La Selecta got blown out by a second/thirdish string USMNT to close out the year. We break down the good, the bad, the ugly. And also, how did the US get so fn good? We chat with sportswriter and editor Nick Rosano with to find out what’s happened since the 2014 WCQ. Time to decompress.

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La Selecta’s road to Qatar has been set. 2021 is going to be a wild ride, with trips to the Caribbean, triple match day windows, COVID still going on, and Concacaf at the helm. But first there’s the USMNT to play.

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So the USMNT swiped right on the Selecta, and now they’re officially set to face off in a friendly in December, for what could be its second match of the year. With how things have gone this year, we’ll take it. Hugo and Andrés break down the last few results against the Stars and Stripes.

With a rollercoaster 2020 almost over, Andrés Flores reflects on his career, including his time at River Plate as a youth player, to his return to action with the Portland Timbers, and the importance of focusing on your dreams.

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We meet Carla Portillo, a pro soccer player from Canada with Salvadoran and Filipino roots and talk about her path to playing professional ball, the challenges women’s soccer faces, playing college ball vs. playing in Europe, and the difference between Thanksgiving in Canada vs the US.

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We check in with Richard Menjívar about how his season was impacted by COVID, his hopes for getting called up again by La Selecta, and the Roca-Primi transition, the MLS threshold + more.
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Hugo and Andrés reminisce about the U20 World Cup run in 2013 with Diego Coca. He breaks down some of the factors that influenced the outcome of the careers of many of the players, and what he has overcome to reach success in his own.
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Hugo talks with Marcus Velado-Tsegaye, a Canadian born Ethiopian-Salvadoran, about his hopes to play for La Azul, the current stage in his young career, and we get to talk about Hugo’s own call-up and potential for collaborating officially with la Fesfut. This and more on this week’s episode.

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La Selecta gets a new bus, potential friendly matches in November, Enrico got his Salvadoran birth certificate! But… this might not even matter if Fesfut gets suspended by FIFA and we get Thanos’d for the next couple of years. This and more on this week’s episode.

We catch up with US Soccer Hall of Famer Hugo Pérez as he drives to work and talk about how he ended up playing for US Soccer, his current projects, and where he thinks the Fesfut comes up short and how that impacts the prospects of bringing in talent born abroad.


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