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Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Herculez Gomez interview / Can PSG win the Champions League?

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6859 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On this week's edition of the Planet Futbol Podcast, Herculez Gomez joins Grant Wahl to discuss the differences between American and Mexican leagues, why the U.S. loses young prospects to Mexico, and how MLS has changed in his time away from the league. Elsewhere in the pod, host Avi Creditor and SI.com's Brian Straus try to get SI.com's Ben Lyttleton set up with an MLS team to support now that the league is more readily available to watch across the Atlantic. The crew also recap the last week's Champions League action, and ponder whether PSG has what it takes to win the title. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Chicano player is the most important player right now in the continent.

0:12.1

This is a player who now has the ability to choose which national team they play for, whether it be the

0:17.8

Mexican national team or the U.S. national team.

0:20.4

They've got certain characteristics that are a values to both. These Mexican clubs are seeing the value in this player and they're investing lots of money to bring these players over.

0:31.0

I just don't understand why we're not seeing the same value in our own place.

0:39.5

Welcome to SI's Planet Football Podcast, where each week we discuss the latest in the world of soccer.

0:44.4

I am S.I.com soccer editor, Avi creditor joined today by S.I.com's Brian Strauss and

0:50.0

S.I.com's Ben Littleton. A little later on we have an interview between

0:54.1

S.I. Senuretta Grant Wall and Hercules Gomez, former US men's national team and

0:58.5

recently waived Toronto FC forward. Very interesting comments to come from Herk, so stick around for that.

1:05.0

I want to start with some Champions League talk and then in a little while, Ben, we're going to help you find an

1:10.8

MLS team to support a lot of MLS exposure overseas now.

1:14.0

We want to get you a team.

1:17.0

So we're going to do that.

1:18.0

But first, let's start with the Champions League.

1:20.0

The quarterfinals are half set.

1:23.0

Real Madrid, Wolfsburg, PSG, and Ben Fika have punched their tickets.

1:27.0

Ben, I want to start with the PSG Chelsea tie.

1:30.0

PSG goes into Stanford Bridge.

1:32.0

They win, they put it away, convincingly I thought.

1:35.0

Was this a statement from PSG? Is this a team that can really run the table and win the whole thing?

1:40.0

I think it was a statement from PSG and also you could say some kind of statement not necessarily a good one from Chelsea as well.

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