Ep 2.156: USMNT reaction/best XI, MLS+Apple deal & Chicago Fire's Chris Mueller

Sam's Army

Samuel Army

Soccer, Sports

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

USMNT [5:50]: takeaways and MVPs from Grenada game and El Salvador traveshamockery plus starting XI if World Cup started this week

HEADLINES [37:20]: pros and cons of MLS’s 10-year deal with AppleTV; PFA team of the year quibbles, robots coming to WC26 and Chile trying to snake Ecuador’s spot at WC22

WWI [1:04:30]: switched it up this week and going with a random mailbag Q&A

REST OF WORLD [1:16:30]: the struggle is real to try and care about Nations League

STOPPAGE TIME [1:19:30]: one of the most unanimous GOAWs in pod history

Next up, exactly 12 months since our first chat, Chris Mueller [1:25:35] stops by to discuss what went right and wrong with his move from Orlando City to Scotland, lessons learned from his Hibs experience, why he didn’t golf more over there, how his move back to the Chicago Fire went down, differences between Oscar Pareja and Ezra Hendrickson, where he gets his never-ending supply of motivational quotes and an answer to the question we have all been DYING to know: who his best looking GK teammate is.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back boys and girls. Sam's army episode 2.156.
0:09.0	We got a lot to talk about this week. We're going to switch up a little bit.
0:13.0	So we're going to start with you on men's national team.
0:16.0	Because the game against El Salvador just finished up. So we're going to talk about grenade or we're going to talk about El Salvador.
0:21.0	Maybe a little best 11 talk. Then we're going to hit headlines.
0:24.0	MLS Apple TV obviously will feature along with maybe some PFA team of the year talk.
0:31.0	Chile Accador and maybe a little VAR weekly. What if replacing that this week with a mail bed.
0:37.0	We got a lot of good questions from the crowds. We're going to hit those.
0:41.0	Then rest of the world will be very quick.
0:43.0	A little quick shout out to the World Cup teams that finished the field.
0:49.0	No MLS didn't quit at minute this week because there basically were no games except for a couple.
0:54.0	And then we will finish off with stoppage time best best everybody's favorite segment. Goas.
0:59.0	And then stay tuned for a great catch up chat with Chris Mueller of the Chicago fire.
1:05.0	We dive into his Scotland experience. Why it didn't really sort of work out to go to plan.
1:12.0	And you know what he what he sees moving forward and also his love of owls.
1:17.0	So stay tuned for that.
1:19.0	But now time to welcome in these beauties here this week burning the literal.
1:26.0	And I do mean that literal midnight oil after the El Salvador game.
1:31.0	And let me just say this. We give each other a lot of shit.
1:34.0	We don't give each other a lot of compliments. That's probably my fault.
1:37.0	I set the I set the tone. But let me just say thank you.
1:41.0	You guys really are awesome. I appreciate you guys sticking around staying up.
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