#669: A spring roster check-up with Dr. Velasquez

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

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It's been a while since the boys played. Who's in? Who's out? As the World Cup approaches, the answers to these questions are not always clear, but Greg breaks down what we DO know, and CAN say.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.
0:15.0	Hey everybody, we are now about three weeks from a roster being released.
0:18.7	Greg Velasquez has joined me to organize our minds and our spirits ahead of this momentous last window before the World Cup, well, before the World
0:21.8	Cup tuneups. Greg, how you doing? I'm doing good, man. We are at that window, right? I feel like it's
0:27.3	happening all very quietly without a lot of fanfare right now, but this is like
0:34.7	gonna basically be the team.
0:40.1	Yeah, it seems like it.
0:42.9	And it has been, it is happening quietly because we're in this like six month, you know,
0:45.6	downturn and of things happening and interest,
0:52.6	but it should ramp up really soon.
0:57.7	And so we're getting out ahead of it, as always, here it's scuffed.
0:59.7	That's not true.
1:04.1	Anyway, Uve and Monaco, out of Champions League now, West scored.
1:05.7	Yeah, West and B follow heroics aside.
1:12.1	Yeah, I know.
1:15.3	It was close.
1:16.9	Youve, man, Yuvay.
1:18.1	Too bad they were so clownish in Istanbul
1:19.9	because they came home.
1:22.5	They went up 3-0, so on aggregate game-game even, and then they went up 3-0 so on aggregate game game even and then they give up two goals an extra time
1:25.9	and obviously west some McKinney on the scoreboard again yeah he scored the third to bring it
1:32.6	a level what a moment but the joy was short-lived.
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