Hi, I'm Grant Wall. And welcome to the Planet Football Podcast. Today in a rare joint session here in New York City,

S. I's Brian Strauss joins me to talk about his vacation to Bolivia, including visiting a Copa Libertadores game, our big picture

thoughts on the US soccer presidential election, and Jeff Cameron's opinions on the Federation

in the Players Tribune.

Onward!

As promised, we've got Brian Strauss back

after two weeks of well-deserved vacation.

Brian, we are here together actually today for once in

the podcast studio in New York at the Sports Illustrated office I've got a big photo of

Clinton Dempsey over my shoulder which is right across from a big photo of

LeBron James which I think is highly appropriate.

You're missing some really important elements to our studio experience right now.

There are five pieces of pizza in here or maybe four.

Have you eaten one already?

I had one already.

Okay, so four.

I have a large bowl of M&M's and pretzels. It was my third attempt. I spilled the first two in the company kitchen.

So if you if you walk over there later you can slip on some

M&M's like ball bearings and my laptop that's not connected to Wi-Fi and it's good

to see you man good to see you too I'm glad we're here doing this again. I want to talk briefly about your vacation. The great

Mike Tyson once said, guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian and you faded into Bolivian.

You went to you went to Bolivia.

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