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

#490: An American soccer fan backpacking in Europe

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

Adam Belz

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

4.7922 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A quick chat with Otis Lyons, a young guy from the Bay Area who has been traveling in Europe and North Africa, watching USMNT players at their home clubs, for the past two months. He visited Gaga Slonina's home club for a home game, saw Balogun at Monaco, Juve-Milan in Turin, Johnny at Osasuna in Pamplona and many more games in various places. Meanwhile he ran a marathon in Tunisia and ran into a snag in Belgium. We met him on the Scuffed Italy trip and thought it'd be fun to catch up a couple weeks later.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. Hey everybody got a special guest today Otis Lyons who graduated from college in

0:21.4

2023 and has been traveling Europe since the beginning of April

0:25.4

Europe and North Africa as I understand it going to soccer stadiums seeing Americans play at their

0:30.4

home clubs seeing the world We met him in Turin on the Italy

0:35.8

trip a couple weeks ago and I thought it'd be cool to talk with him for a few minutes

0:39.7

about the places he's been and the things he's seen because he's seen a lot.

0:44.2

Otis, welcome to Scuffed.

0:46.0

Thanks for having me.

0:47.0

Appreciate it.

0:48.4

You're welcome.

0:48.9

Thanks for your time.

0:50.7

So can you just give us the rough itinerary that you have executed so far?

0:58.0

Yeah, originally there wasn't really much of an itinerary, but my goal is just to see as many Americans and as many grounds as possible.

1:10.0

I've been traveling for almost two months now and I started in Italy with a quick stint in Tunisia

1:20.3

for some non-socker related things and I've been to Monaco to see Florin

1:27.2

Balgan play saw you in Turin with the UVA Milan game.

1:34.3

I was over in Spain, saw Johnny Cardoso.

1:37.8

You saw him in Pumplona, right?

1:40.9

Yeah, yeah, I saw. Osasuna, first Betis in Pumplona.

1:45.0

And then I've been, I'm in here in Belgium now.

1:49.0

I saw Gaga Slo Nina play for Upin. I don't know if that's how you pronounce it, but yeah,

1:56.8

been to these countries and on the back end of my trip I'm gonna hope to get to England, see some of the guys there and

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