Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and the first of our World Cup group stage previews. Yes, today, we're focusing on Group A, where host Qatar have entered the fray. But do they have the quality to become a knockout mainstay? We'll also talk about Ecuador, who'll need Edna Valencia to score if they're to make it to the next stage of this draw.

And in this group representing the African locale, we'll turn our attention to Senegal.

It'll be up to Saudi Amani to lift morale.

And will we mention their most recent Afcon triumph? Yes, we shall.

And rounding out this group, it's none other than the Netherlands.

The free time finalists will be on hot form when they grace the Doha Sands.

Oh, kind of a rhyme with Louis Van Hull giving out the commands.

They'll likely have Graham Ruthervin as one of their kit stands.

My name's Ryan Bailey.

Joining me today to talk all things Group A is a man who's played roughly the same amount of minutes this season as Gareth Bale, but has far fewer trophies to show for it.

Taylor Rockwell, hello.

Hello and welcome.

Taylor Rockwell, is that you?

It is, but now I'm being Dutch, yes.

Okay.

Yes, I'll have a schmockener pancake. Thank you. Is that where we go here? Yeah, I think so. I think that works for me. Hi, Ryan. I appreciate you being properly thrown off by my attempt to speak Dutch. Yeah, I mean, if you didn't speak Dutch, you just put on a strange accent, to be fair. I said hello and welcome and bedanked.

I had bedanked ready too.

Those are the words I had.

Very, very good.

Taylor, welcome.

You'll be covering the Netherlands in this episode, suffice to say.

Indeed.

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