Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. We still haven't got it spelled out from Einhoven what exactly the injury is but it looks

like Sergenio Dest is gonna miss the Copa this summer.

Huge implications for Greg Berhalter and the U.S. men's national team and for us, frankly.

We want to mourn the injury, probably an ACL injury or something like that.

But as Vince said on the Monday review, move the drill, you know, everybody moved to a different part of the field and keep practicing, even

if a bone is sticking out.

That's for sure what the team needs to do, right?

That's what the staff need to do. But yes, as fans, I definitely think we should

be allowed to lament because Sergeno has just been so entertaining. Aside from whatever the competitive difference will be and that if the drop-off,

and I think we can say that there will be some kind of a drop-off.

I think there is.

The entertainment drop-off is going to be substantial.

Yeah, I mean that's something to lament for sure.

We got to figure out how to feel the best possible 11 in his absence and so that's what this episode is

mostly going to be about. Why don't you why don't you kick us off Dr.

Velasquez? Well it feels like you know and people been talking about this since as soon as we found out that he was very

cryptically found out that he was going to be injured for a long spell it seems like there's basically

two approaches right you you can go like for like

uh where you can sort of just plug in our next best right back where best could mean like

best overall available right back or best surge analog.

Or you can sort of fudge it

and you can just get our next best player into the 11.

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