Welcome to the scuffed podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Minneapolis. With me is Greg Velazquez and

Des Moines. We talk about US men's soccer. Thanks for the

downloading this episode of Scuffed.

Happy to be with you in a week where the U.S.

men's national team plays for the first time in nine months. Greg, how do you do? I'm doing great bells. We have

matches. That's exciting. We have maybe a one or two other things going on in the world that are worth getting

excited about so yes a positive week so far. Yeah it is Monday November 9th

the election was six days ago if you're keeping track at home.

Let's talk about how we're going to line up against Wales at Swansea City on Thursday, Thursday afternoon.

Okay, so games coming up Thursday.

As far as I can tell, Bells, this lineup pretty much writes itself.

When you factor in Berholter's comments after the

roster release which we recorded prior to that so a couple of things have changed sort of since we've

talked and really even Berholder's comments in the last 10 months. I feel pretty confident about what we're going to see.

What do you think? Do you think there's a lot of questions here? Are you kind of think you have an idea?

Well, I mean the personnel questions are sort of hanging in the

air like how much will Pulisic actually play in this window? He's definitely

there and I would love to find out you know what the conversations

were between Burhalter and his you know his core players on like how to make

the how to make the new guys feel welcome.

That's something I'm really curious about.

Because I think Pulisix probably, at a minimum,

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