Set Piece: An Audience with a Legend (Special Guest: CJ Brown)

The Banter Pub FC Podcast

Yer bois at The Banter Pub FC have reached another milestone: we got our first interview with a professional in The Beautiful Game! This is not a drill. This is real life.
Entering The Pub to have a chat with Ama, Neil, Adam, Jonathan, and Joseph is a Chicago Fire Original with 13 United States Men's National Team (USMNT) caps, with four Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cups, three Major League Soccer (MLS) Western Conference titles, an MLS Supporters' Shield, and an MLS Cup to his name. He is a three-time Chicago Fire Humanitarian of the Year, a two-time Chicago Fire Defender of the Year, and is currently the technical director and head coach of Chicago House AC in the National Independent Soccer Association. Ladies, gentlemen, and enbies... he is the one and only CJ Brown!
Over the course of an hour and change, CJ chats to us about his time as a professional player (what he's experienced, what he's learned, what his favourite memories are), what he thinks about promotion/relegation (pro/rel) being implemented in the United States football pyramid, his take on the current crop of USMNT players, and much more. Our time with CJ was not just education about what it means to be a professional football player in the United States but a refreshingly candid conversation with plenty of laughs to boot.
This one's super special, peeps. You do not want to miss out on this outstanding chat we had. Big thank you to CJ and Chicago House AC and we hope to catch up with CJ again in the future. Truly, it was an honour, privilege, and pleasure to have him on.
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