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. Welcome to the Scuff Podcast. Before we get into the roster for the Friendly against Switzerland,

I like to step back and sort of set the stage for this big summer that's coming if you don't mind Greg

No not at all. I love stage setting and I really appreciate when you do that for me so go right ahead

I think you know some of this will be me

stating the obvious but it is glorious obvious if you will. So big picture we have

a coalescing player pool that is having an influence on games at the highest level.

It's entirely unprecedented.

Our 22 year old left winger is among the most dangerous attacking players in the world.

That is not an exaggeration, and he'll most probably play and make a difference in the Champions League

Final for Chelsea against Manchester City. in the side almost every week, the greatest soccer player of all time. We have a

22 year old box-to-box midfielder who got an assist and lifted an Italian cup

midweek for Juventus and people barely noticed.

Yeah, and before anyone jumps in, jumps in at you

and is like, okay, but look at France's Euro roster obviously you know France is sort of

the untouchable benchmark at the moment but this is absolutely like you said

entirely unprecedented for a US men's national team fan in this in our

US men's national team universe this is unprecedented and it's not even really

arguable totally yeah I mean it's it didn't wasn't even like this 24 months ago and

You know you got the list goes on Giovanni Reyna at Dortmund

Eunice Musse at Valencia, Chris Richards at Hoffenheim,

these youngest players in the pool

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