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Episode 131: Christian Pulisic is good at soccer Jul 01, 2020

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A discussion of the red-hot American winger at Chelsea and Frank Lampard’s praise of him for his ability to “arrive in the box.” Friend of the podcast John Muller pitches in to help us make sense of the phrase, we curate some other ideas, and we spend talk at some length about off-ball movement, maybe our favorite subject. Then we get into who needs a move and who can stay put as the contract year comes to a close.
0:30 Greg blasts Belz for his bad private takes in the past
4:45 Pulisic and arriving in the box
7:43 John Muller (@johnspacemuller) cameo, and then a note or two from @_Susaeta and @finalthrd, and then a lengthy discussion of box arrival.
24:20 Transfer talk. Below are the categories and the players:
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Dest
Antonee
Sargent?
Kelman?
Cannon/Pomykal

Suboptimal

Yedlin
Steffen?
Richards
Netherlands trio?

Contract ending

Miazga
EPB
CCV
Saief
Sabbi
fabian

Untenable situations

Horvath
Wood
Soto

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Episode 130: Return from COVID and a Bundesliga rundown Jun 23, 2020

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The bulk of this podcast is a discussion of the decisions facing Berhalter with World Cup qualifying thrown into uncertainty, and a run-down of what we’ve learned from the Bundesliga.
0:30 DeAndre Yedlin’s stand
2:20 Dr. Velasquez on all the opportunities for assessment lost since coronavirus hit, and a discussion of how risk-averse Berhalter will be with his selection as WC qualifying eventually gets underway
19:10 Bundesliga rundown
50:15 England and elsewhere, plus NWSL kicks off this weekend

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Scuffed Vol. 129: Interview with Ken Richards (father of Chris Richards) Jun 04, 2020

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Ken Richards, the father of Bayern Munich II centerback Chris Richards, joins the podcast to talk about George Floyd's death, being black in America, Chris’s choice to play soccer instead of basketball and the similarities between basketball and soccer, among other things.
- 0:30 Richards on George Floyd, his fears for his own son when he's back in the U.S., and whether this moment will yield progress
- 14:10 Richards on his basketball career, how his son got into soccer, and his own growing love for the game of soccer

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Episode 128: A deep dive on the U20 player pool May 13, 2020

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Matt Hartman and I recorded almost 80 minutes on the U20 player pool. The bad news is we had this conversation in early March. The good news? It’s up to date, since almost no soccer has been played since then.
0:30 preamble, etc.
4:10 Hartman on how this U20 age group stacks up to its predecessors
8:00 the last U20 roster, from January
13:55 goalkeepers (David Ochoa, Chituru Odunze, Damian Las, Patrick Schulte, John Pulskamp)
18:12 right backs (Julian Araujo, Ian Hoffmann, Nathan Harriel and Mauricio Cuevas, Joe Scally, Kevin Bonilla)
25:25 centerbacks (Owen Otasowie, Leo Sepulveda, Jacob Akanyirge and George Campbell, Tayvon Gray, Nico Benalcazar, Nico Slonina, Blake Malone, Kurowskybob Pierre)
36:58 left backs (Kobe Hernandez-Foster, Travian Sousa and Jonathan Gomez, Stuart Ritchie, John Tolkin, Adam Armour)
42:30 central midfield (Taylor Booth, Tanner Tessmann, Jose Gallegos, Cole Bassett, Johnny Cardoso, Matteo Ritaccio, Leon Flach, Thomas Roberts and Gianluca Busio, Marcelo Palomino, Aiden Morris, Chris Hegardt, Moses Nyeman, Danny Leyva, Bryang Kayo)
1:05:00 wingers (Konrad de la Fuente, Uly Llanez, Cameron Harper, Cameron Dunbar, Cade Cowell, Matko Miljevic, Dante Sealy, Giovanni Reyna)
1:10:16 strikers (Ricardo Pepi, Indiana Vassilev, Matthew Hoppe, Charlie Kelman, Johan Gomez)
1:16:30 a quick recap of our respective preferred lineups

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