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.

On today's show, LAFC Coach Bob Bradley joins me to discuss this week's L.A. Darby, his exile status with

the U.S. Soccer Federation, his thoughts on Zlatan Ibrahimevich coming to LA, and his memories of working in Egypt with a young Mohammed

Salah.

Look you could tell and he was so hungry to get better.

He wanted to work on his finish in when you showed him things in training the next day

you'd see him doing it without even thinking about it. So look Sala is a special

guy. All that and more coming up.

L-A-C meets its intra-city rival, the LA Galaxy, this Saturday at 3 p.m. Eastern on Big Fox. Bob, thanks for joining me.

All right, Grant. Good to be here, man. Great to have you back on the show. Lots to talk about, so I will dive right in two wins and two games for LAFC in its first season in

MLS both games on the road won nothing at Seattle 5-1 at Salt Lake. It's a small sample size obviously and it's still

early in the season, but it's still impressive. How did this happen?

I think we have a good group of players and from the beginning of

preseason we started to establish some ideas and challenge the group that they've got to

show up every day with good mentality, bring their

personalities, and then a little by little you try to turn it into something.

But, you know, in the early stages it's always good to win it's nice as you're trying to

build something to take points and it's nice that in moments I think there's

been some some good

teams, fun to watch, but I also see a lot of things that need to improve. Like what?

Well, you know, look, when you talk about good teams, you talk about ideas

and you talk about connections on the field and so in certain situations you try to get a team to understand that if you play out on the right side that how do you what kind of options do you create and then you know can you can it go

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