#643: Cavan strikes at the U17 World Cup, with Marcus Chairez

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

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Marcus joins Belz to talk about the messy 1-0 win over Burkina Faso at the U17 World Cup, what's promising about the team (Albert, Sullivan) and where it will probably continue to struggle. We also briefly hit on the big Champions League goals from Balo and Pepi.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.
0:14.8	Hey everybody, we're just going to pop in and talk about the U-17s-10 win over Burkina Faso
0:20.6	at the World Cup.
0:22.0	Get briefly into some of the senior team action from the middle of the week as well.
0:26.1	Joining me once again is Marcus Cherez.
0:28.1	Marcus, how are you?
0:29.6	I'm doing all right, Bills.
0:32.5	Yeah, I'll just, I'll leave it at that.
0:34.3	I'm always excited to talk to soccer, so I'll mark that down as the positive for my day.
0:40.6	We finally got the tech. We got the tech figured out. It's always, you know, it's like the
0:45.1	Tolstoy quote about every, you know, every happy family is the same. Every unhappy family
0:49.9	is unhappy in its own way. Every tech problem with a podcast is unhappy in its own way, you know?
0:57.7	Anyway, first, let's get the bad news out of the way.
1:02.8	You weren't overly impressed with this performance, were you?
1:07.2	Not really.
1:08.2	Were you?
1:10.7	I mean, should I have been?
1:13.7	No. I mean, it was pretty messy and Brickino Faso had the better of the chances. I think that's fair to say overall.
1:24.5	And probably should have gone up one zero.
1:30.7	I'm thinking particularly of what happened and what was it,
1:38.7	the 71st, 72nd minute when they had a chance on the doorstep and just sent it over.
1:54.8	Yeah, but I think, I think, I was maybe left a little like, maybe not disappointed, but kind of not seeing away.
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