Hello and welcome, hello and welcome everybody to The Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

On today's episode, it's crossover time.

Once again, we've got a U.S. men's national team roster coming sometime in the near future.

World Cup qualifiers against Mexico and Jamaica right around the corner.

And we've got a lot of listeners with a lot of questions about this team, future squads, Burrhalter's tactics, and much, much more. So to answer those and many other questions, I'm joined by, as usual, my friend and yours, the dictator of Porto, Joseph Pepper Joe de la Lauery. Joe, how are the nicknames accumulating so far? How's that working out for you? So it was all well and good until I started having to print new business cards like I mentioned the other day. My ink bill is through the roof right now. It's getting a little unsustainable. My budget is not not doing well, Taylor. Are you just scratching out? The titles, are you just adding to them as you go? At this point, I mean, I started out creating whole new business cards because they needed a larger

cards.

They're actually just eight and a half by 11 sheets of paper. Their card stock at this point. Perfect. But Staples couldn't keep up with my demand with the supply chain shortage. So it's been a whole thing, Taylor. I don't really want to talk about it, to be honest. That's fine. We don't have to talk about it anymore because we'll instead talk about the gentleman who are joining us.

Two fellows from the scuff podcast. It's Adam. Yo, yo, how's it going, guys? It's going well, man, and it's Greg Velasquez. Hi, Greg. How are we doing, Taylor? Doing well. I'm excited for both of you to accumulate nicknames over the course of this podcast. So we'll have to keep track of if that happens. But we have many,

many questions. I'm going to follow Bell's lead and jump more or less right into them, starting with the first question from David and San Francisco. Greg, I'm coming to you for this one. Who is a player that you feel is ready for the next challenge at club level? And who is a player that you think could benefit going down a level. That doesn't necessarily have to be someone struggling, but could be someone who'd benefit from having an increased role or responsibility with a smaller club. That said, I made it a person who needs to go down a level. Greg, what about you? I'm going to go up a level and I'm going with, I should go, I should go down because there's so many players, so I'm like, ah, this is too much for you. But I'm going up a level and it's, it's going to be Brendan Aronson for me. He gets his Champions League games every couple of weeks, but otherwise he is playing in just too low of a level of a league. And so the only information we get about Brendan Arnison is through his appearances with the national team.

And, and again, in those... low of a level of a league. And so the only information we get about Brendan Arnison is through

his appearances with the national team. And again, in those Champions League games, otherwise,

it's just the fact that Salzberg rate him at all that tells us a decent amount that he's got

to be pretty good. But I'm tired of watching him on the weekends play against really low-level Austrian opponents.

I should have noted in my introduction that this is part two of the crossover.

We did part one on the scuffed podcast episode.

And on that one, Greg and I seem to have a lot of overlap.

It will be no different this time.

My answer was also Brendan Aronson, so I will just leave it to Bells to give us his answer.

Kevin Paredes and Jonathan Gomez, so two young leftbacks who I would like to see challenged at a higher level.

If they, you know, Gomez is already on his way to Real Sociedad in the winter transfer window.

Paredes, I don't know that there's, I don't know that there are even that many rumors about

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