Episode 39: Assessing the U20s in World Cup qualifying, and Alex Mendez joins the pod

Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Men's National Team, Youth National Teams, Yanks Abroad, Sports, U17 National Team, Us Soccer, Mls, Usmnt, American Soccer, U20 National Team, Soccer

4.7 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

We talk about the soccer being played by our U20s in the Concacaf Championship, assess individual performances in some detail, give the new USMNT roster a once-over and welcome Alex Mendez to the podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Scuffed Podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Minneapolis. With me is Greg Velasquez and
0:06.1	Des Moines. We talk the U-20.
0:19.0	The US U-20s are up 26 to 2 in three games in the U20 Cockakaff Championship after a 6-1 win over Trinidad
0:28.2	on Monday night and another heavy dose of Tab Ramos pragmatism or you know whatever you want to call the tactics
0:36.3	that they're playing with right now. What are we getting out of these games Greg
0:40.5	aside from a lot of goal highlights.
0:43.0	Very little bells.
0:45.0	It's so hard to take anything meaningful to make even meaningful
0:50.0	evaluations of players in this week of a a competitive pool.
0:57.0	The Kankakaf pool, not our own player pool.
1:00.0	Right.
1:02.0	Right, that's, that was not a typo. It's, we're up. player pool. Right. Right.
1:03.0	That was not a typo.
1:05.0	We're up 26 to on aggregate over Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands and Trinidad and Tobago, only one of which is a
1:15.2	sovereign nation, mind you. And um... It Trinidad was supposed to be like the
1:21.7	toughest opponent and I'm sure that's still the case they were the
1:24.7	toughest opponent and I don't think it necessarily means that we did a great job passing the test.
1:28.4	I just think it means that it was a very easy open notes test in this round
1:34.7	Yeah, the toughest opponent allegedly was not very tough because we didn't play that. I didn't think we played very well
2:08.0	Did you? because we didn't play that I didn't think we played very well did you I I don't know it's it's I'm I'm gonna say no no I didn't think we played well and it just sort of depends on what you want out of it and so if you're somebody who just is saying like the result is all that matters. Then I guess we played fine because we scored two goals in the first five minutes and after that everything else was academic.
2:10.0	But it was just, it was really, like I didn't get to see any of the things that I'm watching and trying to watch for in these games to learn about the player pool and obviously as a sort of fan and with my main focus on the senior team, maybe that's not what these
2:27.1	games should be for. They're not supposed to be for that, but that's what I'm looking for.
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