USL special with Ira Jersey and Phill Grooms
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🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Recorded recently in Baltimore at the United Soccer Coaches convention, it's a three-part lower-league American soccer special. Here are the timestamps:
3:05 — We talk to Ira Jersey of League One Fun about what's happening in the third tier of American soccer. League One only started play last year but is rapidly maturing.
26:14 — Phill Grooms from the USL Show talks some big-picture USL Championship with us, including the developing transfer market between USL and MLS
50:35 — Ira and Phill join us for a round of the Wikipedia Game!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Total Soccer show. Darrell here with a preamble, but no skipping. I have some important information for you. If you're hearing this on Tuesday, the US women's national team starts Olympic qualifying tonight against Haiti. The game is 8.30 Eastern kickoff and it'll be on Fox Sports 2 |
| 0:23.9 | and Fox Sports.com. We'll have a review of that game on Wednesday's TSS along with some listener |
| 0:30.1 | questions. Now, onto today's show, it's a three-part spectacular recorded recently in Baltimore at the United Soccer Coaches Convention. |
| 0:40.2 | In part one, it's Ira Jersey, friend of the show and co-host of League One Fun. |
| 0:45.3 | Ira sat down with us to talk all things USL League One, the third tier of American soccer. |
| 0:50.6 | Part two is Phil Grooms, new friend of the show and co-host of the USL show. Phil |
| 0:55.8 | talks big picture USL Championship with us and I highly recommend listening. Quick shout out to |
| 1:01.7 | listeners Kaz Tidrick and Richard Rolson, who both recently asked the same-ish listener question, |
| 1:07.2 | why aren't there more transfers from USL to MLS? |
| 1:11.3 | Kaz, Richard, I think Phil, will answer your question on today's episode. |
| 1:16.2 | I don't ask Phil directly, but we basically talk about that topic. |
| 1:19.9 | Part three today sees the return of the Wikipedia game, our soccer trivia showdown, |
| 1:25.8 | because Ira and Phil were both up for it so definitely stick |
| 1:28.8 | around and give that a listen. I also want to tell you that today's TSS is brought to you by |
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