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Men in Blazers 07/05/17: MLS Pod Special with Kellyn Acosta

Men In Blazers

Men In Blazers

Soccer, Mib, Football, Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Rog talks with 21-year-old FC Dallas and USMNT midfielder Kellyn Acosta about growing up a soccer player in American football-mad North Texas, doing battle with Mexico at the Azteca, and being left on his high school's JV squad as a freshman. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:24.0

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0:38.0

It's unbelievable!

0:44.0

Welcome to Men in Blazers pod special. Our guest today is one of professional soccer's poster boys

0:52.0

for Made in America. He's the dictionary definition of a homegrown player.

0:59.0

The North Texas native emerged from the vaunted FC Dallas U system to make his MLSW for the club just three weeks after his 18th birthday.

1:10.0

In the three years since then, the now 21-year-old has accumulated a wealth of experience that bullies his age and makes him look like a veteran.

1:18.0

Both in hoops and stars and stripes are love watching this gem play.

1:25.0

We welcome to the pod and man out there with Jim Acosta in our top three American Acostas of all time.

1:32.0

The best thing out of Plano Texas since Frito Lay and man who's professed that we're all living and you might not know this yet listeners but you soon will in the self-proclaimed year of killing.

1:43.0

Ahead of the US men's national team 2017 Gold Cup debut against Panama on the Rob Stone family of networks this Saturday.

1:53.0

We welcome to the pod the one and only Mr. Kell in Acosta.

1:58.0

Hey, how's it going? Thanks for having me.

2:00.0

Oh, Kellin, I am delighted to sit here with you. I really am. You were one of the joys to watch against Mexico in the Azteca.

2:08.0

You swaggered around that field as if you were a seasoned veteran at the international level like a young superhero.

2:15.0

Are you immune to altitude and smog?

2:20.0

We played in the champs league against Pachuka so when I was playing that atmosphere I felt like Azteca was pretty similar plus 40,000 screaming fans but otherwise I mean the altitude and all that into player felt pretty comfortable and felt alright in it.

2:33.0

So that's what you told yourself just like Pachuka.

2:35.0

Just like Pachuka. Apart from this time we've got Omar Gonzalez on our side.

2:40.0

So that's what you tell yourself because if you told yourself anything different it would just be overwhelming.

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