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Thank you. Hello, hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and on today's episode, we've got a U.S.-centric mailbag to get through,

featuring The Man, the Myth, the Legend, Breck Shea, USM&T trades, Don Garber's prognostications,

and much, much more.

To answer those questions and more, I'm joined by two friends up first, a man who has me excited to buy tickets on the Josh Winder hype train. It's Joe Lowry. Hi, Joe. How many tickets should I be purchasing? And also, who is Josh Winder? Okay. So I think you should be purchasing several tickets. Cover your basis. Snag one for you. Snag one for the for the wife snag one for the daughter i think that feels right josh winder for folks out there who don't know i think i think we're at the point where a lot of folks are going to know the name and if they don't know it now taylor they're going to know it by june because josh winder is a 17 year old american centerback playing for louis City, in many ways, is sort of the banner club for the USL championship. And he's also part of the U-20s, youth national team. So the World Cup is coming up in about a month, and there's a very real chance that he is on that roster. And there's an even realer chance that he's going to Benfica after he turns 18 when June rolls around.

So that's been reported heavily.

It very much seems like that's going to happen.

He's already been there to train.

He's a nice young player.

He's a very nice young player, probably the best prospect, maybe the best player, period, that the USL has produced.

Yeah, I read about him and more in the article you guys have on Backield, where you

surveyed the different USL coaches, I believe it was.

You got a few responses there.

Joe, what was that like setting out surveys to coaches?

That's not one I've done before.

Do you have to sell them or is it something that people are willing to do pretty quickly?

I think it depends on the level, right? I think there is very much a limit to what you're able to do. Send it up to the champion league coaches. Carlo Encelada gets right back to you. We tried to email Carlo Enchalada yesterday and everybody knows how that went at this point. So it sort of depends on that. But, you know, they're great., genuinely, I've had a lot of fun working with the USL and working with coaches across the league and working with Phoenix and all these different places.

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