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Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

#628: USA v Japan recap

Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Yanks Abroad, Sports, Youth National Teams, U20 National Team, Mls, American Soccer, Soccer, U17 National Team, Men's National Team, Usmnt, Us Soccer

4.7921 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Greg and Belz celebrate a solid victory, a sensible defensive shape that sparked the attack, and a bit of a coming out party for Folarin Balogun.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the scuff podcast, where we talk about U.S. soccer.

0:10.3

Bum, boom, boom, boom, bong, bougham, bougham, bauda, baudam, bauda, bough.

0:15.4

Hey, everybody, we are back.

0:18.7

Potch got his signature win.

0:20.7

Fuller and Balligan said climb on my surprisingly strong shoulders.

0:24.9

I will clear the way for the rest of the attack to flourish.

0:28.0

The sun is shining again on the men's national team.

0:30.8

Am I overreacting?

0:32.1

Here to tell me whether I am is Greg Velazquez.

0:34.9

Greg, how are you?

0:36.1

I'm good, no, bells.

0:36.9

There have been zero overre reactions for this entire window.

0:39.6

From the time the roster was announced until the time the whistle blew on the victory

0:43.8

over Japan, I think every reaction was exactly what it needed to be.

0:48.4

We are in an era of perfectly proportional reactions.

0:52.7

I want to read a couple quotes before we get into the timeline and the lineups and

0:58.4

everything.

0:58.8

Read a couple quotes from people, more than a couple.

1:02.4

So, you know, Potch had this combative is too strong of a word, but sort of impassioned

1:08.2

press conference the day before the game where he was really hard on

1:12.4

the march performance and basically said to the reporters there you know i i called up who you

1:19.1

guys wanted me to call up for that window and look how that went and um you know in sort of

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