Euro 2016: What the hell happened to England? Guest: Tranquillo Barnetta

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

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4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Euro 2016 has delivered a fair amount of surprises already, but perhaps nothing that could top Iceland's win over England in the tournament's round of 16. Discussion of Iceland's triumph (and England's failure) kicks off the newest edition of the Planet Futbol Podcast. Philadelphia Union playmaker Tranquillo Barnetta, who played for Switzerland at the 2004 and 2008 European Championships, also joins the podcast this week to talk about Switzerland's run in the tourney, Xherdan Shaqiri's incredible goal against Poland, and who he expects to win the heavyweight matchup between Germany and Italy in the quarterfinals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a Euro 2016 edition of the Planet Football Podcast.
0:14.4	I am S.I.com soccer editor, Avi Creditor, joined today by S.I.com's Ben Littleton
0:20.6	and a two-time European Championship roster member of Switzerland and a three-time
0:25.8	World Cup roster member and part of the first place Philadelphia Union Tranquilla
0:31.0	Barnetta.
0:32.0	Tranquilla thank you so much for joining us.
0:33.6	Sure.
0:34.3	Hello.
0:36.2	The Euro 2016 field is down to eight teams.
0:39.4	The quarterfinals are set.
0:40.8	It'll be Poland against Portugal, Wales against Belgium, Germany against
0:44.9	Italy and France against Iceland. Iceland of course has become the story of this
0:51.7	tournament but first Tranquil Ia, I want to start with Switzerland.
0:56.3	Condolences on their ouster, a tough way to go and penalties. What did you think of their showing overall? And of course that goal by Shakiri that had the world talking?
1:07.0	Yeah, I think they did their best performance against Poland
1:12.0	and usually that's how you have to play like in a tournament like the
1:17.7	euros they start a little bit quiet but every game they played better and yeah
1:24.7	unfortunately they couldn't score in the in the second half or up to the great
1:31.4	grow from from chakiri I think that maybe the best goal of the year so far
1:36.7	it was amazing and then they made a lot of pressure for the second goal also in the overtime but unfortunate
1:44.4	times to the uh yeah p k is and there is always 50 50 and yeah it was a tough loss for us.
1:53.0	Yeah, always a tough way to go out on on pKs.
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