Welcome to the Scuffed Podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Minneapolis. With me is Greg Velasquez and

Des Moines. We talk about U.S. men's soccer. MLS kicks off this weekend with Philadelphia hosting Toronto on Saturday afternoon.

It's a good time to look at the ranks of young Americans contending for minutes and glory in the domestic league.

Joining me today is Matt Doyle, the armchair analyst for MLS soccer.com.

You can find his writing there.

I highly recommend it.

And he's a regular on the Extra Time Radio podcast, very active on Twitter, as you probably know already if you're listening to this.

Thanks for being here Matt.

Yeah it's good to finally be on the show long time first time.

We've got like it looks like almost a thousand names to work through so we've invented four

categories four buckets for the names if you will sound all right yeah I think so I mean it's like taxes for you know they're

probably not enough tax brackets it's probably not enough categories for this one but I

think like if we want to do big picture four gives us enough

leeway to screw around here yeah I agree on all counts. So let's jump in.

The first category is great expectations.

These are young Americans who've already made an impact in the league.

Some were automatic starters for their team last year.

All of them got serious minutes.

Again, the categories aren't perfect,

but the question is whether they can become,

what's the question for you, Matt, for this category?

I mean, it varies from guy to guy, but I think if we're talking great expectations, that means one or two things to me.

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