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Timestamps!

3:20 — Quick news check-in: Eredivisie season officially canceled, Bundesliga season waiting for green light to restart.

8:45 — Barcelona 2009-11, profiling Guardiola's masterpiece

21:15 — Leicester City 2015-16, the 5,000-1 longshot

30:21 — Barcelona vs Leicester, how does it go down?

38:40 — Arsenal 2004, examining The Invincibles

50:10 — Real Madrid 1955-60, back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back European Cup winners.

1:01:15 — Arsenal vs Real Madrid, who wins?

Video!

1960 European Cup Final, Real Madrid 7-3 Eintracht in Glasgow: 

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Whether you're for or against the MLS and Liga MX merger, you need to hear what The Athletic's Sam Stejskal and Paul Tenorio have to say about it.

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Haven't read the book? Trust us and listen anyway! Daryl and The Athletic Soccer's George Quraishi are using introduction and chapter one of David Goldblatt's book The Age of Football as the jumping off point for a discussion about the commercialization of the World Cup, and soccer in 21st-century Sub-Saharan Africa.

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How do you determine the greatest club team of all time? You start with a draw, of course. We pull 32 balls (AKA balled up pieces of paper) to determine the first round match-ups in the 2020 TSS Champions' Champion Cup of History. We'll begin analyzing the teams and determining some early victors of the first round starting next week. For now, here are the 32 squads involved:

1. Honved 54-56
2. Real Madrid 56-60
3. Benfica 60-62
4. Santos 1962-3
5. La Grande Inter 64-67
6. Celtic 1967 
7. Man Utd 1968
8. Ajax 71-73
9. Bayern 74-76
10. New York Cosmos 1977
11. Nottingham Forest 1978-1980 
12. Liverpool 81-84
13. Napoli 85-90
14. Steau Bucharest 86-90 
15. Milan 88-90
16. Barcelona 1992
17. Ajax 1995-96
18. DC United 1996
19. Juventus 1995-1998
20. Man Utd 1999-2001
21. Boca Juniors 2000-2003 
22. Real Madrid 2001-2003 
23. Milan 2003-2007
24. Arsenal 2004
25. Chelsea 2004-7
26. Inter 2009-10
27. Barcelona 2009-2011
28. Bayern 2013-16
29. Leicester City 2015-16
30. Real Madrid 2016-2018
31. Man City 2017-19
32. Liverpool 2018-2020

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Here are the timestamps for today's show:

 2:55 — Describing our plans for a greatest club teams of all time knockout tournament, and the plan to discuss David Goldblatt's new book, The Age of Football.

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9:30 — If FIFA were to switch all international tournaments to be co-ed (5/5 for field players, goalies change at half) where would you ranked the United States, and why? Which country rises the most, and which falls the furthest?

18:02 — What will happen to the Euro 2021 Women's Championship?

20:02 — Which professional team would be your ideal place to play if you were a professional footballer?

30:30 — On Soccer 101, Joe and Daryl recently reviewed the USMNT's 2009 win over Spain in the Confederation Cup. If you were to recreate the gameplan (defend and transition 4-2-2-2) with today's player pool, how would you line the US up?

41:03 — Is there a particular reason that the West Indies have a combined cricket team but do not field a combined side in other sports such as soccer? Would a combined West Indies team challenge for WC qualification?

51:57 — What are the pros and cons to having "B" teams play in a lower level of the soccer pyramid, like in Spain or the US, versus having them play in a completely separate league, like in England?

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Joe and Jordan take turns assembling their best elevens for an MLS Assist Tactics Showdown (patent pending). They've both got tactical instructions for their respective players, and are ready to talk some trash along the way.

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2:32 - Discussing the proposed takeover at Newcastle by a consortium featuring the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.

13:35 - The best curses in soccer history, featuring seven (hopefully predeceased) black cats, public urination, and Saxon burial grounds. 

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We review episode six of Sunderland 'Til I Die, featuring dropped defenders, an overly emotional owner, and pain-killing injections.

We also offer our up a few ideas for how we'd run SAFC, if we were in charge.

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Your intrepid hosts are back together to talk about the big news that US Soccer has shut down the Development Academy. What brought about this decision? Where do we go from here? How will MLS teams move to protect their interests? 

Paul and Sam also extol the merits of the DA, as well as the drawbacks that need to be addressed in order to ensure longterm stability in youth development in the United States.

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It's a listener question special! Here are the timestamps and questions:

2:40 — Why did US Soccer shut down the Development Academy? What does it mean for soccer in America? Is this a good thing or bad thing or somewhere in the middle?

24:25 — What has gone wrong with Mario Götze's career?

32:30 — What would it take for Borussia Dortmund to Bundesliga title favorites?

36:20 — Why doesn't Berlin have a dominant team despite being the largest city?

39:40 — If you could drop 3 current USMNT players into the same squad in a top 5 European league, who would you choose and where would you play them?

51:30 — Why could no one stop Arjen Robben from doing the one thing he was famous for? 

Here's a clip of Robben scoring the same goal, many times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoZ4jhE_FVw&

59:55 — What characters or combination of characters from your favorite TV shows are you two most closely aligned with?

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