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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, Essa as Brian Strauss joins me for our semi-regular talk on soccer, including

whether FIFA has really changed, my mea-Culpa on on excess of a hundred million dollars. A new US Open Cup trophy, this thing is a joke.

The beautiful old trophy, you know, was in disrepair.

And so they retired it and rather than just create a replica a new version of that trophy

they're basically using a store-bought trophy. All that and my thoughts on soccer coming

up. Take one.

Here we go with my three thoughts on soccer.

First up, the men who run world soccer made it loud and clear on Monday that they think FIFA's gender reforms are a joke.

Moiad, the most experienced and impressive woman in global soccer governance,

a leader from Australia whom I interviewed on this podcast in January,

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