Christian Pulisic discusses his debut

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Christian Pulisic's fast rise at Borussia Dortmund has caught the attention of U.S. soccer fans, with the 17-year-old making his debut for the Bundesliga power last weekend. How has he risen so quickly and what is it like being a teenager in his position? Pulisic joins Grant Wahl (twitter.com/grantwahl) on the latest Planet Fútbol Podcast to discuss it all. We also touch on the biggest news this week in the U.S. (U.S. Soccer's lawsuit against the U.S. women's national team's players union and Stuart Holden's retirement) and Europe (Pep Guardiola signing on to coach Manchester City for the next three seasons and Man City's upcoming clash vs. first-place Leicester City), spanning a pair of continents with SI.com's Brian Straus and Ben Lyttleton. ||| Audibles is brought to you by FreshBooks. For freelancers and small business owners, Freshbooks takes the pain out of accounting. Have a question about the service? A real-live human will answer every call in about three rings. Get your 30-day free trial by going to FreshBooks.com/planet and entering the promo code PLANET. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's Planet Football Podcast is brought to you by Fresh Books.
0:03.2	For freelancers and small business owners,
0:05.2	Fresh Books takes the pain out of accounting.
0:07.2	Have a question about the service?
0:08.8	A real live human will answer every call and about three rings.
0:11.7	Get your 30-day free trial by going to
0:13.6	freshbooks.com slash planet and entering promo code planet. Welcome to SI's planet football podcast or each week we discuss the latest in the world of soccer.
0:31.6	I am SI.com soccer editor joined today by a stacked roster.
0:36.4	We've got S.I. senior writer Grant Wall, S.I.com's Brian Strauss,
0:40.2	S.I.com's Ben Littleton, and later on we have an interview between Grant and
0:45.1	Rising American Star Christian Pulisich who just made his debut for Bruce
0:49.4	Adornment's force team. So stick around for that. But there is a ton going on around the world of soccer.
0:55.9	Grant, I want to start with you with what happened late last night. The US soccer, suing the US women's national teams player union they're in a labor
1:05.5	dispute just give us the the quick the cliff notes version I guess if you can of of what's
1:11.8	going on and why this is so important?
1:15.0	Well on the face of it the optics don't look good here you've got the US Soccer
1:20.4	Federation filing a lawsuit in Chicago Federal Court against the world
1:24.7	champion U.S. women's players.
1:29.6	Their union represents them and they filed it on a day that happened to be National Girls and Women in Sport Day,
1:38.0	which you know, quite a message that kind of said.
1:42.0	But you actually look at what this action quite a message that kind of set.
1:42.8	But you actually look at what this action is,
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