Who were the biggest roster snubs at Euro 2020, how will Konrad de la Fuente fit at Marseille, why is Sweet Caroline a soccer anthem, and more listener questions!
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🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
It's listener question time! On this episode, Taylor, Ryan, Graham, and Joe answer your lovely questions, ranging from Euro 2020 roster snubs to Sweet Caroline to college soccer. You can find the full list of questions down below!
1) Why do national teams name preliminary rosters before tournaments?
2) How did "Sweet Caroline" become a soccer anthem?
3) What advantages (and disadvantages) would a national team have if all of their players played for the same domestic club?
4) Who was the biggest roster omission from Euro 2020 who could’ve helped their team?
5) How will Kondrad de la Fuente fit at Marseille?
6) Do national team mangers who managed in the domestic league harbor favorites or rivalries in their roster selections?
7) With college athletes now officially allowed to profit off their names, images and likenesses, how it impact college soccer?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Total Soccercer show and it's one of those shows where we let you, dear listener, do half of the work, as we attempt to answer the questions you have put before us. |
| 0:32.1 | My name is Ryan Bailey. |
| 0:33.3 | Joining me today is a man who shines brighter than a Swedish Olympic jersey. |
| 0:37.4 | Too soon? It's Taylor |
| 0:38.3 | Rockwell. It's not too soon and I will take that because those jerseys are bright, |
| 0:43.1 | extra bright, I would say, even brighter than normal for a Sweden jersey. I think you and Graham |
| 0:47.1 | were the ones to point that out. Yeah, the brightest highlighter pen that your accountant has cannot |
| 0:51.5 | match the brightness of those Sweden Olympic jerseys. |
| 0:55.3 | They are quite interesting jerseys and they're made by Unipo, which is quite interesting. |
| 0:59.2 | But the one thing that gets me, Taylor, is the colour of the shirt is different to the yellow on their |
| 1:04.6 | shorts. They've got like a more classic yellow on the shorts for the number and the trim. |
| 1:08.3 | And then this highlighter pen they're wearing on top. I can't stand it. |
| 1:12.5 | It's weird. And it's definitely, it reminds me of, uh, myself before being with my wife when I was |
| 1:19.1 | like, I'm wearing like two vague shades of blue, but blue matches. So that's fine. And she was the one |
| 1:24.8 | who had to teach me that no, the same color matches, different |
| 1:27.8 | colors do not match. And it feels like maybe that's probably that maybe I went back in time and created the Sweden uniform. And for that, past me, future me apologizes. Last night, I actually got told off by my wife for wearing navy blue and black together. Apparently that's a bad thing. Well, that's ridiculous. That's just fine. I know. I know. I know. I am a ridiculous man. |
| 1:24.8 | Also with us is another ridiculous man who must be happy with Team G.B.'s |
| 1:48.7 | Kids at the Olympics because they're basically a Scotland kit, Graham, rather than. I mean, |
| 1:53.0 | I had heard something called the Olympics had started. That's fun. Maybe. I don't know, is it. |
| 2:36.0 | Tell us how you really feel, Graham. Well, the thing is, I'm doing a lot of Olympic work over the next two weeks, so I hope no one from my employer is listening to this. Olympics, they're great. I hope you're doing it for more than two weeks as well, because the games last longer than that. Oh, Ryan, why is you going to tell me that? I mean, yeah, I'm super excited and it's going to be great fun. But no, I did enjoy the kit. The kits has been the best part so far for me. It's too late, Graham. It's too late. You can't get out of this now. The thing that was more offensive to me was a football kit without a badge is just wrong to me and the USA wearing like I think it's exactly the same kit and the kit's fine but it just has USA written rather than a badge that's I don't like |
| 2:42.9 | that yeah uh team Gb of course with a badge on their jerseys uh in their opening game which they |
| 2:49.0 | won uh team Gb winning their opening Olympic games. |
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