Bex Smith of The Players Podcast

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Grant has an enlightening interview with Bex Smith, the Los Angeles-born former New Zealand national team captain who currently hosts The Players Podcast with top players from the women's game for Copa90 and the BBC. Smith explains how she approaches her podcast, including interviews with Rose Lavelle and Sam Mewis; her background at Duke University and playing in two World Cups and two Olympics; her years in Germany, including winning the Champions League with Wolfsburg; her time as an executive for women's soccer at FIFA; and what she has been doing in recent years for Copa90. This episode of Fútbol with Grant Wahl is brought to you by Fanatiz. On Fanatiz, you can watch all the action in Spain’s La Liga and other international leagues and tournaments live and on-demand from your mobile phone, tablet or directly on your TV with the Fanatiz app. Fanatiz features channels you know, like BeIN Sports in English and Spanish, GolTV and many more. And it only costs as little as $7.99 a month. If you’d like to try Fanatiz for yourself, you can get a free week-long trial by going to fntz.co/Grant-FZ. 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 Grand Wall.
0:09.6	Thanks so much for joining me and I hope everyone's enjoying the holidays. If you haven't
0:14.8	checked it out yet, I encourage you to listen to my new podcast series, American Prodigy
0:20.2	The Freddie Adieu Story, which is available wherever you get your podcasts. Six episodes are out. There is one more main episode dropping January 5th. Today's interview guest is Beck Smith, the Los Angeles Born, former captain of New Zealand, who now
0:37.2	hosts the excellent podcast, The Players with Copa 90 and the BBC in which she interviews the top players in women's soccer.
0:47.0	We've had some great guests lately including Melissa Reddy, Caleb Porter, and Ted Lasso's
0:52.0	Jason Sudaikus and Brendan Hunt.
0:54.6	It would be huge for this podcast growth if you could subscribe, recommend us to your friends,
0:59.5	and take just a little time to rate and review us in Apple Podcasts. Now here's my interview with Beck Smith.
1:08.7	Our guest now is one of the more fascinating people in the soccer world.
1:13.7	Beck Smith was born in Los Angeles to parents from New Zealand.
1:17.6	She captained Duke University and the New Zealand national team playing in two World Cups and two Olympics.
1:25.8	She also spent four years at Wolfsburg where she won the UEFA Champions League.
1:31.1	After retiring from playing due to injuries. She spent five years as a women's
1:36.2	soccer executive at FIFA and got into the media business, including as global executive director for the women's game at
1:44.4	Copa 90 these days she's based in London and hosting a terrific podcast
1:50.6	called the players with Copa 90 and the BBC in which she interviews the top players in women's soccer.
1:59.6	Bex, thank you so much for coming on the show.
2:02.1	Oh my gosh, thanks for having me Grant and for reading all that out.
2:06.0	Sorry.
2:08.0	There's a lot going on there which is very impressive and there's a lot that I want to talk about here, but I do want to start with your podcast, which I've been listening to and enjoying.
2:21.0	You've had a wide variety of players on the show already, including a fun recent interview
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