Hello,

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and that game was a lot more fun.

I'm here to discuss the USA's three-no win over Honduras and World Cup qualifying.

Here with me to do the same as a man who watched the game in his freezer as a show of solidarity.

It's Joe Lowry. Joe, that was very noble of you. Yeah, Taylor, I'm just trying to do what I can out here, trying to experience these conditions, and literally hopping into my freezer after jumping into a bath to then really feel the moisture freezing on my skin. That was the best way I could think to do that, Taylor Rockwell. All right. Let's talk about that weather than for a moment. It was a big win for the USA, a three-no win. Two first half goals offset pieces. That had been lacking good aggressive play, a good second half game sealer from Christian Pulisic. That was needed. I suspect if you were already Burrhalter out, this didn't change a lot for you.

If you were okay with what he was doing, you probably still feel that way.

What I'll say to start, Joe, is as I said in the introduction, this one, more fun for us watching at home than the Sunday result for sure.

100%. The conditions here were downright insane.

The temperature at kickoff was three degrees, and I'm sure it felt way colder

than that in St. Paul, Minnesota.

I believe the feels like temperature was negative 14 at kickoff.

Yeah, which is downright brutal.

I mean, multiple Honduran players, there were three subs for Honduras at halftime.

We learned after the game that multiple Honduran players, their starting goalkeeper and Romal Kyoto reportedly were two of them. Maybe there's more, I'm not sure. But multiple Honduran players had to be treated for hypothermia after playing in this game, not even for the full 90, evidently. That's ridiculous. And part of the response from the U.S. camp and from Greg Baraltar was, well, you know,

the U.S. has to go down to Central America and play in the afternoon, heat exhaustion and all of those things. And that's true. Those are legitimate challenges that the U.S. has faced in the past and we'll face down the line as well, I'm sure. But it still doesn't sit right with me, Taylor, that this happens, it still doesn't sit right to me. Sam Stagull's been using the phrase manufactured

adversity. And that to me. Sam Stagull's

been using the phrase manufactured adversity. And that, to me, is the perfect way to describe the

situation. Greg Beralta's been talking about how they really were able to use the conditions to their

advantage and they want to challenge Honduras and really make them suffer, not in a hypothermic kind of

way, although that did happen, but just in a

soccer kind of way. But man, I just can't shake the idea that when it's that cold, the ball is

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