Episode 42: A U17 Player Pool Review ahead of the Nike Friendlies

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

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Summary

Belz, Joey Anthone and Matt Hartman take a deep dive into the pool of players born in 2002 or later and therefore eligible for the U17 World Cup next year. We talk about how this age group stacks up against past cycles, discuss more than 50 individual players and try to answer a bunch of very good Twitter questions. This is a long one. Use the show notes. If you get bored with the discussion of one position, skip to the next. We start with the top prospects, generally, and move our way down at each spot on the field.

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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 about US men's soccer. Today we're going to dive into the pool of players born in 2002 or later and thus eligible for next year's U17
0:26.0	World Cup is a group with some big names George Bello Gian Luca Busio and
0:31.3	Giovanni Reyna and a lot of guys you've never heard of.
0:34.3	Now is a good time to discuss the pool because the Nike international friendlies are coming
0:38.3	up either at the end of the month or the beginning of December and those will be a good chance to see the boys play and
0:44.0	we thought we'd try to get oriented before the rosters announced.
0:48.6	We're doing a special experiment today.
0:50.5	We've got three people on the call. First is regular guest Joey Antone. The two of us
0:56.2	did an episode similar to this on the U-20s in the summer. Joey, what's up man? How's Omaha?
1:02.0	Omaha's cold, but we're surviving and I think ready for the next four months of bitter, bitter,
1:09.2	freezing hell.
1:10.2	Yeah same up here in Minneapolis.
1:12.6	Good to have you back.
1:13.6	Thank you for making the time.
1:15.4	And we have a new guest, Matt Hartman.
1:19.4	You probably haven't heard of him, but he knows a lot about the U.S.
1:22.4	Youth National Team Player Pool. He's not a slow. of him, but he knows a lot about the US youth national team player pool.
1:24.0	He's not a celebrity like Joey, but he brings a lot of value.
1:28.0	You live in New York, right, Matt?
1:30.0	Yeah, that's correct.
1:31.0	Well, thanks for joining us.
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