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. Hello everyone. The Americans faced a very good French U-20 side on Tuesday in Poland at the U-20 World Cup and they came out with an historic at least by youth national team standards victory

3-2

Joining me to break it down this afternoon is Franco Panizo, a New York-based reporter who covers the US

MNT, MLS and all things American soccer for SBI soccer.com and other outlets.

He's been writing about the U20 World Cup from a US perspective

Franco. Thanks for joining me. Hey man, thanks for having me on. Absolutely I you caught my attention last fall I went to the I went to the post-game press conference

with Dave Sarakin after the Brazil Friendly

where we lost 2-0.

And I swear you were the only reporter there

who asked the tactical question of Sarakin.

I can't remember what it was.

I actually, uh, yeah, yeah, I do, I actually do remember, remember that.

I remember the question. I don't remember what he said in response. I

remember it was more about I think it was something he said earlier in the press

conference that stuck out to me and I was like okay well you know, you know, given your formation, what was the game plan to actually do some damage on Brazil and attack Brazil?

Like, what was your game plan to break them down?

That's right.

I think it was with the, given their three men midfield,

I think it was when I asked,

because they had, I think three holding midfielders playing in that match.

So I just thought it was something that was pertinent to the game and I think his answer was was okay.

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