#640: U20 wrap, U17 look-ahead with Marcus Chairez, Noahkai struggles, Diego shows out at ComplexCon

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

4.7 • 921 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Vince, Belz and Marcus on the mics. Also, is Diego Luna actually cool? Not just soccer cool but universally? An in-depth discussion of his photo with Lil Yachty, Quavo and Yeat, which MEANS SOMETHING to Vince. And then we talk about a small part of the weekend action.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.
0:14.8	Hey everybody, it's the Monday Review. We've got Marcus Chores here and Vince, of course.
0:19.9	So we're going to lean into the youth national teams.
0:22.0	The U-20s wrapped up their World Cup campaign a couple weeks ago.
0:26.9	We haven't really put a bow on that.
0:29.6	Also, the U-17s kick off their group stage in the U-17 World Cup against Burkina Faso on Wednesday, November 5th.
0:38.6	So, first of all, how are you?
0:40.9	How are you, Marcus?
0:42.4	I'm good, I'm good.
0:43.6	I'm just flew back from Germany on Friday,
0:48.0	so I'm just kind of getting acclimated to being back in California.
0:52.6	But no complaints, and I'm happy to be here.
0:55.8	What about you, Vince? How are you doing?
0:58.2	I'm great. Good. That's all. No preamble.
1:01.8	Okay. All right. So the U20 wrap up.
1:05.0	Marcus, I know you wrote something for the U.S. Soccer Collective, your website about the tournament after it was over,
1:12.1	kind of nice and short and sweet.
1:13.9	Can you give us the TLDR on the tournament?
1:17.7	You know, like what did you make of this group, first of all, in their performance?
1:23.5	How did they?
1:24.0	They fell out in the quarterfinals, just like everybody before them has done.
1:29.7	But this was a little different, right?
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