Pedro Arellano

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of the Liga MX final between Club América and Tigres, Grant talks to Pedro Arellano, his good friend and go-to guy for all things Mexican soccer. Liga MX has the biggest U.S. TV audiences of any soccer league, and they chat about why anyone who’s curious should check out the league; what makes Mexican soccer fun and unique; how to pick a Mexican league team; and why Chivas owner Jorge Vergara is Mexico’s answer to Dan Snyder. They also tell the story of Grant’s 2007 road trip to Mexican soccer stadiums, which included a male-bonding experience with Pedro and their buddies over beers and banderitas at a game in Monterrey. 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, where I go in depth with the most intriguing
0:06.9	people in the world of soccer. On today's show, my good friend and go-to guy for all things Mexican soccer, Pedro Ariano, talks about the upcoming
0:16.8	Club America Tigre's final and explains how you might choose your team in the most popular
0:22.1	soccer league in the United States,
0:24.4	Liga MX. If you like the story of Chivas, the fact that they only played Mexican
0:28.8	players and that's kind of their tradition and they're seen as sort of the
0:32.2	people's club club maybe you latch
0:33.7	on to that if you're more of a like a Dallas Cowboys New York Yankees Galactic
0:38.7	Empire type of fan then you want to include America if you don't want to follow the most popular If you don't want to follow the most popular teams,
0:44.0	you don't want to be a bandwagon fan, you've got the teams in clubs in Monterrey, Santos,
0:48.6	Pachuca, the Luca that just played great soccer.
0:52.5	All that and my thoughts on the latest in soccer coming up.
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