Welcome to the Scuffed Podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Minneapolis. With me is Greg Velasquez and

Des Moines. We talk about U.S. men's soccer. Hello the U17 World Cup begins October 26 and the US roster will drop later this week.

Matt Hartman is joining me to take a look ahead at it. Matt how's life?

It's better than the alternative bells how are you doing?

Yeah pretty good.

usual mix of joy and dread. Winter is coming in Minnesota.

Since Greg and I aren't going to do a preview of the Cuba match or a direct

reaction to Berhalter's roster, You want to give any thoughts on it?

Sure. It's a disappointing roster to me. Not all of that is Burhalter's fault. It's a disappointing pool

if we're being honest, but there are some things in Berholtors

control that I'm not a fan of. For example, I'm done with Trump with Trump with Trap in a US

Jersey. He's like the eighth best player on the 20th best

MLS team and any system that requires Trap as a loan six is not a system I think benefits the national team. I don't see how Holmes

Pomekle and Miles Robinson didn't make the roster. I think their athletic ability is

something that's going to be missed against the team like Canada.

And also I'm one of these crazy people who believe that a competitive game against Cuba is a golden opportunity to introduce you 23 players who could have an impact on the cycle to the men's national team even if they aren't playing at their European Super Club yet and bringing a player like Ledezema who looks to be on the cusp of breaking into PSV has the added benefit of kaptying him.

So we're going to sub on Corey Baird for the final 10 minutes of a three nil game against Cuba.

My eyes are going to roll into the back of my head.

Yeah, I guess I don't have anything to add to that.

I pretty much agree with all of it although you know big picture

pomacol and homes for me are the are the big omissions and like you said just the

player pool is not that great.

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