Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast.

Today, S.I.'s Brian Strauss joins me to talk about the long-awaited official announcement

of David Beckham's Miami-MLS team, intriguing transfers like Obama to Arsenal and Ibrahimovich

to LA Galaxy, the U.S. men's friendly against Bosnia and the ongoing recriminations over the US losing Jonathan Gonzales to Mexico.

Odd word.

Let's bring in Brian Strauss here and Brian, Miami is finally happening. We're recording this on Monday

morning before their official announcement down in Miami that David Beckham's long

awaited more than 1,000-day-awaited team is officially being welcome to

MLS as an expansion team. Brian, you are the master of all things

MLS expansion. Did you think this would ever come?

Thank you for calling me the master. I'm not the master enough to know what

the name to team's going to be called.

Maybe we'll find out in an hour or so.

I guess the timing of our recording today

is not ideal, but as soon as we finish up I'm going to jump over and

watch that broadcast I'm still coming down off the high of last night's US

friendly down off the high of last night's US friendly. I'm still, you know, I'm still kind of, I still have that buzz.

So I hope I'm can sort of summon all of my Jedi mind strength and professionalism to make the

transition to Beckham's press conference.

I also had a really wild weekend.

I went to Target.

So there's just a lot to sort of sift through but yeah I always I I always thought it would happen just because I didn't know when to be honest I was surprised when boldlyoli dropped out and the Moss Brothers came in

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