Ryan Tolmich, American soccer correspondent for GOAL, is back on the pod!
Ryan’s last visit featured a long, cathartic debrief attempting to make sense of the US performance at the World Cup in Qatar. 5 months later…. we reflect on everything that’s happened since.
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0:00 - 6:32 The Soccer Tournament
* The first ever TST event in Cary, North Carolina!
* Expectation, preparation, reality
* Why did the “legends” teams fail?
* Wrexham’s huge fan section, a sign of the times
* “A wild collection of people”
6:33-19:46 the US fall to Uruguay in the U20 world cup
* Another US loss in the quarterfinal
* Two catastrophic mistakes
* Can the US scrap like Uruguay can? (Did they have to?)
* What do we learn about US soccer from the U20 World Cup?
* The legacy of this team
* Checking in on the 2019 U20 World Cup team
* What’s next for the talent in this pool? (Cowell, Luna, Craig, McGlynn)
19:46 - USMNT Abroad, USMNT in Las Vegas
* “A pretty crappy year” of Americans abroad
* Nations League, amid uncertain times
* Too many wagons hitched to Leeds
* The **worst** intersection of American and English soccer culture?
* My future graduate degree thesis
* Do Americans overprotect players, is it the same with other national teams?
* Weston’s options
* The price of keeping Tyler Adams at the top
* The curious case of Sergino Dest’s constant disappearance
* Dortmund is still the place
* Christian Pulisic, new lease on life
* Is Pulisic really endorsing Gregg Berhalter’s return?
* The most important thing to watch in Nations League
* Trophy confidence in this dual trophy summer
