#355: A window-by-window overview of what's ahead in 2023

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

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Greg and Belz talk through the year ahead for the men's and women's programs. First a brief discussion of the urgent tasks ahead of the USWNT, then whether Berhalter can continue, then the year of (hopefully) experimentation that's ahead for the men's program.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. Hey Greg.
0:15.0	Bells, how are you doing?
0:18.0	I'm pretty well, raining hard here in North Georgia on this Thursday morning. We are going to, let's see, what are we going to do?
0:27.6	We're going to give a, we're going to give kind of a big picture overview of 2023, or at least the first half of 2023 as we sort of really kick off the
0:35.6	2026 cycle and on the women's side as we enter into the home stretch ahead of the
0:42.1	2023 World Cup.
0:44.0	Yep.
0:45.0	The women of course have a greater sense of urgency because it's a World Cup year and because
0:50.1	we ended 2022 with three losses in a win.
0:54.0	And not a lot of attacking Verve.
0:55.6	We talked about much of that in Wosa Wednesday,
0:59.8	which is our sort of new once every two weeks episode with Tara and Vince and me.
1:05.0	But we should probably quickly work through the upcoming schedule for the women.
1:11.0	First they play two friendlies in New Zealand against New Zealand next week. That's Tuesday and Friday.
1:18.0	Right, so we're bringing a full strength squad into what is basically a dress rehearsal, think to get everyone who a lot of people who will be on the roster in 2023 in June and July.
1:30.0	June and July, July, July, August.
1:32.0	July, July, July, August, August. July, August, yeah.
1:33.6	Getting them acclimated with the time zones,
1:37.0	the, you know, the logistics, because both friendlies in New Zealand,
1:40.0	all three of our group stage games in New Zealand.
1:46.2	You and Tara and Vince noted that New Zealand's team will be anything but full strength.
1:47.7	They will be severely weakened.
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