Alejandro Bedoya on MLS, USMNT, fatherhood

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

U.S. men's national team and FC Nantes midfielder Alejandro Bedoya joins our latest podcast, with the U.S. on the cusp of a pair of World Cup qualifiers against Guatemala. Between becoming a father, having talks with MLS, hitting a hot run of form and taking part in penning his first piece for SI, Bedoya has plenty to talk about with SI's Grant Wahl. Wahl and SI's Avi Creditor also discuss the madness in Bayern Munich and Juventus's Champions League series, whether Barcelona can be beaten and how the U.S. should be prioritizing the World Cup qualifying/Olympic playoff roster dilemma facing Jurgen Klinsmann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to our Sigh's Planet Football Podcast, for each week we discuss the latest in the world of soccer.
0:15.0	I am SI soccer, editor, Avi, creditor, joined today by SI senior writer Grant Wall.
0:20.0	Later on, Grant will have a one-on-one chat with US men's national team and FC Nant
0:24.6	Menfielder Alejandro Bedoya so definitely stick around for that very interesting
0:29.9	and entertaining conversation to say the least but let's start Grant with
0:33.5	Champions League. Just an absolute classic in Munich, the second leg of Byron
0:38.1	Munich, Yvesantis, Byron was down, two goals on aggregate, score four goals including two and extra time to go
0:44.7	through Pep cordiola went from his his obituary to now now the the chase is on he
0:51.1	he's still alive for that elusive Champions League with
0:54.6	with Byron what just what did you think of that game and everything just an epic
0:59.5	epic day at the Alians arena
1:02.3	pep cord Cordiola's legacy is was basically on the line.
1:07.2	At least his Byron legacy was on the line.
1:09.4	I mean, if Byron were to go out of Champions League and they looked like they were,
1:13.6	then a lot of people would view Pep cordial as time
1:17.5	at Byron as a failure.
1:19.4	He has yet to get Byron to a Champions League final.
1:21.7	That is something his predecessors were able to do
1:24.4	and win them and even the term choke I think was appropriate for a while based
1:31.3	on what Byron had done.
1:32.6	They had gone up two goals in the first leg away at Juventus
1:36.4	and then let Juventus back in it to 2-2.
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