#170: Nine U.S. players to watch this MLS season

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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

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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OK we talked about more than nine, but we tried to keep it pretty focused on players who have a chance to contribute to the USMNT in this World Cup cycle. Competition ahead of them, and fit in Berhalter's system are key considerations.

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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 everyone. Thanks for tuning in.
0:17.0	MLS kicks off this weekend and we're going to try to identify a few players in this league, most of them
0:24.0	young and with a high upside who have a chance of breaking into the national team and contributing
0:29.8	in this World Cup cycle.
0:31.5	Whether that's in one of the three match qualifying windows or the World Cup itself, we'll leave that to fate. Just looking for some kind of contribution. Greg, how are you?
0:41.0	Bells, I appreciate that you just had a few players and didn't, didn't like put it, like nail us
0:46.7	down to a specific number because that is not our strength.
0:50.3	No, no, no, it's not. Our off-air discussion has been rife with controversy.
0:56.0	We don't know. We don't know how many names we're going to put on here and we haven't even
1:00.3	really settled on how to characterize this list of names. So let's get a
1:05.5	little meta here. One thing we're going to try to do, from my perspective, is not fall
1:09.8	into the throw every name at the wall trap that longtime listeners will know we have
1:14.5	sometimes fallen into now that's mostly me not you Greg because it's because
1:18.9	Matt Hartman and Joey Anton and I did some episodes way back when some old school scuffed episodes
1:26.2	where we covered 50 or more young players saying like the U-20 cycle for 2017 or 2019 and even 50s conservative yeah it was a lot it was a lot and I'm not
1:39.4	not going to a lot of people listen to those episodes I don't know how much of the episode they listen to, you know.
1:47.2	Anyway, you could argue there's enough young talent in MLS to warrant that sort of thing these days because there just is.
1:56.5	There are a lot of players who could break through.
2:00.7	But we're trying to focus on players that could actually break in to Burhalter's system in the next 12 to 18 months and that that bar is pretty high
2:10.3	at several spots on the field. Like for instance winged. Like how we have four good wingers. We have
2:16.8	Jordan Morris who is not in that list of four right now because he's hurt. You have to be pretty good to break in and you have to fit. There's also the question of fit.
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