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

Hey everybody, it's the Monday Review.

We have Sanjay here to help us recap the World Cup draw and the reaction from the players in Potch.

He was hustling all over the Kennedy Center on Friday and is now back home in New Jersey.

Sanjay, how are you?

Good. It gets you back speaking with you all.

And, yeah, it was a hectic, hectic weekend, eventful, exciting weekend, and I'm excited to talk about it.

Vince, how are you doing?

I'm doing great at him, Bills.

Good.

Good.

All right.

So, I'm pretty good.

I'm pretty good.

I told you guys before we started, I was at a coaching class last night in Atlanta.

And one of the things, you know, it was a USSF coaching class.

So not an inspiring, not an inspiring experience, but certainly useful.

And there was one thing that the guy brought up that was interesting.

It was a grassroots 9 v.9 and a grassroots v. 11 class. And he brought up that, you know what? What's coming up this summer? And, you know, like one of those guided questions. And somebody was like, the World Cup. And then he goes, he goes, I think we have a pretty good group. And, you know, what's going to happen? What's going to happen at your club? What's going to happen at your rec if we go to a quarterfinal? And people are like, oh, people are going to be excited. And he said, what's going to happen if we go to a semifinal? He's like, it could happen. And so I said, hey, what's going to happen, sir? and he said what's going to happen sir and he said there's

going to be a huge bump in enthusiasm and participation come the fall and uh you're going to have

you're going to have a lot more people trying a lot harder to play soccer so that was kind of exciting

kind of exciting to hear about the direct relationship between this upcoming tournament and, you know, to steal a phrase, boots on the ground, grassroots soccer development.

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