#167: Olympic Qualifying — the play-in game vs Honduras

Scuffed | U.S. soccer, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Sports, Usmnt, Men's National Team, American Soccer, Us Soccer, Soccer, Mls, U17 National Team, U20 National Team, Youth National Teams, Yanks Abroad

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Win and you're in. Lose and you're out. What happened, and what it means.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuffed podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Georgia. With me is Greg Velazquez in Iowa. We talk about
0:07.1	US men's soccer. Hey, we didn't qualify for the Olympics.
0:19.1	Honduras beat us 2-1 on a setpiece and a howler from David Acehoeh,
0:22.3	Jackson U.A-Woe, Jackson U.A David Achoa Jackson Uwah pulled one back with a
0:23.7	fantastic strike in the second half but it was in general a bad performance and we
0:28.0	deserve to lose and not go to Tokyo. Greg how are you?
0:31.6	Belzamarite I'd actually cancelled my Tokyo ticket after the first game in the group stage because I was quite sure that things were not, no I didn't.
0:39.0	Yeah, it was disappointing, disappointing day, disappointing event.
0:42.0	Yeah, nobody gets to Yeah, nobody not from Japan gets to go to the Olympics anyway.
0:46.4	So this is going to be a television experience, but it will not be that either.
0:50.5	We got to walk a fine line here between candor and sort of gratuitous criticism, so forgive
0:56.6	us in advance if you think we fall off that line.
0:59.7	This is a game.
1:01.8	The U.S. vaccine rollout is going swimmingly. A lot of good things to be
1:06.4	excited about in our country. Our best U-23s are in fact in Europe playing for big
1:10.9	clubs. The women are prohibitive favorites to take gold in Japan?
1:16.0	They're the best, the women are the best national team of all time by a long distance.
1:21.9	And these young men who lost to Honduras are all very
1:23.7	disappointed and have their whole lives ahead of them and we don't need to take out
1:26.8	our general life frustrations on them but it's open season on Jason
1:30.9	Christ is it not it absolutely is Jason Christ is it not? It absolutely is
1:33.7	Jason Christ and maybe one layer moved to the people who decided to hire him.
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