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 play their first competitive game under Pochettino on Thursday, as they face Jamaica in the CONCACAF Nations League quarter finals; Chelsea, Lyon, Real Madrid, and Wolfsburg all pick up wins in the Women’s Champions League; things go from bad to worse for David Coote; Rodrigo Bentancur is set to be given a lengthy ban for the FA; Harry Kane suggests that players should prioritize England over their club; and Diego Forlan makes his professional tennis debut.

Football don't sleep, and neither do we.

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

Host: Betty Glover

Producer: George Cooper and Sammy James

Assistant producer: Elizabeth Barnard

Researcher: Jack Collins

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