Hello, hello, everyone and welcome to MLS assist, a podcast created to give insight into the tactical side of Major League Soccer.

I'm your host, Joe Lowry, and I'm joined by my co-host, Jordan, Lucci didn't quite make it as co-host material.

So I'm thankful to have you back again this week.

How are you doing?

I'm good. How are you, Joe? I'm quite well. It's nice to have you back back again this week. How are you doing? I'm good. How are you, Joe?

I'm quite well. It's nice to have some soccer back, even though it's not MLS. It's nice to have the Bundesliga back. It gives some structure, I guess, to the weekends, which is something that I think I've been missing for a while. So on the whole, I really cannot complain. Yeah, it makes you feel like you're back in a little bit of a rhythm, right?

Totally.

You know, we've talked about our... the whole, I really cannot complain. Yeah, it makes you feel like you're back in a little bit of a

rhythm, right? And totally, you know, we've talked about our love for having these games back and the

guys at Total Soccer Show are crushing it as far as recapping everything that's going on in the Bundesliga.

So props to them for doing what they're doing. But I also have to say, Joe, props to you. Great interview last

week with Lucie. Thank you. Thank you. It was good to have him on and hear a lot of thoughts on a lot of

things from him, honestly. Yeah. Well, for you and I, people don't know. We've actually talked about

having this, that interview for a while. And we wanted to talk to him and just see what they're doing

down in Dallas. And, you know, we interview a lot of people. And for those people who do

interview, you know that when the person that you're interviewing says, like, that's a really

good question. I've never been asked that before. You know, it's like a such a, you just smiled.

I was listening to your podcast and I heard that

from him and I texted you right away. I was like, that's awesome. Way to go. Like, what a good

question. So yeah, it was really interesting. If you guys didn't listen to that yet, go back and

listen to that interview for sure. Well, thank you. Thank you very much. I like the plug to open up

the episode. Jordan, we're not talking about coaching today. Today's show is all about designated players. You know, you can find articles listing the top DPs of all time on the internet on a number of different MLS-specific websites, but rarely, if ever, will you find any substantive analysis of those players? And Jordan, that's what we're here to change today. You and I sat down and put together a totally definitive, unquestionably perfect list of the 10 best designated players in the history of MLS. Okay, that's not true. And we both know it. And now our listeners know it too. The list isn't definitive. It's not perfect. And we couldn't even settle on exactly 10 players. Like we couldn't fit the basic

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