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. A second or third choice USA side defeated El Salvador six to zero on

Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale and while some would say there's nothing to be gleaned

from this we are going to get into it a little bit. Greg, you ready?

Yeah, let's get to Gleanin.

Two bits of news before, actually three bits of news before we get to that.

The first one's very bad.

Ritchie Ledesma fell awkwardly on his right knee

yesterday in his first Europa League start for PSV,

Einhoven.

And as we, many of us feared,

the news came out this morning that he tore his a

S. A. C. L. He'll be out for six to nine months, which means he almost

certainly misses all of the action this summer and you know probably is pretty discouraged right now.

He's a 20 year old who had just been breaking in with PSV and starting to look comfortable as a first teamer.

So that's a huge setback, pretty sad.

We're all sad.

Yeah.

Tough news for the kid and I'm sure he you know I'm sure what something else

that's going through his head right now is how how big of a blow that is to

to his eventual US men's national team chances for this cycle because even when you make it back

From that injury next season at that point you'll have missed all there's just so many opportunities for everybody at

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