Hi, everybody, and welcome to a quick take, hot take episode of The Total Soccer Show.

It is weird to begin an episode like that, but I'm trying to make it clear that this is not our normal episode.

The lack of music has probably given that away.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

On today's show, we're basically going to be breaking down our immediate thoughts from the USA's 1-0 win over Haiti in the Gold Cup.

The USA's first game of the tournament was certainly

a game of the tournament with me tonight to help discuss that one, to go through some talking

points, to figure out what we're going to pay attention to in the rewatch, is a gentleman who,

I am sad to admit, is no longer America's most promising youngster.

Jean-Lucubusio has taken his crown and he is now moving into crafty veteran status.

It's Joe Lowry.

Hello, Crafty Veteran, Joe.

Reggie Cannon and I just hanging out in the Crafty Veteran booth or whatever that is.

Taylor, I will say, you perfectly, you perfectly delineated this episode from regular TSS episodes

because the second you said hi everybody instead of hello everybody or hello everyone,

I thought, oh, wow, yeah, this is something different. This is new. This is different.

Well, well, played, because that was my first thought.

Yeah. Well, it's, it's important to do that because otherwise you will get tweets and emails being like, hey, I don't think you guys put music on the front of that one. So I think to make it clear that it's a different one, I wanted to go that route. And yeah, again, if you found us during the Euros or just prior to the Euros and you are sticking with us, if you're a European, if you are a European who wants to hear about the US men's national team, welcome. And if you've been with us for a while, also welcome. So basically what we do with these types of shows is the US has just played. We kind of go through, as I said, our quick take, quick observations. And then we rewatch, and then we reconvene and break down the game in more detail and figure

out what we were right on, what we got wrong, what needed to change, all those good things.

So Joe, with that in mind, let's get to this lineup for a moment for the U.S.

Because I wrote it down very quickly and sort of didn't take it in until right before kickoff

and then I got very confused. What were your thoughts when you first saw who was going to be in that starting 11? I was a little surprised, honestly, and that mostly centers around one individual, and it's an individual who wasn't in the starting lineup. I was surprised that D.K. didn't get the nod at the number nine spot. It was Jossi Zardez in the middle of that front line.

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