Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US Soccer. Okay, we got a 3-0 win over Columbia to celebrate. Greg, how you doing?

I'm doing good, we're good again. It's nice to be good again after being bad for a little bit.

Not so fast. Not so fast. Not so fast.

Talk about whether we're good again, but a couple announcements. First, you'll have to excuse the ambient noise on my end. I'm traveling with family and have to record this outside.

Also, this is an exciting announcement.

Patrons of the podcast have known for a while that we are planning a trip to Italy

at the end of April and early May.

It's not totally finalized, but there's strong interest and it's I think

it has a good chance of actually happening. The plan is to see UVA Milan and Turin and

Turin and then games in Como and Venice George Kureshi and I will be on the trip

for which there are still a couple spots left so we're opening it up to the

public feed audience.

If you have any interest, go to the links in the show notes.

I've got a link with a lot of detail about the trip there

that George put together and then a link to a form where you can let us know if you're

interested so check that out and you know scuffed pod at gmail.com it's also a good way to

ask questions and investigate so yeah trip. Decent chance is going to happen. So get on board.

It's amazing. It's amazing. And while I can't go, I am very excited to follow religiously every single day of the trip in the in the discord where I'm sure you guys will be posting travel logs

Yeah, we'll be we'll do some kind of Greg Velazquez homage, you know, there'll be something.

Okay, to the game.

How about we start with the lineups?

Yeah, let's do it. Knockout game. This is where we see who Twyla thinks is our best team to win a soccer game. I think. I think, I don't think there's any hedging here.

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