An Interview with Keith Costigan of Fox Sports

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

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4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Grant has a wide-ranging conversation with Keith Costigan, who broadcasts games for Fox Sports and the Seattle Sounders. Costigan discusses the Bundesliga title race, why he got a UEFA A coaching license, his lifelong Liverpool fandom, why he switched from game analysis to play-by-play, his month with Grant in Poland covering Euro 2012, how he handles a crazy workload and how some Seattle fans can’t forget that he once played for their rival Portland Timbers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	Hey there, I'm Grant Wall.
0:30.1	Welcome to the Planet Football Podcast. This week's interview guest is Keith Kostigan, who broadcast
0:36.4	games for Fox Sports and the Seattle Sounders. A quick reminder, if you like the podcast,
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0:48.8	podcast to someone you know onward. Our guest today is one of my favorite people in the business.
0:57.0	Keith Kostigan is a busy busy man who broadcasts games for Fox Sports and the Seattle Sounders. He also has a UFA A coaching license and
1:06.7	he somehow found the patience to survive a month with me on the road at Euro 2012 driving around Poland and Ukraine for Fox Sports.
1:16.0	Keith, thanks for joining me.
1:18.0	Thank you and that actually, you know, however tough that month was in terms of, you know, getting everything together was actually one of the funnest times I've ever had in this business.
1:28.0	Me too, my friend. Me too. Some great memories from that trip.
1:33.0	We're recording this on February 28th, but it's coming out on March 5th.
1:38.0	I, there's a lot on your plate. I want to ask you about that.
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