David Villa, one of our new players.

(crowd cheering)

- [Man] Good luck in New York, David.

- [David] Thank you.

(crowd cheers)

(crowd cheers)

- [] CC Sabathia is a soccer fan,

so here's Frank Lampard. - How you doing?

- New York City Football Club.

- Oh, yeah.

- Right from Chelsea, he's here.

- No, I'm excited, man,

this is-- - His fiance, Christina.

- First soccer game, I wanted to come out and support it.

- Just come watch us next year, then.

- Definitely, definitely.

- I'll see you the room.

- All right.

- [Frank] It wasn't a straightforward

answer for me, New York being my adventure

that I was signing up for.

Given the chance to come here,

prove a little point, maybe,

show that I can keep playing,

show that I can train and maybe play at this level.

It's an opportunity, I'm 36 years of age,

and just to get asked by Manchester City

was a big deal for me.

(crowd cheering)

(crowd chanting)

- First on top, and then second--

- [Announcer] The moment you have all been waiting for.

- [Announcer] It's our pleasure

to introduce to you

New York City FC first jersey,

one of the world's greatest soccer players,

and more importantly, New York City FC's first ever signing.

Please welcome World Cup winner, David Villa.

- [Man] Villa, Villa, Villa!

- [Announcer] Send it out there!

- Okay?

- [Crowd] Villa, Villa, Villa!

(dramatic music)

- You're taking your strong eight, moving him to a six.

- Eight is his strongest spot.

- I'm not arguing with that-- - I feel that, I think six

is probably his strongest spot.

- [Rob] Do you all mean Jacobson?

- [CJ] I'm not arguing Jacobson.

I'm arguing the fact-- - For us.

- That your next guy is your third or fourth, fourth guy,

and now he is going on that side of the diamond.

So, if we're saying Jacobson's our strongest point,

and he's gonna be the eighth,

and we're moving him.

- [Miles] Listen, I'm all for what the group decides,

I just stated my opinion.

- I think we're, maybe, completely discounting this,

this, what CJ has been trying to say,

which is, we're thin on MLS experience.

(dramatic music)

For me, it feels like a million-piece puzzle

and where you're not really quite sure

what's the first piece you should lay down.

- [Claudio] It's hard to always think

that there is an answer for everything.

It was all on paper.

So we didn't know until they started playing

and how they would gel together.

- We need to line up some trades, guys.

- I don't want to be rushed into making a bad decision

because I'm feeling pressure

on the international market, either.

I really don't.

- Does everybody understand

that there is a certain amount of time

that if we don't have the players signed,

they won't be there at pre-season,

because they have to get green cards

and visas and all this kind of stuff.

Okay. - Yeah.

- [Jason] All right, If we want him, then let's

have the conversation and see where it goes.

Chris, Jason.

- Jay. - Hey, man.

- [Chris] Hey, how are you?

- What the hell's going on over there?

- As you know, the same thing with Borchers,

you guys say what you wanna do,

I'm staying out of the way.

So, that's what I thought,

was that, you wanted to go to Toronto,

and so that means we're out.

- [Jason] Toronto, it sounds to me

like that's not gonna happen,

'cause Dell Loy is gonna block it.

The thing that Dell Loy can't block

is us taking you on expansion, unless he changes

his expansion list. - Exactly.

- There is a lot more backstory,

but I really can't give it to you, Chris.

- All righty, bye-bye.

Dell Loy is gonna, he's coming in now

and throwing his weight around.

So, if we take Wingert first, he's gonna protect Grabavoy.

Does anybody in the room wanna gamble

on the Wingert-Grabavoy situation?

- No. - No.

- [Man] Nope.

- [Jason] Okay.

(dramatic music)

- [Announcer] Today, we'll conduct

the 2014 MLS Expansion Draft,

which will feature our two newest teams,

Orlando City SC and New York City FC.

Orlando City has the first selection.

- [Man] Orlando City selects Donovan Ricketts.

- [Jason] New York City selects Ned Grabavoy.

- [Man] Real Salt Lake protects Carlos Salcedo.

- [Man] Orlando has chosen Tony Cascio

of Colorado Rapids, additional protected player.

- [Claudio] New York City selects Patrick Mullins,

Jason Hernandez, Tony Taylor,

Mehdi Ballouchy, Tommy McNamara.

- [Announcer] We now arrive to the tenth

and final round of this expansion draft.

- [Man] Orlando City selects Eric Gehrig from Columbus Crew.

- [Jason] It's tough, you know.

We are fucking flying.

- New York City selects Chris Wingert.

- [Announcer] For the tenth and final selection,

New York City has chosen Chris Wingert of Real Salt Lake.

And that will conclude the 2014 MLS Expansion Draft.

Good luck to all, and thank you.

(group chuckling)

- [Man] You guys did a good job, guys.

(group applauds)

- [Announcer] Can he kill this game off?

He pulls it back to Lampard.

Issue another cross, is met by a strong header.

Frank Lampard has scored from off the bench.

Finds Lampard, Lampard sets up the shots,

and Lampard gets City's second.

- [Claudio] There's two scenarios here.

Frank comes back from day one and is with us,

with the idea that he'd be here for the first game.

And the other scenario is the worst-case scenario,

is he comes in the summer.

We cheered early when he scored his goals,

and now I think (chuckles) we're hoping

he does well, but not too well.

- We're in a position now that we know

he has to stay in Manchester.

So, you know, we have to

confront the situation, and it's unfortunate,

but, at the end of the day, we're not here

for one season or three months,

we're here for, for a lifetime, right?

And as of March we will see when can we make the move

But most probably, at the end of the season.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean we were,

you know, we gotta ride this out a little bit.

It's gonna be negative back in New York, you know?

It was hard.

It was hard to take, and it was frustrating, and you know,

to kind of finally hear it, I guess, was tough.

- [Jason] I was really, really disappointed.

I felt like we were taking, literally,

the most important cog out of our team.

All of the decisions that we were making

were based on him being in the team.

(dramatic music)

- [Reporter] Every day, we keep hearing things

coming out from the Frank Lampard camp,

and it gets worse and worse by the day.

- [Reporter] As football fans,

who's your biggest Judas of your clan?

- [Man] Yo, Frank Lampard has a contract,

not with Manchester City, not with New York City,

with City Football Club,

which is the holding company for all three clubs.

- [Reporter] I think the damage has been done,

it's toxic right now.

- So, he is with our sister club basically,

he's gonna play in England for now.

- You're worried about the club, first and foremost,

and Frank's gonna be here, but players

are gonna come and go, management, employees.

- So the deal with the season tickets

is that you can transfer them two weeks before the game.

(whistle blowing)

- [Coach] Come on over.

- We're gonna need other players

to step up to fill Frank Lampard's shoes.

All right, guys, as you can see,

you've got a happy coaching staff in front of you, okay?

It's been a long time for myself

to be without a team to train,

so I'm extremely excited, I hope you guys are as well.

Everybody with Oscar to start, here we go.

(group claps)

- [Coach] Second one, the same level of the heat.

100%, almost 100%.

Faster, more frequency, each side, share the space.

Okay, change the position.

Work hard, you have to keep working hard!

Coming back! - Yes!

(team yelling)

(dramatic music)

- It's easier when you just pass it to me,

instead of coaching my foot.

- Switch it.

He's all the way down there?

- Right. - Talk to him, talk to him.

- One of you want to keep it--

- [Coach] Come on Conner, gotta get in.

- [Man] Oh, shit.

His head, his head, his head.

(player groans)

- Are you all right? (player groans)

- It's not my head, but it's fine.

- [Monica] You got an empty tummy, huh?

- [Baby] Daddy!

- [Monica] Did you say good morning to Jamesy?

- (laughs) Sit right here so you can see.

There's not a lot of kids in the team.

Just us and David. - Oh, I know.

I just wanted to know where Perkin and--

- (gasps) You stinker.

- Were you trying to sneak it in?

(baby laughs)

- [Ned] Being an older player,

I think my expectations, you know,

are probably different than some others.

You're building it from scratch.

Everyone's roles as a player and as a person

could be changing at the same time.

- [Coach] Get yourself going a little bit faster!

- You get three, four in a row couple of times,

you're gonna fucking win.

And if you're closest, even if you got three ties,

man, make the fucking play.

(speaking in foreign language)

(men laughing)

- Poku, Poku, Poku. (man whooping)

- Gentle. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- You're shaking the water everywhere.

Fuck, shit.

- [Kwadwo] (laughs) Sorry.

- North, Gijon.

Gijon city, small city.

In north, there's more coal in south--

- I guess.

- It is, yes, I know it is.

- Soorth or south?

- South.

- Ah, there you go. (men laugh)

- Good for your bones.

- [Jason] What's this idiot doing?

Not getting enough work, huh?

- Fucking Wingert.

- Yeah.

- [Player] This is crazy.

(upbeat music)

- The family that you belong to

as of now is called City Football.

This is a company that owns four football clubs.

New York City is the second club of the family

in terms of when it was acquired or founded.

And we own 80% of this.

The other 20% is owned

by the New York Yankees, the baseball team.

This is not a mini Manchester City.

This is a New York team based in New York,

that has to develop itself by its own means

but helped by this family.

The official language of this group

is not English, it is bad English.

So we accept any kind of English

with any accent, even a Scottish accent,

Spanish accent, whatever.

Yo, Tom, maybe you wanna address

some words to your guys?

- I'd just like to say hello.

I think, you know, it's a real privilege

to be able to build this club together

and to be the first team that will play

for New York City Football Club,

and looking forward to becoming New Yorkers with you guys.

- Hey, man. - Thanks again.

- I'm sorting all that out-- - Oh, take your time,

take your time. - So I'll come,

I'll text you, I'm coming for dinner tonight

at the hotel. - Oh, perfect.

- So, we'll see you tonight, all right?

- Yeah, yeah, It's all good.

It's all done.

- I appreciate it. - No problem.

- You see that, there are a lot of young boys,

they're all game.

- Yeah, it is a good, there's a good mixture of,

you know, senior players like Josh

and Ned and Chris and Josh Saunders.

- Yeah.

- And then, you know, kids who get drafted from college,

we got a couple of them,

Who just, they just want it, you know,

they just really, really want it, so.

Yeah, it's good, it's good.

- All right, I'm gonna head over there.

I'll, I might be coming for a bit of dinner later,

or I'll see you at the hotel. - Yeah, all right, cool.

- [Jason] It's gonna be different,

I think we talked about it last time in New York,

but I think one of the biggest differences for you

will be to see that there is actually some guys

that would be, over here, like in the EDS Squad.

But they're actually in our first squad,

and they have to be

because of the way our salary cap is set up

that we have to be developing players.

- But it's good that you get to see them, meet them,

you did the other day, that was good, you know?

The guys are, as you'll see already,

they're really easy,

they are excited, yeah. - The lads are great.

I know that it's about first impressions and stuff,

but I could see that there's that real keenness,

you know, to get started.

- [Jason] Not that you get to make the choice,

but I just wanna hear what your answer would be.

If you were the manager of your own self,

what formation and where would you play?

- I would play 4-3-3, and I'd have a holder.

Four, one holding, left and right,

myself being on the left and then I would play

one up front, two wide, the into out,

you know, lots of movement.

- [Jason] Well, I think the other thing

to start to think about is it's gonna be important,

and from my opinion, that you get a break

to just walk away from the game for a little bit,

you know, I think we have time.

- Considering I wanna hit the ground running,

in effect, I don't wanna be,

I would rather take less of a break and be ready and.

- Ah, let's get your shout.

- [Fan] NYC, baby!

- [Reporter] This will be very special

for you because you're half American, to be here in the MLS.

- Very, very special.

That's one of the reasons I wanted to come back here.

I haven't lived in the States, really, yet,

so this is a perfect opportunity

for me to get closer to my family

and see parts of the States I haven't seen before, so.

- [Fan] It's for his mother.

- How you doing? - How you doing, man?

I'm in the chapter, I'm president of the Bronx.

You guys ever want anything, come to Jimmy Ryan's.

I got you guys, all right?

Anything you want is on me. - That's perfect.

- [Player] That's so sweet.

- How can you have this before me?

- 'Cause I love you that much, man, I try to be like you.

You guys have no idea how much it means

to all of us in New York that you guys are playing for us.

Please, do a great job.

- [Mix] You want one of these?

- No.

- [Mix] You don't want one of these?

All right, what do you want then?

I'm gonna sign the ball.

- [Father] Give him the ball.

- [Mix] I'm gonna take the ball from you.

- [Fan] Finally, we have a real team here.

- Finally, finally. - Finally, can't wait.

- [Train Announcer] 183rd Street.

- [Andy] My father comes from South America,

from Ecuador, and he's always been huge on soccer.

- [Train Announcer] This is a Woodlawn bound four train.

- I am an American, so, once, you know,

they announced NYCFC, I knew that,

all right, this is a New York team.

This is who I am.

And this is the team that I wanna show my passion for.

What I dream about one day is to see soccer

be as big as it is in other countries.

I mean, we've got the people for it.

I mean, New York City has got, what, eight million people?

I'll get to say I've been here from the beginning.

And, you know, when I have kids,

and they have kids, they're gonna be able to say,

you know, a hundred years ago, my grandfather,

he actually started this chant.

- [Kwadwo] We're lost.

- [Kwame] You want me to look it up?

- [Kwadwo] Well, I wanna call my aunt, then.

(phone dialing)

- [Man on Phone] Hello?

- I'll text you that number in a moment,

that African restaurant.

(speaking in foreign language)

(car horns honking)

- [Kwadwo] Whoa!

- That's how in-- - New York.

- [Kwadwo] I know.

Right now, I feel like it's a dream coming true,

and it all started from where I started.

Trying to be, playing around these players,

it's really amazing.

'Cause I remember watching these guys,

like David playing in Barcelona

and now I can say, he's my teammate.

And I'm looking forward to, you know,

get to where they have been to.

I just needed a chance to prove myself that I can get there.

I just have to work hard.

(dramatic music)

(crowd yelling)

- It was something that's been, sort of,

eating at me through the entire pre-season, really.

Whether your system, the one that you

kind of walk into with and think is gonna be

the right one for the players, I just didn't know

if it was gonna work out.

Just be a little, err a little bit right now

on the defensive side of things.

And as we go along, we can start

to make more and more risks, yeah?

- Yeah, sounds good.

- I don't think we're quite ready

for as much rotation as we've been having

over the first two matches.

So, if you could try to sit more often.

- Okay.

- I expect to see a couple of shots today.

I expect to see a couple of shots.

You get in around the box.

You're not looking to pass off to anybody.

You take the responsibility, you score the goal.

- Come on, boys, let's get it done.

The first one to play on the kick-off,

you need to be rapid, you fucking press hard.

- [Man] It looks like they're gonna get out, foul.

- [Ned] Or be mentally into it, let's go, boys.

- Right here, nice and tight.

Nice and tight.

All right, boys, listen, listen, okay.

This is about attitude, first and foremost,

as we said today, and we said for the last week,

attitude and fucking effort.

First and foremost, yeah?

Can we continue to improve, huh?

And can we come together as a real fucking team, huh?

Starting to show that you're willing to do

anything necessary for the guy next to you.

Who's gonna be the fucking dick out here tonight?

Who's gonna be the dick, huh?

Yeah, hmm?

- [Man] One, two, three.

- [Team] Win, win, win!

Always win. - Always.

- [Man] Always, man.

(whistle blows)

- [Jason] Positive.

We're there, we're there.

Tighter, yep.

You're there, you're there, you're there!

Go, go!

(crowd cheering)

(player whooping)

Let's not make this something that it's not.

For me, the game comes down to,

a lot of times, momentum, okay?

Momentum.

Kaka is a problem.

He was a problem.

We didn't sort it out.

Let's communicate better and fix that.

We're gonna shift shapes, we're gonna go to Plan B,

as we were always going to.

You've got 15 to 20 minutes to now go

and chase this a little bit.

Do you see where Kaka is operating?

- Yeah.

- You see, he keeps dropping into this hole.

He's the one that's causing us a lot of troubles,

because we're not getting close enough to him, okay?

So, between the two of you,

we've gotta get that sorted out.

- [Announcer] It's Khiry Shelton with a chance, right?

I see a shot, and a goal!

1-1.

The man off the bench, the youngster,

the second overall pick from Oregon State, ties this one up.

(whistle blows)

- [Jason] It's been a game, Adrian,

I'm very impressed with the team.

- [Announcer] New York City FC, one.

- When we lose the ball, I want you to be there already

and I know you can get there, because you're strong,

you can make the ground quickly.

But I want you to be there already.

That's why I say quicker, you know?

- [Josh] You can't stop everything,

and I love the challenge of trying to stop everything.

I have played for 12 years.

I've seen a lot of things,

I have been through more than a lot of,

most of these other players have in their careers,

and I think that I can help this team become a champion.

- First, I feel like we've got a lot of individual needs

that we need to try to address moving forward

that I don't think will get addressed

if we just train everybody the same.

Ned, I think we need to be, we all need to be conscious

that this is a guy that will get injured every season,

for several weeks.

- I think he's just one of those hardheaded determined guys

I mean, who you want, but it's not always

in his best interest to not say anything.

- And with him, it's how you address him.

It's easier for me to go up to him and say,

hey, listen, this is what I'm seeing, you know?

- Poku, I want him to become something more,

and I think it starts with how much he can run.

- He's just built himself,

it's short, sharp bursts.

And he's not an aerobic machine by any means.

Can you improve that?

Of course you can.

I was preparing,

I began to prepare this meeting,

because you told me the other day,

and I stop because everybody needs, I don't even know.

It's for me, it's a lack of strength.

- Okay. - Totally agree.

- Some type of persistence.

- Okay.

- [Radio Host] Major League Soccer announced Wednesday,

they've partnered with British sports broadcaster,

Sky Sports to televise league matches live in the UK.

- We're getting more coverage there in pre-season

on Sky Sports than we do. - Yeah, it's so true.

And skysports.com.

- Interesting. - Wow.

- Interesting for the CBA talks.

- [Player] It might figure, then, a decent amount

of our games will be played over there.

- 2050? (chuckles)

- We could be more if the league was more.

You actually almost have to spend 50% of your time

growing the environment in which

you can then grow your club within.

- I know a lot of the owners.

They have experience in football, basketball.

They're used to player unions and giant expenses

and they see how it can just overwhelm you.

And this league for them was not about anything like that.

You've got to ally with those people

to get the guys who founded this league over the top.

(gentle music)

- [Jason] In some ways, you still don't know,

because, they say, that's the first real match.

That's the first time you're gonna put them

in front of more than 3,000, which was at Charleston.

You know, in front of 60,000,

you just don't know what that picture's gonna look like.

- So, right away, I say to myself,

this space between their top three and their back two,

they leave a lot of space here, okay?

So we need to, early in the game,

we need to get the ball to AJ,

we need to get the ball to Mix Diskerud to pull them up.

The other places, they are automatically weak

and they're leaving spaces here, okay?

And we know who's there, yeah?

David Villa is there, so let's find him.

I believe that we have a lot of good soccer players,

but I also believe that there is a little bit

of nuts and nastiness in this group, yeah?

David, you're a nasty fucker, too, sometimes, yeah?

(team laughs)

Okay, tomorrow, I want you to enjoy it,

and I want you to remember two things, okay?

If you give your best, do your best

and stay together, we're all happy.

You can always be proud, at the end of any day,

you can always look in the mirror and say,

I did my best.

I gave everything I had

and we stayed together as a group.

Second thing is, we've all fucking played hundreds,

if not thousands, of soccer games.

This is just a soccer game.

At the end of everything else,

60,000 people in the crowd

or fucking 600 people in the crowd.

It's just a fucking soccer game, okay?

(dramatic music)

- This is it. - This is it, man, wow.

- [Player] What's up, boys?

Let's find out a little bit about ourselves today!

All the hard work.

(team applauds)

(crowd cheering)

(whistle blows)

- Let 'em come to you, just stay.

- Yeah, we got 'em, we got 'em.

(crowd cheering) (whistle blows)

- [Announcer] Lewis Neal, left foot at Saunders,

head to Seb Hines.

Josh Saunders is down and hit his head on the post.

(dramatic music)

Brek Shea going down.

Referee coming out, interesting move.

Yellow card for embellishment.

(crowd cheers)

Lewis Neal back to Molino.

Oh, my God!

Plenty of fizz in that shot.

It's stinging the fingertips still,

watching him claw at the ball.

(whistle blows)

- [Man] Josh.

- [Josh] Ah, fuck off!

- [Player] Center back was coming at David really hard.

And just when he comes really hard,

just fuck, right behind him, make him play you behind.

Gotta keep that fucking zero, man.

- [Josh] As the game wears on, let's be smarter, all right?

Continue to talk to each other,

talk each other through the game.

- Okay, here's what I think.

The work rate, the commitment level,

defensive work, it's been great.

Absolutely fantastic, okay?

We're just getting a little bit caught up in the moment,

when we have the ball, that's carrying over

to what we are doing with the ball, okay?

Trust everybody.

Everybody, just take a breath, and realize

that you're in a very good spot, okay?

You're in a very good spot.

With the fucking wave of emotion,

a lot of stuff going on in the first half

and here we are, 0-0.

Go wherever you want, David.

Go wherever you want.

Find space.

- Mix, mix! - Mix!

(dramatic music)

- [Announcer] The open man, this is Mix Diskerud.

Manage checking some space, Villa,

now, Diskerud, Mix Diskerud with the curler

and he has put it in!

What a moment for NYCFC!

What a moment for Mix Diskerud!

(crowd cheering)

(fans cheering)

- [Commentator] Down a man, the momentum's

really been on New York's side.

- [Announcer] Well, they signed him

for moments like these, as we move into stoppage time.

(crowd cheers)

just the nick of time, Orlando level in stoppage time.

And they knew it was gonna take something

like that to beat Josh Saunders.

So, the tale of two cities ends all even, all square.

(crowd cheers)

- Everyone, thanks again for tuning in

to the NYCFC Fan Podcast.

I'm your host, Andres Emilio Soto.

You know, I didn't really follow the MLS.

But I learned about NYCFC coming to New York City

and I said, wait, is it really

gonna be in New York, or is it gonna be

somewhere outside of New York,

and still associated to New York?

But no, playing in the Yankee Stadium,

the one thing that connects most of the fans

is I guess the New York style of attitude.

We have attitude in New York.

We may hate each other

for different sports and different teams,

Jets and Giants, Knicks and Mets.

Mets and the Yankees.

But this is the only team that we can wrap each other

with in New York City and become one.

There's such a huge ethnicity in New York City.

From Africans to Europeans, Asians,

South Americans, Central Americans,

or just full-blown Americans that wanna love the game

and it just brought us together.

- And we learn very, very easily

that people were not asking to import soccer.

Soccer was in New York and we have

the opportunity to develop a platform.

A platform for newer soccer to flourish.

To unleash the power of New York soccer.

- Claudio, two questions.

Where do you see us?

What do you see today, the squad,

overall within MLS in terms of quality

of the squad and competitivity?

- [Claudio] I think we need a few more weeks

to really get a sense of the overall league.

If we position ourselves well in the middle of the year,

where we're at and add the right pieces,

we can have a good end of the season,

gain momentum into the playoffs.

Make the playoffs.

And the playoffs are a bit

of an anything happens situation here.

- [Man] Has David Villa been the right move

for us in terms of DP, you're happy with it?

- He's been great.

We've had, as I mentioned before,

some challenges, and he's never complained,

which has set the tone.

So, everyone really is following him.

- [Reporter] The first game, he had a difficult game.

- [Claudio] Yeah, yeah,

- [Man] He felt he was struggling to get into the game.

- But he did.

He struggles, the first to admit it,

the first half controlling the ball,

he was man-marked tight.

And it was, it wasn't so fluid as we, you know,

we're not that surprised with.

But he's certainly the leader of the team

and I just think it's a matter of time

that he'll start scoring goals.

- [Man] A violation it feels like, a violation,

like a minor venting, something.

- No, what's his name?

- [David] The new coach?

- Yeah, that was quick.

- Ah.

- [Jason] David is, every time I talk to him

and every time I'm around him,

and every time I see, kind of,

how he handles situations, he's very much like me.

The way that things affected me,

the way that I could be extremely emotional,

to getting aggravated if things aren't perfect.

- You have to pair, simple.

- [Jason] He wants those things to all be perfect right now.

But as I've told him, he and I don't have a choice.

- Allen! - Yeah?

- [Man] He's gonna play where Allen is.

- [Man] That's the one, that's the one.

- That game against the New England Revolution

takes place at 5:00 on a Sunday,

In Purchase, New York, Erin Clark, New York 1.

(dramatic music)

- We're all good, but, I mean, I just wanna win

because, it's the first game, really.

It just so happens to be against them.

I'd like to get a goal.

(crowd cheering)

- How are you, good? - Good.

- Did you step on me?

- Claudio, ready for business?

You ready?

- [Danielle] This is our son, Gio.

- How are you?

Excited?

So, come on, give me a prediction, score.

Don't, not in front of your dad.

Give me a score.

- 3-1.

- I'll take it. (laughs)

I'll take it.

Thank you very much for being part of the journey so far.

I know you guys, over the last

couple of months, have worked very hard.

But I want you, as you get on that pitch today, remember,

for the next 50 years in the history of this club,

you guys were in that first game,

that first historic game for New York City FC.

So, wish you all the best.

Good luck, make us proud,

make New York City proud.

And I look forward to a wonderful season

with all of you, thank you.

(team applauds)

- [Announcer] Welcome to, welcome to the clubs.

- [Fan] Brooklyn.

- [Fan] Queens, I'm here.

- [Fan] Manhattan, I'm here.

- [Fan] Staten Island, I'm here.

(speaking in foreign language)

- [Announcer] Welcome to the club.

- We'll have a friendly competition between the sports.

Always a little complicated around here,

but we get there in the end.

- Hands on the ball.

Just remember one thing, okay?

Remember one thing.

You will never get a chance,

you will never get another chance,

to make a first impression on your family, okay?

The people in the stands right now are our family, okay?

This is our home.

Nobody takes a fucking thing from us in our home, huh?

Nobody gets anything, nobody's given anything.

Nobody takes shit from us here.

Let's go, boys.

- [Team] Let's go.

- [Jason] Let's go, one, two, three.

- [All] Win, win, win!

- [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,

please welcome the starting lineup

for your New York City Football Club!

(crowd cheers)

Number 12 in goal, Josh Saunders.

♪ And the rockets' red glare ♪

♪ The bombs bursting in air ♪

♪ Gave proof through the night ♪

♪ That our flag was still there ♪

♪ O say does that star-spangled ♪

- [Claudio] It really felt like

the start of the club in many ways.

It's hard to explain, but obviously,

when you're kind of playing in front of your own fans,

that's really when you feel the team

really was born that day.

♪ And the home of the brave ♪

(crowd cheering)

- [crowd] NYC, NYC, NYC!

- [Commentator] Villa, his nickname

has always been El Guaje, The Kid.

(dramatic music)

(crowd cheers) Score Villa!

David Villa bringing the house down at Yankee Stadium!

- [Announcer] David Villa!

- [Crowd] NYC, NYC, NYC, NYC, NYC!

- [Commentator] And again, Tierney's found some space.

Chris Tierney drives in towards, goal!

Agonizingly close for Agudelo,

Rowe's crashing into.

Fagundez.

Good-looking cross, Agudelo!

(crowd cheering)

Well, how did Saunders keep it out?

It's remarkable.

Agudelo can't believe it.

He was right on the doorstep.

- Are you joking?

That's gotta be a yellow.

(whistle blowing)

We are playing too timid.

We are playing as if we're gonna protect a lead,

a one goal lead for fucking 85 minutes, all right?

It can't be that way, guys.

It can't be that way.

Because if we're gonna play this long ball game,

all year long, it ain't gonna work.

It ain't gonna work.

It may get us one or two results,

but it ain't gonna work for a fucking full season, okay?

Defensively, for me, again,

it looks like a back four against one.

That's what I think.

I think these guys are in the gaps

and our outside backs are too nervous

about that situation and wanting to stay back.

Good news, there's a lot of it.

What's the biggest part?

We're winning the fucking game, huh?

We're winning the game, okay?

We're up 1-0.

All we need to do is show improvement.

Show improvement, be a little bit better

with the ball, a little more intelligent

and a little more fucking effort

and we get to all walk out of here with smiles.

Three points.

Right, David?

It's their force, yeah?

Come on, a little bit better.

A little bit better.

We have the wind now.

We should be a little bit more confident

playing with it on our back.

I'm sure that was tough against the wind.

Now, it's to your back.

Let's go, come on.

- [Man] Let's go, boys.

- [David] Net outside.

Catch with the ball.

- Okay.

- In the first post, for you, okay?

- [Crowd] NYC, NYC, NYC, NYC!

- [Commentator] And to Villa.

David Villa, it's opened up for him.

Villa!

Only left Gonzalez this time on the floor.

- With Khiry, yeah.

Just take your time, make sure

everything's fine with him, it's not a rush.

- What they're doing is,

sometimes Rowe will go out here

and then Tierney will creep into that spot.

You gotta fucking stay tight

to him and stay with the right.

- Stay with Tierney.

- [Commentator] A little touch from Nemec.

Oh, they're in the clear here.

Shelton goes down.

Was that a touch? - Get a red card?

- [Commentator] It was.

It's a red card.

(crowd cheering)

- [Jason] Let the cannon go!

(crowd cheering)

(crowd cheering)

- [Announcer] For NYC.

- [Crowd] NYC, NYC, NYC, NYC, NYC!

(whistle blowing)

- [Man] The fucking men won!

(crowd applauds)

- [Woman] Congratulations, Claudio!

- [Danielle] All right.

- Well, you can see by the expression on his face.

He's just talking about how important it is

for him to be the first player on this team to,

and also to be able to get the first goal.

(crowd cheering)

- [Crowd] NYC, NYC, NYC!

(gentle music)

- [Claudio] I don't think that Jason and I realized,

you know, in the subsequent games, where it quickly seemed

to take the confidence out of the team.

- [Jason] We were making mistake

after mistake after mistake.

These guys are looking at you

asking whether or not you have the answers.

It was the most difficult time of my entire life in soccer.

- [Commentator] Steps into the area and just knocks it past!

And New York City has the lead!

Now they need to hold on to it.

- [Shay] I promise you, on the day

that we ended that streak against Philadelphia away,

I cried my heart out to see us finally winning.

- [Announcer] Poku, 1-1, Poku, cements it.

- [Commentator] Here's an opportunity!

And they've scored again.

It's Villa again.

- [Claudio] We were certainly looking

for the summer as a moment of hope for us.

Frank's impact on and off the field, you know,

was something we were waiting for.

- [Frank] It was difficult for me because I came late.

- [Commentator] The long awaited debut of Frank Lampard.

- [Frank] When you walk into a new dressing room,

it doesn't matter what, DP, experience, not.

Whatever, it's still like a new start, a new school.

You know, it's the same thing.

You get nervous.

- [Reporter] Andrea Pirlo is going to NYCFC.

- [Reporter] The 36-year-old Italian midfielder

joined the MLS franchise following

a four-year stint with Juventus.

- [Announcer] Pirlo.

He's gonna put it behind the defensive.

There's David Villa!

- [Commentator] Some superstars needed to step up tonight.

They have.

- [Announcer] So, Lampard is set up for him.

He has finally arrived in New York!

Far corner!

It is 2-nil.

Is that the goal to reignite New York City's playoff hopes?

- [Commentator] And now Justin Meram in space,

oh, and just rolls it past Saunders.

Steps up and New York City into the lead.

17th goal of the season for David Villa is the difference.

- [Claudio] There was a good chance

that we could win the rest of the matches.

Make the playoffs.

- [Jason] You start to really believe

and you start to think about, you know,

what if we could win every single game?

What if we can make the playoffs?

I think this team would have a chance to win everything.

- [Claudio] Expectations are big.

There's many more people watching us.

You know, watching the team from Manchester

and beyond, around the world.

Most of our games were on in Europe.

And so, I think, one of the things

is to make sure that players, moving forward,

understand that, and it's a challenge.

(crowd cheering)

(Jason shouts)

- [Announcer] Kick the safe ball

and sometimes, you could be

a little more creative in there.

- [Commentator] Great ball.

Mix Diskerud has Villa on the left, plays a, Villa!

Over the bar for the Spaniard.

(crowd cheers)

One v one battle for Grabavoy,

he gets there in time.

Field's really in bad condition.

Shot from Villa!

Shot's wide.

Now we're really in the mix

to look for a playoff ticket, with the score.

Shot comes in,

it's blocked by Saunders on the rebound.

Espíndola, scratch that.

Goal!

D.C. United wants to be on their way to a win.

Ball comes inside!

(crowd cheering)

Goal!

(melancholy music)

(crowd chanting)

- [Man] Jason!

- [Frank] I think we ran out of time, to be honest.

I think it's been a difficult season.

Give it another five or six games on the end of the season,

with the flow we started to get,

we might have made the playoffs.

A harsh lesson that when you put yourself

in a position where winning is a necessity

and it's a bit desperate,

the minute you don't win, then it's totally finished.

- [Reporter] What is missing for this team to find success?

- Um, I think that's such a longer answer

than I have time for right now.

Certainly needs some reflection to give you a good one.

(players shouting)

- His response, always, throughout the season was to me,

in private, was, I'm letting everybody down.

And I said, Jason, just stop saying it.

You gotta just continue to work.

And his effort and his commitment

to getting it right hasn't stopped,

hasn't wavered all year, you know?

But the question is always, can he be the one

to take us and fix this

and make it better and turn it around?

- It's the first time in my career

that I've ever faced speculation

about whether or not I'd be back another year.

That hits you hard.

It's tough.

But I know this is what I signed up for.

- It's difficult.

It's definitely the most, you know,

difficult decisions that I'll be a part of to take.

- Oh! - Nice.

- We gotta play like that on Sunday, boys.

- [Jason] It's our first season and look at how many,

how many fans have been coming out.

We were the number two team

with the highest attendance in the entire league.

The fans who have been there since day one,

we can say, we were fans even when

they were playing at Yankee Stadium,

even before we had our own coliseum,

playing at a baseball field.

- I need a picture with Pirlo and Villa and I'm lit.

Every player.

- [Man] Lit, every time.

- Yo, my man, Poku, oh, my God.

Dude, can you please sign my hat for me?

(Poku laughing)

Poku, you are the man.

You know that, right?

- Yeah.

- Good, I'm glad you know, bro.

Good luck Sunday, man.

- There he is, how you doing'?

- Yo, I'm here with Mix Diskerud.

Mix, do you know who I am?

- [Mix] Of course, I get your snaps all the time.

- Oh, my God.

Can you sign my hat, please, man?

Thank you so much, bro.

- [Jason] I think that soccer

is a sport where the fans play an extremely huge role.

I wanted them to know that even though

this is our first year,

you've got the support of the entire city

and everyone wants to see them do good.

- [Man] We'll do three, two, one,

I'll take a picture of all you guys.

- [Reporter] You've really become a fan favorite here.

Signs and chanting and everything.

Is that special for you?

- It's something great.

It's been something.

As I said, I can't, you know,

I don't know how to thank these fans.

I really thank everybody.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

- Hello. - Hello, David.

- Ready, are you ready?

- [Man] Come on, boys!

(crowd cheering)

- [Commentator] He's not been very good in the box.

(crowd chanting)

[Announcer] Please direct your attention

to midfield for a special message

from our captain, number seven, David Villa!

(crowd cheers louder)

- David, I'm gonna be the next you.

I'm going to be the next you.

Sign it?

- [Fam] David, David!

- [Fan] Can I have your shirt?

- [David] In the future, of course I want to win.

And I hope in the next year, the team will be better,

and getting for the fans beautiful things.

(dramatic music)

- You got to think, one of us is, okay?

- Hello, Liz. - Welcome.

- Hi, John. - How are you?

- Blockers, we'll do Josh, David, Mehdi.

- Then I'll get rolling, with.

- Yeah?

- What it means to support NYCFC,

is to hang out with family and cheer my heart out

for the club I love.

- It's a sense of pride.

It's a sense of belonging.

- It's actually a social and cultural movement,

and that is a truly New York thing.

- I can talk to more people about soccer,

and not be the weird girl who likes a European sport.

- You don't really pick a team,

your team is the place where you're from.

- It's about making history.

It's about passing on the legacy to my son.

- It means the world's greatest game

is in the world's greatest city right now.