Speaker 1: And so now we do the hot tag and bring
Speaker 1: him back after our number one's falls start.
Speaker 2: How's the microphone?
Speaker 3: Hopefully it's good.
Speaker 2: It is all right, functioning all right.
Speaker 1: So the reason that we wanted to have you on
Speaker 1: unsure of timeslot making sure that you didn't get into
Speaker 1: trouble at work your actual paint gig is because of
Speaker 1: the series of actions going on in June, and we
Speaker 1: now have a roster makeup. We still have some questions,
Speaker 1: I imagine when it comes to said roster makeup. When
Speaker 1: Marisio Pochettino and the national team came out with what
Speaker 1: the list was, what was your initial evaluation other than
Speaker 1: the subplots that we'll get into here in a second,
Speaker 1: but what was your initial thought about the roster when
Speaker 1: it was released?
Speaker 3: Okay, John, I was mad. I'm gonna be real honest,
Speaker 3: because I feel like there I'm mad on multiple fronts.
Speaker 3: The first is this feels like a missed opportunity for
Speaker 3: this program to get its best players available together for
Speaker 3: an extended period of time before the World cut. So
Speaker 3: we have you know, when this kicks off, we'll have
Speaker 3: about a year until the World Cup starts. Right, this
Speaker 3: is the last real opportunity to test yourselves in a
Speaker 3: tournament format, right, so completely, you know, missing that opportunity
Speaker 3: to get your best players available. And I understand there
Speaker 3: are some players who can't be here because of club commitments.
Speaker 3: I get that there are several players who decided they
Speaker 3: just aren't coming, and that is disappointing because again, it
Speaker 3: misses on a couple of things. One just team preparation right.
Speaker 3: Two building fan excitement. Clearly they can't read the room.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of people who are apathetic towards this team.
Speaker 3: To Matt at this team, and this roster did not
Speaker 3: help anybody not be mad at this team. So that's
Speaker 3: kind of the biggest takeaway is this just feels like
Speaker 3: US Soccer again throwing away an opportunity to get your
Speaker 3: big guns together in a tournament environment because they just
Speaker 3: don't see the Gold Cup as important anymore. And while
Speaker 3: I understand that they may not value the Gold Cup,
Speaker 3: Conka CAF share as hell does, and they're charging us
Speaker 3: and saying the amount of money just to watch this
Speaker 3: not very good team field on the.
Speaker 1: Field, and one of the larger pieces of news attached
Speaker 1: to it yesterday Matt Crocker Sporting director at US Soccer
Speaker 1: released the statement. US Soccer released a statement that said
Speaker 1: that Christian Polisic and his team asked for a summer
Speaker 1: break given his heavy load the last two season at
Speaker 1: AC Milan, and quote the collective decision that this is
Speaker 1: the right moment for him and get the rest he needs.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 3: So, I think there are two things about this that
Speaker 3: bother me. One is, Okay, you're acting like other people
Speaker 3: haven't played soccer before, you know, And I think it's
Speaker 3: kind of bullshit, to be quite.
Speaker 2: Honest, explicit rating on a variety there There are.
Speaker 3: Players who have played multiple long seasons who go on
Speaker 3: and play the euro you know, So are we just
Speaker 3: allowing I don't know, say the Bayern Munich squad because
Speaker 3: they seem to you know, the Barcelona squad because they
Speaker 3: populate their a lot of their national teams. It's not
Speaker 3: like they set out during you know. Also Milan, you've
Speaker 3: been done with European football for several months now. So
Speaker 3: at one, I don't buy it, sorry uh? And two, okay,
Speaker 3: I could I can understand the compromise of you know what,
Speaker 3: you won't make Polistic come for the full entirety of
Speaker 3: the Gold Cup, right I can understand where that would
Speaker 3: be something that may be, Hey, I do need a break. Okay, fine,
Speaker 3: you're not coming for these friendlies against Switzerland and Turkey. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're not even doing that. And Pulley is not the
Speaker 3: only one. There are other players who have decided to
Speaker 3: not come. But it's truly indicative of the mindset of
Speaker 3: this team that they do not value, they do not prioritize,
Speaker 3: they don't think that the national team's stuff needs to
Speaker 3: be given importance. And you have a he's only played sorry, John,
Speaker 3: he's only played in one Gold Cup ever. Okay, so
Speaker 3: this is kind of bullshit. Sorry, you played in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: That's it. You know, y'all have not had you played
Speaker 3: in the Copa America in twenty twenty four, where you
Speaker 3: sucked by the way, you absolutely sucked, You personally sucked
Speaker 3: and the team sucked. Okay, So you're telling me that
Speaker 3: you're not you're just throwing away an opportunity to again
Speaker 3: get real tournament experience, because well, I played in a
Speaker 3: World Cup, and I played in a Gold Cup once,
Speaker 3: and I played in a Copa America. It's just y'all
Speaker 3: aren't at the position where like you think you can
Speaker 3: just do this. Okay, y'all, aren't there. Your FIFA ranking
Speaker 3: keeps sliding because you keep not getting results. Absolutely sucked
Speaker 3: in March, you sucked last summer, and now you're saying,
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, it's hard. I don't want to
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I'm sorry, man.
Speaker 2: That is not.
Speaker 3: The mentality and the actions befitting the captain of the
Speaker 3: US men's national team. Take his arm band away. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: This is my hot take. Take his arm band away.
Speaker 3: He has not lived up to it. He does not
Speaker 3: deserve it. Just because he's your best player does not
Speaker 3: mean he should be the captain. Look who is here.
Speaker 3: There's a Tyler Adams talk about injury problems. Tyler dad
Speaker 3: Gum Adams. Okay, Tyler Adams is here. He deserves to
Speaker 3: be the captain.
Speaker 1: I was that was gonna be my follow up question,
Speaker 1: but you beat me to it. So would your opinion
Speaker 1: of Christian Polisic alter in any way if he wanted
Speaker 1: to be a part of team activities and still not
Speaker 1: participate in the two matches.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean again, I think there's a compromise of
Speaker 3: I don't want to physically play in the matches. During
Speaker 3: the Gold Cup. I'm not saying like I understand to
Speaker 3: an extent why they may not want to, right, but
Speaker 3: you are absconding your duties as captain of this national team.
Speaker 3: Right again, you can't be bothered to even come here
Speaker 3: for the two friendlies at the beginning of June. You're
Speaker 3: telling me there aren't guys on the Turkey and Swiss
Speaker 3: squad who haven't played a lot in the last couple
Speaker 3: of years.
Speaker 1: Well, I imagine that they, especially in the Turkish league.
Speaker 1: If you have players that are you know, they're playing
Speaker 1: in their home nation league and they understand what you
Speaker 1: know when you're going up against Bishiktas and Traps on
Speaker 1: Spoor means when it comes to everything going.
Speaker 2: On in your league.
Speaker 1: I get that, and that's why I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: if there was an acceptable midpoint for you when it
Speaker 1: comes to Christian Polisic and activity involving this particular camp.
Speaker 1: Knowing that the Gold Cup roster has to be announced,
Speaker 1: that has to be submitted by June four, so maximum
Speaker 1: of twenty six submitted by June four with this list
Speaker 1: of folks, and so you're looking at Freeze Schalti, Stephen
Speaker 1: Matt Turner Arston, dest Alex Freeman, which I think is
Speaker 1: a really interesting selection, Dwan Jones, Mark Mackenzie, Tim Ree,
Speaker 1: and Chris Richards, Miles Robinson, Midfield Aaronson, Tyler Adams, Sebastian
Speaker 1: Burholter yet another interesting selection.
Speaker 2: We'll get into that in a second.
Speaker 1: Johnny Luca Delatore, Diego Luna, Jack McGlenn, Quinn Sullivan, Malick Tillman,
Speaker 1: Sean Zawatski, and then up top, Patrick Ajimong Flairin Balligan,
Speaker 1: Damian Downs, Brian White, and Hadgi Wright. So you have
Speaker 1: White and right as a part of the things in
Speaker 1: your forward.
Speaker 2: So of this.
Speaker 1: Grouping of fifteen and twenty twenty seven, what did you think.
Speaker 3: I think there are some players on here who have
Speaker 3: earned it via their club season, and I think that
Speaker 3: is a good thing, right, you know, I think when
Speaker 3: you talk about specifically Quinn Sullivan, I think has had
Speaker 3: a really good season, right. I think he's been a
Speaker 3: pivotal player for a Philadelphia team that's doing really well,
Speaker 3: you know, so much show that he was rotated out
Speaker 3: when they came to Atlanta because they didn't even think
Speaker 3: that he was needed to beat us. You know, he's
Speaker 3: that important to them. Alex Freeman another one who seems
Speaker 3: to have had a really good season for Orlando. You know,
Speaker 3: I think that's one that, again is an example of
Speaker 3: if you have a good club season, you'll be rewarded
Speaker 3: with some men's national team call ups. And I like that.
Speaker 3: You know, there are some players on here that I
Speaker 3: don't think are in that category. If they've had good
Speaker 3: club seasons, let's call them up. Or more importantly, there
Speaker 3: are players who have had better club seasons who deserve
Speaker 3: call ups who aren't called up right, No, John Tolkien, No,
Speaker 3: Caleb Wiley, Okay, Max Arbsten is okay at best player
Speaker 3: for Columbus Sean Zawatski, I don't understand what he does
Speaker 3: or why he would be here, especially when you have
Speaker 3: a guy like Paxton Aaronson, who in a better league
Speaker 3: has performed, if not better, at least the same. You know,
Speaker 3: there there are players that it seems like again the
Speaker 3: problem here is well, he's in Pochettino's rolodex of players
Speaker 3: he's met while being here. Yeah, and that you know,
Speaker 3: I'm there are some conflicting statements John that I will
Speaker 3: be talking about on the next episode of Soccer for
Speaker 3: Us because that'll be coming out next week when we
Speaker 3: do a full takes reaction episode. Okay, but it's a
Speaker 3: little inconsistent and hypocritical from Pochettino and his selection and
Speaker 3: then also his messaging, so he needs to figure out
Speaker 3: what exactly he wants to do and it can't just
Speaker 3: be Well. I saw them play Once.
Speaker 1: By the Way episode one eighteen, So that is c
Speaker 1: x V Triple I is going to be out later
Speaker 1: this morning. Yes, it will the summer goals for the
Speaker 1: WNT and the ending.
Speaker 3: Which changed a little bit when we saw this gold
Speaker 3: cuff roster John.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So Barton Thomas go philosophical before they get into
Speaker 1: the blood cuts of of c XI X, which will
Speaker 1: be coming out next week, because they're going to be
Speaker 1: on fire, as you couldn't tell from this morning. So
Speaker 1: bart dropping by and I know that there was the
Speaker 1: Sebastian Burholter name, because you know he's the hot name
Speaker 1: right now with Vancouver part of their growth. I understand
Speaker 1: that pickup.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 3: Sebastian Burholter, Luca Delatore have had really good MLS seasons
Speaker 3: and I think they are examples of played really well
Speaker 3: in league. They deserve a call up. Luca obviously kind
Speaker 3: of didn't get the favor of Plachectino when he came in.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's a wrong assumption. He wasn't great
Speaker 3: for the US men's ational team, but he's had a
Speaker 3: really good season in MLS for a very good San
Speaker 3: Diego team, and good for him getting that co up again.
Speaker 3: Sebastian Burholter kind of, you know is I don't think
Speaker 3: he's necessarily the emblem of revitalized Vancouver white Caps, but
Speaker 3: I think he's one of those players that is the
Speaker 3: best example of why Vancouver is playing so well this season.
Speaker 3: He's elevated his game. His teammate Brian White is here
Speaker 3: as well. Who you know, if he's the Chris Wandelowski
Speaker 3: at the generation, fine, And I mean I don't mean
Speaker 3: that in a disparaging comic, you know, like I've made
Speaker 3: my comment my feelings on Brian White's inclusion known, but like, yeah, sure,
Speaker 3: he's the guy who scores a lot in MLS.
Speaker 2: Cool, you're going with You're going with the hot name.
Speaker 3: Basically, I mean that was Chris Wandelowski, right, he was
Speaker 3: a guy who scored a lot in MLS. Uh, clearly
Speaker 3: wasn't ever gonna take his talents abroad, and uh you know,
Speaker 3: he got included a lot in the US national team
Speaker 3: because hey, the dude scores.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, yes, he scores.
Speaker 1: Uh so then you there were names that were were
Speaker 1: left off? Who who you mentioned Tolkien being left off?
Speaker 1: Who rightfully was left off in your mind?
Speaker 3: Well, I do think that Josh Sargent is one who
Speaker 3: you can look at his club form and say he's
Speaker 3: been good. It has not at all been good for
Speaker 3: the US men's national team. He had his opportunities in
Speaker 3: March and he failed miserably to be just a blunt
Speaker 3: you know, he did technically put the ball in the
Speaker 3: net once, unfortunately Tim Wyal was offside. He hasn't proven
Speaker 3: it for the national team. And the problem is he
Speaker 3: he's in a position where there's no other like little
Speaker 3: factors you can kind of keep giving him to say,
Speaker 3: well he does this in this Well it's like, well,
Speaker 3: he's a striker. The goal of the job of a
Speaker 3: striker is to strike. Is to strike right, is to
Speaker 3: put the ball in the rectangle thing, you know, put
Speaker 3: the ball over the goal line, between the goalposts and
Speaker 3: under the crossbar. As the laws of the game will
Speaker 3: define it, yes, and he hasn't done that too much,
Speaker 3: so I think that's one that was definitely rightfully left off.
Speaker 3: You know, again, I think I'm more looking at players
Speaker 3: who should have gotten calls up that didn't. You know,
Speaker 3: I do think the center back selection is fine, But
Speaker 3: you know, when I look at Dewan Jones and Max Arfston,
Speaker 3: I'm just not understanding while they why they are here.
Speaker 3: But other guys who had good seasons in Europe aren't here.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying they're better or worse. I'm just saying,
Speaker 3: if we're just rewarding players for playing solidly, there are
Speaker 3: other players who probably could be here. You know. I
Speaker 3: think also, you look at this and you don't see
Speaker 3: Joe Scally, who another one may be similar to Polistic.
Speaker 3: It's like, are you just taking a break, man, It's
Speaker 3: not like you've had European competition, So what's your excuse?
Speaker 3: You know? Is that because Sergina does is back? Maybe,
Speaker 3: But like, as much as I don't think Joe Scally
Speaker 3: is the best player ever, in my mind, is certainly
Speaker 3: one who is at least your second, if not third,
Speaker 3: best option at right back, and as we know, can
Speaker 3: play left back. But I think is more suitable as
Speaker 3: they stay at home right back. And I don't know,
Speaker 3: I just there's a lot of confusing things here, John,
Speaker 3: and I just I don't again understand why you wouldn't
Speaker 3: try to assemble the best players available, even if a
Speaker 3: guy like Polistic takes himself out, even if a guy
Speaker 3: like Joe Scale takes himself out. I don't look at
Speaker 3: these players and go, yeah, they're the best. You know,
Speaker 3: Jack McGlenn has been bad. Maybe not, he's been bad.
Speaker 3: Houston's been bad. You know, Tanner Tessaman isn't here. You
Speaker 3: can't tell me he's been playing a whole lot of
Speaker 3: soccer recently. That's not you know, he went to Leon
Speaker 3: and he's played a good bit. But like, you know,
Speaker 3: what are we doing here?
Speaker 1: Uh So if from our friends at Soccer America when
Speaker 1: this was, when this roster was released, our friend Paul
Speaker 1: Kennedy in the analysis of it, he says Pochatino downplayed
Speaker 1: the importance of having the US M and T together.
Speaker 1: It will get up to five weeks and eight matches,
Speaker 1: two friendlies in six Gold Cup games and what is
Speaker 1: only the fifth gathering since he took over, and with
Speaker 1: five or if you include a January twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: camp to follow before the team for the twenty six World.
Speaker 2: Cup picked quote.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we give too much importance knowing to be together,
Speaker 1: he said, and sometimes the group maybe sometimes doesn't work
Speaker 1: in this way or build in this way. Unus Musa,
Speaker 1: for what Pochettino described as personal reasons as late as
Speaker 1: Monday will be is absent. Musa's still in the squad,
Speaker 1: according to Pochettino. Jedi Robinson, who missed the Nation's League
Speaker 1: with a tendon injury in his knee and has been
Speaker 1: training infrequently this spring with Fulham quote. The situation still
Speaker 1: is not clear, according to Pochettino following recent visits Robinson
Speaker 1: made to specialists. That makes five World Cup twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two starters plus Raina who won't be at the Gold Cup.
Speaker 1: But the list of absentees include scale CCV Tanner, Testaman
Speaker 1: Josh Sargent, who all started one or both games at
Speaker 1: Nations League were dropped in what Pochettino called football.
Speaker 2: Decisions without getting into the specifics of their situation.
Speaker 1: With just nine of the twenty outfield players from the
Speaker 1: Nations League team picked for the Gold Cup, that has
Speaker 1: created unprecedented turnover in the us M and t a
Speaker 1: squad from a one window to the next. Pochettino says,
Speaker 1: in mentioning Luna McGlenn, Arston, Ajimong and Brian White, they've
Speaker 1: emerged as Pochettino's favorites. Quote by feeling in all these
Speaker 1: camps from October, November, January in March, I think many
Speaker 1: players they took the chance and deserve again to come
Speaker 1: back because they not only performed and behaved well in
Speaker 1: the camp after that, they kept performing in their teams.
Speaker 1: So that was that was the early thoughts of Mauricio
Speaker 1: Pochettino here in the assembly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a problem with that answer, John because
Speaker 3: him saying that, you know, oh time together isn't the
Speaker 3: most important thing. Yet earlier this year he said that
Speaker 3: he wants to some of the reasons for his selections
Speaker 3: is he wants to touch and field players, as he
Speaker 3: kind of says, so which one is it? Which one
Speaker 3: is it? And again I will soften a little bit
Speaker 3: because I think there has been some report it's that
Speaker 3: polistics hip is not as good as healthy and to
Speaker 3: kind of looking at Jedi saying, look, man, I have
Speaker 3: been playing all season with a need that is held
Speaker 3: together by you know, bubble gum and duct tape. Right,
Speaker 3: I get it, this is your time for rest again.
Speaker 3: My issue is I can understand them not coming to
Speaker 3: the Gold Cup, but we have two important friendlies that
Speaker 3: US Soccer is charging a lot of money for and
Speaker 3: you are deciding to not show up. And that's where
Speaker 3: I get the problem, because why are we getting charged
Speaker 3: this much money for not our best players?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so scam quote.
Speaker 1: I think what we want to create on our national
Speaker 1: team is people desperate to come, but desperate to come
Speaker 1: to perform. To perform means follow the rules, create a
Speaker 1: good atmosphere, be a part of the team, be able
Speaker 1: in every single aspect to meet our demands. If you
Speaker 1: arrive to the camp and you want to spend a
Speaker 1: nice time, play golf, go for a dinner, visit my family,
Speaker 1: visit my friend. Is that the culture that we want
Speaker 1: to create. No, no, no, no no. What we want
Speaker 1: to do is to go to the national team, arrive
Speaker 1: and be focused all my focus and energy on the
Speaker 1: national team because we need to create this culture about
Speaker 1: winning and we need to chase our aim if we
Speaker 1: want to be good in one year's time, we need
Speaker 1: to think that today is the most important day.
Speaker 3: Correct, and this doesn't shout importance. So look, maybe the
Speaker 3: players are inspired when they come out and they play well,
Speaker 3: and you know, they they act like every day is important,
Speaker 3: every match is important. Right. We have not seen that
Speaker 3: from the US men's national team this year, you know.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of my issue is, well, we ain't
Speaker 3: seen it, but sure that sounds nice.
Speaker 2: John Dell wants to know why Geo Reina is missing.
Speaker 3: Geo's playing for Dortmund in the club Well, let me aphrase,
Speaker 3: Geo will be with Dortmund during their time at the
Speaker 3: Club World Cup. Will he be playing We shall see.
Speaker 3: He has been told that he can find other clubs
Speaker 3: play for, which I think is probably a good thing
Speaker 3: for him. He probably needs to. But I do think
Speaker 3: that I have I kind of go back and forth
Speaker 3: on this. I think him playing for Dortmund in the
Speaker 3: Club World Cup is basically just saying Dortman saying we
Speaker 3: need players because you know. But I also think it
Speaker 3: could be a good thing for him if he actually
Speaker 3: trains well and plays well, because they need players. Like
Speaker 3: That's where we're at with the Club World Cup. FIFA
Speaker 3: has given people extra transfer windows just for those because
Speaker 3: rock of many you know, tournament they're putting on to
Speaker 3: try to pretend like this matters. They are realizing that
Speaker 3: a lot of clubs don't fully love this.
Speaker 2: Idea keep playing to keep playing.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so, but I mean again, I think it
Speaker 3: could be good for GEO two. He will I mean,
Speaker 3: look at this point, I think it's fair to say
Speaker 3: that if he performs well in training, he will get
Speaker 3: time on the field during the Club World Cup, which
Speaker 3: in theory could raise his maybe not value, but his
Speaker 3: stock with other teams who want him, because I think
Speaker 3: his his physical money value is down, but I think
Speaker 3: his what can he actually bring us on the team
Speaker 3: in would be good. I'm not talking about g Reyna's
Speaker 3: all morning, Sorry, Dell. I have seven more minutes to
Speaker 3: be on here. I'm not spending it on g al Reyna.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So another couple of pieces of news before we get
Speaker 1: out of here. French national team coach Laurel Bonadet has
Speaker 1: dropped Wendy Renard, Eugenie Lessamer and Ken's adoubt for the
Speaker 1: Uephan Nations League Magic against Switzerland and Iceland.
Speaker 3: Yeah, lasom Air has been not Lacemay Reynard has been
Speaker 3: in and out of Lyon's team for a lot of reasons,
Speaker 3: I think mostly injury, but I do think look, they're
Speaker 3: on the very wrong side of thirty and approaching the
Speaker 3: wrong side of forty, to be quite honest, and I
Speaker 3: think this is them moving, you know, changing a generation,
Speaker 3: to be quite honest. And again, you know they might
Speaker 3: be in the same position of just got done with
Speaker 3: a long season, but those are those are iconic figures
Speaker 3: in the women's game, and when they do end up retiring,
Speaker 3: be it with the national team or their club team,
Speaker 3: it will be a definite sad day for women's soccer
Speaker 3: because I think they've also done a great job of
Speaker 3: pushing the game forward from a technical level, right they
Speaker 3: are some of the most technically gifted players that French generation,
Speaker 3: to me, redefined what it is to be a professional
Speaker 3: women's soccer player, both club and country. But I think
Speaker 3: it's probably time for them to kind of take a
Speaker 3: back seat and let the younger generation. I mean, look,
Speaker 3: there's some great young talent in France and that's the
Speaker 3: team that you know. I don't know what the corollary
Speaker 3: would be on the men's side, Like I said, I
Speaker 3: kind of want to say Netherlands, but I don't even
Speaker 3: think they've even done that, you know, but they are
Speaker 3: the perenarily underperforming team despite having more talent than just
Speaker 3: about anyone outside the US and England, and they've got
Speaker 3: to figure that out. That's their goal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so I saw that and I felt like
Speaker 1: I had to mention that. Then also Alana Cook out
Speaker 1: for the season with a knee injury for Casey Current
Speaker 1: the Nwso that sucked.
Speaker 3: I hate that for Alana. You know, she kind of
Speaker 3: got another chance with the national team last window. I
Speaker 3: went really well, but that is john for her, a
Speaker 3: major setback, and I hate that. It's also a major
Speaker 3: setback for Kansas City, who you know, probably needs that
Speaker 3: stability in their back line this season to compete with
Speaker 3: some of the bigger teams and NWSL. I don't think
Speaker 3: it affects anything on the national team level though, especially
Speaker 3: with Naomi Garment back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You twenty had their roster announced training camp starting on Monday,
Speaker 1: run by Rain assistant coach Kate Norton, Amaral daw and
Speaker 1: Todd in Net, Haley Bauman, Kennedy Bell Bramlett, Guetino, Faith, George,
Speaker 1: Alisa Goanzalez, Sierra Scythe on defense, Sophia Butch, Shay Harvey,
Speaker 1: Charlotte Kohler, Isabella Nahara, Melina Rabimbas, Kira Stoud from Uga,
Speaker 1: Teler Suarez from Florida State, Katie Collins, Isabella Diorio, Julia
Speaker 1: Kones from Pepperdine Morgan Roy, Amanda Schloter, and Olivia Woodson
Speaker 1: from Auburn lead the leading up that youth national team camp.
Speaker 3: Also, the U twenty three national team will be playing
Speaker 3: for the women's side, and you have Jayden Shaw playing there,
Speaker 3: which is there's a couple of players on that team
Speaker 3: that probably are in that senior national team. Expanded the
Speaker 3: group if you will, that aren't Obviously the twenty four
Speaker 3: player roster from m Hay has dropped this week too.
Speaker 3: We will be definitely talking about that because to tease
Speaker 3: a little bit about what episode one eighteen is, John,
Speaker 3: these two programs are definitely in different stages right now,
Speaker 3: and the US women are still in the We need
Speaker 3: to expand our pool because I think that's what you
Speaker 3: need to do in these couple of years after the
Speaker 3: World Cup, is to expand it so that you can
Speaker 3: pare down who actually deserves to be there and who
Speaker 3: you can bring to a tournament and win. And so
Speaker 3: right now we're seeing you know, I mean, I'll give
Speaker 3: lo labonta kind of the shout out from the women's
Speaker 3: side of Yeah, she's definitely, you know, on the older
Speaker 3: veteran player type of list, but maybe she can give
Speaker 3: you something that's going to help you win a World
Speaker 3: Cup in twenty twenty seven. You know, she can she
Speaker 3: give you two good years of steady, reliable training ground
Speaker 3: performances and leadership. But then also if she steps on
Speaker 3: the field, can she deliver what Emma wants from the system?
Speaker 3: And you know, I think that's what Emma Hayes is
Speaker 3: looking for right now. You've also got some young talent.
Speaker 3: I think Patterson is the one outside back that Emmas
Speaker 3: seemed to latch onto really likes. We got to find
Speaker 3: a new left back. I love Crystal Done, she cannot
Speaker 3: play forever. We got to find a new left back.
Speaker 3: So we shall see John. But I think if you're
Speaker 3: looking at this summer, John, again, we have ten days
Speaker 3: or ten games in thirty six days if my math
Speaker 3: is correct, maybe thirty three. And did I go to
Speaker 3: school for math? John?
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: We're both out of luck on here, but a lot
Speaker 3: coming up, and five of those are women's national team
Speaker 3: games for sure, and it'll be interesting to see what
Speaker 3: this group looks like. I will note that this group
Speaker 3: is just for the two games against China and Jamaica,
Speaker 3: which means that we likely will see maybe more. I
Speaker 3: don't know what that'll look like for the later half,
Speaker 3: because you do get three games in that window, the
Speaker 3: Ireland and Canada window, it wouldn't surprise me if there's
Speaker 3: twenty five plus in that camp. I think you can
Speaker 3: kind of see where Ema Hayes is looking at with
Speaker 3: this pool of really expanding and finding players who can
Speaker 3: help are now build toward twenty twenty seven.