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The Disney Lullaby playlist. Listen now. Welcome to the total soccer show and our latest batch of listener questions on this episode.

We're questioning the existence of spursiness in teams across the world.

We're discussing our guilty pleasure players and we're asking if the five sub rule is ruining the Premier League. My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today. Hiya Taylor Rockwell. How are you? Hiya, Ryan. Doing well. Excited to be here. Always love some listener questions. Yeah, we do. We do indeed. Know who loves him? Joe Lowry, he's here. Hi, Joe. I love him. It's true. Ryan, you're spot on. As always, beautiful work.

Indeed. A fellow listener question lover with us as well. Graham Roslins here. Hi, Graham. Hi, Ryan. I do love listener questions. Maybe Spurs fans won't after this. If we have any Spurs fans left who are listening to this show, we'll finish them off good today with the Spursiness question. Yes, we had a question about spursiness, which we will take in the spirit in which it was intended.

We mean no spursiness question. Yes, we had a question about spursiness, which we will take in the spirit in which it was intended. We mean no specific offence to Tottenham in discussing this. It is a term very much in the soccer lexicon. I mean, the YouTube commenters believe, very much believe that you do mean offence. Me, specifically. Yeah, specifically. Towards Tottenham or everybody. I don't know. There's a London agenda thing going on here. Who was it who selected these listener questions? I don't know, yeah. I don't know. Real mystery. Interesting, interesting. I don't think that's in an important detail. Who was it who like made that one of the most prominent list of questions as well? Yeah. Who put it in A block? I don't know. We're all trying to find that guy. That's what I'll say. Patreon.com slash total soccer show is the best way to support us, by the way. It's also the very best way to submit a listener question if you would like to do so. You can do that on our Discord server. We've also got bonus episodes.

Bonus listener questions on that feed, including one this week about sons of former footballers who've reached or surpassed their father's level. Eddie on our Discord sent that one in. We've got

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slash total soccer show. Please, Anna, thank you. But for now, let's get to our main feed questions.

This one from Shreyas also submitted by our Discord. For how many national teams in the world,

would you say that their greatest player of all time is currently an active player?

There are obviously hundreds of national teams we could go through here.

So we'll see how deep we can go into the wormhole here, Joseph.

I will say, I'll put it straight out there.

Can we say straight off the bat, Christiane Ronaldo at Portugal?

Can we say straight off the bat, maybe Leo Messi at Argentina possibly? I don't definitely, it's messy. Yeah? Okay. Not the other guy? Fine. All right. And I'm assuming team of burner at Germany is a given as well. Oh, yeah. Of course. Born offside. I mean, that's all you need is that level. My honest answer to this question is 50%, 50% of the national teams around the planet,

have their greatest of all-time player who is active.

And that is poorly sampled, perhaps, on my part.

But here's my strategy for this.

So here's what I did, because looking through the thousands of FIFA nations didn't feel like it was going to happen between my waking hours yesterday to waking hours today. Joe, if you were looking through thousands of nations, we already have a sample of national nations. Right? So there's hundreds of national teams. I think there's got to be at least a thousand. How is Grand Reading the soccer dispatch if there's not a thousand different national teams. Are you Johnny and Fontino? When did this happen?

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