Welcome back to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Staskel, joined once more after a brief hiatus by Paul Tornoreo. Paul, it's been, I guess it hasn't been that long since our last show went out to listeners, but it's been a while now since we've recorded together. Are you feeling good? Yeah, are you stepped out on me. You stepped out on me with Pablo.

It's okay.

I mean, it wasn't so much a stepout. It's more of a bonus episode, you know? So there's just like a little extra on top. I want to mince words here or anything. But yeah, you know, it's fine. It's fine. You have allocation disorder, but I'm not on it. It's fine. You couldn't call it a different name.

Could have been like a bonus episode of Total Soccer Show or something.

No, it had to be allocation disorder. So, you know. Total Soccer is not my show. It's not your show. You know, that's not our, that's not our purview. We can't, we can't be doing that. That's, that's out of our, out of our league, really. I mean, that's not our show. Next time you do a show

with Pablo, we can brainstorm some show titles, and we'll call it its own show. It'll be a one-off

episode of whatever your show is with Pablo. We'll call it, we'll call it the athletic soccer show,

abbreviated A-S-S. How about that? That's perfect. I like that.

All right. I've always been known to like that. Anyways.

It has been a while since we spoke, and a decent amount has happened.

On Tuesday, election day, we had a very, it was an American theme today, I think, and that extended to the soccer world.

The U.S. men's national team, Greg Berhalter, manager, named a 24-man roster that I believe is now down to 23 men for upcoming friendlies on November 12th against Wales in Swansea and against Panama in Austria. And due to the COVID-19

pandemic, those teams are pretty much European only for the most part, with an exception here or

there. And it's a very young team. This is sort of like, I made the joke that it's, this is like

the fever dream of USMNT Twitter.'s, this is like the fever dream of

USMNT Twitter. Like, this is like all the young kids that you're talking about and you're

hyping up. They're all getting called in. The dudes that you always think are going to be

snubbed. Well, they're not snubs this time. The average age is 21 years, 300 days, nine

players participating in the Champions League,

and 10 who have yet to receive their first cap, including Gio Raina, Chris Richards, Conrad

De La Fuente, and Eunice Musa, Paul. So we'll get into overall thoughts on the roster

here in a moment.

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