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 national team faces Canada on Friday night in a quote unquote must win game.

Christian Pulisic will not be available.

There is much to discuss.

Greg, how are you?

That was, I'm good.

I'm glad we've graduated from meaningless friendlies to meaningless must win games.

Yeah, I'm having a really hard time figuring out how to feel about this whole situation, hoping

you can help me figure it out. I mean I think we know what it is right

like there's no there's no real accountability so it's it's just a matter of

sort of circling the wagons protecting the guy that for in Ernie Stewart's case I'm referring obviously to Ernie Stewart's comments

About Burr Altar's job not being on the line because it's just one game

Even though again they've said it's just one game, even though again they've said it's just one game, six or seven times so far in the Berhalter era.

He's clearly protecting the guy that he chose.

That's sort of the one thing he's done so far besides being promoted so he's he's going to

sort of die on this hill yeah it does appear that way or or climb this hill to

World Cup Triumph.

Man is that hard to see at this point? So yeah, as you alluded to US soccer is calling it a must win game

and it is if we want to advance in Concord Caff Nations League but

let's get that one thing out of the way that you also already alluded to Greg Berthor's

job is not on the line. Stephen Goff from the Washington Post and a few other

reporters got on a conference call with Ernie Stewart

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