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Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Gratitude, ambition and fatherhood with Diego Luna

Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Yanks Abroad, Sports, Youth National Teams, U20 National Team, Mls, American Soccer, Soccer, U17 National Team, Men's National Team, Usmnt, Us Soccer

4.7921 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The Real Salt Lake live wire joined the pod to talk about how he improved between 2022 and 2023, his stint moonlighting behind the counter at Dutch Bros, his first cap for the USMNT, the gratitude he still feels for many of the veterans at the El Paso Locomotive, having a newborn son and his ambitions for the future.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US Soccer. Our guest today is a real fan favorite among scuff listeners. He is a native of Sunnyvale California. It has been reported that he listens to sad music to prepare for soccer games.

0:25.2

He notched five goals in an assist in half a season for Raya Salt Lake last year.

0:29.4

He may be the only professional soccer player to have also worked as an employee of Dutch

0:32.9

bros while he played professional soccer and he got his first cap with the USA a

0:36.6

couple weeks ago versus Slovenia. Diego Luna, welcome to Scuffed.

0:40.5

Awesome, they're driving me, appreciate it, man. Thanks, man. So we got to go fast here. Do you, do you still work at Dutch

0:48.1

Bro's? No, not anymore. You did it for like just a few months when you first?

0:54.0

Yeah, I did it for about six, seven months when I first got to Utah.

0:57.0

Okay.

0:58.0

All right.

0:59.0

Did your, did your coworkers know that you were a famous soccer player?

1:04.4

No, they didn't know, but word got around as soon as I got the job and

1:09.2

started showing my face and people started recognize me.

1:11.7

So word got around quick quick but they weren't

1:14.0

super fans of soccer and stuff but they knew of course who are so it was so yeah

1:18.8

that must have been kind of nice yeah definitely it was definitely nice to get away and not really think about soccer and kind of put your mind in a different place.

1:28.0

That's so cool that you did that.

1:30.0

Yeah.

1:31.0

Did your teammates know that you were doing it?

1:34.0

No, nobody knew, but later, sooner than later,

1:38.0

you know, board got around somewhere

1:40.0

and there was little rumors there and that

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