#603: USA v Switzerland recap

Scuffed | U.S. soccer, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

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4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Not great! But Greg is typically even-keeled and there's plenty to talk through.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.
0:11.8	Hey, everybody. Greg and I are here to recap the loss to Switzerland on Tuesday.
0:22.0	It was a bit disappointing. A bit disappointing. Greg and I are here to recap the loss to Switzerland on Tuesday. It was a bit disappointing. A bit disappointing. Greg, how you doing? Good. I genuinely can't tell if you're
0:28.0	going for understatement or if you're just like, just a bit disappointing. It gets hard to know.
0:33.7	Going for understatement. Going for understatement. Trying to get a chuckle.
0:39.7	It was definitely a pretty horrendous performance and then the disappointment level is what becomes really user defined.
0:50.8	Yeah. So how do you as a user define the disappointment level?
0:57.6	I was modestly disappointed.
1:02.2	The echo I had, we've been doing this long enough that all these games, performances, narratives surrounding it all have echoes for me.
1:11.2	This felt to me a lot like...
1:13.1	Let me guess. Let me guess.
1:15.4	Are you thinking of the Mexico 30 loss?
1:18.9	No, no, no, no.
1:19.8	Okay.
1:20.4	I mean, I see where you're going, we've had a lot of bad losses in the time we've been doing
1:24.5	this.
1:25.7	But this was a loss that, you know, the Mexico 30-0 loss was the friendly, I assume you're talking about in 2019.
1:32.5	After the Gold Cup.
1:33.3	Yeah.
1:33.7	Just pulling that.
1:35.1	Yeah, this was early days in the Burr-Halter pool experiment when the cupboard was admittedly bare.
1:44.6	But no, that's not where I was at.
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