#325: Michele Giannone on Berhalter, the USMNT and much more

Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Men's National Team, Youth National Teams, Yanks Abroad, Sports, U17 National Team, Us Soccer, Mls, Usmnt, American Soccer, U20 National Team, Soccer

4.7 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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TUDN reporter and producer Michele Giannone joins the pod to talk with Watke and Belz about Berhalter on the sideline, as a person and as a manager, the USMNT's chances in Qatar, Darlington Nagbe as Neo from the Matrix, growing up in Venezuela and much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. Our guest today is Michaela Janone, a reporter and producer for Univision who has been covering the US
0:21.5	MNT closely since January camp 2018.
0:25.0	He's a native of Italy, grew up in Venezuela, and has been in the US since 2011.
0:31.0	He has lived in Florida, Mexico City, and Tijuana. Now he lives in San Diego.
0:35.4	Michaela, welcome to the show.
0:37.0	How are you guys? Thanks for having me. It's really an honor to be here.
0:41.6	I'm a big fan of your work and I'm excited to be here.
0:45.3	Well, McKellie, that's a, I'm a big fan of your work, first of all.
0:49.3	Second of all, eyewitnesses have had you as among the strongest performance at the Scuff soccer tournament at the Orlando tailgate.
0:57.0	You know, congratulations.
0:59.0	I'm not sure how much of an accomplishment that is, but it was clear to me from hearing that
1:03.7	that you must have been playing the game for a while. When and where did that start?
1:07.2	Man, you know what? My main goal, and I appreciate it, for your kind words, my main goal was be better than some stage
1:14.5	call in Poltonorio which wasn't hard mission accomplished so yeah man and you know
1:22.4	what I was surprised that I didn't suck that much that was my first time playing in like almost three years really between moving a lot you know just said it and on the road that much I haven't been able to play as much as I did but yeah I mean as an Italian kid you know if you're Italian and you don't play soccer you get you get kicked out of the house you get the zone by your family so I grew
1:47.4	playing soccer can you give us an idea of how like what the latest numbers are
1:51.6	on how you univizion's live soccer watching audience
1:55.1	compares to its English language counterparts because I think it's easy for people to
2:00.3	overlook this on amless it's pretty even between the SBI and Fox and
2:06.7	and also Univision, UnilLS games tend to the numbers tend to be the same. You know that
2:16.9	MLS funds are just watch MLS period. Yeah. But and you get like 200 300 400 K for a game depends you know if
2:26.7	Galaxies playing LAFC those are the teams obviously that that pull up the best
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