#446: A Michael Bradley retrospective with Watke and Bob Morocco

Scuffed | USMNT, 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

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Bob Morocco joins Watke and Belz to talk through ten of MB90's most memorable moments, what kind of player he really was, how much responsibility he bears for the failure in Couva, whether the 2014 team would beat the 2023 team, the chip at the Azteca, jawing with Suarez at the U20 World Cup, the Slovenia goal, the Confederations Cup run, and much more. This is the first 20 minutes or so. The rest of the episode is available only to patrons.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Scuff Podcast mostly we're going to talk about
0:25.2	Michael Bradley who just retired from Major League soccer and joined his dad
0:30.0	Bob at a club in Norway. I guess I should introduce, everybody knows Wacky, I should introduce Bob a little bit. Well, first of all, welcome Bob.
0:39.2	Thanks for having me, Belts. Thanks for being here. Bob is a big soccer legend.
0:44.4	He's been on there for a long time breaking things down.
0:48.8	One of the most rigorous soccer analysts in the scuffed community.
0:54.2	Probably the most rigorous, I think that's not too hard to say.
0:57.2	It's also possible you've been challenged by his rigor
1:00.4	on Twitter and some debates in the replies.
1:04.0	People need to get out of their comfort zone, they need to push themselves.
1:08.0	I'm just applying like a continental level of rigor.
1:12.0	He does things that's sometimes difficult to know what to do where you'll say something and he'll ask you a question.
1:18.0	Yeah. You're not exactly sure where he's come out from. You don't know if he's agreeing with you or disagree.
1:24.0	Right.
1:25.0	You're like, oh, I gotta think this through. It's tough.
1:30.0	I know my limits and I do not ever directly challenge Bob.
1:37.0	Just for the record.
1:40.0	I don't either.
1:41.0	Yeah.
1:42.0	Like patrons will know that Bradley, Michael Bradley got a little bit of a raw deal on the
1:46.8	Monday review from us a couple weeks ago.
1:50.3	I'm not, I'm certainly not happy with my performance in that sequence so I want to give him a proper tribute
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