Overview
696 Episodes
Vince and Belz go for 90+ minutes on the cathartic victory in Charlotte. Brilliance in the attack from us, some of our centerback candidates were less than brilliant, Dest is a winger, Pepi integral in both first half goals, Tillman provides a moment of transcendence, it's on to Germany.
Transcribed - Published: 1 June 2026
Vince and Belz talk through the official roster release, which is exactly the same as Saturday's leak. Vince makes a strong case that Tanner Tessmann is a miss from Poch, and we agree we have too many centerbacks, but we're backing this 26 all the way!
Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2026
Sanjay, Belz, Charlie Boehm and Greg V compete for the strongest teams, with all U.S. men's national team World Cup players from '94 to '22 on the draft board. You decide who did the best.
Transcribed - Published: 25 May 2026
Greg joins Belz to give his 26 for the World Cup, his starting XI, and acknowledge that in both cases it could go several acceptable ways.
Transcribed - Published: 22 May 2026
The CEO and secretary general of US Soccer himself, hailing from Augusta and stationed south of Atlanta, joins Vince and Belz to discuss World Cup impact, the state of the game in America, the fateful train station run-in with Sunil Gulati, fundraising as one of the keys to USSF success, how Matt Crocker will be replaced, and much more.
Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2026
Noahkai Banks is back on the field and rumors are flying. Gio says he "hopes to get the call." Dest looks hungry in a dead rubber in the Netherlands. Jedi scores on a penalty. Pulisic assist. Youngsters keep balling in MLS.
Transcribed - Published: 18 May 2026
Sanjay joins Belz and Vince. Gio scored and was influential in a late-season loss for Gladbach. Not much to play for for the Foals but this was an excellent World Cup audition from the dark prince. Pepi scores again, assisted by Dest, who looks "uninhibited," says Sanjay. Johnny likely to miss the World Cup, a news break that arrived as we were wrapping up the recording.
Transcribed - Published: 11 May 2026
Leander Schaerlaeckens, the author of the new book The Long Game, about the history and present of the USMNT, rejoins the pod to talk about Landon's omission in 2014, how the World Cup tends to arrive like a thief in the night, and much more.
Transcribed - Published: 8 May 2026
Vince and Belz run down some of the news and performances from the past week.
Transcribed - Published: 4 May 2026
Merzi founded the 703 Warriors, a free, high-quality youth soccer program in Arlington, Va. He joins Belz to talk about how it got started, how he runs training, whether what he's doing is scalable and some of the nitty-gritty challenges and triumphs of the work.
Transcribed - Published: 1 May 2026
It doesn't have much to do with Kristoffer Lund and Malik Tillman. Plus Alex Freeman goes 90 and settles in at Villareal, Mathis Albert makes his Dortmund debut and much more from Belz and Vince upon their return to the New World.
Transcribed - Published: 27 April 2026
Vince and Belz discuss the Gladbach-Mainz match on Sunday, Scally's goal, and a few other things outside the hotel in Amsterdam the morning before we headed to Eindhoven for the PSV-Zwolle match. Got a couple listener questions in.
Transcribed - Published: 24 April 2026
Vince and Belz sat down with Wolfgang Heilmann, who oversees Borussia Monchengladbach's "international academy," in the hours before Gladbach drew 1-1 with Mainz on Sunday (we saw a Scally goal). Most of the conversation is about youth development in general: how Gladbach's U9 team plays small-sided games on the weekends vs other clubs, why academy players are expected to be humble, and much more.
Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2026
Adam Elder, the author of "New Kids in the World Cup," joins Belz to talk about the pivotal 1990 World Cup qualifying campaign and the team that went to Italia '90. We mourn the end of the Concacaf qualifying gauntlet, discuss John Harkes' photographic memory, cover the press corps' antagonism to soccer in the 1980s, the genesis of the music video on the beach, and much h more.
Transcribed - Published: 17 April 2026
A rundown of what's happening.
Transcribed - Published: 13 April 2026
Charlie Boehm joins Belz for a listener's digest of USMNT-related news. Have a great weekend.
Transcribed - Published: 10 April 2026
Vince and Belz get back to the regular routine of the Monday Review after a relatively quiet weekend.
Transcribed - Published: 6 April 2026
Rico sat down with Sanjay at the team hotel in Atlanta. Discussed the potential move to Fulham, what it means representing the USA as a Mexican-American, and his favorite club and NT goals.
Transcribed - Published: 31 March 2026
Poch and the boys put on a solid if unspectacular display for 40 minutes, and then, as Vince said, didn't handle business in our defensive third too many times, and paid for it. A long recap of an interesting but discouraging outing at the Benz.
Transcribed - Published: 30 March 2026
Balogun helps win and scores a penalty. Pepi transfer saga sags, but Fulham interest appears real. Pulisic's ankles look good. Plus much more. Sanjay Sujanthakumar joins Vince and Belz for a traditional Monday Review.
Transcribed - Published: 23 March 2026
Vince and Belz talk briefly through the roster, hear a bunch of clips from Poch's press conference, and give their XIs for next Saturday's match against Belgium.
Transcribed - Published: 19 March 2026
Rico starts and struggles vs NEC Nijmegen, Balo scores another scrappy goal, Haji hurts his groin, Tessmann plays CB, Cardoso shines in Champions League, and more.
Transcribed - Published: 16 March 2026
Sanjay Sujanthakumar sits down with the most influential coach in US Men's National Team history and they talk about his exciting project in San Jose, Torsten Frings, the roster that faced Trinidad in 2017, the role of college soccer in American soccer, and much more.
Transcribed - Published: 13 March 2026
Vince and Charlie recap a busy weekend, heavy emphasis on Major League Soccer, as the nation emerges from a long winter.
Transcribed - Published: 9 March 2026
Marcus discusses the 6 most exciting young players in this young MLS season, and what they're doing on the field. And then a bunch of other young players in MLS too.
Transcribed - Published: 5 March 2026
Adri Mehmeti sets the tone with his comments after the Red Bulls second straight win at the beginning of this young MLS season. From the mouths of babes. Also, big game in Marseille, Yunus plays and scores, Balo and Haji score, Pepi still not starting, and much more.
Transcribed - Published: 2 March 2026
It's been a while since the boys played. Who's in? Who's out? As the World Cup approaches, the answers to these questions are not always clear, but Greg breaks down what we DO know, and CAN say.
Transcribed - Published: 26 February 2026
Vince and Belz breeze through the news of the weekend.
Transcribed - Published: 23 February 2026
Doug McIntyre joins to talk about his latest World Cup roster projections, Haji's hat trick in a top of the table Champo clash, Balogun's brace versus PSG, Wes's legacy-defining upcoming summer, and much more.
Transcribed - Published: 19 February 2026
Vince and Belz get back at it post-Valentine's Day. Jedi looked strong in the FA Cup, Tyler's back on the bench for Bournemouth, Wes playing as well as anyone in the world, and Noahkai looking more assured week by week.
Transcribed - Published: 16 February 2026
Vince and Belz do their best in the midst of some February doldrums. Wes gave us another good goal, Palace get a win for once, Super Bowl happened, World Cup tickets remain expensive.
Transcribed - Published: 9 February 2026
Rojas, the host of Guarani Vision, THE English-language podcast about the Paraguay men's national team, joins us to talk about Paraguay's wildly successful qualifying campaign in Conmebol, a little about the Guarani, nights at the Defensores del Chaco, the intensity of that friendly in November, and much more.
Transcribed - Published: 7 February 2026
Sanjay Sujanthakumar joins Belz and Vince to talk through Poch on Weah on World Cup ticket prices, plus a big week to recap for Malik and Wes, and much more as the countdown continues.
Transcribed - Published: 3 February 2026
Bushnell, who writes for the Athletic, joined to talk about the high prices of World Cup tickets, Cindy Parlow Cone's expansive and thus far largely trouble-free tenure as USSF president, why Weston McKennie's spot on the field under Poch is such an important matter, Alex Freeman's move to Villareal, and lots more, even Richie Ledezma's switch to Mexico.
Transcribed - Published: 30 January 2026
Weston McKennie's coach says he'd be a great central striker, Reyna out with a muscle strain, Tillman on the bench for a spell here, Weah assist, Big Pat scores but Vince is unpersuaded, Tanner and Johnny getting starts in the midfield, and the St. Pauli president floats boycotting the World Cup, which brings to mind Trump, which brings to mind the senseless bloodshed in Minneapolis.
Transcribed - Published: 26 January 2026
Woitalla, the executive editor of Soccer America, joined the pod after going to Philadelphia for the United Soccer Coaches Convention. At the event, Matt Crocker said there's still too much yelling in youth soccer, Roberto Martinez was gobsmacked by a Barry Pauwels presentation, Tony Lepore discussed plans to grow the ranks of talent scouts, and US Soccer, for the second straight convention, made a strong effort to be present and accounted for.
Transcribed - Published: 23 January 2026
Charlie Boehm joins Belz to talk about Richards and the mess at Palace, Brenden Aaronson up from the ashes, Big Pat's distinct skill-set, E.B. White on Gio Reyna, Paredes returns brightly, Cardoso unconvincing to Belz, Pellegrino Matarazzo beats Barca, and Charlie was moved by the African Cup of Nations final.
Transcribed - Published: 20 January 2026
Matt Sahag, who coaches high school girls soccer in Des Moines, joins the pod to discuss a recent pitch from a big ECNL club to players and their parents, discouraging them from playing high school soccer this spring so they can focus on league ECNL play and national showcases. Sahag has responses to the claims made by the club. It's interesting. 13-yr-old's flying out for the weekend to play regular-season games, $2500 trips to Arizona for...what? And you don't get to play against that cross-town rival this season for your school, by the way. AND the pot at the end of this rainbow is probably a partial scholarship at a non-D1 college. Just another slice of the America soccer dilemma.
Transcribed - Published: 17 January 2026
Vince, Greg, Sanjay and Belz duke it out to see who can craft the best team in a draft of all the players Poch has called up. Let the games begin! I'll post the lineups and some polls shortly.
Transcribed - Published: 13 January 2026
We talked about what the World Cup will mean for the sport in America, how kids are introduced to and grow up in the game in Scotland, the heartbreaking end of Sacramento's USL-C season, some coaching talk, some Kenny McLean talk, and lots more. Good chat.
Transcribed - Published: 9 January 2026
Vince and Belz return to the Monday Review desk, with Brenden Aaronson getting a spot on A1, some Christmas reflection, a stout defense of Cole Campbell's luxury watch and handbag, and a rundown of all the key USMNT player pool developments since before the holiday.
Transcribed - Published: 5 January 2026
The JPEG That Changed Everything, the True Blue Tussle Award, Commentator of the Year. This is a dramatically abbreviated version of the full show. If you want the full version, including NT Goal of the Year, Club Goal of the Year, Breakout Player of the Year and Player of the Year, to name a few, join the Patreon.
Transcribed - Published: 18 December 2025
The host of long-running former ESPN podcast Caught Offside joins Vince and Belz to discuss what Poch has been up to, whether it's working, Banner the mascot, and where several players probably stand in the depth chart.
Transcribed - Published: 16 December 2025
We talk through the quite encouraging events of the first half of the week -- Pulisic's big man on campus brace off the bench, Wes's lovely gamewinner in CL, Balo's gamewinner and Pepi's continued propensity to put the ball in the back of the net. Then we get into Poch's media tour after the World Cup draw a little bit, what will happen if we beat Paraguay in that first game, and the MLS championship game a bit too.
Transcribed - Published: 11 December 2025
Sanjay joins Vince and Belz to wrap up World Cup draw coverage (patrons got our call-in show right after the draw already) by listening to several of the most interesting audio clips from Poch and the players, and reacting to them. Limited weekend action to review, and our review was, well, extremely limited.
Transcribed - Published: 8 December 2025
Vince brings back "El Loco" for Poch, but in a good way. Four players who weren't even involved in the last window had a great past week in Europe. Pepi's back in the XI for Eindhoven. The World Cup draw is coming up in four days and we talk through the options. Things are looking good, folks. Although there is some sad news from Thanksgiving dinner.
Transcribed - Published: 2 December 2025
Vince is back. He and Belz welcome Leander to discuss the past window, where things stand with Poch’s project, and the chaotic history of the US Men’s National Team, which is the subject of his forthcoming book.We end up covering the major action from the weekend, including Pulisic’s gamewinner in the Derby della Madonnina, McKennie’s continued energetic & intelligent play for Juve, another shiny little cameo for Gio, Tillman’s goal and “assist” for Leverkusen, and another unconvincing performance (even in a 1-0 win!) for Noahkai Banks.
Transcribed - Published: 24 November 2025
We wiped out a historically-good national team, coached by Marcelo Bielsa, in Tampa! Greg Velasquez and Belz talk it through. Gio's return, a caution against certainty, a tetchy performance from Poch in the post-game press conference, and, you guessed it, some classic Velasquez wet-blanketism.
Transcribed - Published: 19 November 2025
Sanjay sits down with Joe at the team hotel in Tampa on Monday afternoon, to discuss his nearly 10,000 Bundesliga minutes of experience, how things have changed under Poch, who from the team he would trust the least to run the family business in Lake Grove, and much more. It's a fast but substantive interview.
Transcribed - Published: 17 November 2025
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