Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast.

Brian Strauss joins me in this episode to talk about his first visit to DC United's

new Audi Field, my first visit to the Big House in Michigan from Man United

Liverpool, plus Lottan Ibrahimovich, and the insane soccer

being played in Los Angeles these days.

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That's bringing Brian Strauss from Washington DC Brian how are you?

Hey man, um, back to live in that life.

It is a soccer life though because you went to

outie field not once but twice in the past.

Twice, right, right, I mean, it's a soccer life.

It is a life of crushing isolation.

And I'm trying to get used to that reality after 36 days in Russia.

But yes, the glimmer amid the crushing isolation was my maiden voyages to our new stadium which yeah is

is emotional and interesting and bittersweet and all kinds of there's been all kinds of

incidents there already and we can chat about that because this kind of stuff is important and it puts the World Cup and things like that in perspective

because it reminds you that the World Cup it's awesome I'm still coming down from it. So are you. But it's also just

the one month tournament every four years for national all-star teams and it doesn't really

reflect the reality of soccer for so many millions of people, which is

that the sport at its core in its soul is a week- week community exercise that has a rhythm and that's supposed to have these

connections, however you experience it, youth soccer, pro soccer, as a fan, you know, as a parent, however you interface with the game, that it's a local community event and that's what these stadiums represent on some level and so it was

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