Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast.

In this episode, Brian Strauss joins me to talk about his interviews with Wayne Rooney and

FIFA President Johnny Infantino.

Plus, we give our thoughts on the still ongoing U.S. men's coaching search and the career of Clint Dempsey.

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Let's bring it Brian Strauss from Washington DC.

Brian, we haven't done this in three weeks.

I know I don't feel bad about that and I miss you I miss you personally but I I don't

miss this so much. I think listeners miss the podcast I hope they do and I enjoy doing this with you and it's

good to get back on the horse here I feel like in a way this is the start of a new four-year cycle at least for me

professionally I always feel this way after the vacation that takes place

after a men's world cut.

So I went to India for a couple weeks with my wife.

Got completely away from the soccer world,

totally disconnected, no Twitter on my phone,

do a lot of reading. The whole thing was really quite

enjoyable. And India is not really a soccer place. I was going to say that that's one

place you can go to literally get away from the soccer world, right?

Is going to a country where the sport is what you tell me it's not non-existent that would be that that may be overstating it but it's hard it's hardly a country that revolves around the game

well there's always sporting Kansas City legends and you know Chetri

legend aside from that, it was interesting.

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