Scouting Cavan Sullivan and the USMNT’s 13 uncapped players | USMNT Weekly

Ryan Bailey (0:20)

Welcome to the Total Soccer Show USMNT Weekly. It's our regular foray into all things men's national team. On today's show, we're scouting the newbies, everybody. We're going in depth on all the 13 uncapped players who've made Richo Pochettino's current roster. And then we're gonna preview Saturday's game against Peru. Let's go.

My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, hi Taylor Rockwell, how you doing?

Taylor Rockwell (0:45)

I'm doing well, Ryan Bailey, especially so because it's so nice of Lionel Messi to let you use the punishment room that he utilizes for coaches who've displeased him. Ryan's recording in Miami appears to have been shoved into Lionel Messi's punishment cube.

Ryan Bailey (0:58)

Yes. The watchers on YouTube will see the cube in all its glory. Well, I suppose two dimensions of its glory, technically. But yes, very much so. Finally enough, Taylor, I'm in Miami because there is a conference called SoccerX. It is being held at the new stadium spelt NU.

I should be frequenting Messi Stomping Ground very shortly. Looking forward to it. Should be fun.

Taylor Rockwell (1:19)

We need to get them to sponsor the new New Camp, and then we can, the new New Camp? Is that enough? Is that all of them?

Ryan Bailey (1:26)

I don't know what I'll see myself out. Good show, guys. See you later.

Without looking it up, it's spelt NU. What do we think it is? Sentec, bank. Yeah, it's an AI product, right? It's got to be something like that.

Graham Ruthven (1:36)

AI, Sentec, bank. All three of them mushed together.

Ryan Bailey (1:39)

It is those things.

Taylor Rockwell (1:40)

What if it's new medal, Ryan? They're sponsored by new medal.

Ryan Bailey (1:43)

There's a giant golden Fred Dyr statue out front. I can't wait to see it. It's going to be wonderful. It keeps rolling, rolling down at the new stadium. Gary Rudman, we just heard your voice. How are you?

Graham Ruthven (1:54)

I'm good, Ryan Bailey. I am weirdly looking forward to this three week international break. I know it's been on the calendar for a while, but now that it's here, I'm strangely up for it. I think it helps that both the US and Scotland have picked these experimental squads. I was looking through who the US is going to play in the forward line over these four games.

I knew it was experimental, but seeing the number of caps next to those forward players, and Damian Downs being the only one that has any caps next to his name, really hit home how experimental this squad is. But I'm here for it. I'm looking forward to it. It feels a little bit like a mini tournament or something. So yeah, when it was first imagined, when we first knew this was going to be a thing, I was dreading it, and now that it's here, can I look forward to it?

Ryan Bailey (2:39)

There you go. It's just like riding a bike round. We'll get there eventually. That made no sense. Joe Lowry, hello, how are you?

Graham Ruthven (2:44)

That is the saying.

Joseph Lowery (2:47)

I'm great.

My wife and I are watching through Parks and Rec again at the moment, and we just got to the Entertainment 720 bit, and Tom's writing up the business plan, and I paused it on a still of him at the computer typing up the plan, and it's like Entertainment 720 is a multimedia conglomerate that does this and this and this and this and this and this and this, and its entire paragraph of and this and this and this. And I think that's sort of what New Stadium is. We don't really know what it is, but let's assume they're doing everything. At one point, Andy asked him, Oh, you just put labels on stuff as your company because he's handing out swag. And he goes, No, but maybe we should. And so I think that's exactly what's happening in Miami these days. I really do.

Ryan Bailey (3:24)

That sounds amazing. I can't wait to see all that unfold. I want to see a mousetrap concert at New Stadium as well sometime this week. I hope that comes to pass. All right, plenty to get to in this episode. As we've established, we're going to talk about the uncapped players who will be fraying into the unknown of the senior team over the coming days. Before we get there, patreon.com/totalsoccershow.

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