Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and a safe space for USMNT fans who are still smarting a little bit from getting Dossosseroed in Hamilton.

Very sorry about that, guys. Taylor Rockwell and Joe Lowry of this parish went in depth on the USMNT a little earlier in the feed.

And here we're going to be focusing our energies on the big

jamboree in cameroon over the weekend the africa cup of nations quarterfinals my name's

ryan bailey and joining me here to discuss moselaar's big semi is graham ruffin oh oh wow okay what

what an intro how do i move it on from that yes he was uh he's he's got a semifinal to look forward to Ryan Bailey and Afcon. Yes, that's what we were talking about there.

That's exactly what I was referring to. Yes, Moselars Egypt booked into the Afcon semifinals after victory over Morocco, Graham. We had the, all those games were going to go and take a look through over the next hour or so.

Graham, this tournament's had its hindrances. It's had its moments of far, a notable tragedy, of course.

But I would argue it's been getting better and better on the field. And certain teams have been upping their game as well. Would you agree?

Yeah, I think so. As we've said before, it started

off pretty slowly and then the drama seemed to kick in around the latter matches of the group

stages and I think what you're seeing now are just are just good teams. Maybe with one exception,

which we'll talk about later in the quarterfinals, I felt like Gambia, maybe it was one match too many for them in this tournament, but especially going into the semifinals,

I feel like we have got four good teams who, with a, you know, they're entitled to feel like

they can go all the way. That's how good they are, the four teams that are left in this tournament.

I thought it might have been Morocco who are going to be the disappointed team to which you were referring, Graham, but we shall get to that shortly. We do have lots to talk about on this show, Graham. But before we get to the stuff happening in Africa, it has happened in Africa over the weekend, we are recording on transfer deadline date. We are in the middle of it right now. So stuff may have happened by the time you listen to this, dear listener. But I would suggest, Graham, that the best deal of the day has already gone through. We learned early this morning that Christian Erickson has made a move to Brentford, seven months after Cardiac Oresk on the field in Denmark at Euro 2020. He's got a sixth month deal there. This one made me smile, Graham.

I thought you were referring to Veg-Veghorst going to Burnley,

which is the most Burnley signing of all time.

But yes, absolutely.

The Christiane Erickson to Brentford is a feel-good story.

Obviously, Erickson's life, never mind his football career looked to be

in jeopardy last summer, now he's back in the Premier League. And I think it's going to be very

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