A blunt description of the reality of the American soccer landscape by two international former college-athletes. Topics such as the sport itself in the United States, college soccer, MLS, development programs, women's soccer, and much more. We also slide tackle issues like equal pay, pay-to-play system, closed league system, the college draft. We are an open forum where we invite people to discuss their views and experiences.
After a long break, Irvin decided to give Duarte a news brief of everything that has been going on.
24 Jun 2020
003 - MLS and Soccer Child Development
Soccer is back! MLS is back tournament starts soon! Duarte is raging! We talk about all the positives and negatives (mostly only negatives) about Major League soccer. We also talk about soccer child development and we compare Sweden's and Portugal's U-21 teams from the U-21 (23) Championship from 2015. Which youth national team promoted the most players to their first team?
5 Jun 2020
002 - New College Soccer?
In the first five minutes, we acknowledge Weston McKennie, Jadon Sancho, Achraf Hakimi, and Marcus Thuram's messages from the last weekend when they did their tributes to George Floyd. The rest of the episode, we give an update of what has been released so far by the NCAA for the fall 2020 season for men's and women's soccer. Division 3 reduces all sport's minimum game with 33% for the next academic year. Division 2 reduces maximum regular-season games from 18 to 14. Is that maybe the future? And how Division 1 has talked about splitting the soccer seasons to fall-spring.
1 Jun 2020
001 - Pilot
The first episode of the United Soccer of America. Irvin and Duarte introduce themselves by asking themselves questions.
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