Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. Hey everybody this episode is going to be in large part and optimistic look forward at the England game because I think that's what we got to do as a

podcast.

I mean it for me it's not even we got it I'm feeling optimistic good.

Yeah I'm feeling probably better about this game than I've ever felt about a game.

Enthusiastically reporting for duty is what I'm hearing from you.

Yeah. Yeah. But first we got to talk about we got to talk some more about Giorana and his health

Don't we shouldn't we talk about it? Oh, I should also mention Greg and Vince are on vacation

They're not with us. It's just me and Chris. So Greg Berhalter said again today that

Geo was healthy and available for Wales and his not playing was a coaches

decision and I think we have not maybe made everybody happy with the way

we've talked about this issue on this podcast and I want to say from

myself to the extent that I make people feel belittled for having a different opinion than me or a different

interpretation. I apologize. I'm going to try to be very straightforward about this issue today.

It is important.

Geo's health is important because he didn't play against Wales.

We could have used him.

We could have used him in that last 30 minutes

to get more control of the game, maybe to get a goal.

We didn't use him. I think the thought on this, if I'm, correct me if I'm characterizing it

in accurately, Chris, but I think our take on this podcast was basically, there's no way

Berhalter doesn't play him if he's available.

There had to be some health issue in play. Well, since Broder is kind of... He's not helping us out here, basically.

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