Hello and welcome to the total sucker show.

My name is Darrell Grove and I'm joined by a man with a bulging contact list. His name is Taylor Rockwell. Hello. Hello. I guess I think we share a contact list, though, don't we? We do, but you've been working it. That's true. That's true. Especially, you know, because I've been taking days off for health reasons here and there. Again, I love when you phrase it as though it's vacation. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's not the ideal vacation.

Not quite so much. But you do use that contact list to contact your roller decks of experts when you want to talk about stuff. My friends and your acquaintances, yes. My friends and your acquaintances. Which is to set up today's show, we are talking Women's World Cup, Italy, China,

Netherlands, Japan later on.

But first, we have an interview, Taylor Rockwell, talking to Felipe Cardenas about Copa

America 2019.

That is true.

The group stage is complete, so we look at the knockout round matches, who maybe Felipe thinks will go through, or generally more so, like, who he thinks will do well in the games, what he expects for those. But we also begin by talking El-Tree, what they've done so far in the Gold Cup. Cup of the Oro? Yeah. Uh-huh. The three-two win over Martinique is where we begin, but we get into sort of Tata Martino's relationship with the media, the Mexican media, which is...

Do you talk Rao Jimenez?

We do. We do very briefly because Tata Martino has been talking about Rao Jim and has. Has he? Has he? He's been saying good things about him? Yes, good things at a time when there have been some negative things said about him. Yeah. put this out there best striker named raoul of all time i think that's probably not true it's a minute

to like list the eight other stri time. I think that's probably not true.

It's a minute to list the eight other strikers. I think I'd probably go ahead of him. But yeah, and then with the Copa Medica, we talk a little bit about us. Who can do you, Copelandica? Yeah, I try. I try to drop that A if I can. Yeah, so we talk about knockout round. We talk a little bit about the group stage and kind of what's happened there.

And then also, maybe just some just general anecdotes from the tournament.

General anecdotes from the tournament because Felipe is reading all things connected to all things. Do we need to establish Felipe's credentials or do you think Alice has already know who Felipe is from his previous appearances? I mean, if they don't, they should know that he covers, I think currently is covering Eltri and Copa America and Atlanta United for the Athletic. What a beat. That's a great beat. He's got many hats. Many, many hats. I would love that beat. I think all of which he is not encouraged to wear while covering those teams. So there you go. Press box rules. Yes. All right. So maybe enough from me and you and you and Felipe. With me, once again, I've got Felipe Cardinas. Felipe, thank you very much for taking the time. I know it's been a busy couple of weeks, so I appreciate it. Anytime, Taylor. Anytime. Happy to be here. So we talked last time about Cop America, the first round of the group stage. We're going to talk a little bit about the knockout round, the teams that have made it, the teams that have not made it. But I wanted to start off with the Gold Cup, because you've been covering El-3 so far. Heads were turned when Mexico Martinique finished three-two. It sounds like that scoreline maybe doesn't tell the full story. Is that fair to say? Yeah, I mean, for sure. I think even during the first half, you know, I sent a tweet saying, you know, this, you know, Mexico is in complete control this game despite the fact that Martinique was very well prepared. You know, the day before their, their manager, Mario, Bokali, was very transparent in that he knew that it was one of their, possibly their toughest

game. I don't want to say ever, but they knew that the opponent that they were facing,

but they were very prepared tactically. And he talked about that. He talked about the work

that the team was putting in before that, you know, even leading up to that game, even in the groups, the other

group matches, the fact that in the first game, they, they were a bit tired. You know, they had just

arrived to the, to the Gold Cup, you know, guys coming in kind of late. They played Canada,

and then he wasn't, you know, satisfied with that result. They played much better, obviously,

against Cuba.

And then against Canada, they just looked really sharp tactically.

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