Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. Hey, this is Adam Bells. Got Greg Velazquez with me. How you doing, Greg?

I'm nervous Bells. I'm nervous every week now. There are more crosses on the playbill and we have

games kind of thickened fast this weekend and yeah I'm nervous I'm getting Just nervous that somebody's going to get injured basically.

Yeah, I mean, people are making a big deal about this correctly, I think.

I mean, there's always going to be injury misses for the World Cup.

I think that's a running bit of people putting together

the all injury 11 for any of these big tournaments.

But it is different in the sense that like a 10 day issue now, that's it're you're done for the you're probably out for the tournament

because the games go right up until the opener so so yeah so it is a lot more nervous I'm really hoping that these red crosses on the

playbill are are essentially players shutting themselves down for their clubs and just saying

hey I'll see you in January I'm going to train half speed for the next

three weeks and and be let's all be professionals about this.

Yeah serious chance of that and I guess the one that I'm most concerned about right now is

Chris Richards who doesn't seem like he's gonna be on the field this weekend so

now we're looking at I don't't know, is he going to be on the roster?

I don't know and maybe somebody listening can answer this because you can have injury

or replacements, right? But what I'm curious about is if you can have not quite match fit injury replacements where he's healthy.

He's not going to he's not going to fail any true medical tests, but if they're just like you're healthy but your your touch is really

rusty so we put you on the roster to see how you would do but now we're gonna replace you.

I feel like that was the Uliana situation in the

situation in the Olympic qualifying group way back in March 2021.

Yeah, do they send in a doctor to verify that you had an injury within the last 24 hours or something?

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