Futbol Americas: US Men's National Team Players Lack the Basics?!?

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🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Herc Gomez and Ale Moreno react to USMNT assistant coach Jesús Pérez appeared on a podcast where he said that USMNT players lack the basics and that the USMNT coaching staff is at a disadvantage because so many players play abroad. Then, Derek Rae joins the show to tell the crew whose stock is up or down when it comes to CONCACAF players playing in the Bundesliga. A quick discussion about Luis Diaz's hot run of form follows, and then Herc and Ale run it back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Football!
0:02.0	With a three-time MLS Cup champion Alejandro Moreno ex-Venez X Venezuelan national team. It's a good time that... It's a good thing that you made it. I did. That you were coming back from the Super Bowl, right? I did. I just got here. And you were hanging out with Bad Bunny? Benito, yes. Yeah, okay. The good thing that you made it because otherwise it was going to be me hosting the show by myself. And let me tell you, well, I was going to bring it. You were going to bring it? It wouldn't be by yourself because our good friend Derek Ray is going to join us, the Bundesliga expert. We're going to get some. We were going to really bring it. Stock up, stock down on Cockcalf's best in the Bundesliga. As you mentioned,
0:55.8	lots to get through. We have Marisa Pocetino, Jesus Perez, the assistant coach of the U.S.
0:59.9	men's national team with some interesting comments, Ale. I'll talk a little Raul Jimenez.
1:04.9	But first, I'm sure you saw the Super Bowl. Of course I did. Your team win?
1:10.1	My team did not participate. My team did not participate.
1:11.5	Your team did not participate.
1:13.3	Did you at least like the halftime show?
1:15.8	What are your thoughts on the halftime show if you have any thoughts?
1:19.2	Okay, maybe I'm the wrong demographic, run age demographic.
1:23.0	Maybe I wasn't the target.
1:24.2	Right.
1:24.6	I'm willing to admit that if I was not supposed to be the target,
1:30.3	well, they achieved it. Yeah. They did not hit me. Yeah, yeah. Um, look, I'm all, I'm all for
1:36.7	Latin music. Right. You know, I got it in the hip. I got, I got, I see the rhythm. I got a little
1:42.4	something here and there. But I'm more old school when it comes to this though.
1:47.0	Some more, you know, Merengue, Juan Liz Guerriss
1:49.0	Geri's 440, if it's salsa, Hilberto Santa Rosa.
1:53.0	This quite didn't hit me the way I guess it should have.
1:57.0	The NFL, or that it hit some other people.
1:59.0	The NFL was going for a much younger Democratic.
2:01.6	Bad Bunny, Conardio, Benito, I tell you what, he brought it.
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