#600: A pre-Gold Cup check-in with Greg Velasquez

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

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Greg joins Belz to talk about who they're excited to see play over the next month, why Josh Sargent was left off, and respond to several listener questions as the USMNT embarks on the Gold Cup and the final 12 months before World Cup 2026. As usual, Greg zigs while most everyone else zags. He's not panicking.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.
0:17.2	The USMNT kicks off this Saturday against Turkey and then plays Switzerland on Tuesday and then we head into the Gold Cup.
0:23.9	We're missing Pulisic and Wes and Wea and Gio and Peppy and Baligan and Jedi.
0:31.1	World Cup is 12 months away.
0:33.4	Yudis.
0:34.0	Brother Yus.
0:34.4	We're missing Eunice.
0:35.0	Yeah.
0:35.7	Brother Yusuf.
0:44.3	We are a fan base, not so much in crisis as we are a fan base in limbo. We're still here.
0:46.3	That much we can say.
0:48.3	Beyond that, I don't, you know, it's unclear.
0:51.3	I mean, we're still here.
0:53.3	We're still here. You and me still here. We're still here.
0:54.7	You and me are here.
0:56.3	We're here.
0:57.3	You're in a car in central Iowa.
1:00.8	I'm in rural Georgia.
1:04.7	But yeah, good news for you.
1:06.1	You've heard his voice already.
1:07.1	I have Greg Velasquez here,
1:09.1	and he's going to give us the unvarnished truth of what all this
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