#433: The U17s and the talent pipeline with Hartman & Chairez

Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

American Soccer, Sports, Youth National Teams, Mls, Soccer, Us Soccer, Yanks Abroad, U20 National Team, Usmnt, U17 National Team, Men's National Team

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🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Matt Hartman and Marcus Chairez join Belz to talk through the U17s' chances at the upcoming U17 World Cup in Indonesia, what the relative weakness of the 2006 birth year means for the talent pool, and who did themselves favors with their play in the Czech Republic a few weeks ago. (Patron-only edition is 45 minutes longer and includes detailed discussion of 6 specific prospects, and some encouraging news about the 2007 through 2009 birth years.)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US Soccer. Hey everybody it's time to dive in on the prospects and the state of the talent
0:21.0	pipeline in general.
0:22.8	Joining me are Matt Hartman and Marcus Shares.
0:25.2	You all know who they are, both guests we've had a few times.
0:28.2	Marcus, how are you?
0:29.3	Good Bells.
0:30.4	Glad to be here, glad to be with you too.
0:33.0	Thank you for your time.
0:34.0	Matt, how are you?
0:35.0	Doing well, Bell, is always a pleasure.
0:37.0	Let's look straight ahead to the U17 World Cup.
0:39.0	The USA faces Burkina Faso and South Korea and France in its group, one of the more difficult groups in the
0:46.2	tournament, they'll probably not the most difficult group.
0:49.7	I mean, you guys can correct me if I'm wrong on that, but first matches 7 a.m. Eastern time on November 12th a Sunday in
0:57.2	Jakarta against South Korea. Is there I guess we'll start with this is there any
1:02.1	reason to be optimistic about this team?
1:04.0	There's some reasons to be optimistic. I think that there are some individual players who it's going to be exciting to watch play at the tournament. I think any chance we have to like test ourselves
1:16.8	against like the best that other countries have to offer. I mean this is really the first time
1:21.5	we really get to see that outside of
1:22.9	Kankacaf right outside of like these weird little tournaments that sometimes
1:26.2	happen. I always find it exciting I always find it fun if you're one of those like
1:36.3	this is a useless exercise unless we walk away with the trophy people. You're probably not going to be a tournament you want to tune into from my perspective,
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