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. It's that time of year again, it's that time of year again,

it's that time of year again,

pre-season friendlies, international tours, late summer transfers, it's pretty hard to

keep track of it all, so we're going to try to help you stay on top of where US men's national

team players are playing, what their chances of playing are, and what you should expect

from them in the fall as European soccer ramps up. How are you, Greg?

Doing great bells. We're in kind of a soccer dead period after the rush of national team tournaments for men, women, and youth.

And so now all we can do is speculate on the futures of our of our youngsters in Europe.

That's right.

We didn't put out 46 podcasts in May, June, and July, like the Total Soccer Show did, but we did

a lot of podcasts by our by our standards so yeah it's a nice time to

take a breath you know that I think the first thing we should mention here is is

just some calendar stuff. The hex, the six team

round-robin tournament that qualifies teams from to the World Cup from Kakaaf

begins in September of 2020.

The first two games are in the first week of that month.

That is 13 and a half months away.

Quickly going to be just a year away so time is short I mean

we discussed this a little bit last week or the yeah it was last week before we

knew that it was going to start in September of next year.

Even then we were saying,

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