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 beat Jamaica in Pochettino’s first competitive game in charge, and Ricardo Pepi and Matt Turner steal the show; Paraguay defeat Argentina and Brazil fail to get past Venezuela; England, Italy, and Norway all secure wins in Europe; we preview the NSWL semi-finals taking place over the weekend; and an ex-Premier League footballer posts an interesting job advertisement.

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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