Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.

Hey everybody, it's a roster episode.

The USA plays Jamaica on Thursday in Kingston and then come back to the U.S. for the second leg.

You know, it's Nations League.

Greg, how you doing?

Bells, I got to say, I'm really happy that we've got a roster release.

We've got some other good news on the U.S. soccer front that we'll get to.

Because for the last week or so, it's sort of been one of those straight up not having a good time moments for me, maybe some other listeners out there for reasons.

So I just wanted to, you know, like, it's nice to be able to sort of retreat into rosters and depth charts

and spreadsheets and women's soccer national team media. That's been enjoyable. And,

that's what I've been doing for the last half decade is just retreating. So, yeah, like,

you know, I think, I think maybe eight years ago around this time, the way I consume

social media, I won't do that this time around.

I will sort of focus on just really get deep into these spreadsheets.

But also, like, I want to...

Sounds wise. Sounds wise. For anyone else who's kind of feeling like that, I'm I want to... Sounds wise.

Sounds wise.

For anyone else who's going to feel like that, I'm not going to, like, totally put my head in the sand. Like, there's a lot of things that if you're feeling sort of helpless about big picture things going on in the world, there are ways, you know, you can help.

I've got some organizations here doing really good work in my backyard.

So I'm kind of kind of try to put a spotlight on those organizations and focus my energy there.

And the one I'm going to spotlight today on this podcast is the Des Moines Soccer Club,

which is a really cool like grassroots soccer organization here in Des Moines, Iowa.

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