Brazil WNT Coach Pia Sundhage; Chris Wittyngham on the Soccer Weekend

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Grant catches up with Pia Sundhage (at 30:59), who won two Olympic gold medals and a World Cup silver medal coaching the USWNT and currently coaches the Brazilian WNT. Calling in from Porto Alegre, Sundhage addresses why she took the Brazil job, how she's trying to unearth the next great Brazilian generation, how the Brazilian women ended up getting paid the same per day as the men with the national team, how she's using her guitar skills to connect with her players and what she's looking forward to next month with her team competing in the SheBelieves Cup with USA, Japan and Canada. Before that, Grant and Chris Wittyngham break down the soccer week, including Weston McKennie's continued excellence with Juventus and its potential impact; our choice for the starting USMNT centerforward if the decision took place today; Man United's 3-2 FA Cup win over Liverpool, and the opposing directions of both teams; and Catarina Macario's debut with the USWNT in two friendly wins over Colombia. 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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0:14.8	Hey there, welcome to Football with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. Today's interview guest is Pia Sunhaga, who won two Olympic gold medals
0:16.5	and a World Cup silver medal is the coach
0:19.0	of the US women's national team
0:20.8	and now has a fascinating new job coaching the Brazilian women's national team.
0:26.6	We've had some great guests lately including Drake Hills, Ida Hegerberg, and Ted Lasso's Jason Sudacus and Brendan Hunt. I also encourage you to check
0:36.7	out my new podcast series American Prodigy The Freddie Adieu Story. All eight episodes are out and you can binge all of them to your
0:46.0	hearts content. We'll have Pia Sunhaga on soon here, but let's start with some talk about
0:52.1	the soccer world with my friend Chris
0:54.0	Whittingham the radio voice of Inter Miami and a co-host of the Chelsea miked up
0:59.8	podcast. Chris thanks for joining me. How are you?
1:03.0	Doing good, great. How are you, sir?
1:05.0	Doing okay. We're recording this on Sunday, right before my Kansas City Chiefs playing the
1:10.0	AFC title game. So I'm fired up. This comes out on Monday, so we'll know by then if I'm still fired up. But let's talk a little soccer. And I want to start with Weston McKinney because he continues to do cool things for
1:27.5	Juventus started and scored again for UVA in a 2-0 win over Bologna on the weekend.
1:34.6	He's got three goals and two assists now in all competitions this season.
1:39.3	He's the first US-Men's national team player to score in San Sero, first to score in Compnew, won his first
1:47.1	career trophy this midweek in the Italian Super Cup. It's basically a certainty now that Juventus will make McKinney's loan
1:55.6	permanent. What are the reasons that you think Weston McKinney has exceeded
2:01.8	expectations at Juventus.
2:04.0	Well, all credit goes to him, right?
2:06.2	And it's really kind of one of the few things
2:08.4	that probably Andrea Pierlo has gotten right.
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