We're here today with a special podcast, an interview of Fox Sports, Alexi Lawless and Eric

Ronaldo. This is Grant Wall. And we're going to talk about the 1995, Copa America, and the remarkable

US run that took place during that tournament to the semi-finals. Vict victories over Mexico, Argentina, Chile.

So let's go down memory laying guys, the Cop America is going on. And kind of lead me into this

tournament because this is the year after the 94 World Cup and you go down

to Uruguay. Let's take it from there.

Pai Sandu was the name of the town that we ended up in.

Look, to start it off, this was a very unique time for the U.S. national team. Not only did we, you know, were we a team that was

kind of coming together and writing off of the, I guess you would say the success of the 94

experience, but Steve Sampson was our coach.

So Bora was no longer with us.

He was in stands a couple of those games looking down on us, but Steve had taken over and we went on a fairly good run.

There was, there was, you know, that part of it,

but the other part of it that people don't really remember or like to remember is that we went on strike.

We got on an airplane on our way down and we had basically a good faith handshake deal.

It was in writing, but there was some tweaking done to it and the guy

named Tom King who's still with him hands out this piece of paper that essentially says this is the new method of payment and it was going to be if

you had played zero to ten times for your country you didn't get paid at all to play

even though we had asked for I think it was

$2,500 or something around that nature for per player and if you played 10 to 25 I

think you got 50010 to $25, I think you got $500.

If it was $26 to $50, you got $1,000.

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