Welcome to the total soccer show and our latest round of listener questions.

On today's show, we'll be adding a game changer from the past to the USMNT.

We'll talk about game rituals and we'll talk about why players don't become referees.

And also, we'll discuss elite kit and crest combos.

Mm-hmm.

My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me today, a man who deserves at least as much fanfare as Paolo de Barla received upon his unveiling in Rome.

Joe Lowry.

Hello to you, sir.

First of all, Ryan, I would love that slash maybe be scared and frightened by that because

it would feel really very surprising those videos were insane absolutely insane you ryan you pick

the worst time seriously to go on on a little bit of vacation and not be in rome because that

means you missed all the fanfare around paolo de bala you could have been one of those 10,000 people holding up cool, light up things and yelling and cheering. That could have been you, Ryan Bailey. Yeah, very exciting times, Joe, in Rome, as you say, outside the Palazzo de la Chivita, which I looked it up. I didn't know where it was. It's about 10 miles south of the Stadio Olimpico. It's not really in the city center. So they drew, according to the reports, Joe, between 10 and 20,000 people. And it had like a day's notice to get that thing together. And it looked like a rock show, basically, didn't it? Real. As showing up with the lights and everything. Very impressive for a free transfer, I'd say, Joe. It looked like the fans that celebrated winning the Turkish Super League this past year

and those videos went around.

It didn't look exactly like that.

I think that video from Turkey was a little bit more surreal.

But man, I mean, they were stoked about Paulo de Bala.

And you can see maybe how Roma was able to entice him a little bit into joining that team

because it's not as

if they're really title contenders at least in my mind in Syria right now I think they have

holes in their squad relative to certainly inter and potentially even Yuvae and they see Milan as well

but man the environment and the atmosphere there is is incredible and that was a really it still was a surreal moment

to watch on Twitter as it was circulating i i really couldn't believe it ryan that was wild yeah the

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