#419: World Cup — USWNT v Sweden recap

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

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Full timeline of events from the game that knocked the USA out of the World Cup, our best performance of the tournament (low bar), Rodman iso'd on the right but not as many times as would have been optimal, a crazy round of penalties and plenty of discussion of what it means with Greg and Belz.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US Soccer. The U.S. women have exited the World Cup thanks to a loss on penalties to Sweden early Sunday
0:21.9	morning on the
0:25.0	part of the early Sunday morning on the eastern seaboard.
0:27.0	Greg, good day to you sir. Good day bells the party is over.
0:29.0	Uh, look onward to Paris 2024.
0:32.0	Yes.
0:34.0	So many things to talk about here.
0:37.0	Where do we start?
0:39.0	What do you say?
0:40.0	Like, uh...
0:41.0	The party's over, World Cup. like you spend all that time looking forward to it and then you
0:47.3	know you are looking at the cruelty of knockout soccer.
0:51.8	And I think with this team in particular you also at least we felt
0:56.6	that there was certainly not the inevitability that that seemed to follow the
1:00.6	team in 2019 where even if they were playing close
1:04.1	games it just felt like no they have this in them and with this team it didn't
1:07.4	feel that way and it didn't feel like that for us even before the group stage
1:11.2	performances which again the narratives that you're going to have
1:15.8	following, it's almost going to flip. Like after the group stage, it's almost like the idea
1:20.8	was that it was inevitable that we would lose and some people probably
1:23.6	even thought that it was inevitable that we would lose this game straight away
1:26.8	to Sweden and I just I don't really buy that I don't I don't think in any way it was
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