Our World Cup Best XI, Plus Jenny Taft of Fox Sports

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Grant and Brian break down our Best XI of the World Cup and make some tough decisions to do so. Then Grant interviews Jenny Taft of Fox Sports about her thoughts covering the French team and how she got fluent in French in the first place, helping her to interview the French players during the tournament Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast World Cup Daily. Day 30 of World Cup 2018 is done.
0:08.0	It's an off day for games ahead of the third place game in the final, but not for Brian Strauss and May. We'll debate our
0:13.9	World Cup Best 11 as part of our podcast coming to you daily from Russia through
0:17.8	July 15th. Just a small request it would be a huge help if you subscribe
0:22.4	rate and review our podcast. It helps people find us.
0:26.0	In this episode, I'm also joined by the excellent Jenny Taft of Fox Sports.
0:31.0	Oddward! Let's bring in Brian Strauss.
0:35.0	How are you, Brian?
0:36.0	I'm okay, and I've been in Moscow now for a couple days.
0:38.6	We still haven't seen each other.
0:39.6	I'm sorry. That's right. I'm at my I'm at my hotel been writing all day and I'm outside. And I'm outside now because the internet inside the hotel is really poor but for some reason
0:54.2	standing outside in their little courtyard which is mostly weeds and lumber
0:58.8	but I want to report that there is also in this courtyard a chair made of duct taped empty water bottles.
1:08.0	Okay. And the manager of the hotel is very proud of this chair and wants to take a picture of me sitting in it so this may happen at some point.
1:16.2	Okay it sounds like they're into recycling which not everyone is in Russia I've discovered.
1:20.8	That is true. I've discovered. That is true.
1:23.2	I've discovered a few things about Russia.
1:24.9	And yes, we will get to soccer in a second
1:26.4	with my best 11, we'll discuss that.
1:29.2	And the story you wrote on France today.
1:32.0	I've discovered a few things about Russia.
1:33.4	Did I mention before that this is very much an Instagram country, not a Twitter country?
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