Scuffed | U.S. soccer, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America Adam Belz and Greg Velasquez

A bounceback performance in Orlando against Vini and Co. We played hard! We got a draw. Greg and Belz do a full recap.

Greg and Belz work through the shellacking in Landover. Full timeline and analysis of a fairly normal performance for 60 minutes that turned into complete slapstick for the final 30 minutes.

Folarin Balogun, the striker for the USMNT and AS Monaco, joined Watke and Sanjay Sujanthakumar for a conversation yesterday. Outstanding stuff.

Greg and Belz on the heavily rotated side that faced South Korea a second time, our struggles this time to play through the middle and the lack of viable alternative approaches, the flip-switching moment when the ostensible first-choice attacking group came on, and then, of course, Lily Yohannes's glorious debut, at 16 years of age.

Jon Arnold, one of the nation's leading Concacaf scholars, joins the pod to talk about the USA's group at the Copa America: Bolivia, Panama and Uruguay. As is our custom we strayed from the agenda and discussed the Crew's loss to Pachuca in Champions Cup, why Mexico isn't a global power in soccer, and other things. But the core of the episode is backgrounders on the USMNT's group opponents in this upcoming tournament. No huge surprises but you will surely be able to impress at cocktail parties with a little more depth on Bolivia's mediocrity and Panama's relative strength under Christensen.

Greg and Belz recap the 4-0 win over a non-threatening but reasonably well-organized South Korea side. Mal Swanson is fully back, the ladies are playing soccer at pace with the ball on the deck, and while it wasn't anywhere close to perfect, the Emma Hayes process seems like something we can trust.