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. The 2019 MLS season ended a couple weeks ago and we're going to wrap it up the way we started it by talking with

Matt Doyle of MLS soccer.com you know who he is about young Americans in the league and how they did

Thank you so much for being here Matt, appreciate it.

It is my genuine pleasure, my friend.

Awesome, awesome.

You're, by the way, you're, congratulations on the end of the season.

Are you in Hawaii now or what are you doing?

I am sitting in New York watching the Champions League and

still working in the content minds.

Got a lot of team of the decade stuff coming like that I do my yearly tactical breakdown of what happened in

MLS that Bobby kind of stole it from me and then we're due for a year-long retrospective on the Greg Berhalter era.

Oh yeah, gonna be busy in the early part of December. Then I'm going to the Bahamas and so.

Great, yeah, I'm, you know, I feel for you in the dog days of August and September,

covering all those games. Anyway, enough Doyle sympathy for one episode.

We worked through more than 50 names back in the spring and put everyone in one of four categories,

which was kind of fun great expectations

hopes and dreams reclamation projects and a fourth category which was just kind of

out here no expectations but they were in the mix for first team minutes. I was really struck by how things change in a matter of months. It's so difficult to predict anything.

Before we get into that, can you give us a little context on the overall picture?

Yeah, it was kind of a banner year in terms of young players, of all backgrounds playing in

MLS, but especially for young domestic players.

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