Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. We've got John Arnold here today, author of the Getting Kocaff's newsletter. a must read dispatch for anyone who follows

soccer in this region I'll put the link in the show notes encourage you to

sign up and check it out he's been kind enough to agree to help us get a good

sense of how the other concaf nations are doing heading into the World Cup.

John, how you doing man?

I'm good, I'm good, always happy to hang out.

You know, missed you a little bit after the qualifiers, but good to be here and it's busy I mean we're already

doing a lot of preview stuff getting some newsletter stuff set and doing some stuff for

other outlets so it's almost here man it's crazy I kind of can't believe it but

it doesn't matter if I believe it or not those games are start in November 20 yeah yeah

less than a month I've got a bunch of listener questions. I'll try to ask them all.

Appreciate everybody who sent in a question and I've got questions on my own but first a non-World Cup one.

Jorge Castillo in the Bay Area, asks, what are your three favorite

Concord Caf stadiums you visited?

Yeah, I need to get to more.

It's expensive to travel in this region, as think you know US fans looking at trips will know

I think El Volcan in in Monterrey where Tigres play is up there for me. I think that's one of the best the

Romel in Panama because of the environment because of Panama City is a really

unique place in unique soccer culture I'll put that in there and a bit of a Homer pick I still

love Kansas City and whenever there's a qualifier or a gold cup game or anything in

KC it's always a treat to be there. I really like the stadium a little far from

the city but I think it's like a really good experience.

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