Episode 147: Wales v USA — the full treatment

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

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Might not be interesting to most of the world, but it sure was interesting to us! Debuts galore, we pressed, we built out with something like a 2-3-5. As Greg says in the pod, it’s almost like we’re starting over. So much to talk about.

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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 talk about US men's soccer. It likely passed unnoticed in the wider world of soccer and definitely in the world of the
0:20.9	mainstream American sports mind, but it really was a pretty
0:25.1	interesting football match wasn't it? It was it was interesting in the fact that it
0:29.5	happened. A match hasn't happened in a really long time.
0:33.7	We finally got one.
0:35.7	We got a group of players that we were all excited about.
0:39.2	We got a starting lineup twice that one we were excited about and then two we were even more
0:44.2	excited about and and I also want to kind of just throw in here despite all of this
0:49.6	excitement about our team and the players The best part of the entire day yesterday was in my opinion
0:56.4	was the US soccer tribute to Darrell Grove both through their lineup account, their
1:01.3	Twitter account and then even on the broadcast, they got to sort of show him some love and some appreciation.
1:07.5	And obviously, all of that is so, so deserved for everything that he has done. So it was a really special moment I think that
1:16.1	the Darrell Grove tribute. Yeah, meant a lot to me. I really appreciated U.S. soccer, you know,
1:22.2	acknowledging his role in the ecosystem.
1:26.0	Yeah, and it's again impossible to say enough about him and what he did, but just
1:31.7	even have that on there.'s that's something very cool yeah
1:36.7	the US Drew Wales zero zero in Swansea just to get the basic facts out there.
1:44.0	Not many chances generated by either side.
1:46.5	Still, kind of a momentous day, I thought.
1:49.0	It was the first match since the pandemic started,
1:51.1	as you just mentioned, Greg. Six young players made a national
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