Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. We got a one one draw at the World Cup on Monday, our first World Cup game in 8.5 years,

tied Wales.

It ended up being a disappointing draw because we led from the 36th minute to the 82nd and we did control the game in some ways in the first half.

But we gave up a penalty late on a silly foul from Walker Zimmerman and Gareth Bale buried it.

The rest of the game was kind of a scramble.

How are you doing, Greg?

I'm doing good. Like you said, it's been eight and a half years since we watched the US men play in a World Cup

It was fun to just have that energy all all day all week. I mean all month

So to have that energy we we got our one World Cup moment in this game, one and a half

moments maybe. So I was really, I mean again, as much as we love to dive into the weeds here of chalkboards and

roster construction everything else like watching Tim Weiya do what he did there and send that ball into the goal in a World Cup game

after eight and a half years

was a really great moment.

It was a gorgeous goal. It was enough for me at halftime and I felt like maybe that was enough for

the US men's national team too.

It seemed it.

I mean, it's based on what we were getting out of Wales,

it seemed like that could definitely be enough to get three points.

I mean, it almost was.

Let's be honest, I mean, almost was let's be honest I mean Zimmerman's

Zimmerman's mistake you take that out of the game

Wales didn't have a ton of chances either we probably win 1-0. I'm fine saying that.

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