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

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December 26, 2018Episode 47: The Future Draft — picking teams of un-capped American U21s
Joey Anthone (@USAProspects), Matt Hartman (@MattSHartman) join for a draft of uncapped U-21 Americans with assembling hypothetical teams for the 2026 World Cup in mind. The three of us each pick a 20-player roster, and briefly discuss who came out best.
Here were the rules:
Only U.S.-eligible players born in 1997 or later are allowed.
Anyone already capped with the senior men’s national team is disqualified. That excludes, for instance, Pulisic, McKennie, Adams, Sargent, Weah, even though they are age-eligible.
We’re picking specifically with the goal of assembling the best possible team in 2026.
We each need to come up with a 20-man roster, including two goalkeepers. That's a total of 60 players.
Dual nationals are allowed, so long as they’ve accepted a youth national team call-up at some point and are not cap-tied by another nation.
We'll roll out info on Twitter (@zlebmada) and a poll to decide the winner over the next few days, but here are the major timestamps:
0:30 Rules
1:50 Rounds 1-10
38:10 Rounds 11-20
1:26:35 Brief discussion
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1 hr 46 min
December 18, 2018Episode 46: Preseason player pool worst case scenarios, revisited
In August, we recorded a catalog of worst case scenarios for USMNT players abroad in the first half of the European season. This week we check in on those (a disconcerting number came true), and then discuss Richie Ledezma’s pending move to PSV, the Champions League draw, and Dave Sarachan’s new job.
0:30 Worst case scenarios, revisited. In chronological order: Pulisic, McKennie, Weah, Adams, Acosta, Yedlin/Brooks/Amon/Saief, Wood, Sargent, Miazga/CCV/EPB/Moore/Richards, Robinson, Parks, Sabbi/Novakovich/Gall/Holmes/Gooch/Green/Hines-Ike/Hyndman, youngsters abroad, MLS youngsters.
51:15 Short Corners: Ledezma to PSV, Emerson Hyndman’s resurgence, Soto to train with the Hannover first team, Champions League and Europa League draws, coaching hire news.
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1 hr 9 min
December 11, 2018Episode 45: Catch-up week. Berhalter, January Camp, MLS Cup, Sargent’s debut goal
A lot happened over the past couple weeks in American soccer. We take it on piece by piece. Check the show notes.
0:30 Gregg Berhalter
18:30 January Camp
28:45 MLS Cup, Atlanta
33:50 Andrew Carleton's misdeeds
36:45 quick lookahead to the spring calendar
38:45 Josh Sargent debut and GOAL
45:30 Revierderby
51:40 Yedlin
55:00 Encouraging Young Yanks update (Adams, Dest, Richards, and the "20 Pulisics")
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1 hr 7 min
December 04, 2018Episode 44: Former Crew beat reporter joins to talk Berhalter, and a breakdown of the Nike Friendlies
Andrew Erickson, the former Crew SC beat reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, joins the pod to talk about covering newly announced USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter, and then Belz and Matt Hartman discuss what we learned about the U17s in the Nike Friendlies.
0:30 Andrew Erickson interview
26:45 the U17s at the Nike Friendlies: all the players discussed to some extent, special emphasis on midfield and centerback struggles, Gio Reyna, off-ball stasis, Ricardo Pepi and how the end of the residency program (ultimately a positive development) may be affecting team cohesion in the near-term
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1 hr 28 min
November 28, 2018Episode 43: Tab Ramos joins the pod, plus a USMNT interim era wrap-up & a U20s breakdown
U.S. men's U20 coach and youth technical director Tab Ramos joins to talk about the Concacaf Championship and a few other things. Then Greg and Belz talk briefly about the Italy friendly, evaluate the first team minutes requirement floated by some after the game, and break down the satisfying, trophy-winning 2-0 win over Mexico in Bradenton from the U20s.
0:30 Tab Ramos interview
26:10 the USMNT limps toward the end of 2018
49:00 U20 Concacaf Championship, and the most interesting U.S. players
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1 hr 27 min
November 20, 2018Episode 42: A U17 Player Pool Review ahead of the Nike Friendlies
Belz, Joey Anthone and Matt Hartman take a deep dive into the pool of players born in 2002 or later and therefore eligible for the U17 World Cup next year. We talk about how this age group stacks up against past cycles, discuss more than 50 individual players and try to answer a bunch of very good Twitter questions. This is a long one. Listen at 1.5 speed. Use the show notes. If you get bored with the discussion of one position, skip to the next. We start with the top prospects, generally, and move our way down at each spot on the field.
0:30 Is this U17 cycle as good as the last one?
8:45 Goalkeepers: Damian Las, Chituru Odunze, Gavin Krenecki, Seth Wilson, Aaron Cervantes, Vicente Reyes
19:00 Centerbacks: Mason Judge, Axel Alejandre, Michael Barragan, Antino Lopez, Casey Walls, Owen Guske, Kenneth Nielsen, Ethan Bayer
32:50 Fullbacks: George Bello, Joe Scally, Kobe Hernandez, Mauricio Cuevas, Adam Armour, John Michael Tolkin, Jacob Greene, Anton Sorenson, Amir Daley
48:25 Holding and box-to-box midfielders: Tayvon Gray, Joshua Atencio, Danny Robles, Peter Stroud, Gilbert Fuentes, Edwin Villareal, Maximilian Göggel, Javier Casas, Adam Saldana, Will Reilly, Danny Flores, David Rodriguez
1:13:45 Attacking midfielders: Gianluca Busio, Giovanni Reyna (more of a winger, really), James Dunning, Moses Nyeman, Jack Imperato
1:32:10 Wingers: Andres Jasson, Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez (more of a striker, really), Cade Cowell, Joshua Pynadath, Patrick Bohui, Andre Luis Queiroz Costa, Dante Sealy, Selmir Miscic, Sam Sarver, Julian Gaines, Ray Serrano
1:49:53 Strikers: Griffin Yow, Ricardo Pepi, Sagir Arce, Tyler Freeman, Diego Lopez, Dantouma Toure
2:10:05 Starting XIs and Twitter questions (a lot of good ones!)
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2 hr 41 min
November 17, 2018Episode 41: England 3, USA 0, and a tactical disaster-class from the Americans
It was a pretty bad performance from the Americans at Wembley, but hiring a coach should help.
an abysmal opening 13 minutes
why this happened (a bad job by Sarachan and not the players' faults)
a roster rundown and a few other things
bright spots
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50 min
November 13, 2018Episode 40: Lining up the USMNT to face England at Wembley
The USA will face England on Thursday afternoon and Italy on Tuesday, and we’re here to talk about the roster and who we’d like to see in the starting XI. Might be the first time we get to see Pulisic, McKennie and Adams on the field at the same time! We talk about the U20s and the USWNT later in the episode.
0:30 roster absences
11:48 goalkeepers
13:05 centerbacks
17:29 right backs
18:52 left backs
21:20 central midfield
29:37 attacking midfielders and wingers
35:02 strikers
38:30 preferred XIs vs England
41:40 Short Corners: USMNT U20s, USWNT, USWNT U17s, MLS playoffs
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56 min
November 07, 2018Episode 39: Assessing the U20s in World Cup qualifying, and Alex Mendez joins the pod
We talk about quality of the soccer being played by our U20s in the Concacaf Championship, assess individual performances in some detail, give the new USMNT roster a once-over and welcome Alex Mendez to the podcast.
0:30 how the U20s have looked (not great despite the 26-2 margin of victory)
11:50 the good performers (Mendez, Servania, Llanez, Pomykal, Rennicks, Araujo)
26:00 the ok performers (Lindsey, Gloster, Scott)
29:00 the show-me-more performers (Angking, Real, Fontana, McKenzie, Ochoa, Amaya, Perez, Rogers, Torres)
32:35 the go homes after the group stage (Akinola, Dorsey)
34:50 who might be added to the roster when Ramos makes his changes
36:35 Sarachan’s roster for the USMNT friendlies with England and Italy
46:10 Interview with Alex Mendez, 18-year-old CM for the U.S. U20s and S.C. Freiburg
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1 hr 21 min
October 30, 2018Episode 38: Richie Ledezma joins the pod, plus U20 World Cup qualifying and the USMNT roster for England and Italy
We roll through the American soccer news of the week -- MLS Decision Day, U20 World Cup qualifying, Sargentwatch and USWNT and USMNT rosters -- very quickly so we can get to an interview with Richie Ledezma, the 18-year-old phenom linked with PSV Eindhoven.
0:30 MLS Decision Day from 30,000 feet
5:45 U20 World Cup qualifying mini-preview
9:45 Josh Sargent’s and Matt Miazga’s continuing (and very different) absences from their respective first teams.
21:15 New USWNT roster
26:00 New USMNT roster
40:20 Richie Ledezma on his upbringing, his path to the YNT setup, his trial at PSV and what he’s looking for from the U20s over the next couple weeks.
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1 hr 9 min