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. The the promising and charismatic young Mexican American goalkeeper who's played for the U.S.

youth national team since he was an adolescent and was a starter on the Olympic qualifying roster

and is now a starter for Ray-Alsalt Lake is likely to switch and play for Mexico.

Not confirmed by Echo himself, but reported by credible journalists, including Doug McIntyre.

There is the possibility whispered on social media in the past week that other US-born players of Mexican

descent could make the same decision. In recent years the US has done well at

persuading dual nationals including Sergenio Dest and Eunice Musa to play for the

USA.

But the success rate is less obvious with Mexican Americans.

Joining me to talk about this is Hercules Gomez.

He's the most decorated Mexican American attacker in U.S. men's national team history, played a lot in the

2010 World Cup, won the League of Emmaki's golden boot that year for Puebla, has played for

almost every club from the North Pole to Guatemala, and now is a commentator all over the E-SPN family of television stations.

Welcome, Herk. Thanks for doing this. I'm excited. It's good to finally, I guess,

eat and eat you. Yeah, good to see your face. So, you know, I want to talk a little bit about the

the national team and sort of your history with the national team at the end, but the main thing I wanted to cover with you is the dual national

dilemma. So when you saw the news about achoa, what was your reaction?

Not surprised and I don't want that to come off in a negative type of way, but people need to realize how complex being a dual national is in this country and especially a Mexican

American in today's just political climate, you know, everything going on, especially with the rivalry

and how it's picked up a notch and pretty much gotten back to where it was in the, you know, early to mid 2000s.

So it's not surprising in the sense that, and trust me because I know because I am Mexican American I was born in this country I was educated in this country a lot of my opportunities came in this country

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