Man City's Stunning UEFA Ban; UEFA Champions League is Back!; Is MLS a Better Gateway to Europe than Liga MX?

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Grant and Luis Miguel thank the soccer gods for the return of UEFA Champions League with some fun matchups this week, including PSG-Dortmund, Atlético Madrid-Liverpool and Spurs-Leipzig; break down UEFA's stunning two-year Champions League ban for Manchester City; hail Lazio's 2-1 win vs. Inter to shake up the top of Serie A; discuss more incidents of racism in Portugal, Germany and the U.S.; look ahead to this week's CONCACAF Champions League games involving five MLS teams, including León-LAFC; and ask the question: Do we agree with Inter Miami's Rodolfo Pizarro that MLS is a better gateway to Europe than Liga MX? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.8	Hey there it's the Planet Football Podcast Grantwall here in New York with
0:33.9	Louise Miguel Echigarai from Miami, Florida.
0:37.2	How are you, my friend?
0:39.1	Hello, my friend, how are you?
0:41.9	I'm good, but I'm not in Miami, so I hope you're enjoying yourself down there.
0:47.2	Yeah, I'm having a it's okay. It's a work slash vacation time. I guess I'm leaning more with vacation but I'm still
0:55.0	doing a little work. Awesome. Well let's have a discussion here about what is a
0:59.4	busy weekend as always in the soccer world and we're going to start with England here.
1:07.0	We didn't do that last week, start with Europe last week, but the big story of the week, in some ways of the year, Manchester City banned from Champions
1:16.6	League by UAFHA for two seasons plus a 30 million euro fine for violations of financial fair play.
1:25.0	Also, UAFA is saying that Citi was not cooperating
1:30.5	with their investigation.
1:32.3	Citi says they will appeal,
1:35.0	most likely going to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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