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. Today we're going to dive into the pool of players born in 2001 or later and thus eligible for the 2021 U20

World Cup. We'll have other podcasts ahead of the U17 World Cup and yes

there's going to be quite a lot of overlap between that group and this one

but the summer you 20 pool review is something I want to make a habit of on this

podcast we just had a you 20 world cup whoever is coaching this age group in

2021 for now it's still Tab Ramos has to reload and start to build a core group of players

Joining me to try to get a handle on all this are huge friends of the podcast

Joey Anton and Matt Hartman. Joey and I did an

episode similar to this a summer ago and the three of us did a U17 Pool

review in November ahead of the 2018 Nike friendlies. We're trying to hone our craft here.

Guys, what's up? Thank you for your time.

Gentlemen, I am honored as always to be here for this. I've been looking forward to

this for weeks. I'm excited to dive

deep into this pool. I think there's as Adam said a lot of overlap between the

U-17s, but as we saw at the last World Cup cycle, players come out of

nowhere and I think it's important we get a good jump on

on what this pool is going to look like in a couple years.

Absolutely. Well first first off is it and I'll turn this over to Matt is it too early to do this the last

You 20s included only four players from the previous U17 cycle as Joey alluded to

We have no idea, right?

Well, you're talking to two guys with spreadsheets on the 2025 U-20 cycle bells, so it's never

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