Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, where I go in-depth with the most intriguing

people in the world of soccer.

In this episode, I'm joined by Bill Simmons, the sports guy, to talk about his experience in the world of Southern California

youth soccer over the last five years with his daughter's team, and about his thoughts on pro soccer

as an LAF F C season ticket holder and a fan of the U.S national teams.

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Onward! Our guest today is Bill Simmons. He's the founder and CEO of the Ringer.

He works for HBO.

He's the host of the Bill Simmons podcast

and he's quite possibly the most popular sports

media figure in America.

Bill, thanks for coming on the show.

Wow, what an intro, thank you.

You like it?

Good to be here.

Yeah, it was good.

I really appreciate you coming on the show.

I emailed you recently about potentially coming on the podcast after your recent

Instagram post about your daughter's youth soccer team.

It sounds like you've been heavily involved in youth soccer in Southern California the last five and a half years

or so and I wanted to get your sense of what the experience has been like.

Yeah I have a lot of thoughts my daughter has been you know like a lot of thoughts. My daughter has been, you know, like a lot of kids started playing soccer when she was four and she was good and basically club soccer maybe I guess since age six or age seven, I can't remember remember and kind of dove into the whole Southern

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