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Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Episode 116: Taking stock of the year for the USMNT

Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Men's National Team, Youth National Teams, Yanks Abroad, Sports, U17 National Team, Us Soccer, Mls, Usmnt, American Soccer, U20 National Team, Soccer

4.7922 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We wrap up the year — what went right, what went wrong, what went reasonably ok. Actually a lot of good stuff happened! Mostly with the player pool.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.1

Des Moines. We talk about U.S. men's soccer. Hello everyone and thanks for tuning in. This might be our last episode of the year. We don't know for sure,

0:24.8

but since that may be the case, we're going to run down the year that was for the US men's national team

0:30.0

and talk about what went right, what went wrong, and sort of look ahead to 2020.

0:35.0

Greg, are you ready?

0:37.0

Ready as ever Belles.

0:38.0

All right.

0:39.0

I feel like we've talked about a lot of this stuff already so we're not going to make this a long episode.

0:46.4

We're just going to sort of quickly move through it because we I don't know I sort of feel like a broken record. I think you sort of feel like a broken record I think you sort of feel like a broken record

0:54.4

Is that yeah I think a lot of it stems from the fact that

0:58.4

Yeah, it felt like a lot of a lot of these sort of windows for the US national team over 2019 were just sort of the

1:04.8

same window repeated over and over again.

1:07.6

So I mean a lot of our takeaways were the same from month to month. Right.

1:13.0

And then there hasn't been, there hasn't been a ton of new development

1:16.0

in sort of US Men's National Team News over the last couple weeks

1:20.0

to talk about.

1:22.0

So here we are, recapping the year in some ways rehashing what we have

1:26.3

said already so first of all what what's the number one thing that went right in

1:30.4

your opinion Greg biggest positive of the year in my mind in your

1:35.0

right, in your opinion, Greg. Biggest positive of the year in my mind, no-brainer,

1:36.0

is Sergio Des choice to play for the United States.

1:39.0

Yep, totally.

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