Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our review of the USMNT's 2025 goal cup opener,

a resounding 5-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago in San Jose.

We're going to be looking back at this game, who played well, what it means for the US going forward, and much, much more.

My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today, Power Trio Time.

Joe Lowry's here. Hello, Joe. How are you? I'm great. I mean, if the US had just beaten Trinidad or just beaten Tobago, I would have been impressed for them to beat both of them at the same time. I mean, that's just high-level stuff. It's a tufa. It's very impressive indeed, Joe. Thank you for joining us.

Also, here, Graham Rutherland.

Hi, Graham.

Hi, Ryan.

How are you?

Are you overwhelmed by Gold Cup and Club World Cup mania happening at the same time? So many cups, so little time, Graham. That's all I have to say. It's that time of year where we've made a sort of dramatic shift from European soccer to soccer in the sunshine. Kind of here for it for those reasons, Graham.

It's weird vibes. Like, I've been watching a lot of the Club World Cup. I watched the US last night as well.

Fortunately, otherwise, this episode would be difficult for me. But watching the PSG Adlette game at the Rose Bowl in like midday sunshine.

Yeah, weird vibes where your brain goes preseason friendly, but actually preseason friendly at all there's a billion dollars on the line for both those teams there are indeed all right we're going to get to a bit of Club World Cup on our bonus feed by the way Patreon.com slash total soccer show if you'd like to join us there is the best way to support us bonus episodes where I say we're speaking about our first impressions of the Club World Cup and much more this week. Go join us over there. You'll also get bonus video content and of course access to our Discord server. Are all the cool kids hanging out over there? Yes. Yes they are. Patreon.com slash Total Soccer Show. A please and a thank you. And as a reminder, Graham's getting ready to vote

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All right, let's get to the USM&T gold cup action, shall we?

The campaign for the eighth gold cup title

for the US off to a flyer against TNT,

who are, lest we remind you, dear listener,

84 places below the US in the FIFA rankings in this 5-0 win, Malik Tillman with a brace.

Then, of course, Big Pat Ajumang, Brendan Aronson and Haji Wright with the goals too.

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