The 4-3-2-1 seems to work better than the 4-1-4-1, but nobody’s claimed the central advanced midfield role. We run through the candidates, and the future candidates, for the job. Then we discuss the U.S. U20 roster for the Concacaf Championship, and then, best of all, Atlanta United 2 Coach Scott Donnelly joins to talk about coaching in USL, George Bello, Andrew Carleton, and USL as a place for young players to develop. Long episode. Please make use of the show notes to get what you want from it.
The Current Pool of 10-ish CMs

2:30 Acosta
6:50 Nagbe
13:20 Weah
17:56 Pulisic
23:40 McKennie
27:35 Delgado

The Kids Who Can Play the 10 or Thereabouts

33:00 Richie Ledezma
37:27 Alex Mendez
41:05 Gianluca Busio
45:00 Andrew Carleton
48:45 Efrain Alvarez

U20 roster for the Concacaf Championship

53:35

Scott Donnelly Interview

1:05:15 intro and general ATLUTD2 questions
1:22:40 George Bello
1:30:00 Andrew Carleton
1:37:45 Chris Goslin
1:40:00 Diego Lopez
1:42:00 Jackson Conway
1:48:30 state of US soccer development
1:52:50 USL as a place for talent to develop
1:58:25 USMNT World Cup qualifying failure