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Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and the latest edition of USMNT Weekly.

On this episode, we're digging into Maurizio Pochitino's 27-man summer roster, perhaps now a 26-man roster, which was announced ahead of the June tune-ups against Turkey and Switzerland, which

precede the Gold Cup. We're looking at the star names, or lack there of, the roster highlights, and we're getting ourselves psyched up for the national team's next outings. Let's do it. My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me today, your friend, my friend, The Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor. Hello, the Ryan Bailey. It is a USM&T specific show, but I feel like we might have to hear a little bit about Wimbledon, because up they go and you were there, my friend. Do you want to take a moment to bask in the celebratory glory and the rain all at once? Sure, I will do that right after I say hi to Joe Lowell. All right, Joe, hi. Up the Wimbers. Now you talk, Ryan. Up the Wimbers. Very good.

Yes, I've just returned on a jet plane from my 24-hour trip to London to go to Wembley Stadium to see Wimbledon triumphantly progress back into EFL League 1.

It was a good day. Joe, it was a risky proposition because I flew seven and a half thousand miles risking a game that my team might lose.

Yep. But we didn't, so it was great. The moral of the story is, do these things.

It sounded like a blast, right? I mean, the first question I asked Ryan today was how jet-lagged are you on a scale of 1 to 13?

And he said, I'm not really jet-lacked at all, which, I mean, he didn't answer the question.

But that's an impressive bit of work on your part right first of all to avoid that jet lag in that situation and the fact that you went for a win I mean it just doesn't get better than that even if you got rain soaked along the way still worth it yeah it kind of required military position to precision excuse me there was no military position in that sentence to get the timing right. I ended up having to get the train straight to the stadium because the plane was a bit delayed. But that was good. It was a very good experience. I had 15 of my friends and family with us there, so it was a very nice moment. Team like Wimbledon, we are fourth tier team. We had the 15th lowest, 15th highest budget, I should say, in League too. So we're a small team. And to get to Wembley Stadium at all is a massive achievement. So like, we're not a man city. This is probably as good as it gets for a fan-owned team in the UK. So I was glad that I was there. As good as it gets for a fan-owned club, also I feel like as good as it gets if you want to have the air of international made of mystery. So you landed from your international flight and immediately just went straight to the stadium. So you could have actually told people like, oh, yeah, I just got it from Charlotte. No big deal. You have to say jetted. Whenever you say international something of mystery, it has to be, you jetted somewhere.

That's what really adds the cherry on top of the mysterious nature.

Yeah, so as soon as I got on the train to the stadium, I just made load of phone calls going,

yeah, I just landed from America. Yeah, I came just for one day. I'm very special.

That really lowers the matter of mystery a little bit. What you have to do is be like, yes, no, yes. And then hang out. Five million. It's just like there we go. Exactly. Yes. Yes. And random numbers. Ryan, what's the first thing you ate when you get there? Do you eat? Oh my gosh. Do you, like, is it in the stadium? Are you grabbing something on the way in? Are you waiting until after? You're going to like this. Oh, boy. No, I'm not.

TG.I Fridays.

Yeah, I knew.

I knew that was a lie. Are you grabbing something on the way in? Are you waiting until after? You're going to like this.

Oh, boy.

No, I'm not.

TGI Fridays?

Yeah, I knew.

I knew that was a lie.

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