Key USMNT areas to be excited (or nervous) about ahead of their upcoming matches against Belgium and Portugal | USMNT Weekly
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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We're doing a live watch-along on our YouTube channel for the USA v Belgium match this Saturday. Join us!
Until then, on this episode, we're previewing the USMNT's friendly opponents (Belgium and Portugal), discussing our personal "most notable areas of interest" ahead of the 2026 World Cup, and giving our respective starting elevens for Saturday's contest.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Total Soccer Show, USNNT Weekly, our regular foray into all things men's national team. |
| 0:27.2 | Today we're previewing the upcoming friendlies against Belgium and Portugal in Atlanta. |
| 0:32.1 | We're going to go in depth on what to expect from the opposition, what we want to see from Rizzo Potchartino's team, the potentialups and much much much much more my name's ryan bailey joining me today hello taylor rockwell |
| 0:42.4 | how are you sir i am splendid ryan bailey i love getting to chat with you all i love having all |
| 0:47.5 | four of us together USA games coming up i've got a lot of excitement and a little bit of anxiety about |
| 0:53.3 | it but today this morning has been scored by one thing in particular that has me excited. |
| 0:59.0 | There you go, Graham. |
| 1:00.4 | Yes! |
| 1:01.9 | JJ Bulls is an unofficial, official, Scotland World Cup tune that I'm hoping we're not going to get copyright struck off YouTube for playing this. |
| 1:08.6 | He'll appreciate the exposure, and he's part of the athletic, so he'll be fine. And dancing along for YouTube yours. That's our is a legitimate banger, and it took me until the YouTube comments to realize that it sounds so much like LCD sound system. I think that's a major reason why I love it. But either way, Graham, thank you for bringing that to our collective attention. It's been played multiple times this morning. |
| 1:32.0 | The LCD Scott system, I think, is what one of the comments on YouTube is, which feels just about right. My youngest was dancing to it, like, enthusiastically this morning while I was |
| 1:36.9 | making breakfast. Very good. And dancing enthusiastically also, Graham Rutherland just then, |
| 1:41.3 | the YouTube viewers got a real treat for you there, Grant. Thank you very much for Graham. That's right, Ryan Bailey. I was going to dance anyway at the site of the robot butt behind you, which hasn't been addressed yet for YouTube viewers, is quite the backdrop. I'm presuming it's not just a Zoom backdrop that you've pressed a button and that has appeared. That's not like a default setting for Zoom now. you are actually in Atlanta, but not for the game we're going to talk about, I presume, for something else. |
| 2:03.9 | I don't know, Graham, this could be... That's not like a default setting for Zoom now. You are actually in Atlanta. But not for the game we're going to talk about, I presume, for something else. |
| 2:03.9 | I don't know, Graham. |
| 2:04.5 | This could be studio trickery. |
| 2:05.7 | I was in Los Angeles last week. I might have learned a thing or two. Who's to say? That's right. But yes, I did actually make the trick down to Atlanta. there is a conference thingy happening in the Stadio D'Elvincter, |
| 2:15.4 | which is right behind me that you can see on the YouTube if you join us there. |
| 2:20.2 | Like and subscribe if you don't. in the Stadio D'El Sphinctor, which is right behind me that you can see on the YouTube |
| 2:18.9 | if you join us there. Like and subscribe if you don't. Joe Lowry, hello, how are you? |
| 2:23.1 | Oh, that's so good. I'm even better now, Ryan, this makes me so happy. I'm glad you're in Atlanta. |
| 2:27.6 | The conference has some interesting folks in it, so I hope it's a good time. And maybe, just maybe |
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