15-Year-Old Pro GK Nick Holliday; Witty on the Soccer News

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Grant interviews Nick Holliday (18:07), the 15-year-old goalkeeper for North Carolina FC of USL League One, who recently signed his first pro contract. Holliday is from a sports family: His father, Corey, caught two passes in Super Bowl XXX for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and his brother, Chris, is a defensive back at the University of North Carolina. Nick explains why he decided to go with soccer instead of football or lacrosse (he liked soccer, and he didn’t want a helmet to mess up his hair) and details what it has been like this season playing with adult men in a professional league. Before that, Grant and Chris dive into the latest FIFA proposal for once-every-two-years World Cups and break down Wednesday’s Champions League games, including Man United’s 3-2 come-from-behind win over Atalanta. In Segment 3, they talk about the headliners of Tuesday’s Champions League games, including Liverpool’s 3-2 win at Atlético Madrid. Music: Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Fruitball with Grant Wall, thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.6	In our first segment today, Chris Whittingham and I will talk about Wednesday's Champions League
0:17.2	games and the new World Cup every two years news, it's kind of wild.
0:22.3	The second segment will be my interview with Nick Holiday, a 15-year-old goalkeeper who
0:27.2	recently signed a pro contract with North Carolina FC and in the third segment we'll talk
0:33.0	Tuesday's Champions League games.
0:35.9	Let's bring in Chris Whittingham from the stadium in Miami.
0:40.3	How are you Chris?
0:41.3	Doing all right at dry pink stadium, I hope I'm not too distracting with music being played
0:45.5	in the background as we record this portion of the podcast.
0:49.5	I hear you just fine, so I think everyone else will.
0:52.1	We're recording this at 5 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday.
0:55.2	I want to start before we get to the games with some of the big news of the day and it's
1:00.0	courtesy of Rob Harris, a terrific reporter from the Associated Press.
1:04.0	We've had him on the show before that we've seen this stuff about FIFA wanting to make
1:11.2	the men's and women's world cups every two years instead of every four.
1:16.5	The news today was interesting because suddenly UEFA is bringing the heat to an extent and
1:24.5	we've got federations in Europe talking about getting out of the world cup, getting
1:30.4	out of FIFA.
1:32.2	If FIFA continues to go ahead with this and then Rob reporting, Johnny and Vantino, the
1:37.6	FIFA president today saying, well, you know, we could potentially have the world cup
1:42.8	every two years but teams wouldn't be in each and every world cup or wouldn't be in consecutive
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