#193: The September roster, rotations and exhortations

Scuffed | U.S. soccer, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Sports, Usmnt, Men's National Team, American Soccer, Us Soccer, Soccer, Mls, U17 National Team, U20 National Team, Youth National Teams, Yanks Abroad

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Berhalter called up 26 players for the first three World Cup qualifiers of the 2022 cycle. The time has come! We discuss the selections (mostly pleased) and spend quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to rotate for three games in seven days. There will be lots of tough choices and on-the-fly conundrums but from the comfort of our desks in Middle America we have sketched out some possibilities.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 2018 World Cup
0:25.0	was the sluggishness of the American performance. This is Bell's speaking by the
0:29.7	way. Maybe it was the lack of rotation, maybe it was a lack of collective morale,
0:34.0	intra-squad strife, maybe the overall American malaise of the moment,
0:38.5	whatever it was, that team didn't have the fire,
0:41.0	they didn't play with the required intensity in unglamorous corners of the region
0:45.6	when it counted most and we missed the World Cup. Now is when it counts.
0:50.5	Every goal, every point matters.
0:53.0	So here's a message from one fan, just Bells, to the young players about to embark on this qualifying campaign.
0:59.0	Geo, Wes, Tyler, sogenio, Anthony, Josh, Miles, Chris Richards eventually, we assume, Eunice, Timmy, Brendan, Conrad, and Ricardo.
1:11.8	If you and your teammates come out focused and serious and flat out just play hard,
1:16.7	the fans will adore you for it and we will most probably win and most probably go to the World Cup.
1:24.0	So let's do this boys. Greg how you doing? Bells it's happening it is happening four years in the making
1:29.7	it's happening I think you left out George Bella I'm just going to point that out because I was
1:33.9	I did leave out. Well, just because I was going through how outrageously young this team is in Bellows another
1:39.6	2002, same age as Giorana. And it's just incredible. You know our big thing when we started
1:47.2	this was will we have that savior by committee and the sergeant at
1:51.7	arms at this point is having to keep people out of the
1:54.4	anti-chamber. We are we the committee has arrived. Yeah there are many qualified
1:59.2	applicants to the committee who cannot join the committee anymore.
2:04.1	It is a very exciting time.
2:07.1	I mean the big news, the big news for me at least
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