Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US Soccer. Our guest today is Felipe Silva based in Orlando and you know him as

tactical manager 50,000 followers on Twitter, 42,000 subscribers on YouTube, an

unqualified success in the bootstrapped U.S. men's national team media landscape.

Felipe, Filippo,

thank you for your time.

Thanks, Adam, man.

You're kind of almost over-hiping me,

they're like the English media dust all those English players

in the Premier League,

but I'm glad to be here.

I mean, we've met in person, we've talked a few times,

and for the first time I'm here at Scuffed,

and happy to have you a tactical manager TV very soon.

Yes, tomorrow, indeed, right? Well, we record tomorrow, right? Yeah. So I mean, just real quick, you started in August of 2020 on Twitter, right? Was that about when you started the YouTube channel?

Yeah, like I probably started the YouTube channel in July,

like the month before, roughly the same time,

or end of July, yeah.

We're gonna get, I wanna get into more of that, a lot of that at the end of the episode,

but the main reason we're here talking today, what we agreed to talk about initially was

grassroots soccer, growing the game in America, something we both care about.

We had a slight disagreement on Twitter about this a couple weeks ago and maybe we should start

with that as like the starting point.

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