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. This week we've got a U20 World Cup preview megapod, where we hear from journalists on three continents to get a

primer on the U-20 national teams the U-S will face in the group stage in Poland.

Vadim Ferminov, a Ukrainian-American living in North Carolina, spoke with me about Ukraine.

Emmanuel Chinaza, a reporter in Lagos, spoke with me about Nigeria, and Babagold founder Uri Levy spoke with me from Tel Aviv about the

Katari U-20s. All interesting conversations and we take them in that order since that's

the order of the games for the United States U-20s.

I should mention up front that the audio from my conversation with

Emmanuel is spotty in sections. I encourage you to stick with it, but as always

you're the boss.

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And be sure to give Vadim, Emmanuel, Yuri, and Babagol a follow on Twitter

over the next couple weeks. Those details will also be in the

show notes. Here we go. Our first guest is Vadim Ferminov, a native of Ukraine

and writer for football grad who is studying law at Duke University in

North Carolina he's here to talk about the Ukrainian U-20s.

Vadim thanks for joining the podcast.

Oh, thank you for having me.

Yeah, absolutely.

So the first match for both sides, the US and Ukraine of the

U20 World Cup is May 24th. I think both sides will be wanting to get a win in

that game since Nigeria is kind of tough. And no one that's what to expect from in that

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