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Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and I have a recording acoustic foam cover above my head,

which means I can't put my hands all the way up to do this introduction, but that's okay.

We've got a listener questions episode to get through today.

To do so, I'm joined by two fine gentlemen. The first is a man who

now has categorical proof that the United States is better than Ireland, at least when it comes to women's soccer. It's Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. Oh, thank goodness. We finally got what we needed. I don't think Saturday was enough. We needed to play them twice. There is some good news surrounding the U.S. women's national team, Ryan asked us on Monday why these were the last games

before the World Cup, because the World

Cup was still several months away.

And it turns out they are not.

And nobody really knew that for sure until last night right before the U.S.

is one-nil win over Ireland kicked off.

The U.S. will have one more game.

A week or two before the World Cup starts, and that, I think, is a really good thing for this

team. They're going to need as many reps as they can get to continue to elevate this product.

We saw a lot of rust on Tuesday. That's last night. We saw a lot of unconvincing attacking play,

so getting one more rep out feels good to me. Do we know anything about Becky Sowerbrun, Joe, as far as

you've seen? She came out, I think, early in that game. I know you weren't able to watch all of it,

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