Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. The actual roster for the World Cup is out. Greg, how you doing?

I am shocked.

The actual roster for the World Cup is out.

Craig, how you doing?

Bells, I am, I am shocked. There were some shocks, which

which is tough to do in 2022 to have this a list of 26 people,

and even though there were some leaks to still

manage to sneak in a couple of shocks I'm not necessarily upset at some of the

some of the surprises but I will definitely say like I was a little bit taken aback. A couple of our

locks from our preview episode were not locks after all. Well let's just go before we give the whole roster because everybody

listening this will know the roster about time they listen to this. Let's talk

about the shocks. What's the biggest shock for you? Biggest shock for me is probably going to be Zach Stephan. I think it is the correct

choice soccer wise. You know, we've talked for a long time about Stephan never really earning the job through his play.

It has always felt since 2018 that he was just sort of installed as the number one.

Yeah, it was a coronation.

Yeah, and it was always strange to me.

His play on the field never really seemed to merit

that kind of security as being the absolute default number one. But he definitely seemed to be and he was up until you know

Matt Turner gold cup in 2021 put some questions for other people in their minds, some doubts.

And even then, Stephan, you know, through World Cup qualifying, Berthor

seemed to lean back that direction towards Stephan to start.

Eventually, a healthy Matt Turner was, you know,

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