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Our interview guest today is Cindy Parlo Cone, the US soccer president who's running

for re-election next month.

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In segment one, Chris Whittingham and I will break down the news in the soccer world will

have Cindy Parlo Cone in segment two, but let's bring in Whitty.

How are you my friend?

Doing all right, gorging on champions league football.

It's been a tremendous midweek.

Good to have it back.

It's great to have it back.

It's two months between the end of the Champions League group stage and the knockout rounds.

It's along withdrawal, my friend, and I don't enjoy it.

I'm excited when it comes back.

Even if my initial reaction is sort of like it's still the first leg, and so there's typically

nothing too definitive unless it's man-city sporting.

Yeah, I was I hammering, wasn't it?

But it is still good to have champions league back, in part because so many of the title

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