An Interview With New Full Chicago Fire Owner Joe Mansueto

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Grant has a revealing conversation with Joe Mansueto, who became the full owner of the Chicago Fire recently when he bought out the majority share of Andrew Hauptman. Mansueto, a billionaire who founded the financial services firm Morningstar, explains why he wanted to buy the Fire outright, how it came together, why he thinks Chicago is a sleeping giant in soccer, why he's bullish on spending more money on Chicago and loosening the league shackles on spending in general, his thoughts on the futures of Fire president Nelson Rodríguez and coach Veljko Paunovic, and why he's in favor of keeping the name Chicago Fire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.7	Hey there I'm Luis Miguel Echang and I am welcome to the Planet Football
0:30.9	podcast I'm filling in for Grant Wall. This week's interview guest is
0:35.6	German Sweato who recently became sole owner of the MLS club Chicago Fire.
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1:00.0	Famos!
1:01.0	Our guest today is Joe Mansuito. He's the founder of the Global Financial Services
1:08.8	firm Morningstar and he recently became the full owner of the Chicago Fire after buying out Andrew Hoffman.
1:15.9	Joe, thanks for joining me.
1:17.9	Hey, delighted to be here, Grant.
1:19.3	Thanks for the invitation.
1:20.3	Yeah, lots to talk about it.
1:21.6	I've been looking forward to this. A couple of Fridays ago, I got a press release, as other people did, that had some expected news that the Chicago Fire was looking to move back into Soldier Field, but then in that press release there was some completely
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