Allocation Disorder: a USMNT-centric look at the Champions League draw, plus roster projections for World Cup qualifying
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🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Paul and Sam discuss the Champions League draw and the various Americans impacted, and then move on to analyzing Paul's piece for The Athletic in which he broke down what the rosters might look like when the USA is competing on three different fronts. Who's in, who's out, and why Darlington Nagbe remains critical!
Here's a link to Paul's roster projections at The Athletic
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Staskel, joined as always by Paul Tenorio. |
| 0:21.3 | It is Thursday evening, October 1st, and earlier today, the whole soccer world was buzzing about the |
| 0:29.4 | Champions League draw and a particular matchup that we got out of the group stage. Am I talking about |
| 0:36.7 | Messi versus Ronaldo, Barcelona versus Juventus? |
| 0:40.5 | No, I am not, friend. |
| 0:43.0 | I am talking about Serginio Dest against Weston McKenny. |
| 0:46.5 | It's the one that the world has been waiting for, Paul. |
| 0:49.6 | Yeah, I mean, when those two names came together in the draw, |
| 0:54.0 | I think both |
| 0:55.8 | Dest and McKinney were trending on Twitter worldwide, as people speculated. |
| 1:00.2 | Could this be, you know, the last time that these two Americans face each other in Champions |
| 1:05.0 | League? |
| 1:06.8 | The first and the last, perhaps. |
| 1:10.7 | No, but on a serious note, Messerinaldo, of course, dominated the last, perhaps. No, but on a serious note, |
| 1:12.5 | Messier-Rinaldo, of course, dominated the kind of chatter this afternoon when the |
| 1:18.1 | Champions League draw was held. |
| 1:19.8 | But we're not a Champions League show. |
| 1:22.8 | We don't talk about global soccer necessarily. |
| 1:25.4 | We talk about American soccer and North American soccer, I should say. |
| 1:29.6 | And this Champions League has the potential to be a historic Champions League for North American |
| 1:35.6 | soccer. There are, I believe, unless I forgot how to count, which it's late, so that might be |
| 1:42.1 | true. I think up to 11, I want to say, Americans that could be involved. |
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