#580: USA v Canada recap

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

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The Poch-led USMNT fails magnificently in its first real test, fails to meet the standard set under Berhalter, which is all pretty ironic. Greg and Belz break it down, try to identify 2-3 intriguing plot-lines as we limp toward 2026. We need those fullbacks back. The World Cup won't be like this tournament was. No way.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.
0:12.0	Hey everybody, the USA lost 2 to 1 against Canada and basically empty stadium in Los Angeles.
0:23.2	Very sad.
0:24.6	A lot of sad things about it.
0:26.6	But I'm going to be probably more sanguine, more encouraging than you expect.
0:34.4	I don't know about you, Greg.
0:35.2	How do you feel?
0:36.3	I mean, I kind of love this.
0:41.0	And I want to, I want to make it clear. I don't love when the U.S. loses. I want the U.S. to play like an
0:45.9	absolute well-oiled machine and win games. Barring that, I want them to be effectively pragmatic
0:51.8	in win games. But if we're not going to do either of those two
0:54.4	things, then I want us to be an absolute mess for the entertainment. Like this still needs to
0:59.1	entertain me. If it's so boring and a slog and then we lose, like that's the worst. If we're
1:05.1	going to lose, I want I want drama. I want stories. And I feel like the way this is set up going into this World Cup for the next year, we now have that.
1:15.0	We've got a plot line to follow.
1:18.8	Yeah.
1:20.0	Yeah, so many plot lines, so many emerging plot lines, like Potch doesn't, you know, he
1:25.0	isn't really taking it seriously as one plot line.
1:28.0	Maybe we should explore that a little bit.
1:31.1	The Poulisic refusing to come off, which I don't think we have, you have to be a
1:36.3	drama merchant to see some real, I don't know, warning signs in that.
1:42.2	Potch was definitely exasperated with him, maybe even a little bit humiliated by
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