Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, where I go in-depth with the most intriguing people in the world of soccer.

On Today's show is part of my series of interviews with the candidates for U.S. soccer president,

I'm joined by new candidate Kathy Carter, who has been the president of Soccer United

Marketing. Our discussion includes her platform and background, and I press her on what she would do as President

to remove any perceived conflicts of interest between non-profit U.S. soccer and its for-profit business partner, Soccer United Marketing, which is owned by

MLS owners.

Whether or not it was profitable, I would argue that whatever we ended up making was it the same

as what another agency would have made that's certainly

open for conversation but ultimately if I were the president my role would change first

and foremost beyond that what I would say is that it's actually not the president's

role to make these decisions.

It's the role to govern and to ultimately manage the board through the decision-making process.

Much of what would be done in interacting with any other, any outside agency, whether that's

some IMG and international media or any other business partner, is actually managed by Dan Flynn,

the CEO, and his staff.

And so it's really to them to bring those things to the board.

It's the president's role to manage how those conversations happen at a board level.

All that and more coming up.

Our guest today is

New U.S. soccer presidential candidate Kathy Carter.

Kathy entered the race this week just ahead of the December 12th

deadline. She has most recently been the president of Soccer United

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