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It's Roch, and this is an emergency pod in the wake of news that broke this morning that US soccer and director of men's football

early steward have parted ways. That comes days after it filtered out general manager, Brian McBride. He's also off.

Oh, US Soccer! We come off a World Cup where the entire nation is transfixed by the transcendence of messy heroes.

Who's odd to say that epic spectacle, whose halo touched the profile of the entire sport?

Oh, I'm poor US Soccer, cursed to stumble right onto the banana skin of true darkness.

That burr hole to rena family feud, followed up immediately by its men's sea string,

losing to Serbia's D string in a near empty stadium somewhere near Los Angeles,

under the eye of an interim coach.

Well, it feels like everything above those players is falling apart or being cleaned out by some soccer version of Harvey Katels' Winston Wolf.

What is going on? Gonna try and make a little bit of sense of it. This is where we are essentially the best of times.

The worst of times, because we are hosting a World Cup in the United States in 2026, yes, along with you Canada and Mexico.

And this should be the biggest thing to happen to men's football in the United States in terms of legacy impact.

It's all we've ever dreamed of. It's all happening.

Instead, we are listing into the cycle with no coach, no director of football, no general manager,

and even the many investigations that we are undertaking, some of those themselves are being investigated reviews are falling like snow on snow.

Ah, so let's rewind to this one. We have an email emergency conference call.

And by the way, I don't know if you find this, but there's few things that say organization and plan careful strategy less than getting an emergency conference email less than three hours before it's taking place.

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