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Registered by the 5th of September to get started The Open University The Future is Open The Future is Open me. Welcome to the total soccer show and our latest foray into the listener questions mailbag.

Today we're taking stock of the low block. We're looking at the career of a legendary

UVA defender. No, not that one. And we're learning about the oldest professional soccer debuts.

My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, your friend and mine, Taylor,

Rockwell. Hello, Taylor. Hello, my friend. I'm panicking a little bit because I kind of forgot to go into even more depth on the Leonardo Bonucci one. Spoiler alert, that's who we're talking about. That's who we're talking about. Not the other one. We don't tolerate that kind of behavior around here. Thank you very much. Power Trio here today. Graham Rutherland. Hello, Graham. Hello, Ryan Bailey, how are you?

Are you looking forward to watching some Olympic soccer?

I know. Thank you very much. Power Trio here today. Graham Rutherland. Hello, Graham. Hello, Ryan Bailey. How are you? Are you looking forward to watching some Olympic soccer?

I know how much you love international football. So how excited are you for that tournament to start today?

Did you even know it was starting today? Are you just learning about it now?

Yes. All your questions, yes. The answer is yes. Yeah, can't wait.

So you were tuned to Argentina, Morocco before we started recording. Morocco winning 2-1, by the way. Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert for the event that happened in the past when this recording goes out. Excellent. Yeah, very good. We're in the Matrix. I don't know about you, Graham, but I feel like, is there less hype around this Olympics in general? I just haven't seen that much of it. Is that fair? Yeah, I mean, there are all kind of nerdy reasons for that. Like in the UK, it's behind a paywall now and not on free to air TV. I don't know whether in the US that has, if they're still the same level of hype. But yeah, in the UK, it's not as easy to watch now.

Speaking, speaking as our resident person in the US, although Ryan is that too, and sometimes

Joe is as well, I would say it is probably less hyped. And I think part of that is because of the

summer of soccer we have already had and how much if you have been looking for summer sports,

you have had plenty of

coverage. But I also do wonder if some of that is just that not a lot of people have broadcast

television, NBC still has the rights, and you can get it in a lot of different streaming platforms.

You'll be able to get a lot of different extra events, but I do think it takes away some of the

shine a little bit when it's not just like you've got your

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