Copa America: How will U.S. contain Messi?

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

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4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On the new Copa America edition of the Planet Futbol Podcast, host Avi Creditor is joined by SI senior writer Grant Wahl and SI.com's Brian Straus to recap the United States' win over Ecuador to propel the team into the Copa America semifinals. The Americans will face FIFA No. 1-ranked Argentina in that game, and they won't lack for challenges, with numerous suspensions compounding the obvious threats that Lionel Messi, Sergio Agüero, and the rest of the Argentinean attack can cause. How will Jurgen Klinsmann deal with these issues? The guys also discuss Mexico's incredible 7-0 destruction against Chile in another quarterfinal. Will the loss signal the end of Juan Carlos Osorio's reign as coach of the team? And why did Mexico lose so badly in the first place? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another Copa America edition of the Planet Football
0:11.3	Podcast. I am S am SI.com soccer editor
0:13.8	Avi Creditor joined today by SI senior writer Grant Wall and SI dot com's
0:17.8	Brian Strauss both in Houston where the US men's national team will be taking
0:22.1	on Argentina and the Copa America
0:24.4	semifinals.
0:25.4	Gentlemen, I want to welcome you in and pretty impressive showing by the U.S. to get to this point,
0:30.8	Grant, wouldn't you say?
0:32.0	Yeah, I mean, when Yurgen-Clensman said before the tournament,
0:35.0	the goal was to make the semi-finals, I think a fair number of people might have said,
0:40.0	huh, I don't think that'll happen.
0:41.0	And here we are.
0:42.0	The US won the group in the end and then I think
0:46.4	deserve to beat Ecuador and now they are going to face the number one team in the world,
0:51.5	Argentina. That is the task ahead of them.
0:55.0	They have been in a similar position before, I guess,
0:58.0	you could say, in 09 and the Confederation's Cup
1:00.0	semi-final against World Number 1 Spain.
1:02.0	So some Paralysts will be drawn potentially.
1:03.7	But Brian, messy.
1:05.8	How are they going to stop this guy?
1:07.2	I mean, this is, and it's not just messy.
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