Creating the best XI of USMNT-eligible players who didn't play a single minute in World Cup qualifying, and many more listener questions!
Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...
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🗓️ 6 April 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Your favorite foursome is together again to answer some particularly excellent listener questions... after some non-sensical NFT chat to start the show.
1) Should all confederations play the same number of games in World Cup qualifying? And why do some play more?
2) Who is your USMNT Best XI of players who played zero minutes in Concacaf World Cup Qualifying this cycle that are still in the picture to make the final World Cup roster?
3) What experimentation might we see from Berhalter now that the US has qualified for the World Cup?
4) Are there any examples of teams forfeiting a game and taking the 3-0 loss to avoid a game they can afford to lose by 3 goals?
5) Should MLS divide into divisions (a la most North American sports leagues) to limit congestion and balance the schedule?
6) If you could host a podcast with one present soccer player based purely on vibes, who would it be?
7) What is the story behind the TSS theme song?
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| 0:32.1 | The Welcome to the total soccer show and our latest edition of Listener Questions. Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest edition of Listener Questions. |
| 0:58.3 | My name is Ryan Bailey and helping me to field your queries today is a man who sadly doesn't own a single Liverpool FC NFT. |
| 1:06.1 | Is that right, Taylor Rockwell? |
| 1:07.9 | That is right, and I never will. |
| 1:09.6 | Not just because of Liverpool, but because NFTs still feel like a scam to me. Even after I saw that ESPN is partnering with Tom Brady to do one, I understood like four words in a fully written out tweet. I'm good with avoiding NFTs on the whole. NFTs are a scam. OK, boomer. Whatever, Taylor. Yeah, I know. I'm aware that that's the mentality that I'm bringing to this, but I am okay with it because NFTs don't make any sense to me and are therefore scary. |
| 1:33.1 | Before Liverpool beat Portuguese side Benfic in the Champions League earlier this week, we learned that their NFT range has flocked with only 10,000 sold out of 171,000 available, Taylor. Whatever will they do from not making any money from this scam? Could be made up to me. Like, everything you just said might be real and might not be real, but that's where NFTs really lose me. It's just like, yeah, the NFT offering it flop, but then they came in with a secondary round of negotiations, and that led to a tertiary acquisition offer. |
| 2:02.6 | And here we are with the NFT, uncertain of a steady future. |
| 2:06.1 | I blacked out there, Taylor. |
| 2:07.2 | What was that? |
| 2:07.8 | See? |
| 2:08.3 | See? |
| 2:10.7 | Also here is a man who was never hidden in the toilets at Ibrooks overnight to see the old firm Derby, Graham Rudden, is that right? |
| 2:19.0 | I mean, not that Rangers know of. If you do it well, they never know. So who's to say |
| 2:24.7 | whether I've done that or not? But yes, I did see that news story and it was fairly amusing to me. |
| 2:29.8 | And genius. It was a pretty good idea, if the sort of idea that might end you up in jail. |
| 2:35.6 | I don't know if you saw this guys and listeners. A lad called Kalen Clark. He was a ticketless |
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