Hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

I am your host Taylor Rockwell, Darrell Grove is not with me in studio today.

He will be back with me tomorrow when we will review the USA's friendly against Uruguay

and we hope for a better result than we got Friday night against Mexico.

Speaking of that, I have Sam Staschko with me of the athletic.

Sam is going to be helping me make a little bit more sense of the USA's 3-0 loss to Mexico.

We talk a little bit about what Sam's expectations were heading into the game and sort of what

he thinks went wrong and why it went wrong.

But then there's larger conversations about Greg Berhalter and how he kind of approaches

dealing with media, dealing with the players, dealing with changing his approach.

We talk about the game against Uruguay which will happen Tuesday night.

Obviously, 6 US players sent home so how maybe the roster will look and what that lineup

might look like.

We close it out by talking a little bit of the collective bargaining agreement.

Sam wrote a great piece about that for the athletic.

Sort of looking back at the negotiations in 2015 and all of the kind of craziness that

went on there and then looking ahead to the upcoming negotiations, how things might be

different, how they might not be different and what just the overall future may hold.

So lots of great topics in there.

Sam, as always, is a great guest with, I should say like different thoughts to my own,

but the type of differences that like I appreciate because they expose me to new ways of thinking

or new ways of understanding and I mean that sincerely.

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