Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. Late tomorrow night the USA will play Mexico in Phoenix US men's national team

versus the Mexican men's national team versus the Mexican men's national team.

And, well, first of all, you know, we talked about this a little bit on the money review,

but you were the, you were sort of defending the cash grab of this on the discord and I wanted you to sort of see if you could make that point here.

Well, you guys talked about it too, like, you know, I was seeing it sort of being derogatoryatorily talked about like all the feds just using this to line their pockets.

And it's weird to me because like what do you all think happens to the money that lines the

feds pockets like Batson and

parlo cone don't take that money home like that money is injected into our

soccer organization's governing body.

We need money.

Hopefully, if you have no faith in how they're using it, I get that.

But, you know, like, if the people who are coming in

are setting this up efficiently,

one of the good things that you would expect them to do

would be to generate revenue, so they could do the good things that you hope they're going to accomplish.

Again, if you just think that is impossible, then I get get that but that's just sort of a nihilist

approach to it that just means that nothing can be good so you may as well just

criticize every single thing they do which is kind of a position I think that some people

have adopted.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We need cash grabs.

We need cash to pay for coaching development and youth development and, you know especially the time when there are a certain number of

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