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and S.I.com's Brian Strauss.

Guys, I think there's only one thing really to talk about this week and surprisingly it's not the US Open Cup.

It's FIFA. All things FIFA today.

Obviously the big news of the week, the DOJ IRS just going at FIFA like no one has before

Making arrests indictments

Guys, it's it's a landmark week. It's something that I think we've been hoping to see it, you know, for years and finally

in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, depending on your time zone it happened Grant just your initial

thoughts on on everything that's happened just a great day for soccer I think and

a lot of people might look at this and say oh this is a terrible day for soccer and I feel completely the opposite way

I think this is the day of reckoning that we've wanted FIFA to have for years and decades now and obviously it's just a start as the US Attorney General

said in her press conference but it's a big start and the fact that it was the US attorney general, the highest levels of US law

enforcement going after FIFA, speaks volumes about what this really means in my

opinion. I know it's so easy to be cynical about, oh, FIFA will never

change, but this is a completely different level than anything FIFA has faced before. the most powerful law enforcement and investigative power in the world

is now going after FIFA and they don't want to stop here.

Yeah, it's a game changer.

Brian, you wrote on your piece on Planet Football.

The US wanted to be the center of the football or the soccer world in

in 2022 when it's happened seven years earlier, not on the field but off it just you know this goes

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