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Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

Are we all being too harsh on Kai Havertz, what's gone wrong at Wolves, why soccer coaches should all play chess, and many more listener questions!

Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

TSS

Sports, News, Sports News, Soccer

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ryan and Taylor answer six wonderful questions from our equally wonderful listeners:

1) Wolves were expected to challenge for the European places, but are instead sitting in 14th. What's gone wrong for them this season?

2) Was Apple's purchase of the rights to Ted Lasso a precursor to their eventual (?) foray into soccer streaming?

3) What are the drawbacks to employing a Technical Director or Director of Sport?

4) If given the opportunity, what swap deal should Thomas Tuchel pursue at Chelsea with the condition that he trade one attacker for one defender?

5) Are we being too hard on Kai Havertz?

6) Can strategies from chess translate to soccer?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer show.

0:23.8

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

0:25.0

I still have my hands in the air.

0:27.1

I outlasted my co-host for today.

0:29.5

It's Ryan Bailey.

0:30.6

Hello, Ryan.

0:31.5

Hello, Tate.

0:32.6

I've been doing some at-home exercises, so I'm a little bit stiff when I'm raising my arms in salute of the start

0:38.9

of the show. I apologize for that, but you are very committed to the course. It's not just that the

0:42.7

arms are up in the air. I wish the viewers, the listeners could see it because it's the ferocity in which

0:47.9

the arms shoot up on the hello. It's like a thrust into, hello, here come my arms. I love it.

0:53.2

It becomes like, for me, it's a necessary thing because just saying, like, try sitting still with, like, good posture and then being, like, loudly energetic. It makes you be British. It makes me be a British aristocrat of, like, hello and good morning, like, versus like, hi. It's a different level of energy, I think. And maybe also a sign that I've been locked in a home with a small human for like two months.

1:16.7

Hey, happens to the best of us.

1:18.1

You don't want to get too British, by the way.

1:19.3

You'll be having drive-by arguments by the afternoon.

1:23.8

But will they be polite and feature a lot of flourish pinkies?

1:27.9

I disagree.

1:28.7

Meow.

1:30.9

I like that a lot.

1:32.3

Ryan is with me today not to talk about Britishness, maybe a little Britishness, but

1:35.8

mostly to answer six listener questions.

1:39.0

We've got some good ones, some serious, some tactici, some less serious.

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