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 this episode of Scuffed. Today we're going to try to figure out who should and who will be on the senior national team roster for the March

friendlies and for the more important Olympic qualifying tournament in

Guadalajara. So Greg, how are you?

That was I'm great, it's all happening.

Yeah, I imagine you have bulletin boards up in your living room.

I, this is one where you really do like realize how much is going to be involved for the US soccer staff and why Brian McBride is going to be taking a tour through Europe.

Well, no, I don't understand why he needs to take a tour through Europe.

Because he's not visiting all U23s, right?

Right, he's mostly visiting senior team

players who are injured according to the Brian Strauss article that was

posted this morning I think well yeah no it is definitely a complicated situation.

So just as a refresh, we play in Olympic qualifying, we play Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico in our group. Costa Rica's first. the and the FIFA window is March 21st.

And we can say all these things with an air of confidence

knowing that if we are wrong, it will show up in the fact check.

Yeah, man, Scott Jorick has been doing us a good service there.

Not only is he checking our facts, but he's making it fun

to check our facts.

And then, okay, so that Costa Rica game is pretty important because the top two teams from the group go to the semifinals,

so that's four teams overall, and if we win in in the semifinals then we qualify for the Olympics.

That's right right. The other teams in our group are the Dominican Republic and Mexico

will be playing Mexico in Mexico so that game is going to be pretty tough if we beat

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