Andy Williams on Whistleblowing at Real Salt Lake; Chris Wittyngham on Soccer News

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

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🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Grant interviews Andy Williams (at 42:48), Real Salt Lake's head scout and a former RSL midfield stalwart, about his courageous decision to become a whistleblower and tell The Athletic's Sam Stejskal about multiple instances of racism (including use of the . N-word) by RSL owner Dell Loy Hansen that Williams had witnessed over the years. Those details helped lead to Hansen's announcement last week that he would sell his ownership of Real Salt Lake, the NWSL's Utah Royals and the USL's Real Monarchs. Before that, Grant breaks down the soccer news with Chris Wittyngham, including Lionel Messi's dramatic decision to stay at Barcelona against his wishes, Chelsea's Kai Havertz signing, Man United's impending acquisition of Tobin Heath and Christen Press, the appeal of UEFA Nations League, and the way forward for Atlanta United (post-Pity Martínez, Frank de Boer and potentially Ezequiel Barco) and the New York Red Bulls (post-Chris Armas). Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIhXWUw0H4 Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to football with Grant Wall.
0:09.4	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:10.8	Today's interview guest is Andy Williams, the Royal Salt Lake
0:15.2	original and head scout who courageously blew the whistle to the athletic on the
0:21.0	pattern of racist incidents involving owner Deloy Hansen who's now
0:25.4	selling his soccer teams. We've had some great interview guests lately including
0:30.0	Yurgen Clop, Pellegrino Madarazzo and Micah Richards along with many others so check
0:35.8	those interviews out.
0:37.4	It would be absolutely huge for this podcast growth if you could subscribe, recommend us to your
0:42.0	friends and take just a little bit of time to rate and review us and Apple Podcasts.
0:47.0	We'll have Andy Williams on soon, but let's start with some talk about the soccer world with my friend Chris Whittingham who co-hosts the Chelsea Miked Up
0:56.7	podcast. Chris, thanks for joining me. How are you?
0:59.6	I'm good. The mini break on this podcast is about the length of the mini break for the
1:04.0	soccer season so ready for a full 10 month sprint of non-stop games that
1:10.3	off season went by pretty quickly we at least got a week and a half off on the
1:13.7	on the podcast, but it's good to be back.
1:16.2	Premier League starting next weekend.
1:18.4	But I want to talk right now about the biggest story of the week and that is
1:23.8	leonle messy his saga is over he told gold dot com breaking his silence that he
1:31.0	will be staying at Barcelona but he went off on what is happening at
1:36.9	Barcelona basically said that he wanted to leave and the club won't let him and he isn't going to take them to court and so now we have a
1:46.4	situation where the best player in the world is at a club against his will in a sense.
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