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

Des Moines. We talk about U March friendlies and we have a guest, Phil Grooms, on to discuss young Americans in U.S.L.

But before those things, it was first kick of Major League Soccer this past weekend.

For the next three months, the weekends will be like this.

Full slates of games in Europe and across the Frooted Plain. Lots to watch.

Let's start with that. Greg, anything The Frooted Playing, Lots to Watch.

Let's start with that.

Greg, anything catch your interest?

My interest was caught, Bells.

My interest was definitely caught.

The big thing that I was kind of wanting to watch was Jordan Morris of all people

back from what 18 month layoff I feel like maybe his last competitive game was the

gold cup I'm sure it was discussed at length but was that was that roughly his last

competitive soccer I don't know I think he scored a goal in August 2017 that was

his last time on the score sheet okay well so Morris I thought was a was somebody I was really

interested to watch because I don't I didn't particularly rate Jordan Morris

even before the injury and even after his sort of gold cup heroics yeah but there was a lot of

hype sort of surrounding his comeback and what it could mean for Seattle and

potentially for the US national team so he was somebody that I was kind of

keeping a close eye on and he he had a really good game. I think he'd say

Yeah, I mean it was okay. I know that's that's funny because that's where I land on it too but I think like you can't take away the fact that he's at least credited with two goals on opening day and sort of his first game back, that's a big, that's a big deal for him at the very least.

Yeah, no, I mean all, all due respect and like kudos to him for working with his way back from a really tough injury

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