Hello,

Hello everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and it's Tuesday, which means it's time to talk Americans abroad.

To help me do so, I'm joined by a man who always keeps a clean sheet on his podcast debut.

It's Joe Lowry.

Hello, Joe, and good luck navigating

that introduction. Yeah, I mean, hello, Taylor. I would just like to point out, I'm fairly

confident, borderline certain that I did not keep a clean sheet on my podcast debut. I don't think

it was clean. I think it was messy. I think my performance was uneven and rocky at times.

But I'm going to take the compliment and pretend like what actually happened didn't happen. I feel like you're being self-critical, which is what you want from a debut time. You don't want them coming in and saying like, yeah, I boss that, Mike, I did everything right. I said everything right. There were no slip-ups. You want them being humble so that there's room to grow. And I think that's maybe what we can talk about with Chris Richards, who we are going to talk about in a little bit when it comes to his debut for Hoffenheim. He got the start. They did not get the win. I have some thoughts. We're going to talk other Americans abroad, some whom we're in action, some who are not looking in your direction, Christian Pulisic. We do also want to remind folks that we have another live

broadcast this week. It will be myself and Ryan Bailey, Thursday at 6 p.m. on the stereo app.

Joe, you and I did that last week. That was your introduction to stereo, I believe, or your first

time speaking on mic in stereo. What did you make of it? I had tons of fun. Listeners asked

awesome questions. You and I had a fun conversation about the LaMasia Soccer 101 episode that I've done earlier last week. I had a blast, and I think you and Ryan are going to have so much fun doing your second show together later this week. Yeah. So if you want to tune in for that one, you can download the stereo app. You can find my username, which is

Rockwell TSS. The episode will be scheduled there for you to listen to. We talked about Joe's

last week, as he said. This week, I'm doing the top scoring Americans in Europe at club level.

Obviously, I'm not tracking all the international goals, but it's a topic that I think I said this

in the show. I've looked it up a number of different times because I'm just curious who it is. And there's never any sort of satisfactory results. We'll get who had the best European campaign for one season or who's the top of scoring American in the Premier League. But you don't get it across all competitions. And that's what I was trying to figure out. I think I have some answers. I think they are surprising. So I look forward to airing that episode and then chatting with Ryan and

answering some questions, getting some ideas for other 101 episodes that Joe could do or I could do

or Ryan could do. But that is for Thursday at 6 p.m. For now, Joe, let's start with the positive.

At least I think it was positive.

Let's start with Chris Richards, who gets his first start for Hoffenheim.

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