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Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Petr Cech interview; KC wins Open Cup; EPL teams falter in Champions League; Laura Harvey talks NWSL

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6859 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2015

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The Planet Fútbol Podcast welcomes another esteemed guest this week, as SI Senior Writer (and this episode's host) Grant Wahl (twitter.com/grantwahl) speaks by phone with Petr Cech, the Czech goalkeeper who recently made the switch to Arsenal after 11 seasons at Chelsea. In the interview, Cech discussed what it takes to be a world-class goalkeeper, where he thinks the future of the position lies, and what his favorite song is to drum along to. The podcast then welcomes SI.com's Brian Straus to the fold with his observations from a thrilling night in Chester, Pennsylvania, where Sporting Kansas City captured its third U.S. Open Cup title with a PK shootout win over the Philadelphia Union on Wednesday night. Wahl and Straus also discuss why English Premier League teams are having such a tough time in the Champions League, rummage through the multitude of options the U.S. men's national team has at center back ahead of the team's crucial tilt against Mexico, and whether qualifying for the Olympics really matters as the U.S. U-23 team attempts to do just that later this week. Finally, SI contributor Liviu Bird (twitter.com/liviubird) checks in from the left coast along with Laura Harvey, coach of the NWSL's Seattle Reign. The two discuss the Reign's sustained success in the fledgling league, preaching posession with a purpose, and why there are still so many male coaches at the uppermost levels of the women's game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to this week's Sports Illustrated Planet Football Podcast.

0:35.2

Avi Creditor is on assignment this week.

0:38.0

So you've got me as your host.

0:39.4

I'm Grant Wall.

0:40.4

We've also got Brian Strauss on very few hours of sleep after covering the US Open Cup final.

0:46.1

Welcome Brian?

0:47.1

zombie Brian Strauss.

0:48.7

And as usual we've got our crack producer, Alex Abnos.

0:52.0

Hey, how's it going guys?

0:54.0

Alex had moving day yesterday, but he also got to see his hometown Kansas City team win the

0:58.6

U.S. Open Cup final as they're my hometown too.

1:02.3

Kansas City sports.

1:04.0

Yeah, all the sports.

1:05.0

Well, the chiefs within the last week, they're not so good.

1:08.0

But all the other sports are doing okay.

1:10.0

Lots of talk about this week, later in the show from Kansas City's win over Philadelphia in the

1:16.0

102nd annual Open Cup final to leave you Bird's interview of Seattle Rain Coach Laura Harvey to our takes on why England teams aren't doing

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