Allocation Disorder: USMNT roster reaction, MLS and Liga MX cozy up at All-Star, dipping into the mailbag, and more
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🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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On this week’s episode of Allocation Disorder, Paul and Sam react to the USMNT’s World Cup Qualifying roster, discuss MLS and Liga MX’s relationship, and answer some of your mailbag questions!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Staskel, joined as always by my friend and colleague Paul Tenorio. |
| 0:23.5 | Paul, for the first time in four years, we have a U.S. men's national team World Cup qualifying roster. |
| 0:32.6 | We are recording on Thursday morning. |
| 0:35.0 | The roster just dropped a few minutes ago. |
| 0:36.9 | 26 players called up to play at El Salvador next Thursday against Canada on September 5th and at Honduras on September 8th. |
| 0:47.6 | A couple of big news items, Pulisic, Christian Pulisic, he makes the roster despite contracting COVID-19 last week. |
| 0:55.2 | He is still in isolation in the UK. |
| 0:57.9 | He's scheduled to come out of that here in the next couple of days. |
| 1:00.7 | If everything goes well, he'd be able to travel to Tennessee on the weekend in time for the opening of camp. |
| 1:08.1 | Usual suspects, Tyler Adams, West McKinney, Gio Raina, and then one real big newcomer, |
| 1:15.1 | Ricardo Pepe, the 18-year-old FC Dallas homegrown striker, an American and Mexican |
| 1:20.8 | dual citizen who played for both the U.S. and Mexico on the youth levels, has been called up and |
| 1:26.2 | has accepted the call-up. He's got a couple of |
| 1:29.6 | quotes out there, basically indicating that, yeah, he's committed to the U.S. men's national team. |
| 1:35.5 | I'll just read it because I think it's a pretty cool quote. He told this to fcdallas.com. |
| 1:40.7 | I want to start by saying that I am a Mexican American, that I am super proud of my heritage. |
| 1:45.0 | It's something that will never be taken away from me, no matter what national team I play for. |
| 1:49.0 | I made this decision because I felt the USA trust me, and I think that's due to Greg |
| 1:53.0 | Berhalter and how he emphasized this to me. |
| 1:55.3 | I had good talks with Greg, and I feel I can make an impact with the USA and help the national |
| 1:59.6 | team really do something special now and in the future. |
| 2:04.3 | So Paul, I mean, what are the big reactions? |
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