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NYCFC head coach Nick Cushing talks the team's disappointing 2-0 loss at home to the New York Red Bulls ending their season, the future, and more.
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0:00
Hey coach, how are you? Scott Church on Street Pumps Soccer
0:02
Very clearly not the press conference you want to have right now. But how can you and the team take tonight and expand on that to 2025
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and help you grow as a team from this experience tonight? Thank you
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Yeah, I think if, listen, I will never, ever get used to the feeling of losing
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but I say to the guys every time as people all we have is our
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pride and our hunger and our fighting spirit right we've got good players, we've got young players
0:37
we've got new players if we're going to lose I want my team to lose that way
0:43
fighting till the end pushing the game, creating chances and it wasn't our night tonight
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but we've definitely yeah but I think you've got to listen the emotion is raw right
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we missed chances tonight we didn't take our chances the goalkeeper had a really good game
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but the reality is we nearly doubled the amount of goals that we scored in 23 and 24
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so you know like the emotion will always rise to the top but when we're logical
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and we look at it we scored a lot more goals than we did in 2023
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and that was the aim we're improving we're working with a young team
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and a fairly new team to try and be successful. Nobody believed that we would make the line
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Nobody believed that we would make a deep run into the conference semifinal
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And you know what? We've had a real go tonight. And I'm disappointed
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And so should the fans be. We didn't deliver the objective that we had
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But hard work. You've got to keep working. I'm sure people didn't imagine Alonzo Martinez
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would score 17 in the regular season, right? If we're sitting there saying, well actually he should have scored 25 Come on We got to work through this We creating loads of chances We do have to be clinical but it a process Michael Andenshi
2:03
My name is Mike Dana from Blue City Radio. You talked about moments, two moments that really caused the game today
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Can you talk about your decision to sit at the end of the game and who you brought in to try to get this result
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Yeah, we just went with offensive players, right? We took our full-backs off and we went with Agu and Julian
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Andres Perea because I knew he would get in the box and he's got energy
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So, I could have gone with Munter, I could have gone with Jovan
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We've got a striker that's scored all of our goals on the field. So, I tried to go really offensive and almost go three in the back
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with James Sands because of his physical ability. Try and get some players in the box
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We created enough chances to win the football game. We didn't take them. And some days, it's just not your day
2:47
Shane? I got Shane O'Brien with M.V. York Commiserations on the loss today
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It's obviously a very different scenario to the two regular season games, but what went wrong with those two games
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I'm always thinking about those two. Yeah, listen, the difference between this game and that game
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is we took our chances in the 5-1 game, right? There wasn't so much wrong with this game
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We gave away the second ball drops and he hits it early
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and Matt Freese is blinded by it. And then the set play goal, I haven't actually seen back
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but to give a set play goal is, you know, Red Bull feed off set play. It's a huge part of their game
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But we did enough to win the football game. But I can't blame any guys in that, right
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You look till the end. We're pushing the game. We're trying to create. We get some chances
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We don't, sometimes it's just not your day. This is sport, right? There'll be one team that wins at the end
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and all the other teams have to go back to the drawing board
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and work hard. It's not failure. There's one team that's going to win
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and we wanted to win but I be proud of my team if I was a New York City supporter tonight the way that they went about I be disappointed but I be really proud of them Alec and then we go with Javier
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Hey, Coach, 5-0 footy. I'd imagine as a fan, this is probably one of the most painful ways
4:05
to leave the playoffs, losing the RB in the playoffs. What is your message to the fans
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How do you feel that fans can heal from this? Yeah, be proud of the team
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Be proud of the journey that the team went on Be proud of how the team grown through the season
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Be proud of how the team Took the knocks and Stayed humble enough to continue to work
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To stay together We had some difficult results this year But we had some really exciting ones
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And we had some exceptional results A good run that we fell just short on penalties
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To the eventual winners in the Leagues Cup Pushed all the way and finished strong
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In the regular season And got through a really difficult series against Cincinnati And you know what
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fought right till the end tonight. Those that understand sport and know sport will know that
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sometimes it just doesn't happen. But if you're going to say to me, you're going to lose this game
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how are you going to lose it? It would be like that. Showing the pride and how the team is really fighting
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And I think what we've shown is there's a real spirit and a real soul in there
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and a real foundation to go forward and continue to try and win with this team
5:10
Hey coach, you left Maxi's local game. Is that purposeful his contract
5:15
talked about at the end of the season has there been talks of what his future is going to be
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with this talk personally there's been no talks with anybody purely based off
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we're still in we're playing Cincinnati in a 3 series and Red Bull
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in a semi-final so that will all go on now recruitment retention
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I keep Maxi Morales in because he's Maxi Morales we're 2-0 down
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we're chasing a goal I think if we get one we can really push the game
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you're at home in a conference semi-final I ain't going to take Maxi Morales
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Final one George Coach you went from a team that last year couldn work on the road You had a very tough time to be in the season
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gave fans an amazing stretch in the middle of the season, won a couple of huge games in the middle
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Just a testament of your guys and what you're expecting from here on out from them
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And I personally think that you've done an amazing job thus far with everything that's been happening
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Yeah, listen, I'll be really honest. There are steps to success, right
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and we've shown some real, real glimpses. But we've also showed the areas we need to develop in
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We did a fans forum, Michael, at the start of the season, right? And I said to you, I know that I have to show this year
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and I have to prove to the fans that I can get this team to win. And I think I've done that
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I think we've done enough to show that we have the real foundation, George
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to be a top team here. Not just because of our league position and how we nearly made fourth
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and how we got through Cincinnati, the way that we've done it. You can watch our team play, you can go look at the data
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We set two or three or four different areas that we want to develop
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to make this team not only a winning team, but an exciting team to watch
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Our pressing and counter-pressing this year has been so fruitful in creating us goals and goal chances
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Our play and how we've attacked the box. There's many, many areas I'm super proud of, right
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But I want to win. so now we have to go back to the drawing board we have to use the the foundation that we've built
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the minimum requirement for me and for our organization is to be above the line and we've
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got it back within a year right to where we should be now it's about really pushing hard to get solid
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in that top four and really chase position and you know that's going to take a lot of hard work
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it's going to take a real in-depth review process now and then a pre-season and a 2025 where we're
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just as hungry and just as ambitious as we've been this year
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Thank you, everybody. Thank you, guys. Appreciate it. Thank you
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