Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our preview of World Cup Group J, the group that has a J and 3A's.

More specifically, Argentina, Austria, Algeria and Jordan.

My name's Ryan Bailey joining me to run through these groups.

Taylor Rockwells here. Hi Taylor.

Hi Ryan, how are you today? I'm doing wonderfully well. I'm looking forward to hear you telling us all about Jordan, the country, not the basketball guy. I'm curious if that is actually true if you were just being polite, because before we started recording, well, I think Graham was out of the room. I said, would anyone be surprised to know that I went way too deep on my Jordan research and there was a five Mississippi

silence before both of them said simultaneously, no. So the enthusiasm is powerful. Didn't think you'd skimp,

Taylor, didn't think you'd skim. And looking forward to indeed, also looking forward to Joe, talking about Austria today. Hi, Joe. Oh, hi, Ryan. I am looking forward to indeed also looking forward to joe talking about austria today hi joe oh

hi ryan i am looking forward to talking about austria a team that i think is going to be quite

interesting at this summer's tournament i'll keep the rest of my powder dry for later oh love a bit of dry

powder thank you very much joe lowry and gran russland is here he's got an argentina shirt on

that can only mean one thing he hates hates the English. Also, he's breathing Argentina.

I mean, no lies word spoken, Ryan Bailey. Yes, I'm pleased to have Argentina. I like Argentina as a football nation for obvious reasons, I guess. And I saw that they landed in the US a few days ago. We're given a very nice reception

talking of travelling to the US, Ryan. How prepared are you to travel to LA? Are you a neck

pillow on the plane kind of guy? What's your situation? For a flying over an ocean flight,

I will do the neck pillow for a pan American flight. Nah, I'm probably using my laptop doing work. That's how things work. Wait, what difference does the ocean make? It's still the same length. It's still a long flight from Charlotte to L.A., right? What's that got to be? Four or five hours? About four hours. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Still quite a long flight.

I'll be too excited and I'll still be living off the buzz of Taylor Jordan research at that point as well.

So there is that.

Yeah, we will.

We will all be very good.

And I will be talking about Algeria in this episode who face a daunting task of opening their campaign against the champions of defending champions Argentina at Arrowhead.

Although it's not called Arrowhead.

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