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#726: Roster pod with Greg Velasquez

Vince and Greg go through the player pool ahead of this fresh USMNT roster we're expecting this week, for games against Peru, Chile, Mexico and Canada. Skip the ads! Sub

#725: Sullivan hits a brace, Pulisic and Musah rescue Milan

GOAL.com's Ryan Tolmich joins the show to run through some action from the weekend. Cavan keeps upping the stakes as we head into an international window, what an interes

#724: Poch (implicitly) warns Cavan not to get cocky, Gio scores

Cavan scores again. His enthusiasm for playing for the USMNT, and his liquid jaw in media appearances, maybe edge over into cockiness a bit for Poch, and the coach (witho

#723: Mike Woitalla on a “defining moment” in American youth soccer

U.S. Youth Soccer, the organization under which 2.5 million kids play across the country, will be integrated into U.S. Soccer. Doesn't seem too meaningful on its face but

#722: Balo to Everton crashes and burns

Charlie B, Vince and Belz try to make sense of the news. Maybe the Saudi league or Turkey? Maybe he stays and contributes at Monaco. But he's not going to the cloudy, wor

#721: Cavanaissance continues, Gio starts in Ligue Un, "brothers up top"

Vince, Sanjay and Belz explore the news of the weekend in the latest edition of the Monday Review. Skip the ads! Subscribe to Scuffed on Patreon and get all episodes ad-

#720: A good weekend for several center mids, Haji's out for a semester

Yunus goes 90 and we ought to bring him in, Haji's badly hurt, Gozo getting the royal treatment at Palace. Vince, Tara and Sanjay run through the news of the weekend, and

#719: What makes Gozo special, MB4's youth movement, WC post-postmortem

Charles Boehm joins Belz to talk through a few MLS things and think retrospectively about the World Cup. Skip the ads! Subscribe to Scuffed on Patreon and get all episod

#718: Yunus lives! Noahkai struggles, Cavan keeps going

Vince, Sanjay and Belz cover the news of the week. High tempo. Let's go. Skip the ads! Subscribe to Scuffed on Patreon and get all episodes ad-free, plus bonus episodes.

#717: Bob Bradley joins the pod

He is a giant of American soccer, a trailblazer, a man who truly loves the game and has devoted his professional life to its growth. He gave us two hours to talk about wh

#716: Gozo to Palace, Cavan on the rise, preseason rundown

Cavan the Playmaker is starting to impress even Vince. Gozo to Crystal Palace seems imminent. Mathis Albert getting preseason minutes with Dortmund but not going crazy ye

#715: Poch will stay, European preseason underway

Vince talks Belz into being excited about the decision. Sanjay wants him to play the kids. Cavan seems to have hit a bright patch. MLS gets a new commissioner who underst

#714: RBNY midfielder Adri Mehmeti joins the pod

The 17-year-old discusses his rise, soccer in his Staten Island home, playing for Michael Bradley, his national team future and more. Skip the ads! Subscribe to Scuffed

#713: Brooklyn FC coach Marlon LeBlanc joins the pod

He was head coach at West Virginia University for 14 seasons, coached the Philadelphia Union II from its 2022 debut in MLS Next Pro through 2024, coached the U18 USMNT fo

#712: New Hopes: a young prospect look-ahead for the 2030 cycle

Vince, Sanjay and Marcus Chairez start off with the Union v Red Bull match, and work through a lot of the boxes the USMNT needs to check over the next four years. You kno

#711: Spain wins, USMNT starts new chapter

Some exploration of what Spain's triumph means, who the US should emulate, rumination on by far the most-attended World Cup ever, Balogun to Klutch Sports, and a rundown

#710: New Jersey's governor on the World Cup, the final, prices

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill sits down with Sanjay Sujanthakumar to talk about the impact of the World Cup, the final in East Rutherford on Sunday, prices, FIFA, etc.

#709: World Cup postmortem with Vince & Sanjay

How much is Belgium flat-out superior to us, and how much did we wilt? How much is this World Cup gonna grow the game in America? Did the overturned Balo suspension act

#708: USA v Belgium recap

We wilted in the first truly difficult match of our World Cup, and now we're out. Greg doesn't think this was inevitable, but also doesn't think it's down to tactics. The

#707: Balogun IN!!! Our pre-Belgium gameday show

Folarin Balogun gets an 11th-hour reprieve from FIFA's vaunted judicial system, he'll play against Belgium. Vince, Sanjay and Belz talk through that bombshell news, its i