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

By Adam Belz and Greg VelasquezSports Soccer

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October 24, 2018Episode 37: Who can be the 10 in this 4-2-3-1? And Atlanta United 2 Coach Scott Donnelly joins the pod
The 4-3-2-1 seems to work better than the 4-1-4-1, but nobody’s claimed the central advanced midfield role. We run through the candidates, and the future candidates, for the job. Then we discuss the U.S. U20 roster for the Concacaf Championship, and then, best of all, Atlanta United 2 Coach Scott Donnelly joins to talk about coaching in USL, George Bello, Andrew Carleton, and USL as a place for young players to develop. Long episode. Please make use of the show notes to get what you want from it.
The Current Pool of 10-ish CMs
2:30 Acosta
6:50 Nagbe
13:20 Weah
17:56 Pulisic
23:40 McKennie
27:35 Delgado
The Kids Who Can Play the 10 or Thereabouts
33:00 Richie Ledezma
37:27 Alex Mendez
41:05 Gianluca Busio
45:00 Andrew Carleton
48:45 Efrain Alvarez
U20 roster for the Concacaf Championship
53:35
Scott Donnelly Interview
1:05:15 intro and general ATLUTD2 questions
1:22:40 George Bello
1:30:00 Andrew Carleton
1:37:45 Chris Goslin
1:40:00 Diego Lopez
1:42:00 Jackson Conway
1:48:30 state of US soccer development
1:52:50 USL as a place for talent to develop
1:58:25 USMNT World Cup qualifying failure
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2 hr 2 min
October 17, 2018Episode 36: USA 1, Peru 1 — All Hail the Youngs! A mostly encouraging night in Connecticut
The USA drew Peru in Hartford on Tuesday, but the big story was the US lineup. We got a starting front three of Jonathan Amon, Josh Sargent and Tim Weah. Reggie Cannon got his debut at right back. Aaron Long got his debut at centerback. Ben Sweat got a debut at left back. Brad Guzan returned from the wilderness. What did we learn? A lot! Listen up.
0:30 intro and Velasquez tactical overview (not because we care about Sarachan’s tactics but because it affects the way we assess individual performances)
14:00 Flores’ goal for Peru, whose fault was it?
17:50 Sargent, Weah, Amon, Cannon and Carter-Vickers (extended discussion, please understand)
50:20 Acosta, Delgado, Trapp and everyone else
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1 hr 19 min
October 12, 2018 Episode 35: USA 2, Colombia 4 — We got whooped, but we learned quite a bit
The laboratory was humming Thursday night in Tampa when the USA lost 4-2 to Colombia, with Saief, Bradley, Green and Weah experiments underway, among others. What did we learn? How did the midfield look in McKennie's and Adams' absences? How good is Kenny Saief? Those and many other questions asked and answered in today's episode.
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1 hr 4 min
October 09, 2018Episode 34: Lining up against Colombia and Peru without Adams, McKennie and Pulisic
Let’s start with the bad news. Tyler Adams, Weston McKennie and Christian Pulisic will be absent for the upcoming friendlies against Colombia and Peru, but there are still a bunch of interesting players involved in the camp (Weah, Sargent, Novakovich, Amon, Cannon, Saief). We get into all that and discuss the lineup.
0:30 the big absences
11:29 new additions, Colombia, and the US goalkeeper and defense
24:35 the US midfield, forwards and wings
38:42 Short Corners: USWNT 11, Concacaf 0; Carleton's big upcoming offseason; Alex Mendez & Uly Llanez to Germany; Matias Almeyda to San Jose
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1 hr
October 02, 2018Episode 33: Beyond Trapp — The USMNT Puzzle in Central Midfield
Dave Sarachan released the 24-man roster for the friendlies with Colombia and Peru on Oct. 11 and 16. The big question is who will play in which capacity in the midfield, and we talked about that for a while, among other things.
0:30 brief overview of the roster
17:45 snubs
25:15 extended discussion: how are we gonna sort out this midfield?
1:00:35 Short Corners: USWNT World Cup qualifiers, Cristiano Ronaldo’s depressing news, Sebastian Soto the U19 goal-scoring machine, and the U.S. U17s go to Mexico City
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1 hr 20 min
September 26, 2018 Episode 32: The U20 provisional roster is due in a week. Who's going to be on it?
Special guest Joey Anthone (@USAprospects) and I do a bare-bones run through the roster options for Tab Ramos. We also discuss the format of the U20 Men's Concacaf Championship, the roster rules and the changes that Ramos might make mid-tournament.
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1 hr
September 18, 2018Episode 31: The new USMNT starts to coalesce, and maybe finds a formation! Also, don't miss: Sounders academy chief Marc Nicholls joins the pod
Greg and I wrap up the last USMNT camp and what we learned -- it's quite a bit more positive than our reactions to the games themselves. Then we’ve got an interview with Marc Nicholls, director of player development and academy director for the Seattle Sounders, and we come back with Short Corners at the end.
0:30 takeaways from the recent USMNT friendlies and camp: 1) the 4-2-3-1 deserves further experimentation, 2) gotta find McKennie’s role, 3) we’ve got a core of 7-8 near-lock starters now, 4) let's use the next two camps to test new players against the floor, which is set by another 7-8 players we saw in the last two friendlies.
46:05 Marc Nicholls, director of player development and academy director for the Seattle Sounders. Their U17 boys won the DA championship last year, they’ve given at least 9 teenagers a USL debut this season and at least 6 Sounders players have been called up to youth national teams in the past few months. We talked about his work, the Sounders’ style of play, the development academy, how they scout out-of-state players and the type of kids they’re looking for. Covered lots of ground.
1:34:15 Short Corners: Champions League, MLS East homestretch, U20 Concacaf Championship draw
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1 hr 46 min
September 12, 2018Episode 30: USA 1, Mexico 0: A bad plan from Sarachan, and good Concacafing from Miazga
We won the game. It was not pretty. But Greg thinks we learned a lot. I just wish we’d learned how to get Tyler Adams and Weston McKennie to both excel at the same time in the midfield, which we did not. Also Sarachan’s first half plan was not good enough.
2:15 lineup, formation, plan and brief game overview
11:40 goalkeeper
12:30 centerbacks
14:50 fullbacks
22:05 center mids
23:57 tangent on why there isn’t more tactics stuff from traditional soccer reporters
28:40 back to the center mids
45:22 wingers
48:40 strikers
54:55 what we learned, etc.
1:10:38 short corners
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1 hr 22 min
September 08, 2018Episode 29: USA 0, Brazil 2, and a 4-1-4-1 that neither attacked nor counterattacked
Sarachan surprised us with a 2-centerback formation and some shuttling specialists on the wings, and the U.S. lost 2-0 to Brazil in a limpid but not disastrous friendly on Friday night.
0:30 shoutouts and Sarachan's lineup
7:00 goalkeeper
9:35 centerbacks
14:30 fullbacks
26:12 central midfielders
42:00 wingers
45:35 striker
55:13 what we learned
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1 hr 8 min
September 04, 2018Episode 28: USA v Brazil preview
The Sarachan roster, omissions, our starting XIs for Brazil, and a solid (IMO) discussion of Pulisic's absence.
0:50 omissions
The Scandinavian Contingent
Pulisic injured and Ives article
Cannon, Sargent, Parks, etc.
17:50 the 25-man roster Sarachan called up
28:00 our starting XIs for the Brazil match in the likely 3-5-2
49:00 short corners: Champions League draw and Schalke/Dortmund/PSG, U20 camp, U20 players
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56 min