Hello and welcome to the total soccer show.

My name is Darrell Grove and I'm joined by a man who knows better than to go camping in January. His name is Taylor Rockwell. Hello. Hello, not only that. I know better than to go camping, period. Really? You're not a big... No, no. I'm not like that. I'm not Tom Haverford from Parks &Roev. No, I will go camping, but you are correct. January, less appealing. Apologies to our friends in Minnesota. I look forward to their letters.

They know not to go camping in January. They probably do, actually. They know probably better than most not to go camping in January. So our clever listeners may have figured out that we are here to talk January camp. So we did the quick roster reaction, right, when Greg Beairhalter's 25-man January camp roster was revealed.

That shows back in the feed if you want to go listen to it.

But we thought that there were some lesser-known names in this roster,

especially if you're not sort of a big soccer nerd like we are and watch all the youth players play. So we thought we'd do a sort get to know the lesser-known players episode of the Total Soccer show. Get to know your new friends. Get to know your new friends because some of these guys could be senior U.S. national team players by February 1st. Sure. By the evening of February 1st after that game against Costa. I guess technically you are correct. That is right. Yes. Yes. If they make an appearance, then they are. Yep. Daryl's favorite kind of correct. A quick refresher on this roster, though.

It's interesting. Technically, you are correct. That is right. Technically. Yes. If they make an appearance, then they are. Yep.

Darrell's favorite kind of correct.

A quick refresher on this roster, though. It is, it's interesting, right? It's January camp, which means very few European-based players, almost none. Only Ulyssijian in this case, because he was available. And Christian Capis, but I believe they're on their winter break as well because Scandinavia is cold.

Also don't go camping in January there.

Terrible place to come in. Again, the Scandinavians might go camping because they know how to handle it.

But I... on their winter break as well because Scandinavia is cold. It sure is. Camping in January there.

Terrible places to camp in.

Yeah, if the Scandinavians might go camping because they know how to handle it.

But I would not go camping in Scandinavia in the winter.

They've got the gear.

They do. They've got the gear. Plus I've seen Trull Hunter and I don't trust it. So this January camp, it's a lot of MLS players,

but it's also a lot of what I think is going to be a lot,

the core of the U23 Olympic qualifying roster.

It's a really interesting roster.

Maybe later on the show, we'll get into the, a lot of what I think is going to be the core of the U-23 Olympic qualifying roster.

It's a really interesting roster. Maybe later in the show we'll get into the odd makeup of this roster, which I actually feel quite positive about it. I think it's a good step forward. I think we will because we've got some Twitter questions that we've solicited. So we're going to do sort of get to know your new players. Then we're going to answer some questions. and we'll see how long we go, then we've got some news at the end about various youth teams as well.

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