Hello and welcome to the total soccer show. My name is Darrell Grove and I'm joined by a man who will not be relocating to Chicago. His name is Taylor Rockwell. Hello. Hello. I have had one shot of Mallort in my life and that is one shot too many. Moving to Chicago increases the likelihood of having to drink that. So yeah, no Chicago for me. There should be warning signs at the city limits. A thousand percent should be.

There be my lord here.

Don't trust anyone who offers it to you and calls it a delicacy. They're lying. Yeah. I mean, otherwise Nicole Hack is trustworthy, right? Otherwise, yes. Otherwise, otherwise. And to be fair, she never lied. She just said it's like it's an interesting, unique flavor to Chicago, which is to say, don't drink it.

She chose her words, Catherine.

She did.

She chose her words, Catherine. just said it's like it's an interesting unique flavor to Chicago which is to say don't drink

it she chose her words carefully she did she chose her words carefully she's fine we have 11

listener questions to answer on today's show each more delectable than the last um but first

shots fired at the first one uh not maloot shots though though. No. But first, there's a bit of news.

Sort of, right?

There's more like an incendiary quote.

The Wall Street Journal published a story essentially catching up with the US Soccer Federation.

It was by Rachel Bachman.

And the headline is, US Soccer Federation's struggles deepen.

And there are essentially two interesting quotes in there.

One was from Tab Ramos about J. Bear Haltar.

And one was from Dave Vandenberg, a former US soccer youth coach.

I think he's now with New England working under Bruce Arena,

which was about the policy that US soccer laid down of all youth team coaches, all coaches must move to Chicago. Right. Where would you like? He lived in Texas and he was like, why would I move to a place that's going to be freezing cold? Yep. Like six months out of the year? No, thank you. Yeah, well, you can't play soccer six months of the year. It was strange to me that he then said that and then moved to New England, but whatever. We can only pay three months a year.

Yeah, but I guess if you're like actively coaching or helping coach a club team that is going to have required day and day out training, it makes more sense. All right. Before we get to the Chicago stuff, should we start with the Tab Ramos? Sure. So they quoted Ramos as talking about Jay Beahelter, who's the, I keep forgetting forgetting his job talk because he keeps changing it, but essentially is the commercial and strategy officer. But we all kind of know because there's a power vacuum where Dan Flynn has been planning to step down ever since his heart surgery. In 1982, right? Isn't he first announced he by step down? It's been two or three years that Dan Flynn's been planning to step down.

Jay Berthelter, which is Greg Berthelter's brother, has kind of been filling the power vacuum. And there's all those famous glass door reviews about US soccer that he's overstepping and making life miserable for a lot of US soccer employees. Yes. Turns out one of those employees was Tabramas. Yeah. Yeah. So Tabramos was, what, Youth 20 head coach, not anymore,

and he's with Houston.

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