Riqui Puig’s devastating LA Galaxy injury & Columbus Crew’s fascinating coaching hire | MLS Update
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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The trio is back! Taylor, Jeff, and Joe are here to dive into the latest news from around MLS — and boy-oh-boy there’s been plenty of news coming down the pipeline. We chat about Riqui Puig’s injury, the latest batch of coaching hires, roster turnovers in Philadelphia, Minnesota, and DC, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:02.5 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:24.6 | My first Total Soccer show of the new year. |
| 0:27.7 | I am Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:28.9 | I am excited to do some updating of Major League Soccer. |
| 0:32.8 | It's been a while since we talked to MLS, Joe Lowry. |
| 0:34.9 | And in that time, MLS did all the things. |
| 0:37.1 | Everybody was fired and hired and moved. Lots of stuff going down. Yeah, it does kind of feel that way, Taylor. You take a break from MLS and all of a sudden you're slapped in the face with a thousand different news items. This is my theory on sports, and I suppose just people in general, is that we like new things, right? Old things don't excite us anymore. We like new things. Always. That's, I suppose, why social media is what it is these days. This is the best time of the year, MLS. The part where we're not actually watching the soccer, we're just thinking about watching the soccer and thinking about how different it's going to be than the last time we watched all these teams play. I don't know exactly what or why or how this is in the human psyche. But the best time of the sports calendar is when you're thinking |
| 1:13.6 | about sports and somehow not out. teams play. I don't know exactly what or why or how this is in the human psyche. |
| 1:11.2 | But the best time of the sports calendar is when you're thinking about sports and somehow |
| 1:14.7 | not actually watching them. |
| 1:16.4 | Jeff Ruda, you are nodding along. Is it officially wait till next season time of the year for |
| 1:21.2 | you when we start to talk ourselves into moves that are being made and how it's totally |
| 1:25.3 | going to make the difference? Yeah, it's funny that the best part of the MLS calendar is the part you can't watch MLS live |
| 1:31.5 | is, you know, a backhanded compliment of sorts. |
| 1:35.0 | But no, I mean, it's, it's, there's a lot. |
| 1:38.0 | It's that like American offseason that every American sports fan loves is creeping into your soccer. |
| 1:43.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:43.7 | I think we already have two teams that sadly know that they're, they're counting down to |
| 1:48.0 | 2027 already, which is a bit of a bummer. |
| 1:50.9 | Well, we'll start with one of them probably in terms of to scale with the galaxy. |
| 1:55.6 | But yeah, it's good to be back. |
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