3 Weeks, 3 Cities and a bunch of great sports conversations and experiences
Happy New Year! I finally went back to the “western world” after 14 straight months in India. It was amazing spending time with my friends and family in New York, Los Angeles and London and much happened on the trip. However since this is a sports blog, I’ll stick to some of my sports conversations and experiences while I was in the US and London. New York While in New York, I was fortunate enough to spend quality time with all my old friends at the Major League Soccer league office. I was nervously excited walking back into the office I spent most of my 20s in and seeing people who are much more than colleagues. I felt at home within those buzzing walls and had the opportunity to have a chat, lunch or dinner with many of the senior staff at the league including Commissioner Don Garber and MLS President Mark Abbott. One another day I went uptown to Columbia University to sit down with US Soccer President Sunil Gulati, then downtown to SOHO to visit the NY Cosmos office and see s