Welcome to the Scuff's podcast. I'm Adam Bell's in Georgia. With me is Greg Velazquez in Iowa. We talk about US men's soccer.

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But on, but on all,

That's the a cappella version of the intro song,

brought to you by Matthew Doyle, who dared me to record and publish it, which I've done. Thank you for the prompt Doyle.

He's a polarizing figure in this little ecosystem of ours but make no mistake.

He's always been a great friend of scuffed and we appreciate him. To the soccer. A roster for the World Cup qualifiers

in September should be released in the next couple of days and we're going to talk about that. Who do we want to see in this

squad? Who do we want to see in this squad? Who do we expect to see? It'll all be rolled up in a single recipe over the next hour or so.

Greg, how you doing? Bells, I'm all right. I'm at this point like checking my 10 day forecast for San Salvador every day because we are by the time this post that 10 day forecast will include the opening match day of World Cup qualifying.

Yeah, the 10 day, like the one on weather.com.

Yeah, whatever your preferred weather app is,

look at the 10 day forecast for San Salvador.

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I'm just kidding.

Yeah, it's so close.

It's weird to have it be so close.

We've been waiting for this for so long.

We're working with, I think, a roster of 26.

Is that the, is that the parameter that you're working with?

So I think I landed on that, but that wasn't the starting point.

So what we're going to do today with our roster talk is we're going to go through sort of what our guiding principles are that we think Berhalters probably adhering to, or at least sort of theoretically, and then trying to stick to that, because there again, there are so many permutations with all these windows and with now with all these sort of injuries that are piling up, which isn't that

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