The FCPS Show: Recent Episodes
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Tom, Simon and Lee keep you up to date with all the action from Austria's unique fan owned club, FC Pinzgau Saalfelden!
Lee & Tom look back at the final two games of the Spring season: a happy home win and a six-goal thriller away at Anif to close out the campaign. We look back at the season on the whole, go through a few facts, figures and trends, and cast an eye ahead to next season!
Tom & Lee talk through an up-and-down spell for FC Pinzgau, which concluded with a fine away point at the league-leaders SV Seekirchen. Christian Ziege had his say on the 4-0 win against Wals-Gruenau, and Christian Falyar talks about what it was like to step into the commentary box to call a game for the club.
We look at the club's recent red card issues, and hold out some hope for the last three league games of the spring season.
Tom & Lee have plenty to dissect after three straight games against Kuchl, which thankfully did not end with three straight defeats as Pinzgau mounted a very solid effort on home turf.
Away form, sendings off, goals at both ends, a new managerial announcement and a happy end in the league at least; all that and more is featured on this episode of The FCPS Show!
Tom & Lee have two games to look back upon, but who impressed and stood out above the rest in our away game against BSK, and our home fixture against USK Anif? All the talking points from those two games are right here on The FCPS Show!
Tom & Lee are joined by a special guest from the board; Christian Falyar helps us look back over the bitter defeat by SAK. We ask him all about where he wants the club to go, what he's thought of his experiences at FCPS so far, and what's on the agenda from a Fan Owner's trip to Saalfelden.
Tom & Lee sit down for some more questions with Alhassan, Godswill and Felix. We ask about their favourite moments on a football field, growing up with the game in Ghana, and getting used to the playing style in Austria with Head Coach Christian Ziege.
Tom & Lee discuss the home defeat to league leaders Seekirchen. Pinzgau created plenty of chances, but it was the guests who went home with the three points. Next up, an important game against SAK on Saturday!
Tom & Lee sat down to chat with Felix Adjei, as well as FC Pinzgau's two new recruits from Shooting Stars Accra in Ghana. We asked them about a range of topics, from Ghanaian culture, settling in Austria, adjusting to the league level here and much more. This is the first of two parts to the interview.
Tom & Lee look over FC Pinzgau's first match of the 2022 spring season. A 1-1 draw with Grödig served up some talking points, but who impressed, and what's up next for FC Pinzgau?
Tom & Lee look back on a season of progression that left FC Pinzgau in P3 with some records, some stunning goals, and ultimately some mixed feelings. What separated Pinzgau from the play-offs, how did the whole squad get on during the campaign, and what comes next for FCPS in 2022?
On the train home from the game, Lee & Tom look back on a mighty 16 goals in three matches, and some vital victories in the league and cup!
What's changed? Who is standing out? Just how big was that first away win? We talk about a good few weeks for FCPS on the latest podcast!
Lee Wingate from The FCPS Show caught up on the phone with our loan signing all the way from Seattle: Sota Kitahara, to find out how he's settled in to a new country, and a new playing position, in his first two months in Austria.
Tom & Lee look back on the 3 most recent league fixtures for FCPS, which included a home double-header against the top two in the table, a stirring late comeback away from home, and nonetheless left fans with a sense of lingering disappointment.
Simon joins Tom to talk all things FCPS as we pick through our biggest win in a while, and a tough loss on top. We talk about players who have impressed us, what's working and what's not, and preview our crunch game against Austria Salzburg!
Tom & Lee look back over two more Pinzgau games, in which we managed eight goals and came away with wins in both the Stiegl Landescup and the Salzburg Regional League! All in all, a great week!
Tom & Lee look back at two away games as FCPS faced Wals-Gruenau and USK Anif on the road. We came away unbeaten, but The FCPS Show is here to look at the positives and the negatives from the last two matches.
The new season is here! Lee & Tom talk pre-season results before reviewing all the action from match days one and two of the Salzburg Regional League.
We're just days into the new campaign and already FCPS fans have experienced plenty of the highs and lows of following a football team!
Lee Wingate spoke to Aaron Osbourne as part of our series interviewing fan owners for a position on the board of the club!
Make sure to check out our other episodes as there are several candidates who are all featuring on The FCPS Show this month!
Tom Middler spoke to Nitin Patel as part of our series interviewing fan owners for a position on the board of the club!
Make sure to check out our other episodes as there are several candidates who are all featuring on The FCPS Show this month!
Tom Middler spoke to Christian Falyar as part of our series interviewing fan owners for a position on the board of the club!
Make sure to check out our other episodes as there are several candidates who are all featuring on The FCPS Show this month!
Tom Middler spoke to Andy Wolf as part of our series interviewing fan owners for a position on the board of the club!
Make sure to check out our other episodes as there are several candidates who are all featuring on The FCPS Show this month!
Lee Wingate spoke to Mark Bunster as part of our series interviewing fan owners for a position on the board of the club!
Make sure to check out our other episodes as there are several candidates who are all featuring on The FCPS Show this month!
Lee Wingate spoke to Ty Sharpe as part of our series interviewing fan owners for a position on the board of the club!
Make sure to check out our other episodes as there are several candidates who are all featuring on The FCPS Show this month!
Lee Wingate spoke to Suraj Bossoondyal as part of our series interviewing fan owners for a position on the board of the club!
Make sure to check out our other episodes as there are several candidates who are all featuring on The FCPS Show this month!
Lee Wingate spoke to Chris Walz as part of our series interviewing fan owners for a position on the board of the club!
Make sure to check out our other episodes as there are several candidates who are all featuring on The FCPS Show this month!
Former FCPS star Pablo Ruiz spoke to The FCPS Show's Lee Wingate about his memories of Saalfelden, his goals, and using the club to get himself to where he is now! They talked about the culture at FCPS, the practical jokes, and THAT goal at RSL which thrust Ruiz into the sporting spotlight in the US.
Many thanks go to Florencia Suarez and Brian Mitchell for their help with the interpreting and translation for this interview.
Former FCPS star Andrew Brody joins Tom Middler to talk about his MLS breakthrough at Real Salt Lake this season, and how he used his loan spell in Saalfelden as a springboard for his football career.
Tom & Lee discuss all things "European Super League" and why that's put Fan Ownership back at the forefront of football fans' minds! We also talk about the remainder of this season and potential league reforms which are looming in the Regional Liga Salzburg.
On the first day that FCPS youth training resumed, Tom and Lee get an update from the Salzburg Football Federation so we can analyse the state of play in the region, and take a look at the forecast for regional league football in 2021.
Tom & Lee talk to Thomas Necker from Stiegl and Dan Leeman from the Global Beer Network, as we find out more about the exciting new partnership between FC Pinzgau Saalfelden and Salzburg's Stiegl Brewery. What's in store for the fans, how will the two parties work together, and more importantly, where can our fans find Stiegl beer? It's all here, cheers!
The second installment of our interview with the Austrian founders of FCPS! We ask your questions, talk about the football on and off the field over the past few seasons, incoming and outgoing transfers, the appointment of Christian Ziege, and dreams for the next five years.
Lee Wingate and Tom Middler got the chance to conduct a lengthy interview in English with the three Austrian founders of FCPS: Christian Herzog, Herbert Bründlinger and Siegfried Kainz. In this first part of the interview, find out who they call "Mr. Pinzgau", who ski-jumped for Austria in their youth, as well as what it's like to run FCPS from Saalfelden, of course!
Tom Middler spoke to the newest member of the FOC board, Ken Neal, to discuss his life in sports, and how he's applying his vast skills and experiences to further the Fan Owned Club & FC Pinzgau cause!
Our speedy young winger Jonas Schwaighofer spoke to Lee Wingate about his goals in football, his youth career at international and club level, and how he came to be a part of FCPS. He looks back on his past few seasons, and ahead to next season and beyond on this episode of The FCPS Show!
Tom Middler speaks to Johannes Kristoferitsch and Richard Turkowitsch, expert fans, broadcasters and followers of Austria's second division, the 2. Liga, or LigaZwa! What are the hurdles to overcome when a team is in the promotion hunt? How do you prepare for life in the second league? Do you need physical presence to have success in LigaZwa? It's all answered, plus some Super Bowl chat too!
For the latest FCPS Show, Lee Wingate spoke to American fan owners Nate Tipton, Kathy Flaherty and Logan Chugg about the soccer boom in the US, the pros and cons of their FCPS experience, and their plans to visit Saalfelden once the pandemic is over.
Lee and Tom look into the histories of several of our rivals so that we can familiarise ourselves with FC Pinzgau's Regional League foes!
A UEFA Cup final, seasons in the top flight, local dominance and unwanted records aplenty, it's all contained in the back stories of SV Austria Salzburg, Grödig, SAK 1914 and the others!
Tom and Lee look back over the turbulent year that was 2020. The cancellation of the Spring season for FCPS, the positivity of the Summer friendlies, and the topsy-turvy 2020 league campaign is all covered, as well as a host of memorable moments from elsewhere in Austrian football throughout 2020. Now it's time to look forward to 2021!
FC Pinzgau defender Denis Kahrimanovic spoke to Tom Middler about coming up against world-class opponents, choosing which nation to represent, what kind of example the Austrian Bundesliga clubs can set for sides lower down the ladder and much more! He updates us on his recovery from a serious ACL injury, and tells us why he's looking forward to the Spring season with hope!
For the latest episode of The FCPS Show, Lee Wingate spoke to Eric Krajewski and Christian Falyar, two friends behind the FCPS fans’ video phone-in forum “The Minority Report” (@FCPSreport). They spoke about a range of topics, from getting close to the club and its players, to how they came up with the idea of starting The Minority Report, and lots more about their experiences with FCPS & Fan Owned Club. Enjoy!
Lee Wingate grills our long-serving midfielder about life on and off the pitch in Saalfelden; from first footballing memories to long term ambitions, David Rathgeb opens up on what life is like as a local lad and a Pinzgau player!
Tom and Lee interview Trey Fitz-Gerald and Steve Paris of the Fan Owned Club Board of Directors, to discuss their viewpoints on what has been going on at the club in recent months. An honest and behind the scenes look at where FOC stands and where the club is headed. With no live matches on the agenda for a while, we hope you can at least enjoy the return of the FCPS Show!
Seekirchen visited the Saalfelden Arena on Saturday and inflicted another narrow defeat in a game which left us with plenty of talking points. Tom and Lee round up the action, look through the league table and preview Saturday's game away at BSK.
Simon joins Tom to look back on a difficult week for the club, as boardroom changes overshadowed an unfortunate 1-0 defeat on the pitch.
Lee Wingate reports back from Pinzgau's rearranged fixture against SV Wals-Grünau, which was decided with drama right at the death! We take a quick look at the other results from around the Regional Liga Salzburg, as well as the next fixture coming up fast for FCPS in Saalfelden.
A valiant display against high-flying Austria Salzburg is not rewarded with points, despite a lovely goal from our boys in the first half. Lee and Tom look over the events of the 90 minutes, and cast an eye ahead to the fixtures lying in wait for Christian Ziege's team. We round up the European qualifying action from Austria's Bundesliga clubs as well.
A dominant display against St. Johann yields the points that it deserved, but old problems still simmer under the surface. Tom and Lee look back at the game as Tamas Tandari celebrated a remarkable 300 appearances for the Mountainous Pine Blues!
Tom and Lee talk about the Friday night game, in which Pinzgau fell to defeat against a well-drilled Kuchl side. We look back over the action and pick out who performed well, and what we need to do to get back up towards the business end of the Regional League Salzburg table.
A thunderbolt from the blues reinvigorated Pinzgau's challenge on Match Day 7 against a stubborn Anif side. Tom & Lee meet to discuss the back and forth nature of that game, and the sigh of relief that came with the much-needed win. We look at the other third-tier leagues and the Austrian national side as well on this episode of The FCPS Show.
Another tough result for FCPS, losing despite playing well for large parts of the game. Tom, Lee and Simon look back over the SAK match, and offer hope and disappointment in equal measure! There's also a look at our other teams, around the leagues, and towards our upcoming fixtures.
Despite building a two goal lead with some lovely strikes, FC Pinzgau were pegged back to 2-2 by Bischofshofen on match day 5. Tom and Lee digest the action from that game in Saalfelden, and look at what our league rivals got up to in the cup.
A whole host of chances but no points to take away from Match Day 4. Tom and Simon discuss the game's numerous opportunities and look at other matches going on around Austria, including some big name friendlies!
Tom Middler and Simon Clark look back on Pinzgau's 2-0 win away at Grödig, which involved a fantastic five minutes and several missed chances. We talk about upcoming opponents Seekirchen, and cast an eye on other Austrian football news..
Tom Middler and Lee Wingate gather to discuss the home defeat to a strong Austria Salzburg side on our home opener, including the story of what might have been had we found a goal in the last 20 minutes. We look straight ahead to the next game against SV Grödig and bring you all the news from elsewhere around the regional leagues and a little bit beyond.
Tom Middler and Lee Wingate look back on the tactics and the standout players from the opening day win away at SV Wals-Grünau, as well as casting an eye on the division's rivals, and all the other leagues at our level.
The FCPS Show gets the season started off with a look at the friendly fixtures, including the goals gone by, and the massive match ahead! Hosts Tom, Simon & Lee introduce themselves, and French football writer & podcaster Jeremy Smith gives us the lowdown on mighty Marseille ahead of their trip to Austria.