Futbol Americas: USMNT & Mexico Reach Gold Cup Final

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Sebastian Salazar, Kasey Keller, Herculez Gomez, and Jose del Valle react to the USMNT and Mexico reaching the CONCACAF Gold Cup Final. Then, reaction to Mauricio Pochettino's comments on the massive support for Guatemala at the semifinal matchup against the US and the culture of US soccer. Plus, discussion on European stars flopping in the MLS, including the recently departed Olivier Giroud from LAFC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Football
0:10.0	America.
0:12.0	Live and underway here on ESPN alongside Casey Keller.
0:16.0	I'm Sebastian Salazar.
0:17.0	Welcome to episode 481 of this fine show. Casey, have you pumped full full of caffeine? You're ready for this one? It's another late night show here. It's awesome. I'm just lucky I'm still on West Coast time. There you go. There you go. So for you is probably around 908 p.m. It's a little bit after midnight here on the East Coast. Lots to get to in this edition of the show. We got some big moves concerning Conca Calf players, potentially moving to some massive clubs in Europe. We're going
0:41.7	to talk about some big bus when it comes to major league soccer guys who didn't exactly live
0:46.0	up to the sticker price. And of course, we will be recapping Mexico against Honduras, one of two
0:50.9	Gold Cup semifinals tonight in the championship tournament of North American.
0:57.3	All right, but let's start in St. Louis, where the United States was taking on Guatemala in
1:01.4	the first of the two gold cup semifinals game played at Energizer Park final score ends up being
1:05.9	two to one. Diego Luna with a couple goals in the first half, Olga Escobar with a goal in the 80th minute for Guatemala. He was born in the United States. That cut the lead to 2 to 1 in front of a pro-Watemala crowd. And then eventually, though, the U.S. holding on for a 2-1 victory, advancing to their 13th Gold Cup final. As you can see, we're joined from St. Louis by Jose Delez, as well as Hercules Gomez. But we'll start it here in studio.
1:29.3	Casey, your first thoughts on the U.S. performance and the result.
1:32.3	I'm going to start with the positives.
1:35.3	That's a first.
1:36.3	Give me a reason to start with the positives.
1:39.3	They won.
1:40.3	They won.
1:41.3	Great start.
1:43.3	You really felt from the first, you know, 15, 20 minutes going 2-0 up that it was going to be
1:48.8	comfortable, that it was just going to be one of those matches where, you know, Guatemala had
1:53.7	a tough quarterfinal. They got through a motion. The U.S. had a tough quarterfinal, got through.
2:02.2	But the U.S. were probably more disappointed with the way they got through on their quarterfinal
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