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Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Episode 97: USA v Mexico recap, and Berhalter's stubbornness

Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Men's National Team, Youth National Teams, Yanks Abroad, Sports, U17 National Team, Us Soccer, Mls, Usmnt, American Soccer, U20 National Team, Soccer

4.7922 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Woe is us. Greg V lays this one at the feet of Gregg Berhalter, and this dogmatic commitment to play through a recklessly high press.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the scuffed podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Minneapolis. With me is Greg Velasquez and

0:06.1

Des Moines. We talk about U.S States men's national team 3-0 on Friday in a match that

0:25.4

absolutely reflected the scoreline. We're here late at night to try to glean

0:30.6

something from it. Greg, how are you?

0:33.7

Bells, I'm terrible.

0:34.9

That was a really just horrific experience.

0:39.4

It was pretty rough, man.

0:40.8

It was rough. You know, you wait so long for these games to happen and then you sit down on a Friday night, watch a game like that.

0:50.0

It was bad, man man like it was it like sucked the soul out of your being

0:59.3

Yeah Certainly made me question my avocation you know but only momentarily only momentarily I mean

1:09.4

this is uh yeah I mean this, this is where we are.

1:14.7

Can I say this?

1:15.8

It in no way makes me like excited to gear up for the Uruguay game, right?

1:19.8

Like I'm not, I'm not now like, oh, this is gonna be to be that was we saw some steps in the right

1:24.1

direction now let's see what we can do for the Iroquois game like it was there was no

1:28.2

I don't think there was any silver lining maybe that's maybe that's a little harsh, but the silver linings were real, real slim.

1:39.2

Tarnished, some tarnished silver linings for sure.

1:42.8

Yeah, I try to think of like what's what would be exciting about this

1:46.4

eragwai game?

1:47.4

Do you want me to tell you the thing that was exciting?

1:52.1

Because I think I think it was the one thing.

1:55.0

It was Sebastian Lajet's cameo.

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