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

Hello, everybody. We are one week and a day away from the World Cup roster being announced.

We play Senegal in Charlotte a week from this coming Sunday. It's all about to happen.

Vincent Sanjay are here with me. Sanjay, how you doing?

I'm doing well. It's going to be back.

Welcome back.

Starting to feel like a summer of soccer. Weather's getting hot out here on the East Coast.

I went to the Hudson River Derby the other night.

We went a lot of Rebel games lately.

And yeah, that was the most full-hat stadiums been in a while.

And she gets you, you know, what's the appetite for what's coming?

Well, you know, while we're on the topic, let's get to some really relevant World

Cup news. How'd I dream a metti look in this game.

Right off the bat. There we go.

I think people are going to see him play for the senior team in the fall.

And, like, I hope I'm wrong in a way, but, like, I don't think I will be.

They're going to wonder, they're going to see him play in the fall,

and they're going to wonder why he wasn't in the mix sooner.

They're going to wonder, like, what could have been if this guy's attributes were there.

Now, maybe, I say, I hope I'm wrong in the sense that, like, hopefully, you know,

Testament and the other center mids, whoever gets called up does a great job.

But the way he progresses the ball, just so effortlessly, just finds people's feet playing forward.

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