Welcome to SI's I's Planet Football Podcast, for each week we discuss the latest in the world of soccer.

I am S.I.com, soccer editor, Avi creditor joined today by S.I. senior writer, Grantwall,

S.I.com's Brian Strauss, gentlemen is a big week of soccer at Sports Illustrated.

A Summer of Soccer.

A Summer of Soccer.

If you listen to some radio stations, particularly in the New York metropolitan area, you might be aware that there are 11 pages, a staggering number of pages in Sports Illustrators magazine this week.

And we are going to get to all of that, Leonel Massey, Chicharito and more.

Before we get into all of that goodness though, there's a lot to talk about going on this

week.

Obviously, Cop America is coming up, yours are coming up,

Champions League Final is coming up on Saturday. And I want to start with the

U.S. men's national team and Brian I'm going to start with you on this. The

U.S. Beats Ecuador. We're taping this Thursday morning,

last night, one to nothing, Darlington, NAGB

in the 90th minute with the winner.

You know, we look at these friendlies

and we look for things that we can take looking ahead to Copa America, right?

The results, not all that important, but what we see on the field is important.

And Brian, I was just kind of curious what you saw and how you think it might be purpose

towards Cop America. First of all don't forget Sheffield Wednesday promotion

final. You're absolutely right. Thank you.

Obviously, we all saw two very different games,

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