Hello and welcome to the total soccer show. My name is Daryl, and I'm joined by a man who's a Conquercapped Nations League convert. His name is Taylor Rockwell, and he believes in the competition. Hello.

And just like the people who used to convert other people, you've decided for me, it sounds like?

Yes. Okay. Will you take this leaflet?

We'll see. We'll see how it goes. I think I am. I you take this leaflet? We'll see.

We'll see how it goes.

I think I am.

I'm still not quite where you are on this one because it is still like a Cuba game that we were on extra time earlier. And the conversation was like, we usually beat this team a lot. A lot of people have beaten this team a lot. Should we beat them a lot? was sort of the gist of the conversation, at least to start.

I think in terms of Conquer Calf Nations League, people will be more excited about it when we get to the knockout rounds in June, where essentially competition is tougher. Yes. I think it will be, I think people won't be truly excited until, like, maybe the final game, and then it will maybe build. You mean USA, Mexico? Yeah, which will then build enthusiasm for the next iteration.

But whenever there's the introductory one, the inaugural tournament, it maybe takes a little bit

of time, especially when it's a tournament played over different weeks and months and at

different points.

And some teams have played each other twice and some teams haven't played at all.

And we should set the stage, right?

So this Friday night, the USA plays Cuba in the Conquer Calf Nations League. It's the US's first game. We're in a three-team group with Cuba and Canada. So we play Cuba at home on Friday, Canada away on Tuesday. Then next month, November, we do the reverse. And that's the group stage over, right? If we win the group, we go to the knockout rounds in June. And if we finish second, we qualify for the Gold Cup, but everybody sets their computers on fire and Twitter explodes. And if we finish third, we get relegated to the lower tier of the Conquer Calf Nation-Z. We're hoping that doesn't happen. I think that probably won't happen. Right now, the United States has not played a game. As I said, Canada and Cuba have played each other twice.

Yeah, they've done it.

United States currently in second, which tells you how poorly it's gone for Cuba. So, yeah, Canada won 6-0 and 1-0. Different? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And I would actually, I'm glad we started there because I would like caution people and encourage people to remember that.

Worth noting the six-no result. Yeah. And I would actually, I'm glad we started there because I would like caution people and encourage

people to remember that. Worth noting the 6-0 result, it was 2-0 at halftime. It took Canada, I think 16, 17 minutes to get that first goal. Then it took them almost to the end of the first half to get that second. So all I'm saying is that if it's not like 1-0 inside the first 15, that is not the end of the world.

If it's not 1-0

at the end of the game, that might be the

end of the world all right if it's not one-nil at the end of the game that might be the end of the world so should we talk a little bit about cuba and what to expect before we get into the u.s we're not going to like spotlight multiple players because cuba frankly are not a great team but when we were watching footage of cuba versus canada they were still not a Canada, they were still not a great team.

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