Rooster and the Villain: An American Soccer Podcast

Rooster and the Devil is dead. And from the ashes rises a new beast. Join us as we talk about soccer.

Support local extends to the soccer world during the pandemic. We last caught up with Evan Raimist, GM and Director of Operations for the Maryland Bobcats back in February of 2020. Covid-19 was a thing but it wasn't quite THE thing.  But even with Covid dominating the world, the Maryland Bobcats have managed to have an incredible year and continue to create some buzz in the Montgomery County, Mary...

Jimmy and Mike whip around to discuss Europa League, Champions League, Premier League, and USMNT's many players in Europe. Fun conversation. Come be our Friend.

Jose is taking the Tottenham boys on a journey into Jimmy's nightmares. The Rooster and the Devil drops you right into the action about 15 minutes into our conversation because Mike fucked up the audio. Oh well.  Join us as we drink beer and explore the world of soccer together. In perfect harmony. 

Just missed out on an opportunity to absolutely torch Liverpool for their lack of scoring (again) in their loss to Burnley. But this is a fun conversation about the state of Tottenham and Manchester United in the grand scheme of things in the Premier League. Come and gather with us, friends. 

Bradley and Mike take care of business while Jimmy plays an important role in Pfizer's vaccination rollout (not kidding). So naturally, it's a Tottenham suckfest. But we try to cover Europa and Champions League as best as we can too. I'm sure it gets weird. Pens were involved.

What's up friends of Rooster and the Devil? A fun episode with Jimmy and Mike. Jimmy was coming fresh off of that fresh United loss so we get some nice Manchester United commentary. Then we dance around the Champions League, Europa League, and Tottenham-ville. Then we say some weird shit about being dads.

The boys are back and determined to talk some sense into its audience of 20. Come for Premier League reactions, overreactions, under-reactions, and just some weird ass actions. All the usual topics covered.

Surprise! The boys are back. Bursting with useless soccer knowledge and information, the boys couldn't help themselves and just had to release this to the world*. We talk about match-week 1 and all of the silly nonsense of silly season. *maybe about 20 people or so.

Lost half of the ramblings. We even had an outline going into this one. Oh well. First bad audio episode we've put out in a while.

Man down on Rooster and the Devil. So you will get 10-man team content and you will like it. Brad and Mike dance around the topic of soccer through some more word association and then go to some weird places. Hope you trees for the first 1.5 minutes.

Rooster and the Devil Summers' are get weird. Soccer philosophy and current events.

Holy shit! They did it. Relatively virus free (and definitely after it started) so it seems like we'll have soccer for the foreseeable future.   We talk about all the crazy shit that went down in the Championship. Welcome to Leeds United and West Brom. Good luck to Fulham, Brentford, Cardiff City, and Swansea. And holy fuck Nottingham Forest. You blew it!!   Then we talk about the crazy last day s...

Fuck! Jimmy warned us. He went on and on about the succubus that is Jose. And yet. We were temporarily smitten. But we need results from that asshole. #COYS

Our good friend Brian Helder comes to drink beer and talk about Liverpool's season.

The Prem is back and so are we! We drink too much beer and talk about the state of the Prem. 

The OneGoal guys interview Sebastian Saucedo for the website a few weeks back. In 2019, Sebastian Saucedo (23) surprised many US fans when he left Real Salt Lake, his hometown club, for Liga MX side Club Universidad Nacional, more commonly known as Pumas. Following his move south of the border, Saucedo started scoring goals for his new team as early as January thanks to the scheduling of his new l...

Why come to Rooster and the Devil to learn about the Bundesliga when literally every soccer podcast that exists will talk about Bundesliga? Well, you probably shouldn't. The three morons are back at it trying to piece together the Bundesliga while thinking out loud. Somehow it devolves into an all-Premier League conversation by about a half hour in. But, as usual, we had fun and it seems that some...

Joey DeZart is a defensive midfielder for Orlando City SC. Joey is originally from New Jersey (shout-out to my home state). While playing youth soccer in NJ, he was recruited by the Philadelphia Union Academy. He had some pretty amazing experiences with that academy, including playing in the Generation Adidas cup in games against Eintract Frankfurt, Athletic Bilbao, Palmeiras, and other youth squa...

Luis Argudo has been in the MLS since 2018.  After 2 seasons with the Columbus Crew (39 appearances), Luis was drafted by Inter Miami with the seventh overall pick of the 2019 MLS Expansion Draft. Prior to this, he played for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons after he transferred from Elon University. Great conversation with another Wake Forest product.

Early in Spring 2020, the OneGoal.us guys sat down with Schalke U19 striker Matthew Hoppe. Formerly of the Barcelona Residency Academy in Arizona, the California native discusses his move to Germany in the Summer of 2019, tactical trainings with Schalke, and his transition from the midfield to a forward. Audio edited by the Rooster and the Devil podcast ( @roosterdevil ).

Early in 2020, the OneGoal.us (subscribe to their USMNT newsletter) sat down with promising New England Revolution fullback Brandon Bye. A top ten draft pick from 2018, Bye has featured as a regular for the MLS side and shared about his career and the transition from college to professional soccer in the USA.  Leading the interview was OneGoal's head of content Ross Hall, who actually was classmat...

The interviews on this channel have been amazing. Shocking that we've been fortunate enough to have some amazing guests lately. But this started with three middle aged men rambling about soccer in their basements on the internet and by god, it will always be some of that. We somehow fill an hour and 6 minutes with soccer talk, as we always do. I believe we sprinkle in some Coronavirus shit too bec...

Logan Gdula was gracious enough to spend an early afternoon with us on a Skype interview during our quarantine. Logan is a young player that's on the brink of MLS. He was drafted #13 overall by FC Cincinnati in their first year as an expansion club (last year). He was loaned to Phoenix Rising and sustained an injury. Came back to FC Cincinnati and made the 18 but never saw the field. But was then...

On this episode of Rooster and the Devil, we interview Bruno Lapa of the USL Championship's Birmingham Legion FC.  Bruno has a great soccer story. He grew up playing the game in Brazil, spent some time on trial in Portugal, and eventually ended up playing for Montegverde Academy in Florida. From there, he took a path that is traditionally blazed by American soccer youth. He committed to Wake Fores...