#659: A Tuesday Review, emphasis on World Cup bubble guys

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

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Charlie Boehm joins Belz to talk about Richards and the mess at Palace, Brenden Aaronson up from the ashes, Big Pat's distinct skill-set, E.B. White on Gio Reyna, Paredes returns brightly, Cardoso unconvincing to Belz, Pellegrino Matarazzo beats Barca, and Charlie was moved by the African Cup of Nations final.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.
0:14.9	Hey everybody.
0:16.2	Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Monday review.
0:18.5	I got Charlie Boehm here.
0:19.6	Charlie, how you doing?
0:21.0	I'm well. I'm well.
0:21.7	I'm well.
0:22.3	Great to be back with you for my first episode of an absolutely massive 2026.
0:28.1	Oh, that's right.
0:29.9	Almost forgot.
0:31.3	A lot going on this year.
0:32.5	How are you feeling about World Cup tickets?
0:35.3	I know we've talked about this before.
0:37.4	The prices, the billions and billions of requests for tickets that have come in from around the universe.
0:47.1	No prizes for originality, but I'm pretty appalled.
0:50.7	500 million requests, we are told, from FIFA.
0:53.9	I'd love to know how many of those are
0:55.5	living, breathing human beings in front of the screen and not bots or algorithms or what have you.
1:02.7	Yeah, as someone who, whose life was fundamentally changed by the 1994 World Cup, a dumb kid
1:09.5	grown up in the Dallas, Fort Worth suburbs and got to go to
1:13.0	all but one of the 94 games of the Cotton Bowl way back when in my adolescent years and
1:18.9	never saw the world the same way again. I'm super bummed out that we can't fill these NFL
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