#407: Paul Kennedy joins the pod

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

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The editor of Soccer America first interacted with the U.S. Soccer Federation when it was run out of a leased office at the Empire State Building, and he remains one of the organization's closest observers 50 years later. He joined Watke and Belz to discuss Berhalter's re-hiring, the search, federation finances, equal pay, NWSL finances, and much more. Second half of the interview is available only to patrons. Link below.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. Our guest today is the editor-in-chief of Soccer America, a man who's been covering the game in our country since 1974 and one of the
0:24.1	closest if not the closest observer of the US Soccer Federation out there it's an
0:28.9	honor to have him on the podcast please welcome Paul Kennedy hey Paul
0:32.1	hey thanks for having me on today and Yes, please welcome Paul Kennedy. Hey,
0:32.8	Hey, thanks for having me on today.
0:34.6	And I am glad to be with you guys.
0:37.3	Also, Chris is here, Chris, how are you doing?
0:39.4	I'm doing great.
0:40.0	I'm excited to talk with Paul.
0:41.5	We do want to get into your background and soccer America's background,
0:44.6	but let's get into some sort of newsy questions right off the bat.
0:48.4	J.T. Batson, the CEO of US soccer,
0:50.9	said there were no budget constraints on the recent head coach search.
0:55.0	But ESPN reported, quote, a USF source told ESPN in April that budget would play role, and, for example, something in the range of $10 million for
1:06.2	a salary was unrealistic.
1:09.0	Are these two things inconsistent with one another?
1:12.4	Can it be true that there were no budget constraints?
1:17.8	I think in the abstract it's there probably were not any. I think of that $10 million figure, the
1:26.4	realities is I don't think there's any national team coach in the world that makes that.
1:31.8	There was a salary survey during the World Cup of the 32 head coaches and Hansi Flick
1:38.6	of Germany was the highest paid about 8 million.
1:43.0	You know, Greg Bertholdt, the U.S. coach was making about 1.3 million last year.
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