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Thank you. Hello, hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and today we're talking a little U.S. men's national team and a lot MLS playoffs.

To do so, I'm joined by two friends up first as a man whose team just won a championship.

It's Joe Winners Medal Lowry.

Joe, you're still celebrating your shootout win, my friend? It just feels good, doesn't it? You know, I've had a lot of things to celebrate. We're moving through the playoffs in every league, basically. We had the NWSL final, the USO Championship final that Phoenix Rising won in dramatic fashion. We had the Joe Lowry versus David Goss first round of the playoffs extravaganza competition that I absolutely, and I want to underscore absolutely, I want to bold it, I want to italicize it, I want to underline it.

I dominate it, David Goss in round one, and I am ready to carry that energy into the conference semifinals.

You could say, yeah, dominated, comprehensively destroyed, wherever you want to go with. Joining us. That's fine. He lost the bracket challenge. He watched his Knicks and Jets lose this weekend. It's David Goss. David, a wonderful time for you, my friend. I scored the best goal I've scored in Co-ed last night when it matters most. So I control my own destiny and Joe likes to watch other people do it. Gus, how is it exactly that you keep the frog out of your throat right up until we start recording and then it comes in? How do you do this? Again, I control my own destiny. Right. My mistake. Of course. I'm able to time it out perfectly. I think it's more of a ratatouy situation where you're not really in control and the frog just hops on in your throat and he's the one pulling the strings. That's what I think is happening, which also completely discredits your goal that you scored last night. That was the frog. That wasn't David Goss. And then I, by the way, after the goal, I played a cool, I was like, well, I got to finish one. You know, I'm like so bad in front of goal, but in my head, I was like, that goal was sick.

I hate how much I got to finish one. You know, I'm like so bad in front of goal. But in my head, I was like, that goal was sick. I hate how much I relate to that feeling. Yes, I actually do get that. Are you a Gotham fan, Joe? No, I just was running through cool things that are happening in American soccer. And your loss was one of those things that I was very, very excited about. But I'm from me right in.

Yeah, you're not.

You can't claim Gotham fandom. There's no chance. What? Why not? I don't know. Just doesn't feel like something you should have. I don't want you to have success. Gotham is like one of the only soccer teams are actually no people who work on it. And so I root for them. I know people.

Cool.

Big deal.

I'm very excited for all those people.

How many points did you get in the first? who will work on it. And so I root for them. I know people. Cool. Big deal.

So I'm very excited for all those people. How many points did you get in the first round? I don't know because I didn't keep my score. You guys are making it sound horrendous and I kind of thought I was like one game away. So can I get the score? I don't know what God said. I had seven. Sporting Kansas City came through for me.

To recap, just very quickly.

It was 7 to 3.

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