Ryan Tolmich (GOAL): USMNT & US U20s Deep Dive

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.

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