Planet Fútbol Podcast: June 11, 2015: All the U.S. national teams

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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What a week it's been for U.S. national teams. Between the U.S. men sweeping the Netherlands and Germany in a pair of road friendlies and the U.S. women kicking off the Women's World Cup with a win over Australia (not to mention the U-20 men reaching the World Cup quarterfinals), there's plenty to dissect. SI's Grant Wahl, Brian Straus and Avi Creditor do just that in our latest podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to SI's
0:05.0	SI's Planet Football Podcast.
0:08.0	Each week we discuss the latest in the world of soccer.
0:11.0	I am SI.com soccer editor,
0:13.3	obi creditor joined today by S.I. senior writer Grant Walden.
0:16.8	And S.I.com's Brian Strauss and guys today's podcast
0:20.3	is presented by three letters USA. It's been a pretty remarkable.
0:27.0	America. There it is.
0:29.0	Been a pretty remarkable week, couple of weeks if you want to throw Loretta Lynch and the DOJ into this,
0:35.4	it's been an amazing month really for the United States and the world of soccer.
0:39.5	We're going to focus though on the U.S. men's national team, U team, US women's national team.
0:43.2	We're going to start with the men who swept the Netherlands and Germany, two of the
0:47.9	top three finishers in the 2014 World Cup.
0:51.2	Naturally, these were not full strength teams, though neither was the USA. Grant, let's start with you.
0:56.1	Two wins over the Netherlands and Germany. Is this the revolution that we were promised? Is everything happening? is it taking off
1:03.8	my running take here is this was a very promising week for your going
1:08.3	cleansemen and the u s men's national team and i just want to leave it that you know
1:12.2	i mean this was very, very impressive.
1:15.0	And we've seen this a couple of times before with the U.S. winning friendlies at Italy,
1:20.0	early-inclinsman's tenure at Mexico.
1:22.0	And as far as... early in Klinsman's tenure at Mexico.
1:22.8	And as far as friendlies, they're friendlies, right?
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