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 everyone let's start with Monday's big news from the Kremlin in Chicago.

Ernie Stewart who up until this week was the general manager of the

U.S. men's national team has been promoted to sporting director for all of

U.S. soccer overseeing both the women's and men's national teams. to Sporting it was announced will be general manager of the entire women's program

including the women's youth national teams and Stewart will have to be

replaced by a new men's general manager who will answer to Stewart as will

Mark Graf.

That's a huge mouthful.

Greg, how you doing?

Bells, did you take Western Civ in high school?

Not in high school that I remember, but I did take a lot of Western Civ type classes in

college and yes I recognize the Kremlin is nothing like soccer house except

for in in one respect. Do you see any similarities? Not architecturally for sure.

Just the general intrigue and potentially a number of backstabbing.

Yeah, I think the reason the Kremlin comes to mind is the idea of like having to think through what people are saying that they're not saying and read between the lines and you know discern answers to questions

that were not answered I guess all right all right well yes I'm doing great to

shake up in Chicago is something that is going to be really interesting to kind of monitor over the next month

leading up to I think the next big soccer house board meeting right after the Mexico friendly in September.

More importantly or as importantly or more immediately,

European season sort of fully off and running.

Yeah, we will get to worry not, this will not be a full politics episode.

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