Welcome to the scuffed podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Georgia. With me is Greg Velazquez in Iowa. We talk about

US men's soccer. My full name is Aboardvester Lopez Jr, but I go by Beto or Albert I'm 41 years old and I'm Houston

Texas born and raised and I'm a valve inspector at a valve company.

That's Beto Lopez and this is the story of how he became a fan of the U.S. men's national team.

His parents were born in Mexico and were not massive soccer fans.

But they were casual soccer fans in the sense like if Mexico had a big game, they would watch it. and so I passed by see them watching a soccer game I'm like

that's boring I don't want to watch it whatever and if US and Mexico played I

just tell my father I I hope USA wins, and you just laugh.

So honestly, I grew up not so much cheering for the US, but just trolling my father. I hope USA you know. Yeah my

father's a prankster at heart and so I'm just like him just pranking and so

he'd be watching Mexico. I hope they lose and be quiet whatever. But it all

changed in O2, the World Cup. Like I said they were excited for you know to watch Mexico in the World Cup. Like I said, they were excited for, you know, to watch Mexico in the World Cup. And my father mentioned me one time. He's like, they USA and Mexico are going to play. I'm like, are you serious? Like, I hope USA wins. and my father's like no no no no and he would

taught me by seeing the the US national anthem butchering it on purpose.

He would just say, oh, say can you see,

oh, say can you see?

And I'm like, Dad, I hope USA just trances Mexico. I really do. And he'd laugh or whatever.

Now, I guess, you'll remember the O2 World Cup was in South Korea and Japan.

So the games were like at 3.30 in the morning.

I remember I was like, you know what, I'm going to stay up and watch this game.

And I told my father, I'm like, I'm going to stay up and watch this game and I told my father I'm like I'm gonna do something

just to to make fun of you when you have Swins and my brother my father whatever

Well sure enough I'm watching the game It's like at 3 in the morning. I'm watching it, watching it. And at the time, my brother was studying for a huge test, so he was putting, pulling in all all nighters at the time.

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