Episode 43: Tab Ramos joins the pod, plus a USMNT interim era wrap-up & a U20s breakdown

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

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

U.S. men's U20 coach and youth technical director Tab Ramos joins to talk about the Concacaf Championship and a few other things. Then Greg and Belz talk briefly about the Italy friendly, evaluate the first team minutes requirement floated by some after the game, and break down the satisfying, trophy-winning 2-0 win over Mexico in Bradenton from the U20s.

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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 men's U-20 coach and the men's youth technical director for U.S. soccer.
0:23.7	Under his guidance the U-20s have now qualified for the 2019 World Cup in May
0:28.5	and they defeated Mexico 2-0 the day before Thanksgiving to win the Cock-A-Caff Championship.
0:34.2	That's our second straight U-20 Cock-Cough Crown under Ramos, who was back in Florida this week to
0:39.9	watch the U-17s at the Nike friendlies tab. Thanks for joining me and thanks for helping to provide light in the darkness for men's national team fans.
0:47.0	Hi, thank you for having me all.
0:49.0	Appreciate it.
0:50.0	Congratulations on a dominant showing in Bradenton. Why don't you give us the story of the tournament from your perspective?
0:57.0	Well, I mean, I, you know, very, first of all, is, you know, difficult to put the team together, obviously, because of the timing of the tournament. So we had a number of different issues to deal with. You know, first one obviously with colleges because we had to make
1:15.8	a decision on on the players that we were going to select from college already months ago so with
1:21.5	the hope that it would be in good form at this time.
1:25.4	So that's a chance that you kind of have to take in the summer because obviously because of
1:29.7	school schedule is not easy to, you know, it's not easy to you know it's not easy to organize and
1:35.8	and set up so we committed to some college guys you know late July I think we committed to the right ones and fortunately it
1:45.1	it worked out pretty well for them we also then had the issues of the
1:49.2	MLS so some of the players you know know, such as, you know, Chris Durkin and, you know, and, uh, and
1:57.5	Carlton, you know, we had the issue of having them involved in the in the play-off so there were players that we couldn't
2:04.1	necessarily count them and so I haven't said that we also had a go I had a person going
2:09.7	visit many of the German clubs and as for their player releases in the middle of the
2:15.2	season which is also not difficult I mean not easy so there was a number of
2:20.0	different issues that we had to deal with just to put the roster together.
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