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US Soccer Summer Preview - 2022

Soccer is great because soccer never stops. The game is played in two 45 minute periods that have zero commercial breaks within them. There is also always a league in season somewhere in the world (thank you, MLS, for have an opposing calendar to most of Europe). It's a pretty big summer for US Soccer. Official schedule, with kickoff times and television networks, is here . The windows of games tuck together nicely, with the USMNT playing between June 1-14, the U-20s run from June 18-July 3 (if they make the final) and the USWNT from July 4-18 (if/when they make the final). I'm happy to discuss further or answer any questions that arise! USMNT There are only six total matches for the USMNT before the World Cup in November and 4 of them happen in the next week or so. Our boys are currently tied for 21st in the world in Elo rankings . (These are way better than the weird FIFA Rankings). The first two matches are friendlies (exhibitions not connected to any competition) against ot...

Again, For the First Time

Welcome to turbotrevor.com! This is my latest attempt at creating an online place to publish and house some things I write. This is much cheaper and less fancy than my last attempt (tacoadvisor.com). The name seemed like a good idea, but it slowly faded on me. "Turbo Trevor" has been with me for about 12 years, and is easy, simple and I already have it on the social medias. There's no reason to be more complicated than that. As for the content here, I have far more ideas than time, energy or wherewithal to actually carry them out, but we'll see what makes it to fruition. I will probably update and republish several of the (very few) things I wrote on Taco Advisor. I also plan to use this platform to share some of the random things I write about at far too much length in my group chats. It's easier for everyone to ignore a link than a block of text - or maybe it isn't? ("I ain't reading all that" etc.) Maybe this would be better as a email sub thi...