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

I am SI.com soccer editor,

Abbe creditor joined today by S.I.com's Brian Strauss

and S.I.com's leave you bird.

Grant Wall is on a well-deserved vacation after six weeks in Canada which I think with the exchange

rate is actually like three months so Grant will be back next week guys I want to jump into

some gold cup talk and then then we'll touch on a little bit of the

the MLS all-star what have you with with Frank Lampard and Stephen

is three days in Frisco the same as six weeks in Canada?

It's, yeah, I gotta check the latest...

I want you to check with HR on that.

The latest conversion rate.

Thank you.

Guys, the Gold Cup is into the knockout stage now the quarterfinals are all sealed.

We're taping this, I don't know, about 12 hours after Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago played one of the wildest games you'll see.

4-4 final Jovan Jones delivers a corner kick with bottles ringing from the

crowds and lasers in his eyes at the death and Trinidad-Tobago. wins their group Mexico finishes second it's been a little bit of a bizarre group stage

Cuba with a negative seven goal differential goes to the to the knockout stage

Hades in the knockout stage Honduras is out Panama barely through

Brian you've been following the US what do you make of of this so far and when you look at the US, what do you make of this so far?

And when you look at the US's draw, all things considered,

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