Cleared Off The Line

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 leader right now, he's making a strong impression to scouts from across the globe. With the USYNTs he's been a part of as well, Colton is a promising young attacker with a great idea of who he is as a player.We talk about his first season in the Lowcountry, his goals with the USYNT in this current window, how he was inspired by a certain former Leicester City striker whose name rhymes with "party," and his golf game away from the pitch.

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, are leading the line to inspire the next generation of Jamaican ballers.Jahmali also gives us the scoop on why he's thankful to be suiting up for a franchise like the Rowdies and his hopes for the team's title challenge this season.

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 being a proper footy fan.That's ahead in the Soccer Explainer.Plus, Detroit City's Maxi Rodriguez has played for the club since it was his career's survival line to now being one of the team's best players ever. His grit growing up in South Texas has helped him become a goal scoring machine that never takes a day off and loves to play for the badge.We talk all things soccer, Detroit style pizza and Keyworth Stadium.

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 everything and ask the question "Where do we go from here?" Riley James, the host of United Soccer Lounge on GOLZ TV, joins the show to answer that with me.Our conclusions are that US Soccer needs to schedule harder opponents, reevaluate the current squad and focus entirely on the 2028 Copa America.

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 inserting of advertisements.I ask the question, if these breaks are here to stay then how do we walk the fine line of embracing a new idea with respecting the old guard?Plus, you seldom work in the same job for over 16 years in any field these days, let alone in sports or soccer. But, a crucial and beloved member of the Charleston Battery has done just that.Bobby Weisenberger, the team's former Head Athletic trainer, had been with the team for half of its existence. He is looking back on the legacy he left at Patriots Point and Blackbaud Stadium this week.The man with the blue gloves tells all from memorable player injury comebacks to away trips and the world stars he's had on his training table.

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 speak about American soccer's Iron Men.The Indy Eleven player joins us to speak about how he's stayed at his best, what he's pursing as his career continues and his life as a father passing down soccer to his children.But first, a monologue to call all American soccer fans to action this World Cup 2026 about how we can best represent ourselves, our culture and the beautiful game to make sure our foreign friends want to book a return ticket to our shores on the double.

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 breaks down the team from snubs and surprises to Head Coach Mauricio Pochettino's stance on sending rejection emails to the players omitted.Before that in Tuck's Takes, the Poch to AC Milan talk that broke a day after the roster reveal is discussed. The one ask of the Argentine is that he is locked in 200% on his current gig, but it's still a PR bump in the road for the USMNT.

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 NCAA ranks, he became the first male athlete to publish an article about his mental health on "The Hidden Opponent."At one point, Tyler left the game all together to finish his degree, then flirted with a coaching career, before winding up working for multiple professional soccer clubs as a front office member across multiple leagues.That time on the other side of the game was just as challenging for his mental stability, but that (and every other experience) is what got him to where he is today.Tyler is the youngest assistant commissioner in the NCAA at the Atlantic East Conference, where he oversees thousands of student-athletes that walk in the shoes he once had on.A full circle moment and more ahead on the show.

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 a veteran soccer journalist in the US, but is now using his past experiences to market a fantasy soccer game focused on MLS with Kickbase USA.Hear how he got his start in media, interviewed some of the league's best and is now building a brand that soccer fans in the states will hopefully see as a sign that our game is going to new heights.

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 spurred him onto write a soccer children's book thats out now.Plus, the new World Cup kits for the USMNT dropped and I have tons of opinions in Tuck's Takes about price, design and even what the gaffer is saying about them.All that ahead on Cleared off the Line.