Hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. I am Taylor Rockwell. Darryl Grove

is still in Boston. I'll be talking to him later tonight, which would be Wednesday

night if you're listening to this after the fact about Greg Barholtzers latest US men's

national team roster. For now, I'm going to be joined by Matt Doyle of MLS Soccer fame.

He wrote a great piece about the team focusing on the arrival of young players, so you should

definitely check that out. In this show, we talked about the roster, the US Open Cup, the

MLS playoff race, and a whole bunch of other stuff, definitely an enjoyable time and an

enjoyable conversation. Before I get to that, a little bit of info about the roster itself.

Barholtzers caught up 26 players for the USA's upcoming friendlies with Mexico and Uruguay. Michael

Bradley, Josie Alcador, Omar Gonzalez were left off so they could play for Toronto because

they have MLS games over the international break because Major League Soccer. Deandre

Yedlin, Matt Miasga, Tim Wea, Deandre Yedlin, Dwayne Holmes, all missing due to various degrees

of injury. According to a report by Paul Tenerio for the athletic, Jonathan Nagby turned

down a chance to play for the team, reportedly did the same thing for the gold cups. That's

where things stand there. Here's the roster as it currently exists. Four goalkeepers called

up, Jessica Gonzalez of FC Dallas, Brad Guzano, Lenny United, Sean Johnson, NYCFC, and

Zach Steffen of Fortune, Adusel Dorf. In terms of defenders, we've got John Brooks, Reggie

Cannon, Sergino Dest, everybody breathe a sigh of relief there. Nick Lima, Aaron Long,

Daniel Loveitts, Tim Reem, Miles Robinson, and Walker Zimmerman. So about what we expected

given the lengthy list of injuries in midfield, Sebastian LeJet, Weston McKenney, Alfredo Morales,

he returns. Also of Fortune, Adusel Dorf, I should add, Paxton Pomakall, Christian

Valdon, Will Trapp, and Jackson Yule. And then interestingly, when we get to our forwards,

...