Americans in Action: Busio and Tessmann start together for Venezia, Morris plays his first MLS minutes of the season, Aaronson shines for Salzburg, and much more
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🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Taylor and Joe are here to recap how this past weekend went for a number of USMNT-eligible players here in the U.S. and abroad! We start out with some quick hits on players like Weston McKennie, John Brooks, and Jordan Morris, before diving deep on Tanner Tessmann, Gianluca Busio, Luca de la Torre, Joe Scally, and Brenden Aaronson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer show. |
| 0:24.8 | My name is Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:26.1 | Joining me today to talk some Americans in action this past weekend is a man who knows the best way to celebrate the holiday season is by playing Bosnia in December. |
| 0:35.0 | It's Joe Lowry. |
| 0:35.9 | Hello, Joe. |
| 0:36.5 | Are you ready for a random December friendly? Oh, Taylor, there's nothing that gets me in the holiday spirit more than a friendly against Bosnia. You are so right about that. I could not be more excited. So I was very surprised to hear this news, see this news. Joe Lowry, to his credit, message me to say, hey, we should probably talk about the schedule for December and January, and I had not seen it yet. And at first was very confused why we were playing |
| 0:58.1 | a friendly in December. It makes more sense once you remember that things are condensed when |
| 1:03.0 | it comes to the World Cup qualifying schedule, correct, Joe? Oh, absolutely. So the schedule |
| 1:07.8 | is weird this year, and it's weird, especially given past World Cup qualifying cycle. |
| 1:12.6 | So instead of there being any sort of January camp with a friendly at the end of that camp like there was against Bosnia back in 2018, there's not a January camp friendly. |
| 1:23.6 | There's instead a December camp and a December camp friendly followed then, say with me, by a January camp with domestic-based players, most likely, that then will be joined by the European-based World Cup qualifying players for the January World Cup qualifier against El Salvador that then leads into February. |
| 1:41.1 | See, Taylor, it's all very simple here. |
| 1:43.1 | It's actually, it's not that complicated, but because of the scheduling and the condensed |
| 1:46.8 | World Cup qualifying calendar, to be specific, Greg Baralders put together this December camp |
| 1:51.7 | and that will end in a friendly against Bosnia that then transitions into the new year |
| 1:56.5 | with all of those important World Cup qualifiers. |
| 1:59.0 | But you know what, Joe? |
| 1:59.8 | That's December and January. It's now November, which means we've got a workup qualifying camp coming up. We've got two games ahead of us. We should get that roster this week. I'm guessing later on in the week. We're going to sort of talk about some people who might be involved in that roster when we talk about the players who did things this weekend. As we have sort of started to do, Joe, we're going to run through |
| 2:21.9 | a bunch of different names. Then we'll get to some in more detail later on. But let's start |
| 2:27.4 | with some quick hits. And in Italy, let's go to Weston McKinney, who scored for Juventus, but |
| 2:32.5 | they lost. The team is on a forced retreat this week. |
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