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 is part of my series of interviews with the candidates for US soccer president,

former US men's national team forward, Eric Wenalda joins me for a wide-ranging discussion,

including the topic of whether his campaign is like that of Donald Trump.

When you try and evaluate what happened in that election and what is happening right now,

there's one consistent thing there, and that's angry people. That's people that want

change and they want answers and they want solutions. All that and more coming up.

Our guest today is U.S. Soccer presidential candidate Eric Wenalda.

Eric had a 14-year pro-socker career that included time in the German Bundesliga and

MLS and other places. He is the number four all-time leading

goal score in the history of the US men's national team. Since retiring as a player,

Eric has coached the Atlanta Silverbacks in Cal FC and has worked in the media for Fox Sports Television and Serious XM.

Full disclosure, I have worked alongside Eric for Fox Sports.

Eric, thanks for joining me.

It's good to be here.

Good to see you.

Appreciate you taking the time here in New York.

I want to begin with a question I'm asking all the official candidates for US soccer president.

Why do you think you were qualified to be the president of US soccer?

Well, the qualifications are clearly something that need to be defined. I mean that that's something that I

think in the past we've never really taken the time to here, what exactly is the specific role of the president?

We've only known, really, you know, Alan Rothenberg by Bob Kannagulia and Senegulah and

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