Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. Hello the U.S. women beat Nigeria twice a couple of weeks ago and now they will face

England and Spain and a pair of marquee friendlies next month.

I've got Greg here with me to look back, mostly look back, but also look ahead a little bit.

Greg, how you doing?

Doing all right, bells.

The looking ahead is the fun part because these are some big time matchups coming up in October.

And then again, you know, they just announced the Germany friendlies in November.

Right ahead of the Men's World Cup,

so we've got a pretty appealing two months of soccer ahead of us.

Yeah, there have been some complaints

that the US hasn't been able to schedule enough challenging games for the women

over the last year. So that's not going to be a valid complaint after this year is over because Germany, Spain, and England pretty clearly the three best teams in Europe, right?

Or at least arguably the three best teams in Europe?

Yeah, they're up there and it's going to be, this is going to be awesome because it's like

perfect timing because we're going to get these games after we've had you know this

last calendar year including the Kakaaf women's championships to sort of like you

know see what this new generation will do after the

turnover after the Olympics and so that we've allowed them to like kind of settle in

a little bit. Now we're going to get this real test at the end of this year and then we'll still have, you know, the next six months after that to then take what we learn in these tests in the in the winter and fall and and really try to like then recalibrate ahead of Australia, New Zealand,

2023. And they dropped a behind the crest video this morning the US soccer

did about the Nigeria window, so we're only slightly behind the Federation and talking about these games.

And the details on these friendlies that are coming up, U.S. v. England at Wembley on October 7th,

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