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 of Scuff. The U.S. defeated Jamaica 1-0 on an 83-minute

winner from Matthew Hoppy and advanced to the semi- semifinals of the Gold Cup against Qatar.

The winner of that game, which is on Thursday, plays in the final on Sunday against the

winner of Mexico Canada.

So far this is a success, right, Greg?

This game was absolutely a success in the, in sort of the process of what this gold cup is supposed to be.

How's that? Is that qualified enough? I think, yeah, I think, uh, I mean I said that a little tongue in cheek that this tournament has been a success so far,

but I mean we are in the semifinals, we sort of dragged our way there.

And what do you mean this game was a success?

I assume there's another shoe to drop with that formulation.

So it's a, this gold cup is process over outcome and I think, you know, as soon as we heard what

the roster was or even before that one when Berhalter back in like May was saying the guys

who play in the nation's league are not going to come play in

gold cup I'm going to send all of our most of our first choice players to vacation for the summer.

That tells you right now outcome is not the most important priority of this tournament.

It's a process and the process is getting ready for World Cup qualifying,

identifying players, getting them reps in the system.

And this particular lineup against Jamaica

with these players in the system

that the first choice team runs

was absolutely the correct way, I think me in my opinion to sort of run this

process I don't think we necessarily got that earlier in the tournament and you know we've

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