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

Hey, everybody, World Cup is coming in just over a month, just over a month. And there's a lot of

action to get through from the weekend. Vince, how you doing? I'm doing good, man. May. May is

here. Like you said, the World Cup is upon us. And, you know, the general malaise that I've seen

from some still has not lifted yet you know I don't know

a World Cup doesn't have the equivalent of an opening ceremonies or whatever but maybe we need

to just get to that point and let the because you know how it is man yeah the doomer sentiment

grows so large and so loud and I'm not I'm not here to to say that, you know, there won't be some problems with this World

Cup.

There obviously will be.

But once a month from now hits and those prices that were $800, $700 are looking at

have a 90% decrease and we're looking at $70, $80 for a lot of these,

you know, kind of quote, quote unquote, no disrespect to anybody, undesirable matches.

The ones with the less traveling fans, less of a diaspora in the United States, all these different

types of things. Once I gets here, once that hits and once people realize that, you know, that is the case,

I think we're going to be, we're going to be good to go.

We're going to be good to go.

But, you know, that combined with a lot of our European players hitting the quarterback kneel,

you know, to kneel out this European season that is, that is waning.

That is waning and coming to a close.

Clock just ticking down.

You know, it creates the conditions for what we have here.

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