New Jersey gets the World Cup final! | Gio's Premier League bow | Transfer Deadline Day grades (Soccer 2/5)

Call It What You Want: A CBS Sports Golazo Network Podcast

The MetLife Stadium in New Jersey will be the venue for the 2026 World Cup final, and the USMNT will play all their group stage games on the west coast! Jimmy Conrad, Charlie Davies and Jesse Marsch react to FIFA’s schedule reveal for the expanded tournament and discuss how heat and humidity will have a huge bearing on how teams perform at the tournament (05:55).

In Americans Abroad news, brothers Zach and Taylor Booth faced off against each other and each of them got on the scoresheet, Gio Reyna made his first Premier League appearance, and Weston McKennie and Tim Weah were on the losing side of a gripping Derby d’Italia. (21:10)

The guys discuss Lindsey Horan’s interview with The Athletic and share their thoughts on the USWNT captain’s controversial comments about American soccer fans. (40:35)

Then, it’s time to grade the deadline day moves made by the likes of Gio Reyna and Paxten Aaronson, as well as comment on the clerical error that may have scuppered Duncan McGuire’s transfer to Blackburn Rovers. (51:13)

And finally, are Inter Miami’s preseason results and performances damaging the image of MLS? (63:10)

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