Episode 57: Mark McKenzie joins the pod, then a pool report and news rundown

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

🗓️ 22 February 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

19-year-old (almost 20-yr-old) centerback Mark McKenzie joins the pod for a conversation about centerbacking, his breakout 2018 for the Philadelphia Union, January Camp, and the U20s' dominant showing in World Cup qualifying in November. Then Greg and Belz run through the player pool news, Fabian Johnson's revival (?), the USWNT She Believes roster, etc. , etc.

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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 U.S. men's soccer. Our guest today is Mark Mackenzie, the 19-year-old center back for the Philadelphia Union.
0:25.2	One of the players Greg Berthalter called into the national team's January camp and a key member of the
0:29.7	U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S.C. side that qualified for the World Cup in dominant fashion in November.
0:35.0	Mark, thanks for coming on the podcast.
0:38.0	No, I appreciate you having me.
0:40.0	Yeah, so let's start by talking about your background. I think you grew up in the Bronx and then Delaware. Can you talk about that and your upbringing and how you got into soccer?
0:51.0	Yeah, yeah. So, uh So I have Jamaican, African, so you know football runs through my
0:57.5	veins as it is. I was born in the Bronx, lived there for most of my childhood and then moved to Delaware and I was about 7.
1:06.0	And been living in Northern Delaware since.
1:10.0	You know, bounced around a little bit, know in terms of clubs you know I started out the
1:15.8	YMCA and then made my way to an independent team of Rangers Wilmington, and then eventually aged out of that and moved on to join
1:27.8	the Ho-Cassen Soccer Club.
1:29.7	Just then transferred over to Delaware Rush, played there until I was about 11, 12, and then during that time,
1:40.8	when I was about 9, 10, I was traveling up to King of Prussia with the Union
1:45.7	Juniors training with some guys who I'm to actually teammates with today
1:50.0	like Trust me Matt Anthony. So yeah. I was doing
1:55.0	doing that about three times a week and eventually joined the unions academy when I was
1:59.7	13 and you know the rest you guys probably are now.
2:05.0	Yeah, so your dad is the is the half of you that's
2:09.0	Jamaican is that right?
2:11.0	Yeah yeah yeah my dad was born and raised in Jamaica and moved to the US when he was coming to college 17.
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