We recently received this magnificent email, and accompanying image, from listener Mark Vandeventer, and thought it was far too good to keep to ourselves: Greetings TSS friends. This is my first email to you — started listening only recently but I have enjoyed your show very much. I am writing to give you my version [...]

To kick off 2013, the TSS crew will jump into the YouTube time machine and review a classic match: USA’s 1-0 defeat to Germany in the 2002 World Cup quarterfinal. How close did we come to making the semis? How has the USMNT’s approach changed in the last 10 years? And who is this young [...]

Big show news this week is that TSS is now part of the North American Soccer Network. If you’re unfamiliar with NASN, then here’s the skinny: It’s a network of quality soccer North American soccer podcasts, examples being their flagship Best Soccer Show, the always fun Radio Cuju, the unusually focused and informative Big Question [...]

At the end of every show we do Share & Tell, where we each recommend something non-soccer related. Here are our picks from episode 168:

Quick TSS update: We took a surprise vacation last week because we didn’t have enough people to record the show. Josh was living it up at a wedding in New Orleans and Laura was celebrating her birthday (happy birthday Laura!). So last week’s show would have been Daryl talking to himself for 27 minutes, and [...]

What did you do with your weekend? Jozy Altidore did this: That and more on the next thrilling installment of … The Total Soccer Show: >>> Subscribe via iTunes >>> Subscribe via RSS >>> Find us on TuneIn Radio >>> Find us on Stitcher Radio

>>> PLAY/DOWNLOAD MP3 USMNT fans are pretty excited about Josh Gatt, the 21-year-old Michigan-born winger currently playing his soccer for Molde in Norway. But so far most of us have only seen the briefest of YouTube videos, in which Gatt slaloms through Tippeligaen defenses. If we’re going to talk about Josh Gatt as a possible [...]

A timely reminder of why USMNT fans should be patient with the 22-year-old striker… Subscribe to the show for some soccer podcast magic: >>> Subscribe via iTunes >>> Subscribe via RSS >>> Find us on TuneIn Radio >>> Find us on Stitcher Radio

>>> PLAY/DOWNLOAD MP3 We all thought bringing Taylor Twellman in for John Harkes was a like for like substitution. Just another famous name who’d played the game, but had no feel for in-game insight and analysis or how to communicate it. We wished Ian Darke the best of luck and the longest of fuses. But [...]

Longtime listeners will know that there’s a whole world of emails and text messages that go back and forth between everyone involved with TSS before we record a show. Some of them are just insults about British people, but others are pure gold. The following email from Albert falls into the latter category. Al’s away [...]