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#567: State of the U17 player pool with Hartman and Chairez Feb 06, 2025

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Marcus Chairez and Matt Hartman join Belz to discuss the U17s. We start with the roster for U17 World Cup qualifying, but really the conversation is much more expansive than that. Who's the best XI in this age group? How does it stack up with past classes? How is MLS doing at running elite youth development in America since US Soccer abdicated responsibility? How good are Cavan Sullivan and Mathis Albert, really? Those questions and many more discussed at length.

Check out Marcus's work at the U.S. Soccer Collective, which has become an indispensable source on soccer prospects from the USA.

Twitter: https://x.com/USSoccerColl
Website: https://www.ussoccercollective.com/

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#566: Richards & Musah on the up, Sarge scores again, Happy St. Paul Day Feb 03, 2025

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Belz, Vince and Watke cover the weekend action, including Richards' strong performance at Old Trafford, Sands v Banks in Hamburg, Musah's apparent inside track with Conceicao and Jedi captaining Fulham to a win in Newcastle. Also, a song in Italian about Pulisic, transfer rumors and facts, Cardoso puts in a good shift for Betis, and Tessmann gotta turn on his defensive brain.

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#565: Pepi & Pulisic score, Gio makes art, Yunus melts down as UCL league phase ends Jan 30, 2025

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Watke, Belz and Vince on Pepi's massive goal and assist, that work of art from Gio off the bench, Musah's meltdown and Pulisic's goal in Milan's loss, and a few other odds and ends.

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#564: Is Poch gonna stick with the stay-home right back when Serge returns? Jan 27, 2025

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Plus Tyler and Bournemouth flying, Sargent back in the XI and scoring, Noahkai gets his first top-flight start for Augsburg, and much, much more with Vince, Watke and Belz.

Vince made a companion video of relevant clips for Supporters Shield and Ultra levels on our Patreon page (see below).

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#563: USMNT v Costa Rica recap Jan 23, 2025

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Greg's back on the mic with Belz to recap the second of two enjoyable January Camp victories under Mauricio Pochettino. Why are we more fun this January? Who from this camp will get called up in March? And, of course, Big Balls Diego is canonized in the lore.

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#562: USA v Venezuela and a weekend rundown Jan 20, 2025

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Vince, Watke and Belz talk about the Miljevic penalty incident, whether Jack McGlynn could be a first-team USMNT factor some day, who from Saturday's game might get a chance in March, Tyler Adams getting after it for Bournemouth, Weah's big goal, transfer rumors, and lots more.

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#561: Tim Ream joins the pod Jan 18, 2025

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The dean of the USMNT player pool joined Sanjay Sujanthakumar in the lobby of a hotel in Fort Lauderdale on Friday to discuss centerback development in America, how he got to be so comfortable on the ball, Poch's mentality campaign, whether he wants to coach after his playing career ends, watching his national team teammates grow up before his eyes, and much more. By the way, he says Joe Scally is the most underrated USMNT teammate he's ever had.

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#560: The state of the U20 pool with Matt Hartman and Marcus Chairez Jan 16, 2025

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Matt Hartman and Marcus Chairez, both close observers of the youth national teams and youth U.S. player pool, join Belz to break down the full U20 age group. The news hook is the ongoing camp in Florida but we talk about the actual best XI ahead of this fall's U20 World Cup (many of whom were not released for this camp) and the probable XI at the World Cup, considering who will be released by then.

Check out Marcus's work at the U.S. Soccer Collective, which has become an indispensable source on soccer prospects from the USA.

Twitter: https://x.com/USSoccerColl
Website: https://www.ussoccercollective.com/

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#559: A promising centerback debut, a missed opportunity in Ligue 1, Poch on mentality Jan 14, 2025

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Belz, Vince and Watke go deep on 18-year-old Noahkai Banks' debut for Augsburg, and Tessmann's big chance for Lyon with Matic on the transfer block. Then Pochettino's latest comments, the rest of the action from the weekend, transfer rumors, etc.

Patrons can watch a 4-minute video of several of the clips we discuss, put together by Vince: https://www.patreon.com/posts/key-clips-from-119953459?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

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#558: January Camp 5-a-side draft with Matt Doyle & Watke Jan 10, 2025

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MLS senior writer and veteran podcaster Matt Doyle graciously joins us and we each pick 7 players (one goalkeeper, five field players and a sub) from Mauricio Pochettino's January Camp roster for a make-believe 5-a-side round robin. Who got the best team?

Patrons can vote on who has the best team here. We may open it up for a vote on Twitter in a few days.

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