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

Our guest today is the host of Lorani Vision, the English language podcast that covers

the Paraguay men's national team.

He's based in Connecticut.

Roberto Rojas, welcome to scuffed.

Hey, thanks for having me, man.

Really glad to be here.

Yeah, we, I feel like we followed each other on Twitter for like eight years now or something,

but that's the first time we've been on the podcast uh because we're playing

you know the teams we love are playing each other very shortly here in a very important game

what's um what's the outlook what's the outlook for paraguai fans yeah i mean look it's it's even

crazy even for me like obviously as a paragu American, to have such a game like this.

You know, I remember, and it was crazy, like, just going back to the draw two months, like literally two months ago.

Because what was special about that was on the day, the day after that was my birthday.

So it was a nice little birthday present to see my two countries play in probably their most important World Cup game in years

or decades, I would say. So, no, I think it's certainly something that I think now assessing

it two months later and, you know, I think there was always that little chat that, you know,

I have with my friends, family, journalists from around the world, especially given that

is such a global event. I think, no, the assessment really for Paraguay, I think, is a positive

one. I genuinely thought that initially, when I first saw the group, obviously, I want to play the

US for obvious reasons. But then just like looking at it, then came Australia,

then came a European team that, you know, we don't know who could be. It could be one of four teams, but it's not like the juggernauts that we could get, like in Italy or something. I think it's a good outlook. You know, certainly it's, you know, I don't want to say it's a group of life. I don't want to say even a group of death,

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