Giovani Dos Santos & Steven Gerrard interviews; Let's play the Mario Gomez Game

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Between Matt Miazga, Christian Pulisic, and Tim Howard, there have been plenty of intriguing stories around the world of soccer this week, and those transactions provide the backbone of discussion between SI Senior Writer Grant Wahl (twitter.com/grantwahl), SI.com's Brian Straus (twitter.com/brianstraus), and host Avi Creditor (twitter.com/avicreditor) in the latest Planet Fútbol Podcast. As MLS preseason gets underway, Wahl also visits with the LA Galaxy's two big acquisitions from last season: Mexico's Giovani Dos Santos, and England's Steven Gerrard. In separate interviews, the two discuss their favorite goals, teammates, and opponents in their careers, as well as their first impressions of MLS. Finally, the crew plays The Mario Gomez Game. It's a new feature on the show. It features 30-second answers...and Mario Gomez. Just listen. It'll be fun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to SI's I's Planet Football Podcast where each week we discuss the latest in the
0:13.8	world of soccer i am s i dot com soccer editor avi creditor joined today by
0:18.4	S.I senior writer grant wall and SI dot com's Brian Strauss, Grant, which country are you in right now?
0:26.8	I am in Manchester, United Kingdom, or in soccer terms, England.
0:31.9	Fantastic.
0:34.1	Stay tuned.
0:35.2	That's all we can say about that.
0:36.5	There's some good stuff in the works.
0:38.8	Brian, you survived the Snowpoculips
0:41.0	down in the DC area? No, I'm recording this from beyond the grave.
0:45.0	That's extraordinarily morbid, but great to have you guys on.
0:50.0	Lots going on in the soccer universe. A lot going on in our US soccer universe.
0:57.0	The big news this week, Matt Meazka, apparently on his way to Chelsea from the New York Red Bulls.
1:05.5	This is a big move.
1:07.2	This is a 20-year-old US centerback,
1:08.8	going to the defending Premier League champions,
1:10.4	no matter what standing Chelsea's in right now this this is a huge club.
1:14.5	Grant I want to start with you on this.
1:16.8	You've reported that that Chelsea's plan is not to loan him out right away like a lot of
1:20.5	people might think. Is that a good thing, a bad thing, just this move overall?
1:25.0	What are your thoughts?
1:26.4	I think overall this is a good move for Matt Meazga. Here's a guy who's 20 years old who is coming out of MLS and going straight to Chelsea and you know the the
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