Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast. Today, S.I.'s Brian Strauss joins me to talk about

USA1, Paraguay Zero, about our time spent this week aroundaxies' and Iceland national teams,

and about the L.A. Galaxy signing of Zlatan Ibrahimovich

ahead of this Saturday's inaugural showdown between L.A. and L and LAFC.

On work.

Let's bring in Brian Strauss now, who is back from his travels all over the North American

continent.

He's home in DC for just about an hour or so, but

lots been going on my man. How are you? I'm okay, I'm sick again. I'm sorry to all

our listeners. I don't I'm not as effective or efficient with the

purel as you are. I haven't gotten sick all winter by the way I just want that to

be now. I usually don't get sick this has just been

really messed up and and I have no clean clothes but otherwise I'm glad to be. I was I was away for nine days.

This is the start right. I mean I kept thinking while I was

when I was tired or frustrated or annoyed which is I mean, obviously that's like 98% of the time.

I was thinking, this is the start of the World Cup, right?

I mean, this is what I was on the road for and it's we're sort of training in our own way for the

grind of the World Cup preparing and figuring out what we're going to write and

what we're going to cover and getting to know the people we need to get to know

absent the US in the tournament and so that's what it was about and as soon as I'm done

with you I'm going to sleep for two days. I will say this you were looking forward to getting on the road and you

certainly did that you ended up going to the Bay Area where you spent time in San Jose

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