Americans in Action: Scouting Folarin Balogun, Haji Wright, and EPB! Plus, could Jozy or Bobby Wood help the U.S. and more listener questions
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🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s edition of Americans in Action, Taylor, Graham, and Joe analyze three more players in the USMNT pool: Haji Wright (segment one), Falorin Balogun (segment two), and Erik Palmer-Brown (segment two). After discussing those players’ strengths and weaknesses, we move on to answer some listener questions in the third segment! You can find that list of questions down below:
1) With the US’ injuries throughout World Cup qualifying, whose stock has risen due to another player not being available?
2) Does either Bobby Wood or Jozy Altidore have anything left in their legs to force themselves into the National Team equation?
3) Inspired by Gio Reyna and Dortmund, how much do individual clubs impact a players injury record?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome to The Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:25.0 | My name is Taylor Rockwell, and on today's Americans in Action episode, we've got three Americans we've scouted. |
| 0:31.4 | We've got three listener questions to answer, two of which definitely relate to the U.S. |
| 0:35.5 | men's national team. |
| 0:36.5 | One, maybe I should have |
| 0:37.5 | read a little bit more closely. To scout those players to answer those questions, I'm joined by two lovely fellas. First up, scavenging the deserts of Arizona for any possible number nine. It's Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. Yeah, so far, no success. I'm finding a lot of cactus, a lot of tumbleweeds, A lot of rattlesnakes, but no number nine. |
| 0:35.9 | Sorry to report. |
| 0:37.2 | Rattlesnake could work. Could be spicy, could be a little bit difficult to handle. You never know, Joe. I'd say keep your eye on that one. And while Joe does that, scouring the locks of Scotland for a serviceable Tyler Adams deputy, is Graham Ruffin? Graham, any Americans out there? |
| 1:11.7 | Not really, no, no luck in terms of finding a Tyler Adams deputy and no luck in terms of finding |
| 1:16.9 | the Loch Ness-Drogba either. The mythical Loch Ness-Dragba. I hope you do find that, |
| 1:24.6 | and if you do, Graham, be sure to report it here on The Total Taco Show. |
| 1:28.0 | I would have no doubt that you would do this thing. |
| 1:30.1 | Yeah, first place, obviously, that's where you would report that. |
| 1:33.2 | I have solved the centuries-long conundrum, the centuries-long mystery, and I'm going to report |
| 1:41.6 | it here first, yeah. |
| 1:42.8 | Is it just a larger Dediereh Dragba that is also first, yeah. Is it just, is it a larger DDA |
| 1:45.3 | Drogba that is also aquatic based? Is it just sort of like have some of the playing characteristics of DDA Dragba? What is it, Graham, since we've gone down this rabbit hole? I think it's actually Diddya Drogba. I mean, when was the last time you saw him? He could be in walk, Nash. Just living at a submarine in Scotland, enjoying his time. All right, all right. Well, if that becomes the case, I'm sure we will talk about it. But for now, as I said, three Americans to be discussed on this episode, we're going to talk about Haji Wright, Florin Balagan, and Eric Palmer Brown. Joe, I don't know if we should necessarily start with this, but I'm going to anyway. |
| 2:18.9 | One thing that I think informed my research was trying to see these guys as potential for making |
| 2:24.6 | the guitar roster, and I think maybe that put me in a more negative position than you and Graham. |
| 2:30.2 | We talked about this a little bit before we started recording. So with each of these players, |
| 2:33.9 | were you evaluating them for the potential of playing in |
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