Bale To LAFC, USWNT Win Over Colombia, Briana Scurry Interview

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Grant and Chris Wittyngham break down the major talking points from the soccer world including Gareth Bale to LAFC, soccer's reaction to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the USWNT's win over Colombia, and the latest in the transfer window. Then, Grant has a memorable hour-long conversation (35:00) with Hall of Famer Briana Scurry about her new memoir (written with Wayne Coffey) My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper. Scurry explains why she wanted to write a book now and goes into detail on the biggest events during and after her remarkable playing career, including what it meant to be Black and openly gay on the USWNT, her origin story, the concussion that ended her career, her decline into suicidal thoughts and her rebound following surgery and her marriage. Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall.
0:10.5	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:12.2	Our interview guest today is Hall of Famer, Brianna Scurry to talk about her new memoir,
0:17.4	My Greatest Save.
0:19.4	Before we get going, you can sign up for a subscription to my writing site at grantwall.com.
0:24.9	It has all my writing, including magazine-style stories and on-site covered to the men's
0:29.4	and women's game that's grantwall.com.
0:33.8	In segment one, Chris Whittingham and I will break down the soccer news.
0:37.0	We'll have my interview with Brianna Scurry in segment two, but let's bring in Whitty.
0:41.6	How are you?
0:42.6	Doing alright, sir.
0:43.6	There was a certain point in my life in which Brianna Scurry, for me, was word association
0:48.4	with women's football.
0:49.8	She was such an ever-present engulf in the US that when I think of that sport, when I
0:54.6	think of the women's game, I think of Brianna Scurry, perhaps even to this day, so I'm
0:58.3	very much looking forward to this interview.
1:00.2	That's awesome.
1:01.2	I actually got to spend a fair amount of time with Bri in New York where I live this past
1:05.6	week because we did an interview for this podcast, and then we also went out to dinner last
1:12.3	Monday night with her wife because she was in town to promote the release of her book,
1:17.4	Went on Good Morning America on Tuesday morning.
1:19.6	I think she was on the CBS morning show, Thursday morning, her book is terrific, so I think
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