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. Our guest today is Julian Aroujo, the 17-year-old who's played in 10 matches for the

LA Galaxy this season including seven starts in the league despite taking a

month off for the U-20 World Cup in Poland. He's a top right-back prospect who's locked in,

defends, wins tackles and gets forward in the attack and he's the youngest of

the young Americans breaking through in the league in 2019. Julian, thanks for joining the podcast.

Really glad to have you.

Of course, thank you for having me on and taking your time.

Let's start with your most recent

MSS appearance, which was a full 90 at Right wing on Friday in El Travico the rivalry game

with LAFC which the Galaxy won three to two you assisted the first of Zlatan's three goals

which turned out to be his loveliest.

Let's start there.

Can you describe that sequence for me?

I was going to play Rolf Fletcher because he was coming on and I thought he would give

a slapin a pass but like the very last minute I heard

so I just turned my body and try hitting it his way and getting it to him and I did that and I mean he did the rest so I got you got to give him all the credit as well but I mean being able to get my first assist and to a given a legend

and assist I mean there's no other better feeling you know it's a being able to

to what watching him as a kid all along my my soccer career and

watching what he does and just experiencing that live playing with him it's it's

super unreal you know and it's one of the best feelings ever.

I want to ask you more about that, but first, you played on the right wing instead of your more usual right back position. Why do you

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