Hello and welcome to the total soccer show.

My name is Daryl Grove and I'm joined by a man who always makes the right choices.

His name is Taylor Rockwell.

Hello.

Hello.

Decidedly untrue, but I appreciate the introduction.

Well, I hope you make the right choices today because on today's show...

Oh, which I'm about a controversial topic that people have strong opinions about?

We certainly are.

No, really?

We're going to be picking...

All politics. No politics. Well, it's kind of political, right? I guess so. A US men's national team, 23-man roster for the upcoming games against Mexico and Uruguay. For those you don't know, it's Mexico, September 6th in New Jersey, I think so the MetLife,

and against Uruguay on September 10th in St. Louis, meet me in St. Louis for that game. We're going to pick it reality-based, right? Injured players, don't get called in. For example. Yes. And we're doing this in advance of when the actual roster gets released, just because we like to get a jump on it, you know, and I have a little think about who we'd like to see in there, who we would not like to see in there. I don't know how you've done it, Taylor, but I've done it in a sort of to fit Greg Beaheuser system. Yeah. Right? Like, I'm picking it, but Beahalter's going to coach the team and play the way that we know they've been playing in the goal cup. I've done it more so just the players that I think would fit in there and could be fun to watch. I'm kidding. No, I've done it your exact way. No, of course. Because it is more fun for me that way to think about it from a perspective of this is what I know Greg Berhalter is likely to do. Yeah. And so then these are the people that I think personally would fit that system really well. So then if there is a lot of disparity or a few different points. Between you and Greg? Yeah, then it's sort of a like, okay, well, I wonder what he's looking for, what he doesn't see in my player. I see. Yeah. Are you assuming that we're going to have the same system and the same sort of formation where like through the Gold Cup of the right back no longer came in field, the right back

overlapped. system and the same sort of formation where like through the gold cup of the right back no longer

came in field the right back overlapped and went really wide so reggie cannon was essentially

when we attacked would go and be essentially an extra winger and the right winger who was say

tyler boyd for a good while or jordan morris later on would then took inside a little bit

we sort of expecting that same system?

Because it is worth thinking that Baltha could throw some curveballs out of terms of tactics. There could be a new wrinkle for September. Well, I think there may be. I think that's the one thing that I kind of want there to be. I'll talk about that in a second. You do. I do think that we'll probably continue to see the overlapping fullback as opposed to the fullback becoming a

central midfielder.

I think a big part

of that maybe he was

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