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The Total Football Soccer Show is broadcast in Richmond every Thursday, 12:30 p.m. on WRIR 97.3, and is co-hosted by three Americans and one Englishman. So you can imagine how much we were looking forward to previewing World Cup 2010 Group C, which features (in alphabetical order so as to avoid any bias) Algeria, England, Slovenia and the USA.



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We took a break from the World Cup focused shows recently to preview the Major League Soccer 2010 season. Not in a nerdy in depth kind of way though, mostly because we don't know all that much about MLS, but approach it as US based fans of the beautiful game who want the league to do well.



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Last week we previewed World Cup Group A on the Total Football Soccer Show. So guess what we’re previewing this week? That’s right, it’s the Ukrainian Premier League. Not really. It’s World Cup 2010 Group B.

Once again, your four co-hosts take a team each, and we go through category by category to see who deserves to progress. Expect it’s not all about who has the bes… Continue

Less than three months until World Cup 2010 kickoff, and so the Total Football Soccer Show is previewing the tournament group by group.



Here's the format: We've come up with a highly scientific method for predicting who will qualify from each group. Ignoring things like tactics and team play, we focus on the important stuff like quality of team nickname and hummability of na… Continue

Did you know that Richmond has a soccer radio show? Well, it does. In the summer of 2009, Taylor Rockwell and myself persuaded WRIR 97.3 that there was an audience in Richmond for a weekly soccer show. The existence of Spoccer was one of the examples we used to convince the initially skeptical gatekeepers and we've been broadcasting on 97.3 - Thursday af… Continue