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Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

Is the 2025 Leagues Cup format the best yet? Plus, the latest on Thomas Muller to Vancouver | MLS Update

Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

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Sports, Unknown, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

With Joe on MLS suspension courtesy of byzantine and arbitrary MLS podcast rules, Jeff and Taylor get into all the latest happenings around the league. What do we make of the impending start of the Leagues Cup, is the new format ideal and will it feel more or less like an exhibition this time around? Plus, Thomas Muller to Vancouver and Son to LAFC, plus a look back at the weekend's strugglers (Dallas, New England, and St. Louis).


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Music Hello, hello, everybody, and welcome to the total soccer show. My name is Taylor Rockwell and I'm excited to talk some MLS with you all today. We do not have Joe Lowry with us. He did two MLS-centric shows last week, which triggers the seldom seen rule of you also get a one-game suspension if you do too

1:13.2

much MLS coverage.

1:14.3

So Joe is not with us, but Jeff Ruder is.

1:16.9

Jeff, it is lovely to have you back from Austin.

1:19.4

How was it your time in Texas?

1:21.6

It was good.

1:22.3

It's also nice to skirt the rules.

1:23.9

I'm also operating off of a well-worn MLS rule that is certain people can do it and

1:29.7

still not get suspended. No, Texas was good. The barbecue was great. The weather was unpleasant,

1:35.8

but the, I don't know, the people was awesome. It was awesome. Like, it's one of those things where it's

1:39.1

like they just aren't enough of those events anymore in like American soccer, whereas there's

1:43.7

too many events. Let me be clear. But there aren't as many, and this in like American soccer, whereas there's too many events.

1:44.8

Let me be clear.

1:45.5

But there aren't as many. And this is maybe just like a there isn't like the uniform culture anymore where it's like, this is where you go. This is the time where you get to see your friends. And so it was nice to see my friends. It wasn't the skills competition. You didn't all come together to watch. It was part of it actually. Alestrious competition?

1:41.8

It's kind of nice though, because the skills competition is

1:43.9

Taylor made for just kind of like happy You didn't all come together to watch that illustrious competition.

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