#569: Americans in MLS preview with David Gass

Scuffed | U.S. soccer, 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

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Gass, the long-time fixture on Extratime, now the founder and host of Soccerwise, joins Watke and Belz to talk about the state of our domestic league, the Americans he's most excited to watch, how much Cavan Sullivan will play this season for Philly, and a bunch of lesser-known U17s and their prospects for minutes. Plus much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. Soccer.
0:15.3	Hey, everybody. We have a special guest today, David Goss.
0:18.3	He was for more than a decade, one of the faces of
0:21.1	Major League Soccer's media operation. He was the moral center of gravity for the Extra
0:25.6	Time podcast, the in-house-MLS podcast. He called at least dozens. You're going to have to
0:31.5	correct me if I'm wrong on this. Dozens of Generation Adidas Cup games, maybe hundreds, I'm not sure,
0:36.5	and maybe hundreds of New York Red Bulls
0:38.9	two games. He's been in on the ground floor of soccer in America for a long time. Now he's the host of
0:43.3	Soccer Wise, a podcast that he works on with Jordan Angeli and Tom Bogart, among others. It's a privilege
0:49.2	to have you here, Dave. Welcome. Thank you. I feel a thousand years old, like a goblin that you just pulled out of the depths
0:58.5	after hearing all of those names or all those years. But I appreciate being on.
1:04.4	Has it been hundreds of Generation Adidas Cup games? Probably because the thing, the beautiful thing
1:09.8	about GA Cup is the games are 60 minutes.
1:12.8	So normally I'll do like five to eight in a day.
1:15.6	Yeah.
1:15.8	And they're like an eight to 10 day tournament.
1:18.1	So I've probably, I'd probably call 20 to 25 each time.
1:23.8	How did you get into calling those games?
1:25.5	Were you the guy on the spot and they just...
1:27.7	Kind of, yeah.
1:28.6	I mean, I loki begged, but when they first started doing it,
1:32.8	it was before I'd gotten to MLS, and then one of my first years,
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