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Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

What do clubs do during the international break, why do Brazilian players go by one name, how to quit following a club, and more listener questions!

Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

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Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Your favorite foursome is answering your listener questions, including:

1) Has MLS become too good to play games during international windows?

2) What do clubs, managers and players do during international breaks?

3) Why do Brazilian soccer players go by one name often a nickname?

4) How does one stop following clubs, and who are some less-heralded Premier Clubs worth keeping an eye on?

5) How do basketball and other US team sports succeed in developing players from underprivileged backgrounds when US soccer fails?

6) Which of the following Red Bull scenarios is most likely in the next 5 years: 1) New York Red Bulls win MLS Cup, 2) RB Leipzig wins the Bundesliga, or 3) Leeds becomes Leeds Red Bulls (or similar) with a new RB-branded logo?

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0:00.0

Welcome to the total soccer show and our latest foray into the listener questions mailbag.

0:25.7

Today we're looking at what goes on at club training facilities during international windows.

0:30.4

We're exploring Brazilian nicknames and we're asking, is it okay to quit a club as a fan?

0:36.2

My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today as we rifled through the mailbag once again. It's Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor. Hello, my friend. It is okay to quit a club. I suppose it's never okay to quit on this show or Ryan Bailey. That's my official policy. Oh, Taylor, that's so sweet. How many times do you think we're going to use the I wish I could quit you line during this episode?

0:55.1

I've got a couple of them.

0:56.0

I already wanted to use it like three times while you were talking, so several is my answer.

0:59.5

There we go. Well, look out for that one listener. Joe Lowry's wheeler to answer some questions. Hello, Joe. Yeah, I'm not going to quit Ryan. I'm actually recording directly behind you. You should turn around right now. I'm uncomfortably close.

0:56.4

Oh. That was you this time. Very good. I'm uncomfortably close. Oh.

1:10.2

That was you this time. Very good. Excellent. Graham Rodman-low. Hello, Ryan Bailey. I don't know about quitting a club, but can you quit a national team? Asking for... Hey, now. Well, me. Okay. You're clear. Everything okay, Graham? You want to talk about it? Yeah, I mean, as long as we're in League 8, it'll be fine, I'm sure.

1:11.2

All right.

1:29.3

I'm going to wrench them. You're clear. Oh, everything okay, Graham. You want to talk about it? Yeah, I mean, as long as we're in league eight, it'll be fine.

1:29.9

I'm sure.

1:30.8

All right.

1:33.2

I'm going to wrench this until the inevitable happens.

1:35.1

You're fully milky.

1:38.7

There's going to be not a single drop of that left, and then y'all are going to get relegated, and you're going to have nothing.

1:40.7

You have hung your hat on the Nations League pay. Yeah, so hard, Graham.

1:44.6

Do you know what it reminds me of, right? One year at school, I fluked maths, right? I was bad at

1:50.0

maths, and one year in my exam, I got a really good math result. And so the following year,

1:54.0

I went into advanced maths. And so I awarded this over all my friends all summer until the first

1:59.6

day of school the next year, when I realized I was highly underqualified to be in the advanced math class and immediately regretted lauding it over everyone over the summer and I went back to my normal mass class. That feels like Scotland in the Nations League. Yeah, I like that you had a friendship group where you're showing off was, I'm better at math than you. Yeah, I was a nerd, Ryan.

2:17.6

Yeah.

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