SI.com's Brian Straus on MLS opening week

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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SI’s Brian Straus joins Grant to talk about all things MLS as the new season gets underway, from new stadiums in Orlando (and soon to be D.C.) to new teams in Atlanta and Minnesota to why terminology matters in growing world of American soccer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Hi, I'm Grant Wall and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast where I go in depth
0:32.0	with the most intriguing people in the world of soccer.
0:35.6	On today's show, S.I. Brian Strauss joins me to talk all things MLS with the start of the league
0:41.2	season from new stadiums in Orlando and soon to be
0:44.6	DC to new teams in Atlanta and Minnesota to his classic rant on why the
0:50.8	MLS demand that we call its team's
0:53.4	Sounders FC and Crew FC is just as ludicrous
0:57.8	as the term Team USA.
1:00.3	I don't know what the obsession with the club's very very strange
1:04.8	unnatural vernacular which bother like I hate the phrase team USA every time
1:10.4	I see that I cringe and want to switch careers.
1:14.8	Because that's not English.
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