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. Thanks for downloading another episode of Scuff. Got a special guest today, Abel Mezerosch, a newsletter,

TV analyst, and occasional guest

on the Talking Fusball podcast, whose specialty

is German football.

Greg and I talk about the Bundesliga Fair amount amount but it's good to get an expert

outsider perspective Abel does a weekly show for Sport TV the Hungarian network

that carries the Bundesliga and he breaks down the Bundesliga in detail in his weekly newsletter

Bundesliga bulletin and his primary interest is not the US men's national team

so we're counting on him for some cold dispassion when it comes to the Americans playing in Europe.

Thanks for being here, Abel.

Thanks for having me.

It's a pleasure for me to be on.

I'm a fan of the podcast and really enjoy listening to it.

So happy to be invited.

Thanks man.

So somewhere around 50 Americans are playing in Germany

if you include the younger Academy age groups.

We're not gonna get into all of them, but a big

picture question right off the top, it seems like German clubs are less

skeptical of the American player than clubs in the rest of Europe.

Is that true and if it's true why is that?

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