Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America - #665: Wes scores another great goal, Poch says he wants a PL trophy

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

Vince and Belz do their best in the midst of some February doldrums. Wes gave us another good goal, Palace get a win for once, Super Bowl happened, World Cup tickets remain expensive. Skip the ads! Subscribe to Scuffed on Patreon and get all episodes ad-free, plus any bonus episodes. Patrons at $5 a month or more also get access to Clip Notes, a video of key moments on the field we discuss on the show, plus all patrons get access to our private Discord server, live call-in shows, and the full catalog of historic recaps we've made: https://www.patreon.com/scuffedAlso, check out Boots on the Ground, our USWNT-focused spinoff podcast headed up by Tara and Vince. They are cooking over there, you can listen here: https://boots-on-the-ground.simplecast.comAnd check out our MERCH, baby. We have better stuff than you might think: https://www.scuffedhq.com/store Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to the scuff podcast When we talk about U.S. soccer Hey everybody, it is the Monday review. Weston scored another lovely goal. Crystal Palace beat their enemies, Brighton and Hove Albion. 1-0. Outside of that, I don't know that a lot happened this weekend.

Vince, how are you doing? I'm doing great, man. Couldn't be better. Good. But, you know, in my personal life, man, my soccer life, you know what I'm saying? I need to talk to the USS. What's up?

we can't go this long without without action ever again. It's getting dry out here, brother. And, you know, this is one thing that comes to mind, something me and David Goss talked about when I met him when we had an impromptu scuffed collaboration with soccer-wise on the tailgate in Harrison, New Jersey. I met David Goss started talking to him, and it's like, it's easy to get lost into.

the, you just get lost in the podcast and right. You don't know what's resonating with people. You don't know if you're talking to anybody, if anybody's listening, et cetera, et cetera. And for that, I do appreciate all of our great interactors. You know, people that respond to random things that we say on the pod that, like, you know, tweet at us or, you know, discord, of course, blue sky, et cetera, et cetera. That's always needed. But because we don't have anything going right now, I'm sitting here wondering, like, do people really care about these, my new details of you know no key banks from week to week you know it kind of are we just background noise i feel like it may it might it might drone on you know what i'm saying i don't know yeah i don't know uh we're sitting here doing this work we're watching these watching these matches and i'm not

saying i'm not here to admonish the listener i'm just i hear you i mean we we have no variety because there is no variety you know what i'm saying we try to talk about i don't know Maricio Paschino telling everybody shut the hell up or whatever. You know, I'm happy when things like that come across my desk. Because other than that, and you know, it's not a lot of new blood in the pool right now. We dig it at Kevin Prater start. They get Kevin Prater start this weekend. Talked about Noki till we blew in the face.

It was probably not even going to be on the World Cup roster. Weston, I mean, you know, how many superlatives can a man utter about another man? I do have more superlatives about West. I mean, I got a couple more. I do have some decent. I do have some things to say. But yeah, we're just, shout out to the listener for struggling through this with us. But all I'm saying is don't skip cupcake again.

That's what I'm here to say. I see. To the USSF. Because, you know, we laugh at it, take it for granted, et cetera, et cetera. But, I mean, think about the last cupcake. We got. Diego. First of all, I mean, we got the Diego, Louis.

moment. Number one, we got Potch shuffling to the bathroom. Number two, we got George Campbell inverted centerback. Um, baby. Alcy in days. In the buildup, like he's John Stones or something. We got fourth, of course, all these players that I've been, that I've become members of the, for real members of the U.S. Minnesota team that, you know, got their start in that camp. So, you know, we need it. We need those talking points. We need something to carry us through for window to window. And going from November to March with nothing but some club ball in between.

And, you know, we love the club ball, baby. Yeah, it's tough. And it's not until the end of March that we get up friendly. The end of March, man. Right around my birthday. What did you think of the Super Bowl? Oh, yeah. So getting to the point about my life actually being great at the moment.

You know, I got my whole family. I got my whole family in town. So, let's see. Reggie's in town? Is Reggie always in town? Yeah, Reggie lives here now. Okay. But on my mom's side, my grandparents had three children.

My mom was a twin. Her twin brother died when I was like two years old. And then there's one other girl, you know, my aunt, Tevin's mom, the baseball player. So she's in town. Tevin's in town with his girl. They're staying in the room that I'm podcasting from right now. And then his older brother, Eric, who is the oldest cousin, he's like six months older

to me. And his girlfriend are in town. And they're all staying at the house with us. And, yeah, so to get all four of us together, me, Reg, Terrick, I mean, me, Reg, Tevin, and Eric, it doesn't happen a ton. They grew up in Virginia. You know what I'm saying? We grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, whatever.

So we got everybody here, had a Super Bowl party. Before the Super Bowl party, we also got pictures made. You know, because everyone's here. Like you hired a photographer. Yeah, we hired a photographer. We got pictures made. And, you know, that's part of being washed. I'm learning the values of having pictures made.

You know? Like, you got... You do have to do it, yeah. You really do got to do it. Because, like, I'm thinking back. And, like, if you walk through my grandparents' house, there's a picture of me, a baby me and a baby Eric. that's like lived on eternally

just in just in one room it's just like ah this picture of these two babies and you know it's one thing to be an iPhone picture but you can't you can't just display an iPhone picture in the same way

that you can display a professional picture right right so unless you get really lucky with how you do it and then you print it off but right right maybe you get a nice scenic beach pick you know you

everyone wear white linen button downs to the Is that what you guys did? No, no, no, but I did see a lot of people doing that when I was in St. Petersburg. Yeah. In St. Petersburg Beach. But, yeah, getting pictures done. Big deal.

And so those are things we're going to have forever. I mean, you know, my grandparents are getting old. They are in great health. Excellent health for a couple of octogenarians. I mean, excellent health. Good. Good. But they can be gone tomorrow. Yeah, that's true.

So I'm happy that we were able to do that. have everybody here. Huge, huge Super Bowl party. You know what I'm saying? Let me walk you through the spread at them bells. Please.

Okay, first of all, you got wings. Okay. Did you make them? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I made them. Fried in the finest avocado oil. Fresh avocado oil.

You know what I'm saying? I got a, I got a fire in my crib. The crispiest wings that you'll ever taste that haven't been, you know, battered or flowered.

You know what I'm saying? Fry them twice. Once I'll, I'll give y'all to, I'm going to stretch this all the way out because we don't got a lot of soccer to talk about. Once at 275 for 13 minutes and then 375 for five minutes, okay? Them things, you know, if you've ever seen a food, TikTok or whatever,

they take the fork and scrape along the thing to give you that nice ASMR to show you how crisp something is. Ah, man, you know, it gives you that feel. So, yeah, crispiest wings that you've never, that you've ever seen that aren't fried or battered, I mean, flowered or battered. So that, four flavors, four flavors. Four flavors here, Bells. Okay, one, got a little sweet and spicy, you know, butter, honey, hot sauce, essentially.

Add enough of each, well, add enough honey and hot sauce to really make it into a sauce. And, you know, delicious, delicious. Ranch, ranch flavor. You take some Hidden Valley ranch powder, a neutral oil. Add that, boom. So, I mean, it's pretty simple, but delicious. Deelicious. what else I do?

Garlic palm garlic palm and then Grippos. I don't know if you're familiar with grippos, Adam Bells? I'm not. Grippos are a chip. They're a regional chip. Out of Cincinnati.

And I don't think they stretch far from like the Cincinnati area, to be honest. Because like my aunt or their whole family, like my aunt, Eric Tevin, whatever. Whenever they would come to visit us back in Louisville, you know, they would make sure two things white castles and grippos the things that aren't in virginia

that they that they miss from home so a very delicious seasoned barbecue chip is what we're talking about okay okay lots of you crush those up or no they they sell they actually sell the seasoning okay so i put the seasoning on the on the wings whatever so boom those are wings okay a brisket nothing nothing nothing more needs to be said right there a brisket and wings a brisket a brisket and wings This was all in your house. All of my house, brother. Bro, you had a busy weekend. For the rub, this time, I used half.

One part, Lawreys, season salt. One part, ground black pepper, black pepper, okay? I think I taste the cake. I've been making a lot of briscus here lately. Probably like four in this calendar year. Also, also, you know, you trim a brisket. Take the brisket trimmings, okay? I've bought me a meat grinder.

and you grind the brisket trimments up to make burgers with it. I've done it once before already and I'm doing it again, probably tomorrow. You also take the fat and put it in with the brisket. When it's cooking, you get beef tallow. Boom. Okay. So on from that. Brisket.

Gumbo. Gumbo. My grandfather is a Cajun man from Houston. Makes a mean gumbo. He's passing it down to Ridge. Reg is learned to make the gumbo. Okay. Made something for New Year's. Also made something for the Super Bowl. So yeah, got some gumbo two. Routel dip. Um, brownies. Grandma made some pound cake, et cetera, et cetera. So anyway. Um, sounds amazing. It does sound amazing. And also, you know, just spending time, friends and family, etc. Really learn to appreciate these things. Kids are growing up. Get all the kids together. They get to run around and, you know, all that stuff. So. Yeah, I got two thoughts.

One on the kids growing up part. We ended our 8-U girls basketball season on Saturday. And I was coming out of the gym talking to a dad. And I was like, man, this is a dumb sport for little kids to play, you know? And, I mean, just because it's like, it's terrible. It's like nobody makes layups. Nobody catches the ball. Some people catch the ball.

But it's rough. It's rough. You talked about this. It's tough. It is tough, man. A fun season, but lots of frustration. And I said to this, dad, yeah, I'm really glad for this to be over. And he was like, he kind of admonished me.

He was like, man, it's over before you know it. You got to enjoy it while it's there. And I did feel corrected in a healthy way for my poor attitude. So I'm going to, um. Yeah. Yeah. And on pictures, you know, the pictures with the white, the pictures with the white linen and everything that everybody does.

I know you get, you get, you're on the Bell's Christmas card list. I am. And I am really particular about the pictures should be good, but not too good. Because I'm not trying to give everybody some kind of false idea about, how perfect everything is. And I'm tired of that nonsense from everybody. I don't want to know how perfect your life is because I don't think it's true. It's a lie. So anyway, I'm very, I'm very particular. We use a normal picture. Yeah, yeah, I noticed that. And it's not too good. It's like, fine, you know? This last one was y'all leaving church? What was that?

It was actually at the first day of school. Yeah. First day of school, okay. Yeah. Yeah, dressed up a little bit. I was about saying, you're dressing for the first day of school, But I guess, you know. People do here. People do that here. Yeah, I was about to say in the south, man, the south. Get your vineyards on in your southern tide or whatever. Not me.

I don't have no vineyard vineyard vine. But yeah, yeah, that's the. They might be nice stuff, bro. You might need to look into it. Okay. We'll pull over a little button down or something, right? Hey. It sends a single that I don't really want to send.

I don't know somehow. Understood. Yeah, you got anything about the actual Super Bowl? Did y'all do anything? Did y'all do it? Andrew loves throwing a Super Bowl party, but we were just coming out of it. We're coming out of some sickness, still in it a little bit as a family, so we couldn't have anybody over. But she made some bean dip and some like pizza, and it was great, but it was just us sitting around watching it.

And the kids don't care. They don't want to watch that. Yeah, yeah. I was impressed by the, obviously, by the Seahawks. I mean, I found myself appreciating them as the game went on. This is the first professional football game I watched all year, you know, all season. Yeah. And, man, that defense is really good.

And what else? Yeah, I was enjoying that running back number nine. Yeah, he was cooking. Yeah. I also, I love to like look up the hometowns of people in these games. you know, like Mike McDonald, the coach of the Seahawks. Yeah. Is he from Georgia?

He is from Georgia. Yeah, he's from your neck of the woods, the greater Marietta area. I think Centennial High School was where he went or something. I forget which town it is, but it's in the northern suburbs. And Sam Donald, he's from California, which doesn't really, you know, somehow doesn't really count as much for me as, like, the other places. I mean What's that mean?

I don't know It's like California Is California a real place? Man When you go out there It's an incredible place No doubt about it But

It It almost doesn't seem real Yeah You got me thinking about California But I mean But I mean McDonald I'm like This guy's 38 years old or something

So he's like five years younger than me just won a Super Bowl and you know how do we get how do we get the next Mike McDonald to be a soccer fan

you know what I'm saying um yeah that's a that's a good question but I don't know um

yeah it's crazy Sam Sam Donald's Super Bowl winning quarterback you know I'm saying like Sam Donald was the quarterback of the Carolina Panthers

for one of the seasons that my brother was there. Okay. And, um, not a smashing success at Carolina. It was not at all, brother. Not at all. A matter of fact, I had a tweet that like I went, because we went to training camp that year. Like me, my mom, uh, Eden and Kristen, all got in the car, drove down to Spartanburg, South Carolina, where, uh, they had training camp at Wofford. Okay. Um, and also went to Myrtle.

beach or whatever. But through watching like the three practices I watched or whatever, I was, I tweeted, I was like, bro, Sam Darnold, not that guy. Because, you know, at that point, it was like, I think he went straight from the, he got drafted to the Jets, kind of failed there or whatever. They went from the Jets to Carolina. And it was like, you know, when you're a high draft pick, you always got the idea you can be like a reclamation project. I went ahead and shut that down. I was like, no, I'm here at training camp. The brother still asked. This just in. But, you know, perseverance, man. Yep. Yeah. 100%. Perseverance. Look at it. them now.

Did any, did you, uh, which half time show you watch? I watched, I watched,

I watched the, um, the bad bunny half time show. Um, I watched both of them. I watched the football one and the bad bunny one.

Is that what you're referring to? I'm talking about the, uh, you know, they, um, turning point USA, kid rocking them boys.

Oh, no, I don't, I didn't even know about that. Okay. I'm not plugged in. I'm not, plucked into that scene.

But, um... That sounds like something that would come up in the conversation that you had with the dude that told you that it goes by fast. You know, they say it goes by fast and then they, you, you tune in to turning point USA to halftime show. I would think that would be the next question that they would ask, unless you just soaked off after he said it goes by fast. But anyway...

No, he didn't ask me that. He did say you got to appreciate that these times with the little kids while they're still cute. I, yeah, Bad Bunny was, I mean, did you watch the Kid Rock stuff? No, no I didn't. Okay, all right.

So let's just talk about Bad Bunny because I thought it was cool. I liked the whole setup and I love the celebration of sort of Caribbean Latino culture that it was. I didn't.

think like the music really hit is that a bad thing to say you know what let's go and go there bro because here here's what my daughter may have said she goes she goes these songs aren't really songs um spoken word over a rhythm yeah over yeah i've heard some bad bunny songs right i'm not a bad buddy fan necessarily and when you say the music don't necessarily hit. I do kind of feel that. Like to me, like just the, just like the beats and specifically the beats. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's just, they don't really get me moving necessarily. And, but I do see how other people react to his music. And, you know, another thing about getting old, as I've gotten older and thought about, I don't know, different things in life.

there's almost like a certain, I call them frequencies. Like, you know, you got to be tuned in to what's being put in front of you or at least familiar with it. At least for me, to be ordered to understand what's actually going on. You know, like, for instance, similar to Bad Buddy's music, well, very similar to, like, recordthon music, for instance, yeah. Or like dance hall or whatever. If you go to like a club in New York, you know, they're going to play that more so necessarily than like rap music or whatever. Really? Mm-hmm.

Nowadays? Yeah. Yeah. That's like the, uh, and I listed a podcast once where somebody said that New York rappers don't make like any music for women. And the person was from New York that was being, this was being said to. And he said, that's because they don't need to because we have dance hall. You know, that's the music for, you know what I'm saying? That's the music for women.

And it's something I didn't necessarily get. But then once you're like, you have to see how the people that the music was designed for receive the music. And then for me, it kind of helps me understand, you know, type of thing. And so I think that part of it is missing for me. but I also do agree with you, bro. It's like they just naturally, like these beats or whatever, don't get me, they just don't get me going necessarily. And I'm not here to say, I mean, obviously, Bad Bunny is extremely successful.

Who is more successful than Bad Bunny? Yeah. Right. Right. But I do want to say I agree with you on that point. It was cool, though. It was cool. Like, it was cool to see all that.

I love all the tall grasses and everything. Yeah, so that's the Super Bowl. That's it. Let's start with Juventus, because they scratched out a draw at home versus Lassio. Scratched out is not the right word. They were unlucky not to get three points. They were all over Latsio in this game. And, of course, the moment that we want to probably want to focus on is Wes's goal.

It's, here's where I'm going to get into some of those superlatives I mentioned earlier. This is just a fantastic goal. I mean, first of all, he almost scored. a moment earlier where the ball gets played into his feet he flicks it up with the outside of his right foot turns like swivels and like volleys it from like knee high and it's just blocked if it doesn't get blocked i can't see that not going in and then there's a scramble ball goes over to the side gets clipped in and he jumps up backwards this is one of the hardest things to do i think in soccer well that's a that's a crazy thing to say it's a very difficult thing to do

to jump up backwards and generate any kind of power on a header. The ball was behind him. He does manage to generate. His timing is just perfect. He generates the power. Ting's in and off the post. That made it one to two. Because Lazio had like two smash and grab goals in the first,

well, one at the end of the first half, one early in the second half. And then Wes got this one. And then, oh man, you've just knocking on the door. Knockin, knock and knocking, knock and all through the second half. And they finally get the equalizer and stoppage time from Kalulu, I think, a header from point blank range. But, man, Wes keeps, I mean, he's just generating. It's not just the goal. He's just generating all kinds of moments around him.

It looks so good. Like you said, how many superlatives can you say about one man over the course of a year of podcasting? but yeah the uh the the volley the volley was nice yeah that was that was the stuff right there i was like ah yeah well you know i have a bone to pick with the color commentator whose name escapes me is it the the color commentator or the play by play guy the color commentator okay yeah he's a little bit of a yeller he's kind of the um he's kind of the taylor too woman of Syria but he doesn't

he doesn't give I hate it when a player does something cool and doesn't get credit for it and I feel like it happens with Wes on these broadcasts a fair amount with this guy in particular there was a Yieldy's chance in the 78th minute

just an absolute blast after a layoff by Wes which was incorrectly identified as a deflection by said color commentator If you watch the replay The ball comes in from the left side The right side

To Wes And he's he he he does this like really deft bottom of the boot layoff Right to Yieldies With a guy on his back It's like it's extremely High level of difficulty stuff To like to just volley that straight into the path of Yieldies He does it Yaldives nearly scores an incredible save

from the goalkeeper. But anyway, that's my bone to pick. I don't like it when you call something a deflection when it was an outstanding play by an American soccer player. Yeah. Speaking of outstanding plays

by American soccer player, Juventus Lazio, at Lazio, in May of 2025. I don't know if you remember that day, Beth. All right. You can talk about Wes's assist again? Yeah, that's right.

The one I missed when I was at the concession stand. Yep. Here we are. You know, traveled all the way to Rome. You from Chickamauga, Georgia, me from Louisville, Kentucky, made it all the way to Rome, all the way to Stadio, Stadio Olimpico, to watch Weston McKinney play in a serial match. I mean, of course, this wasn't your first cereal matches.

You saw Western McKinney play in person. You know, you got to go to Teren. etc but did you see any goal contributions in that first trip I didn't

no that was zero zero that was a zero zero AC Milan versus UVA game okay okay and I did not get to see Nico Joaquini play

for uh for Como he was he was the American at Como at the time West McKinney comes in that match YuVe Latzio um I think from the

left side of the box, like out of edge of the box, a little cross across to to call Omwani, headed at home, Juventus goal, I stand up, I stand out of my seat,

I look around. First of all, none of the scuff patrons that were here with us on this trip were standing up. I assume they were afraid of the Lacio crowd, whatever, but I was abandoned. I was abandoned, so here I am. This really cut deep for you, didn't it?

Yeah. my black ass standing up in the midst of, you know, people that may or may not be, uh, Latio fans, you know, fascist, yeah,

I mean, hey, hey, hey, you know, uh, there was a different vibe that Roma match versus to Lassio.

I'll say that, but anyway, I stand up. I look around. I understand everyone else. I think all that same reaction as me, so that's cool. But I'm like,

there's one person that's going to feel the way I'm feeling right now. And that would be the man who started a, a podcast covering the U.S. Smith's national team. And where was he? He was standing in the concourse waiting for a beer. Wait for a beer, man.

Talk about moments he'll never get back. You know, they go by fast. Adam Bell. Yeah. You know, yeah. I'll live. Have a beer anytime. Yeah.

That's true. That's true. I should have just skipped the beer. Anyway, I'll never see. Yuva Lazio, what I think of. I don't think about that. Yeah.

I mean, that's fair. So there's that And Christopalus got their first win since I believe December 11th when they beat Shelburne An Irish club in the Europa Conference League So they've had a rough stretch here But they beat Brighton and Ho of Albion

Chris did some acrobatic defending In the box at least once He also clipped a nice ball into the box After a set piece scramble Lots of set piece scrambles in this game And we love Crystal Paulus on this podcast, but man, it does feel like a lot of what they're doing is set pieces. And set piece scrambles.

And that's all right. That's the Premier League nowadays. Is that right? Is that what they're saying? That's what they're saying. Goal scores down. Defenses are immaculate. Boy, kind of like the Super Bowl.

Got a red capital. Yeah. Got a real capitalized off these restarts, man. Yeah. Okay. Cardoso, he was out with a muscle injury when his current club lost one zero to his former club. Death started and went 90 as PSV beat Groning in 2 to 1. I'm not going to watch that, brother. Yeah, really, I don't know. I don't know.

I'm going to watch Sergenio scratch out a win in the north of the Netherlands. I don't think so. It's even to the point now. I don't know if you agree with this Adam Bell. where, you know, Sergenio ain't a written and pen starter for, I think most people nowadays. I don't know how you feel about it. I think it's, I think you're right that he's not a written in pen starter anymore. And probably he's not even going to be a fullback for us anymore, you know, under Maricio, which I do have something to say about him. That's possible.

Yeah, maybe he plays wing. I don't know, it's too bad he didn't, he hasn't like sort of become more solid as a defender. You know, that was if he had, if he could have become 20, 25% more solid as a defender, he's a world-class fullback, but now he's just a Dutch class fullback for the moment. Dutch class, oh man. Well, as I alluded to it earlier, Kevin Prater's got to start. Yeah. How did he look for?

For Volkswagen against Byrd. Munich, which makes sense because, you know, you're going to put the industrious man in for some industry. No, actually, it wasn't Bayern Munich. It was, it was Bresherndor. Excuse me. Which, speaking of Bresherdormand. And the Super Bowl. Nicholas Sule.

He likes American football? No, he's just a big dude, man. Yeah. That's a big-ass dude playing soccer, man. Yeah. You know, in soccer, right? I mean, when somebody's big for soccer, you know, it's a, it's a amount that even, I mean, particularly in America, it's like non-discernible, you know, to like the, my American eye. You know, we're talking about like bells, you wouldn't be fit as a soccer player.

Right. You know what I'm saying? Like those 10 to 15 pounds or whatever that turns you from 165, you know, 5.000. 10165 or whatever to 510 180 yeah like I said that's just not that's a non-discernible amount yeah but it does matter yeah regular walking around person Nicholas Suley got probably 40 more pounds than that really like he's he has a frame of like a frame like a linebacker or something real or even like a defensive end and he gets it done he gets it done uh and I just want to I just want to give him some

props because you know we had a lot of Suley Praredes crime going on Suley had kept him in his pocket pretty much Not kept him in his pocket I mean KP did some of my stuff

He had a nice turn on the touchline Nice turn on the touchline A little one two To get a Wolfsberg up the pitch A couple bad crosses Yeah Yeah just to Kevin Paredes experience.

He's getting his feet back under him. But didn't I see him get a start? Good for him, yeah. Because I don't think he played at all last week. I wanted to bring up Maricio because like a week after he told Tim We had to shut up, he went and did a 90-minute podcast where he was asked what was his most, you know, what trophy does he want more than any other? And he said the Premier League.

trophy, which, I mean, is a fair answer. But it does seem like there's a little bit of a double standard here with telling people to shut up. I mean, I think what the correct answer should, would be a World Cup trophy, right? That's the job that he's in right now. I mean, yeah, and it's not even like a stretch to say that, especially being in the position that he's in now, where he is the coach of a national team, like the World Cup. you just say that right and like I said he's already thinking ahead he's thinking past June yeah yeah it's not like he's begging it by saying it you know what I'm saying like ah you just

had to say that or whatever like you know he didn't say Conccaf Champions Cup it's a trophy I won you know I want to win a Concord Cav Nation League or whatever like you know World Cup's a valid answer so just say the World Cup and you know I feel like we kind of got a sanitized version of myself talking on the subject last week because I will lessner I let listener I let you know on Friday when the on Friday before we did that podcast when this when I fully when I got the full um picture of what was going on and what was said I called I called I called bells I was like bro can we can we record tonight or maybe tomorrow I was like I'm hot I'm hot by this whole situation I thought about the whole thing I was going to tell

I was going to tell Maritio Paschino get the at the hell of out of town. They had a lot of Dodge, brother. Out of my country. You know. But, you know, Monday comes around. And while I did, I did hold some of my, some of my ire, you know. It wasn't quite the same.

It's just going to dissipate. It's going to dissipate naturally. You know, I'm saying my life's too damn good to be, to just be that mad. about something for longer than let's see 12 hours basically once you go to sleep it's old right

yeah yeah yeah so but but anyway like I think the sentiment still stands for me in my head and just like like bro let's go ahead and get this World Cup of wit and I don't want to say it in that

in that manner let's go ahead get this World Cup done and let me tell you something you better you better do something Riesio you know what I'm saying if we do this If we do the same thing that Greg Burrhalter did, you know, we get the round 16 and get out,

I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm not going to do anything, but I will make sure that your tenure is looked at as a failure. How about that? I mean, it will be, you know what I'm saying? If we get round of 16, then it will be a failure, I think. At home, at home. Yeah, man.

So, look, I want success for us. I don't hate to do. I don't hate to do whatever, but I don't know. It just seems like he's made it clear that he is a mercenary. And, you know, not the janitor. He is the coach. I don't know. And I shall respect him as such until he's not the coach.

But I don't know about the mercenary charge. Because, I mean, he's getting paid $6 million, so it's hard to avoid the mercenary charge. But we've talked on this podcast, you and I, about how it's been nice to see him care about the team. about the team care about his role with the team I'm gonna assume as a professional that you're gonna care about your job yes

you know and that you're gonna win lose games and maybe even cry when you win or lose a game you know what I'm saying like that that's not out of the realm of possibilities

for professional soccer especially professional soccer coach Argentinian soccer coach you know what I'm saying like I think I might have said this before like you know he probably just has tears on demand

you know just a dramatic person, dramatic culture in general. I think that's right. I think that's right. Who knows if those tears meant anything? But all I'm saying is, you know,

you're brought here. You're brought here to do this thing. And then, so, I don't know, just do the thing. Do the thing. Just do the thing.

Speaking of which, and then we can go back to living our lives. Right. Hire Jesse Marsh as the coach. Man. And that's the thing, Because I'm sitting here thinking, I'm like, but does this mean that, like, we can only have an American coach? Like, you know, I'm taking it to the logical endpoints.

Like, am I becoming the USSF saying we must have a coach that speaks English and blah, blah, blah. I don't know if it's all that, man, but I just would like for the man to live here. You're like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Well, he wants to win a Premier League trophy more than anything else, so he's looking to head back to England probably after the World Cup. There are, speaking of the World Cup, there are, you know, I have to correct myself.

I said you can't get a seat to the World Cup game for less than $1,000. And that's not true. I said that last week. That's not true. It's, you can get into some of the games for like three or four hundred. I mean, if you win the lottery or whatever. And, you know, a lot of people on the scuff Discord are trying to win the lottery to get tickets, and a lot of them are failing.

and I mean people who are seasoned travel folks I'm thinking of Rob in particular Yeah Like this guy went to Qatar He knows how to get to these events And go to them And he could not get a ticket To any game

So that doesn't mean I should that doesn't mean my I was any more correct about the $1,000 to get in, but it is $1,000 to get into any U.S. game. I appreciate the academic rigor of the scuff listenership. You know what I'm saying? No, I did say you can't get into any game for less than a thousand dollars. Right, right, of course, of course.

And it's not true. You got corrected, et cetera. You know, this is one of those things. The point remains the point. You know what I'm saying? And $3, $400 for a ticket is quite a bit. still, you know, to be in the 500s of the, I don't know, the stadium, Houston plays in or whatever. I don't even know.

Yeah. See Curisal. See Curisal play against who knows who. I was just looking at Stubhub for the USA Australia game. I mean, you can pay $5,800 for a seat at, you know, maybe this is at Lumen Field, maybe. That's the 500s, brother. Yeah, it's pretty far away. It is roughly your view, your line of sight is perpendicular with the goal box.

So you're like looking down on the goal box for one of the goals. This is not a seat. This is not like an amazing seat. It's a good seat. It's not an amazing seat. $5,800 right now. We've talked about this a lot on the podcast, but it, it's wild. It's wild.

How hard it's going to be to go. of these games. And maybe, again, maybe the, maybe the secondary market will collapse in the last two weeks before the game. That's going to need to be the hope. It's going to need to be the hope. It's not just a secondary market. Like, like, okay, you, I don't know. Maybe you just said this, but yes, there are $300, $400 tickets. But not just secondary. To get in, that's what, this is what dynamic pricing is, right? Supply, demand, et cetera. So, as demand goes up, price goes up. But to get in, before you even get to a secondary market,

if you were to win the lottery from FIFA, looking at $1,000, brother. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, if you want to go to any of the U.S. game. To get into a match. So. Which is just a lot. That's amazing.

That's an amazing price point. It's a lot of money. I put in zero effort, and I have, I can announce just now, I have secured a ticket to the Australia match. Seriously? Yeah. yeah how

someone on Discord extra ticket I see I see yeah well congratulations I went as slitting them DMs man yeah yeah yeah

ticket at a home what are we doing yeah but um so nice how much you pay I ain't even talk

I ain't even talk to them about that yet okay I'm assuming it's gonna be a thousand dollars or something yeah I guess I didn't really

think about that until right now but let's get out of here Thanks everybody for listening. Thanks, Vince. We'll see you.