Futbol Americas: USMNT Preview + Tartan Army Check In + Mexico's Big Win

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🗓️ 20 June 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The Futbol Americas crew looks ahead to the USMNT's clash with Australia. Breaking news: Christian Pulisic is out. Who is going to step up? Later, we head to Boston to check in on the Tartan Army takeover of Boston. Then, we have a quick recap of Mexico's knockout round clinching win vs. South Korea last night. How far can this team go? Finally, Alexis, Herc, Jermaine, and Jurgen make their picks for the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All Americas is presented by Mobile.
0:04.9	I'm sorry, are we a soccer country now?
0:07.3	I don't know about that.
0:08.1	It's definitely called soccer this morning.
0:09.8	I can say that.
0:10.8	I cannot believe what my eyes have just seen.
0:13.1	I actually had to check that this was a US team I was watching.
0:16.1	The one thing that will get a grip of the public is not noise.
0:19.6	It's performance.
0:20.6	I do not think I had seen this bit of performance from the US men's national team at any level of the game.
0:27.6	One of the best US national team performances in a World Cup.
0:31.6	I don't think I'm surprised. I've seen us play like this recently.
0:35.6	Three goals in the first off, opening a game, you know, I thought like it was a real statement, you know, and that's what we wanted to do. The challenge now is keep that level, it was so high, but I have no doubt that I think we can show again.
1:04.0	Hello everyone and welcome into our studios for this edition of Football Americas.
1:05.0	A week ago today we saw a stunning performance from the US men's national team in
1:10.0	their World Cup opener,
1:11.5	and today they will walk out again.
1:13.5	But this time, it won't be Paraguay.
1:15.7	It's Australia who will present a much different type of opposition.
1:19.9	Alexis Nunes here with my two U.S. men's national team players,
1:23.1	Hercules Gomez and Jermaine Jones.
1:25.3	And then we also have the one and only 1990 World Cup winner and former U.S. coach
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