Hello and welcome to the total soccer show.

My name is Darrell Grove and I'm joined by the man who said Argentina couldn't do it. His name is Taylor Rockwell. Hello. Don't you put that evil on me? Don't you put that evil on me? It was me. It was me who in the Argentine preview basically suggested this team has no chance. They're going to get beat up badly at the

worker how big were the bullets you were sweating today so actually so we can do this review

of the game later right yeah we're going to talk us women's national team first but i will tell

you this started out big bullets uh-huh so i was kind of like all right i need i need japan to

score so that i don't look bad you had such a strange rooting interest in Japan. Right? I really did want Japan to beat Argentina just so I didn't look bad on my preview. But towards the end, I kind of got into the mode of, all right, I've put 70 minutes into this. They've put 70 hard minutes into this. They kind of deserve it. And at least it will give me something to talk about on the show.

There you go.

Perfect. So I ended up kind of not quite rooting for them, but at least feeling like, oh, go on then. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it morphed from, I need to be right, they better get scored on a bunch to like, yeah, hold on. Hold on mighty Argentina. Yeah, yeah. It's almost as if I realized that maybe I was less important than the entire Argentine

women's national team competing at the World Cup. I suppose that's true. Yeah, getting their first ever point. To some folk, not to me, but to some folk, yes. Thank you very much. Of course. Also, you know, it was quite hard to root for Japan given their decisions during the game. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll get into all of that too. We'll get into all of that later, as well as Canada Cameroon when we do a wrap-up of

the day's action.

I thought for a minute you were about to make bad history jokes. And I was like, hey, that's my lane. You stay out of there. No, no, no, no. Gotcha. No, no, no. All right. But first, I believe Taylor, earlier today, before you met me, you recorded an interview with Caitlin Murray.

I did.

She's kind of our correspondent in France. I was going to say in Paris, I assume. She's in France talking US women's national team. Our friend in France. Our friend in France, Caitlin Murray. She is previewing the US Premier's national team's opening walk-up game against Thailand with you.

She is?

I haven't heard it.

I want to know what you ask her about.

I've kept it from you this all time.

Mostly we just talk about you and your bad prediction about Argentina.

No, it's about, it is somewhat about USA Thailand, but as listeners will probably not be surprised by the prediction is that they will win handily

the United States.

So I think they're sort of trying not to go down that route the players are.

So it's a little bit about Thailand.

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