Inter Miami’s win (and Messi’s injury), Steffen’s form, Vermes’ future & more w/Jeff Rueter | MLS Update
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🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Taylor, Joe, and The Athletic’s Jeff Rueter combine to chat about a host of topics from around MLS! We start with Inter Miami’s big 2-1 road win over Atlanta United: what stood out from Miami’s revenge game? And what went wrong for Atlanta? And what’s up with Messi’s injury? Then we chat about players who have caught our eyes so far this season, from Hugo Cuypers in Chicago to Zack Steffen in Colorado. Finally, we close out with a chat about the New York Red Bulls’ attack, Nashville SC’s new look, Peter Vermes’ job security, and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:24.4 | My name is Taylor Rockwell, and it's time for some MLS updating to do so. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm joined by two fine fellows. |
| 0:30.8 | My favorite name so far, I have to say Rocco Rios Nojo. |
| 0:34.6 | That is some lovely work, Joe Lavery, nicely done. |
| 0:36.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:37.3 | It felt fitting. |
| 0:38.2 | A nod to my Phoenix Rising Roots and also to Into Miami and their third goalkeeper who is leading them to glory after glory after glory. |
| 0:46.8 | Congrats for Rocco Rios Nova, who genuinely is really cool to see him playing for Into Miami and alongside his countryman, Leila Messi. |
| 0:55.2 | It's a great story for him, |
| 0:53.8 | who's a very, very nice guy, maybe not the best MLS goalkeeper, but still, a great name that's enough like mine that I could put it into our recording software and call it a nice little clever move. It is a clever move. And in honor of that first game, we're going to talk about Atlanta versus Miami we've've got Miami covered. So we're also joined by Jeff Lorenowitz Ruter. |
| 1:12.3 | Jeff, thank you for being here. |
| 1:13.5 | I'm assuming Lerneritz is your middle name. Yeah, yeah, my full Christian name, Jeff Lerneritz Ruder. Would you have preferred Jeff Agus Ruter? Jeff Cunningham, Ruter? What would you have gone from? I've thought about changing it to Agus at various phases of my life. |
| 1:10.4 | Jeff Gordon, there was a little flirtation with that one as well. |
| 1:13.1 | Interesting. |
| 1:13.8 | But it felt a little flirtation with that one as well. |
| 1:29.6 | Interesting. |
| 1:30.4 | But it felt a little too normie. |
| 1:31.7 | Yeah, I think overall it was just easier. |
| 1:34.9 | Are you an NASCAR person? |
| 1:35.8 | Is that what I'm understanding? |
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