#353: Joe Machnik joins the podcast

Scuffed | U.S. soccer, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Sports, Usmnt, Men's National Team, American Soccer, Us Soccer, Soccer, Mls, U17 National Team, U20 National Team, Youth National Teams, Yanks Abroad

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

From playing on fields of crushed cinder in the German-American League to broadcasting World Cup games from Qatar, Joe Machnik has pretty much seen it all. A few days before his 80th birthday, he joins for an interview to discuss the builders of American soccer, the 1990 World Cup, what exactly a handball is, how MLS teams disposed of those clocks that were used to count down the 5 seconds given to a player for a shootout in the early days of the league, and much, much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. Our guest today is someone you've heard on TV almost certainly but may not
0:19.5	fully appreciate his role in American soccer. He's a 1965 U.S. Open Cup champion,
0:25.3	National Soccer Hall of Famer, a pioneer of player, coach, and referee development
0:30.8	in the game in this country, an assistant coach for the men's national team
0:34.8	that played at the 1990 World Cup and now a commentator for Fox Sports.
0:39.7	He is Joe Matchnick.
0:41.6	Welcome to the Scuff Podcast, Dr. Joe. Thank you,
0:44.3	Thank you, Adam.
0:45.5	Thank you.
0:46.5	Really appreciate this opportunity.
0:48.6	It's one I don't get that often.
0:51.9	And I appreciate being able to talk about soccer with folks that are really interested in the game.
0:57.0	Also I should mention you're about to celebrate a big birthday, right?
1:01.0	Let me think Friday I think. Yeah the 80 can't believe it. Happy
1:07.9	birthday. That's a big one. Yeah. So let's start way back. You first made your name in American soccer in the 70s as a
1:18.9	goalkeeper trainer. When did you begin focusing on goalkeeper training and how would you describe what
1:26.6	goalkeeper training was like at the time and what you were how how was what you
1:31.2	were doing different from what was already available.
1:34.8	Well it actually goes back before the 70s. I was a player goalkeeper at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, myself and Ray
1:48.5	Klavaca, who later went on to be the coach of the Cosmos,
1:52.5	were the first two so-called scholarships,
1:56.7	athletic scholarships for soccer at that school.
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