#160 Everything you need to know about The Designated Player Rule in Major League Soccer

Soccer 101

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Sports, Soccer

4.9 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This week, Graham and Taylor discuss a topic that they somehow haven't yet discussed on the podcast... Designated Players! What is a DP? Why does the concept exist in the first place? How has the reliance on DPs evolved over time? Who are the most notable Designated Players in MLS history? What does the future hold for the DP rule? Plus, Graham helpfully runs through the list of DC United's all-time DPs while Taylor silently weeps. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody to Soccer one-O-1. My name is Taylor Rockwell, and this week we are recording as the 2024 MLS season kicks off,
0:24.0	which means we're doing some MLS-centric episodes.
0:27.2	And Graham Ruthven is here, the designated player of all of our hearts, to talk the designated player role.
0:32.1	Hello, Graham.
0:33.0	Hello, Taylor Rockwell.
0:34.1	I hadn't actually noticed that the MLS season starts this week.
0:37.1	Had you noticed that? I don't know if you've done any extensive preview episodes
0:40.9	that have pushed you to the limits of your research time recently. But it's true. The new seasons
0:45.9	kicks off this week. You are correct there. Between this and my toddler's school not yet being
0:51.8	open. So she's home. The eight week old is home. It's been a lot,
0:56.7	Graham Ruthven. Who needs sleep? It's fine. I'm just losing my mind reading about, you know,
1:00.9	Azeo Jackson and all that good stuff. But we don't need to talk MLS regular season because we're
1:04.9	going to talk designated player rule. We have met many designated players in the league, but we need to
1:10.4	figure out what that actually is when it was first introduced, how it's evolved over time, what the future might look like for those spots. Graham, first off, what is a designated player? Let's do that first. So, so first of all, as a very quick precursor, it's a little bit wild. We've not done this as a one-on-one episode so far. It feels very like, oh, yeah, it's just a surface level like 10 minute chat. And then it gets really nuanced with young DPs and the evolution of DPs and buying
1:46.6	down DPs and all that stuff.
1:47.9	And I think maybe it's one that we were just like, you know what, we'll leave that for
1:50.3	Paulton Oreo or Joe Lowry or somebody.
1:52.2	But you know what?
1:53.3	We're undertaking it now.
1:54.4	Graham Ruffin has his Portland Timber shirt on. assuming as a solidarity move with the designated player role. I like it, Graham. Well done.
2:01.5	Yes, this was entirely deliberate. This is in solidarity with Evander, who I'm still arguing
2:07.1	will come good at some point. We did Gammon Tam before we did the DP rule as a 101 episode,
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