Roster prediction shows are usually bubblegum content. Fun, clickable, and mostly speculative. But with Pochettino preparing his USMNT World Cup roster, Benny forces Gary into the exercise anyway. Who should go? Who should be left out? Who actually belongs on the field when the World Cup starts? We go position by position: goalkeepers, center backs, […]

Playing time is the issue. Not “one of” the issues. In youth soccer, it is often the issue that drives the most tension between coaches and parents. A player is not getting the minutes the family expected, and suddenly the coach-parent relationship starts to fracture. In this episode, we get into that dynamic directly. We […]

Coaching licenses are often treated as a necessary stamp of legitimacy in American soccer. But what actually happens inside one of these courses? And more importantly, do they make coaches better? In this episode, we sit down with Paul Spacey, a longtime coach who recently went through the U.S. Soccer C License, to unpack the […]