{"podcast":{"title":"Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America","slug":"scuffed-usmnt-world-cup-yanks-abroad-futbol-in-america-479692","podcast_index_feed_id":479692,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/PXmMg5tG","website_url":"http://scuffed.simplecast.fm","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/781df036-09af-48b5-9624-40e3a4bacf60/30431637-472d-4170-b9f0-1e47fbec2b16/3000x3000/1528497195artwork.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Adam Belz","episode_count":600,"summary":"An in-depth show about the U.S. men's national soccer team, the players who could one day make it better, and American soccer in general.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T12:18:34.619631+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scuffed-usmnt-world-cup-yanks-abroad-futbol-in-america-479692"},"episode":{"title":"#683: The 1990 World Cup team with author Adam Elder","slug":"683-the-1990-world-cup-team-with-author-adam-elder","published_at":"2026-04-17T03:38:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scuffed-usmnt-world-cup-yanks-abroad-futbol-in-america-479692/683-the-1990-world-cup-team-with-author-adam-elder","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scuffed-usmnt-world-cup-yanks-abroad-futbol-in-america-479692","url":"http://scuffed.simplecast.fm","audio_url":"https://afp-600249-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/781df036-09af-48b5-9624-40e3a4bacf60/episodes/72fdd7de-fbaf-410f-8e64-c08f19f31e31/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=781df036-09af-48b5-9624-40e3a4bacf60&awEpisodeId=72fdd7de-fbaf-410f-8e64-c08f19f31e31&feed=PXmMg5tG","summary":"Adam Elder, the author of \"New Kids in the World Cup,\" joins Belz to talk about the pivotal 1990 World Cup qualifying campaign and the team that went to Italia '90. We mourn the end of the Concacaf qualifying gauntlet, discuss John Harkes' photographic memory, cover the press corps' antagonism to soccer in the 1980s, the genesis of the music video on the beach, and much h more.","meta_description":"Adam Elder, the author of \"New Kids in the World Cup,\" joins Belz to talk about the pivotal 1990 World Cup qualifying campaign and the team that went to I…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3960,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scuffed-usmnt-world-cup-yanks-abroad-futbol-in-america-479692/episodes/683-the-1990-world-cup-team-with-author-adam-elder/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scuffed-usmnt-world-cup-yanks-abroad-futbol-in-america-479692/683-the-1990-world-cup-team-with-author-adam-elder.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}