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Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

USA v Cuba preview, plus 10 USMNT-centric listener questions

Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

TSS

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.8 β€’ 3.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, we take a look at the USMNT's Tuesday night game against Cuba. Who should start up top? What will the defensive shape look like? Should the US win this one? The answer to that last one is definitely yes, but the others require a bit more conversation.

After that, we answer 10 USMNT-centric listener questions, including:

1) What should Berhalter's game plan look like moving forward?

2) What's the percentage chance the US qualifies for Qatar?

3) Which players in the pool would most benefit from a move abroad?

And many many more! Plus, SCOUTING!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the total soccer show.

0:19.8

My name is Daryl Grove and I'm joined by a man who keeps all his money in the Cayman Islands. His name is Taylor Rockwell. Hello. When you say Cayman Islands, do you mean piggy bank under the mattress? I go double security. Pitybank and then under the mattress. It's very uncomfortable, but no one can find it. And that's what you call the Cayman Islands. Yeah, and then I write it on Sharpie Cayman Islands.

0:38.1

That's what I've heard.

0:39.0

Don't tax me.

0:39.6

Parentheses, offshore accounts. I mean, your definition is as good as anyone. I think I'm good to go. I don't see how this could possibly fail. One other team going to the Cayman Islands very, very soon. They're there right now. it's the US men's international team.

0:35.2

They are there to play Cuba away-ish at a neutral venue.

0:39.4

And I feel for those poor, poor journalists who had the travel to the Cayman Islands, that luxury paradise, I don't know how they're going to make it happen. I saw an American Outlaws post saying the hardships we go through to follow the U.S. and it was from a balcony overlooking a beach.

1:12.1

Yeah.

1:12.5

Maybe that's a good way to reward the people who traveled to that game, given that it hasn't always been the most fun to watch the U.S. Ben's national team this is true. This year. Yeah, it's like an end of year reward. Yeah. Sort of. That costs you a lot of money. Yeah. We are going to...

1:07.8

Oh yeah, US I couldn't pay for it.

1:08.8

Not too much now.

1:09.4

We are going to talk USA Cuba, the Final Nations League group stage game.

1:14.2

Because it is of relative importance. We've also got – you made that barely convincing. But we've all – I'm barely convinced. We've also got 10 U.S. men's national team themed questions that we'll dig into into pretty soon because this won't be too long of a preview.

1:46.0

No, I would say not. Given that there was... We're going to break down how Cuba play and all that kind of stuff. Not so much. The way they play is attempting to be defensive and hopeful. Well, not even. Do you remember they were sort of in a mid block when we saw them at RFK? and when we watched all that footage of them before,

1:41.9

they kind of opened themselves up to it.

1:43.4

I'll go ahead and adjust that to poorly.

1:44.7

The way they play is poorly.

1:45.7

Okay. when we saw them at RFK, and when we watched all that footage of them before, they kind of opened themselves up to me.

2:01.3

I'll go ahead and adjust that to poorly.

2:02.6

The way they play is poorly.

2:04.5

Okay, so to put this in context, the US does need to win this game in order to finish

2:10.7

top of their Conquer Calf Nations League group and go to the semifinals, which will happen in June

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