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. Welcome to the 99th edition of Scuffed. Today we've got our September top 40,

a feature we introduced last month

and we're ready to get radical.

Sorry to all the first team minutes truthers out there.

We've heard you out.

We've seen the national team play. We are ready to shake things up.

Greg, how are you? I'm good, Bells. I'm excited to get into this top 40 and I may as well

correct ourselves right off the bat.

It's actually going to be a top 45.

We have split up goalkeepers and outfield players

just because I think we both kind of felt like

goalkeepers kind of kill the moment of the conversation.

They're such a sort of separate position that we may as well just talk about them on their own.

Yeah, that was your idea and it's a good one.

So why don't we jump in and get the

goalkeeper right out of the way? Who's our number one goalkeeper?

Zach Stephan with some reservations. Yeah I don't I don't think either of us see

him as like a clear front runner or that he should be a clear he obviously is the clear front runner

in Berhalter's mind but it doesn't seem like it still to me doesn't seem like he should be right right

like we had we had Howard graduated in 2017 I think correctly into the

into the retirement sphere for the national team but but it doesn't, there's no reason why

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