Hello everyone and welcome to a fresh edition of Football Americas.

I'm Alexis Yunus back in the hot seat with Hercules Gomez and look what a business flight dragged in. Casey Keller here with us live and direct.

Plenty to talk about today, Leonel Messi doing Leo Messi things and scoring once again for the Albi Celeste Plus.

After we're going to pour a strong one out for our boy Shaka Hislot because it wasn't good news for Trinidad and Tobago's Soca Warriors.

Sorry Shaka, we'll talk about Concaf for Trinidad and Tobago Soca Warriors. Sorry Shaka.

We'll talk about Concaf qualifiers later on, but there's only one place to start. And that's,

of course, with the U.S. men's national team. They went up against Paraguay in a friendly that

just finished today in the last international window of the year. Four minutes in, off a set piece.

Arfson crossing the ball and Gio Reina

in his first starts for the US since last year

at the Cop America showing his worth.

Yeah, Arsson does a great job of creating the space

and then puts a really quality ball in the box.

Gio does a great job of rising above

in off the underside of the crossbar.

But Herc, almost instantly, Paraguay responded.

Yeah, it's just way too easy. Joe Scali gets caught, having as a third centerback go to the

touchline, ridiculous ball in from Miguel Almiron, and just a very good finish from close

range. Matt Fries.

Just a really good play, I think, all along from Paraguay there.

14 minutes in now, Balagan.

He's hit in the back, but it doesn't get reviewed for a foul.

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