Tokyo Sexwale, François Carrard interviews ; Kreis fired; Champions League

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

With the FIFA presidential election growing closer, the field of candidates is set, and the one with the name everyone is talking about (and trying to pronounce) is a guest on the Planet Fútbol Podcast. While in New York this week for the ICSS conference, South African candidate Tokyo Sexwale and the head of the FIFA reform committee, Francois Carrard, both spoke to Grant Wahl (twitter.com/grantwahl) as part of our latest episode to talk about the election, potential changes to FIFA and much more. There's also plenty happening in MLS to discuss, between NYCFC firing Jason Kreis after one season and the conference semifinal second legs of the league's playoffs. We wrap up by delving into the latest happenings in the Champions League, where Fabian Johnson became the first U.S. international to score in two years, Chelsea earned a dramatic and much-needed win, Bayern Munich put Arsenal to the brink of early elimination and Real Madrid, Manchester City and Zenit Saint Petersburg are already through to the round of 16. == The Planet Futbol Podcast is brought you by the SeatGeek app, available in app stores and at seatgeek.com. Enter code PLANET in the app to for a $20 rebate off your first purchase. We are also sponsored by FanDuel. Enter promo code PLANET at FanDuel.com for up to $200 in bonus cash. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.0	Welcome to SI's Planet Football Podcast,
1:07.0	where each week we discuss the latest in the world of soccer.
1:10.0	I am SI-dot-com soccer Avi Creditor, joined today by
1:14.1	S.I. senior writer Grant Wall, and SI dot com's Brian Strauss.
1:18.4	Gentlemen, welcome back to the pod.
1:20.8	Good to be here.
1:21.9	Brian, how you doing down in DC today?
1:24.0	Killing it.
1:25.0	Killing it.
1:26.0	Fantastic, that's what we like to hear.
1:27.6	I got a great show for you guys.
1:29.8	Today we are going to start with some talk about uh, Jason Christ moving on from nycFC and m
1:35.2	mel s playoffs.
1:36.4	Grant, you had the opportunity to speak to two pretty influential people
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