Episode 123: What’s John Pranjic’s problem with American soccer?

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

Adam Belz

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

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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John Pranjic, the host of the 3four3 podcast, joins for a conversation about the need for promotion/relegation, his problem with most American soccer media, and the best USMNT XI right now. I made detailed shownotes for those who want to skip around.

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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. Thanks for downloading this episode of Scuffed. Our guest today is a man who's a little
0:20.5	bit grumpy and argumentative.
0:22.9	He's certainly come after me before,
0:25.0	but he's a passionate student of the game, a coach, a ref,
0:28.2	and the host of a podcast that explores soccer,
0:30.5	how to play it, how to coach it,
0:32.4	how to teach people to play it, how to coach it, how to teach people to play it at all levels.
0:35.0	His name is John Pronich and he's the host of the 343 podcast,
0:38.0	at that Croatian guy on Twitter.
0:41.0	I'm sure you've seen him before.
0:42.0	John, welcome to the scuffed.
0:43.3	Yeah, I don't thank you so much for having me man. This is a role reversal. I think a long time ago I had
0:48.8	you on my podcast. Early days, yeah, really days you're scuffed.
0:53.0	I really appreciated that.
0:55.0	I thought we had a good conversation.
0:57.0	Absolutely, yeah, one of many.
1:00.0	I know that people see our interactions on Twitter or they you know hear different
1:05.7	things whatever but you know you and I have spoken on the phone I don't know how many
1:09.0	times and texted I don't know how many times so I hope people don't read too much into what they in the little they see amongst us.
1:18.0	We get along all right we get along all right.
1:20.0	You're dealing with some kind of leg injury I see. Are you and you're about to get surgery? Can you tell us a little bit about that?
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