Coronavirus and Soccer; Man United Revived!; LA Galaxy Trouble?

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Grant and Luis Miguel have a jam-packed podcast discussing the global impact of coronavirus on soccer; the impact of Bruno Fernandes on Manchester United's revival; Tottenham's malaise under Mourinho; Bayern Munich and Dortmund starting to separate from the rest in Germany; Juventus's big win over Inter in an eerily empty stadium; Real Madrid's worst game of the season to lose at Betis; a look ahead to Champions League elimination games (PSG-Dortmund! Liverpool-Atlético Madrid!); terrific MLS starts by Minnesota, Kansas City and Colorado; the so-far sputtering LA Galaxy and Chicharito; media shutdowns by Chicharito and Carlos Vela; how media get access to players around games; Grant's controversial media tweet; the terrific form of Christen Press and Julie Ertz; the USWNT's victories over Spain and England; and the poor timing of U.S. Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro's latest letter in the USWNT's gender-discrimination case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.8	Hey there it's the Planet Football Podcast Grant Wall here in New York across the desk from
0:34.2	Louis Miguel Lettie Gari. How are you my friend?
0:36.3	Hello buddy how are you?
0:38.1	I'm good I'm back from a week of vacation. Went to Boston and enjoyed it. I actually went to two conferences my wife was at the Ted Med conference which I
0:46.6	attended learned a lot and then the MIT Sports Conference where I had a panel with a bunch of soccer analytics people, which I really enjoyed,
0:57.3	including some people who have been on this podcast before Ted Knutzen from Statsbaum, also some other interesting folks.
1:07.1	And yeah, it was really good.
1:09.7	I learned, I like learning things still.
1:12.2	Absolutely. I'm married to a teacher grant I can I can attest to that. I threw my phone
1:16.5	away yesterday I didn't look at it once it was beautiful. Nice nice that's
1:21.2	excellent. Lots going on in the world of soccer. Lots going on in the
1:25.8	world right now and some of it crossing over. And so we're going to talk about a few things in this podcast. I'll go down some of the topics. We're going to talk about the coronavirus and its impact on the soccer world, which is extensive. We're going to talk about England, Man United, Man City again in whether this Man United
1:46.7	stretch right now is a legit, they're not bad situation. We're going to go to Europe, talk about Spain, the lead
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