New USMNT World Cup qualifying schedule, greatest USMNT center-back pairing, how to name an MLS team, and more
Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...
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🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 87 minutes
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It's a listener question special, where we get into [deep breath ... ] the USMNT's new schedule, whether or not Gio Reyna should start right now, the new Diego Chara, assembling an international team in Europe, fringe USWNT players who impressed at the NWSL Challenge Cup, how to name MLS teams, the best center-back pairing in USMNT history, why Ligue 1 isn't a popular destination for Americans, Ayo Akinola's international future, and how to spend a million dollars on the future of American soccer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Darrell, letting you know that if you don't already subscribe to The Athletic, |
| 0:07.8 | you can subscribe today and get 40% off an annual subscription if you use the URL, theathletic.com |
| 0:14.9 | slash total soccer. |
| 0:16.6 | Once subscribed, you'll be able to read articles like Paul Tenorio's interview with Tim Ware |
| 0:21.0 | and Meg Linnehan's takeaways on the NWSL Challenge Cup. |
| 0:25.3 | Once again, for 40% off an annual subscription, go to Theathletic.com slash total soccer. Hello and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:50.8 | My name is Darrell Grove and I'm joined by a man who loves to get things in his diary. |
| 0:55.8 | His name is Taylor Rockwell. Hello. Hello. I didn't know that, but I do for about |
| 1:01.9 | three days at a time and then I kind of forget that I was writing in a journal until the next time |
| 1:06.4 | I do it about six months later. Well, the good news for you, Taylor, is you can plan all the way to the end of 2022. Thanks to Conkerkaf and US soccer and a couple of quotes from Greg Beyerhelter. We basically have a sort of U.S. men's national team calendar for the next couple years. Are you keeping that calendar? I am. Then I'm good. I am. I'll just wait for you to tell |
| 1:28.3 | me that, hey, we have to do that thing. I've got it in a Google duck. Here's a quick heads up on what we know, |
| 1:33.8 | right? This is what we know based on a Conca Calf release, a US soccer release, and some Greg Beahelter |
| 1:38.4 | quotes. World Cup qualifying, that's the big picture one. World Cup qualifying will begin for the United States in June 2021. |
| 1:48.7 | And the hexagonal will become an octagonal. |
| 1:52.9 | So imagine the hex. |
| 1:53.6 | But with eight teams, the US will play 14 games, seven home, seven away in the final round of World Cup qualifying, June 2021 to March |
| 2:03.6 | 2022. |
| 2:04.7 | That's right. |
| 2:05.1 | It all sounds so far away. |
| 2:06.7 | It really does. |
| 2:07.9 | And yet it's not at the same time. |
| 2:09.7 | Like we are sort of almost halfway to a World Cup. |
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