Welcome to the Scuffed Podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Georgia. With old and loyal friend of the podcast.

I'm not saying he's an old, he's not an old person necessarily.

He's just an old friend of the podcast.

Thanks for clarifying that.

Who follows the Youth National Team Player Pool pools as closely as anyone out there?

Matt, how are you doing? I'm doing great bells. How are things in Georgia? Yeah, I'm doing fine. I'm doing great. How's New York?

It's good as ever. Can't complain. Good. So the you the reason we're talking is the

U-20s are convening next week for a tournament in Mexico called the

Revelations Cup. They'll play Brazil, Mexico, and

Columbia's U-20 teams. They still don't officially have a coach and we're going

to get into the actual roster. A version has been leaked on Malik Sonogo's

Instagram. First let's go kind of big picture because you're you know you're a no

nonsense guy you know you're not gonna say thingsonsense guy, you know?

You're not gonna say things are good when they're not good.

So what's the basic question is,

how good is the pipeline right now?

And how good are these age groups?

And what will that mean for the national team long term?

The U7 teens appear to be quite good but they are still children, right?

So, I really don't like to like guess that far out especially since you know like we haven't really seen any of them against international competition. The U-20s are a bit harder to it's a bit

harder to say that they're in a great place. The 2003s will make up a bulk of the U20 roster and they're pretty good. You know, we've been saying for a little while that the O3s are one of the better groups we've ever produced and you could argue that you can argue that there's a

lack of top-end talent after PEPI but I think we have enough lottery tickets that some will pan out and

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