The Crucible of Selection: Attrition, Friction, and Pragmatism in Pochettino's USMNT

Welcome to the SCUF Podcast, we talk about U.S. Soccer. Hey everybody, it's Monday Review. We now have the March window in the Rearview mirror, and now it's just, it's people going to stay healthy, people going to go on a run of form. But two months left, just under two months left of the season, and we have news on the injury front. Well, first of all, Vince, how you doing? Well, I'm doing all right, Adam Bells, and you know, there was, I think about my coworker alerted me to like a tweet or something. It was some type of social media post. I think it was after Thanksgiving, and he's like me at work for the rest of the year, and there's just a maddened picture of the play, a quarterback, Neil, you know what I'm saying? And this is what, this is what I need these boys to do for the rest of the season. Just go ahead, Neil, that out, you know what I'm saying? What's done is done, essentially for me, your season is through right now. Let's go ahead and let's go ahead and do that thing, stop, stop, brother. Neil, that thing out, I don't care who you are, Christian Policik, I don't need you to get back in form or whatever, rest your quadriceps, your quadriceps, what's the thing? What's the thing? I was going to say pubic, but what, uh, pelvic, pelvic sinus is bursts of sacks. Rest your bursts of sacks. Rest those bursts of sacks. Um, yeah, man, that's all I need, and maybe, maybe give you just surge, surge, you continue to do your thing? You don't need it out, um, go ahead and make that come back when we're at Idaho and at the game and then need it out directly after. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? But give us a ferocious performance that day, that day, that day only, um, but yeah, man, that's what we're at. Also I, my, um, my family's been gone for this whole weekend. I'm by, I've been by myself since, uh, Saturday, this Saturday morning, they're in a tree, living it up, spring break in Gatlinburg, baby, yeah, I'm feeling good. They get back tomorrow, but yeah, nice silent house, they go, did they go to Dollywood? Hmm, I think that might be going to today, um, it might be going to day, nobody does some animal excursions. I saw a picture of my kid with a big snake around an egg, um, feeding some goats and I mean, I've never been to Gatlinburg, like Gatlinburg proper. I've been like in the mountains to like a cabin or something or like my friends, uh, my friends wedded, but I've never actually been to Pigeon Forge slash Gatlinburg, the touristy stuff. Right. Yeah, I've been to Dollywood, but I don't understand the region at all, and it's only like two hours from where I live, you know, but, uh, I don't know, I don't, I don't really have a feel for how that all works. So one guy who is already, um, hurt, it seems, and maybe it's a serious hurt injury, it's a big pat, came down, trying to settle a ball, came and landed on his, on his ankle, non-contact injury, and he came off towards the end of the first half for Darby County, who I believe beat Stoke 2 to 0 today. But, you know, the chatter out there is, uh, it's not good, it's not good when you come off, off the field with a non-contact injury. He was stretched off, yeah, while having great, uh, amount of anguish on his face, um, thing. What about reports? So, that sucks, to have the only guy who did anything positive in the entire second half of that Portugal game, yeah, go off with the likely and Achilles injury. It's not looking, I mean, who knows, we'll see what happens when the physios take a look, but he, uh, it's not, you gotta imagine there's a decent chance, it's not good, and he might miss the World Cup. Man, you know, you always got to keep your radars up for when, you know, these MLS to Europe transfers, which I guess won't be a thing after the, uh, that sprint season that they have or whatever, I forgot what they're calling it officially, they got some type of cute nickname for it. But after the little half season they do to get on the European calendar, this won't be a thing anymore, but these MLS to Europe transfers, where the player ends up playing, um, like 365 days, consecutively of competitive club soccer, you know, always, always, always gets my antennas up, man, cause that's just not, can't be healthy for anybody. No. Also, you know, they get, you get so used to the slow pace of an MLS game, then you have to go play, you have to play continuously, not just continuously on your own calendar, but you have to go play at a higher rate of speed, man, this is why we ain't got to call it back for soccer wise, man, it is, cause they, they seem like they have plenty going on over there, they're doing fine, they don't need that, they don't need to hold up there into the bargain, so that's the big news of the morning, Ajman hurt, uh, does create some possibilities for other strikers, and we should talk about them, PSV just won the air to Visi again, their time in a row, uh, Peppy had nothing to do with it, really, I mean, he had stuff to do with it earlier in the season, but he came on as a 86 minute sub in this game, uh, a 4-3 win to clinch the title for PSV, of course, surge from his sick bed, we'll also get a winner's medal, so congrats to them, and Ernie Stewart. We see you guys in a couple of weeks, uh, right, Haji, back on the field for Coventry, immediately after the international break, so, you know, we were doing them, uh, I guess doing them solid, letting them stay there, but he, he was on the field, uh, over the weekend, played like a half hour against Darby County, and then, um, he's gonna, you know, he's in the squad for today. Lots of games today, some championship games, but uh, yeah, but Syria, you know, showing respect for Easter Sunday, is that what it is? Yeah. Oh, okay. They, they, they still do schedule games on Easter Sunday, like they don't avoid it completely, but they do, they do their best to keep, to keep, to stay in the Vatican's good graces, you know, yeah, yeah, I understand. So like Pulisix playing today, uh, Juventus kicks off, they just kicked off like a half hour ago, we're, we're recording in the middle of it. Um, we got a Western McKinney go, oh no. Okay. I knew, I just knew I had a feeling, but I was like, he's by the blesses. He is risen. Um, Western McKinney, uh, scored in the 17th minute, uh, assist from, uh, Francisco Constitial. Um, man, Michelle, a big Constitial, by the way, I miss him. I just wanted to, yeah, where is he now? Where is he now? I don't know. Okay. So Wes is already on the board. I wish we, is, is the, is the video on YouTube already? I mean, I got it. I got it. Next. Yeah. So it was just, basically, it's a, I don't know what happened. It's a UV breakaway, Wes has a ball, middle of the pitch. He gets it out to Constitial, um, who's streaking down the, the right wing with his left foot, you know, just simple pass out there, then he just continues his run, basically, and nobody picks him up. And so Constitial just plays a nice little cut back to Weston running onto it in the box. Nobody's closing him down whatsoever, and he just strokes it with his right foot into the left corner of the goal, essentially. I mean, there's like one of the, you know, just, they don't come for me. It's just classic soccer goal, classic soccer goal, um, one of the easiest opportunities that you'll probably see looks easy, doesn't it? Yeah, no, of course, something that somebody can mess up, you know, don't, don't come for me, advanced statistic, everybody, but you know what I'm saying. I do. I do. I do. Well, we'll just, you'll just have to check out the goal yourself, but, um, good on Wes, scoring for UV today, um, a goal that was not, uh, that was actually something to write home about, something special was Baligan's goal over the weekend. So we should talk about that. Maybe, uh, Marseille, two to one, kind of a shootout, lots of, um, lots of chances for both sides in this game. But Balog, Balog comes on, I think it was a set piece for Marseille, yes. And it gets cleared to midfield, kind of haphazardly by a monocle player. And then the Marseille player tries a one time, clear it himself, and then just like, just sort of shanks it into his own half, Balog runs onto it, beats the, beats the center back to it, uh, and then just races past him, looks, makes him look slow. And, um, and then gathers himself and chips the goalkeeper from, hmm, 20 yards out, left, like to the goalkeepers left, just absolute perfection on the chip, I mean, draws a perfect arc over the goalkeeper, nestles in the side netting at the far post, uh, this is the nicest goal he scored all season. And, uh, for sure, and love to see it, really, that's all. Yeah, good stuff, bro. I mean, you gave him, you gave Balog, the one thing you don't want to get that, man, you know, you gave him basically a pass, you threw him out of that, essentially, the Marseille man threw him out of that, right, and you know, at that point, Balog's going to do what Balog does, um, chip was very nice. The, uh, Marseille was kind of like beat, it was, you know, it's a game between Monaco, Marseille two of the big clubs in France, it was a chipy affair, it was a chipy affair. They were beating, they were beating off low, quite a bit, you know, just good back and forth. Good on good play. Um, at one point, he was, um, Jocelyn for a position for like a ball played into him, got called for a foul or something like that. And then another defender from Marseille comes over and like pushes him down, then like stands over him, you know, flow, flow kind of told him a little something about himself, you know, and, but it was good to see, it was good to see flow get the last laugh, man. Yeah. I mean, I, I don't lost count now, but I think at this point, he's probably matched his, uh, you know, somebody gave us a correction on my, Ross pronunciation and I'm in my head. But anyway, I'm going to continue to say, Ross, the, uh, his non penalty gold tally, I think he's matched it at this point. And, um, you know, I will say this though. The, the, uh, who was at Belgium game was a little tough for him, just because of the fact that their center backs really did not commit and made sure that they maintained a bracketing position on flow for like the, the entire match or the entire time he was out there, but also, he did have a couple balls into his feet that you would hope he would do better or, you know, as far as just holding it up and giving us, and giving us some, uh, some relief there. So, you know, this is a given take. Also, I do believe you put, you get flow those same positions that the Christian was getting, you know, maybe maybe we get a little bit more out of that. Yeah. You know, I mean, at, at some point, we're going to have to like sit back and kind of attack, you know, when the actual fee for World Cup, um, starts and we get into one of these knockout matches or whatever. And I just want to see flow unleashed against one of these, one of these big nations, you know, as soon as we get the ball going other way, big boot out from, you know, whoever, Tana Tasman, uh, Tim Reem, whoever the hell, and flow just running onto them and causing, causing complete havoc, man, I can't wait because you know, you know, Christian's going to join him with alacrity to be there, he'll be there. So, um, and you know, flow, flow almost out of a very nice assistant as match as well, a little chipped cross from the left wing into, uh, Aquarius, I think, Aquarius, you tried to like, uh, side volley it and got it, kind of got it wrong. But Aquarius is a fun player to watch. He's always, he's always doing something. Um, okay. So, so that's Balo. It looks like, uh, maybe, maybe if Pat is actually really badly hurt, then it's just, uh, Balo, right and Peppy and it's, the decision becomes a lot easier. Um, yeah, yeah, which, I mean, I was, I was kind of, I think, in going into the, before Haji was injured or whatever, and you know, big Pat did do some things, you know, the, the dunk attempt, uh, that was, you know, almost an assist or whatever, yeah, could have been an assist in the Belgium game and then that nice move along the inline in the, uh, in the Portugal game, you know, he gave me something to think about. But, uh, you know, Andrew is a cool, cool mistress in it. That's right. Is, is Sargent giving you anything to think about with his, uh, his game winner for Toronto? Finally, gets on the board there. Dude missed a sitter early in the game and, uh, you know, had a shot blocked off his foot in the second half that he, that was a pretty good chance. And then, uh, his team's down to zero red cards on both sides that come back equalized on a just hilarious, sack, stuff, an own goal. And then, oh, man, did you see it? How happy you brought this up because I didn't mean to talk about this on this, it's like, all Josh needed was a game against, sack, stuff, and the juice back. Bro, I completely, I forgot about this and between the time that it happened and now, man, what a soccer player, bro. What a soccer, what a gift. What a gift to the gave a soccer, Zach Stefan is. What, what was that, uh, it was a pass back? He thought it was a pass back, uh, maybe it was, he tries to, he tries to receive it on the volley with his left foot and it just goes right in, right into the goal. Like, with the cat, with the, with the trademark, Zach Stefan casualness, you know, I'm saying like, uh, I'm just a baller like that. Yeah. When he gets that looking inside, man, it's time to run for the hills. Right. Zach, you are asked, bro, like, you know what I'm saying? Like lock in, bro, lock in, you, you're not, you're not like that. You're trying to just stick his foot out, you know, on that ball. Yeah, you know, I'm saying like, I don't know. It's almost as if like it was like me trying to do it or something like, come on, bro. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, it's a good idea. But you need to, you need like another thousand hours. Right. Nobody around them, like, you know, just the, I wish everyone could have the same amount of confidence in themselves as Zach Stefan has in his self. But like, you know, he had plenty of time to bring his like body over. He could have chested the ball down, you know, I'm saying, uh, so I guess we're saying that he couldn't touch the ball with his hands right back. I, I think that is a little unclear. Okay, but even if he did think, but even if he was thinking that he had plenty of time to just get his body in front of the ball. Yeah, but instead, he was like, let me, let me show you, let me give you all little techers right here, you know, I'm saying, you wanted to chill off his techers. Zach Stefan ain't cold, baby, you don't even know, you don't even know, you know, I'm saying, I don't fell out of the good grace of the national team and all the different type of stuff, but, but just let y'all know I'm still here. And he let, he let everyone know that Zach Stefan is a fact still here, man. He let me know, you know, he had kind of gotten out of my frame of, of, you know, just kind of paying attention to him. But he announced his presence, he announced his presence. And despite all the other funny through lines that we try to create and follow with regards to the US national team on this podcast and the things that I've successfully made happen, you know, but I think Zach Stefan is funny and all of them because he doesn't intend to be funny, man. So that's always the best, the best comedy. He is funny, man. He, it's, it's not a good, it's not a good scene when he starts to get super casual. But anyway, Josh Sergeant winner. Yeah, he scored on a winner, a squirt of winner on a header on a corner kick. Just a strong, you know, sort of textbook header down to the far post. So I mean, good to see that he's, he's showing, he's showing that he can score goals. He, I mean, the first one, the sitter was like a sitter. It was a, it was a blocked shot that he was the first to get to. So good on him for that. But he has the, he could have put it anywhere in the goal and it goes in. And he just, he hits it to the side. I mean, the goal was open. The goalkeeper was on the ground. So anyway, Sergeant, maybe, maybe has a lifeline now for a World Cup roster spot. If, if Big Pat is badly hurt, which it seems like he needs another injury. Right. I'm just saying the, the door is, the door is a jar. Yeah, yeah, yeah, another injury though. Fair, fair. He probably needs to injury two more. I don't, I think posh might be cheeky brown white. Yeah, I guess that could be. Let's take a little break and then come back and talk. We got Tillman to talk about, I mean, it's actually not that much to say about Tillman, but he's on the, he's in the notes here. RSL San Jose, we're back in a second. All right, we're back. So next thing we got to cover is Willie Tillman scored a goal in a 6-3 win for Byer levercruzon. Unfortunately, he didn't come on until the 86th minute and got his goal and stopped his time. It was, and it was all brought to you by Poku that left winger. Beats like beats two guys looked a little bit like Big Pat coming up that end line and slipped it back for the what Big Pat did against Portugal, you know? Yeah, yeah, it was, it was a little bit, it was a little bit more than what Big Pat did. It's just push it, it little pushes it back to Tillman, Tillman meets it up with the side foot and just hammers it in. Yeah, yeah, you, you, you probably were reacting to my face, but I was thinking to myself, it had nothing to do with you liking it, Poku, the Big Pat. I was just thinking to myself, what if we see zero American starts in this other European trip? I mean, I was going through it on my head. I'm like, we can count on you know who we can count on. You know, we count on that. That's right, brilliant. Yeah, that's right. And Reyna did get on the field this weekend. I didn't, I didn't take the time to check in on that, but he almost, he could have had him assist. Okay, could have had to assist from the left side of the box, just a little square pass across the box that a much a glad back attacker attacker ran on to kind of met it with his left foot, drew a nice save down to the goalkeeper's right. I want to say, okay. But yeah, it was a, it was a good chance. That was a good chance. All right. Well, that's good. So he didn't do much for the US in the last window, but maybe he'll pick it back up with club. Hey, he's getting more minutes than he was. Good, you know what I'm saying? More than zero. Yeah. So we're off to a good start. He doesn't need to need out. He's one of the things. Anybody else who doesn't need to need out. Josh Sergeant, he doesn't, he needs to, he needs to play for a speed. Speaking of which, speaking of which, right? I saw Lake giving us a lot to talk about these days. So Luna scores with his left foot against sporting KC. Receives between the lines, dribbles at the top of the box, shifts onto his left foot and then wrong foot's pool scamp down to the corner, the near corner. You saying this is bad goalkeeping? I'm on both camp, bro. At first, I thought it bounced more times than it did when I watched it the first time. But you saw the two bounces. I would like for you to get over there. If I, if I was sporting KC fan, it wasn't hit with venom. That's for sure. Yeah. However, Gozo's was. Oh, yeah, dude, Gozo's goal. That was a delight. Yeah. He gets a cut back just outside the box on the right side and kind of flips it up with his first touch and steps, right? I mean, like he met every, like he met every Iota of this flips it up and just steps into it. Follows it. We don't, it's, you know, it's the Apple TV MLS tax where you never get the, you never get the angle from behind the shooter. You never did. So you don't know what? I said, but the HD is crisps. Yeah, it's crisp HD, but never, they will never give you a straight-on angle of a shot at the far post. So we don't know exactly how much out in action. There was on it, but it looked like quite a bit. Gorgeous, gorgeous hit. And then, uh, friend of the pot of Marcus Charest thinks he should be in the World Cup, roster ahead of Brennan-Arenson. I mean, look, I, I'm not going to call it here and there. I've watched quite a bit as I have your gozo and. Yeah, I don't, I mean, look, it was a dearth of wingers. So if he is included, I'd be like, okay, and I'm not here to say he's asked and nothing, nothing like that, nothing like that. That everybody's getting fooled by the goals. None, none of that nature. I'm excited about the man. I think he's a good soccer player right now. Is he better than Brennan-Arenson? I don't know. Like he's, he's not, it's not cheat code level in MLS quite yet. I guess that's what I would say, but it does seem like it does seem like. He's getting better and better every week. You know, like. He's increasingly going crazy and crazy each week. So maybe by the time, by the time we get to that World Cup selection time, you know, while he's running for a verse where everybody else kneeling it out, maybe, maybe, maybe. I think it's more, it's less clear cut than probably most people would think it is. Cause, cause of like, what are you going to get from Brenda? You're going to get somebody who harasses people against the ball. You know, we know what we're going to get. It's not that much. Could we get it? Could we get something extra out of Gozo? Like, could we get, could he come into the World Cup and play like Deandra Yedlin in 2014? Where he has no idea what the occasion is. But he was in as a result, he was pretty effective. I remember when the other one come on as a sub, I would be like, dude, this guy is good. Like he just be running up and down that wing, going past people. It's one of the things I remember as well, even though I was a casual at that time. Um, but as a college student, I had plenty of time to lock into the World Cup. Yeah. Yedlin stuck out in that, in that tournament for us. He did. He did, especially for a man that doesn't know what the hell he's looking at. Maybe that was me too. I don't know. So I mean, there's just a little bit of that you lack fear because you lack knowledge. And maybe that helps you. I mean, look, as far as replacing the man who made that move on the in line against Portugal, with somebody who could potentially make that move on the in line against a soccer team. Maybe maybe Zavier goes out and fits right in there. Yeah, it's not happening. It's probably not happening. I'd probably say definitely not. But you know, a local man, he can pull a rabbit out the head. Yeah, well, let's see who else. Yeah, I guess. Sergeant Gozo. Like a tiny pin prick of light at the end of the tunnel. I just wouldn't. I just wouldn't be mad at it. You know, if it did happen. Now, maybe. Yeah, maybe it's Brennan. Maybe it's Brennan. I mean, at this point, Pacha shown, he don't read Brennan. So, you know, whether you're feelings about Brennan, Arizona player as a player or a positive, negative, whatever. I don't think it's crazy to say if you want Gozo on a squad, like, hey, bring him over Brennan, Arizona. Because at this point, Brennan, Arizona, Pacha is Cory Baird. You know what I'm saying? So, you know. It's something I got to be left off. And, yeah, we're probably going to the person whose spot can be taken as the person who barely plays for the man. Right. But maybe you want to say you want to throw geo right in there based on this last window? I don't know. I don't know, whatever. But I do think I'm not mad at it, man. I'm not mad at it. It'd be hard to be mad at anything outside of the top 12 or 13. I feel like. Basically. I mean, I wouldn't be mad if Austin trusty comes to the World Cup. I wouldn't be mad if he doesn't. I would be mad if I would be a little mad if Geo Reyna doesn't make the World Cup roster. Even despite his invisibility act this past window. Yeah. I don't know where you coming from. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, brother. On the subject of, you know, MLS youths putting in good performances. Nico Shakira's got a brace for San Jose. Who did they beat? San Diego. Beat San Diego. Yeah, they ran about the gym. It's supposed to be a good game. Yeah. What duo got a record? Yeah. And they also passed it backwards into a two on one for Shakira's to end up with it going at the near post. Got a defender on his right shoulder and he just roofs it, smashes it past the goalkeeper. This is a really nice finish. And then they give him the penalty on the next one. Two goals for him. Bruce Arena in the quakes are five, oh, and one. That's five wins. No losses in a draw. Bro, he's really him. They've only conceded one goal all season. Bruce really that guy, bro. And, you know, I had to think about the fact that I said we need a more Bruce's on the pod when I remembered the fact that, you know, he left his last job in MLS under. Do be a circumstances. A cloud of a cloud of quasi scandal. Yeah. So, I mean, not that I'll take it back. But, you know, whatever, whatever. I reserve the right to potentially take that back. Upon more information coming out. But I just like, he's that he's that damn guy, bro. As far as like soccer coaches in America, you know, you get this new up and coming. Just Mikey Varas or whatever. Bruce just puts him down over his knee, gives him pat on a butt. You know what I'm saying? Bruce been around like. Mikey's all into like, Mikey's all into like meditation and, you know, player-centered practice planning and all that stuff. Bruce comes in, he's like, let me get, let me dust off my old lacrosse books, you know. And then he just wins. It just smacks people, bro. Like, the rev job, like, he took over for it with that Casey Keller. No, I wasn't Casey Keller. It was the other dude, wasn't it? Brad Fretel. Brad Fretel. They look like. But it takes over Brad Fretel and instantly they're good. Takes over the quakes. Long known as just a... As MLS franchise, at least for as long as I've been around. Boom. They're winning. No problem. Like, it's like, his man don't even... I know. I know. It's funny because he says, like, he says kind of what he, whatever he wants to say in interviews too. Yeah. Like, one of the... I forget if it was in Sanjay's interview for us or if it was in another one. Somebody asked him, what's different about this year? And his answers, we got rid of a bunch of guys. Oh yeah, I was Sanjay's interview. That was... And then he, like, kind of... He's like, you know, none of them was a bad person or anything. But, you know, basically, addition by subtraction. And... That's exactly what he said. Yeah. It's like, you know, as MLS tries to get more cosmopolitan, whatever you... You know, we're shifting to the European calendar. Well, but I try to... Kind of. Yeah. I mean, I don't want to say... I was going to say... Remove themselves from everything that kind of made America so I can... I don't want to go that far. I don't think that's the case necessarily. But, you know, trying to... Be on that global scale, or whatever. They could potentially have them reach being... Their goal, their said goal of being one of the top cyclists in the world. Sort of. As a nation submitting to a multilateral process. Right, right, right. Right. Right. Kind of... Like, finally, bend into the knee. Kind of thing. But even as all that happens, that we scare with a glow for all these prospects, or whatever people that can raise the level of them or less. And... On the coach's side and the playing side of like, or whatever. Bruce Arena. He's like, let me see those Duke Blue Devils and the Indiana Hoosiers. You know, let me get... Have you coached the NAACC Brothers? You know what I'm saying? I have. I have. So, let me give you... Yeah, man. It's... It's amazing to me. Just like that. This is totally speculative, but... Whenever... When I think about his effect on a locker room, it makes me think of Ulysses Grant. And I don't know if I've said this on the podcast before, but the... One of the most interesting things about his biography for me, the Ron Turner I. Okay. Is that... Is how he comes in... He would come in... You know, he was basically an alcoholic, totally disgraced, selling firewood on the streets of St. Louis when the Civil War started. And he volunteered. And because he was already an officer, you know, he got like a place of some authority. And he would show up at his first camp. Like, took the train to Southern Illinois, where the Union soldiers were mustering. And apparently, every time he showed up in a camp, he just immediately brought, like, calm and order, and a spree to core. Like, the men loved him, because he wasn't... He wasn't like a fancy general, you know? He was a real man. And he just... He just had this knack for like getting everybody sort of on the same page and getting things to sort of start to run smoothly, everywhere he went. And I do wonder if there's some parallels there between Bruce and Ulysses. Yeah, bro, because when you hear Bruce talk about it, it's like, I'm not doing that. Right. This isn't that complicated. This is how he looks at it, right? And I would assume Grant says on your woo-woo metaphysical... Yeah. Jesse Marsh with complicated wardrobe, you know? Just... Just simplified, fellas, you know? Yeah, yeah. Anyway, 501, behind only LAFC in the West. At Letty Lost 2-1 to Barcelona, Obed Vargas started. Johnny missed it with a muscle, some kind of muscle strain. And... There's some... I don't know if these are reputable sources or whatever. But some people out of Madrid are reporting that... Basically, Johnny's camp and Johnny are like upset with poch. We're kind of upset with poch in the conditions of... I don't know, training for the U.S. Miss National Team, because they're very intense or something. And kind of insinuated that maybe... I don't know, he was forced to do something he didn't want to do. I don't know, I just... Wow, wow. This is the thing. Don't quote me on this. I just read it on... Elon Musk's internet. Yeah. I'm excited, everything got... I mean, he did get recalled. He did not play over the weekend. If he's a little too worried about working too hard in camp, then maybe that's... That's the answer poch needs from him. He did. He didn't get out for Diego Semione, but... He what? You can't need out for Diego Semione. No, you can't. That's not a possibility. It's not possible. He did a promising window too. A promising, you know, opening half against Belgium. Controversial to some, I've heard... Well, you and I are biased by watching the games, you know? All right, I think... This could be kind of a short... Monday review, but I think that's it for the day. A few things coming up... Well, Vince and I are going to Germany... A week from Friday. And we'll record some stuff from there, including with the head of... Borussia Munchen Gladbach's International Academy. I'm gonna interview him. They're kind of like the thing where they... They sort of... This is the right word, but franchise out... The Gladbach name... To different academies around the world. Got something cooking with... Anise Mercy, who is the head of 703 Warriors, which is a free grassroots soccer program in the DC area. I want to get into like the science of accessible youth soccer. The science of quality accessible youth soccer. Which he is sort of deep in. And then a couple authors of USMNT books... Probably gonna be on the pod soon, so... Lots coming up. If you want to skip the ads, join the Patreon. Link is in the show notes. We'll see ya. Bye.