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everything secure. Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast. I'm Dave Zirin. This week we are looking at a piece of writing that is both incendiary and important about the hard state of pro men soccer in the United States. But it's not just a critique. It is a roadmap so that really directs us in a way that we can envision the ways that the United States could not only be home to a top professional soccer league, but also ascendant on the global scene.

It is a call to action.

The book is called The Football Manifesto and Club Handbook, bringing the beautiful game to the people and making the USA number one in the world.

We have the author.

The book is available.

Anywhere you look online, I recommend you getting it.

And hopefully after we speak, you're going to understand even more why this should be on your shelf.

His name, the author, is Robert Wilson. And we're thrilled to have him on the show from Rio. Welcome, Robert. Thank you so much for joining us. Dave, glad to be here. Thanks so much for having me. I'm thrilled. First, you know, I do want to dive into the book big time, but, you know, for my audience, I've known that they really like to know a

little bit about who I'm speaking to and their own roots. And so I'd love it if you could speak

about who you are, where your soccer fan comes from, and also what living in Rio has taught you

about the beautiful game. Well, I grew up in the States.

I'm from St. Louis.

Like most kids that grew up in an inner city neighborhood,

I played baseball, basketball, and American football.

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