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Pro Soccer USA editor and co-founder Alicia DelGallo had a unique opportunity to visit the home of outgoing US Women's National Team coach, Jill Ellis and publish an exclusive interview with the two-time FIFA Coach of the Year. DelGallo joins Glenn Crooks to share the memorable moments of their wide-ranging conversation.

Diego Maradona was an iconic, enigmatic and tragic figure all of which is captured in the documentary, "Diego Maradona."

Academy Award winning director Asif Kapadia tells Pro Soccer USA's Glenn Crooks that he discovered 500 hours of archived footage which provides the essence of the man best known for his slalom through England in the quarterfinals of the 1986 World Cup and the "Hand of God" goal in the same match.

“I can tell you that having done so much research on Diego Maradona I’ve seen him do it three or four times," Kapadia said. Half the time he gets away with it, half the time he gets caught.”

Kapadia explains that his film spends considerable time on the incredible seven years Maradona played for Napoli.

“The most expensive player in the world goes to one of the poorest cities in Europe and takes a team that’s never won anything before, was about to be relegated and within three years wins a championship. That is the less well known part of his story.”

Also in this episode, the post match thoughts of coach Dome Torrent, goalkeeper Sean Johnson and defender Sebastian Ibeagha after New York City FC clinched their first Eastern Conference Championship.

City lost their match at New England but then got a little help from their friends in Columbus.

Pro Soccer USA's Glenn Crooks had a chance to sit down with a pair of National Soccer Hall of Fame inductees on Saturday night in Frisco, Texas - former US Soccer President, Sunil Gulati and the all-time goal scoring leader Abby Wambach. Plus, a conversation with one of the hosts, Dan Hunt the President of FC Dallas who play at Toyota Stadium - the home of the Hall of Fame.

Pro Soccer USA's Glenn Crooks previews the upcoming match between New York City FC and FC Dallas with the television voice of Dallas, Mark Followill.

FCD earned a vital point on Wednesday at Seattle in a 0-0 draw to move into playoff position in the Western Conference with one of the youngest teams in MLS.

Followill said that owner Dan Hunt has a strong desire to win an MLS Cup in the FC Dallas way.

"Dan is not shy about saying that FC Dallas very, very much wants to win an MLS Cup sooner than later. However, their model for pursuing it is and their dream for winning an MLS Cup is by starting 11 Homegrowns. Whether that's realistic remains to be seen."

New York City FC first team member Eric Miller is also on the Executive Board of the Major League Soccer Players Association. He sat down with Pro Soccer USA's Glenn Crooks and described some of the priorities for the players with the current Collective Bargaining Agreement set to expire before the start of the 2020 season.

Miller makes it clear that the players will push for a more flexible salary structure and part of that consideration should be the elimination of both TAM and GAM.

“I think that three-letter acronyms are not going to help the league grow any more. It’s time to let teams decide how they’re going to spend their money.”

In the past, the MLSPA has been accused of easily giving in to the demands of the league in negotiations. Miller said that will not be the case this time.

“it’s the most prepared we’ve ever been, it’s the most organized we’ve ever been and the most unified we’ve ever been as a group. We are prepared for a work stoppage if necessary and that is our biggest bargaining chip.”

Pro Soccer USA's Glenn Crooks dissects the specifics of USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter's system with the boys commissioner of the Elite Clubs National League, Jason Kutney. The take a close look at the mandate to build from the back which led to a multitude of questions and criticism following the 3-0 loss to Mexico at Met Life Stadium last week.

Pro Soccer USA's Glenn Crooks spoke with the U.S. coaching icon, Bruce Arena, who is bringing his resurgent New England Revolution to Yankee Stadium for a match against New York City FC on Saturday.

New York City FC clinched their fourth consecutive playoff berth and Glenn Crooks has postgame reaction from Dome Torrent, Gary Mackay-Steven and Tony Rocha. Pro Soccer USA's Julian Cardillo will join the program to help preview the NYCFC-New England match on Saturday and provide insight into the resurrection of the Revolution under Bruce Arena.

As college football embarks on its 150th year anniversary this season, there is reason to believe that the game that has been marked as the "Birthplace of College Football" - November 6, 1869 at Rutgers University - was actually a soccer match. Soccer historian Tom McCabe joins Pro Soccer USA's Glenn Crooks to explain why that game more closely resembled soccer than American football.

Join Pro Soccer USA's Glenn Crooks with the radio voice of the New York Red Bulls, Matt Harmon and the Spanish voice for New York City FC, Roberto Abramowitz for a preview of Saturday's Hudson River Derby.