Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US Soccer. Hey, the roster for the U.S. Women's National Team is set. It's not exactly full of surprises,

but it is a World Cup roster, so we're going to talk about it and at the end discussed the

Gold Cup which kicks off for the men tomorrow against Jamaica.

Just as a reminder, we face Vietnam in the first game of World Cup for us on the 21st of July, the Netherlands five days later, and then Portugal on August 1st.

Sendoff match versus Wales is July 9 in San Jose.

Greg, how are you?

Man, I'm doing all right.

It feels like this is the first World Cup in a while

where like, you can't guarantee that we're getting out of the group.

Really? Do you think is Portugal you think that Portugal is that scary?

It's no they're not they're absolutely not scary but in the past like with the 24

teams you're gonna have three teams get through kind of a situation.

And it was like, well, even if there's a catastrophe, we'll get third and be one of the third place teams at advances.

Now it's just like, if there's a catastrophe,

I mean Netherlands are the Netherlands, right?

So it's not like you can just chalk that up as three points.

No.

So then it just comes down to like, yeah,

if we have a stumble, it's at least possible to to miss out and we've seen world powers do that plenty of times on the men's side in the 32 team format.

So you gotta we're gonna have to like we got to show up we got to execute

yeah particularly against Portugal right I mean that's though because we could

we could lose to the Netherlands without even stumbling that's where that's where that door

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