Kyle Martino, U.S. Soccer Presidential Candidate

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

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4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Martino joins Grant to talk about his U.S. Soccer presidential candidacy and answers questions about his platform, his view of Sunil Gulati's record as president and why he thinks he's qualified to run such a big organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, where I go in-depth with the most intriguing
0:07.1	people in the world of soccer.
0:09.4	On today's show is part of my series of interviews with the candidates for U.S. Soccer President, I'm joined
0:15.2	by Kyle Martino, who's on leave from his job as an analyst for NBC Sports Premier League coverage.
0:21.6	Keep in mind that this was recorded on November 19th before
0:25.0	USF President Samuel Galadei got out of the race and two more candidates entered the campaign.
0:31.6	But this discussion is still extremely timely. the big organization and we talk about the record of Gulati in his 12 years as
0:45.1	US soccer president. He can together with Dan Flynn who is very much a part of
0:49.6	that as well brag about the profit side of the business.
0:54.0	Where he can't brag, after missing out on the First World Cup for the Men since 1986,
0:59.0	is on the soccer side.
1:00.0	So why am I qualified?
1:02.0	I'm the soccer answer, and U.S. soccer is a business, absolutely, and I'm going to have to spend this entire campaign helping people see why I'm a good business answer and why I can help solve those problems.
1:15.3	All that and more coming up.
1:19.6	Our guest today is U.S. Soccer presidential candidate Kyle Martino.
1:24.0	Kyle is a former MLS rookie of the year
1:26.2	who also played for the US men's national team.
1:29.2	Since having to retire due to injuries,
1:31.1	Martino has become an analyst for NBC sports terrific
1:34.2	coverage of the Premier League but he is now on leave from that job to run for US
1:40.0	soccer president Kyle thanks for joining me. I'm unemployed. For the first
1:45.9	times and since I was 14 years old. Great to have you here in the Sports
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