The USA-Led Bid Will Host World Cup 2026

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In the latest World Cup Daily episode, Grant and Brian discuss all the details surrounding the historic news that the USA-led bid to host World Cup 2026 has beaten Morocco here in Moscow. They also dig into Spain's astonishing firing of coach Julen Lopetegui the day before the start of the World Cup and Thursday's Russia-Saudi Arabia World Cup 2018 kickoff between the two lowest-ranked teams in the tournament. Then Grant interviews author Ken Bensinger about his book Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World’s Biggest Sports Scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.0	The United States-led bid has won the right to host
1:05.8	World Cup 2026. Brian Strauss and I will be talking about that today as part of our
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1:25.0	In this episode I'm also joined by interview guest Ken Bensinger, who has written a terrific new book on the FIFA scandal called Red Card How the U.S. blew the whistle on the
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