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

Des Moines. We talk about U.S. Summer is here. A lot of the important soccer has returned and we have run out of excuses for not

recording a podcast lots to talk about Greg how are you?

I'm okay I'm okay bells we are definitely ready to talk about soccer I don't know that we're ready

for soccer to necessarily be back from a public health perspective but it is back and so we're going to spend some time talking about it.

Yep, yeah.

Okay is about how everyone in America is right now.

If they're lucky, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

It's like best case at the moment.

Let's start with something serious.

De Andre Yedlin said last week he's considering not representing the U.S. because of the And the

Eudlin said last week he's considering not representing the US because of the

persistence of racism and the oppression of black people in this country,

police brutality. I'm going to read the full quote.

It's one of those waiting games to see if a change does happen, he said.

But if things go as they stand, it's hard for me as an African American male to represent a country that does things like this where all people aren't equal."

He was, of course, referring to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

And I think the fact that Yellen took the time and the energy to say this publicly deserves

our acknowledgement as a podcast and not that it particularly matters what I think, but the message that

we got to fix our country and fight racism a lot harder certainly resonates.

It does and Yedlin, you know, suggesting that he might do this,

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