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Scuffed | U.S. soccer, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Episode 158: February USMNT Top 40

Scuffed | U.S. soccer, 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

4.8893 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

We finally did it. Sort of. There's a twist. But I think you'll enjoy the full rundown of the player pool.

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0:00.0

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

0:07.1

US men's player pool like Casey case him with a bunch of pop songs

0:26.8

Greg. How are you?

0:28.7

All right, bells, what's the overlap in our demographic of people who are old enough to understand that reference?

0:35.4

Is it zero? I don't know. I remember I remember it barely from my childhood.

0:40.4

Driving to church listening to Casey Casey's top 40.

0:43.4

All right, we would never listen to pop songs

0:46.4

on the way to church in my family.

0:48.1

Yeah, right.

0:49.2

We are absolutely ready to do this

0:50.9

that it has been a long time. tell us when the last top 40 was

0:55.0

recorded oh brother September I believe yeah

0:59.1

All right let's see what it's changed

1:02.0

It's gotten to the point where, and I mean just big picture, and I'll speak for myself, but I can imagine several different lineups that would work and several different 23s, and it's going to be, it's no longer a matter not that it ever was but it can

1:16.3

definitely now no longer be a matter of like pure power rankings this player is better

1:27.0

by club pedigree or minutes or whatever than this player, therefore he gets involved in the 23. It's a matter of fitting the pieces together. And there are, I think, many different ways to assemble the puzzle.

1:37.0

It appears to me.

1:39.0

So lots of right answers when it comes to a full strength 11 or a full strength 23.

1:44.0

I wholeheartedly agree and I think even again with the condensed schedule we're going to be looking at,

1:49.0

even talking about a full strength 11 almost like you can't, you won't be able to trot out the same

1:54.0

11 for every game you probably couldn't even do it in the old in the old in the old days that

1:58.2

may have contributed to our downfall in 2018 cycle but you had like rotation is forced upon you and it will be even

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