BONUS EPISODE: USWNT and Portland's Crystal Dunn

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In a special bonus episode of the podcast, Grant interviews USWNT and Portland star Crystal Dunn, who Grant thinks has become the USWNT's best player in 2021. They discuss the first two games of the SheBelieves Cup ahead of Wednesday's finale vs Argentina; what she's hoping to achieve in 2021 on and off the field; whether she can be a candidate for world player of the year as an outside back (with the national team); and her process of finding her authentic voice publicly. This episode of Fútbol with Grant Wahl is brought to you by Fanatiz. Frustrated that you can't get games from Spain's La Liga on your cable or satellite system? Sign up to stream Fanatiz. On Fanatiz, you can watch all the action in 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 costs only $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 Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. We have
0:12.3	a special bonus interview today with Crystal Dunn of the U.S. Women's National Team
0:18.1	and the Portland Thorns. We've had some great guests lately including Wright Thompson,
0:24.5	Bria Felicien, and Ivan Gazetus. I also encourage you to check out my podcast series,
0:30.9	American Prodigy, The Freddy Adieu Story. All eight episodes are out and you can binge all of
0:38.1	them to your heart's content. Now, here's my interview with Crystal Dunn.
0:44.9	Our guest now is for me, the best player on the U.S. Women's National Team in 2021
0:51.5	and thus one of the best players in the world. Crystal Dunn and her U.S. teammates have won their
0:57.6	first two games of the She Believes Cup against Brazil and Canada and they face Argentina on Thursday
1:05.7	at 7 p.m. Eastern on FS1 and 2-day NA. Crystal, great to see you again. Thanks for coming on the show.
1:13.9	Thank you. Thanks for having me. Lots to talk about here, but let's start with the first two games
1:20.0	of this tournament. Canada was kind of hard to play against. Your team eventually broke through
1:26.1	for a 1-0 win and then the Brazil game was pretty wide open at times in a 2-0 win. How have you seen
1:34.6	the U.S. performance in these two games? Yeah, I think from one game to another we definitely
1:39.6	improved. We fine-tuned some things. I think against Canada we gave the ball away pretty easy,
1:46.9	easier than we normally do and I think Canada has the quality to obviously gain momentum off of
1:53.6	our mistakes. So I think after that game we kind of realized we're hurting ourselves by really
1:58.8	giving up the ball easier than we need to. So we definitely against Brazil try to do a way
2:03.7	better job with that and I think we did collectively just being a bit more patient. I think a lot of
2:08.3	people know we are a transition-based team. Obviously that's not the only thing we're good at but
2:13.8	we do like to catch teams on the counter and I think for us it's now realizing when it's the time
2:19.9	to go. Sometimes it's like all right the team got back, they recovered. Now let's just keep the ball
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