Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, where I go in-depth with the most intriguing people in the world of soccer.

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This week, Ali Wagner, my colleague at Fox Sports,

joins me to talk about being the first woman in US English language TV

to commentate games in the Men's World Cup.

We discuss how she prepares for games, what led her from the playing fields at the TV

booth, and how she feels about making history.

Onward.

Our guest today is Ali Wagner who's in studio here in New York with me.

She's going to be calling the World Cup for Fox Sports Television here in the US.

Allie, thanks so much for joining me.

Thanks for having me. A beautiful studio, by the way.

Thank you, and thank you for not saying anything about me sweating profusely as we came in here and I was in a

rush coming from the subway it's a hot day here in New York. I thought it was just

my effect on you Grant. Exactly. So you were doing something that is historic, which I've been working with you long enough at Fox to it it kind of I didn't think about it at first that you know you've been calling games and doing Studio for Fox for a few years now, but they weren't

men's World Cup games, I guess.

They were Women's World Cup, Copa America, Confederation's Cup last year.

Do you feel like this is something that is a big deal to be making history as one of the first women at this World Cup to be calling games.

You know, it's interesting when yes I think it is I think it's a really big deal

but I for me when I think about, it's that I'm actually calling Men's World Cup games,

not even about being the first women to do it in English language in the US.

It's, you know, you think of the World Cup is the coup

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