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Learn more at vertexinck.com. Hello, hello, everybody and welcome to the total soccer Show. My name is Taylor Rockwell and joining me this evening to talk about the U.S. men's national teams three to one loss to Yulean Nagelmsman's Germany is a man who, in honor of that U.S. performance, will be committing to a strong performance in the first half of this podcast before sort of switching off for most of the second. It's Joe Lowry. Hi, Joe. I like you, Taylor. I think that works for me. I'll expend all my mental and physical energy in the first bit of this show. I'll leave the rest for later. In the spirit of doing that to open this show, did you catch Ilya Noglesman's outfit on the sidelines? Because I'll be honest, that is one of the ugliest yellow and blue plaid combos actually that already just sounds ugly by me saying those words together it just it was it just wasn't a good fit man I did catch it I didn't catch it maybe in as detail as you did has he won that before I feel like I've seen that jacket and that pant and that chew combination from him before. We know too much about Nagelsman's wardrobe, but I'm sticking with this topic for now since you brought it up. It is possible. For some reason, Naguisman strikes me as the kind of guy to cycle through four different outfits. Maybe he's got like four shirts, four pairs of joggers and four shoes. I can see that being the way he goes. Do you think taking over the German national team will make him be less adventurous or more adventurous? This is what people are here for, for sure. But I feel like when you take over Germany, especially with the way he left Byron, like does he go more traditional, more conservative? Does he manage in just later Hosen? Or do you think we'll see some like riddler-esque outfits before the

year is out i don't i don't know i think it'll be the first home game that really tells us if he pulls up on his long board then we know he's going to do whatever the heck he wants to do if he pulls up to that game like a normal person in some sort of car or public transportation yeah i think germany have got to him Any thoughts on the Burrhalter wardrobe before we get going with the actual review?

Since we've talked about one, we should talk about the other.

I thought it was fine.

Well, Yeah, I think Germany have got to him. Any thoughts on the Burrhalter wardrobe before we get going with the actual review?

Since we've talked about one, we should talk about the other.

I thought it was fine.

What was just like a blue Nike, U.S. soccer like hoodie? I don't know. I wasn't inspired. I'll put it that way. And to be honest, I wasn't inspired by different pieces of this game, even though the beginning like we talked about was fun. I'll tell you what I was inspired by if we're going to

start in a positive was that crowd. The atmosphere was the best I can remember since like maybe

the Panama Workup Qualifier that I was at where it was a pretty rowdy atmosphere the whole time.

This one, sellout crowd in Connecticut, really loud from start to finish. The drums were

excellent. I feel like sometimes the drums are sort of there because people think they're supposed to have drums,

but it doesn't always lend itself to the atmosphere.

This time, we had some good drummers doing some variations of stuff, and I thought the

atmosphere was so much better than I expected it to be for a friendly.

It felt to me like you and I had talked about this match being or feeling sort of like the actual start of the next cycle under Burrhalter because of the hiatus with him not being in charge and then being brought back, but then the last friendly is not being that good. This one felt like, okay, here we go. And it seemed like the crowd, the atmosphere tonight mirrored that a little bit. I thought so. I really enjoyed getting to watch this game. I thought from not just an atmospheric perspective, but also based off of the time of kickoff, I was kind of expecting like the sun to be up and for the angles to be weird and bad shadows. And I turned it on and maybe it was cloudy in Connecticut. I have no idea we'll have to ask and figure that out. But like the visual TV experience I thought was really, really good. And it seemed like being there in person was going to be even better because Taylor, you're absolutely right. That stadium was packed, Yukon's football stadium, a bit of a weird spot for this game, as we've already discussed over on the Patreon. But like the fans showed up.

You had a few Germany fans in the crowd.

You had plenty of U.S. fans in the crowd.

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