Welcome to the Scuff's podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Georgia. With me is Greg Velazquez in Iowa. We talk about US men's soccer. A huge night in San Salvador, the biggest game for the USA since Koova and the biggest game for El Salvador since

2009, the fans showed up at the Kuskat Lan as many as nine hours before the game and the anthem was very stirring, a full house singing at the top of their lungs.

But the contest itself took the energy out of the

atmosphere, in my opinion. El Salvador wasn't sharp in the attack and the US

wasn't either. It ended zero zero, one point for the US and it's back to Nashville for the

Canada match on Sunday which becomes if not a must win a very important bell

weather for the program. Greg, how you doing?

Bells, I am cautiously disappointed.

Is that something we can, can we bring that into the lexicon?

We can, yeah, I, but before anybody turns us off in frustration I because there's going to be a lot of cautious

disappointment Let's just get out of the way like the well let's get the meta narratives out of the way why don't you want you take us through

yeah because I feel like that kind of hangs over the entire discussion of how we should

think about it or how people are saying you know it should be framed so I guess we'll start with sort of the very first

angle that most people bring up especially the seasoned men's national team

followers is you know is this is this your first Kunka-Kakaf qualifier on the

road like are you have you have you have you not been down this road before Is this is your first concaf qualifier on the road?

Like are you have you not been down this road before to be

disappointed? And I guess what I would say to that is like it kind of is the first

concaf qualifier on the road. The first one that we've had this level of talent on paper.

And I would say that's sort of indisputable.

So I think it's a little bit at least fair to go into this game at least wondering if that talent would sort of transcend the Kankacaff away elements and hoping that it would.

You know, our own players were talking about that.

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