Welcome to the scuffed podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Georgia. With me is Greg Velazquez in Iowa. We talk about

US men's soccer. Thanks for downloading this episode Scuffed.

Greg is busy grouting his bathroom or something,

but not to worry we have a special guest today, longtime friend of the pod and our most frequent guest over the years

I think by a wide margin Matt Hartman

He watches a lot of soccer and his passion for the national team is pure and he and I often disagree about stuff.

So this should be fun. Matt, how are you?

I'm doing great fellows. I love the idea of Greg just covered in grout messaging you that like

Bells I just can't I just can't make it this week so you need to call

apartment for this one yeah I'm glad to be here yeah well, well, thank you very much.

So we're gonna, this is gonna be an episode of questions

from patrons on Patreon.

We got a lot, I solicited some a couple days ago.

I got a lot and we'll try to plow through as many as possible a lot of good questions too

Which is always the case so thank you to the patrons for the questions.

I've broken them into five categories and I'll list them now

so that you have something to look forward to.

The categories are the number nine.

Berhalter's competence, Brendan Aronson, National Team Logistics, and Miscellaneous.

So let's go, let's start with the number 9 category. The first question comes from

Jason Beers and it's got a long setup but the setup is worthwhile so bear with me

for a second. Burhalter started implementing the drop-in number 9 in January 2020.

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