Alexi Lalas interview

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

If you've been watching soccer at all in recent years, you know that Alexi Lalas is a man of many opinions, and he shares a number of them with us on our new podcast. Lalas, the former U.S. men's national team defender and current Fox Sports 1 soccer analyst, speaks with SI's Grant Wahl in a wide-ranging interview covering a number of topics: Jurgen Klinsmann, Abby Wambach, Fox Sports' "Embrace Debate" strategy, and what it's like to have opinions on television. We also discuss Leicester City, which is on the cusp of winning the Premier League. Given that the Foxes could win at Old Trafford on Sunday, what is the best manner for them to win it all? In Manchester? By virtue of a Tottenham loss to Chelsea? At home next week against Everton? Wahl, Brian Straus and Avi Creditor discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to SI's I's Planet Football Podcast for each week we discuss the latest in the world of soccer.
0:14.7	I am SI.com soccer editor, Avi Creditor, joined today by SI senior writer Grantwall,
0:20.0	SI dot com's Brian Strauss in a little bit you will hear a phenomenal
0:24.3	interview between Grant and the always entertaining Alexi Lollis, former US
0:27.8	men's national team defender and current Fox Sports analyst so definitely be
0:31.9	sure to listen to that.
0:33.0	Gentlemen I want to start with the story of the weekend and that would be
0:38.4	Lester City potentially winning the Premier League Championship at Old Trafford.
0:44.7	That is a real sentence of a real thing that might actually happen.
0:48.8	It is and it's pretty incredible and it has been something that we've been building toward
0:54.7	now for a while and so for some people I hate I can't believe it but they're
0:59.7	like sort of getting tired of the Lester story.
1:02.5	That's crazy.
1:03.7	This is like the greatest soccer story
1:06.6	we've seen in England in decades
1:10.2	and in any type of world soccer or sports in a very long time.
1:15.7	And so if you care about great stories,
1:20.0	underdogs stories, things that you will probably not see for a very, very long time.
1:26.0	Watch their game on Sunday.
1:28.0	This is appointment viewing.
1:30.0	Any game they have the rest of the year, as it has been for the last few weeks to me is appointment viewing because
1:36.4	it's it's just so freaking cool. Well the stakes are just so high every week and they have been now and
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