4.6 • 859 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast. |
0:04.3 | Brian Strauss joins me in this episode to talk about his first visit to DC United's |
0:08.8 | new Audi Field, my first visit to the Big House in Michigan from Man United |
0:13.0 | Liverpool, plus Lottan Ibrahimovich, and the insane soccer |
0:17.1 | being played in Los Angeles these days. |
0:19.6 | A quick reminder, please rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast it helps people find this |
0:24.8 | odd word. |
0:26.8 | That's bringing Brian Strauss from Washington DC Brian how are you? |
0:31.0 | Hey man, um, back to live in that life. |
0:36.0 | It is a soccer life though because you went to |
0:41.0 | outie field not once but twice in the past. |
0:43.6 | Twice, right, right, I mean, it's a soccer life. |
0:46.0 | It is a life of crushing isolation. |
0:49.2 | And I'm trying to get used to that reality after 36 days in Russia. |
0:57.0 | But yes, the glimmer amid the crushing isolation was my maiden voyages to our new stadium which yeah is |
1:09.6 | is emotional and interesting and bittersweet and all kinds of there's been all kinds of |
1:15.6 | 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 |
1:28.6 | 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 |
1:35.7 | the one month tournament every four years for national all-star teams and it doesn't really |
1:42.4 | reflect the reality of soccer for so many millions of people, which is |
1:47.8 | 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 |
1:57.8 | 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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