A dark week for U.S. soccer; How will Jurgen Klopp fare at Liverpool?

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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U.S. men's soccer teams endured a rough week, with the senior squad falling to Mexico in the CONCACAF Cup and U-23s failing to qualify automatically for the Olympics. The debacles provide plenty of fodder for the new Planet Fútbol Podcast, in which SI's Avi Creditor (twitter.com/acreditor), Grant Wahl (twitter.com/grantwahl) and Liviu Bird (twitter.com/liviubird) wrap up the performances and provide some perspective for a frustrating October international fixture window for American soccer. It's not all doom and gloom, though. North of the border, Toronto FC has secured its first playoff berth, and we pay tribute to the Reds (most notably the spectacular Sebastian Giovinco) and their drought coming to an end. We close with some EPL manager talk, with "The Special One," Jose Mourinho, under constant fire, while "The Normal One," Jurgen Klopp, gets set for his first match on the Liverpool sidelines. == -- ThePlanet Futbol Podcast is brought you by the SeatGeek app, available in app stores and at http://seatgeek.com. Enter code MEDIA in the app to for a $20 rebate off your first purchase. We are also sponsored by FanDuel. Enter promo code MEDIA at http://FanDuel.com for up to $200 in bonus cash. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	The worst part of it for me was hanging, literally hanging a banner that said
0:38.3	Dossacero once again above the US Fanfest stage before the game.
0:44.0	And that's just, it's not only tempting fate,
0:48.0	it's really arrogant. Like they said, you know, they played four out of five games, but, I mean, it's a pretty big
0:59.6	but when you're saying, hey, we lost in the semi-final that if we had won would get us into the Olympics
1:04.8	for the first time since you know 2008.
1:08.0	Welcome to a size planet Podcast, where each week we discuss the latest in the world of soccer.
1:17.0	I am SI.com soccer editor, AviCreditor, joined today by SI senior writer Grant Wall and SI dot com's live you bird.
1:25.2	Brian Strauss is is home sick eat some chicken soup man feel better
1:29.0	we'll get you on here next week.
1:31.4	Guys I want to start today with some good news.
1:35.6	You might not be expecting that.
1:36.6	You might think we'd go right into the US men's national team.
1:38.6	But Toronto FC, congratulations, the playoffs.
1:42.0	You did it. only took nine years.
1:45.0	But no, in all seriousness, amazing accomplishment for them.
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