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Cleared Off The Line
by Forrest Tucker
The latest from the growing world of American soccer brought to you by Forrest Tucker.Tune into wherever you find your podcasts for new episodes dropping every Wednesday.Follow along via X (formerly known as Twitter) @COTLpod and Instagram @cotlpodcast.
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Charleston Battery's Colton Swan is Ready to Fly up the Ranks of Pro Soccer
This week on Cleared off the Line... One of America's brightest hopes of new-age soccer stardom and success joins the show. His name is Colton Swan and he's been lighting the pitch on fire in the USL Championship for the Charleston Battery in his debut professional season. As the team's goals...
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Jahmali Waite Ready to Win with the Rowdies and Reggae Boyz
This week on Cleared off the Line... Tampa Bay Rowdies and Jamaica goalkeeper Jahmali Waite joins to talk about coming to the Gulf Coast to play pro footy, his Caribbean roots and how he leads the backline on the pitch. We dive into how he and fellow Jamaican goalies, Amal Knight and Andre Blake,...
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How to Continue Your Soccer Fever Post-World Cup & How Detroit City's Most Dedicated Player Found His Home in the Motor City
This week on Cleared off the Line... If you fell in love with soccer during the 2026 World Cup then I have good news for you... soccer never stops and there's almost too much of it to go around. So continuing your soccer fever is super easy if you follow my three tips to get on the right track to...
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The USMNT Goes Back to the Drawing Board... Again
This week on Cleared off the Line... Welp... here we are again. The USMNT has dropped out of the World Cup in the Round of 16 for the fourth time in a row. Another disappointment that we thought this team was over by now, but yet again we are let down by the same issues. Now, we examine…
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A Charleston Battery Legend Hangs Up His Blue Gloves
This week on Cleared off the Line... One of the biggest stories of the World Cup so far is not the action on the pitch, but what is happening what it stops. Hydration breaks with commercials are happening twice during every match and some fans are not happy with the breakaway from tradition and...
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Indy Eleven's Aodhan Quinn Is Not Stopping Anytime Soon
This week on Cleared off the Line... Native San Diegoan Aodhan Quinn has dotted the USL Championship map far and wide from Southern California. Wherever he's landed, consistency has been his key to success. He has several career milestones that make him a midfielder you must mention when you…
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A World Cup Winning Roster? Inside the USMNT's 26 for 2026.
This week on Cleared off the Line... The 26 USMNT players that will hopefully take our nation to new World Cup heights are here. A solid team with a measured dose of hype and potential, but not without controversial choices or heated press conference moments. Larry Henry Jr of SBI Soccer helps...
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One Former College Soccer Player's Purpose to Help Support Student Athletes
This week on Cleared off the Line... A story of struggle, coming to terms and coming back. Tyler Ingle played college soccer like thousands of other skilled youth players. He started over fresh at the next level, but took some personal mental health challenges with him. During his time in the…
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Fantasy Futbol is not a Dream Anymore; Building a Brand that Soccer Fans Have Been Waiting For
This week on Cleared off the Line... We dive into something American soccer has not seen before and it's for all the people who love to think that they could manage a professional team. This also is a tool to grow Major League Soccer specifically and has my interest 100 percent. Favian Renkel is…
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How to Learn about Soccer for $20 and Why I Love and Loathe the USMNT's World Cup Kits
This week on Cleared off the Line... How an experienced MLS front office member is educating the next generation of soccer fans by giving their parents the best tool to do so. Author Carlos Mojica joins the show to talk about how his own childhood and relationship with his soccer loving father...
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From Alabama to Across the Pond; How a Soccer Crazed College Professor is Educating Students about Soccer
This week on Cleared off the Line... Why the United States is way ahead of the rest of the world, especially England, in one aspect of professional soccer. Hear how a small university in Alabama is trailblazing into Europe to show its students how to be the next generation of soccer and sports...
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Nothing Like Home Cookin'- How the Riverhounds' Robbie Mertz Could've Been a Finance Bro, but Won a Title Instead
This week on Cleared off the Line... One USL Championship player teaches us why trusting yourself and being patient can lead to a full circle moment that makes all the struggle worth it. When that moment is winning a league title for your hometown team it's a perfect way to show that everything...
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Former Rev and Sounder Using Risk Management to Help Next Generation of Ballers and the American in La Liga You Must Know About
This week on Cleared off the Line... How a former MLS player is helping literally construct teams and leagues with risk management. He's using his experience as a player during a period of extreme growth for the American top flight to ensure young players have a secure pathway to the pros. Former...
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How to Market a Pro Soccer Club Successfully and A Cringy Soccer Saying That Has to Go!
This week on Cleared off the Line... How does the business side of a professional football club market itself to existing and potential fans on a tight budget by building lasting community partnerships? Tanner Clay-- the Charleston Battery's business guru-- joins me to tell you how he fills the...
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From the Basement to the Penthouse in the USL Super League, Data Shows Soccer Surging ahead of Baseball and The Never-Ending Soccer Sock Saga
This week on Cleared off the Line... The day has finally come! Did you hear the spectacular news? Soccer has surpassed baseball in popularity across the United States not a moment too late as the World Cup comes to America in months. I'll tell you why this is obviously important and how soccer...
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Collective Bargaining Disagreements in USL, What the USMNT's Group Stage Draw Really Means and The Messi Impact You Overlooked
This week on Cleared off the Line... Where do things stand with one of America's biggest professional soccer leagues and its CBA negotiations as the clock ticks down to the current agreement expiring on December 31st? The United Soccer League Championship's players are in slow moving talks with…
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MLS Makes the Right Call on Schedule Change, A World Cup Time Machine and How a Voice Can Grow the Game
This week on Cleared off the Line... Major League Soccer has made a change many thought would never happen and it is literally going to change everything. The leagues owners have voted to move the calendar of the season to align with world football. I'll tell you what that means, why it is not…
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Does America Have a Soccer Literacy Problem? Gio Reyna's USMNT Chances and Key Terms for World Cup Newbies
This week on the Cleared off the Line Podcast… How a Twitter exchange between two soccer journalists turned into a podcast segment on the status of soccer literacy in the U.S. Jose Nunez, who covers the current Supporter’s Shield Champions Philadelphia Union in Major League Soccer, joins me to…
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The Soccer League You Didn't Know About, The Best World Cup Ball Ever? and Breaking Down a Confusing Pro Soccer Postseason
This week on Cleared off the Line... I tell you about a soccer league in the States that you've never heard of before, introducing you to some of its most well known players and coaches, all while giving you insight into why this competition is making a difference. The MLS Cup Playoffs are…
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Building a Soccer Team from Scratch in Cleveland, Why the USMNT is Turning a Corner and Inside the U.S. Women's Soccer Pyramid
This week on the Cleared off the Line Podcast… The USMNT is unbeaten in three matches under Mauricio Pochettino and it's their most recent good run of form. The Yanks beat Japan and Australia along with a draw to Ecuador in September and October. Those results have shown that this team is taking...
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Former MLS Forward Akindele Building A New Career & How to Make Sense of the American Soccer Pyramid
Tesho Akindele's journey around the world as a footballer gave him the chance to see places he never would've dreamed of going, literally and figuratively. The former Canadian international raised in Colorado thought he'd be an engineer before MLS came calling as he neared the end of his college...
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The Hounds' Bark is Getting Louder in the Steel City & Why 70 is a Key Number for the USMNT
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds once were a team that wanted to get fans to attend at a handful of games per season. That was success in their minds. Not anymore. The fanbase is thriving and the club is expanding. That's why the Hounds are expanding their stadium capacity by thousands of seats to…
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Refs Need Love Too
David Gerson has spent countless hours on a soccer pitch with a flag or whistle in his hand refereeing matches. One day, a funny TikTok became an overnight sensation and Refs Need Love Too was born. Gerson's page highlights controversial calls in the professional game, gives referees tips on how…
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Inside the Data Behind MLS Transfers, Best Things to Happen in American Soccer and Why Being a Footy Fan Costs Too Much Money
If you've ever wondered how professional football clubs use data to scout players who could be the next big signing for the team, then this is your lucky day. Charlotte FC's Lead Data Analyst, Daniel Wicker, joins the pod to discuss how his role and those of his fellow analysts and scouts brings...
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The Last Country on Earth without a National Team, Messi Suspended for ASG Snub and a Potential New MLS Schedule
We start today's episode by breaking down two huge pieces of news from MLS. First is the Leo Messi All Star Game snub to one-game suspension drama in Tuck's Takes, where Forrest tells you why the GOAT should've been held accountable and how he exposed a major MLS flaw. It's not the one you're...
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Questions Outweighing Answers for the USMNT after Gold Cup Success
The USMNT flipped what we thought would be the script during the Gold Cup. Skeptics believed the blunder of two friendly losses to the Swiss and Turks was just the top of the slippery slope. But, no avalanche of despair this summer for US fans after the team made the finals of the Gold Cup losing...
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The Fans Saved the "First" Club World Cup
Simon Evans of the Soccer Business Podcast makes a claim on this weeks episode that's neither hot or cold, but is everything we know and love about football. The fans were the best part of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup. They saved the tournament. From what? The litany of detractors from hours long...
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Slashed Ticket Prices, South American Takeovers and Teaching Moments for FIFA
The 2025 Club World Cup has more than its fair share of disappointments. Tickets too expensive, mostly empty stadiums, heat too hot (for Europeans), no offseason for the likes of Real, Bayern and Chelsea too, issues with Saudi Arabian funding and so on. In Philadelphia know for "Brotherly Love"…
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Take Me Home Commonwealth Roads- The Cameron Lancaster Loan Move
Cameron Lancaster and Louisville City are synonymous with longstanding USL success. The Englishman is the club's all time leading goalscorer and bagged the lone strike in the team's first ever title win in 2017. He is as club legend as club legends get. But, he moved on awhile back. Lancaster has...
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RKO-ing Sheamus, One Millions Dollars and Plymouth Argyle- Two Maryland native's TST story in the making
Mike Kozlowski and Joe Stadlin came up in the soccer world as Maryland natives who let the beautiful game take them across the world. This month, outside of Raleigh, North Carolina, they are playing in TST (The Soccer Tournament), an annual small sided competition with a prize of one million...
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THE Buckeye State Soccer Preview
The soccer balance of power in Ohio may be shifting as the MLS season kicks off! Forrest is joined by Kenta Hagiwara (Area Sports Network) and Justin Blair (Cincy Soccer Talk) to break down the expectations for two Ohio state superpowers. FC Cincinnati has aced the test of signing replacements…
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There's Room for Two
Women's soccer has seen a rollercoaster of a past 20 years. Right now, the sport is seeing something that has never happened before. Does that sound familiar? 100%. For the first time in United States soccer history, there are two women's professional leagues with Tier One status. The United…
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Longing for Soccer in Lexington
In the middle of the horse racing and Kentucky basketball kingdom a new soccer club is trying to make its way into the hearts of the Commonwealth. Lexington Sporting Club is a United Soccer League franchise that's made it clear that it wants to succeed as one of the emerging powers of American...
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Not Your Average Expat
Interesting people happen to kick a ball for a living all over our world. One of them is Lauren Chang, a player of FC Sparta Praha Zeny in Prague, Czech Republic. Chang is someone who I've watched play for awhile, but off of the pitch she is just as interesting as on it. I covered her and the…
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A Star Spangled Search
The most important coaching search in US Soccer history is happening right now. Whoever comes in to manage the Yanks will have to take this team to new heights during the 2026 World Cup. As names swirl and days pass, it's clear that US Soccer has to take its time with hiring a new manager at the...
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First Class as the Second Choice
Becoming and being a professional footballer is a challenge unlike any other in and of itself. Nothing can diminish the hard work that players must pay to receive a trial, contract, spot in the match day squad and even a start or substitute appearance. Goalkeepers have it harder than anyone...
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Full Circle in the Broadcast Booth
Pundits and analysts are everywhere when you turn on a match of football. Some have had illustrious playing careers. Others have had careers that are not as well known. Regardless, being a professional at any level is a remarkable accomplishment. Whatever the caliber of their career, someone in…
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THE Summer of Soccer
Copa America, The Olympics, The Euros, International Friendlies, The Soccer Tournament, MLS, USL, NWSL, The Open Cup, The Leagues Cup AND SO MUCH MORE soccer is on the way to the American public this summer! It's a schedule that many U.S. footy fans would've though was a pipe dream years ago, but...
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S4 E5- You Need to Know About Daryl Dike
Forrest and Terry are going yankee soccer heavy on this episode of the podcast. From the jump they talked about Carli Lloyd's reveal to the LA Times that she spoke to her family for the first time in 12 years recently. The boys divulge into what this says about Lloyd and how this fits into the...
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S4 E4- C'mon Guys... There's More to Swiss Soccer Than Alisha Lehmann
Forrest and Terry have met their fair share of international students while at USC, one of them is Dom Kuhn from Switzerland. The boys wanted to give the COTL fam an idea of what the beautiful game is like in the land of good cheese and chocolate so they're joined by Dom to talk all things Swiss...
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S4 E3- The EPL's Overhyped and Underrated
Forrest and Terry took out the stat book for this one as they determined which EPL players were either over or underrated. The boys compared Nick Pope and Jordan Pickford, AWB and Reece James, Sadio Mane and Raheem Sterling just to name a few. Thanks for listening!
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S4 E2- The Spanish Are Wetting The Bed In Europe
All three of the boys are back for this one as they analyzed La Liga's dip in form when it comes to European competition. Barca, Atletico and Sociedad all lost in their respective matches this past week and Real Madrid is not exempt from poor performances in the UCL. Taking a deeper look the boys...
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S4 E1- Why 2014 Was Footy's (Most Recent) Golden Era
We're kicking off season 4 with a blast from the past that took Forrest and Terry down memory lane. Cue nostalgia! Around the 2014 World Cup there were major innovations in boots, soccer balls and kits. Not to mention Neymar was plastered... not by drinks... but on everyone's television. The boys...
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S3 E10- EPL Midszn Review- New Look Toffees & London Clubs in Distress
We started where we left off last week with three more clubs to cover in the midseason review in the EPL. Timecodes below. From the top Carolina Toffees member Robert Morrison was happy with Everton's changes for the better, but injuries are proving troublesome for the Toffees who lack depth.…
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S3 E9- EPL Midszn Review- L'pool, Man Utd, Spurs, Man City
After a very entertaining EPL season so far, the boys rounded up some fans to talk about their clubs. Look below for the time codes of your favorite club. Listen from the start as we talked to Clay Sellers about Liverpool. He thinks the Reds can repeat. Tom Watson came on to talk about Manchester...
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S3 E8- Sarah Fuller Makes History & Bale on the Bench
All three of the boys were able to get together for this one as they discussed a wide range of topics in footy news. Vanderbilt University Women's Soccer GK Sarah Fuller's ceiling shattering achievement as the first woman to play in a Power 5 American Football game was the first priority of the...
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S3 E7- Women's Soccer Down South
Trey is back everyone! Him and Forrest got out to training early today to record. To start off, boys recapped the Gamecock Womens Soccer team's performance against Mizzou from Tuesday and looked ahead to the SEC Tournament semifinals that happen tonight (Nov. 19). The Gamecocks play the number…
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S3 E6- A New Age for the USMNT & Pulisic Injury Concerns
Terry and Forrest were happy to talk about plenty of different news today on the pod. The midweek release date is unusual, but every club has to play Wednesday night matches at some point. Off the top the boys talked about Zlatan's resurgence with AC Milan. Should he get a Sweden call up? Then at...
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S3 E5- The Ins and Outs of Grassroots Football
Forrest has always been a fan of grassroots football and he brought along someone that could help him talk about it. Sid Curtis is a grassroots footballer from South Croydon, England and plays for Sporting 50 Reserves. Sid has played local football his whole life and was able to give us a better...
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S3 E4- Proposed Rule Changes... Radical or Possible?
Forrest and Terry were playing duos without Trey this week as the third man had some business to attend to. (Shhhh don't tell anyone.) But, the episode was a success as the boys talked about Arsene Wenger's new role at FIFA and his proposed rule changes. Wenger's ideas include changing the…
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The latest from the growing world of American soccer brought to you by Forrest Tucker.Tune into wherever you find your podcasts for new episodes dropping every Wednesday.Follow along via X (formerly known as Twitter) @COTLpod and Instagram @cotlpodcast.
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