You know, it's not often that you get to start a sports podcast with some Tolstoy, but

I do find myself compelled today because the first line of Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy's

seminal novel, it reads as follows, Happy Families are all like every unhappy family is unhappy

in its own way. And the first thing I need you to understand here about US Soccer, as

it gets very publicly torn apart now from the inside, is that it really was a family.

There was a breaking story yesterday that had all sorts of drama attached in US Soccer.

There is a family beef between the burr halters and the rainess.

The burr halters and the rainess are soccer families that have known each other for decades.

They were comments leaked from off the record leadership conference that Greg Berholtz

almost sent this unnamed player home to help out over disruptive behavior.

Quickly people put two and two together and of course the eco-gerainer who responded

the next day saying that he was the player in question.

Yes, Pian reporting that Claudio Reina, father of Gio, sent messages to US Soccer executives

threatening to reveal burr halters past due to his son's limited playing time.

And if all of that wasn't enough, an older, disturbingly personal feud also got exposed.

US Soccer is investigating men's national team head coach Greg Berholtz over a 1991 domestic

violence altercation between him and his wife Rosa Lynn.

Daniel Reina, Gio Reina's mum confirms she shared information about domestic violence

instant with US Soccer's Ernestia.

So today we talk to Kyle Bonagura who has been reporting on all of this, all of the drama

between US man's national coach Greg Berholtz and former US captain Claudio Reina and Reina's

superstar son Gio.

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