Episode 140: The September USMNT Top 40

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

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

One through forty. Pure science. From Christian Mate Pulisic to Shaquell Kwame Moore. Sprinkled with discussion of our centerback situation (an embarrassment of riches when it comes to average centerbacks), why it doesn’t make sense to play 3 at the back, Gio Reyna’s role, Jordan Morris’s role, and much, much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuffed podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Minneapolis. With me is Greg Velazquez and
0:06.6	Des Moines. We players in the men's national team pool.
0:26.0	They've been asking us for quite a while.
0:28.0	They've been beseeching us.
0:30.0	And I am happy to report that the day has arrived.
0:35.0	Greg, how you feeling?
0:37.0	I'm all right, though.
0:38.0	So that's what everyone was spending with when we were going eight months without a national team game.
0:41.0	Everyone just desperately wanted to know
0:42.9	how the pool has updated through zero games.
0:45.7	Right.
0:46.7	Because I think our last one we did after the January friendly.
0:50.4	So there have been zero national team games. This is all going to be on club updates and
0:56.7	and though to be fair with there have been some club updates that might sort of make the picture seem a little more clear.
1:03.0	Definitely there definitely have I mean I think sort of make the picture seem a little more clear? Definitely.
1:04.0	They definitely have.
1:05.0	I mean, I think West McKinney's Club update does something.
1:09.8	So we did one in September of last year like a year ago and then another one in
1:14.1	December and then one in February and then we took like a long COVID break of
1:19.4	course and so now we're doing September 2020 so it's not exactly quarterly but it's pretty close I should say one one
1:26.2	one more thing I gotta say I increasingly approach this task with fear and
1:28.9	trembling it's difficult it is imperfect yeah. Yeah, there's no our criteria can can change wildly even internally like just my own from one place to the next where right.
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