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. Hey everybody the American run at the U-20 World Cup has come to and end. The boys fell

2-1 to Ecuador. Here to break it down with me is Matt Doyle, senior writer for

MLS Soccer.com. Matt, thanks for joining me. How you doing?

Uh, doing all right, I think it's a bittersweet day,

but I think more good than bad. Is that how you feel more good than bad?

Yeah, I feel bad because I think...

Let's go ahead and get into it, just to step back to 2017,

watching us get played off the park by Venezuela and then get bounced

the quarterfinals that way that was like yeah we don't deserve to be moving

on in this tournament even though it was ultimately a

close game. This was this to me is different. This feels like you know had tab

done a few things differently with the lineup, had a couple people had better

games, we could have won this game comfortably, you know?

And I guess that's, in that sense, I feel bad about it.

Yeah, that's the bittersweet part, right? Because we were good enough to

events. Now we weren't good enough on the day. Ecuador was a better team on

the day, but had some roster decisions been better and you know

not just tabs but like if sergeant had been there I think we're having a very different

conversation. So it feels like a missed opportunity but there's like I'm just

trying to be big picture here and say like, you know, the US getting to the quarterfinals in the World Cup at any age group, still feeling like a missed opportunity is a sign of progress.

And I think that that's, you know, after it's all said and dumb, that's what you have to look at with youth World Cups is like did these guys look like they could really ball and they did you know a number of these guys look like they're going to translate up to the

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