Hello,

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell with me.

Once again, is the woman who knows all the things about all the things.

It's Jordan Angelie.

Jordan, thank you for being here once again.

Wow, that's quite the info.

I hope all my things are up to date.

I'm curious, have you had any tea or

how do you survive all these days where you're doing back to back to back to back podcasts?

There's, there's what's over here. I have green tea over here. I also have coffee over here.

And I have water. So it's the triple combination. Yeah. Double caffeine and one hydrator.

Exactly. Exactly. It's easier to do the shows because then it's just talking back and forth and you're having a conversation. Where I get into trouble is if I haven't had enough sleep and then I'm like, oh, I'll watch a game in a comfortable chair. And then suddenly I fall in asleep. So yeah, I can't really do that. I have to sit in an uncomfortable chair or I have to sit like perfectly still and focused. Otherwise I'll fall asleep pretty quickly. That's that's more so the baby than I think it is the soccer. Yeah. We'll give that to the baby. Yeah. I think I tweeted a while ago. I like dropped something under my desk once while I was researching and I went to get it and it required me to lay down and I fell asleep underneath my desk.

So, yeah, that's about how things are going.

But they were slightly more exciting last night for the Earth Women's National Team who handed Argentina a pretty decisive defeat, thereby winning their second straight She Believes Cup.

That's where I would like to start with you, Jordan.

It's their fourth victory in the competition since it started, what, six years ago. I did a 101 episode about the competition, how it came to be. But I'm curious, do you think the players are really, like, the celebrations last day, they seemed pretty muted. They seemed like, yeah, we want it. That's great. It certainly doesn't seem to be

as big as the World Cup or the Olympics, obviously. But for those players, do you think it feels like

a tournament? Does it feel like a legit competition that they're the champions of? Yes, this

year was a little bit different due to COVID. They had to switch the team's kind of last minute

bringing Argentina in. So I think that just the level of competition potentially just wasn't quite what it has been in the past.

But this is the thing with the U.S. Women's National Team is it doesn't really matter who they're playing.

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