Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, where I go in depth with the most intriguing people in the world of soccer.

This week I'm joined by Sports Illustrated's Louise Miguel Echigarai, my co-host of the weekly Planet Football

video show on the SITV streaming channel.

Louise is a fascinating guy and he shares his story from living in Peru to England to the United States,

from acting to coaching to journalism, and from rooting for Peru to England to the U.S.

to of all clubs Aston Villa.

He also has some strong opinions on the landscape of soccer in the United States.

I think one of the biggest problems in this country is that in a country that's so rich,

so celebratory of diversity, at least it used to be when we look at it the Grand Specher things.

One of the biggest problems is that we don't have a direct relationship

with the communities that were meant to serve,

especially the minority ones.

All that and more coming up.

As promised, we've got Louise Miguel Etchigarai here with me on this week's podcast.

Louise joined Sports Illustrator. with me on this week's podcast.

Louise joined Sports Illustrated in 2017.

And he is my co-host on Planet Football on SITV.

It's a weekly show that I hope you check out.

We've been doing several episodes now. Great guests this week.

We've got Julie Fowdy, we've got Christian Polisic.

We've had Roberta Martinez, Patrick Vieira,

Gwendlin Oxenham, Howard Webb, Hercules Gomez.

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