Listener Questions! USMNT’s No. 9 debate, uplifting soccer stories, what makes a big club & more
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The whole gang is here to answer your questions! You can find the full list that we tackled down below:
1) What makes a club a big club? And what would it take for a club to lose big club status?
2) How do you define "world class" in soccer?
3) Is the USMNT’s No. 9 spot up for grabs between Balogun and Pepi?
4) Which player stocks do you still hold onto, even though their career arcs have long since become clear?
5) What was the most uplifting soccer story of 2023?
6) What would our XFL-style soccer teams look like?
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| 0:28.5 | Thank you. Welcome to the total soccer show and our latest beret into the listener. |
| 0:58.0 | Questions? Mailbag. |
| 0:59.8 | Today we're defining what makes a big club. |
| 1:02.9 | We're pitting league art against the erudivisi and we're building XFL-style franchises. |
| 1:09.0 | Her boy. |
| 1:09.9 | My name's Ryan Bailey joining me to do those things and answer questions and be |
| 1:14.7 | generally lovely. |
| 1:15.7 | Taylor Rockwell, hello. |
| 1:16.9 | Hello, I was not really prepared to discuss the XFL or even think about the XFL ever again, |
| 1:22.3 | but here we are. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm excited to do so. |
| 1:24.2 | I had to look up what it was, Taylor, if I'm honest. |
| 1:26.2 | Extreme football. |
| 2:19.3 | I mean, if it's wrestling inspired, that's what you've got to go so. I had to look up what it was, Taylor, if I'm honest. Extreme football. I mean, if it's wrestling inspired, that's what you got to go with. Yep. It sounded great. I miss it. Joe Lowry's here. Hello, Joe. Hello. I liked Taylor going extreme football. That brought the energy that I needed on this, on the show. Before we started, I told you guys that I've been overdosing on afcon footage and josie marino news so this is a welcome change from the weird swirling thoughts that are going on in my mind right now welcome brother there you go I'll keep it going it's like a monster truck rally in here today Taylor I'm enjoying it keep this energy up I energy up. I'm going to get my Mountain Dew shirt on and then you'll see. Then you'll see. Graham Rubvin here in what is either an Oxford United or a Sweden shirt. Hello, Graham. Hello, Ryan. It's a Sweden shirt. I don't have the blonde hair anymore. So I have to pay tribute to Sweden in some way on a daily basis and so I'm wearing a Sweden shirt. |
| 2:24.7 | I need more information about the XFL, right? I clearly didn't do enough research on what the XFL is because I thought it was just like an alternative football league. Taylor, it was inspired |
| 2:30.5 | by wrestling. I need more information on that. I believe Vince McMahon was the original |
| 2:34.6 | owner of XFL who started at Vince McMahon. Oh my God. |
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