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 national team as it trudges. got a pack show today we're going to check in with the US Men's National

team as it trudges into the 2019 gold cup but first let's wrap up the

U-20 World Cup on our own terms with a U-20 stock report.

There have been a lot of takes on those games including on this podcast.

I want to give my carefully considered opinion on each player and then watch as Greg shoots

all my opinions out of the sky.

You ready for that, Greg?

Yeah, I'll allow this, but yes, I absolutely reserve the right to extinguish any takes that I deem

too hot. Okay, okay.

Sounds good.

That's the that's the yin and the yang of this podcast from time and memorial.

There are different ways to do this.

My initial thought was a stock up, stock holds, stock down format, but I'll just

say right off the top that gets dicey because we all have different starting points and

mine would be a lot of holds and only one or two down.

For instance, Alex Mendez is a hold in my opinion.

I knew he was devastating and elegant on the ball and not a great defender and that came through in the

tournament as did his lack of 90 minute fitness. Overall my opinion is unchanged

he's an extremely high potential player with a lot of quality and special ability.

Blah blah, he needs to get stronger and better defensively.

Greg's suggestion was to tear out the roster and I agreed to that so why don't you, Greg, why don't you give us the tears

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