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

Des Moines. We talk about US men's soccer. The US U17's trip to Brazil was cut short on Saturday night with a 4-0 loss to the Netherlands

That's it. We're out of the World Cup after a 4-1 loss to Senegal and a 0- draw with Japan. Joining me to recap

Saturday's game and try to take something away from the tournament is Matt Hartman.

Thanks man, how are you?

I'm slightly discouraged Bells.

Thankfully, the last several years of American soccer has offered me plenty of preparation for stuff like this.

And really, if we're being honest, the Senegal and Japan games were the writing on the

wall for this group. Yeah I got to say like emotionally and obviously emotion

is part of this for us podcasterscasters. Emotionally, the Senegal game kind of took it out of me and I, the rest of the other two games have kind of been a wash. I didn't really expect that much after the way we played against Senegal and I it turned out to be right on that front

Yeah, I was kind of in the same place as well big picture. I take solace from the fact that there is talent on this team

Kobe's got real class.

At some point he'll sign with the club and get to play left back.

Odunze and Loss are promising goalkeepers.

Ricardo Pepi had a bad tournament, but he's still a big prospect.

Bello still has a high upside I think a pretty raw player as we've seen but still has a

lot of upside. Geo Reyna is a talented player at a good club for his development.

The thing that bugs me, you know, the thing that bugs me is that these youth national teams play to win.

That's why they go to the World Cup and this team looked miles from being a winning team.

They got of course one point in one goal in three matches and it was always going to be a tough

group but I think it's fair to be really, really disappointed with the way our young Americans

played. Not a lot of ideas in the attack. A general lack of quality, lack of

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