#621: September roster preview with Greg Velasquez

Scuffed | USMNT, 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 August 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Greg, Vince and Belz convene to discuss the soon-to-be-released roster for the upcoming friendlies against South Korea and Japan, and Greg classifies each position into Locks, Poch Favorites, All Eyes on You, and Shrugs. We work our way through who's going to get called up bc he absolutely should, who Poch WILL call up, and who might deserve it but may not get the phone call. Lots of news to sprinkle throughout, including Reyna to Gladbach, Balo's very encouraging first start of the season, Pepi's return, and much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.
0:16.2	Hey, everybody, we're going to probably get the roster for the South Korea and Japan friendlies later this week.
0:22.5	And we've got none other than rosterologist-in-chief.
0:25.9	Greg Velazquez, here to help us sort through it.
0:28.8	Greg, how are you?
0:30.6	Good. I don't know that rosterology is really even that possible in this current moment for the U.S. national team.
0:39.2	But this roster,
0:44.8	once we get it, I think will set a real nice foundation for discussion and outrage going forward. Yes. And that's what we need. Right. That's what we need. We need framework, right,
0:52.1	for the discourse to exist in.
0:54.9	Right?
0:57.6	Because right now there's just things coming from all different angles.
0:59.5	It's like an asteroid storm or something.
1:01.7	We don't know what's going on.
1:05.4	We don't know where things are coming from, what direction, all 360 degrees.
1:10.8	We need to be, make sure we are scanning at all times because just like that, snap your fingers,
1:14.2	Potts just pulling a Tristan Blackman out of the hat.
1:20.5	And so once we do get this roster, I'm hoping because, you know, I mean,
1:35.5	what we only have three windows left after this next window, that this one means something to, like, as to what the World Cup roster will be going forward.
1:36.5	You know what I'm saying?
1:37.1	Hopefully things start to take shape, right?
1:39.6	Yeah.
1:40.2	After this roster comes out.
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