Hello and welcome to the total sucker show.

My name is Daryl Grove and I'm joined by a man who now knows how to pronounce Curacao. His name is Taylor Rockwell. Hello. Hello, I will take your word for it and not say it right now, and let you be out there saying that we know how to pronounce it. And I should admit, I also did not know how to pronounce it until I researched it a little bit ready for our US versus Kurosau preview.

My point is simply that I think we went to one website and heard one person pronounce it and

we're like, yeah, that's it. So we may still be wrong.

I checked multiple links. I checked multiple links.

Later in today's show, we will be talking about the US men's international team versus

Curacao Gold Cup quarterfinal. But first, there were two Women's World Cup quarterfinals today. There were. On a Saturday, which means no days off for us. Indeed. I'm assuming we all had Netherlands, Sweden, as our World Cup semi-final. Oh, yeah, definitely. When I fell my bracket out before the tournament, yeah, I had Germany and France going out in the quarterfinals, for sure. Yeah, Australia and not even making it that far. Yeah, totally, totally, totally. Wow. Yeah, it's a big deal, right?

That it's... I had Germany and France going out in the quarterfinals, for sure. Yeah, Australia and not even making it that far.

Yeah, totally, totally, totally.

Wow. Yeah, it's a big deal, right, that it's Netherlands, Sweden in the semi. It is indeed because I believe that means they both go to the Olympics, because European qualifying is weird. Yep. So, yeah, if people don't know, Olympic qualifying for the UEFA nations is whoever gets the farthest in the World Cup.

So, yeah, Netherlands, Sweden, and because England are there, but there's Great Britain is what goes to the Olympics.

I didn't realize this.

There was some agreement between England and the other FAs for England to be the official

will try and qualify through the World Cup team for Great Britain.

We'll try and qualify through the World Cup team.

There's going to be a whole argument next of does it just become the England team, coached by Phil Neville, that just wears the Great Britain jersey and plays at the Olympics, or do you pull in Kim Little, Jess Fishluck, all those players that you can? Whatever players Northern Ireland have? I couldn't name a Northern Irish soccer player. I believe he said today that he aimed to bring in other players if it was possible.

So we shall see how it develops, but we'll see if everybody wants to be part of that or not wants to be part of that. I'll go to me, I'm a little excited about that. I do. Because it's been so long, I mean, 2012 we did it, but I thought it was a one-off, so it's exciting to have it actually happen properly again. And that felt like a one-off. It felt like a, we're just going to do this.

This time around, though, I do wonder,

I love that we're just going to do this.

This time around, though, I do wonder, I love that we're talking about England somehow. I do wonder, like, if you've kind of had the success that England have had at this World Cup with the squad they've had, do you then bring in, like, other players who are, like, Kim Little is an amazing midfielder, obviously. Yeah. But then she's potentially displacing somebody else who's been there.

It's a strange situation that I'm sure Phil Neville will have to find a way to navigate. midfielder, obviously. Yeah. But then she's potentially displacing somebody else who's been there.

It's a strange situation that I'm sure Phil Neville will have to find a way to navigate. Here's my guess. I bet the Scottish F.A. put pressure on their players to not accept the call-up, because as I understand it, I'm not going to argue with them, but they're very invested in the idea of remaining independent nations within FIFA and not giving any inch to the idea of a Great Britain

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