MLS 1.0 vs 2025 USL, Gio Reyna's consistent lack of minutes, and a new twist on five-aside I Listener Questions
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, we answer your listener questions, only 1 of which is fully related to the USMNT.
1) How does the current USL championship stack up to MLS just before David Beckham arrived?
2) Can you walk through the economics of an MLS team?
3) What's the history of interpretive statistics like expected goals?
4) Why has Gio Reyna consistently struggled to get playing time with different clubs and coaches even when he is healthy?
5) Should American players stop leaving for Europe unless they are promised a starting role and a pile of money?
6) What animal in the animal kingdom wins a game of 5 aside?
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| 0:58.0 | Tchipa. Welcome to the total soccer show and our latest foray into your listener questions. |
| 1:03.0 | On this episode, we're debating the value of US talent heading to Europe to develop. |
| 1:06.9 | We're asking if old MLS sides could be current USL ones, |
| 1:12.3 | and we've got the big one, which animal would be best at five-aside soccer. |
| 1:16.3 | My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today to answer those questions and much more. |
| 1:17.3 | It's Taylor Rockwell. |
| 1:17.7 | Hello, Taylor. |
| 1:19.2 | Hello, Ryan. |
| 1:23.9 | I did not spend the most amount of time researching that last question, but I did spend a lot of time thinking about it and consulting with my toddler daughter. |
| 1:46.7 | Oh, wow, you had a consultant you brought in for this one. That's interesting. Okay. I hope they're... She had less to say about the explosion of advanced statistics and packing stats and the like. She had some thoughts on those, but greater thoughts on animals playing soccer. Excellent. All right. Well, I'm on her wavelength on that one. That's very good to hear. |
| 1:50.7 | Joe Larry's also here. Hello, Joe. Hello. How are you? |
| 1:54.8 | I'm marvelous, Joe. You're looking, if folks are watching on YouTube, they'll see you looking resplendent in an Oakland Roots jersey today. Looking good. I'm doing my best Graham Ruthen |
| 1:59.8 | impression. A video of Scott McThamane scoring came up on my social media feed earlier and I was like, I have to do a Graham. Oakland, uh, Oakland Roots shirt feels like a Graham move. And I, I felt good about it. This is the new, I believe the home kit for 2025. Some Oakland athletics codedness about this jersey, which maybe is a little too soon, maybe not. But it's a great shirt. I'm here for it. It is a great shirt indeed. Thank you very much. Graham Ruffin also here with a different kind of visceral nussle on the eyes that he's got wearing on today. What is that, Graham? You've got on. Hello, Ryan. This is a Senegal track jacket. I've whipped out the Gladrags for listener questions, |
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