Welcome to Allocation Disorder. We are back. I am Sam Stascold, joined as always by my friend and colleague Paul Tenorio. And this week, Paul, we are sponsored by Coca-Cola.

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We're not talking about Miami this week.

We're doing a departure from our normal Miami programming.

This has become a Miami podcast. We're not going to talk about Miami. We are doing a departure from our normal Miami programming. This has become a Miami podcast.

We're not going to talk about Miami. We are going to talk about World Cup qualifying.

The full schedule is now known for the U.S. in the octagonal. Is it octagonal? Octagonal.

The Ocho. The Ocho. Is that what I mean, I'm cool. Can we just call it the O the ocho yeah let's just call it the ocho all right but you got to say it like that you can't call it like ocho it has to be like de ocho

ESPN8 the ocho exactly dodged up dip dive and dodge never forget i mean you know what i always say

about concaf ball the greatest thing that's ever happened to the sport? If you can dodge a wrench, then you can qualify for the World Cup. We'll see if the U.S. learned how to do that in the last four years. Quite a few wrenches upcoming for the U.S. MNT in the next few months. That's exactly right. And so we'll talk about that. We'll look ahead to the schedule. We'll look ahead to some of the matchups. We'll look ahead to kind of where some of these games might be played. I think that's going to be an interesting discussion, considering how tight these windows are and how many games are being squeezed in. We'll look ahead to the Gold Cup, which is rapidly approaching, just about three weeks away from the start of the proper group stage, less than that for the preliminary rounds.

So we'll talk U.S. roster predictions, predictions, and then we'll look ahead for the MLS secondary transfer window, which opens right around the same time as the start of the Gold Cup, July 7th, and kind of have some expectations. We'll preview that a little bit, lay out some

talk. But let's start with the World Cup qualifying. Let's start with the Ocho. Last night, we were

recording a day early this week, recording on Wednesday. On Tuesday night, the field was set.

El Salvador, Canada, and Panama became the final three teams to qualify, joining the U.S., Mexico,

Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Honduras, who were automatically in based on FIFA rankings.

And we know the U.S. now, the first game of the Ocho will be September 2nd at El Salvador.

That will be a three-game window in September, the first of several three-game windows.

So September, we've got at El Salvador on the second, home against Canada on the 5th, at Honduras on the 8th.

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