The Big Thing: Did Gregg Berhalter pick the right USMNT roster for September?
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🗓️ 16 September 2022
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The USMNT’s roster for the September window is here. Who’s on it? Are there any surprises? And did Gregg Berhatler make the right choices? Ryan, Taylor, Graham, and Joe discuss all that - and more - on this week’s episode of The Big Thing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Big Thing from Total Soccer Show, the podcast where we sink our teeth into a meteor subject matter in the beautiful game. |
| 0:28.9 | Today, it's all about the latest USMNT roster drop for the final two pre-World Cup warm-up games. |
| 0:34.9 | That's against Japan on September 23rd in Germany and then against Saudi Arabia |
| 0:39.1 | in Spain on September 27th. Join me to discuss the 26-man roster and all who sail within her. |
| 0:46.5 | Taylor Rockwell, almost said your name wrong. Taylor Rockwell, hello. Hello. Graham Ruthven. Hi. |
| 0:52.2 | Hello there. And Joe Lowry. |
| 0:54.5 | Hello, sir. |
| 0:55.6 | Ahoy. |
| 0:56.8 | Shall we start off, Taita, with a little overview of this roster. |
| 1:00.6 | What is it for? |
| 1:01.3 | What does it mean in terms of the context of the World Cup? |
| 1:04.6 | Everything. |
| 1:05.7 | We have two friendlies coming up in late September. |
| 1:08.5 | We've got Japan and then we've got Saudi Arabia. So Greg |
| 1:11.8 | Burhalter called in 26 players, which is the number of players that will be on that official |
| 1:16.7 | World Cup roster. That's why he went with 26. He talked about that in his press conference yesterday. |
| 1:21.7 | But this is sort of the final couple games, the final tune up games, because we don't get the usual break we get when |
| 1:29.3 | we have a summer World Cup when like the season ends in May, then you'll have a multi-week |
| 1:34.3 | camp where you usually get two or three friendlies and a bunch of time together. You're not |
| 1:38.0 | going to get that this time round. So this is sort of the final round of games for him to see how |
| 1:42.6 | the squad is jelling, for him to see a couple new |
| 1:45.8 | -ish faces. And then there will be a couple months where the people who didn't make it have |
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