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

Des Moines. We talk about U.S. defeated Costa Rica 1 to 0 in Carson, California this afternoon, and while it was hardly a serious match,

much of it was slow of pace, and Costa Rica probably had the better chances in the game,

I was encouraged. How about you Greg?

Bells I was very encouraged. I believe we are now the most optimistic US men's

national team blog in existence blog podcast. blog slash podcast.

We don't have a blog just for the record.

And no plans for one.

But yeah, I mean, it was from our perspective, just a very pleasant and positive January camp.

Right, like everything about it. The call-ups, the player selected, the lineup trotted out,

and then for the most part, the actual product on the field.

Yeah it was pretty good and and but the lineups and the the roster call-ups were

we're kind of a departure. It felt like a departure from obviously January camp last year,

but even a departure from the vibe of the camps that we had in 2019,

kind of throughout the year. Right, and I know it comes with the this sort of Olympic caveat where you can

where you can easily just sort of say well this was mostly an Olympic U23 camp.

I just choose to take it at face value and say this is a perfect use of a January camp regardless

of whether it's an Olympic year or not.

Right.

It did feel, it did feel like you 23 preparation for

Olympic qualifying which is in March a big tournament in Guadalajara is was

it was top of mind for Berhalter,

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