Looking Ahead to Argentina-France and Uruguay-Portugal; Plus Sunil Gulati Interview

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It may be the first day of no games at World Cup 2018, but Grant and Brian aren't taking the day off for the podcast! They preview Saturday's pair of mouthwatering games to open the knockout rounds—Argentina-France and Uruguay-Portugal—as well as the other Round of 16 matchups. Then Grant interviews former U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati, who's still a FIFA Council member, about the genesis of his baby, the successful U.S.-led bid to host World Cup 2026. 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 World Cup Daily.
0:05.6	Day 16 of World Cup 2018 is done, and it's the first day without any games.
0:11.2	But Brian Strauss and I are still here with a new episode as part of our
0:14.9	podcast coming to you daily from Russia through July 16th. Just a small request
0:19.9	it would be a huge help if you subscribe rate and review our podcast.
0:24.0	It helps people find us.
0:25.8	In this episode, I'm also joined by Sunil Gulati,
0:28.2	the former US soccer president and current FIFA council
0:31.1	member, who talks about the successful US-led bid to host World Cup 26
0:36.3	and what comes next for him after a turbulent year.
0:39.7	Onward!
0:42.1	Let's bring him Brian Strauss from his Bat Cave in Moscow. I am in my
0:47.2	bat cave in Moscow. Today's the first off day we've had since the start of the
0:51.7	tournament Brian how's it going for you?
0:53.2	I'm still working. No, I didn't realize I could take the day off.
0:58.7	Shit. I'm sitting here in my hotel room trying to summarize the group stage and it's turning out to be pretty
1:06.3	tough because there was a lot of late goals and other nonsense.
1:11.3	Well actually we're not taking it off day because we're doing this
1:14.0	podcast a daily podcast that we promised would come out every day through July
1:17.5	16th. So here we are. Here we are. Though I will say that I got a decent amount of sleep last night. I had a nice lunch with my friend
1:26.8	Gabriel Marcotti. I got a massage. I'm semi feeling like a human being again.
1:32.4	Wow, that's why I've I had an apple. I'm semi feeling like a human being again.
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