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Futbol Americas: Panama Punch Out USMNT

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Sports, Soccer

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Mauricio Pedroza, Herc Gomez and Kasey Keller are live from SoFi Stadium to discuss Panama's 1-0 upset win against the USMNT in the CONCACAF Nations Leage Semifinals. Plus, the crew break down what went wrong with Mauricio Pochettino's squad selection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's another beautiful sunny day in Southern California, and it is maybe another horrible,

0:18.3

cloudy display by the U. the US men's national team.

0:23.4

This is Football Americas live from Englandwood, California, right after Panama did it again,

0:31.9

beat the US men's national team, bounced them out of the Konka Kavnalf Nations League and what many could describe as another

0:40.2

shock. We'll have plenty of time to talk about the game, the repercussions alongside two

0:46.6

U.S. men's national team greats Casey Keller, Hercules Gomez, I am Maurizio Pedrosa.

0:52.4

In just a moment, we're going to go to the highlights.

0:55.0

But guys, I just want to get your immediate reaction, Casey, to what we just saw inside SoFi Stadium.

1:03.0

I think my immediate reaction was I was just expecting so much more. I'd been reading about how they were going to be aggressive, how they were going to get the ball in the opponent's half.

1:11.4

They weren't going to just play around with it.

1:14.4

And then the absolute first 10 minutes, all we saw was the back four just playing the ball back and forth to each other,

1:21.2

never testing Panama's back line, allowing Panama to get into just a very controlled defensive posture.

1:29.4

And the U.S. never really put them under any pressure.

1:32.4

There was a little bit of a moment there in the second half that you thought at the start.

1:36.0

Okay, maybe there's going to be a little more.

1:38.5

Aguimon came in, gave a little bit more of a presence up front, but just slow from the beginning. I was asked, what

1:46.1

was my word from the first half? Well, okay, just because we're going to have, we're going to get

1:51.0

to that in a moment. That's a tease. That's a tease. Herk, initial reaction. It's not going to be a quick

1:55.9

reaction. Okay, so you want to go to the highlight? You can go ahead. Okay, we're ready. We're ready

1:59.7

to see what just happened inside SoFi Stadium.

2:03.6

We were very excited to see Mauricio Pochitino's team, and we'll discuss the starting 11.

2:10.6

But let's go straight to the action.

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