#606: USMNT vs Haiti 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

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Greg and Belz talk through ALL the details on the 2-1 win over Haiti. Malik and Chris continue to be a cut above. Big Pat is a phenomenon, in both negative and positive ways. Everybody else is pretty much failing to distinguish himself.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.
0:14.6	A 2-1 win over Haiti, a nine-point group stage for the USA.
0:19.0	And now Costa Rica looms in the quarterfinals on Sunday in the cavernous
0:22.6	stadium where the Minnesota Vikings play.
0:25.7	Got Greg here. How you doing, Greg?
0:27.5	I'm good. They do loom, don't they? Costa Rica.
0:30.3	Oh, I'm terrified of them.
0:32.9	Even missing a bunch of good players,
0:35.2	they still have Kalailor Navas.
0:38.6	That's who looms the most, I think.
0:40.4	And I think the looming is affected by the group that we have here.
0:48.6	It's a little easier to cast a shadow over.
0:51.6	Yeah.
0:52.7	Yeah, I will say my initial thought after the game and watching the
0:57.0	highlights of Costa Rica, Mexico, which of course, it's like, it wasn't actually a packed
1:00.7	house for that game, which surprised me a little bit. Well, I don't know if it surprised me,
1:05.2	but I noted it. And it was a much more intense game, you know, as it always is when you're playing in front of more people against Mexico.
1:14.4	So my initial thought was like, we're going to get smoked by Costa Rica if we, unless we have like a dramatically better performance against them.
1:24.8	I watched the game back.
1:26.4	I did a little more research on Costa Rica.
1:29.5	I'm a little more optimistic now.
1:31.5	I think it's kind of a coin toss, you know, what happens on Sunday.
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