#577: Gameday check-in with Sanjay at Nations League

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

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Watke and Belz check in with Sanjay Sujanthakumar less than 24 hours before USA-Panama in Los Angeles as he hustles around SoCal covering the team. We touch on the back-and-forth with Tim Ream on who tonight's left back will be, what the midfield might look like, what we've learned from lots of press conferences and the mixed zone in the last few days, the various responses from players and coaches to the politics questions, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.
0:15.2	Hey, everybody, we got a show. It's game day, or at least it's almost game day.
0:20.4	And to get you ready for the matchup against Panama, we've got a special guest, Sanjay, Sujanta Kumar, who's been pounding the pavement of Southern California at Nations League camp, going to Mix Zone, going to training, interviewing people. First of all, welcome. Sanjay, thank you for being with us.
0:38.2	Where have you been in the past couple days?
0:40.1	What have you seen?
0:41.3	Yeah, firstly, thanks for having me back.
0:43.0	Great to see you guys.
0:44.7	It's been good to be back in Southern California.
0:48.9	I lived here for five years, went to school out here.
0:51.1	So it's great to be back.
0:52.5	The weather was shit last week.
0:53.9	It was cold
0:54.2	it was rainy it was windy some days but today the sun was out um it was at the team hotel earlier
1:01.6	interviewing a few guys and then headed over um team staying in manhattan beach and then headed down to
1:07.8	carson where they're training at the Galaxy facility.
1:13.4	And yeah, everyone's here today pretty much from the press team.
1:19.8	On Monday it was just me, Steve Goff, and Jonathan Wald, and it was...
1:25.7	What do you guys talk about?
1:26.8	What do you get up to in here?
1:29.1	Brendan Aronson, mostly, probably.
1:32.6	The typical small talk is like when did you get in, we've been up to as you.
1:39.0	No, I don't want, I want the nitty gritty of it.
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