Episode 708 – The AFTN Soccer Show (Living The Good Life with guests Vanni Sartini, Asa Rehman, and Kian Gadsby)

We’re back with another AFTN Soccer Show packed full of Vancouver Whitecaps, Vancouver Rise, Major League Soccer, Canadian Premier League, and general football chat and interviews in our last podcast of 2025. A momentous and unforgettable year of Vancouver football is coming to an end. What a year it was and we look back on a lot of it in our last show of 2025 with the help of Global TV's Asa Rehman, who joins us to talk Vancouver Rise's success in the inaugural Northern Super League season, and Kian Gadsby, who joins us to talk Whitecaps and more. We also catch up with former Whitecaps coach Vanni Sartini in our in-depth feature interview this episode to look back at his time at the helm of the 'Caps and the new adventure that awaits him in the CPL with Halifax Wanderers. Plus we hand out our final fun AFTN awards of the year, talk Christmas football presents, and music-wise, our countdown of our favourite tracks of the year wraps up with the songs at the top three positions, plus we have a retro Christmas gift themed football song in Wavelength. Here’s the rundown for the main segments from the episode: 01.26: Intro - Christmas football gifts and reflections on the year that's been 23.16: 2025 Football In Memoriam 26.22: AFTN Awards - Hero, Villain, Disgrace, Embarrassing moment, rule changes we want to see 45.37: 2025 Festive Fifteen - #3 Sleaford Mods - The Good Life 50.15: Asa Rehman on Vancouver Rise's wonderful NSL winning first season 69.00: 2025 Festive Fifteen - #2 Crazy and the Brains - Catatonic Youth 73.50: Vanni Sartini interview and discussion 126.08: 2025 Festive Fifteen - #1 Kneecap - The Recap 130.25: Kian Gadsby reflects on experiencing Vancouver's exciting footballing year 169.10: Wavelength - The Everly Pregnant Brothers - Scalextric