Copa America gets controversial; previewing USA-Ecuador

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

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4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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On this edition of the Copa America Planet Futbol Podcast, Grant Wahl, Brian Straus, and host Avi Creditor discuss the controversial ending to Brazil-Peru, featuring a handball goal that dumped the Samba Kings from the tournament after the group stage. The trio then turn to talk about the United States, which somewhat surprisingly won its group thanks to a victory over Paraguay and Colombia's loss to Costa Rica. Now that the U.S. is out of the group, must they win against Ecuador for its Copa America to be a success? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.8	Podcast. I am S.I.com soccer editor,
0:40.3	Avi Creditor, joined today by S.I. senior writer Grant Wall and SI dot com's Brian Strauss
0:45.3	gentleman just as we suspected all along the USA has won its group.
0:49.9	I'm kidding of course but credit through, the Americans will take on Ecuador in the
0:55.8	quarterfinals in Seattle on Thursday. And before we get to that matchup and talk about
1:01.0	the US and its accomplishment, we got to discuss what happened
1:03.6	in Peru Brazil. We are taping this on Monday Peru ousted Brazil Sunday night
1:08.9	in Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts on a dubious goal, to say the least.
1:15.8	Ruud Diaz definitely appeared to close line the ball into the goal.
1:19.8	The referee's met for, God knows what, five minutes more.
1:24.5	Nobody really knows what they were talking about.
1:26.1	They ruled it a goal.
1:26.9	It shouldn't have been Grant lunacy, absolute lunacy.
1:30.6	Yeah, it was.
1:31.5	And I mean, just from a spectacle, it was kind of fascinating, I would say just kind of the time you had to sort of watch this unfold and everyone waiting and then they still got the call on.
1:44.0	Video replay is coming eventually here maybe as soon as 2017 and that certainly you would think would have changed that call.
1:55.0	Also if you had assistant referees on the goal line that probably would have changed the call as well.
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